Waterborne

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One of the Worst Ever.......2006-09-06

If you enjoy a thought-provoking disaster DVD with lots of fu** and sh** words you will only be happy about the cursing. OK, OK, you might overlook the bad language if not for the mediocre acting, low budget effects, and a plot you could guess long before the end. It was so bad that I skipped the entire middle of the movie to see the last two scenes.

Sure glad that I only rented this. Now, the Poseidon, that is a good disaster flick.

Great Movie and Entertainment..........2006-08-31

Really original and potent. A little too much cursing for my taste and the some picture clarity comes out a little amateurish. Good Acting and plot saves the day.

Interesting....but not a big budget movie..!.......2006-08-11

A movie made using a very interesting subject...water. But what is scary is that it could happen to any city....Terrorism...
Interesting enought to not put it down halfway thru
The movie follows the action of differrent individuals instead of
using a big scale scenario.
This works, but it feels more like a TV movie.
Good to watch...at leat for one showing...but thats about it.

Waterborne by Ben Rehki.......2006-03-26

This movie is a journey into the minds of several random, good-hearted people in a time of crisis. The plot could call for a big-budget Hollywood disaster movie, but this is the opposite. Ben Rehki wanted to create a movie that had not been done before. Mission accomplished. This film essentially predicted the disaster that was the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Water is no longer available. How long can you stay sane without any liquid in your system while fighting the balmy, hot summer of Los Angeles? Not long. Good acting, unique cinematography, and an extremely relevant plotline. Not to mention one of the best movie scores ever composed from the most important rock band in America, dredg.

Water, water all around and nary a drop to drink.......2006-03-26

In this psychological thriller, in the tradition of Crash, a series of interconnected stories reveals the emotional cost and real devastation that happen when LA's water supply is attacked with a biological agent. People everywhere are dying, and the water is so unsafe it can't be touched, let alone drunk. Soon all the bottled water is gone and over the next 72 hours, everyone must decide what's really important to them.

This movie is quick, smart, and the cast works well together. It not only addresses issues of global import, but peels back your eyelids to make you see snippets of human interaction, some of which are touching, some of which are caustic, and all of which smack of truth given the situation. It's the kind of film you will want to watch with friends and family, because you'll want to talk about it afterward.

Rent this movie if you feel like investing a bit of yourself and thinking for a long time afterwards about everything.

If you liked Crash, you'll like this.

Recommended.

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I laughed, I cried, I was bored
Surprisingly good, but dark
look elsewhere
The Mallens saga

The Mallens
Starring: Caroline Blakiston , John Hallam , John Duttine , Ian Saynor , and Pippa Guard
Director: Ronald Wilson , Richard Martin (IV) , and Brian Mills
Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00006BSDP
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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I laughed, I cried, I was bored.......2005-11-08

I laughed at the tragedy. I cried at the quality. And in the end, I was bored.

The problem with the _The Mallens_ isn't just that it's a melodrama. A considerable amount of real Victorian melodrama was written-and popular. It isn't just that it's unremittingly depressing. Thomas Hardy is unremittingly depressing.

It isn't just that _The Mallens_ features lovers doomed by the "immoral" quality of their relationships, plus cruel parents and guardians keeping them apart. What about _Wuthering Heights_? It isn't just that the characters include a governess who spends her life longing to penetrate the upper crust (what about _Jane Eyre_?); a villainous, lecherous, long-pedigreed aristocrat; a consumptive (or two; but many real and fictional Victorians died of consumption); an alcoholic (but ever-faithful) family servant; a sternly religious, ever-disapproving father; incredibly over-possessive mothers and guardians; and overall deeply dysfunctional families. It's not that it includes a gloomy, but impressive castle; a family curse; a (possible) ghost; a gypsy with dire predictions; several suicides; a (possible) murder-suicide; a death by dueling; a mysterious inheritance that everyone wants and may even be entitled to; a bankruptcy; some thefts; an amputation; incest; two rapes; numerous adulteries; and a case of intermittent insanity.

The problem with _The Mallens_ is that it includes _all_ these things. None of the characters ever do anything normal or show any promise of doing so. There's no scene that I can think of where the characters are not at some emotional extreme-no quiet BBC teas in this film! And some scenes are really over the top-like the one where the wealthy (for the time being) aristocrat and his upper-crust friends take all the ladies (respectable women of their own class) on their backs to ride horsie as a normal evening entertainment. And it doesn't help that most of the male characters sport not only late 20th-century hairstyles, but absurdly wiggy "big hair."

Skip this film. As the governess constantly tells everyone, it's for your own good.

Surprisingly good, but dark.......2004-10-19

I tracked down this mini-series solely because I wanted to see other work by John Duttine, who was so outstanding in "To Serve Them All My Days." Based on the little I knew about "The Mallens," I wasn't expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it held the melodrama in check and featured very fine acting. It has that "Masterpiece Theater" tempo of being slow enough to give you a sense of what life in rural 1860s North England probably was like, without being so slow that it bores. The characters, while very different in their assumptions and motivations than we expect in contemporary fiction, struck me as believable and understandable. One warning though: the material is very dark.

** SPOILER **

People die in ways or under circumstances that are very foreign to 21st century life, i.e., consumption, accidents. But that's part of what I found rather fascinating about it -- the sense of fatalism is palpable. Worth a look if you appreciate well-made period melodrama.

look elsewhere.......2003-07-10

There are wonderful miniseries out there. Either of the Forsyth Sagas, Wives and Daughters, Berkley Square and all of the Upstairs Downstairs series. Even Catherine Cookson's The Girl or Glass Virgin is better. This is not one of those. This is heavy going with unlikeable people and often absurd situations. Call me a fool but someone, somewhere should end up happy in these stories.

The Mallens saga.......2003-06-28

Bought this DVD box set after watching the Forsyte Saga. I have always been a fan of Cookson's books and the adaptation of this one was done very well. It is set in nineteenth-century England and has all the things you need in a movie, scandals, love and violence. The Mallens are a cursed family and from one generation to the next they can't escape.

Breaking Ranks Documentary dvd - US soldiers Seeking sanctuary in Canada

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Breaking Ranks Documentary dvd - US soldiers Seeking sanctuary in Canada

Manufacturer: www.winning-coach.com
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

military documentary
documentary
military
draft

ASIN: B000UYAQI2

Product Description

Breaking Ranks is a moving documentary about the plight of four U.S. soldiers seeking sanctuary in Canada as part of their resistance to the war in Iraq. With intimate access to four American military deserters, their lawyers and families, this film documents their experiences as they try to exercise their consciences amidst profound emotional, ethical and international consequences. If deported, they face the venom of mainstream American opinion and one to five years in prison. If Canada instead follows the legacy established by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau during the Vietnam War, when Canada welcomed tens of thousands of war resisters, there may well be an unprecedented crisis in U.S.-Canadian relations. The emotional core of Breaking Ranks is formed by candid interviews with the four young men as they take on their journeys from the moment of recruitment to the momentous decision to desert. Filmed over the course of the refugee process, this provocative film explores the meaning of duty as these young soldiers share their personal stories of moral awakening and the burden that it brings.

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