101 Dalmatians (Limited Issue)

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Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely dalmatians who meet cute in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney; she's flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it's the dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of the live-action remake. --Bill Desowitz

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101 DALMATIUANS.......2007-07-26

What's there to say? Okay I'll say this.Great family entertainment.
G-rated. Only Disney knew how to please his fans..young & old.Not like today.Some Disney movies are now PG or PG-13.If Disney was alive today...he would not FORSAKE the FAMILY WHOLE! It would be G or nothing at all.There's of course classic Disney movies..like CARS,TOY STORY..all rated G . And they all made $$$ So anyhow..this is pure classic entertainment.

NARICES FRIAS Y CORAZONES CALUROSOS.......2007-07-06

Una de mis peliculas favoritas de walt Disney y un clasico que ninguna familia se deberia perder; de verdad que a veces los perros son mas fieles y solidarios que los humanos... ¡Y aun mas listos!!; el personaje de la malvada Cruella De Ville es simplemente fantastico e inigualable (la odias con solo verla) y es el mejor caracterizado de la pelicula; sumamente divertidos son Horace y gaspar (los dos bandidos) y Roger (el dueño de Pongo, el perro) es simplemente brillante; eso sin mencionar a los canes (Pongo y Perdita), quienes logicamente llevan la batuta en toda la pelicula y no dejan de ser increibles... Una de esas Grandes Joyas Disney talvez poco conocida pero al verla nos da una muy agradable sorpresa.

I'll tell you what.......2007-02-17

I have been wanting this cartoon forever in a day. once I recieved it. I played it. back to back as a matter of fact i think i'll go stick it in right now. Hold on a minute.........................There it goes now I'm happy again.

SECOND BEST, BUT STILL A WINNER.......2006-06-19

second best of winning, this movie is far one of the best animations from disney studios...

it has its charm... sad moments... cool things that happen...

in my side im cool having all this old dvds that you can watch them as many times as you want...

that's all!!!

this is on my top favorites!!! :P

A Really good movie.......2006-05-16

I loved the animated version of 101 Dalmatinas. I would love to get a copy of the script. The live action 101 Dalmatinas movie was OK. But 102 Dalmatinas stinks ! I need a script so I can remake it in live action.

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A Riveting Look At "Intimacy As A Commodity"
well Id like to have heard from some guys 17-19 yo..............
Occasionally Sexy, Often Disturbing, Always Thought Provoking
Some interesting content but limited dvd features
Boulevard of tears (but no excuses)

101 Rent Boys
Starring: Morris Fulton , Eduardo Vega (II) , Bill Stone (III) , Gary Barry , and Frank McGinnis
Director: Randy Barbato , and Fenton Bailey
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Release Date: 2001-02-01

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A Riveting Look At "Intimacy As A Commodity".......2007-02-17

When I was a kid, for some reason I was really into the movie Where the Day Takes You - that glossy, glamorized Hollywood account of homelessness and (to some degree) hustling. I think a lot of it stemmed from my urge (and some half-hearted attempts) to run away myself. Regardless, I sometimes thought about what life as a hustler would "really" be like.

So when I heard about this movie, I was very intrigued. And now that I've finally gotten to see it, I would definitely say it is as close as I've come to a real account of the life of a hustler, without my having much personal/experiential knowledge of the actual scene itself.

Granted, the "observer effect" certainly comes into question in this doc (more than most, it seems), so we can never be sure if the person being interviewed is playing to the camera or even just making things up (after all, they are talking about illegal activities - and not only sex, but drug use and, in one sensationalistic case, bank robbery). Most of the names are pseudonyms, and almost every guy seems like he's lying about his age.

But my cinematic cynicism aside (which could just be my own perceptual baggage), I felt that this was a compelling, sometimes thrilling, oftentimes painful and sad depiction of many lives spent turning tricks. It's certainly not a glamorous account, that's for sure (one man ruefully reflects, "To my knowledge, I'm the only one who got out from that time period. So... I'm the lucky one").

And while there's undoubtedly a voyeuristic element to all of this (again, more than in most documentaries) and there's nudity and the topic revolves around sex, this film is more of a psychological document than it is a sexual one (as another man says at the beginning, "I thought I was gonna hafta come here and have sex or something. But instead I'm just exposing myself on television - I don't know what's worse").

Indeed, self-reflection never comes cheap (why do you think psychologists charge so much per hour?). One leather-clad gentleman sums it up perfectly: "I feel kind of naked because I'm looking at this aspect of my life for the first time."

Such is the world of "intimacy as a commodity" (as one hustler puts it), and this is as intimate a look at this world as one is likely to get without personally being a part of it.

(and a final word of caution: if you think this review is too wordy, then definitely don't get this movie. Because this film is mostly made of words; there's a whole lot of talking. It genuinely is like getting an adult magazine just to read the articles)

well Id like to have heard from some guys 17-19 yo.....................2007-01-23

I d say there about the most views Id get from some of the guys workin the street streets of Atlanta Ga its not that some of them are great looking guys but they make there johns great company its all about closeness and bonding you know what we all want they just feel they need to have men pay them.....but they might give it away if they made money outher ways...its my view well whats yours ......Alleo

Occasionally Sexy, Often Disturbing, Always Thought Provoking.......2006-10-30

Over the course of two years, producers and directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato interviewed one hundred two male prostitutes who worked in West Hollywood, exploring their backgrounds, private lives, and attitudes toward their work and paying each fifty dollars for their time. Edited together around certain themes with the occasional more detailed profile of certain individuals, the result was 101 RENT BOYS. It was and remains extremely controversial.

The central controversy involved arises from the fact that, at least to a certain extent, 101 RENT BOYS can be considered deliberately exploitive. The explotational edge is apparent in the title itself, which implies a certain sexiness; in that interviews are conducted in various hotel rooms which might be used by prostitutes and clients; in that the filmmakers have no qualm in encouraging their subjects to drape suggestively across bed; in that the filmmakers pay their subjects and very deliberately photograph the subjects accepting the money. By doing so, Bailey and Barbato essentially make both themselves and the viewer complicit in an act of prostitution. The irony is that in most instances the act of prostitution is not so much physical--nor can it be; we are distanced by film--than it is both spiritual and psychological. We are not paying for physical touch but for the right to invade the mind of the subjects in ways they would not normally give a client. The result is often unsettling, to say the least, particularly when one considers that Bailey and Barbato apparently have no problem in engaging in it.

No less so are the various subjects. The majority of the men involved are essentially street hustlers who have been recruited from Santa Monica Boulevard, men who range in age from their early twenties to late thirties; some are remarkably handsome; some are distinctly haggard. They tend to share backgrounds of physical abuse as children and current drug abuse. Even so, they are remarkably diverse and often very articulate and occasionally unexpectedly clear-eyed about their profession and the toll it takes on their lives. A handful are clearly upscale in nature, far removed from the streets; these tend to regard their work as less a matter of a life style into which they drifted than as a business they often enjoy.

Now and then certain individuals pop with their extremes. Perhaps the most disturbing is a man who enjoys physical pain, almost casually putting out a cigarette on his chest (and later and quite shockingly putting out a cigarette on another part of his body) in demonstration of his thought that "pain is good." Another goes through an emotional wringer as he describes his separation from his long-term lover; one is a gang member who announces he enjoys working as a prostitute much more than he liked being shot at; and several describe girl friends and children.

In many respects the men are indeed what you might expect, but in each instance they show, perhaps unintentionally, their humanity. They are indeed considerably more than the flesh and bone rented for a few hours by their customers. They are human beings and much, much more like the "average man" than they are different--a realization that adds to the film's uneasiness and which is, indeed, the ultimate point of the whole thing.

As a documentary, however, the film has two very distinct flaws. The least obvious of these is the fact that the prostitutes are selling more than their bodies: they are selling illusions, fantasies, and dreams. This is pointed out by more than one subject, and it has implications in terms of how much of their statements we can believe--but the film never really follows this up in any statement-making sense. The most obvious flaw is that it is in some ways superficial; the subjects are taken at their word and that is that, there is no real context and ultimately nothing we can describe as "cold reality." Both flaws feed into each other and tend to create a "how much of this can we truly believe?" quality.

The DVD issue comes with several bonuses. The Bailey and Barbato audio commentary track is interesting, but it may not be interesting in quite the way either man desired; they spend a fair amount of time talking about the sexiness of their various subjects. They also note that one of the original "101 Rent Boys" turned out to be underage, thus forcing them to an additional inteview, but that only one hundred men actually appear in the film due to the fact that one subject later rescinded conscent. It is also tremendously annoying in the sense that the sound mix is bad: the film audio is mute throughout, and it is impossible to know what soundbyte from the film they are actually talking about at any given moment. There are several unedited interviews, which are interesting in and of themselves, and there are the "three minutes alone" segments, in which subjects were give time alone with the camera to say or do whatever they desired. Needless to say, a few of them elected to "do" rather than "say."

As a whole, and in spite of several very obvious and annoying flaws, 101 RENT BOYS is a very interesting film, always thought provoking. If you are looking for something mindlessly sexy, however, you will be out of luck--and I cannot imagine that it will appeal to the people who, rather ironically, would benefit most from seeing it. Recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Some interesting content but limited dvd features.......2002-11-09

With a title like 101 Rent Boys, I was expecting a wide array of interviews with a large number of men. Admittedly, including all 101 interviews would be prohibitively long, but I did expect to hear more boys than I got. Some boys were featured often, in multiple segments, while some we barely got a glimps of--of course those were the ones who I thought seemed most attractive and wanted to hear speak, and not just a quick camera pan.

As for extras, there arent many on this disk--a few extra interviews which were interesting but limited, and a directors voice over where you only hear the directors comments, and not the video soundtrack at all, making it difficult to understand what comments from the boys the directors were referring to--especially frustrating when the director says "wait, wait--here comes that comment I was referring to" and there is dead silence! That is the first time I have ever seen a glitch like that on a DVD, which made the technical quality of this DVD feel less than professional. All in all, I think of this as an interesting television documentary, but not a DVD I can recommend for ones permanent collection.

Boulevard of tears (but no excuses).......2002-05-19

The filmmakers interviewed 102 hustlers (that's correct, one turned out to be underage and his contribution could not be used, so a replacement was recruited) to make this documentary. Most were street hustlers who work Santa Monica Boulevard; the others were recruited through escort services and magazine ads. Each one had an opportunity to tell his story. There is little evidence of their conversations being directed by an interviewer, though it is apparent from the directors' commentary that the monologues were for the most part respsonses to questions put to them by co-director Randy Barbato.

To prevent the film from becoming monotonous and repetitious, it was edited and assembled into seventeen chapters with titles like, "Losing It," "The First Trick," "Gay," "Straight," "Turn-ons," "Turn-offs," "Pain," "Weird [stuff]," "Drugs," and "The Future." The paucity of high-rent call boys (the directors, after all, only paid the men $50 for their one-hour videotaped interviews) prevented this film from being an unintentional glamorization of prostitution. The stories, for the most part, are painful to hear: some interviewees clearly struggle with drug addition and it is clear how they will spend the $50 they earned making this film, many are victims of childhood sexual abuse or parental abandonment, others suffer from the recent departure or death of loved-ones. According to the directors, paying the interviewees on-camera was contraversial when the film was shown at festivals. And to be honest, it is a truly disturbing aspect of the film. More than anything, it reminds us of the transactional nature of prostitution and makes the viewer feel like a john actively participating in this commercial enterprise. Some hustlers took the money politely and immediately tucked it away in a pocket, their underwear, or inside a sock. Some said "thank you" softly, with a sparkle in their eye. One man held his fifty dollar bill throughout his interview as though it were nothing or as if he had forgotten he was holding it.

There is nothing judgmental about this film, though the directors (in their commentary) betray a sense of pity and bewilderment from time to time. They know at least some of their subjects are in serious trouble. But watching the film with the commentary feature turned off, the lack of overall perspective or point-of-view is frustrating. A piece of me wanted either to hear a puritanical tsk-tsk or a full-blown defense of the world's oldest profession. (Either would have been fine with me.) But I suspect the flat amorality of the film is ultimately the most accurate reflection of what these men experience on a daily basis and made for the most honest approach on the part of the filmmakers.

Concerning the DVD extras, there are a number of unedited interview segments that were very interesting (such as the defense of prositution by one young man based on his pagan beliefs). The Directors' Commentary is somewhat difficult to follow at times because the soundtrack of the film is completely turned off. Without knowing what the hustlers are saying, it's hard to know what the directors are reacting to. A good post-production sound engineer, I believe, could have skillfully interwoven the two soundtracks.

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not as bad as reviewd

The concept is good but...

I've seen a lot of bad "movies", but.....

I hate to pile on....

Jaw Droppingly Amazing

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Product Description

College freshman Joe is new to school when he mistakes a rush invitation for a come-on form a cute fraternity brother. He's no less confused after a hazing ritual between him and Christian, his "big brother" in the Greek system, takes an intense and intimate turn. After Joe sets Christian "straight" about his sexual interests, Christian confesses that he himself is straight - but with "issues". A twisted love triangle forms when the confused Christian turns a romantic weekend getaway with his girlfriend into a double-date; inviting along his gay sibling Michael and "little brother" Joe. Trouble starts when Michael and Joe hit it off and Christian is left to face his own issues, straight or otherwise. Special guest appearance by Kelly Clarkson.

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not as bad as reviewd.......2007-06-12

this movie is not really as bad as it is said. yes the resolution might not be crystal clear or the actors might not be as experienced but its a very cute movie.

The concept is good but..........2006-06-20

The concept is good but it stops there. The script is somewhat amateur, the casting is unrealistic in age/maturity perspective and most of all the acting would fail most high school drama classes.

I've seen a lot of bad "movies", but............2006-06-10

This has to be at the top of the list. Others have said much that is correct .... the distributor must roll on the floor laughing anytime someone hands over $27.00 for this pile of...well, you know.

Perfectly Awful and only watchable for the ghastliness of it all.

I hate to pile on...........2006-03-05

But I did just have to take some time to add to the chorus of how unspeakably bad this movie was. I mean, it was absolutely awful.

The first ten minutes of the film had me confused, because we see Joe (Michael Rozman) getting ready to go off to college... even he looks 35! We know he's about to come out, but the friend to whom he comes out -- the one who comments that one of their high school pals has turned out to be a "fruit" -- comes across as pretty darn gay too, even though he claims to have a girlfriend.

Then, Joe hits his new college and totally randomly meets Christian (Dennis Rittenhouse Jr.) playing volleyball. Christian is overly friendly and invites Joe back to his house, supposedly to talk up his fraternity... and is shocked when Joe reveals that he thought it was a date. Yeah, right.

The movie then gets progressively bad from there, with Joe and Christian unknowingly getting filmed in the act of hooking up, then with Joe meeting and falling in love with Christian's younger brother, and no one seeming to bat an eye that Joe has now hooked up with both Christian and his younger brother (even though Joe clearly still primarily has feelings for Christian and would probably dump Michael in a heartbeat if Christian actually finally emerged from the closet.

With one notable exception, the acting is horrific. It seems like every single "straight" boy in this film is played by a gay guy, and poorly at that. I keep reading things about how there's so few out gay actors in Hollywood films; perhaps this movie can give a small clue as to why: these gay guys can't play straight for the life of them. Dennis Rittenhouse, Jr., as "Straight with Issues" Christian, sets off any decently tuned gaydar from the moment he appears on screen. Gary Castro Churchill, who plays Bill, the fraternity president (whose sexuality is not really well disclosed in the film), is a terrible actor and also sends my gaydar into overdrive (and the spanking scene was further evidence of lame acting). The worst of all: every single fraternity brother, including those who clamor for kicking the "fag" out of the fraternity after he's found out, are gayer than gay. Despite the fact that they use the "f-word" and refer using vulgar terms to parts of female anatomy, those words compete with the handbags falling out of their mouths.

The notable exception above: Jeff Sublett, who plays Michael, Christian's gay brother. The only reason his acting stands out above the less-than-mediocre performances of his castmates is because, according to the DVD extras, he's played by a straight boy. You know, I never would have guessed, which I guess means that his acting was at least that much better, because he played a gay kid really well. Maybe his character was just very poorly written. Well, it was... but I still hate to say he gave a great performance. He gave a great performance only because he's straight, and I believed him as a gay guy.

Oh, and let's not forget the decidedly amateur camera works. I've seen low budget; I've even liked some low budget films. This took it to a new level. 'Nuff said.

The plot, to the extent there is one, is stale and cliched. Joe falls for Christian -- even hooks up with him -- but Christian won't come out of the closet and thus Joe is left pining for him while he continues to play it straight with a girlfriend. Meanwhile, Christian introduces Joe to Michael, his brother, and the two hit it off famously. Christian, torn between at-least-kinda-sorta wanting to be with Joe and seeing his brother actually get him and be happy with him, wrestles with this odd balance. And Michael can't understand why Joe (by now running for student body president) won't acknowledge their relationship in public.

But other than the cute faces (though lacking in corresponding body heat) and some gratutious butt shots (though they did serve to give me something worth staying tuned for), this movie was a complete bust.

Jaw Droppingly Amazing.......2005-12-25

There is one good thing about this DVD. In the extras there is an interview with one of the "actors" who apparently is straight. THAT boy should have a mantel full of Oscars. Otherwise this is the BY FAR the worst thing you'll see this year. Your jaw will drop in amazement at the "acting" of the middle-aged college students and the "plot".

If you have a choice between being buried alive and watching this movie, grab a shovel.

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