Pretty Woman (15th Anniversary Special Edition)

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This 15th Anniversary celebration of PRETTY WOMAN is even more irresistible than ever with all-new, never-before-seen special features you'll love at first sight. Academy Award(R) Winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress, ERIN BROCKOVICH, 2000) is a spirited, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets a no-nonsense billionaire played by Golden Globe winner Richard Gere (Best Actor In A Motion Picture -- Musical Or Comedy, CHICAGO, 2002). It's a chance encounter that turns a weeklong business arrangement into a timeless rags-to-riches romance. This Special Edition will seduce you with all the comedy, charm, and passion you remember about this classic -- plus more!

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Roy Orbison should be proud.......2007-09-14

Pretty Woman begins with corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) impulsively picking up a streetwalking prostitute named Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts). He ends up hiring her for the week as an escort so that he can have a date for certain business dinners that are very important to him. While she is intelligent, she is also unaccustomed to living the life of luxury and there is a fair amount of humor that flows from her "fish out of water" status. It's a fairly silly setup for the movie and if you want to pick it apart, it's no great challenge to do so. It does, however, provide a very entertaining backdrop for a Cinderella love story.

This was not the first part in Julia Roberts' career, but it is certainly the one that made her a star. She is funny, sexy, and has a great warmth and vulnerability that makes it easy to believe that any man could fall in love with her, even a hotshot corporate raider. Gere does his usual solid acting job. Hector Elizondo steals the show as the stuffy hotel manager who helps Vivian learn etiquette and softens considerably in the process. Actually, the cast is very strong from top to bottom with small roles by Jason Alexander and Ralph Bellamy going a long way to making this film worth watching over and over.

Pretty Woman is certainly never going to win any awards for the most intellectually stimulating film of all time, but that's okay. It's funny when it wants to be and touching when it tries. And despite the silly story, there are some underlying themes that all of us can relate to and that feel very real. This one belongs in any DVD library.

Pretty Woman (15th Anniversary Special Edition).......2007-08-24

I have always loved movies starring Julia Roberts and/or Richard Gere. I suppose the whole world has seen this funny, wacky, loveable couple try to work out the problems of being a "call girl". The "1-900-Babe" by Gere just cracks me up!

Story of respect, love, and compassion.......2007-07-20

While I was skeptical about this movie before watching it, I was completely taken aback by its wonderful story and enduring lessons. It was the appropriate combination of romance, comedy, and drama which made this movie, while still a chick flick, one that is heart touching and emphasises the importance of judging a person by their character and not simply thier professions. It also emphasises the importance of not making assumptions about people in order to figure out the essence of the true person. A heartwarming film - much recommended!

GREAT MOVIE.......2007-05-13

GREAT CHICK FLICK, THE CINDERELLA STORY WITH RICHARD GERE, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT??? -SMILE-

Best Romantic Comedy of All Time.......2007-03-18

This 15th Anniversary edition has some deleted scenes inserted into the movie that has had some "purists" howling, but for me, I think it adds a new dimension to the relationship between Edward and Vivian. Aside from that the commentary from Garry Marshall was fun (of course, hearing from Julia Roberts and Richard Gere would have been great, but whatever). The wrap party is a joke; they shouldn't have bothered inserting that. The "Pretty Woman Tour" which takes you to the actual places where the movie was filmed was also informative. But all that aside, it's about the movie and it is a movie that still seems fresh and original all these years later. It's well worth owning because this a is a movie that will surely get more than one viewing.

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We're counting with Ernie!
does not model polite behavior
great for toddlers
I Can't Beleive All The Positive Reviews!
Dance and count to the beat!

Sesame Street - 123 Count With Me
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ASIN: 0738920762
Release Date: 1999-12-14

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Join Ernie at The Furry Arms Hotel for a musical lesson in just how useful counting can be. When Ernie finds and returns a misplaced key, he uses his knowledge of numbers to return the key to the correct guest. As Ernie begins to learn about the hotel business, he finds many common situations in which counting is essential. Throughout the 30-minute video, Ernie and his friends help children learn to count from 1 to 20 with such songs as the jazzy "That's How the Numbers Go," an original version of the Chorus Line show tune "One," and "Rap Song #11." Favorite Sesame Street characters Elmo and The Count are joined by new characters including Ding the Dinger, a furry fellow with a bell on his head, and Benny, the bellboy that responds to Ding the Dinger's dings. Children as young as 18 months will bounce happily along with the catchy tunes and 2-year-olds will be inspired to count aloud with Ernie. Kids up to age 5 will hone their counting skills and laugh at the increasingly frustrated Benny as he delivers everything from 1 bucket of ice to 15 stampeding elephants! If you're looking for a fun video that teaches counting skills, here it is. --Tami Horiuchi

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We're counting with Ernie!.......2007-09-06

My 22 month old daughter loves this dvd! It was a reward for using the potty multiple times. She absolutely loves it and loves to count going up stairs, counts her toys in her crib, counts in the car! Great investment!

does not model polite behavior.......2007-09-04

I loved Sesame street growing up, but Sesame street as a whole seems to be going downhill to me. This video, while it does have a couple of great vintage clips, models HORRIBLY rude and disobedient behavior. The bunny is extremly rude to Ernie and the Honker, and Ernie and the Honker repeatedly bother and annoy Benny, even after Benny asks them to stop (and of course, asks in a rude way). The educational value is minimal. I really don't think this helped my child to count to 15 or to recognize his numbers. If you want some good vintage Sesame STreet clips, check out the 25th anniversary. Good clips, educational value is about the same, but no rude behavior, and no disobedient behavior.

great for toddlers.......2007-08-21

it's just got heart and soul. do you want to watch a slideshow of electronic toys with Mozart soullessly sequenced on synthesized marimbas, or do you want to watch real characters singing genuinely clever lyrics teaching the same stuff.

I Can't Beleive All The Positive Reviews!.......2007-07-28

This DVD is just plain terrible. There is so much shouting and rude behaviour. In the video, Ernie continues to annoy the bunny even after the bunny has asked him to stop. This video will teach your children to be cheeky and annoying. Avoid it.

Dance and count to the beat!.......2007-07-27

My 18-month old twin boys LOVE Ernie. We found this DVD at our local library. Well, this is one video you can enjoy listening to. I also choose the 'Songs' option which is much easier for younger toddlers to follow. (Therefore, it's on the top of my purchase list)

Thumbs up!

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Same Time, Next Year
Passionate ..and funny
LIKE A GOOD WINE - BETTER WITH AGE
A classic romance
Heritage House, Mendocino

Same Time, Next Year
Starring: Ellen Burstyn , Alan Alda , Ivan Bonar , Bernie Kuby , and Cosmo Sardo
Director: Robert Mulligan
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ASIN: B0001CNRBG
Release Date: 2004-04-06

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Bernard Slade's smart, funny, and touching play about an adulterous couple who meet one weekend a year for 26 years is nicely adapted for the screen by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) in this 1978 film. The two-person story stars Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn, both of whom are outstanding at conveying a rainbow of emotions over a quarter-century as life gives and takes away, and the world convulses with change. Mulligan brings taste and honesty to the film, and Alda and Burstyn give full, living performances. --Tom Keogh

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Same Time, Next Year.......2007-09-05

I have not been able to watch it as my DVD has region restrictions (ie. I can't watch American/Canadian DVDs on my current Australian DVD player). It would be good in future if such a disclosure about compatibility was made about your products prior to contract of sale. Regards, Emma

Passionate ..and funny.......2007-05-26

Loved the historic timeline as backdrop to this movie.Alan Alda was perfect for this role! Wish it could be updated to the present time. The title song always gives me tingles....

LIKE A GOOD WINE - BETTER WITH AGE.......2007-05-14

My wife and I celebrate our 30th anniversary of marriage this year and remember this movie fondly from almost 30 years ago. We both agreed that every aspect of the movie seemed better than when we viewed it last. The story was easier to follow, the humour seemed more ironic and the music exceeded my expectations in it's placement within the movie. I was left wanting more.

A classic romance.......2007-05-13

Witty, philosophical, and an unlikely affair that happens once a year ... over decades. Delightful and sometimes a little painful. Ultimately, a classic romance (so now you know the ending).

Heritage House, Mendocino.......2007-05-07

I bought this video to view before we visited the inn where it all happens: Heritage House in Mendocino, CA. As we drove up the coast, we talked about the movie, the moral issues, the actors, and it gave us so much to talk about, we almost missed the view of the Pacific! Just a little dated, but Alan Alda is so magnificent in this that you can put
aside your critic's pen and just enjoy. His performance should have brought him an Oscar.

Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)

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Cult Classic but would've been better with a different director
Birth of a fan
Awesome! This movie rock!
Imagine this film done by Ridley Scott.
A one hour thirty minute music video

Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
Starring: Bob Geldof , Christine Hargreaves , James Laurenson , Eleanor David , and Kevin McKeon
Director: Alan Parker
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ASIN: B0006ZE7G2
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd: The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant, and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters's great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humor that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualize The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed.

The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerizing film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon

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Track List:
1.Original film presented in high-definition widescreen and mixed in 5.1 surround sound
2."The Other Side Of The Wall" - a 25 minute documentary about the making of the film
3."Retrospective" - an exclusive 45 minute retrospective documentary of interviews with Roger Waters, Alan Parker, Gerald Scarfe, Peter Biziou, Alan Marshall and James Guthrie 4.Original film trailer and production stills

In celebration of the quarter-century anniversary, Columbia Records is releasing a special limited edition DVD of this landmark film. Packaged in a deluxe DVD digi-pak designed to look like The Wall with debossed brick work and a clear O-card, this stunning release features a photo montage of film shots and a fold-out reproduction of the original film promotional poster. All the artwork and design for this lavish packaging has been coordinated by original Pink Floyd designers Peter Curzon and Storm Thorgerson.

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Cult Classic but would've been better with a different director.......2007-09-09

Looking back at Alan Parker's work, he was great for capturing the dark side of postwar England. You watch "Angelas Ashes" and "The Committments" and you can see the thread that leads back to "The Wall".

Supposedly there's a screentest that had Roger Waters audition for the role of Pink, but Boomtown Rat and Live Aid/Live 8 mastermind Sir Bob Geldof got the part. And he wasn't a Pink Floyd fan until years later.

But I think Parker made it a little too downbeat. There are things on the album that I think Roger comes across a little more over the top through it, and hopeful towards the end.

There is a story, but it's very nonlinear. You see the rock star's spiral into his own madness (similar to Syd Barrett) and what drove him there, but the theme of "The Wall" is a breakdown in communication and the walls we build around us, or built by others. You assume there's redemption at the end but it's really hard to tell.

Does the wife take up with the lover because Pink was sleeping with groupies to begin with? "Young Lust" should've captured Pink putting the band together a little more, out on the hunt for nubile maidens as the song suggests, instead of turning it into being about the groupies. By the time the groupie gets to Pink, his wall is already in place...bored and uninterested. The mother in the movie isn't all that menacing, neither is the wife until "The Trial". I thought this should've been ratcheted up a lot. The teacher however, is dead on. "Another Brick in the Wall" is definitely one of the best parts.

The highlight of the film is "Comfortably Numb"... it's wonderfully filmed and is as creepy as anything Cronenberg's done.

Scarfe's animation had been used for the band's live shows and is used here, also a great highlight of the movie.

Big reason to have this is because it's in surround. The documentary's ok, and seeing the original "Another Brick in the Wall II" promo's cool.

Birth of a fan.......2007-07-09

Back in the day, when I was in high school, I absolutely could not stand Pink Floyd with the exception of one song (Wish You Were Here). When tracks came across the radio I just tried not to listen and couldn't understand they hype.
Then for reasons I can't recall, my girlfriend (later my wife) and I went to see The Wall when it released at the theater. I sat, mesmerized and staring at the screen. To see the movie is to hear the entire album set from start to finish and the movie put it all in context. The thing I was missing before, I understood now. The music of Pink Floyd is put together in albums and if you don't listen to them that way they are disconnected and just don't make sense.
Now I was hooked and started to listen to PF albums instead of individual cuts. I bought the cassette tape (hi-tech back then), wore it out, wore out a backup copy, wore out another tape and years later bought the CD set. Today I'm buying the DVD and can't wait to experience it all again.
Bottom line, the movie is dark, it is disturbing, and it is terribly awesome. Pink Floyd played the music of the insane. Maybe it is the insane who still play the music of Pink Floyd. In any case, I can't wait to introduce my 15 year-old son to it. Wonder if his jaw will drop like mine did?

Awesome! This movie rock!.......2007-05-16

Awesome! This movie rock!

Audio is much better than the original version. It's really worth it.

Imagine this film done by Ridley Scott........2007-05-11

I remember first time I watched this film in movie theatre when it was released to the first theatrical events, I left the room really disappointed. I felt that Floyd had lost one great opportunity of creating a masterpiece of images and music. By that time we all were still under the impact of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album a real masterpiece and there was a great expectation about the film, but I have to confess, I had an insight that it wasn't to happen and why I affirm this, because one of the worst experiences I have ever had in my life was my decision of watching the worst film of all times, a film called "Fame" or "Infamous if you like", and guess who was the director of this ridiculous film, yes Alan Parker, so I couldn't expect nothing better from this guy really. Can you all remember good films this guy has been done? Well, no, so do I! It was really a disaster this choice, but how we cannot change what happened, I only can give three stars for the few really good moments this film has, like that of "Goodbye blue sky" and I'm sure this great moments is much more because of the music than the image itself, no, one thing we have to say and recognize "the work of Gerald Scarfe is a real work of genius" he was with Pink Floyd since the creation of the fantastic "The Wall" artwork. Can you all imagine if this film had been done by Ridley Scott with the help of Gerald Scarfe, wow, simply no comments... It would have been a truly masterpiece!

A one hour thirty minute music video.......2007-04-03

And not a great one, by any measure. While I'm sure the Pink Floyd fan boys will slobber all over this and proclaim its genius, the truth is that it's really pretty boring. Random trivial war images, check. Random trivial teen angst and rebellion images, check. Random trivial drug lifestyle images, check. Random trivial imagery of fascist oppression. Hooray! It's paint by numbers anti-establishment. FIGHT THE INSTITUTION! I guess this explains why Pink Floyd zealots have a long standing reputation of excessive drug use, you'd have to be toasted in order to find brilliance here. No dialogue and a non-linear story line makes it so the film is really nothing but a long music video, which like most videos depends on symbolic imagery, and we learn that film isn't Roger Water's medium. Instead of four or five music videos (which is how it would probably be done today) from a solid album, they made one huge video from a concept album. Actually a great idea and quite progressive for the time. But it's still boring. I guess if I'm pressed to say something truly positive about the film, it set a strong precedent that music videos have the potential, as a medium, to do something very special, above and beyond what the song itself could do. That music videos can be something more than just performance/concert videos. Of course, it just showed the potential, it didn't actualize that potential.

Usually, with any criticism of Pink Floyd, you can expect the usual diatribes from the fan base about how you just don't get it, it's over your head, beyond your grasp, blah blah blah, but the sad truth is, there's just nothing here. It's just plain boring.

There's nothing. Well, except maybe we learn that someone in Pink Floyd has serious mommy issues. And even as the film bores you to tears, the music really is fantastic. In fact the music is so great it really does illustrates how they tried so hard, and fell so far short with the film. Buy the album, forget the film! The music alone salvages three stars for this, the album itself rates much higher.

And really, the flower scene? Just lame.

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Heartbreaking
Award Winning Performance by Cheadle...
A film that is worth repeated viewing
Hutus & the Blowfish
EXCELLENT FILM! WELL DONE!

Hotel Rwanda
Starring: Xolani Mali , Don Cheadle , Desmond Dube , Hakeem Kae-Kazim , and Tony Kgoroge
Director: Terry George
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ASIN: B0007R4T3U
Release Date: 2005-04-12

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Solidly built around a subtle yet commanding performance by Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda emerged as one of the most highly-praised dramas of 2004. In a role that demands his quietly riveting presence in nearly every scene, Cheadle plays real-life hero Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in the Rwandan capital of Kigali who in 1994 saved 1,200 Rwandan "guests" from certain death during the genocidal clash between tribal Hutus, who slaughtered a million victims, and the horrified Tutsis, who found safe haven or died. Giving his best performance since his breakthrough role in Devil in a Blue Dress, Cheadle plays Rusesabagina as he really was during the ensuing chaos: "an expert in situational ethics" (as described by critic Roger Ebert), doing what he morally had to do, at great risk and potential sacrifice, with an understanding that wartime negotiations are largely a game of subterfuge, cooperation, and clever bribery. Aided by a United Nations official (Nick Nolte), he worked a saintly miracle, and director Terry George (Some Mother's Son) brings formidable social conscience to bear on a true story you won't soon forget. --Jeff Shannon

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Once you find out what happened in Rwanda, you'll never forget. OscarÂ(r) nominee* Don Cheadle (Traffic) gives "the performance of his career in this extraordinarily powerful" (The Hollywood Reporter) and moving true story of one man's brave stance against savagery during the 1994 Rwandan conflict. Sophie Okonedo (Dirty Pretty Things) co-stars as the loving wife who challenges a good man to become a great man. As his country descends into madness, five-star-hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle) sets out to save his family. But when he sees that theworld will not intervene in the massacre of minority Tutsis, he finds the courage to open his hotelto more than 1,200 refugees. Now, with a rabid militia at the gates, he must use his well-honed grace, flattery and cunning to protect his guests from certain death. *2004: Actor, Hotel Rwanda

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Heartbreaking .......2007-08-29

What a powerfuly well done movie to tell the story of people and the country that were ignored.
Aching for the suffering children.

thank you for producing such a powerful film.

Award Winning Performance by Cheadle..........2007-08-08

This gut wrenching movie is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five star assistant hotel manager in Africa who spent his life being accommodating to the rich, famous and powerful clientele of the hotel Mille Collines in hope that one day he could call on them to help his family.

All hell breaks loose in 1994 just before the president is assassinated. Following this begins the unbelievable genocide raged against the Tootsis people. Paul has to think fast on his feet to keep his wife and children alive (they are Tootsis, he is Hutu). His actions surprise even himself. Without expecting it, Paul becomes a humanitarian, saving over 1000 refugees by hiding them in the hotel while over 800,000 Tootsis were being slaughtered.

The act of killing so many people seems incomprehensible. Hotel Rwanda's disturbing content deals with the dark side of humanity. It did not try to over shadow the horror with flying limbs and splashing blood like they could of. It focuses instead on the emotional and psychological turmoil of the main characters and those within the hotel. This is one of the best films I've ever seen. Don Cheadle is superb as Paul Rusesabagina and this important story is something that you'll remember and want to talk about. Reviewed by M. E. Wood.

A film that is worth repeated viewing.......2007-07-20

This isn't a perfect film, but it does come very close. It makes a few unnecessary changes to the actual event, such as the identity of the commander of UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. The fictional Colonel Oliver comes across as rather dry and emotionless, which bears no relations to the actual commander in charge of the peacekeeping mission, Romeo Dallaire. As a study of a man who changed from bystander to rescuer however, the film is very useful. Comparable to some of the lessons I have learnt about rescuers during the Shoah (Holocaust).

Hutus & the Blowfish.......2007-07-05

Or, "Sir, would you like some DEATH with during your stay?"

Yes, Don Cheadle owns, quietly, every scene in this flick.

Yes, director Terry George & vet cinematographer Bob Fraisse (who served up the kinetic street warfare in "Ronin") cook up a little deadly cinematic ghoulash. They evoke, vividly, the feral sink of depravity that was Rwanda in 1994, when more than a million Hutus & Tutsis were slaughtered in an orgy of ferocious destruction, turning the land into a reeking abattoir.

But in the end, so what? What is the point here?

If the point is that something Horrible happened in Africa---well, folks, get over it. Something horrible is always happening in Africa: ask the Sudanese in Darfur, where a brutal genocide against the south is carried out by the Muslim Janjaweed militia, who have slaughtered nearly a million in the last two years, who take delight in refining their tactics of rape and carnage.

Or ask the Cambodians, whose skulls their former God-Emperor Pol Pot used to stack by the millions, as if building little bony towers to heaven, even as liberal lion Noam Chomsky apologized for him.

Or dial up the thousands of Iranian students huddled in broomclosets in Iran, who are regularly beaten, abducted, tortured, and killed for daring to voice dissent to the Mullahocracy's iron rule there.

I'm sure you would have heard outrage had you parachuted into Iraq before April 2003---muted, because an Iraqi expressing his revulsion for Saddam's death camps, torture factories, & rape rooms would have been in danger of apprehension by the hated secret police---and maybe had his tongue pulled off for his troubles.

What happened? The UN dithered & stalled (just as it did with Rwanda, as it does with the Sudan), despite Saddam's violation of more than 13 separate sanctions over the past decade. Eager to remove Saddam---for his atrocities, for the threat his intransigent regime posed the US, and for his probable secret WMD program (moved to Syria while the US waltzed with the UN for fruitless months)---the US took action, and deposed the tyrant in weeks.

Did the US mishandle post-war Iraq? Absolutely. But for its troubles, the US, and particularly President Bush, received nothing but international vilification: for saving millions of Iraqis from torture & tyranny, Bush was branded "a new Hitler". Liberal 'experts' now assure us we have no place remaining in the middle of a "civil war".

You know, a 'Civil War'. Just like in Rwanda. Or in the Sudan.

Which is why this type of movie, however beautifully acted, however balefully true, however illlustrative of the savagery of Man at his worst---its appeal eludes me. Does it make you feel righteous, weeping over the long-buried dead, while ignoring those about to be shoveled into the charnel pit? Does it make you feel oh-so-sweet-sanctimony?

Remember this, then: the next time you weep into your popcorn over cinematic bloodshed: when another tribe, another people, face the cameras with tears in their eyes and bayonets in their backs & beg rescue from a weary West, the answer will likely be: "Sorry, it's none of our business. Try the UN."

JSG

EXCELLENT FILM! WELL DONE!.......2007-07-04

I did not know much about this movie before I watched it. I was completely engrossed in the story and characters. A well made folm that probably hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. The DVD transfer is very good.

Ghost Hunters: Live from the "Shining" Hotel

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Creepy place

Ghost Hunters: Live from the "Shining" Hotel
Starring: Ghost Hunters
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ASIN: B000T28C90
Release Date: 2007-10-09

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Jason, Grant and the 'Ghost Hunters' team revisit the notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado for a live Halloween-night investigation! Stephen King took up residence at the Stanley while writing his best-selling novel The Shining and the spooky goings on at the hotel reportedly served as the inspiration for his best-selling tome. Viewers will be sent on the ultimate Halloween adventure, joining the 'Ghost Hunters' in as they investigate the infamously haunted hotel. Also joining the investigation is a special guest from 'ECW' (Extreme Championship Wrestling); ghost hunting novice CM Punk!

NOW ALL OF THE BEST MOMENTS FROM THE LIVE INVESTIGATION ARE ALL HERE FOR YOU ON THIS LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS DVD!

The 'Ghost Hunters' originally investigated the Stanley in February 2006 and were met with a flurry of unexplainable occurrences including a hotel room that was a veritable hotbed of paranormal activity. Continually intrigued by the locale, our 'Ghost Hunters' will return to the Stanley for the show's first-ever live investigation, spending more time exploring some of the hotel's most notorious hot spots and enlisting viewers to help expand their search for spirits.

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Creepy place.......2007-08-20

This is a great episode-if there are such things as hauntings, this is the place.

The first time TAPS visited this hotel crazy stuff happend- glasses of water smashed, closet doors opened & closed while they slept- they actually caught this all on tape. More crazy stuff happend during their 2nd visit, the live episode. There were creepy voices, pianos playing (us viewers could actually hear these things.) There wasn't just the usual "cold spots" that conveniently no-one at home can feel.

This is a cool episode, pretty entertaining. Would recommend it.

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An Awesome Take On A Profound Historical Moment
Eugene McCarthy is missing...
Worth Seeing
Despite problems with emulating Thornton Wilder, "Bobby" still works as an elegy for RFK
I Was Very Pleased with Bobby

Bobby (Widescreen Edtion)
Starring: Demi Moore , Anthony Hopkins , Lawrence Fishburne , Lindsay Lohan , and Elijah Wood
Director: Emilio Estevez
Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company
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ASIN: B000MEYJI8
Release Date: 2007-04-10

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(Drama) A re-telling of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. The film follows 22 individuals who are all at the hotel for different purposes but share the common thread of anticipating Kennedy's arrival at the primary election night party, which would change their lives forever. This historic night is set against the backdrop of the cultural issues gripping the country at the time, including racism, sexual inequality and class differences.

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An Awesome Take On A Profound Historical Moment.......2007-09-07

BOBBY is one of those films that catches you by surprise. You already know the outcome; you know the history behind Bobby Kennedy's assassination and where and when it'll happen. But this film has such intensity that you might find yourself holding your breath or covering your eyes (as I did when the fateful moment crept up).

Actor Emilio Estevez would probably be the last person on Earth that one would associate with a project like this, yet Estevez plops himself behind the camera as director and shoots a film with such power as to shake the foundations of movie making. This isn't throwing accolades where it isn't deserved either. I'm no fan of Estevez and found many of his film's lacking (from the terrible MIGHTY DUCKS series to the YOUNG GUNS ones). But Estevez must have had a certain itch that told him to make this film -- and do it well -- because he's created a solid gold cinematic experience.

And Hollywood turned out en masse to support it. Receiving the award for Ensemble Cast of the Year (2006) at the Hollywood Film Festival, Estevez grouped some of the industry's finest actors and pulled them together in the most successful manner imaginable. From Harry Belafonte and Anthony Hopkins to Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt to William H. Macy and Sharon Stone to Elijah Wood and Lindsey Lohan to Laurence Fishburne and Freddy Rodriguez -- just to touch the tip of this acting iceberg -- the film has talent galore. Undoubtedly this added to the success of the movie. Even with this cast and the story's amazing telling, the film was nominated at various festivals and awards ceremonies but won few of them. To this day it boggles my mind why this movie didn't walk off with more trophies.

Regardless, it has cemented its place as a work of astounding proportions (with only one real fault, which we'll cover momentarily).

For those who don't know their history, this is the story of the 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy at The Ambassador Hotel during his presidential run. The hotel is the focus since this is where it all begins and ends for the unfortunate Senator (and his millions of supporters). Sirhan, Sirhan destroyed the man (literally) with a bullet to the head in the hotel's kitchen. But before that, there were the men and women of the hotel and their lives, and how the assassination affected them all. From the lowly dishwasher to the door greeter. From newlyweds trying to avoid the Vietnam experience to a husband and wife rediscovering themselves. From Kennedy's campaign manager to the black man who would be his transportation advisor. All of them came tumbling down with that final, fatal bullet echoing through the now absent Ambassador Hotel (it has since been torn down and a high school put in its place).

It is to Estevez's credit that he was allowed to film a few short scenes in the actual hotel before the wrecking ball took it down. The demolition crew held off its plans for a few days to allow Estevez and his team unfettered access to several locations within The Ambassador. Obviously they supported what he was trying to do (as did his ensemble cast).

One wouldn't think that something so well known (Bobby's assasination) could hold such power so many decades after its events but, there you go, that's great film making. Leading up to that horrible night I found myself cringing, even dreading, that moment when Kennedy enters the hotel. Watching Sirhan Sirhan enter it made me cover my eyes, because I just couldn't stand it! No! Not again! Estevez is to be commended for instilling that dread in full force.

But dread isn't the only message. Indeed, it isn't even THE message. Hope. It is hope that springs finally from the movie's machinations. Hope that Bobby's message of a united country shall not perish. Hope that his supporters (as well as his message) live the life he intended. And hope that this film might find its way into your DVD player so that you can remember what Bobby was all about.

The only negative aspect to the film is its title. Although Bobby was the driving force, most of the film's time was given over to the inside aspects of the hotel itself (and its people). Perhaps a more proper title would've been The Ambassador or some such thing. But this is my only complaint. The rest of the film is unbelievably excellent.

Eugene McCarthy is missing..........2007-09-06

Having lived through this era, I'm saddened that the man who brought anti-war fervor to the presidential campaign before RFK tossed his hat into the ring isn't given a few seconds, and that is Senator Eugene McCarthy.

Without McCarthy's articulate presence, RFK as a candidate might never have happened.

RFK was a very interesting mix of idealist, pragmatist, and opportunist. It shocks one to hear his straight-from-the-heart voice and realize how far we have fallen in our choice of politicians.

Just give us a little McCarthy, as a tribute to that great man as well!

Worth Seeing.......2007-08-14

I saw the movie "Bobby" last week and thought it was an incredibly powerful film. The movie focuses on around 20 people in and around the Ambassador Hotel the day that Robert Kennedy was shot there. The large cast never seems overwhelming. The characters are clear enough that we remember what they were doing the last time we saw them, but we never feel like they are merely one-dimensional. Emilio Estevez really hit the jackpot with his cast - they all are 100% committed to their roles and the audience simply gets lost in the era.
The cast is phenomenal - the standouts include Sharon Stone, Nick Cannon as a young Black-American working on the campaign, and Freddy Rodriguez as a young Latino working in the kitchen. The later two, combined with Lindsey Lohan as a woman marrying to save a man's life, serve as the heart of the movie and bring a well-balanced view of many of the hot issues of the day.
The movie has an incredible, emotional climax that is enhanced by an actual speech of Bobby Kennedy. The audio and visual clips of Kennedy serve as snapshots into his life and the work he did during his short time in the public eye. You can read whatever you want to into the political agenda of the movie, but in the end this movie is a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy and his time.

Despite problems with emulating Thornton Wilder, "Bobby" still works as an elegy for RFK.......2007-08-09

In 1968 my father was stationed on an Air Force base in Japan and my mother would drive us over to his office to pick him up at 5 o'clock. Back then the only English speaking radio station to listen to was Armed Forces Radio and they would periodically break in to tell some officer or enlisted personnel to report in. On June 4th when they broke in on the radio we assumed it was just another one of these announcements, but instead we found out that Bobby Kennedy had been shot in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California Democratic primary.

"Bobby" is written and directed by Emilio Estevez. As a young boy Estevez met RFK and clearly the assassination has resonated in his psyche. In one of the bonus features Estevez talks about wanting to find out about the other five people who were shot that night, which would make "Bobby" akin to Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." Officially Sirhan Sirhan fired eight bullets, three of which struck Kennedy. However, there are several problems with this approach. The first is that a lot of people do not know that others were hit besides RFK that night. If I had known I certainly did not remember as I watched this film, which means I was not trying to figure out who the fateful five would be. Second, Estevez creates fictional counterparts for those five people and does not attempt to maintain key parallels between fact and fiction. For example, one of those wounded was an ABC News producer, and none of the almost two dozen characters that make up the mosaic of "Bobby" are reporters.

There are some historical aspects to what we see: one of the actual victims, Elizabeth Evans, had bent over to retrieve a shoe she had lost for a moment when she was hit in the forehead by a bullet. Obviously that idea is paralleled in the film, but that character is not a Democratic Party activist and friend of Pierre Salinger. A teenage Kennedy volunteer was one of those shot, but there is no reason to believe that he spent the day doing something other than canvassing for the candidate, as the film suggests. Another concern is that with the conceit of using actual footage of RFK from that fateful day providing a strong sense of verisimilitude, these fictional elements are given the ring of historical truth. Finally, despite the visual evidence to the contrary and the desired attendant irony, the scroll at the end of the film admits that all five of the people shot that night survived. By that point Estevez has taken his fictional elements too far and essentially derailed his film by clearly suggesting otherwise.

This is not to say there are not worthwhile aspects to "Bobby." The strongest part of the film has to do with José, the character played by Freddy Rodriguez, who is based on Juan Romero, the hotel busboy who had just shaken hands with RFK when he was shot (it is Romero who is shown holding Bobby's hand in the photographs and who gave him a rosary). José has tickets for the Dodgers game that name where Don Drysdale will be pitching his (then) record sixth shutout in a row, but because of the Kennedy celebration he has to work a double shift. His interaction with sous chef Edward Robinson (Laruence Fishburne), a character inspired by a piece of graffiti on the wall of the kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel, is at the core of this film.

There are lots of familiar faces making up the cast here, from Estevez's father Martin Sheen to Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Helen Hunt. I thought the two that stood out the most besides Rodriguez and Fishburne were Nick Cannon playing Dwayne, a young African-American campaign worker who is told he will get a chance to meet the candidate, and Lindsay Lohan as Diane, a young woman who is marrying William (Elijah Wood) to keep him out of the war (and, yes, the irony that a film that reminds us of what was lost when RFK was assassinated would also bear testament to the acting career Lohan has thrown away with her recent escapades is not lost on me either).

Despite these considerable objections I round up on "Bobby" because it does work as an elegy for RFK, as reinforced by the song during the end credits, "Never Gonna Break My Faith," written by Bryan Adams and sung by Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, and the Harlem Boys Choir. Rarely does a song commissioned for the end of a film succeed as well as this one, especially in contrast to the use of Simon and Garfunkle's "Sounds of Silence" during RFK's speech right before the assassination (especially since there are references to "The Graduate" in the film which add to the ineffectualness of that particular song selection). On balance this 2006 film is not as moving as it could be, but it has its moments, mainly because time and time again Estevez lets Bobby speak for himself.

I Was Very Pleased with Bobby.......2007-08-08

Bobby is Emilio Estevez's baby and probably his catapult back into the world of movies. This movie covers the lives of several people in the Ambassador Hotel where Senator Robert F. Kennedy was murdered in 1968, specifically the hours before his death.

Emilio enlisted an all star cast to bring back to life one of the princes of politics and he was successful. Bobby included the prowess of Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater, William H. Macy, Laurence Fishburne, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Joshua Jackson, Heather Graham, David Krumholtz, Shia LaBeouf, Freddy Rodríguez, Harry Belafonte and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Not knowing where the story was leading, all the character lines seemed a bit over powering at first but the number of character involvement makes sense in the end as the storylines fall into place. The film was mixed with live footage from Bobby Kennedy's speeches, motorcades and other appearances. He still comes across as charismatic and his message is still relevant and worth listening to today.

I'm very pleased Emilio wrote and directed this film. Reviewed by M. E. Wood.

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classic Keith Sweat
Still Making Them Sweat!!!
Sweat Hotel
Hotel hot!
A Flawless Concert

Keith Sweat: Sweat Hotel Live
Starring: Keith Sweat
Manufacturer: Shout Factory
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000LW7OYM
Release Date: 2007-06-12

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R&B superstar Keith Sweat, pioneer of new jack swing, reunites with other chart-topping R&B artists and opens the Sweat Hotel Live: starring Teddy Riley, Charlie Wilson, Jackie McGhee, Silk; featuring Lil' G, Kut Klose and Johnny Kemp; with special guest appearances by Monica, Akon, Da Brat and Athena Cage. With an array of talented entertainers on a single stage, Keith Sweat brings back the magic of some of the most memorable music recorded in R&B history on his first-ever live concert DVD.

DVD TRACK LISTING
1. Intro - with Teddy Riley
2. Something Just Ain't Right - with Teddy Riley
3. Don't Stop The Love - with Teddy Riley
4. I'll Give All My Love To You
5. Lose Control - Silk
6. Freak Me - Silk
7. Right & Wrong Way
8. How Deep Is Your Love
9. Get Up On it - with Kut Klose
10. Twisted - with Kut Klose
11. I Want Her - with Teddy Riley

DVD EXTRAS:
Special Sweat Hotel Guest Performances:
12. Make It Last Forever - with Jackie McGhee
13. Let's Chill - Charlie Wilson
14. There You Go - with AkonZ
15. Just Got Paid All Star Finale - Johnny Kemp, Keith Sweat, Charlie Wilson & Others Recorded February 14, 2006 at The Atlantic Civic Center, Atlanta, GA

The Construction of the Sweat Hotel
Sweat Hotel Celebrity Guests Interviews
The Making of The Sweat Hotel
The Fans

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classic Keith Sweat.......2007-09-08

i enjoyed this show from start to finish. Keith Sweat threwdown and performed all of his hits with Teddy Riley leading the Band. Silk and Kut Klose joined Keith on stage and did there medleys. also Charlie Wilson, Johnny Kemp came on stage as did Althea Cage and Jackee Mcghee came on during Make it last forever. this past week I watched Justin Timberlake just look like a deer in headlights on stage,it's cool to see a Pro like Keith sweat handle his Business on stage.
I dug the tribute to Gerlad Levert as well. RIP
the whole band and personal and folks who have known Keith from back in the day.

also a SOulful and eyeful shoutout to all the Beautiful ladies that were in the house on this DVD. alot of Pretty Thick Ladies in the house and that was a extra,extra,extra Bonus for me. everything was right on time and the whole set up and band and performances were tight. Keith was funny as well. He cracked me up. Brother is a smart businessman and is down home folk.

Still Making Them Sweat!!!.......2007-08-28

More than your monies worth! Keith Sweat is off the chain on this concert
DVD.Don't you just miss the early 90's R&B new jack era? Well this is one
DVD you will watch over and over again and i almost forgot Teddy Riley got Keith's back on this one "yep yep".

Sweat Hotel.......2007-08-25

I recently went to Albuquerque, NM to see Keith Sweat in concert. He was the Headliner and when he performed it was standing room only. Throughout his concert he mentioned the Sweat Hotel DVD and the guest appearances by a lot of my favorite groups. Needless to say the DVD was great. I enjoyed all the performances by all the groups. He did an awesome job!!!

Hotel hot!.......2007-08-23

this was one of the best Keith Sweat Records in years, it had the the old
sound and the new sound of Keith sweat, I have not listen to anything from
Teddy Riley in years since the old Guy days. this was a great record, I was going to buy the CD to play in the car, I'm glad I got the dish version.

A Flawless Concert.......2007-08-22

Personally, I thought R. Kelly's "Light it Up Tour" was the best concert DVD of 2007 but that all changed when I watched Keith Sweat "Sweat Hotel Live".
Keith puts it down along with his all-star cast Silk & Kut Close with special guests Charlie Wilson, Jacci McGhee, Johnny Kemp and lastly his Music director is no other than Mr. Teddy Riley!
That there alone is a Masterpiece concert.
In 1987 the release of "Make It Last Forever" Album actually changed the whole game of R&B music which introduced the world to a new sound called "New Jack Swing" The song, "I Want Her" And guess who wrote it?
Keith Sweat & Teddy Riley and 20 years later they are back picking up where they left off.
What a Slamming concert from start to finish.
Keep doing ya thing Keith!!

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An eerie, sometimes JOLTING winner.
Evil Room

1408 (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: John Cusack , Samuel L. Jackson , Tony Shalhoub , Mary McCormack , and Kate Walsh
Director: Mikael Håfström
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000TJ6PBK
Release Date: 2007-10-02

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(Thriller) Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man who specializes in debunking the paranormal checks into the infamous room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, only to discover… the terror is real.

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An eerie, sometimes JOLTING winner........2007-07-22

Stephen King's literary horror fests (often well-written;almost always in need of editing)are very uneven in their cinematic adaptations. CARRIE;DEAD ZONE and SILVER BULLET are my favorites and nominations for solid screen horror thrillers. I regard Stanley Kubrick/Jack Nicholson effort at"epic"horror,THE SHINING, as great disappointment bordering on abject(pretentious) failure.
Not so 1 4 0 8. This,in my estimate,is nifty,minimalist effort(much of it comprising SHINING-like riffs)that eminently succeeds.The movie(not striving for iconic SK "film"-osity)has superb ambiance and atmospherics
(though once or twice it skirts an unnecessary "Apocalyptic" lurch).The plot is good-to-gripping.ACTING is great.John Cusack's protagonist almost-hero-writer,Mike,is appealing,convincing and complex.(When he gets the s..t scarred-out of his cynical self,so do viewers.)Samuel L.Jackson's role as Hotel Manager/anti-Keeper of the Flame is good as usual.[He's cinematic equivalent of occult mythology's Watcher-on-the Threshold~he "referees"Mike's descent into Hell,keeping score.]
Room 1408 is a nasty,PURGATORY portal.Heaven or Hell will be the outcome in a movie which is occult Quest(comprised of classic SUMMONS;ORDEAL;..
TEMPTATIONS to the max;and RETURN).The initially eerie...eventually terrifying,monster-from-the-Id villain...is ROOM 1408 itself. Signature CARPENTER'S ditty,"We've Only Just Begun" sets a schizo-wacko tempo of the film from annoying to menacing to starkly horrific:HOTEL HELL-CALIFORNIA to the max!

As usual, King's comprise of classic horror elements and "existential" reality--& skepticism--is employed. In 1 4 0 8 it works. By not overdoing the brew(SHINING-it up too mucho),the viewer is treated to good horror with enough authentic jolt to make him not wish for more,and glad that he's not a guest in 1408.

Evil Room.......2007-07-17

Stephen King. What does one think when one hears the name Stephen King? The Master of Horror, a writer of complete schlock that puts the rain forests in danger of extinction, or a mediocre writer who somehow became the world's bestselling writer? As for me, and millions of others, King was my introduction to "adult" fiction when I read The Eyes of the Dragon almost two decades ago. Like many teenagers I went through a major Stephen King period devouring his brick thick books like so many ears of corn. As I grew older and began to read "literary" fiction for the most part I moved away from King's books, but that didn't stop me from reading one or two a year and along with King's books, I have always enjoyed the films, mini-series, and made-for-television films that have been released over the last three decades. Some have been good, some have been bad, and some have been god awful, but they have always had a great entertainment value and sometimes, like his books, they can be truly creepy.

When a friend of mine asked me if I would like to go watch 1408 with him, I knew nothing about the film besides that the room 1408 was located within the Dolphin Hotel which is supposedly homage to the writings of Haruki Murakami. If that is true or not it left me hoping that the film would be more of a psychological horror film than a gore fest. My hopes were answered quite well. 1408 stars John Cusack as Mike Enslin a failed writer of literary fiction who has turned to writing such books as Top Ten Haunted Lighthouses and the like to little acclaim. A bordering alcoholic, Mike does not believe in the supernatural and is more determined to debunk claims of the super natural than anything else. One day after a very unsuccessful book signing, Mike receives an unaddressed post card with the name Dolphin Hotel on it along with the room number 1408. Mike calls the hotel to reserve the room, but is repeatedly turned down. However, supposedly there is a loophole in the law that states that he cannot be turned down to stay in the room, so he is able to make his reservation. There the receptionist directs him to the manager: Gerald Olin portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson. Mr. Olin informs Mike of the numerous deaths that have occurred in the room from suicides and natural causes. Pestered for the reason why he does not want Mike to enter the room Mr. Olin answers that he does not want to deal with the cleanup and asked what the deal with the room is, Mr. Olin answers, "it's an evil f#cking room!" Mike makes his way up to the room and quickly tries to debunk the room because of its mundane features, but things begin to become odd: mints appear on the pillow, the clock radio begins by itself, windows shut violently on their own, and the heat continues to rise. All is relatively fine until the alarm clock begins ticking down from sixty minutes because no one has ever survived more than sixty minutes in the room.

Earlier in this review I mentioned that the luxury hotel was called the Dolphin Hotel in a supposed homage to Murakami Haruki's novels. Within his novel Dance Dance Dance, the dolphin hotel, the original one at least, houses the narrator's memories. Room 1408 is similar to Murakami's Dolphin Hotel, but instead of only housing Mike's memories it also uses them to attack him. 1408 is a very claustrophobic film. Little of the action takes place outside of Room 1408 and the sense of being entrapped is increased by the muted lighting and creative camera angles. The film works on tension. My body felt as if was made of stone at some points because of the tension created while waiting for something to happen and when something did happen it almost made me jump out of my skin. Many have complained that the film's second half is not as good as the first and that it derails a bit. I thought so also, but after reflecting on the film for the last couple of days, room 1408 might be even more sinister that Mr. Olin's line "it's an evil f#cking room" gives it credit for.

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Where is the 5.1 Dolby Surround ?
And they dare to make another! How does Chris Tucker
"I'm on vacation man, and I want some moo-shoo!" "Moo-Shoots? You hungry?"
The new Special Edition
WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE

Rush Hour 2 (Special Edition)
Starring: Jackie Chan , Chris Tucker , Ziyi Zhang , John Lone , and Roselyn Sanchez
Director: Brett Ratner
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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ASIN: B000OT6V6E
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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Rush Hour 2 retains the appeal of its popular predecessor, so it's easily recommended to fans of its returning stars, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. The action--and there's plenty of it--starts in Hong Kong, where Detective Lee (Chan) and his L.A. counterpart Detective Carter (Tucker) are attempting a vacation, only to get assigned to sleuth a counterfeiting scheme involving a triad kingpin (John Lone), his lethal henchwoman (Zhang Ziyi, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and an American billionaire (Alan King). Director Brett Ratner simply lets his stars strut their stuff, so it hardly matters that the plot is disposable, or that his direction is so bland he could've phoned it in from a Jacuzzi.

At its best, Rush Hour 2 compares favorably to Chan's glossiest Hong Kong hits, and when the action moves to Las Vegas (where Don Cheadle makes an unbilled cameo), the movie goes into high-pitched hyperdrive, riding an easy wave of ambitious stuntwork and broad, derivative humor. Echoes of Beverly Hills Cop are too loud, however, and stale ideas (including a com