The Foreigner

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There must be an audience for Steven Seagal movies, but it's hard to imagine who would actually want to watch a movie like The Foreigner. Seagal, bloated and puffy-faced, plays a super-professional operative of some kind, who on this occasion is supposed to deliver a package from someone (it doesn't matter who) to a super-rich industrialist. The industrialist's beautiful blond wife tries to intercept it, Seagal prevents this, then decides to help her out, and lots and lots of people get killed in impractical and implausible ways. Almost every scene is so full of "mysterious" dialogue as to be incomprehensible. The Foreigner tries to create a veil of cool action attitude to disguise the lack of cool and the lack of action. Seagal mumbles. Seagal frowns. No one shoots Seagal, despite numerous opportunities to do so and no reason not to. Why was this movie made? --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Don't do it!.......2006-02-17

This is not the Seagal of the early nineties. Something has happened to him and it's not good. He's gained weight, does not move like before, and is hard to understand. The technical process is terrible. I will never buy another Seagal (I have 14 of the old ones) again and I think Amazon should seriously consider taking this off their site.

Lord Steven AKA God.......2005-11-06

'The Foreigner', along with 'Ticker', is just about the most hated Seagal flick by both the casual movie fan and the most devoted, dieheard Seagalogists. So, I went back and pulled it from my Seagal DVD collection and gave it a repeat viewing. I have come to decide that 'The Foreigner', while no where near the Lordly goodness of 'Belly Of The Beast' or 'Out For Justice', is much better than some of, in my opinion, Seagal's worst: 'Out Of Reach', 'Ticker', and 'Today You Die'.

The plot goes a little something like this: Lord Steven plays ex-CIA agent Johnathan Cold(by far the worst character name Seagal has ever had)who i guess is supposed to be in the same line of work as Jason Statham's character in 'The Transporter'. So the Lord is hired to deliver a package to some rich business tycoon, but of course is turned on by the people who hired him, the rich business tycoon's wife tries to steal the package, and there's other bad dudes out to get the package as well. Its all a little vague but if you don't concentrate too hard, you can ignore all the gaps in plot, and sorta kinda understand whats going on.

Anyways, the Lord is pretty sick looking in this film: he's tubby, his hair is nappy, and he has his arms crossed in front of his gut for approximately 80% of the film. There are a couple decent fight scenes, but the majority of them is obviously done by a stuntman who looks nothing like nor weighs nowhere near as much as Seagal. The only time the Lord appears during fight scenes is in close-up shots where it appears to be playing paddycake. Oh, and about a third of Seagal's dialogue is dubbed by someone who sounds nothing like him. But on the flipside, the cinematography is nice, the camera work is very well done, some very brutal shootings, and the acting is pretty good for the most part(especially by the black British guy who tortures Seagal near the beginning of the film; that guy is very good).

Overall, 'The Foreigner' is not a good film but its definitely not the Lord's worst. So I declare: it is not as deserving of the venom that films like 'Ticker' and 'Out Of Reach' deserve. Give it a second viewing and I don't think you'll hate it as much as you think you do. You won't love it, but you might realize, like I did, that it does have a few good points.

Oh, and as a little sidenote: Seagal's next flick, entitled 'Black Dawn', is a sequel to 'The Foreigner'. Go figure...he could have made a sequel to 'Under Seige' or 'Belly Of The Beast' or even brought back Gino Felino for 'Out For Justice 2' but he decides to bring back Johnathan Cold? Weird.

What a load of rubbish.......2004-12-20

Hi my name is Lloyd Duff and I think this film needs to be thrown off a very high cliff. I like Steven Seagal and I am aware that he is in his 50's and cant do his karate like he used to. The story is he is suposed to deliver a package from Poland to go knows where for a rich dude. Most of the film is about his parnter going around pointlessy shooting people who have nothing to do with the movie. Was he mental? Why shoot the old porsche guy at berlin airport? yet help an old womon at the farm? Was he jeaulous of him? of his charming good looks? He could have just Drove away leaving the guy swearing in german and throwing his turino flatcap to to ground and screaming out "hoodlum" WHY MURDER HIM? He could have had money in his briefcase

See it for mindless action and mindless filmmaking.......2004-11-19

While Steven Seagal looks better in this film than he does in his later ones ("Out of Reach" made me dub him "the kung-fu Meatloaf") his statuesque features cannot save this movie. Neither can his amazing ability to keep every facial feature above his lower lip stiff. And though his adult diapers and ensure cannot stop the fact that he's not much of an action star any more, Steven has the help of horrible editing and directing to make it look like he's beating a guy up. Yet even this Kurosawa-like filmmaking cannot save this movie. In the end, all you get is a bad action movie.

One problem is that this movie makes it look like Europe is the size of a small village. One minute we're in Warsaw, then Germany, then suddenly everyone's British, then we're in Poland again, then Germany, then Norway, then Atlantis...where the heck are we? Were there wormholes that the characters used?

While plotholes abound and storyline is almost nonexistant, the writers have filled in the gaps with explosions and dead bodies. And lots of the latter. I counted three destroyed buildings, but lost count on the bodies. I do know, however, that the Department of Water Management funded this movie, because many characters die falling into a river or stream that happens to be nearby. This is true in the (second) attack Seagal makes on the industrial tycoon's headquarters. Almost every villain shot happens to fall backward, toppling into water. Perhaps it was to drown them, because Seagal seemed to like shooting the guards in the shoulders (unless Europeans have a vital organ in the shoulder I don't know about). The important thing about these deaths is that they give us emotions because we CARE about the characters! Like the black guy who dies since he's the black guy, or the spare black guy that dies because...well, he's the black guy.

There is one character I especially liked, the hitman that turns on Seagal. He had an actual name, but eventually my roommate and I dubbed him "Killer McDeath" because he kills everyone he comes across. I also couldn't help but noticed he killed off all the hot girls in the movie too: the cute maid at the mansion (shot), the young secretary at a business (shot), and the beautiful receptionist at the hotel (stabbed with a banana - oh no wait, he shot her). It got to the point where any time a cute girl appeared my roommate and I would say, "Uh oh, she's not gonna last long." I also have to say he was a tough guy - he's shot, blown out a window, shot again, hit by shrapnel, cut on the face, and smokes, but our friend Killer McDeath just shakes it off and keeps on tickin'. The sad thing is that in the end Steven Seagal kills him by a simple [...]-slap of doom. Surely the great Killer McDeath deserved a more suitable demise! Ah well, Killer McDeath will live on forever in "The Foreigner 2: Back to America."

Oh the humanity!.......2004-10-04

If you, like me, ever wonder what happened to Steven Seagal, you need to run right out and pick up "The Foreigner." In the late 1980s and early 1990's, it looked as though Seagal would join the ranks of Hollywood's top action stars. You would hear his name in the same sentence with Arnie and Stallone, no small feat indeed. And to a large degree, Seagal's films deserved the comparison. "Under Siege" was a winner, as were "Hard to Kill" and "Above the Law." The actor's greatest appeal isn't hard to fathom; Seagal embraced a brutal form of martial arts that, at least onscreen, allowed him to slap down thugs, break bones, and wreak massive havoc without batting an eye. Literally, Seagal would stand in place and put down one goon after the other with an ease that looked not only natural but also realistic. I still enjoy watching that pool room scene where Seagal's character used pool cues, billiard balls, and whatever else he could lay his hands on to put out the trash. Alas, how the mighty have fallen. The early 1990s may as well be ancient history as far as Steven Seagal is concerned. Although he's still capable of making a few moderately entertaining films, far too often we're seeing movies like "The Foreigner" and "Ticker."

Steven Seagal is Jonathan Cold, aka "The Foreigner," which we learn toward the end of the film is a highly trained government operative who works overseas under deep cover. During the film we discover he's now working for some sleazy Polish goon who wants him to carry a package to a client somewhere in Europe as his final assignment. First, he has to pick up the package from a couple of Russians out in the countryside with his boss's other hired hand, the nefarious Dunois (Max Ryan). Predictably, the two engage in macho banter on the car ride out to the cottage, which allows us to learn that Dunois is a rather shady character, before the two narrowly survive a huge gun battle and fire at the house. Cold isn't happy about dealing with such dire circumstances, but he's a professional and won't give up on fulfilling his mission. Perhaps he should have since that would have saved the audience from enduring the rest of this amateurish piece of dreck. Anyway, Seagal heads off to do what he does best, unaware that his old boss from the CIA, Jared Olyphant (Gary Raymond), knows all about the box and wants what is in it. At least I think Olyphant is Cold's former employer; the movie's so convoluted that it's hard to keep track of the various characters.

Before you can hit stop on your remote, all sorts of unpleasant people are gunning for our hero. Cold discovers that the package contains references to an air disaster in the 1980s, and also learns that wealthy industrialist Jerome Van Aken (Harry Van Gorkum) has something to do with the whole thing. While Cold scopes out the Van Aken estate, Dunois doggedly tracks him with the sort of persistence I wish I had as I tried to get through this movie. There's also a black assassin named Mims, hired by Jared Olyphant, gunning for the box. Cold eventually figures out, with a little help from Jerome's wife Meredith (Anne-Louise Plowman), that there's a huge conspiracy linking the information in the box with a corporate plot to create...well, I won't spoil it for you, but I ought to if it will prevent people from watching the film. Before we learn the shocking revelations that blow the evildoers' plans wide open, the movie treats us to several poorly edited action sequences that find Seagal's character infiltrating the Van Aken estate in order to blow away several beefy Slavic guards. He does it again later with Dunois, entering the compound by the SAME route he went in before. You would think the crack security team in charge of a billionaire's private residence would figure out a way to shore up the cracks, but you would be wrong.

Absolutely nothing works in "The Foreigner" beyond a few exceptionally bloody squibs. Director Michael Oblowitz, who should now personify that age-old mantra "you'll never work in this town again," simply doesn't know how to make a coherent movie. In the place of intriguing, deeply developed characters and original action scenes, he falls into the deadly trap of blaring techno music, cool dialogue that is neither cool nor makes sense, and continuity holes you could sail a battleship through. Even worse, the film relies way to heavily on speeding up or slowing down the speed of the film. I can understand using slow motion to show a body cartwheeling from a shotgun blast, but why do we need to watch Seagal's character sit down in a chair in slo-mo? It's one of those examples of a movie elevating style over substance. Problem is we've seen so many movies overuse these techniques that we recognize when it's poorly used. By far the most ridiculous aspect of the movie has to be how many times Dunois bites the bullet only to bounce back up for another round. I could go on and on.

Did I hear you ask about extras? A bunch of trailers for other action films, including "XXX," "I Spy," "Half Past Dead," "The Foreigner," and "The One." They probably shouldn't have included some of these trailers on the disc, though. I kept thinking how much I would rather watch a few of these other films than this one, even the other Seagal low budget actioners. Actually, I also recently watched two other Steven Seagal films, "Exit Wounds" and "Belly of the Beast," and both were much better than "The Foreigner" Perhaps this movie is an anomaly. I certainly hope so for Seagal's sake as even diehard fans will want to skip this clunker.

Feels Like the Very First Time: The Foreigner Story

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Don't waste your money...
Don't waste your money!!!
GREAT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE BAND!!!
Dynamite!!!
Essential Selection For Any Foreigner Video Collection

Feels Like the Very First Time: The Foreigner Story
Starring: Foreigner
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ASIN: B00009AHN6
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Description

This documentary includes all of Foreigner's greatest hits performed live, interviews with Billy Joel, members of the band, their record company and their manager Bud Prager, plus behind-the-scenes footage of the band on tour. Songs include Feels Like The First Time, Cold As Ice, Starrider, Juke Box Hero, Long Long Way From Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Waiting For A Girl Like You, Urgent, I Want To Know What Love Is

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste your money..........2003-12-17

on this trash!!! This is one of the worst, if not the worst, music DVD's I have ever seen. The sound is horrible (sounds like an AM radio in mono) and most of the footage is grainy and unclear. And they waste movie time by interviewing people like Bud Prager, who is a FORMER manager who was FIRED for stealing money from the band!!!!! Nice, huh? Plus, they are charging $30 for the darn thing!!! I wouldn't pay $3!!!
Don't waste your money...
If you are into Foreigner and are looking for a good DVD, try Foreigner "25 All Access Tonight (my favorite) or Foreigner "Live at Deer Creek". Both are worth the less than $20 that you will spend on them.

Don't waste your money!!!.......2003-12-05

Overpriced and underdone!!! This movie was poorly transfered from VHS and it shows... And how do they feel they have the right to charge $30 for this movie?!? The concert footage is weak and was poorly shot and the movie has awful sound. And they interview the wrong people like Bud Prager... who wants to here from a former manager who robbed the band of millions of dollars?!? I don't...
Really, unless you need a new expensive "coaster", don't buy this disc!!! I have heard better sound from an AM radio in the woods. One of the worst music DVDs I have ever seen... I turned it off half way through. Anyone who is interested in a Foreigner DVD should check out "Foreigner: 25 All Access Tonight" or "Live At Deer Creek". Both are worlds above this trash...

GREAT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE BAND!!!.......2003-11-21

OK, IF YOU OWN THE FOREIGNER'S FLTFT VHS...THE DVD VERSION IS WELL WORTH THE WAIT!! IT'S GREAT LOOK AT BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE BAND...GREAT INTERVIEWS WITH NOT ONLY LOU GRAMM AND MICK JONES, BUT WITH FORMER MEMBERS SUCH AS IAN MCDONALD,AL GREENWOOD, ED GAGLIARDI, DENNIS ELLIOT AND RICK WILLS. ALSO SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTARY FROM BILLY JOEL!! OH, IT ALSO HAS EXCELLANT CONCERT FOOTAGE!! :D

Dynamite!!!.......2003-11-21

Man, this is Excellent!!!!!! I love the way this footage was put together. Not a lot of fancy camera-work, just shot real straight-forward. Great interviews and stills, too, with ALL the earlier band members. Lou gets more talk and camera time, too. Lou is simply incredible, and Mick's guitar work is at its finest here!!! All the performances here just shine. Get this, folks, you will NOT be disappointed.

Essential Selection For Any Foreigner Video Collection.......2003-11-21

This DVD reissue/re-release of the 1991 video comes as a welcome breath of fresh air especially in light of the recent release of the "Live From Deer Creek" and "25th Anniversary All-Access" DVDs. It's not a concert video but rather a tribute/"get-to-know" documentary of the original band member line-up that produced ALL the famous Foreigner hits (not the current nostalgia/Vegas lounge act touring as Foreigner in recent years). My only complaint about this video documentary is that there wasn't more of it !

Foreigner - All Access Tonight (Live in Concert 25)

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UGH!!!
Garbage
WOW... What a dismal performance
For a 25th Anniversary, this should've been better
Please read! Where do I begin!!

Foreigner - All Access Tonight (Live in Concert 25)
Starring: Foreigner
Manufacturer: Eagle Vision USA
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ASIN: B000228EQS
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Customer Reviews:

UGH!!!.......2007-04-29

I am a pretty positive person. The typical "Glass half full" person. Howevr I have almost nothing positive to say about this DVD. First let me write about the non-music portions. I assume they added these pieces to stretch it out and make it seem like a fuller experience. However honestly, does anyone want to watch these guys check into a hotel? And the Mexican interviews? What boring drivel.

As far as the music goes, Lou Graham looks and sounds used up. He can't sing the songs the same, so he half speaks / sings instead of singing the tougher parts. He looks horrible. Yes I know he has had medical issues, but if you are going to represent yourself on stage, at least wear some nice clothes. Honestly he looked like a drunken bum who wandered up on stage. No I don't think he was drunk, but that is what he looked like.

Overall the lighting and sound were mediocre at best. The camera work was a combination of house video footage and a stage hand running around with a camcorder. Compared to a professionally done video, for example the Dokken Live From The Sun DVD, this is strictly home movie quality.

I really don't recommend this to anyone.

Garbage.......2007-03-04

If you are a true Foreigner fan, and want to stay that way, then don't buy this terrible DVD. I can't believe the band would allow themselves to be remembered this way. Lou Gram is one of my all time favorite vocalists, Long Hard Look, Ready Or Not, master pieces. I couldn't stand to watch the whole DVD, and watch these guys destroy the fond memories I had of the group. I never thought I would think or say it, but their washed up, time to retire.

WOW... What a dismal performance.......2006-12-25

Fourth time watching this video just in case I was too quick to rush to judgement. Spend your money on lottery tickets. I love Foreigner (and still do) but don't buy this video. American Idol performers (even the worst) do better than Lou Gramm in this specific video. In this video, Lou couldn't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow. I wish he was drunk but I don't think that was his issue this evening. The rest of the band looks tired and unwilling to perform as well. I felt sympathic for the band afterwards because it felt like they were 90 days away from checking in to their local nursing home. Send you money to me and I'll mail you my DVD. I'll pay for shipping and whatever offer you make I'll knock another four bucks off.

For a 25th Anniversary, this should've been better.......2006-05-13

Knowing the great music and performances that Foreigner has done over the years, I can't figure out why they chose to make the DVD using only footage of Lou Gramm after his throat sugery. I mean, yeah...use some of it to show the present, but I would have to believe that far greater footage exists that would payng fitting tribute to an incredible rock band. I recommend LIVE at Deer Creek on DVD

Please read! Where do I begin!!.......2006-04-03

Once more I purchased a DVD concert nightmare. If only I would have read these reviews. I have been collecting Concert DVDs for about a year. I only recently came to Amazon, and have reviewed a few of my collection. Please read my reviews if you are an 80s Concert fan.

I like some of the others was excited to find Foreigner on DVD. My wife and I sat down, grabbed a couple of Beers and were shocked. It was so bad we couldnt even get through the first song. It looks and sounds like I filmed it from the audience drunk. There really isnt anything good about any part of it, except that you have Foreigner on stage.

If only I would have seen this one before I reviewed the Police. I would have at least given the Police Concert 2 stars for sound.

Take these reviews seriously, for real...

Matt in K-town..

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The reviewer below should take a trip to hell
Lou Gramm is a worse singer than I am.
GenerAlly..
THIS IS CLASSIC ROCK
freigner for nice guys.

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Foreigner
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005QC4N
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

Night Life
Juke Box Hero
Break It Up
Waiting for a Girl Like You
Luanne
Urgent
I'm Gonna Win
Woman in Black
Girl on the Moon
Don't Let Go
Juke Box Hero ["Nearly Unplugged" Version][*]
Waiting for a Girl Like You ["Nearly Unplugged" Version][*]

Album Description

Expanded & remastered edition of their 1981 release with 2 added bonus 'nearly unplugged' versions of 'Juke Box Hero' & 'Waiting For A Girl Like You'.

Customer Reviews:

The reviewer below should take a trip to hell.......2007-08-19

The below 1 star reviewer is a J.E.R.K. DON'T LISTEN TO THE JERKS WHO RATE OR SLAM THIS ALBUM ONLY 1 STAR. THIS DESERVES 4-5 STARS. I really think Waiting for a Girl Like You is a lovely lovely song and as I call that one of my favorite songs of all time.

Lou Gramm is a worse singer than I am. .......2007-08-03

Foreigner was intended for one audience: those who couldn't accept punk and new wave for what they were (a change that needed to happen), but were sick of what the "old guard" (Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, etc.) were pumping out at the time. Speaking as a fan of both the punk/new wave groups and the old guard, I can safely say this album is a terrible, pompous piece of arena-rock crap packed to the gills with overblown AOR ballad melodramas "Waiting for a Girl Like You", "Girl on the Moon", and "Break It Up", or else toothless, shallow arena-rockers such as "Night Life", "Luanne", "Urgent", "I'm Gonna Win", "Woman in Black", and the major hit "Juke Box Hero". Every riff is secondhand, every lyric is unoriginal, the synthesizers are used unimaginatively and often to annoying effect - contrast with how they were used by Stevie Wonder or The Who - they're especially insulting on "Girl on the Moon", "Don't Let Go", and "Woman in Black". Creativity? Experimentation? Forget it. Uh-uh. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Any redeeming factors at all? No way. Why the hell does this band exist? That's a question for the ages. I mean, come on, what's the purpose of stale arena-rock totally void of personality?
Oh, for the record, Rohit R./Six Sixteen/Master of Puppets/Free Bird/Sultans of Swing/Ride the Lightning/Led Zeppelin are Legends/achilles last stand/Trampled Underfoot (they're all the same person, if you're one of the six people who didn't know that) is a sad case. You know who else is a sad case? Heavy Fuel/Jukebox Hero/Won't Get Fooled Again/The Valdosta Kid/Rock n Roll Will Never Die/whirligig/the heavy rocking guitar solo kid/Sweet Child o' Mine/Mr. Baseball/The Bug/The God That Failed/Baseballhero/Let It Be/Four Fourteen/telegraph road/Fade to Black/For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Kid Who Loves Waiting for a Girl Like You/Zeppelin is Crap/Waiting for a Girl Like You/Tommy Moon/Waiting/Brothers in Arms/Love Over Gold/the various five-star "Music fans" who praise Foreigner, Metallica, Dire Straits and Guns n' Roses while mocking the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin (They're all the same person too of course, and I think I touched on all of this person's various screennames). Just two trolls who need to take their petty music-related feuds elsewhere. If you ask me, Amazon should take action against both of them.

GenerAlly.........2007-07-13

there's a gleam in my eye when I'm listening to this.It made me feel safe as a child and the enchantress "Girl On the Moon" made me wonder about it:Who was she? Arianrhod? Juke Box Hero is of course the standard dreamer's song: Urgent is the catalyst that mAkes many want to play the saxOphone.Angie (Who's your childhood friend??)RoSkellEy was a good person.

THIS IS CLASSIC ROCK .......2007-02-13

In my estimation there are only a few "Classic Rock" (Pop-Rock) albums from the 80's that are worth owning, this is one of them, I have it, and you should too. Sure, there are other good Pop-Rock albums from the 80's, but most I can't stomach in their entirety, as very few stand the test of time. There are no bad songs on this album, and in fact they are all excellent, and not just excellent for their time, but excellent for today. It's now 2007 and this album from 1981 never sounds corny or shrill to me, as so many albums from the 80's do, this album stands the test of time. I certainly think that the listenability of "4" is in large part due to the fact that John "Mutt" Lange was brought in to produce the album, who is arguably the best Rock producer of all time. Yeah, I know Mick Jones was co-producer, but I have no doubt that Lange is the reason "4" turned out to be the revered "Classic Rock" album it is. To date "4" has sold more than six million copies in the US, which is almost as many copies sold as AC/DC's "Highway To Hell", which Lange also produced. How can you argue with six million copies sold, this is a very good album.

freigner for nice guys........2007-02-06

Wow I just caanot belive how people really hate Foreigner and rate for trash like Beatles,Slayer,Pantera,Pearl Jam. Foreigner were one of the finest rock bands to ever make music in the 70s and 80s. They made several excellent songs like Waiting For A Girl Like You which remains to be one of my favorite songs ever and a wonderful nice power ballad song to sing or dance along to. I would suggest you buy this excellent album as it contains songs you will really love like Waiting For A Girl Like You .. Girl On The Moon which are my favorite songs. Only nice people listen to Foreigner. Slayer is for bad people. Buy this excellence with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.

PS. Lou Gramm is a great singer.
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What copy of this do the 4 & 5 star reviewers have?
One word: Sad
Are they really playing?
Hamming it up
Great Concert DVD of Foreigner

Live at Deer Creek
Starring: Foreigner
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ASIN: B0000D9PIG
Release Date: 2003-09-30

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What copy of this do the 4 & 5 star reviewers have?.......2006-04-22

I could throw this DVD away amd forget I ever owned it. It is the worst sounding, unsightly DVD concert(?) I have ever experienced---period!

One word: Sad.......2005-08-22

As a huge Foreigner fan, I eagerly awaited this DVD. Then I watched it. My God, this is the worst concert DVD I've ever seen, with the following problems: there is WAY too much slow motion camera work or crappy MTV type camera work, there is no Dennis Elliott on drums, Gramm seems to be singing out of time on purpose, too many shots of women in the crowd and not enough time on the band and their playing skills (we men and women musicians like and want to learn their music too), the stage/set is downright laughable, and the list could go on forever. How Foreigner could allow this DVD to be released is beyond me.
Compared to the awesome brilliance of Fleetwood Mac's `The Dance' , Led Zeppelin's new 2 disc set' Led Zeppelin', Gary Moore's `Live at Montreux', Third Day's `Live', Buddy Rich's Jazz Legend: 1917-1987, Mary Chapin Carpenter's `Live at Wolf Trap' (go Robbie Magrudder!!), etc., this DVD is just abysmal. Fellow Foreigner fans, can you please point me to a better DVD with Dennis Elliot at the drum kit?
For the record, I'm a huge fan of the original band line up and original albums, so this was a very excruciating experience indeed. Fellow Foreigner fans be warned: STAY AWAY!!
Here's a little bit of trivia for fellow drummers: Dennis Elliott is now a world renowned woodworking artist whose art has won innumerable awards and he has had as many museum exhibitions. The man is a true artist, and I miss his splendid drumming for Foreigner incredibly.

Are they really playing?.......2005-04-03

When a dvd never shows the guitar player actually playing his guitar, you have to wonder if he is actually playing it or not. Why show the guitar players head or the audience throughout his solos? I did not see one instance during this dvd that showed his fingers playing the guitar. Everytime the camera angle would either switch off the guitar player or just show him from his shoulders up. Kinda makes me wonder if Mick Jones can play guitar at all. I thought about getting the other Foreigner dvd but it may not be any better.

Hamming it up.......2005-03-26

I have just completed listening to this less than enjoyable reprise. I still do not understand how a band can think that we the consumers wish to hear very bad renditions of their songs played off beat and with little regard to the hits that they originally were. Seems to me that they think that intentionally being off beat is something that we want to hear. These are some of my favorite songs and I will never listen to this butchery again. I am sorry. I love this band, but I wish I had not bought this.

Great Concert DVD of Foreigner.......2004-10-06

Foreigner live at Deer Creek was recorded in Noblesville,Indiana by Indianapolis on July 19,1993 at the Deer Creek ampitheatre, now the Verizon Wirelss Center. This concert was during the Very Best and Beyond tour,so Rick Willis and Dennis Elliot had already left the band.Original members lead guitarist Mick Jones and Lead Vocalist Lou Gramm lead a great lineup of talented musicians through 12 of Foreigners biggest hits.The band is great, the sound quality is great especially without surround sound,there are sequences of black and white once in awhile,but it doesn't take away for the enjoyment of the show. Songs include Long,Long Way from Home,Blue Morning Blue Day,Dirty White Boy,Urgent,Jukebox Hero and more.A great concert DVD for any Foreigner fan.

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The Foreigner: A Film by Amos Poe
Starring: Patti Astor , Pusante Byzantium , James Crosby , Robin Crutchfield , and David Forshtay
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ASIN: B00005R1N0
Release Date: 2001-11-06

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Directed by Amos Poe, this 90 minute film tells the story of Max Menace, a foreigner adrift in the threatening environment of New York City. He views the world as senseless and aspires to acts of viloence, out of sheer boredom. According to Mark Segal of the Pasadena Film Forum, The Foreigner swerves away from the moral and stylistic codes of Hollywood on the one hand and from the cerebral refinement and cultural aspirations of the avant garde on the other.

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AMOS POE INVENTED "NO-WAVE/PUNK" FILM.......2003-12-31

An amazing example of "no-wave" cinema, the story of Max Menace, super-spy and the "foreigner" of the title, on the run from everyone, from American intelligencia to NYC punks. Features cameos by the Cramps and Debbie Harry. Influenced by Godard's "Alphaville" and Cassavetes' "Shadows", and itself a stylistic influence on Jim Jarmusch.

Beats the crap out of movies by people like Nick Zedd or Richard Kern. This is the real thing!

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In 2007 Foreigner are celebrating their 30th anniversary and are playing more shows in more countries than ever before. The band has sold over 70 million records worldwide. Only Led Zeppelin has sold more albums for the Atlantic Records label. This DVD was filmed at the Bang Your Head Festival at Balingen in Germany in June 2006 and captures the band rocking harder than ever before on a set list of their biggest hits including "Cold As Ice", "Urgent", "Juke Box Hero", "Double Vision" and more.

The Foreigner lineup for this performance consists of Mick Jones (guitars), Kelly Hansen (vocals), Jason Bonham (drums), Jeff Jacobs (keyboards), Tom Gimbel (guitars, saxophone, flute) and Jeff Pilson (bass).

Tracklisting 1) Intro 2) Double Vision 3) Head Games 4) Dirty White Boy 5) Cold As Ice 6) Starrider 7) Feels Like The First Time 8) Urgent 9) Juke Box Hero / Whole Lotta Love 10) Hot Blooded

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