Ferris Bueller's Day Off Bueller...Bueller... Edition (Special Collector's Edition)

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Like a soda pop left open all night, Bueller seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who fakes his parents out and takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer Grey is winning as Ferris's sister (who ends up making out in the police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the '80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. --Keith Simanton

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"Bueller…Bueller…?" Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller (Mathew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron (Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You'll also enjoy righteous bonus materials that give you an insider's peek at this hilarious comedy hit from John Hughes (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles). So, barf up a lung, forge a "sick note" from the parents, and tag along on the funniest adventure to ever sweep through the Windy City. What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!

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Bueller... Bueller...?.......2007-09-08

Sorry, not here! Instead high-schooler Ferris Bueller(Matthew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane(Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron(Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You'll also enjoy righteous bonus materials that give you an insider's peek at this hilarious comedy hit from John Hughes(Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles). So, barf up a lung, forge a "sick note" from the parents, and tag along on the funniest adventure to ever sweep though the Windy City. What are you still doing here? Save Ferris!

Ferris Bueller Rules.......2007-07-23

Now who doesn't love this movie? being able to sjip school and enjoy the day of visiting the city and having fun? What kid wouldn't like that? A major classic movie of the 80's starring Matthew Broderick. No need to explain his exploits, just watch and laugh with him and his pal Cameron. Another one to stick in your DVD collection.

This movie is soooo Funny!.......2007-07-14

A great film. It will make you laugh over and over again.
A film that the whole family can watch together.

Nice insite on the actors.......2007-07-13

The movie of corse is the same. The most excellent coming of age comedy ever made. I had to watch it again and then I checked out the extras. The interviews with the now older actors is a wonderful reflection of all of their career's and former youth. It is totally worth getting. My last copy of the DVD went to my 15 year old niece. All that I had left was the original VHS from 1989. I loved it and I hope you enjoy it.

One of those 'Bring Me Back' films.......2007-07-07

That is what this film is all about. True the film is dated and has some major plot holes which have been covered by other reviews, but on the whole, a wonderful trip down memory lane for those old enough to remember. No one is immune to the pranks and antics of this film. I tried similar things on my teachers in high school and thought I was original until this film appeared. Give it a shot... you should be laughing within minutes of the action.

Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)

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A good but not great, WWII film...
VISCERAL IN-YOUR-FACE WAR EPIC THAT YOU WON'T FORGET!!
I think 5stars says it all!!
Unbelievable
A fantastic movie that left me drained

Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)
Starring: Tom Hanks , Tom Sizemore , Edward Burns , Barry Pepper , and Adam Goldberg
Director: Steven Spielberg
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ASIN: B00001ZWUS
Release Date: 1999-11-02

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When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. With 1998 production standards, Spielberg has been able to create a stunning, unparalleled view of war as hell. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds.

A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. It's a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War. Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes. If that is so, this movie gives stereotypes a good name: Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant, Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben, Barry Pepper as the religious sniper, Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew, Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo, Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic, and Jeremy Davies, who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance.

The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, but it's more kinetic. Spielberg and his ace technicians (the film won five Oscars: editing (Michael Kahn), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), sound, sound effects, and directing) deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut. The violence is extreme but never gratuitous. The final battle, a dizzying display of gusto, empathy, and chaos, leads to a profound repose. Saving Private Ryan touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today. It's the film Spielberg was destined to make. --Doug Thomas

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A good but not great, WWII film..........2007-09-06

Though I liked this movie overall, though there are some outstanding shots, sequences, and effects, and though I would probably recommend it to friends and acquaintances as one of the better cinema treatments about World War II, my expectations were too disappointed to engage in high praise of this work. I had many serious "problems" with SPR from the very opening overtly false patriotic flag scene to the very end.

The opening scene of Ryan as an old man visiting the Normandy cemetery was fine except for one very annoying factor, John Williams, lush, overly-sentimental BS musical pretensions, which we've heard 100 times already, and in almost every scene in which this score swelled, I felt it was inappropriate. I would've much rather have heard no music whatsoever throughout the film, or at least a very subtle form of and use of. I don't really like being manipulated like this. And various scenes do this. A lush musical war, no thanks.

The most striking example of the film's almost soulless failure to do justice to its apparent agenda and real blood and guts reality (to show how utterly abominable real war is), brings me to yet another complaint. The films' cinema verite, shaky documentary camera style. NYPD Blue on amphetamines...

A little of this "style" can go a long way. Drenching entire scenes lasting several minutes, was totally ineffective and pretentious to me. Some of the wobbly camera in the opening sequence, was very potent, like the troops running towards the beach. This gave the viewer a real sense of being there, of being in a frantic state of confusion, attempting to move forward into a frightening and imposing blur of horror and motion. However, a bit later, when Hanks and his men are using a mirror at the end of a rifle to try to find out where a particular German machine gun is firing from, why shake the camera? When the medics are trying to fix up wounded men on the beach, why shake the camera? If one were there watching these things, they would simply not be seeing it from this perspective. Again, this whole technique was so overused to me.

What's so disappointing about SPR is that it just could've been done so much better, in so many areas. Long, boring, unimaginative sequences are followed by Hollywood hokum. The truly outstanding radar attack sequence, stood out. The characters were given a REAL identity to me during this portion. But for all the talk (hype?) of blood and gore and entrails in SPR's beginning, to me, the only really powerful depictions of real war in the film, was specifically in the segment when one of the GI's chests was pumping gushes of bright red blood, in addition to some opening shots.

Why wasn't there so much more of this however? Why not show utterly horrible pain and suffering and death? That which is real war? That which is happening even as I write this, which I hope Spielberg or one of his other cronies may deal with in the near future, about Iraq. Holding my breath, but not too long.

The entire Axis prisoner scene, was good. There was a real tension here, and I easily felt myself not watching a movie anymore, but feeling as if I had some sort of personal stake in what I was watching. In SPR, Spielberg's more delicate and subtly discriminating add-ons, were clearly the best moments of the film. All the blood and violence and special effects of the opening and closing sections (the closing sections having nearly as much power as the opening ones), never came close for me, in displaying the real horror of war, than this one little middle section, which culminated in two men on the same side, almost killing each other because a "bad guy" POW was being released.

There were and are WAY TOO MANY shots for me of Americans mowing down whole groups of German soldiers, like as if this was a standard scene out of WWII (it wasn't). It IS a standard, stereotypical scene out of WWII MOVIES however. I had hoped for much more however, in SPR. Otherwise, in Spielberg's fantasy WWII world, whole German squads can easily be mowed down by a single GI, and tanks and other weapons can be disabled with nothing more than some good old GI Joe bravery. For all the effects, for all the blood and guts that ARE shown, SPR continually refuses to step over certain lines. It wants to be two things at once, which is its ultimate undoing, to show the "reality" of war, but to do it in an entertaining Hollywood story suited for mass consumption.

I have to say this film, like digestible war-movie filler candy before and after, satisfies for awhile, but there are no great ideas here, no true moral or political or philosophical "center" or soul. And there is nothing groundbreaking here except for a few FX enhanced "war scenes." There are much better WWI&II films, of all stripes. I'd suggest "Enemy at the Gates," or "Paths of Glory,' or even the low budget "A Midnight Clear." For starters.

This is a fairly good war film, but not a "great" war film. DVD extras aside. What the film clearly does wrong, cannot in the final analysis, overcome the few things it does really great and right. Entertaining? Yes. Transcendent? But only if one is easily prone to hype, political, or cinematic, or falsely (IMO) "patriotic" propaganda. This viewer is none of the above, and in the end, to me is just another Steven Spielberg misfire, which garnered and continues to receive critical/popular praise truly undeserved, compared to so many other much more worthy WWII films. As well as documentaries. I wish the whole script had been rewritten/filmed, concentrating on D-Day alone, and never diverted into a corny, schmaltzy retread of almost any other good or bad WWII flick since, or afterwards.

VISCERAL IN-YOUR-FACE WAR EPIC THAT YOU WON'T FORGET!!.......2007-09-05

'SAVING PRIVATE RYAN' STRUCK ME AS: HARD-HITTING - GRAPHIC & EMOTIONAL WITHOUT OVERT SENTIMENTALISM OR SIMPLY THE 'CITIZEN KANE' OF WAR FILMS,

VERY SIMPLY STATED:

This is the most visceral, in-your-face war epic I have ever experienced. But "Saving Private Ryan" is much more than that, as it gives us a well-developed story line and characters we come to care about during the natural unfolding of the story.

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?:

After landing on Normandy through the most visceral and graphically-realistic re-creation ever put to film, this ensemble of American soldiers and the film itself slow down to catch their breath and hand us a great story, having now prepared us for it. The heroic "everyman" types that comprise this small band are fleshed out as they go through their mission to find Private Ryan. It's a sort of follow-the-yellow-brick-road-to-Hell kind of mission that is just about impossible for them to reconcile. What is so important about Private Ryan? See the film and you will find out.

BOTTOM LINE:

Action, drama, and morality are all mixed together in the cauldron of wholesale killing that was the second World War. The "right thing" to do is very difficult to decipher, both by these soldiers and by us viewers, but in no film is the topic more in-your-face realistic and emotionally-supercharged.

After seeing the Normandy sequences in this film, such similar epic recreations as in "The Longest Day" seem not just tame, but also emotionally-removed and from a safe distance. "Saving Private Ryan" is one of the best and most captivating films of any genre that I have ever experienced.

----- CAST

Tom Hanks - Capt. John Miller
Edward Burns - Private Richard Reiben
Tom Sizemore - Sgt. Horvath
Jeremy Davies - Cpl. Upham
Vin Diesel - Pvt. Caparzo
Adam Goldberg - Pvt. Mellish
Barry Pepper - Pvt. Jackson
Giovanni Ribisi - T/4 Medic Wade
Matt Damon - Pvt. James Ryan
Dennis Farina - Lt. Col. Anderson
Ted Danson - Capt. Hamill
Harve Presnell - Gen. George Marshall

----- PRODUCTION CREW:

Steven Spielberg - Director / Producer
Ian Bryce - Producer
Mark Gordon - Producer
Gary Levinsohn - Producer
Robert Rodat - Screenwriter
Janusz Kaminski - Cinematographer
John Williams - Composer (Music Score)

ABOUT THE DVD:

Great Transfer of both audio and video. Compared to the VHS edition, it is like viewing a different and better film due to the transfer, NOT any change in the content, which is identical.

"Director's Message" is well put and needs to be said, but I can only say I wish there was more, a lot more.

Behind-The-Scenes Featurette: A segment titled "Into The Breach" was excellent, but frankly this film needs more than a 24-minute short and you can get more on the 2-Disk DVD 60th Anniversary edition.

I think 5stars says it all!!.......2007-08-24

Without doubt this movie ranks in my top 5 of all time favourites! In fact I have just recently played the Medal of Honour PC game which begins in the same way as this movie does. Except for the harsh reality of the movie!!! The most astonishing start to any movie I have ever seen (Ghost Ship comes close), this movie is just incredible. Buy it, Watch it & then watch it again...... I may have to purchase a second!!!!

Unbelievable.......2007-08-23

Great War, WWII movie. you have to see it. Great graphics, realism and plot. MUST SEE!!!

A fantastic movie that left me drained.......2007-08-15

From the opening scenes to coming full circle in the closing scenes, Saving Private Ryan is a movie and emotionally draining film that leaves you analyzing your own life to determine if you have led a life worth the sacrifices the men and women of our armed forces have made.

Speilberg has created another masterpiece. Just when I thought he could not create a movie more vital than Schindler's List, he comes up with Saving Private Ryan. I cannot say enough about this film. If bloody realism is not something you can stomach then move past the initial Normandy invasion scenes. If you can stomach it though, I encourage watching the scenes because they set the tone for the characters.

This is one of a few films every household should own.

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A fine film of one of the most important events of the 20th Century.
"Those 5,000 ships you say the Allies don't have? They're heading right for me!"
Best WWII Movie
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The Longest Day
Starring: Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , and Richard Beymer
Director: Ken Annakin , Bernhard Wicki , and Darryl F. Zanuck
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ASIN: B000EHSVRS
Release Date: 2006-05-23

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This special collector's commemorative edition has been issued in honor of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of France, which marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships, comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen.

The Longest Day is a vivid, hour-by-hour recreation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast, and told from the perspectives of both sides, it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations, mistakes, and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two 1962 Oscars® (Special Effects and Cinematography), The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.

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A fine film of one of the most important events of the 20th Century........2007-09-04

This movie was based on a hit 1959 book of the same name. It came out in 1962, only 17 years after the war ended. That would be like the movies being made now about the first Gulf War. It was so recent that many of those soldiers being portrayed by actors in the film were not only advisors in the film, but given bit parts on screen, as well. There are so many stars in the film (most of whom would be unknown to those under 40 or so unless they are film buffs) that you can have fun playing a kind of "star bingo". Because so much material is covered in this film, nearly all of the roles are small with some being no more than cameo appearances. But hey, they got in the biggest film about the biggest event of their lifetime!

Remember, this film captures the triumphalist spirit of the allies that I knew growing up. It was pre-Kennedy assassination, pre-Vietnam (we were just getting into it as "advisors"), pre-Watergate, and pre- the kind of pervasive cynicism our culture suffers with today. Nor was it burdened with the faux sophistication of constant irony (you know, so you can avoid being accused of actually believing in something).

This is a very intelligently done film. It captures the massiveness of the invasion and actually mixes in a bit of footage from the war, and is intense enough to get the idea across without the fear of traumatizing the kids you want to teach about the war. Sure, "Saving Private Ryan" has more intense fighting sequences, but is it a better movie? I don't think so. And I still fear showing that open half hour to even my older children. This movie, though three hours long, moves quite rapidly. I also enjoyed that the Nazis are not portrayed as stereotypes. All the characters speak in their own language as appropriate (with subtitles). That is, there are times when they do speak English when English is called for.

I recommend this film to anyone who hasn't seen it and that those familiar with the events, watch it with their kids and grandkids. Feel free to pause it along the way to talk about what is happening, because they won't pick up on everything. Remember, the film was done for the generation that lived through it, so the movie didn't need a lot of exposition. You will have to provide some of that for the younger generations.

Excellent.

"Those 5,000 ships you say the Allies don't have? They're heading right for me!".......2007-08-27

The story of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944, this 1962 black and white war classic sprawls across the screen and across its three hours with such intensity and realism that it is hard to maintain any kind of viewer objectivity about it. Considering that World War Two had ended only seventeen years prior to its release (and D-Day had occurred only 18 years earlier), the film has a kind of "You Are There" immediacy that is simply lacking from World War II films nowadays.

THE LONGEST DAY stars everyone, or perhaps it's more appropriate to say everyone appears in it---42(!) actors are credited on the theatrical poster, but the real "star" is D-Day itself. A tremendous ensemble cast of British, French, German and American film stars, ranging from the about-to-be-famous Sean Connery, Gert Frobe (later the Goldfinger of GOLDFINGER), teen idols like Fabian and Tab Hunter, war film stalwarts like Bernard Law and John Wayne, and diverse performers like Red Buttons and Robert Mitchum, make up the front line of THE LONGEST DAY, along with about 10,000 extras. The film required four directors, one each for each nationality represented.

A little sanitized for viewer comfort, this film nonetheless does succeed in encapsulating June 6, 1944, its horrors and its heroics. The "easy" landings on Gold and Juno Beaches are counterpoised to the near-disaster that was Omaha Beach; the American paratroopers' exection deaths at Ste.-Mere- Eglise are rendered honestly but not gratuitously; the fear, shock and dire realization of the Germans is palpable; the moments of irony (such as a Frenchman appearing on the beach to toast the liberators with champagne) lighten the mood at random moments.

Is it perfect? No. For one, THE LONGEST DAY is really not long enough. A series of snapshot-newsreels, it examples the day but can't capture it in depth (but could any film do that?) For another, this huge project stops so abruptly that it causes the viewer vertigo. Day's over---Film's over! A ten second crawl describing the subsequent liberation of Europe would have anchored the film in real time.

These small flaws hardly detract from this gargantuan effort, which is a classic of its genre and a valuable history lesson, to boot.

Best WWII Movie.......2007-08-26

This is the best World War II movie made. John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

pipi.......2007-08-14

What can I say that hasen't already been said.

This is the classic movie of the Normandy invasion.

A must see for everyone.

Prefer the color version.......2007-08-11

While I enjoy watching this movie, I prefer the colorized version that was released on VHS a number of years ago. While "purists" may want to see it in black and white, I've gotten used to seeing it in color and I wish it was available that way on DVD.

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Excellent, but...think about it!
VERY FUNNY MOVIE
a profound comic parable
Stands the test of time
A Groundhog Day worth reliving (and re-watching)

Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
Starring: Carol Bivins , Ken Hudson Campbell , Brian Doyle-Murray , Rick Ducommun , and Robin Duke
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ASIN: B00005U8EM
Release Date: 2002-01-29

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Bill Murray at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life.

Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. After a surprise blizzard traps him in small-town hell, things get even worse; Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again.

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Starring: Bill Murray, Chris Elliott, and Andie MacDowell.
Directed By: Harold Ramis.
Running Time: 101 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Widescreen" format.
Copyright 2002 Columbia TriStar.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Bill Murray does warmth in his most consistently effective post-Stripes comedy, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it's Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. He squeezes all the available juice out of every scene. Without forcing the issue, he makes us understand why this fly-away personality responds so intensely to the radiant sanity of the TV producer played by Andie MacDowell. The blissfully clueless Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) is Murray's nudnik cameraman. --David Chute

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Excellent, but...think about it!.......2007-09-11

Don't get me wrong, I really like this movie. But think about the philosophical implications.

Here we have a man who has to go through the same day over and over. At 6 AM, everything in his life goes back to the way it was 24 hours ago.

But everything in the world is interconnected. So that means that every person in the world would have to relive the same day over and over. And every living thing--every animal and plant. And every object in the world, every atom in the world, would have to shift back to the way it had been. The Earth itself would have to go back to where it had been in its orbit.

Every single living being and every atom in the entire universe, and the entire universe itself, would have to revert back to the way it had been the day before, over and over again.

All so that this one man could learn to become a better person.

I mean, just how important is this guy, anyway?

VERY FUNNY MOVIE.......2007-08-28

I THOUGHT THAT THIS MOVIE WAS VERY FUNNY BUT ALSO NERVE WRACKING. I WOULD HATE TO WAKE UP TO "I'VE GOT YOU BABE" EVERY MORNING, IT WOULD DRIVE ME CRAZY. BILL MURRAY IS VERY HILARIOUS AND IS VERY AGGRAVATED THAT HE WAKES UP EVERY MORNING AND REPEATS THE SAME THING EVERYDAY UNTIL HE FIGURES OUT WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO RIGHT TO CHANGE HIS DESTINY.

a profound comic parable.......2007-08-24

I'd seen only bits and pieces of "Groundhog Day", and hadn't cared for it. Then I sat down yesterday and watched the whole thing.

I was flabbergasted. This is a movie about the way we piss away our lives, day by day, never improving our own lives or the lives of those around us.

Unhesitatingly recommended.

Stands the test of time.......2007-08-23

Really just one of my favorite films. A clever metaphor for life, and how you can (or have to) live it one day at a time.

A Groundhog Day worth reliving (and re-watching).......2007-08-15

Groundhog Day is based on what may be the oddest premise for a romantic comedy ever. A TV news weatherman (Bill Murray) goes to Punxatawnee, PA to cover Groundhog Day. The next day he wakes up and it is Groundhog Day again. No one remembers that this day has already passed and so he is forced to live it again. And the next day he wakes up and... it's Groundhog Day again. And again... and again... and again... and, well, you get the idea. Watching Murray's character go through this bizarre situation and the effect it has on him is absolutely riveting. I love that no attempt to explain this time-loop is ever made, it's enough for the viewer to know that it is happening and we don't need to get bogged down in some geeky sci fi explanation.

Bill Murray has a tendency to be a little too smug and over-the-top in his movie performances but he is at the top of his game here. His timing is perfect and the role harnesses his smug and biting humor but this is tempered as the story progresses and Murray captures the nuances perfectly. The rest of the cast similarly rises to the level of the unusually intelligent script. For my money, this is probably the single best movie in the "romantic comedy" genre. It is unique and perfectly executed. Well worth watching whether you are a fan of Bill Murray or not.

A Room with a View (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Phenominal movie
A Room With a View
Passion, uncorseted , in this E. M. Forster story
One of My Favorites

A Room with a View (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Maggie Smith , Helena Bonham Carter , Denholm Elliott , Julian Sands , and Simon Callow
Director: James Ivory
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ASIN: B0001DCYUU
Release Date: 2004-04-06

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The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of manners and mores. It's that system of rigid behavior that prevents young Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) from accepting the loving advances of a free-spirited suitor (Julian Sands), who fears that she will follow through with her engagement to a priggish intellectual (Daniel Day-Lewis) whose capacity for passion is virtually nonexistent. During and after a trip to Italy with her protective companion (Maggie Smith), Lucy gradually gets in touch with her true emotions. The fun of watching A Room with a View comes from seeing how Lucy's thoughts and feelings finally arrive at the same romantic conclusion. Through an abundance of humor both subtle and overt, this crowd-pleasing "art movie" rose to an unexpected level of popular appeal. The Merchant-Ivory team received eight Academy Award nominations for their efforts, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, and Costume Design. --Jeff Shannon

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Nominated for eight Oscars in 1986, including Best Picture, and winner of three (Costumes, Art Direction and Adapted Screenplay), A Room with a View is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece. A brilliant adaptation of E.M. Forster?s novel, A Room with a View tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis). Boasting a brilliant supporting cast, A Room with a View is one of the most romantic of romantic comedies ever filmed.

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I wanted to like it.........2007-09-04

I really did. I bought it with high hopes of liking it, yet i did not. I kept looking at the clock on my dvd wanting it to end. It started very slow for me and did not pick up at all. And i love period piece movies and have seen alot. This one did not do anything for me, except bore me.

Phenominal movie.......2007-08-03

I originally watched this movie around 10 years ago and it is one of my all time favorites. The actors do an incredible job of pulling you into the story and feeling the emotions their characters are experiencing. I recently read the book and decided that I must own the movie, and it was as good as I remembered! The movie is as good as the book- if not better!!!

A Room With a View.......2007-07-06

One of the finest examples of the longstanding Merchant/Ivory alliance, "Room With a View" is a superbly executed romance set in 1907 and adapted from the book by E.M. Forster. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, the film boasts dazzling sets and costumes, along with note-perfect early turns by Merchant-Ivory regular Carter and an uncharacteristically priggish Daniel Day-Lewis. Don't miss this smart and sumptuous cinematic treat.

Passion, uncorseted , in this E. M. Forster story.......2007-07-06

Take two stuffy,repressed English ladies, pour them into gorgeous Florence of the late 1800's, throw in a few fiery encounters with the native Italians (amorous and/or violent), and watch for the ensuing combustion. Helena Bonham Carter loosens her hair and her heartstrings. Maggie Smith, my favorite character who is the chaperone, also learns a thing or two. The real stars arcing over this production, however, are "bella" Florence itself and the singing of Kiri Te Kanawe in the background, as she delivers her thrilling aria, "O Mio Babbino Caro."

One of My Favorites.......2007-06-06

Now I'm a girl that loves a period piece movie but this is one of my all time favorites. All the roles are great campy caricatures (my favorite is the pompous Cecil), beautiful Florence is the setting and it has humor, romance and adventure.

The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)

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Must-see cinema: Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day.
Remains a day...
Outstanding Acting, A Near-Perfect Adaptation
The Remains of the Day
"Z. Hayes" took the review right out of my minds eye :)

The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins , Emma Thompson , Christopher Reeves , Peter Vaughan , and Patrick Godfrey
Director: James Ivory
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B00003CXC9
Release Date: 2001-11-06

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This excellent film is probably best described as subtle elegance. Framed in the present, the movie deals with the lives inside an English country home just prior to World War II. Reunited with the filmmakers from Howards End are Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, the head housekeeper, and Anthony Hopkins as Stevens, the impeccable butler. The bittersweet story centers on Stevens and his dedication to his master, Lord Darlington (a suitably officious and slyly pompous James Fox). Stevens summarizes: "I don't believe a man can consider himself fully content until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer." Enveloping Stevens's world are the pending war with Germany, Darlington's horribly misguided interests in said war, and, most effectively, his relationship with Miss Kenton. Stevens is the very essence of repression, but as played by Hopkins he is neither piteous nor self-righteous. Like his master, Stevens becomes misguided in his loyalties, although his is an emotional deprivation, possibly condemning him to lifelong regret. There's so much going on in this film, and yet the action is skillfully depicted through understanding and knowing glances, through emotions expressed only through eye contact. Like other Merchant-Ivory-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala collaborations, this film is sumptuous to look at, capturing the period effectively and affectingly. Jhabvala respectfully adapts from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. Excellent in supporting roles are Christopher Reeve, Ben Chaplin, and Hugh Grant. --N.F. Mendoza

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Must-see cinema: Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. .......2007-09-16

"A 'great' butler can only be, surely, one who can point to his years of service and say that he has applied his talents to serving a great gentleman--and through the latter, in serving humanity."

Based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989), and flawlessly adapted to the screen by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, this Merchant-Ivory film tells the poignant story of Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), a loyal English butler who has who dedicated his life to the service of Lord Darlington (James Fox). The film's title not only refers to the time of day (evening) when the narrator reflects upon his day's work, but also upon his mature age, from which he can reflect upon his life. The title also refers to the last grand houses of Great Britain's staffed with butlers such as Stevens.

Told through a series of flashbacks while on a "motoring trip," Stevens reflects upon his past in scenes reminiscent of Bergman's Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection). Stevens conntemplates his service to Lord Darlington, the meaning of "dignity," his relationship with his father, and his true feelings for an ex co-worker Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson ), whom he cherishes. It was because of his service to Lord Darlington that Stevens never acted upon his love for Miss Kenton. Although she offered him her love, he refused to even acknowledge her feelings by allowing himself to be "off duty" in her presence (p. 169). Rather, all his life Stevens has been consumed by the desire to be a "great" butler, which for him has meant embodying the ideals of service, dignity, and composure. Ultimately, The Remains of The Day is a poignant meditation upon missed opportunities and lost love; one cannot "turn back the clock," as Stevens puts it. The powerful film triumphs at drawing the viewer into Stevens' loss as a result of placing duty above the needs of his heart. Both Hopkins and Thompson bring stunning performances to this beautifully bittersweet film. Like the novel upon which it is based, this is a perfect film, subtle and elegant, and one that I highly recommend.

G. Merritt

Remains a day..........2007-08-29

Yes, there remained a day to spend together after 20 years for neither of Miss Kenton nor Mr. Stevens could tell the love they felt for each other openly those many years ago. They could not tell it then and it was already late to do so when they met the one last time. One gets the feeling that they would have had a happier life if they have done so when what prevented them at the time was a deep love for his work on Mr Steven's behalf and maybe a womanly pride on Miss Kenton's behalf. Maybe also her love for her work. I felt she was maybe getting revenge while marrying another man in front of the eyes of the man she loves, or urging Mr. Stevens to open his feelings. She might have felt an urge to get married as well. I think this is a story of how people can sacrifice their love for other things they find pride in. Regardless of this is right or wrong, I wish I could have seen them happier by the end of the movie...

Outstanding Acting, A Near-Perfect Adaptation.......2007-08-01

Hopkins and Thompson, along with a truly outstanding supporting cast, bring Ishikawa's book to life. Rarely is such a complex book done such justice. My principal complaint is that the ending was changed significantly. If you enjoy the film, I recommend also reading at least the last chapter of The Remains of the Day to compare them.

The Remains of the Day.......2007-07-17

Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, "Remains" is a refined, elegantly crafted study of loss, regret, and the costs of emotional repression. Hopkins is masterful as Stevens, a man hiding behind an unswervingly dedicated, almost pathologically formal veneer. And the ever-charming Thompson is an excellent foil, attempting to draw Stevens out of his fortress of unfeeling. Lovingly handled by the Merchant-Ivory team, with exquisite period detail and coolly expressive cinematography, "Remains" is a cinematic gem of exceedingly good taste.

"Z. Hayes" took the review right out of my minds eye :).......2007-06-19

Z hayes "myrradine" below kind of nailed the coffin shut on reviews for this tremendous work of exceptional purity. I HIGHLY disagree with anyone that thinks the screenplay was not keeping true to the book. In fact, as "myrradine" states below, it's even better than the original work. I concur.

This truly shows what one can masterfully do with a book. Take an exceptional director like Merchant Ivory, with the "raw" talent of Hopkins and the exceptional pure realism of someone like gorgeous Emma Thompson, and you have what movie making should be about: timely, percise, flowing and elequont.

I can clearly see how many people would find this very dull and boring, but there are very few films that can utterly show you the pinnacle of the craft. Remains of the Day is clearly that type of movie.

Without a doubt five stars in every direction.

(ok so I lied z. hayes, I did one anyway) :)

Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection (Seven Year Itch / Gentlement Prefer Blondes / Niagara / River of No Return / Let's Make Love / Marilyn: The Final Days)

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A Great Compilation!
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection
Marilyn Monroe at her best
I love this lady!

Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection (Seven Year Itch / Gentlement Prefer Blondes / Niagara / River of No Return / Let's Make Love / Marilyn: The Final Days)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe , Joseph Cotten , Jean Peters , Max Showalter , and Denis O'Dea
Director: Henry Hathaway , Billy Wilder , and Patty Ivins Specht
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000EMGJAY
Release Date: 2006-05-30

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Collection Includes the following Titles:

**SEVEN YEAR ITCH **GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES **NIAGARA **RIVER OF NO RETURN **LET'S MAKE LOVE **MARILYN: THE FINAL DAYS

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A Great Compilation!.......2007-07-17

I love this set! It is a really nice display item as well, as it sits nicely on a shelf and has a wonderful picture of Marilyn on there.

Marilyn Monroe.......2007-01-10

While this set doesn't have all the Marilyn Monroe movies, it is a good set to have. Marilyn is beautiful in all of the enclosed movies. She acted various parts and did so in different ways. This set is a good start for anyone beginning a Monroe collection!

Marilyn Monroe Special Anniversary Collection.......2007-01-10

I bought this DVD set for my father for his birthday. He just turned 83 years old and he absolutely have always adored Marilyn Monroe and he was so thrilled when he got the set and he said the color on the DVD cover was absolutely beautiful and he (my parents and I are deaf) was happy that the movies was subtitled and he was able to fully understand everything which in back of old days, the movies were not captioned and he would just guess what the stories were about but now he does not have to play guess anymore.

Marilyn Monroe at her best.......2007-01-09

I bought this as a gift for my 15 year old neice! Marilyn is at her best in these classics! She never goes out of style! I would recommend this set to any one that either wanted to start collecting all of her movies or just the best ones.

I love this lady!.......2007-01-03

great movies!. I think she made a great suductress, also she has an awesome body, not a twig like the ladies of today.

Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

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A good but not great, WWII film...
VISCERAL IN-YOUR-FACE WAR EPIC THAT YOU WON'T FORGET!!
I think 5stars says it all!!
Unbelievable
A fantastic movie that left me drained

Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Tom Hanks , Tom Sizemore , Edward Burns , Barry Pepper , and Adam Goldberg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B0001NBLVI
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Customer Reviews:

A good but not great, WWII film..........2007-09-06

VISCERAL IN-YOUR-FACE WAR EPIC THAT YOU WON'T FORGET!!.......2007-09-05

I think 5stars says it all!!.......2007-08-24

Unbelievable.......2007-08-23

Great War, WWII movie. you have to see it. Great graphics, realism and plot. MUST SEE!!!

A fantastic movie that left me drained.......2007-08-15

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Blah
Better Than Ever!
An awesome DVD! (Original Australian language track included!)
Man Stripped Down.
mad max US edition

Mad Max (Special Edition)
Starring: Mel Gibson , Joanne Samuel , Hugh Keays-Byrne , Steve Bisley , and Tim Burns
Director: George Miller (II)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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