Saturday Night Fever

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Saturday Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's release in 1977, disco ruled the dance floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub; Tony's brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" (Travolta's theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The Oscar ^®-nominated Travolta, plucked from the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter, for his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules. --Robert Horton

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Takes you back.......2007-08-26

Originally saw this in the theatre when I was a kid. Still watch it from time to time. Great movie.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

This is a classic.......2007-07-23

Disco dancing! John Travolta doing Danny Tario's moves. This is burned in the consciousness of anybody over the age of 12 in 1979. Travolta was so cute back then (and he's still dancing!). Yes, it may be cheesy, but the 70's were cheesy - and I miss them!

Travolta's Defining Role!.......2007-04-28

Tony Manero (played brilliantly by John Travolta) is a 20 year old paint shop assistant living with his devout Catholic mom and his hard working dad. He doesn't get along very well with them. There are a lot of tense moments at the dinner table.

But on the weekends, Tony rules the disco! But this dancing champion of the New York disco scene needs to learn about how to treat other people like champions. He talks sassy to his mom, and he treats females with disrespect. He even blows off and ignores a friend who admires him and needs him most (the boy who commits suicide by jumping off the Verrazano Bridge).

But Tony starts to change when he meets a slightly older and more mature disco queen. He learns from her that treating people with respect is just as important as being good at what you do.

All the while, the movie is propelled by one of the greatest soundtracks in movie history, certainly the best disco album ever assembled. You also get a look at one segment of the late 1970s New York youth culture scene.
The movie still hits hard after 30 years.

Dance the night away.......2007-04-17

This movie is about a man and a woman, in the prime of their lives fighting the New york city meat grinder. They both find one another in a smoke filled bar and lit dance floor.They equally appreciate glances as one impresses the other on the dance floor. In the sounds of the legendary "Bee Gees" you find your self dancing your imagination away as the leading actors fight against each others impossible love that will never happen. Both actors find resolve in dance, and agree to be friends in the crazy world that is entertainment.

TRAVOLTA CARRIES THIS MOVIE!.......2007-04-11

Like another reviewer said, I too grew up hating this film. I was a young teen and a rocker and would not be caught dead watching this film. I have seen it many times now and I think it captures that 70's disco time period perfectly. Travolta is the whole show and of course the classic music soundtrack. The DVD has a good transfer and weak extras.

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Funny Farm

Funny Farm
Starring: Chevy Chase , Madolyn Smith Osborne , Kevin O'Morrison , Joseph Maher , and Jack Gilpin
Director: George Roy Hill
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ASIN: 0790740044
Release Date: 1999-05-18

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George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this 1988 comedy that gives star Chevy Chase one of his better-quality vehicles. Chase plays a New York sportswriter who turns to the country for a simpler, happier way of living. He discovers, of course, that things don't work out that way. Hill's usual touch with comic timing, tone, and dialogue give Chase a rare career opportunity to be part of something a little classier than most of his other movies; but Funny Farm nevertheless has its share of so-what gags. Still, the film's overall tone is winning and laid-back, and it makes for nice escapist fare. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

one of chevy's best proformances .......2007-09-14

Chevy runs the gambit of proformance emotions, from betrayed husband with the eating of the apple to the over zellouse parmedic in the fishing sene to the appoligetic spouse when he relizes Red Bud is where he Belongs and Elizebeth, although coming into her own is where she is suppose to be as well. Not to mention the local towns folk portraid by top noch actors and actoress as, I think everyone kind of wants to live in a town like Rose Bud.

Tony R. Thompson

Funny Farm DVD.......2007-06-01

Product arrived much faster than expected. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The whole process was very enjoyable. James G. Everette

Full of Fun.......2007-03-08

This a great movie as well. Never know what you will get into by moving to another town. A must see!!

One of my...........2007-02-11

Favorite all time holiday movies. It will keep you laughing from beginning till end.

Funny Farm.......2007-01-18

Another great film by Chevy Chase. The entire movie provides laughs and lite entertainment. Great for all ages.

Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)

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Well worth it.
Excellent collection of Spike's joints
Great Collection
Spike Lee - The Man
You really get ur money's worth

Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)
Spike Lee Joint Collection
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ASIN: B000E40QC4
Release Date: 2006-03-07

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Five groundbreaking films from prolific filmmaker Spike Lee come together in this collection. Starring such heavyweights as Rosie Perez, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and John Turturro in career-defining roles, the films include CROOKLYN, DO THE RIGHT THING, CLOCKERS, JUNGLE FEVER, and MO' BETTER BLUES. See individual titles for descriptions.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Clockers
Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has the hyper-real quality of a stylized documentary. Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, the film focuses on Strike (newcomer Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious "clocker"--or drug dealer--who works the streets of his New York housing project, selling drugs for a local supplier named Rodney (played with ferocious charisma by Delroy Lindo). Just as Strike is struggling to get away from his dead-end life of crime, another dealer is murdered in a fast-food restaurant and local detectives (Harvey Keitel, John Turturro) consider Strike the primary suspect. In cowriting the script with novelist Price, Lee uses this murder mystery to explore the plague of guns and black-on-black crime in America's inner cities, in which drugs and death are familiar routines of daily life. The film doesn't pretend to offer solutions, nor does it dwell on the problem with numbing insistence. Rather, this taut, well-acted film takes the viewer into a world often hidden in plain sight--a world where options seem nonexistent for youth conditioned to have little or no expectation beyond a probable early death. Lee and Price are deadly serious in handling this volatile subject (which incorporates racism, powerless law enforcement, and political indifference), but Clockers is also blessed with humor, insight, and humanity. It's one of Lee's most confidently directed films, signaling a creative maturity that Lee continued to develop throughout the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon

Jungle Fever
Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another out of frustration with social obstacles as well as pure attraction--but is that enough for love to survive? John Turturro is featured in a subplot as an Italian American who grows attracted to a black woman and takes heat from his numbskull buddies. --Tom Keogh

Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of life in this neighborhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does the "right thing." Featuring Danny Aiello as Sal, the pizza parlor owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery guy; John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sal's sons; Lee's sister Joie as Mookie's sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookie's girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo Esposito as Mookie's hot-headed friend Buggin' Out; Bill Nunn as the boom-box toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L. Jackson as deejay Mister Señor Love Daddy. A rich and nuanced film to watch, treasure, and learn from--over and over again. --Jim Emerson

Mo' Better Blues
With Mo' Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeter's rise to jazz-world stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwood's cliché-ridden biopic of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, a slick, glossy drama (with hip-hop jazz provided by Gangstarr no less), is just as superficial as the numerous Alger-esque stories of music stardom to which movie audiences are accustomed.

Denzel Washington gives a typically charismatic performance as the trumpeter in question, as does Wesley Snipes as his sax-playing rival. And as with most Spike Lee films, there are numerous solid performers in small roles such as Bill Nunn, Latin-music star Rubén Blades, and comedian Robin Harris. One character, however, attracted unwanted attention: John Turturro's role as an unscrupulous music-industry exec. Critics called the Turturro character, who is at once money hungry, swarthy, and perpetually shrouded in darkness, a classic anti-Semitic caricature. But the charge seems almost irrelevant in Spike Lee's cartoonish, overstylized world of impossibly hunky jazzmen, curvaceous hangers-on, and incessant bebop. --Ethan Brown

Crooklyn
Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences (mom and dad are played by Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard), and who navigates the life of her neighborhood. Lee tosses in a lot of '70s detail (watching The Partridge Family) and other diversions (Harris's journey through suburbia), but he has no master sensibility controlling the flow of it all. The film is more wearying than anything, although bright spots include Lindo's fine performance as a talented man suffering from irrelevance. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Well worth it........2007-07-18

Overall I was very pleased. I didn't give it 5 stars because its missing "He Got Game", but all the rest are acounted for. Great for Spike Lee's fans.

Excellent collection of Spike's joints.......2007-07-17

Do you like Spike Lee? Enjoy his movies?

Then buy this collection, a package of his most commercial films and acting ensembles. Clockers is a riveting powerhouse; Mo Better Blues is Denzel. Need I say more?

If you don't care for Spike, this won't move you.

Great Collection.......2007-07-12

I'm on a mission to have all or as many of Spike Lee's movies on DVD and this is a great set to have in my collecton.

Spike Lee - The Man.......2007-06-20

They could have put a movie on the other side of Crooklyn :(, Im still extremely satisfied. This is a piff collection. Spike did a great job capturing the essence (the lighter side) of emotion of every day life living in relative poverty like he did in Crooklyn. Watching these movies made me feel as if I were an invisible character.

You really get ur money's worth.......2007-05-14

I really like this collection, even though I thought it should have included his first work, school daze, instead of Clockers, u get five dvd's for the price of 1.

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Island Fever 4 (3-Disc Set)
Director: Joone
Manufacturer: Digital Playground
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Jesse Jane
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Teagan Presley
Jana Cova

ASIN: B000PB0SZQ

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From Joone, the award-winning director of Pirates, comes Island Fever 4, the most beautiful and erotic DVD you will ever experience. Shot entirely in HD on location in the Bahamas and Bora Bora, starring Jesse Jane, Teagan Presley, Jana Cova, Sophia Santi, Kinzie Kenner and Marie Luv. Over 3 hours long with an additional 2 hours of bonus materials. XXX version.

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Very Entertaining Date Movie
Great Romantic Comedy!
One of my all time favorite baseball movies ...
Really Charming Romantic/Sports Comedy
Cute and Fun

Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Drew Barrymore , Jimmy Fallon , Jason Spevack , Jack Kehler , and Scott Severance
Director: Peter Farrelly , and Bobby Farrelly
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ASIN: B000A0GXRO
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon

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According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.

Customer Reviews:

Very Entertaining Date Movie.......2007-09-16

Good comedy about a ad exec working her way up (Drew) and a teacher (Fallon) who meet and fall in love...but there's a problem; he's addicted to his baseball team. Excellent subplots. Very funny in places. Its a good down to earth romantic comedy.

Great Romantic Comedy!.......2007-09-04

I'm not one of those movie-goers who sees the words "The Farrelly brothers" and has to rush out and see the movie. I couldn't tell you anything else that they've done other than this movie. What I do know is that THIS movie was very well done from script to screen! The writing is taut and believable. The dialog is humorous when it needs to be, serious when it has to be. It's just REAL. The entire movie has a sense of realism to it that most in this genre seem to lack.

I could spend a whole review just talking about the on-screen chemistry between Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. Of course, I am starting to believe Drew Barrymore could have on-screen chemistry with a mop and bucket. She's simply one of the greatest actresses of our time. She can do drama, Thrillers, and comedy. She can do Action and Romance. She can simply do anything and make it believable. But she goes beyond believable in this movie. As with so many of her recent films, she goes right to ENJOYABLE! and even that is an understatement.

My fiancee' was not a big baseball fan when we first watched this movie. After watching it, baseball has become something over which she and I bond. It truly is a family night now and I have Fever Pitch to thank for it. Now if they'd only make a football movie with the same effect!

One of my all time favorite baseball movies ..........2007-08-23

You already know the plot - up and coming Yuppie businesswoman Lindsay (Drew) falls for schoolteacher Red Sox fan Ben (Fallon). But like a lot of Farrelly Brothers films, there is more depth, character complexity and charm than first meets the eye. The relationship between Ben and Lindsay seems REAL - replete with all the challenges and adjustments and compromises necessary to make a relationship work. The baseball scenes are pure magic. A film of utter charm guaranteed to make you smile and warm your heart.

Really Charming Romantic/Sports Comedy.......2007-08-17

Not being a baseball fan (I am a HUGE hockey fan) I caught this one on HBO, and I ordered the DVD as soon as the credits rolled. It is a charming romantic comedy.

Cute and Fun.......2007-08-17

Since I live in Boston, Red Sox had been everyone's topic during each summer. It was actually quite amusing to see a red sox fan being depicted in a major motion picture. I think the story is very cute and well thought. I really enjoyed watching this movie.

Saturday Night Fever (30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition)

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Enough already!!!

Saturday Night Fever (30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: John Travolta , Karen Gorney , and Barry Miller
Director: John Badham
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
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ASIN: B000SQFC0Y
Release Date: 2007-09-18

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Enough already!!!.......2007-09-05

I love this movie, I think it's great. But, please, c'mon, how many more Special Editions/Special Collector's Edition/Director's Cut/Unrated Cut/Anniversary Edition, etcetera etcetera, we will have to endure for ANY DVD we already own? It's amazing the nerve of movie studios to continue laughing at our face with these so called "marketing strategies". Give me abreak! Enough already!!!!! Put the movie with all the special "stuff" in one DVD. I'm sure all movie fans will buy them and respect you a little more!

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pretty well done.
Well...least it was better than Hostel
Im Shocked
Simply one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen...
Run For Your Lives!!! It's the... uh... slow-acting, easy-to-detect disease...

Cabin Fever
Starring: Richard Boone (II) , Hal Courtney , Charee Cuthrell , James DeBello , and Jana Farmer
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ASIN: B0000ZG054
Release Date: 2004-01-20

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A sneaky and surprisingly smart horror flick, Cabin Fever sets up all the cliches of its particular subgenre (what might be called the "sexy young people go into the woods" horror movie, featuring hostile redneck locals, dead animals on hooks, cars that suddenly stop running, etc.) and by the end has played a clever twist on every standard element, often to darkly comic effect. What's the plot? Well, five sexy young people (Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, and James DeBello) go to an isolated cabin where they contract a nasty bacteria that eats their flesh; this, combined with a bad-tempered dog and a party-loving police deputy (Giuseppe Andrews, giving a particularly funny performance), leads everyone into confusion and bloody chaos. Some of the ironic twists are a little obvious, but most of them effectively subvert your expectations to entertaining effect. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

pretty well done........2007-08-10

i was supprise to see all the bad reviews. i happened to enjoy this movie. the story is about a group of teens that decide to rent a cabin in the woods. they get there only to find theve been exposed to a nasty little skin virus. this movie has just the right about of gore and funny one liners to make it worth watching at least once. my favorite charecter.. the ranger/rent a cop kid who keeps saying " do you EVEN realize how many amazing parties we're gonna have man?" haha classic!

Well...least it was better than Hostel.......2007-07-01

Cabin Fever has a weirdly unique place in the recent horror movies in that it's not completely part of that "torture porn" crop of movies that focus mainly on disgusting audiences than outright terrifying them. Cabin Fever on the other hand wants to be a horror film like seen a lot during the 70's. Problem is the film has an identity crisis in that it doesn't know what it wants to be. A funny horror movie? A scary comedy? Sometimes that dual personality works but here it feels too disjointed...plus it's kinda bad too.

Taking the familiar theme of a group of teenagers into the woods, you'd think some mask-toting killer with stalk ever so slowly after them right? Wrong. Turns out, the cool guy and the sex bomb, the awkward teen and the sweet chick and a lunkhead have to deal with a flesh-eating disease, a rabid dog and weird locals. You know, the usual.

That's pretty much the plot in a nutshell. Granted, it's nice to see a new killer wiping out the kiddies but even then, it's still a little thin. Not to mention these are some of the illogical choice-making kids ever and in the horror genre, that's seriously saying something. One character, the sweet guy, decides to fondle the object of his desires since grade 8...while she's sleeping. Yes, that's right, sleeping. And when said girl has to be sheltered off somewhere, he decides to have sex with the sex bomb. Figures he might as well get in some sex since he knows he's going to die anyway. Or maybe he's just dumb.

The disjointed feel comes in the way of humor adding in. There's the infamous "pancakes" scene that feels like it should be in a parody of bad kung fu movies then horror. Was it meant to lighten the tension? Or is it just simply trying to be a funny movie mixed in with the gore stuff to set it apart from serious ilk such as High Tension. Either make it a straight ahead horror comedy like Army of Darkness or go completely for the horror.

Like Hostel, the DVD is loaded with more commentaries than anything. And of course, writer/director Eli Roth is everywhere with a track by himself, with the girls, the guys, Rider Strong who's so gabby he needs his own track and a filmmaker commentary. But that don't mean anything if it's attached to a good movie and in this case, it's all for naught.

I don't know if a horror fan will completely love it. From Saw to Shining, Cabin Fever is just somewhere else. Don't mean unique means quality either.

Im Shocked.......2007-06-21

Not only with the movie itself, but with all these low reviews on it. Ive seen the movie quite a few times and its never failed to creep me out, or to entertain me. Ive always thought it to be one of the better horror films, especially with this new crap coming out. In my eyes this movie is 10x better than Hostel and many other horror films made around the last few years. It never trys to be a serious film and it never wants to be. Its a fun, thrill you, make you piss your pants type film. Just gory fun is the best way to describe it. This isnt the most graphic horror film Ive seen, but nevertheless it makes me feel sick everytime I watch it. To me the whole idea of just one little glass of water causing all this conflict is just scary because it feels like it could happen. Not to mention, I had a glass of water beside me during the whole film! Needless to say, I only took one little sip. I must be a coward, but the film can be very creepy. I really loved the effects in the film and the acting. Its just a fun horror flick. It succeeds as that very much. I enjoyed it a lot.

Simply one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen..........2007-04-18

...Definetley the grossest. So I guess that counts for something. This movie is truly disgusting. So if that's what you're into then you'll ptobably really like this movie. Other than the gross out factor there's really not much more to this movie. So there's really no need to spend anymore time on this review.

Run For Your Lives!!! It's the... uh... slow-acting, easy-to-detect disease..........2007-02-01

Not a good horror movie.

Cabin Fever, the story of teens who waste away from a flesh-eating bacteria while camping in the woods, sounded like it might have the potential to be a sort of ground-breaker. A slasher film where the "slasher" is disease? Tons of interesting possibilites, there. Sadly, this movie doesn't follow any of the cool new roads it had open to it, instead relying on the same tired formulas we've already seen a thousand times. Worse, though, is that none of those formulas really work in this movie, either. This isn't just cliche; it's cliche done poorly.

One of the basic problems Cabin Fever suffers from is this: the Stupid Teens of this film are only camping. It's not like they're in some remote jungle of South America or anything, so it's hard to understand how they can all waste away from a disease, since 1) they have a car, 2) there are plenty of other people around, 3) they know about the disease, and want to leave the campsite and 4) the disease takes some time to take over and has obvious symptoms.

So: how do we keep those Stupid Teens at the camp, despite the fact that they're being ravaged by a disease? By making them Extra-Super Stupid! Also, by coming up with a series of contrived coincidences and happenings to delay and deter their efforts to leave. And so, the kids manage to shoot up their own car (even then, it's still basically operable, but never mind that); there's a mean dog that they're afraid of, discouraging them from going outside; the local deputy is a dimwit party boy, and thus is no help; the town locals are Deliverance-style, and so actually scarier (and more villainous) than the disease is; the teens accidentally offend the other backwoods people in various ways.

It's just all... silly, when they could just, you know... drive away to a city or something and get help. But they don't do that, because the characters don't want to get in their "diseased car" and so they stay in the (healthy?) cabin in the (healthy?) woods.

In the end, and sadly, the disease just makes for a poor villain. Disease can't chase someone. It can't jump out from behind a corner. It can't hide in a closet. So, instead of the disease threatening our Teens, we need all sorts of other, contrived things to provide our suspense and death-sequences. Almost no-one in this movie dies of the disease--instead, they're accidentally killed by others, or shot by local yokels, or hit by cars, or mauled by dogs, etc. The diesase is just what makes everyone act like (more of) an idiot.

Except for Masque of the Red Death, Cabin Fever is the only disease-centered horror story I can think of. The idea has a lot of potential, but Cabin Fever takes advantage of none of it, instead relying on the same horror movie conventions that we've seen for almost thirty years. That would be okay if they were done well; they're not--the events in this movie feel contrived and corny and there's no real suspense or fright to be found. A complete disappointment.

Two stars.

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The Plague (History Channel)
Starring: Plague
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ASIN: B000CSTK7O
Release Date: 2006-03-28

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Learn of the drastic steps taken to stop its spread.

Re-enactments bring the fear and desperation of the era to life.

See haunting reminders of the scourge that devastated Europe.

It began like the common cold. Then came fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, and coughing up blood. Few infected lived more than two days. In the three years since it first struck in 1437, almost half of Europe's population died within three years.

THE PLAGUE visits the rat-infested holds of the ships that brought death and disease, witness the terror that swept through towns, and walks with religious flagellants. Follow a princess as she travels into the center of the plague, a doctor who struggles to understand what is happening, and a Jewish merchant caught up in violent attacks. Hear the actual words of the victims, taken from diaries and journals. From the Pope's palace to the humble huts of medieval peasants, watch as people live and die in the unforgiving grip of fear and death, and wonder how we would act if such a terrible event happened today.

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Running Time 50 Mins.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Absolutely loved this DVD!.......2007-05-14

A perfect E squared (entertainment/education). Very well done and interesting documentary on mankinds deadliest killer ever! If you enjoy medieval histroy then this is a must. The plague transformed the face of Europe and affected life in inumerable ways. I highly recommend this entertaining and educational DVD.

Amazing!.......2007-02-03

Without going into too much detail, this documentary is amazing. The speakers are all experts in their respective fields, and the historical accuracy is beyond reproach. I found no such "religious hatred" anywhere in the film; again, pure historical accuracy. (To put it very VERY lightly, medieval Christians weren't exactly friendly to their Jewish neighbors. Look into it before getting all defensive, please.)
An excellent base of information for anyone with an interest in this watershed event in human history.

El Stinko.......2006-08-30

Poorly acted, laughable sets and non-stop diatribe against Christians generally and the Catholic Church specifically.

Apparently, all it takes to call oneself a historian today is a contempt for organized religion. It also helps to loath western culture as well. As for the history of the plague itself the reasoning would be unworthy of a C as part of a grade school book report.

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way to scary and crazy!
Open up your eyes, and you will be surprised to see what the world is truly like.
Interesting, from start to finish!!!
Truth hurts doesn't it!
Wesley should do more of this type of movie

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Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another out of frustration with social obstacles as well as pure attraction--but is that enough for love to survive? John Turturro is featured in a subplot as an Italian American who grows attracted to a black woman and takes heat from his numbskull buddies. --Tom Keogh

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way to scary and crazy!.......2007-06-17

Look I have seen some people diapprove of interracial relationships but not like this. I mean in this film the way Spike lee show's people being against these two people being together is as if's the End of the world or someting. And I remember the first time I saw this movie it was on TV But I sure as Hell didn'd buy it so I decided to bowor it from the library and there was some seens that was to strong for me to watch. Please Take my advice if you want to see a movie about interracial relationships then please don't buy this garbage. Instead get the movie called Far from heaven now that movie makes more sense. And let me tell I am so aganist Racism as a matter of fact I'm a member of an Organization that fights hard against racism and that Organization is called the Communist Party of the USA yes that's right I'm a Communist and I'd rather be one than be a Racist and I'm black. Please don't get the misconception that were evil and against religion we just help people that are oppressed and we fight peace for proof go CPUSA.org

Open up your eyes, and you will be surprised to see what the world is truly like........2007-06-05

Ever since "Romeo and Juliet" people have been fascinated by love that crosses cultural barriers. Romeo and Juliet a la Spike Lee is the story of Flipper, a middle-class black architect from Harlem and Angie, a working-class Italian-American from Brooklyn. In Jungle Fever, Lee returns to the theme of racial tensions that marked his breakthrough film, "Do the Right Thing." The result is big, bold, vibrant and more than a little sprawling. By the end of it you feel run over by a truck. Everyone in the film has been somehow touched by Flip and Angie's affair. Drew throws Flip out of the house (and some people may wonder why Lee finds the affair's interracial nature more of a sin than its being a marital infidelity). Fathers on both sides disown their children. And a lot of people become self-conscious about their own ethnicity - dark-skinned Italians just as much as light-skinned blacks.

Lee's forte is scenes of confrontation, and Jungle Fever is a series of them, scorchingly written, extremely well acted and utterly riveting. (Sensitive souls should note that, along with "Goodfellas," this film held the Hollywood record for profanity, though it's long since been surpassed.) What he isn't able to do - at this stage of his career at least - is to organize them into a shapely narrative. The film doesn't really build, but stays pretty much on one pitch throughout. And, towards the end, Lee loses the love story in favor of a subplot featuring Flip's crack-addict older brother Gator (Samuel L. Jackson). The scene where Flip has to go to a crack den called the Taj Mahal to find Gator, scored to Stevie Wonder's "Livin' for the City", is terrific, and one of the best-sustained sequences Lee has ever filmed. But it's in the wrong film. Gator's story has no relevance to the central story of interracial love, apart from his addiction being a parallel sin of the flesh to Flip's adultery in the eyes of their father, played with painful dignity and restraint by Ossie Davis. Samuel L. Jackson broke out from a series of minor roles as hoodlums with this performance, which won him a specially-created Supporting Actor Award at Cannes. But by this time in the film, Flip and Angie's story has almost been forgotten. That's Halle Berry, by the way, as Gator's equally addicted girlfriend.

You could say that Lee is less interested in the love story than in examining its effects. He's also far less interested in Angie (though Sciorra does her best with the part) than he is in Flip: the film ends with him with her all but written out. Lee had faced accusations of sexism from his first feature (She's Gotta Have It) onwards. He certainly tries to answer them here: there's a long sequence where Drew and her friends pour out their grievances about the men in their lives. It's a brave attempt, though it fails Joanna Russ's test for fully-dimensional female characters: do two women have a conversation at any time in the story that isn't about men? Not here they don't: the conversation is entirely about men, their ways, and their......parts.

Other pluses are Ernest Dickerson's camerawork, the visual stylization toned down somewhat since Do the Right Thing - though Lee has developed a signature shot, where characters seem to glide rather than walk. The film also benefits from several newly-written songs from Stevie Wonder, though the best-used example is a pre-existing one, "Livin' in the City" cited above.

Interesting, from start to finish!!!.......2007-02-09

This is a film that looks at interracial dating from all walks of life. I think that this is one of Spike Lee's best films to date. Spike Lee literally makes your conscience alert and aware with all of his films. He is a genius, and this film makes his point. Great acting by all, especially Lonette Mc Kee, and definitely Tyra Ferrell. I love this film, one of my favorites of all time!!!!

Truth hurts doesn't it!.......2006-11-22

I read some of the negative reviews on here and I just laughed at how naive some people are. They call this a racist movie, it is horrible, and spike shouldn't make movies anymore. But if these people open their eyes, they will realize that all of the negative comments and actions in the movie really happen. It is true on both sides black and white. The movie was made to expose how we are as a people in general and to expose the ignorance that different races have about each other. Not only does the movie address race but it also addresses drug problems in the community as well as issues that affect families. But I guess some people are too narrow minded to catch that. Anyway this is a classic Spike Lee film with great cinematography, good script, and an awesome cast. Definitely a dvd for your collection

Wesley should do more of this type of movie.......2006-09-14

he is a good actor and good looking. But this movie is like most of Spike's movies, always with the Black/White at odds issue. I think the subject should be put to rest, it has become boring. To each his own, I say, and everyone is entitled to her/his own opinion on the subject of race relations. Life could be so simple if the powers that be, Black & White, were not so power hungry and greedy. Why can't they let us live in peace and tolerance without pitting us against each other for their amusement. Wake up people - all governments are evil!

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Fever - The Music of Peggy Lee
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Icy hot..........................2007-06-15

Terrific film. Like many viewers, I first saw it on public television. I was blown away, bought it immediately afterward, and have watched it many times since.

Her talent and ability for getting maximum results from seemingly minimum effort is amazing. K.D. Lang said, Peggy is the whole thermometer, and anyone will have to agree after viewing two of the tracks in particular: the one of her singing "Fever", from the George Gobel show, and especially the one of her performing "See See Rider", at Basin Street East - sexy and provocative as not to be believed.

Long live Peggy Lee!

the music of peggy lee.......2007-05-30

It's a wonderful dvd - much of it from her early career which I had never seen.

Fever - Peggy Lee is great!.......2007-01-10

I love this DVD/documentary. I have watched it five times and not tired of it. Such a fasinating story with excerts of great performances & great songs. Personal remembrances of family and friends. If you love, Peggy Lee, you will love this. If you know little of her, you will not be sorry to learn more!

a near perfect documentary.......2006-01-08

This film is a truly successful look at the life and career of Peggy Lee. First saw it on PBS, and noticed the beautiful intimacy and completeness. The intelligence and taste guiding the choices of footage, taken from some wonderful sources, left an impression. Repeated viewings have only confirmed my initial experience. Even the most knowing Peggy Lee admirer will be impressed by the loving tone of the film. More than a paean, it offers a genuinely convincing portrait of a wonderful musician. Lee was more than a singer; she really created a spanking new idea of a singing musician, writing much of her material, and overseeing impeccable arrangements that were way ahead of their time. Nothing's spared in making clear the tremendous influence her master musician husband Dave Barbour had in ultimately forming Peggy's musical understanding, distinguishing every nuance with the happy wonder of their personal connection. I appreciate that part so much. People nowadays think of Lee merely as a singer. A singer no doubt, greater than we know, but what lies underneath that effortless musical breeze is what makes her contribution to American music history something extraordinary. This DVD's got it all - first-rate performance clips, a ready thoughtfulness, style, and a similar element of the pleasure of inevitableness that characterizes Peggy Lee's music. One of the few filmed bio documents I've come across that extracts every ounce. Get it with confidence, especially if you're already a Peggy Lee fan.

An Outstanding Compilation.......2005-10-23

I had seen the special, "Fever", on PBS. At that time, I taped it. But, through a foolish error - and the fact that I had not placed a label on the tape, I taped over it. I was thrilled to be able to find it, for sale, at Amazon.com.
This is a piece of artistic history that every Peggy Lee fan should have. It is a must!
Every clip makes one remember that this is one of the sexiest and most accomplished artists of our time - or any other time. Her rendition of "Lover" makes ones blood boil with yearning and desire; "Fever" pulses with a sensuality that no other singer will ever deliver. "The Shining Sea" evokes memories of a love that is branded on the heart, forever. And, the often forgotten "Here's to You" is an anthem to love and peace, everywhere.

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