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March 21st, 2010 by angelina6277078
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Les Misérables – 1998 film version – formal review

This newest film version of Les Misérables presents this classic narrative as the titanic sweeping fable that it is, yet diverges from the modern account, leaving considerable to be desired. Fans of Victor Hugo’s beloved unique, published in 1862, and of the well-liked musical, produced in 1985, may be disappointed in this movie’s truncated version of the epic. However, the film manages to preserve intact the main themes of Hugo’s fable of admire, mercy, and redemption.

As a movie in its beget fair, this film deserves the highest praise. As historical drama it is of the highest quality. The movie portrays Jean Valjean as a legal hero, a person whom we can love because of his courage and self-sacrificing commitment to godly principle. The acting is pleasurable — Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Urge star as Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert, and both simply become their characters. Uma Thurman gives an exceptional performance as Fantine. The soundtrack for the film is gorgeous as well.

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However, this movie cannot be evaluated separately from the new and musical (which follows the original quite closely and has gained a wide following of devoted fans) . In terms of faithfulness to the unique epic, the film falls short. The first half of the movie follows the recent quite well; remarkable of the screenplay is taken almost directly from the book, and no essential characters or events are removed. Unfortunately, however, the first half of the movie covers less than one third of the sage. In the second half, the movie diverges widely from the new. Enthusiasts of the musical and recent will be disappointed to discover that two significant characters from the Paris setting, Enjolras and Eponine — both of whom are well-liked favorites among fans — are completely eliminated from the film, their roles given to other characters or deleted altogether. The second half of the film is mercilessly truncated and adapted.

The film’s portrayal of Cosette as a rather scandalous young woman who is always ready to pout if she doesn’t accept her diagram is inconsistent with the sweet and oblivious Cosette of Hugo’s fresh. The character of Javert, the obsessed policeman who hounds Jean Valjean, is also altered — perhaps more subtly — to form him out as the unfriendly villain of the epic, when in the new and musical he is more complex and less of a villain. The other characters, however, are faithfully portrayed in the film.

Even in the second half, the movie does shine at times. The depiction of Jean Valjean continues to be shining (except for one scene in which he slaps Cosette and then reveals his past to her, both actions in complete inconsistency with his character according to Hugo) . The last fifteen minutes of the film do represent well the distinguished universal theme of Justice versus Mercy. However, the movie curtails the unique epic, robbing it of a trustworthy deal of its poignancy.

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Altogether, though, the film manages to sustain the main themes and characters of the current unusual. It serves as a expedient introduction to the epic. It should inspire viewers to read the unusual book and listen to the musical as well!

This is a advantageous movie. I mean, not badly cast. Lovingly done. The acting is colossal. Yeah, you should like it. Assuming you know absolutely nothing about Victor Hugo’s modern narrative. The truth is, if I didn’t know better, I’d say whoever wrote the script never read Hugo’s masterpiece and based it completely on the 1935 version. Approach to consider of it, I don’t know better. That’s probably exactly what happened.

I never concept I’d say this, but I am so blissful Hugo didn’t have to live to witness this movie.

If you’ve read the book, you will disapprove this film. TRUST me. The status, especially toward the extinguish, is mercilessly butchered and rewritten. At some points it becomes utterly unrecognizable. Many of the revisions completely miss or even slay the essence of characters, and some do not even create sense, the movie ending with Jean Valjean overjoyed over the death of Javet, whose life he has made an huge sacrifice to establish.

Likewise, Javert would never attack Cosette; he was obsessively professional, not cruel. Nor would slay his life (with minimal explanation, no less) in front of Valjean. Marius would NEVER act like Enjolras (oh, I forgot, there IS no Enjolras) . Neither Marius NOR Enjolras would smile at remarks about making like to Cosette, so I regain it hard to bear that some mutant hybrid Marjolras would. Cosette would never mediate leaving Marius, her soulmate, to end with Valjean, her adoptive father. And above all, Jean Valjean would NEVER, EVER topple in like with Fantine. The mere suggestion of this limits the portrayal of his charity to people he takes a special interest in.

Small variations are to be expected in any film adaptation of a book, but these all completely distort characters. The people who made this movie may have gotten the message (admire, charity, etc.), but they missed the point.

If you’ve never read the book, sight this movie. It is touching and carries a favorable message.

But it is not Les Misérables.

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March 10th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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In 1940, Katherine Hepburn’s movie career was in desperate condition. Her 1938 film BRINGING UP BABY, although recognized as a Howard Hawks’s masterpiece today, was at the time a box office failure. The failure signaled the temporary kill of query for her talents in Hollywood, although she had HOLIDAY in the can (and costarring, like both BRINGING UP BABY and THE PHILADELPHIA Yarn, Cary Grant) . So, she went wait on to the stage, in a play written specifically for her, and the subsequent hit was an unexpected and triumphant return to the camouflage for Hepburn. Her career never looked befriend again, especially when two years later she teamed with Spencer Tracy for the first time. Ironically, she originally requested that Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy play the Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart roles.

THE PHILADELPHIA Anecdote is such an extraordinarily well-done film that one can peep it repeatedly, reveling each time in modern and hidden details. It strikes the perfect balance of being spectacularly well-acted, hysterically amusing, and delightfully comical while maintaining an fair veneer. The cast is nearly overwhelming in its quality, with Hepburn and Grant turning in especially blooming performances. Jimmy Stewart is also obliging, though he won an Oscar for this year that he probably didn’t deserve. The Academy in 1940 may have been giving him the award as an apology for not having won the year before for MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. Unfortunately, this meant that Jimmy Stewart’s best friend Henry Fonda failed to secure for one of the finest performances in the history of American cinema, as Tom Joad in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Smooth, although the Oscar clearly should have gone to Fonda, Stewart manages a stout turn. He and Grant manage a big moment when Stewart adlibbed a hiccup, and Grant, not batting an observe, adlibbed, “Excuse me.” The rest of the cast is flawless. Too many excel to mention, but special mention must be made of Roland Young as Uncle Willie, Virginia Weidler in a pleasant turn as Tracy Lord’s precocious younger sister, and the erstwhile Errol Flynn nemesis Henry Daniell as the devious and unscrupulous Sidney Kidd.

Although this film holds up magnificently upon reviewings, there is nothing like seeing it for the first time. I remember vividly how titillating it was to leer this in the lamentably demised Lincoln Theater in Current Haven, Connecticut, having absolutely no thought how the film was going to demolish only five minutes before the closing credits. Who will Tracy marry? Will she marry? How will the film managed to tie up all the loose ends.

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I have a list of my all time accepted lines from films. One of my favorites comes from this one. On the morning after Tracy has gotten rip-roaringly drunk, she has almost no memories of what happened, but what she does bewitch makes her panic that she might have been in a compromising dwelling with Jimmy Stewart. After Stewart assures the confused and insecure Tracy Lord that nothing happened because she was drunk and “there are rules about that sort of thing,” the infinitely relieved Tracy says, “I contemplate men are amazing.”

The film has managed to permeate our culture in subtle ways, from inviting musical remakes, to providing celebrated adult movie stars with their names, to providing foundations for jokes (in the Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure “The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam,” whenever Bullwinkle sees his jewel encrusted runt boat, he mutters under his breath, “Yar, yar”) .

They do few movies of the level of quality as “The Philadelphia Record.” This movie is unbiased fat of life, pleasurable and dreadful. Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn are a trifecta of fabulous talent, and they blend together with ease and style. Like proper people, everyone has their faults and their strengths. Everyone is fair and ghastly at the same time, in their fill diagram.

The dialog is so wonderful, you want to quote it at every opportunity, although your life probably doesn’t provide the opportunity to fall these kinds of quotes. The “High Society” at play, and the lowbrow crashers making their nickels and dimes all the while allowing their pretensions to art…this is astronomical drama.

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The DVD is not particularly enthralling, and is a surprising let down for such an astonishing film, however a film this ample doesn’t need extras. The main course is filling enough.

Definitely something you will perceive over and over again. One of the best.

Stream Felix the Cat: The Complete 1958-1959 Series Online

February 17th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this set, even before its appearance. Most of that centers around the claim on the cover to include “The Complete 1958- 1959 Full- Color Series”. This set includes 31 episodes, a far cry from the 260 supposedly created. So what’s going on? The Felix cartoons of this era are widely believed to run about four minutes each. The ones in this set run about seven minutes, almost twice as long. Possibly each episode was originally run in two parts. In that case, there would really have been 260 parts, making up 130 two- part episodes.

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John Canemaker, in Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World’s Most Famous Cat, writes that Joe Oriolo’s original plan was to create 260 episodes that could run as four minute individual episodes or a continuing quarter hour, depending on the station format. Many cartoons of the time ran as “cliff-hangers”, multi- part stories that dropped off at the end of the episode, including Ruff and Reddy, Crusader Rabbit, and Underdog. This was so that the clowns and spacemen who were the live hosts of kids’ TV could sprinkle cartoon shorts throughout their shows, which ran from Fresno to Binghamton. Oriolo’s revival cartoon arguably had little to do with the original Pat Sullivan/ Otto Mesmer film shorts, but it was Joe who gave Felix his magic bag along with the show’s personnel, which included the Professor, Poindexter, Rock Bottom, and Master Cylinder. Oriolo tried to follow the Hanna- Barbera successes of limited animation, and deliberately aimed his show at kids, which may be why it has remained such a favorite.

This set is beautifully packaged, with a graphic of the iconic cat on the cover, and includes a list of episodes. The case opens like a book and contains two one- sided discs. The plastic around the discs isn’t very strong, and my set arrived with the plastic broken, but the discs still played OK. Disc one opens with ads for Rocky and Bullwinkle DVD sets and the Veggie Tales movie, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, and includes 16 Felix episodes running about seven minutes each, for a total disc running time of 120 minutes.

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Disc two includes the remaining 15 episodes and three special features. These features are the same as on the Felix the Cat Collectors’ Edition issued in 2001 through Sony Wonder. They include the first Felix cartoon, “Feline Follies” from 1919; an excellent interview with John Canemaker on the history of Felix called “Through the Ages”; and an archival promo reel for stations to use, including an ad in French and a black and white ad in Spanish (The Collector’s Edition also included other features not on this set). The second disc running time is 112 minutes. The Collector’s Edition included ten episodes on a single one- sided disc. On this set they are episodes number 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 21, 27, 29, and 30.

The episodes include;

Disc one: 1. The Magic Bag; 2. Into Outer Space; 3. Abominable Snowman; 4. Felix Out West; 5. Electronic Brainwasher; 6. Felix the Cat Suit; 7. Do- It- Yourself Monster Book; 8. Blubberino the Whale; 9. Ghostly Concert; 10. Captain No- Kiddin’; 11. Felix in Egypt; 12. Detective Thinking Hat; 13. Balloon Blower Machine; 14. Friday the 13th; 15. Stone Making Machine; 16. Penelope the Elephant.

Disc Two: 17. The Money Tree; 18. Oil and Indians Don’t Mix; 19. The Glittering Jewels; 20. The Gold Car and County Fair; 21. Sheriff Felix VS. the Gas Cloud; 22. Felix’s Gold Mine; 23. How to Steal a Gold Mine?; 24. Private Eye Felix and Pierre Mustache; 25. The Gold Fruit Tree; 26. The Flying Saucer; 27. Felix Baby- Sits; 28. Instant Money; 29. Master Cylinder- King of the Moon; 30. The Invisible Professor; 31. Venus and the Master Cylinder.

To my knowledge, this set is complete as advertised. I believe there were 31 episodes produced during the 1958-1959 time period. There were another 91 or so produced during 1960-1961, bringing the total to about 122. I don’t know where the notion that Trans-Lux produced 260 some odd Felix cartoons during 1958-1959 came from. That would have been an incredible feat, even if each cartoon was only about 7 minutes in length. If someone has some evidence that there were indeed 260 shorts produced by Trans-Lux, I would sure like to see it.

The problem with this release is that there is no slipcover to hold the DVD package closed. At least mine didn’t have one. So it can easily pop open. The cartoons look excellent and the menu is easy to navigate. If the packaging were better, I would have given it 5 stars.

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February 16th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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My daughter and I both dance and prance with the Pocoyo characters. I wish there were more like it out there!

My 2-year Old Nephew loves the Pocoyo: Fun and Dance with Pocoyo. There is a Spanish version and an English version. It held his attention, his mom and dad’s attention, mine and my husband’s attention. Great video. Not a bad price either. I’d recommend it.

Watch The Rockford Files: Movie Collection, Vol. 1 Online

February 10th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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First let me say, this review is not of the company that puts out this dvd or the manner in which the dvd was released. I agree they should have all the movies together in one set and could have made it match the seasons. But, movie and music companies always leave something to be desired in how they release things so I am not gonna write a review of that. I am writing this in regards to the actual made for tv movies. I personally do not understand why everyone is talking so negatively about these movies. My personal opinion is that, anytime you add James Garner to the mix you’re gonna get your money’s worth. I am a collector of dvds so I am happy/proud to say that I can finally have these to complete the Rockford Collection. Although the actor is older, you don’t get the feeling that they tried to underplay his age. They accept it, they broach the subject many times with humor, and all-in-all you get an actor playing his age as well as not losing any of the qualities that made the actor so memorable. there are the trademark one liners, though he does seem a bit more rough around the edges he is still the same old rockford we grew up with in the 70s and in reruns. The saddest part was that Rocky wasn’t able to be in them. Anyone who is/was a fan of the show will feel as if they’ve lost a family member as well. The storylines are fine, and are excellent vehicles for the Rockford character. There are a few reunions (for us as well) as he is joined by Beth and Angel (throughought the course of the movies) too bad Isaac Hayes didn’t show up though. That would have made it more complete. I would glady reccomend this set to anyone who has seen the series and loved it as I did. I’d support anything I can with Garner’s name on it. He is a fine actor who simply made it look easy and natural. I really would have liked it released differently (one complete set) but that is a minor qualm. Just be grateful these made it to dvd. Many companies are always looking for what’s new and hot and not necessarily for what is good. Garner never made a movie/series I didn’t like. He was the type that could elevate the material to levels it was probably not meant to be at. Even though the set is not out yet (I have recently seen these episodes…recorded off the Hallmark channel) and will tell you you won’t be disappointed if you buy these.

I believe the original 1970’s television series “The Rockford Files” was one of the finest drama series ever made. This was largely on the strength of the performance of James Garner in the starring role, in addition to the fine scripts by people like Steven Cannell, David Chase and others. Garner NEVER put in a bad performance, something that few actors of even the most successfull series can say. The stories, both those that had more comic aspects (such as those with the unforgettable character Angel, played by Stuart Margolin) or those with a more serious storyline always kept the attention of the audience and provided top entertainment. Few other series can say this.

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HAVING SAID THIS, I am afraid that I can not wholeheartedly recommend the movies that made up the revival of the series in the 1990’s. These movies fell victim to the common problem of all revivals using a famous older star. Whether or not they are concious of it or not, they are being paid a fortune, they have nothing to prove, they usually don’t have the energy they had when they were young, and they know that the show can not be made without them. This almost inevitably has the actor ease up and it frequently seems that they are simply going through the motions. Unfortunately we see this syndrome in these movies. As fine an actor as Garner was in his glory days, by the time these movies came along, he simply was not the same man. In addition, the nature of television had changed between the 1970’s and 1990’s. The 1970’s had directing oriented towards a “natural” feel regarding lighting, sets, camera angles and such. In the 1990’s there is something more of a “surreal” feeling in which rather unnatural lighting is used and the furnishing of the sets seems sterile compared to that of the earlier period, which I personally don’t care for. Also, because of changing taste, things like profanity and explicit talk about sex became more accepted and this is often used as an out for lazy writers who don’t have to work hard in order to make more creative stories, relying simply on the decreasing shock value to hold the audience’s attention.

It is also sad to see fine supporting actors such as Joe Santos and Pat Finley (Jim’s pal Dennis Becker and his wife, Peggy) who were so dynamic in the original series seemingly becoming aging relics. James Luisi, who was so good as Rockford’s nemesis Lt. Chapman in the LAPD here appears as simply a goofy caricature.

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The bottom line is that these movies are yet another proof of Thomas Wolfe’s immortal line “You Can’t Go Home Again”.

Best Reviews Of A Collection of 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

February 4th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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I love shorts and have bought a number of short collections. However, it’s always a grab-bag. Usually there will be some shorts that are excellent, a few that are stupid or lousy, and some that are mediocre. But I’m willing to put up with the lousy and mediocre ones in order to enjoy the excellent ones. However, this particular collection of 7 shorts that were nominated for the 2006 Academy Awards, plus 6 extra ones, is the absolute best collection that I own. Of the 13, not one was lousy, and only 2 or 3 were in the mediocre category. The two which won, “West Bank Story” for live action and “The Danish Poet” for animated, blew me away, but many of the others gave them quite a run for their money. Particularly “Helmer and Son” about a son who is called into a nursing home to talk to his father who has locked himself inside his closet, and “The Savior” about a group of church missionaries who are trying to convert the people who live in a neighborhood by going door-to-door, but one of them begins to have an affair with one of the housewives, who is married. And of the bonus shorts, “A Gentleman’s Duel” (about two men who want to kill each other over a lady) and “One Rat Short” (excellent animation of a rat caught in a scientific laboratory) really stand out. Still, my absolute favorite is “West Bank Story” which satirizes “West Side Story” and tensions between Israelis and Palestinians by comparing it to competing fast food restaurants.

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This DVD brings together the five short films nominated for the 2006 Live Action Short Film Academy Awards and two of the animated short films nominated for the 2006 Animated Short Film Academy Awards. The films on the disc are:

WEST BANK STORY–this live action mini-musical parodies the famous WEST SIDE STORY. The film takes place in the Middle East on the West Bank. On the border between Israel and un-nationalized Palestine are two competing fast food restaurants. One the one side of the border is the Kosher King, a fast food kosher restaurant. Directly across the border next to the Kosher King is the Hummus Hut, a fast food restaurant specializing in Middle Eastern cuisine. The sister of the owner of the Humus Hut, Fatima, and an Israeli border guard, David, fall in love with each other. The story is told through humorous singing and dancing numbers. This film was the winner of the 2006 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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THE SAVIOUR–in this short live action film from Australia, a young apparently Christian missionary sent on a weekly door to door witnessing campaign becomes involved in an affair with a married woman.

HELMER & SON–Jess is called into the retirement home where his father, Helmer, is staying. Helmer has locked himself into the wardrobe and won’t come out.

ONE TOO MANY–tired of living with two helpless males, Fernando’s wife leaves him and throws many of his belongings into the street. Fernando awakens his son, Joaquin, and the two travel to a rest home where Fernando’s mother-in-law lives. They pick the woman up and bring her home, hoping that she will take her daughter’s place and cook and clean for them.

BINTA & THE GREAT IDEA–Binta is a young girl living in a small village in Senegal. Binta’s father is a fisherman with great ideas. He shares a grand idea with Binta that he hopes will bring peace and joy to the world. Binta transcribes a letter he dictates and her father starts out on a journey taking the letter from one government official to another. Meanwhile, Binta’s cousin Soda yearns to attend school and receive an education, but her strict father refuses to allow her to go. So, the school children get together and perform a play in an attempt to convince Soda’s father to allow her to attend school.

THE DANISH POET–one of the two featured animated shorts on the DVD. The story revolves around a man named Kasper, a Danish poet, and his search to become inspired. The message of the movie is about the interconnectedness of humanity and the importance in living a life full of joy and love instead of despair and sadness. This film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short 2006.

MAESTRO–the second of the featured animated shorts on the DVD. A mechanical arm and a wooden arm work together for their big performance.

Besides the featured five live action shorts and two featured animated shorts, the DVD also includes six other films.

THE WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL–in this black and white stop motion clay animation, it’s winter in Cobble Hill Brooklyn. Felix is a high school student living with his mother. His mother is around, but only physically and Felix is left to fend for himself. When the elderly owner of a convenience store asks Felix to watch the store and his dog while he is gone for a few days, Felix is given a grand opportunity. He starts spreading the spoils of the store with his friends, but neglects the dog. Felix has to come to grips with what he is doing and decide if this is the life he wants to live.

SURVIVING THE RUSH–this is the only live action short of the extra shorts included on the DVD. It follows an assistant manager and his team at a local Cineplex in Michigan through the worst possible night ever.

THE PASSENGER–while reading a scary story on his way home, a boy sits next to strange fish on the bus that turns into a ferocious beast anytime he hears loud vibrations. The fish terrifies the boy until he realizes he can use the creature to his advantage.

ONE RAT SHORT–in this computer animated short, a brown city rat chases a bag of discarded cheese curls and accidentally lands in a science lab where he meets and is smitten with a blue-eyed white female lab rat. They plan to escape from the lab, but even the best prepared plans sometimes go awry. This is an elegantly illustrated picture told without any dialogue.

A GENTLEMEN’S DUEL–in this piece of computer animated steam punk, two gentlemen “duel” over the same extremely attractive and voluptuous young woman.

GUIDE DOG–in this more traditionally-animated film, an energetic and eager dog applies to be a guide dog. As the dog finds out, being a guide dog isn’t as easy as it seems.

As far as short collections go, this DVD is one of the better that I’ve seen. Usually collections such as these contain a few really good films and several stinkers. There really aren’t any terrible films on the DVD. The only film I didn’t enjoy very much was THE WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL. I really liked all the other films. My favorites were WEST BANK STORY, BINTA & THE GREAT IDEA, THE DANISH POET, THE PASSENGER, and A GENTLEMEN’S DUEL.

Overall, a very nice collection and highly recommended for anyone who enjoys watching short films.

Watch Into the Storm on Xbox

January 24th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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I’ve never written a review in my life, and at the slay of my comments some readers may say they can examine why; nonetheless this movie compelled me to fragment my thought. A delicate cinematic portrayal of Winston Churchill’s service as Britian’s Prime Minister during World War II. Brendan Gleesons performance as Churchill is advantageous, capturing not only his physical attributes but his careful plan provoking suppose of vocabulary as well. The casting of Roosevelt and Stalin is noteworthy, you would issue you were a soar on the wall at Yalta. Janet McTeer as Clemmie (Mrs. Churchill) is the epitome of a profitable British wife, friend and confidante to the Prime Minister. Iain Glen’s role as King George VI is as royal as the monarch himself. Historically legal and brilliantly written. From the Parlimentary debates to the loyal war footage and Churchill’s relationships with his cabinet, war ministers, family and the King. A large film, lively and informative. KBO-HBO!

I unbiased finished watching “Into The Storm” and could not be more appalled by what I saw. Firstly, on merely technical matters the film is terribly edited as it continuously jumps between the events of the Second World War and the days before Churchill’s loss in the 1945 election for Prime Minister honest after the war ends, while giving very shrimp historical context tedious the events that it depicts. Secondly, it is poorly acted as Churchill is portrayed as a crotchety, traditional, pig-headed, bullying, war-monger who enjoyed war and did not want it to extinguish, cared runt for the men under his charge, did not tag the advice of his military advisors and fellow MPS, and treated his servants and his family particularly his wife, with disdain. (Not to mention that the acting itself by all alive to, feels inauthentic, and not believable, as if the actors are playing caricatures, rather then proper people.) Thirdly, the filmmakers even go so far as to imply that Churchill was as unpleasant as Hitler in his conduct of the war by filming a scene in the House of Commons where a Labour MP makes that assertion, and by showing Churchill reacting indifferently to the bombings of German towns, sanctioning the killing of German civilians, and presents the bombing of Dresden as being on the same scale as all of the horrors that the Nazis perpetrated on the world.( Mind you, I’m aware that the bombing of Dresden was a reprehensible act, but it does not even arrive stop to the horrors wrought on the world by Nazi Germany.) Fourthly, it implies that Josef Stalin,-one of the most vile men in history- had more first-rate sense when it came to fighting the war then Churchill when they have discussions about the it during the Teheran and Yalta Conferences. Fifthly, it diminishes his speeches by showing him giving them in a minute context by either simply rehearsing them or cutting off memorable sections for example his line about “man’s finest hour.” Finally, and maybe most importantly, there is nothing admirable or fine about Churchill as none of his purported warmth, humor, decency, fabulous eloquence or charisma are even touched on. In short, he is not seen as the immense man that with the abet of others saved the world from one of the most despicable regimes ever loosed upon it that threatened its very existence.

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Shame on the people who made this! I hope that any money they made from it is burned and I cannot contain it received Emmy Awards!

So, therefore I say DO NOT extinguish your money by purchasing this historically unsuitable, badly do together film that desecrates the legacy of one of the indisputably fabulous figures of the Twentieth Century.

If you long to notice honest representations of Churchill and World War II, see: “The Gathering Storm,” ” Then There Were Giants,” “The Winds of War,” and “War and Remembrance,” they do it justice.

I am at a loss to understand how after releasing such an fantastic film as “The Gathering Storm” in 2002, HBO-A network which often releases worthy movies and specials- could follow it up with this vile allotment of filth.

Download Saikano OVA – Another Love Song

January 19th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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First off, it’s best to mention that this OVA is not a good way to be introduced to Saikano. Viewers will gain a great deal more if they have seen the show first.

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For only two episodes, a lot more happens in this space of time than in the rest of the show. Yet this OVA relies on following events that take place early on in the show. Hence why it’s important to watch the series first.

While the series was mostly told through Shuji’s point of view, the OVA is more 3rd-person, with emphasis on new character Lieutenant Mizuki and Chise. In fact, Shuji has no major involvement at all, apart from constantly being on Chise’s mind.

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This OVA is good in that it explains more. In the series, viewers don’t know really know the “how” or “why” Chise was made into the ultimate weapon. We get those answers, but once again, the “how” or “why” isn’t as important. Themes of war, being human, and love are still going strong. We see more of Chise’s internal struggle between her human self and the weapon inside, and how her feelings for Shuji affect her actions.

New character Mizuki is the perfect foil for Chise. Mizuki is fiercely dedicated to her role as both a soldier and a weapon. She is fearless, determined, stubborn, and intelligent. As the prototype of the weapon that Chise will become, viewers will learn why Mizuki’s ability never equaled or surpassed Chise, and how this makes her feel and dictates her actions. Mizuki also has connections to Tetsu, and interactions between them I felt were important because they shed some light on how Tetsu was with Chise. Oddly though, this seems to contridict how he felt about his wife, Fuyumi, who is just barely mentioned. Mizuki, while in a position to be resentful of Chise, proves to have the potential to be Chise’s friend and confidant, the best hope Chise had of having someone who understood how she was feeling. Even Shuji had a hard time grasping this at first in the series.

Mizuki is also a tragic character, as are many characters in the Saikano canon. And true to Saikano, this short piece is emotionally driven, heart-wrenching; there’s only a glimmer of a happy ending.

Overall, this OVA could easily fit into the anime series. It’s a nice compliment to it, but seeing it isn’t necessary to understand the actual show. But it’s a must for Saikano fans.

First off I will let you all know that I have not yet seen the series which this OVA is based on, but rest assured I will do so as soon as I can.

Japan is at war; with whom and for what reason is left entirely unexplained, but judging from the fact that the “enemy” speaks English, drives Abram tanks, and flies F-4’s, I’d say that it is America and her allies who are fighting Japan (again). The war, however, is not going well for Japan, not well at all. Their cities are being burned, their troops killed by the thousands in the streets, their Air Forces destroyed on the ground. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so a special branch of the military begins work on what is simply called “the ultimate weapon.”

After all I’ve read on Saikano I very much expected the OVA which is based on it to be somewhat of a quick summery of the show from which to judge if this was something I was willing to pursue. Much to my surprise though the main characters from the show, Chise and her boyfriend either play secondary roles or are nonexistent entirely. Instead the OVA focus on Commander Mizuki, a woman who was transformed into a weapon of war after she was mortally wounded in battle. She is a prototype, not nearly as powerful as Chise, but she has one thing the little high school girl does not; the will to fight. Mizuki is a soldier who puts the well being of her nation and its people above all else. But when she starts hearing Chise’s thoughts she begins to realize what a grave injustice it was to force Chise into the military and to transform her, against her will, into a weapon of war.

The main problem I had with this short series is that at the end it was left incomplete, I guess to get people to watch the series. As a part of the series, this may be a very good companion, but as a stand alone OVA its dull and moves too quickly for the viewer to get a good sense of who these people are and what exactly is happening. Chise is clumsy and shy, and she is in love with someone we never see, but other than that who is she? I realize she’s a secondary character but there really isn’t much information on her. Mizuki, on the other hand, gets a lot more character development and her personality is well fleshed out.

But the main problem I had was the war itself. Would it really be so hard to tell us just what is going on? Why is Japan at war? And who exactly are they fighting? Nothing about the war, which is critical to the series, is explained. It’s simply there. This might have been fine if some clues were given, but the few they had were confusing at best. For instance, one “enemy” soldier, who looks Asian, speaks English yet talks about how Japans secret weapon (Chise) destroyed his home city “in like a minute.” So Japan used Chise to attack America? Or did she attack China, which is much closer. Other “enemy” soldiers look typical American and have US uniforms as well. It would have also been nice for there to have been some sorts of explanation on how hundreds of missiles could majicly come out of Chise’s back.

Also, the battles for the most part all follow the same pattern; enemy troops invade, Japan’s soldiers overwhelmed and retreat, Chise or Mizuki come to the rescue and drive off the attack with their super powers. Any questions? That’s pretty much what all the battles are like.

The music and animation were pretty good for the most part. The battle scenes had some really annoying guitar music, but for the sad moments it was nice classical violin music which really set the scene nicely. The animation on the other hand was exhalant. No complaints in that department. The character designs were well done, while the battle scenes were nothing short of awe inspiring.

Re-play value; Low.

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January 18th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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It is a top-notch surprise to scoot into a movie expecting to abhor it, and to leave the theater ecstatic.

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Having read some of the reviews on this area, as well as some professional reviewers, I consider they’ve missed the point of this film entirely. Reviewers on this position have also gotten their facts foul. For example, Keaton has been in three movies since Jack Frost (yes, I agree that film was a concern), and he served as the Executive Producer on another.

Jonathan Rivers’ (Keaton) wife dies in a car accident and like all husbands who love their wives, he grieves. One day he sees a man sitting in an SUV across the street from his house, and when he gets to work that same day, the man is sitting on a bench across the street. Rivers rushes out to ask why he is following him, and the man introduces himself as Raymond Trace (Ian McNeice) . Label claims that Keaton’s wife has passed over, and that she has communicated with him. Rivers immediately dismisses this, but Mark leaves him with a card, asking that he maintain it.

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The movie skips ahead six months, and we rep Rivers bewitching into a novel apartment. Unlike the home he shared with his wife, it is forbidding and cold: the walls are either blocked glass or grey cement.

Then he receives a phone call on his cell, and the “name” that comes up is “Anna’s Cell”. He rushes home and pulls out the bag of effects that the police gave him from the crash; one of the items therein is Anna’s cell phone. It’s off. Then he receives another call, this one while he is holding Anna’s cell phone, and it too is from “Anna’s Cell”.

One morning at 2:30 the beeping of his answering machine awakens him. He gets out of bed and finds that there is one message. He plays it, and it is garbled with static.

These oddities are enough to cause Rivers to contact Heed, and Rivers is introduced to the world of EVP, a phenomenon whereby one can receive messages from loved ones that have passed on through recorded white noise, and sometimes cause images on a monitor. Ticket has, literally, hundreds of video tapes and recordings, and he plays Rivers the convey of his wife, which, I maintain, said something along the lines of “I savor you John”. With the white noise, it was hard to issue. Here’s the first possibility of a “gaping state hole” – Rivers immediately believes it is true, and becomes obsessed with getting to the next level of communication: seeing her face on a television shroud. I have to agree that I notion he bought into it a slight too quickly; however, hearing the divulge of one’s monotonous spouse can evoke emotions that beget a person do things they normally wouldn’t. As a person who has lost a spouse, trust me on this, I know.

Before Rivers is able to acquire to the next level Imprint winds up dumb, all of his monitors and audio equipment (of which there was a powerful amount) destroyed, with Notice buried underneath them.

This causes Rivers to plot up a plot of his enjoy in his home, where he all too expeditiously develops a big facility with highly advanced equipment. That may be another gaping residence hole, but it’s forgivable. Do we really want to gaze Rivers poring through training manuals and teaching himself how to utilize this equipment? Of course not. *That* would be humdrum and unessential to the site.

Assisting him is a client of Price’s that he met when he first visited, Sarah Tate (Deborah Karah Unger) . The more time Rivers spends with his believe equipment, the more obsessed he becomes, to the point of having his ex-wife discover their son for longer periods, to flatly ignoring his son when he has physical custody. (That’s unforgivable, but understandable when caught in the throes of an obsession.)

After a frustrating amount of time where nothing happens, suddenly he starts receiving messages from his wife. They’re no longer the simple I Cherish You messages, but are instructive, telling him to go to clear places to do people.

This is where the movie gets bright, because this is where the terror element kicks into high gear – and this is where I gained titanic respect for the film. We had already received hints of external interference (apparitions), and we launch to view more of them. There were several scenes where typical cheap fear frights could have been inserted honest to acquire someone to squeal, but the director showed stout restraint, and for that I have stout respect for him.

The ending was a complete surprise, and a very satisfying one, as it doesn’t demolish like virtually every standard, schlock panic movie – which our country seems to build as rapidly as rabbits procreate. You don’t need to be a genius, but you need to consider about the ending, and remember bits of what has happened earlier in the film. If you don’t pay attention, you’ll miss it, and it might create the entire film seem irrelevant. But if you do pay attention, and you understand what is going on (I’ll honest say this: pay stop attention to the fact that in the final sequence there is a position of monitors *just like Sign and Rivers had* – and what could that possibly be for), it makes for a very clever ending.

The dénouement is touching, although the final concept the movie presented to us was unnecessary, and almost trustworthy as a plain fear movie ruse, which this movie avoided almost entirely. Thankfully.

I plan to myself as I left the theater: finally, a fright movie whose main goal wasn’t to originate me hop out of my seat through cheap tricks, is well filmed, well acted, and directed with subtlety instead of a ham handed hammer and a bag chunky of tricks.

PLOT: After Jonathan’s wife dies in a car smash, a man comes to Jonathan telling him that he can contact the spirit of his wife through EVP. (EVP is when images and sounds of the insensible advance through on electronic devices, such as on blank radio or TV stations.) Initially resistant to this, Jonathan finally hears some garbled messages from his wife, and decides to contact her further. He sets up a multi-TV/VCR/radio location in his apartment, and attempts to see her. But the messages he receives include the image of three shady looking figures, and then he begins getting images on the TV of people not yet tedious…

MY THOUGHTS: If you’re looking for a movie to anxiety the daylights out of you, White Noise unbiased might do the job. However, most of its scares relies on “BOO!” moments: BANG! A screaming face pops into the calmly fuzzing white noise on the TV. Deliver! A freight truck cuts in front of Jonathan’s minivan.

While the scares are mostly effective, they accumulate monotonous after a while. The atmosphere of the movie is well-kept and lustrous instead of eerie and haunting, and when it’s over, you’re left with the feeling that you’ve suffered through ten or twelve heart attacks, but with no genuine spooky chills down your spine.

The location is greatly flawed, suffering from a VERY unimaginative and uninteresting beginning and a rushed ending that fails to elaborate what exactly happened to the characters. Lots of aspects of the site (the three black figures, for instance) are left dangling. Also, sure aspects of the EVP images require a suspension of disbelief: Like, how do they appear on the mask? Who frames these shots? A ghost cameraman?

I gave this movie 3 stars because it does what it’s required to do: to horror you, even though it did utilize cheap scares to do it. I docked 2 stars off due to the movie’s inconsistent pacing, thin atmosphere, and unanswered questions at the slay.

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January 13th, 2010 by angelina6277078
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There is a reason why the original DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) is a classic and the remake (2008) is not. The FX of 1951 were minimal, but the emphasis on plot, acting, allegory, and scripting combined (as they so rarely do) to produce a film that is watchable even after many viewings. Where Keanu Reeves sleepwalks through his role as Klaatu, Michael Rennie invests his with a riveting performance as a pseudo-human who slowly and naturally learns what it means to be human. Hugh Marlowe in the original is totally believable as the weasly love interest for Patricia Neal. Marlowe’s sliminess paired off well with Rennie’s saintliness. In the remake, there is no one, except perhaps in a collective sense, who can distract the audience long enough to see Reeves as anything more than a mobile pained automaton who is only slightly more interesting than Gort.

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Rennie causes the earth to stand still in a manner that emhasizes his godlike powers. His assumed name of Carpenter further allies himself as one who must suffer, die, and be reborn himself so as to save humanity from itself. Reeves arrives on earth determined to exterminate human life as a prerequisite for maintaining it in its supposed pristine state. His argument that John Cleese artfully exposes that Klaatu’s own race avoided self-immolation only after arriving at a precipitous tipping point is exposed as a sophomoric inability to connect one moral thread of one race to a similar thread of another.

In the original, director Robert Wise uses deliberately blurred camera angles to present Rennie as one whose true nature can be only slowly revealed. Recall Rennie’s introduction when he arrives at the boarding house to seek a room. Compare that masterly hiding of face and form with Scott Derrickson’s inability or unwillingness to show Reeves’ face as no more than a perpetual scowl. Kathy Bates as the Secretary of State manages to invest her role with the film’s only note of authenticity as she correctly notes the inevitable results that occur when a technologically advanced culture collides with a significantly less advanced one.

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Unless the audience manages to care about the lead (it does with Rennie but not with Reeves), then the director has no place to go but with FX. And for the umpteenth time, the revised version of TDTESS proves that the lack of acting and scripting cannot elevate a film to the point that FX can salvage.

I’ve been beaten to the punch by a lot of really fine, insightful reviews. I’ll only add that, like so many movies we seem to see today, this is one that could have been so much better.

It is poorly paced, and miserably directed, with such an imbalance of emphasis between Klaatu’s heavy-hearted, planet-wide mission, and the irritating, recurrent focus on the “cute kid” character (Jaden Smith) who becomes as welcome in the story as an insect at a picnic.

Jennifer Connelly is wholly unbelievable as a “world class” super-scientist, but at least the director resisted the temptation to create some smarmy love-affair concoction between she and Klaatu. Given how uninteresting the rest of the story was, I was afraid that he might resort to such a technique to breathe life into this otherwise prosaic rendering of the original science fiction classic.

The special effects… well, yes, they were good. It’s 2009. The special effects always ought to be good. But as we’ve all known for a long time, good special effects do not necessarily make a good movie.