Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

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From producer Jerry Bruckheimer (PEARL HARBOR) comes PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, the thrilling high-seas adventure with a mysterious twist. The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's (Academy Award(R) Nominee Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley). In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead. Rich in suspense-filled adventure, sword-clashing action, mystery, humor, unforgettable characters, and never-before-seen special effects, PIRATES is a must-have epic on the grandest scale ever.

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You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially if you've experienced the Disneyland theme-park ride that inspired it. There's a galleon's worth of fun in watching Johnny Depp's androgynous performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for the illegitimate spawn of rockers Keith Richards and Chrissie Hynde. Depp gets all the good lines and steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (a lovely governor's daughter) on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack's nemesis Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), a mutineer desperate to reverse the curse that left him and his (literally) skeleton crew in a state of eternal, undead damnation. Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring) repeats the redundant mayhem that marred his debut film Mouse Hunt, but with the writers of Shrek he's made Pirates into a special-effects thrill-ride that plays like a Halloween party on the open seas. Aye, matey, we've come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts! --Jeff Shannon

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GREAT.......2007-09-16

This is the #1 movie of the centry. Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth, and every one else are very beleivable characters that you can hitch your emotional wagons to. YO HO A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME!!!!!

Swashbuckling is back........2007-09-15

I didn't expect much from a movie that was made after an amusement park ride, but I must say I was more than pleasantly surprised. This is one of my favorite movies. It has everything. A great cast, a great story, great action, and wonderful visuals. You'll believe you are back in time and living with cutthroats. But wait there's more, you also have a supernatural element that makes this like Lord of the Rings meets Black Beard the pirate.
The whole idea seems rediculous, but with Johnny Depp as CAPTIAN Jack Sparrow, he makes it all work. Too be fare Orlando Bloom as Will Turner is the actual hero of the story, but without a doubt Depp is the star. The movie would not work without him at such a great level.
Then there is Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann, who is as lovely as she is adventrous. Knightley really is a great actress and her character is essential to the story so she isn't just another pretty girl in an action movie, though undoubtedly she is absolutely beautiful.
I won't go into the story since others here have already, but I will say that if you love pirate movies or action movies or comedies or romance or horror movies, this movie has it all and it's all top notch. This is a must see and one of the best in the decade it was made.

A nice popcorn film.......2007-09-08

The first of the three Pirates movie was a nice summer popcorn film, which recalled not only the Pirates movies of classic Hollywood but also those great George Pal and Ray Harryhausen stop-motion monster epics of a later time. It wasn't until the second movie, when suddenly the filmmakers decided audiences had been taking Pirates seriously, did the story begin to get bogged down in complicated mythologies and convoluted sci-fi goofiness.

sounded like a bad idea.......2007-09-04

This movie was a nice surprise; any movie based on a Disney World ride is automatically suspect, but this one transcends its bizarre inspiration and ends up being a fun action movie, largely due to the strength of the performances of Depp and Rush. Unfortunately, the other actors in the movie are rather bland compared to those two and the movie feels kind of flat when they are not onscreen.

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Depp's big payday.......2007-09-04

I really enjoyed Johnny Depp's mid-1990s work, particularly "Ed Wood," "Dead Man" and "Donnie Brasco." Much has been made of his "Keith Richards meets Pepe Le Peu"-inspired riff in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, but the truth is that Depp is clearly slumming here (perhaps deservedly so after two decades of assiduously avoiding the big payday-style blockbuster).

A lot of other good talent is going to waste at the service of these amusement-park ride driven plots, particularly Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley (who, if she loses more weight, runs the risk of being mistaken for one of the skeletons on Rush's ghost ship).

Intermittently entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying.

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Revolutionary filmmaking that grabs you and never lets you go...
American History X
Painfully searing and thought provoking
Wow... Just Wow
Makes you think!

American History X
Starring: Edward Norton , Edward Furlong , Beverly D'Angelo , Avery Brooks , and Jennifer Lien
Director: Tony Kaye
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ASIN: 6305313687
Release Date: 1999-04-06

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Edward Norton's Academy Award nominated role as a White Supremist who sees the error of his ways while jailed for murder. Unfortunately, he leaves prison to find his brother (Edward Furlong) heading down the same path.

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Perhaps the highest compliment you can pay to Edward Norton is that his Oscar-nominated performance in American History X nearly convinces you that there is a shred of logic in the tenets of white supremacy. If that statement doesn't horrify you, it should; Norton is so fully immersed in his role as a neo-Nazi skinhead that his character's eloquent defense of racism is disturbingly persuasive--at least on the surface. Looking lean and mean with a swastika tattoo and a mind full of hate, Derek Vinyard (Norton) has inherited racism from his father, and that learning has been intensified through his service to Cameron (Stacy Keach), a grown-up thug playing tyrant and teacher to a growing band of disenfranchised teens from Venice Beach, California, all hungry for an ideology that fuels their brooding alienation.

The film's basic message--that hate is learned and can be unlearned--is expressed through Derek's kid brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), whose sibling hero-worship increases after Derek is imprisoned (or, in Danny's mind, martyred) for the killing of two black men. Lacking Derek's gift of rebel rhetoric, Danny is easily swayed into the violent, hateful lifestyle that Derek disowns during his thoughtful time in prison. Once released, Derek struggles to save his brother from a violent fate, and American History X partially suffers from a mix of intense emotions, awkward sentiment, and predictably inevitable plotting. And yet British director Tony Kaye (who would later protest against Norton's creative intervention during post-production) manages to juggle these qualities--and a compelling clash of visual styles--to considerable effect. No matter how strained their collaboration may have been, both Kaye and Norton can be proud to have created a film that addresses the issue of racism with dramatically forceful impact. --Jeff Shannon

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Revolutionary filmmaking that grabs you and never lets you go..........2007-07-12

Fueled by a powerfully convincing Oscar worthy performance, `American History X' is probably my favorite movie of the given year. It's an intense portrayal of hatred and racism and the causes behind it as well as the horrible consequences that spawn from it. In its gritty black and white sequences it establishes an air of hostility and vindictive fervor, but what's strangely enamoring about this film is that, with all it's shocking violence and hate filled propaganda, it raises a level of sympathetic understanding that you'd never expect to find nestled underneath it's repelling shell. Through the eyes of Derek Vinyard we begin to realize his struggle and understand his viewpoints, no matter how wrong they really are. The reasoning behind his hatred is explained with such conviction and assurance that he begins to sell the audience. This is important because Derek is a man we're supposed to connect with and sympathize with, and without understanding him that becomes impossible and he remains a monster to us.

So then, much praise must be heaped upon the amazing Edward Norton who completely devours his role here. His performance is one of the most impressive and earth shattering portrayals of the human heart I've seen in years, perhaps forever. His control over his character is incredible. His conviction, his determination, his grip on his characters reality is so strong it's engrossing and absorbing. Derek Vinyard is a revelation. As the film shifts from present time, with Derek being released from prison and trying to put his family back together, to past tense, where in that gritty black and white we see the rise and fall of Derek's Nazi days, we are invited into this mans world, and effortlessly we see Norton shift from a man determined to hate to a man determined to fix the mess he started.

The film focuses mainly on the relationship between Derek and his younger brother Danny, played brilliantly by Edward Furlong. Upon arriving home from prison Derek sees that Danny has now fallen just as deep into the race hating ways he was once privy to and he realizes he has his work cut out for him. Having been reformed while behind bars Derek is now a much different man than he once was and he begins to try and reason with his brother, prove to him that the life they are leading is one only destined for failure and doom. Unfortunately Danny has fallen into ties with Cameron, the leader of a group of Neo-Nazi tyrants who once worshiped the ground Derek walked on. Breaking Danny of this pact would not only result in Derek's segregation but could result in his death.

Tony Kaye does a fantastic job directing this film, creating an unsteady air about the scenes that adds layers to the message behind this film. The film is forceful and blunt but it manages to invest itself so deeply in the audience that we become invested in the film and thus and compelled to keep watching despite the at times very harsh sequences of events. `American History X' may not be the easiest film to sit through, but it's easily one of the most important films to ever address the bounds of racism. Highly superior to the Oscar winning `Crash', `American History X' sets a profound statement that not only rationalizes with the villain but breaks down his barrier and exposes the scared little child growing within him. Thanks in large part to the Oscar robbed Edward Norton, this is one of those films that will move you to rethink everything you think you know about the ones you think you understand and realize that maybe, just maybe, you don't know as much as you give yourself credit for.

American History X.......2007-07-11

Tony Kaye's hard-hitting, frighteningly credible look at racism and aggrieved adolescence smoothes over nothing in its depiction of angry working-class California youth who find pride and camaraderie under the aegis of a White Power demagogue (Stacy Keach). But "X" owes its extraordinary power to the super-charged, Oscar-nominated performance by Norton, beefed up and seething with monstrous hatred in the film's many flashbacks. With Norton so convincing in balancing Derek's obvious intelligence and charisma with his more noxious Nazi persona, "American History X" is a raw, engrossing tale of a pained conscience turned inside out.

Painfully searing and thought provoking.......2007-06-27

I really can't remember a more emotionally charged movie. American X will make you feel angry, frightened, uncomfortable, shocked, sad, and hopefully introspective. It plunges deep into the heart of racism and ultimately exposes the ignorance that fuels it.

Edward Norton is scary. He received an oscar nomination as he became fully immersed in this role as Derek, an angry white supremist.

One of the scenes I found most profound was a glimpse of his upbringing. He is having a conversation with his father, explaining his admiration and respect for his school teacher, who happens to be a black man with two Phds. His dad drops subtle little hints and discriminatory remarks to discredit the man, and his son takes it to heart.

That's really the point of this whole movie, that nobody is born with hatred. Sadly, sometimes it is learned.

This movie is filled with intense moments where the rage and racism are much more blatant. Derek's hatred for all minorities keeps growing, even though he doesn't bother to get to know any of them. Until he goes to prison, and his work partner shows him the error of his ways.

Although this plot development is predictable and Derek's complete change of heart unfortunately seemed a little forced, this still is an exceptional movie. There are so many human frailties exposed and subjective topics examined. It is an obvious message film with high aspirations.

What king of response it triggers depends on you.

Wow... Just Wow.......2007-06-22

A good friend of mine suggested this film, and I really didnt know what to expect going in, but after this film was over, I sat in stunned silence. I knew that racism was horrible, but I found through this film that it does not come without a terrible price..the loss of love, friends, family...and the realization that everything that you believed to be true isnt always the way things are. Edward Norton's performance takes the viewer through this journey, and its not a pretty one. He goes from an bright young man, to a vengeful bigot, to a remorseful excon with a brothers life in jeopardy, and you feel as though you are looking in on someones life in the course of 2 hrs. All of the acting in this film is first rate, and the ending wasnt quite as predictable as others might have you believe...it is quite shocking, as is much of the film. It causes quite a debate on the way people view others whos skin color is not the same. As Dr. King said, judge me not on the color of my skin, but on the content of my character. I live with racism, because I am a black man living in America...it exists, but if we educate ourselves like the main character in AHX, it wont stay around for much longer.

Makes you think!.......2007-06-10

I was skeptical when I first heard about this movie, as I was originally mis-informed as to what it was really about! I am definetly glad I finally sat down and watched this film.

After seeing this film, it has quickly become one of my favorite films that I have ever seen. As others have said, Edward Norton plays his role so well, you may actually find yourself partly agreeing with what he says. The message of the film is very well done, and the ending is one of the most shocking I have seen.

Excellent acting, directing, and story-telling. This is a film to own, and a film that has become a classic within the world of movie-making!

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RIDIN' THAT TRAIN....
Love Train
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Festival Express
Wave That Flag

Festival Express
Starring: Janis Joplin , The Grateful Dead , Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band , The Band , and Buddy Guy
Director: Bob Smeaton
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ASIN: B000305ZDO
Release Date: 2004-11-02

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The vintage concert footage alone makes Festival Express a memorable and worthwhile endeavor, offering scintillating performances by Janis Joplin, the Band (their rollicking version of "Slippin' and Slidin'" is particularly mind-blowing), the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, and others (remember Mashmakhan?). In 1970, during the heyday of the rock festival, promoter Ken Walker decided to organize a traveling musical revue, bringing the mountain to Mohammed, as it were. In five days' time, the festival played in three Canadian cities with the entire conglomeration traveling, playing, and getting smashed together the whole way. Nearly as rewarding as the live performances are the candid scenes of the train ride itself, an endless jam session and party during which musicians of all shapes and sizes let their hair down--musically and otherwise. The contemporary interviews with Walker and some of the surviving musicians aren't particularly noteworthy, except as a way to prove that it all actually happened. Walker comes off as a hero in the film: he treated the musicians like royalty and insisted that the train roll on even though he was losing his shirt. (His financial failure is a large reason why this material stayed in the vaults for so long.) Perhaps the most remarkable scene is an off-the-cuff, LSD-fueled train jam featuring Joplin, the Band's Rick Danko, and the Dead's Jerry Garcia playing the old chestnut "Ain't No More Cane." Danko is so obliterated that even Janis has to ask him if he's OK--when Janis is worried about your state of mind, you must be pretty messed up. --Marc Greilsamer

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Festival Express is a rousing record of a little-known, but monumental, moment in rock n' roll history, starring such music legends as Janis Joplin, The Band, and the Grateful Dead. Set in 1970, Festival Express was a multi-band, multi-day extravaganza that captured the spirit and imagination of a generation and a nation. What made it unique was that it was portable; for five days, the bands and performers lived, slept, rehearsed and did countless unmentionable things aboard a customized train that traveled from Toronto, to Calgary, to Winnipeg, with each stop culminating in a mega-concert. The entire experience, both off-stage and on, was filmed but the extensive footage remained locked away -- until now. A momentous achievement in rock film archeology, Festival Express combines this long-lost material with contemporary interviews nearly 35 years after it was first filmed.

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RIDIN' THAT TRAIN...........2007-09-06

This is a jam packed movie about a few sixties rockers riding the rails in Canada circa 1970. If you are into this sort of thing, you should definately check this one out. It's right up there in my top concert picks with WoodstockThe Movie.
As many have stated, Janis is pretty much the center of attention performance wise. The director must have had a special interest in her the most, because she gets the most camera time... but the other acts all put on stellar performances as well.
Grateful Dead with Pigpen is something everybody should see. There is very little footage that I know of that includes Pigpen (who died in '73) and in my book was the coolest member of the band. He does a version of HARD TO HANDLE that is pisser.
Buddy Guy rules too. Proto Jimi Hendrix type, really carries that axe, and does a version of MONEY (Thats What I want) that is without fail, the best performance of the song I've ever witnessed.
Then theres performances by The Band, Flying Burrito Brothers and New Riders Of the Purple Sage. However the highlights of the film are the scenes where the bands just hangout on the train, which is really fun to watch.
Somehow this little tour ended up going down as a failure, but you won't notice from this movie. In fact there is a scene where Jerry Garcia says the only part he didn't like, was when they stopped it. Great showcase of one of the last great scenes of the hippie era... check it out.

Love Train.......2007-09-03

This movie is possibly my fave music film! Everybody on the train was having so much fun!
Also, in the summer of '71 I rode those very same rails on frieght trains. At the time it was sort of national sport in Canada. It was a wild and loose time then. Everyone wanted to be Jack and Neal. The movie just reminds me of some very good times. You can see why no one wanted it to end.

Also the out takes are very good. The best footage of the Dead ever! It shows how important Pig was. After he died I never liked them as much. They were on a real roll then.
The whole tour was a one of kind never to be repeated event.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?.......2007-08-30

Yeah, I hated it as well. They just looked like a bunch of self-indulgent, narcissistic "musicians" (oh, behave!). Definite talent amongst them, but so many sounded sooo overated when put to the old grey whistle test. There were a couple of countrified songs by the Dead that sounded ok, but mostly, the on-stage performances by just about everyone ranged from plain average to abysmal.

I realise this rockumentary should probably be taken as a period-piece but my advice is to use it as a hair-peace.

Anyway, I better stop now before my over-industrious hyphenations start to organise and begin a 60's rebellion all on their own. Imagine, horizontal bits of text gettin' hy.

Give this a wide berth unless you have a pair of them big hippy-style rose coloured glasses on the end of your nose.

Woody Guthrie caught trains to get from A to B. These guys were stopping at every letter of the alphabet - if you know what I mean.

Festival Express.......2007-07-19

Intimate performance film recreates the heady times of 1970, when the memory of Woodstock was still fresh. Grateful Dead fans will enjoy seeing Garcia in his prime, Joplin breaks your heart offstage (and dazzles you on-) and you can't go wrong with those other acts. Director Smeaton skillfully blends footage of the happening with contemporary reminiscences. A must for any rock fan.

Wave That Flag.......2007-07-03

The Fourth of July always puts me in the mood for a little Grateful Dead. To me they are the quintessential American band. It certainly fits musically, with their music drawing from the blues, country, bluegrass, and gospel, in addition to other streams of Americana. But, even more so, their collective personality was classic American, in lots of positive ways and plenty of negative ones too. They were fun, energetic, creative, exploratory, and generous, yet hypocritical, arrogant, fat, lazy, and ultimately self-indulgent to the point of self-destruction. They were dreamy idealists while at the same time the most crass of capitalists. And just in case the connection was too subtle for the heads, the Avuncular Jerry Garcia would croon it out on "U.S. Blues:" "I'm Uncle Sam,/ That's who I am/ Been hidin' out/ In a rock n' roll band."

You aren't going to catch a Dead show anymore, at least not the real deal, but Festival Express is a nice little treat to catch a little bit of contact vibe. I hadn't heard about this until recently, but apparently there was a traveling festival in 1970 including the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, and the Band. The concert footage is worth watching but even more amazing are the scenes from the train, traveling from town to town, with musicians completely inebriated and jamming non-stop in various combinations. It's worth it just to see a relatively young Jerry Garcia and a relatively old Janis Joplin sitting intimately and just making music. The movie also comes with a villain- though he is packaged as the hero- rock promoter Ken Walker. Hunched over, wringing his hands like Mike Myers playing Dr. Evil, and even with an old-fashioned handlebar mustache just to complete the malevolent ambience. He tells us over and over again how he saved the day in various venues. Threatening anyone in his path, punching out some Canadian mayor in the face, brandishing a gun to make his point, that kind of thing. He takes great pride in what we come to learn was a gigantic failure, but the movie would be less entertaining without this character.

Anyway, it is fun ride, you'll wish you could have been there. I recommend it as part of your Fourth of July festivities. Never mind that the entire film takes place in Canada. Some of the best of America is actually Canadian. This is nothing new, don't over-think it. It's just a good time.

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Fun movie for both kids and adults!
VRonan
GREAT MOVIE
DVD purchase
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Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York
Starring: Gerry Bamman , Donna Black , Eddie Bracken , Daiana Campeanu , and Ron Canada
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ASIN: B00000K3CM
Release Date: 1999-10-05

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This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom Keogh

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Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!

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Fun movie for both kids and adults!.......2007-08-03

The Home Alone movie series is probably the most entertaining, comedic series that both kids and adults will enjoy. The jokes, actors, and tricks are sure to provide a couple of hours of good family fun!

So what's this movie about? If you've seen the first Home Alone, the general storyline applies to Home Alone 2 as well. If you haven't, basically the movie has a boy, Kevin, seperated from his family on vacation. Kevin accidentally ends up in New York while the rest of his family is in Florida. Two thieves are plotting to steal money from a toy store. Not only that, but they remember Kevin from a previous robbery-gone-wrong (from the first Home Alone movie) and they're after him. Kevin comes up with a few boobytraps in an attempt to stop the men. Will the boobytraps prevent the thieves from getting to Kevin? Will Kevin be reunited with his family? These questions are answered at the end of the movie.

So what's to like about this movie? First, I must point out that the acting is rather good for a family film. Of course we have Macaulay Culkin (who plays Kevin) and Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern (who play the robbers). All three do an amazing job playing their characters and even the rest of Kevin's family add a touch of extra personality to the film. Second, when it comes to movies that remind me of Christmas, Home Alone is one of them. I remember watching this movie when I was younger and being really excited about Christmas. This movie always comes out at Christmastime and my family loves watching it. Lastly, my absolute favorite part of the movie is the boobytrap scenes. Lots of laughs and even some twists.

An extra bonus is that you don't need to watch the original Home Alone to understand what's going on in the second film.

And what's not to like? Look, this movie is not Oscar-worthy in my opinion. It is only meant to cause some chuckles and provide a couple of hours of entertainment. Don't go into this movie expecting too much.

The bottom line is this: If you're looking for a good family-oriented movie, check out Home Alone 2.

VRonan.......2007-05-22

I don't know which one was funnier the first or the second, but they are both great.

GREAT MOVIE.......2007-04-28

however...i preorded on Home Alone 2 cause it said it was to be realsed April 27th...there was no picture...i ordered...its still just the regular old edition of the movie...

DVD purchase.......2007-03-26

DVD arrived quickly and was in excellent condition. I will use
Amazon again. Very dependable. Thank you.

I looked for this every where........2007-03-25

So Happy I could find this movie! It is a gift for someone who loves it and I couldn't find it anywhere else.

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A mayor film
classic
Truth as Metaphor
Kubrick's Inspiration
When the System Plays at Fascism, Outsiders will Play at Revolution.

If... (Criterion Collection)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell , David Wood , Richard Warwick , Christine Noonan , and Rupert Webster
Director: Lindsay Anderson , and Guy Brenton
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ASIN: B000OPPAEW
Release Date: 2007-06-19

Description

Lindsay Anderson's If.… is a daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as violent savior against the draconian games of one-upmanship played by both students and the powers that be. Mixing color and black and white as audaciously as it mixes fantasy and reality, If…. remains one of cinema's most unforgettable rebel yells.

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A mayor film.......2007-08-29

If.
Few works say a little while as much on historical, as it makes this magnificent work of Anderson, without verbal speech, not trying realism, but accurately, imagination and a definitive poetic sense. The pessimistic end is, unfortunately, an anticipation of the present violence, although that one was explained single.

classic.......2007-08-26

This is a Classic movie,it's about........ well you will have to buy your own one IF you want to know more.....

Truth as Metaphor.......2007-08-25

I first saw this film when it came out in Britain, having only left a British public school three years before. At the time it seemed almost like a blend of documentary and wish-fulfillment fantasy. As a more of less contemporaneous movie to The Graduate and Last Summer, it is amazing how all serious British movies at the time had a melancholy and cynicism which was lacking in US ones. At that time, Britain had not yet fully recovered from either World War (even today in Britain, mention of WWI or WWII conjures up images in people's minds far stronger than for Americans). This movie was, I believe shot at Cheltenham Boys College, a school I considered going to in the town where I was born, and which my school played at Rugby and Cricket. There were two Britains at the time - the Upper-Middle class one of single-sex boarding schools, with twice a day church services, Rugby, and cold showers. We called Rugby "football," and the other kind was "Soccer." Inhabitants were securely confident that they would rule the world (Frederic Raphael's "The Glittering Prizes" offers another look at the privileged at Cambridge University in 1956). The other world was a blue collar world where the education system even had different exams, attending soccer games and going down to the pub was typical.

If is a metaphor of sorts, but only because the real environment of the British public school was so applicable to real life. Abu Graib becomes explainable when you see what happens when you give older boys so much power over slightly younger ones. Discipline of this kind was maintained by older boys, much as NCOs in an army maintain it.

I believe that the boarding school of today has changed a lot. I am glad, as how can anyone feel nostalgic over something which was hated so much. However, the film is quite amazing. I do think you will get more out of it if you know something about the environment. Reading "Tom Brown's Schooldays," set in a public school in the 1830s is good preparation.

Kubrick's Inspiration.......2007-08-16

All I knew about this film before Criterion released it, is that it won a Palm D 'Or at Cannes in the late 1960's (thanks to all you other good-for- nothing American distributors for not releasing it sooner). After seeing it, I understood it's influence on world history. This Malcolm McDowell performance is nothing short of Clockwork Orange Lite. A big notch randier than Belmondo in Breathless, but not quite the psychopath as in Clockwork. While we were busy going bonkers over the Vietnam war and fermenting revolution, English schoolboys were plotting their own deadly revenge....a crystal ball of a film that foresaw the potential of a Columbine.

When the System Plays at Fascism, Outsiders will Play at Revolution........2007-08-12

I thought this was the best film I'd ever seen when I was in high school in the 80s. The ending I loved at the time is more rueful today, given America's ever-growing history of schoolyard gun crimes. What's heartbreaking to watch today isn't that futile act of defiance at the film's end, but the pathetic tyrannical playacting of the school prefects. In some ways, the film seems as much about Rowantree as Mick Travis.
This is still an extraordinary work of naturalistic filmmaking teaming, with dozens of characters vividly drawn with just a few touches. (Only the motorcycle idyl through the countryside seems a little too "60s.") Still a masterpiece.

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Remake of a remake
A Fistfull of Dollars for the Chicago Mob...
Last Man Standing
Bruce at his best
Red Harvest retold through Gun Poetry

Last Man Standing
Starring: Bruce Willis , Bruce Dern , William Sanderson , Christopher Walken , and David Patrick Kelly
Director: Walter Hill
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ASIN: 6304698747
Release Date: 1997-11-19

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Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Walter Hill scored a misfire with this ambitious but ultimately dreary remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo. The story's essentially the same but the setting has been switched to a dusty, almost ghostly Texas town in the 1930s, where two rival Chicago gangs are locked in an uneasy truce. Bruce Willis plays the lone drifter who allies himself with both gangs to his own advantage, working both sides against each other according to his own hidden agenda. The violence escalates to a bloody climax, of course, with Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, and Michael Imperioli as trigger-happy lieutenants in a lonely, desolate war. Fans of gangster movies will want to see this, and, if nothing else, Hill has brought his polished style to a vaguely mythic story. It's far from being a classic, however, and although its action is at times masterfully choreographed, the movie's humorless attitude is unexpectedly oppressive. --Jeff Shannon

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Remake of a remake.......2007-08-09

First done by Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo), then Sergio Leone (starring Clint Eastwood - A Fistfull of Dollars) it stands the test of time and the remake with Bruce Willis set in the Depression/Gangster Era. Same story but still a crowd pleaser with plenty of action and gun play.

A Fistfull of Dollars for the Chicago Mob..........2007-08-08

1996's "Last Man Standing" is a remake of the Clint Eastwood classic "A Fistfull of Dollars", itself derivative of an earlier Japanese samurai classic. In this version, Bruce Willis is the mysterious drifter who wanders into a dusty 1930's town in the American Southwest, where two rival gangs from Chicago, one Irish, one Italian, duel over prohibition liquor smuggling from Mexico. As in earlier films, the stranger who calls himself "John Smith" sells his very lethal services to the highest bidder, while the rivalry between the gangs literally becomes a war to the death.

Director Walter Hill is only partially successful in laying down an atmospheric thriller over several gunfight sequences. The respective Irish and Italian gangs seem more like stereotypes than the real thing. Fortunately, the gunfights are nicely staged and excellently choreographed.

Willis is entirely credible as a gunman on the run and down on his luck, injecting his everyman vulnerability into a role more easily played as a heartless killer. A sequence in which "Smith" clears a house of armed gang members, shooting and reloading twin .45 caliber automatic pistols with almost balletic grace, is a highpoint of the movie.

Christopher Walken, pitch-perfect as a psychotic killer for the Irish mob, is "Smith's" most dangerous opponent. The movie implies the two men have a history from Chicago, and their final confrontation will determine the "last man standing." Bruce Dern has a nice supporting role as a corrupt sheriff who waits out the violence to take back an almost deserted town.

This movie is highly recommended as a serviceable action movie. It is too much a copy to become a classic in its own right, but it is certainly entertaining.

Last Man Standing.......2007-07-27

Walter Hill's nod to the gangster and western genres. Bruce Willis rocks, but if you're not into semi cheesy action, steer clear. However, there is Christopher Walken, and who can resist!

Bruce at his best.......2007-07-13

I really enjoyed this movie and don't know how I missed it the first time around. The plot is typical, but the cast always live up to their potential. Fun. I'll watch it again about every six months.

Red Harvest retold through Gun Poetry.......2007-06-29

As far as I know, this makes the second movie produced that's based on Dashiell Hammett's 'Red Harvest' (same guy who wrote The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon). The first was Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo', which is undoubtedly a classic of Japanese cinema, itself spawning a revolution in American movie making when Sergio Leone began making all of Kurosawa's Samurai flicks into what we now know as Spaghetti Westerns.

If you've seen Yojimbo, or its western rendition `A Fistful of Dollars', and enjoyed either one, then you should get quite a kick out of this Bruce Willis Powered send up to Hammett's first foray into grunge fiction. We already know the story (lonely town, gangs, double crossing, woman, money, gunfights, no good guy just bad guys and indifferent guys), so the delivery is what's going to make the movie.

So how's the delivery? Absolutely Gun-alicious!

The whole movie is quite visceral; the gun fights are reminiscent of John Woo (slightly unrealistic, but convincing) and the dialogue is retailored to match the characters delivery, whether it be quiet and whispered, loud and obnoxious, or just mumbles. Bruce Willis was the perfect choice for the lead, menacing and believable as always. My favorite casting choice was Christopher Walken, the great character actor of our generation. The humor and insanity he brought to `Last Man Standing' is what really tied the whole movie together, and earned it 5 solid stars.

The Bottom Line: Know the history of this movie, and you'll enjoy it all the more.

Final Destination (New Line Platinum Series)

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Surprisingly good!
Rube Goldburg reinvents the scythe. Both Clever and Stupid.
3.5. solid atmosphere but has its issues
GENIUS
Final Destination

Final Destination (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Devon Sawa , Ali Larter , Kerr Smith , Tony Todd , and Kristen Cloke
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ASIN: 0780631684
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-aleck sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X-Files veteran James Wong, who cowrote the screenplay with longtime creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of unease and scenes of eerie imagery. It suffers, however, from a schizophrenic tone and a frankly ludicrous premise. A high school Cassandra, Alex Browning (Devon Sawa of Idle Hands), wakes from a preflight nightmare and panics when he's convinced the plane is doomed. His ruckus bumps seven passengers from the Paris-bound plane, which immediately explodes into a fireball on takeoff, but fate hasn't finished with these lucky few and, one by one, death claims them. Wong brings such a funereal tone to these early scenes of survivor's guilt and inevitable doom that the already far-fetched film threatens to veer into unplanned absurdity. Thankfully, the tale loosens up with a playful morgue humor: one of the victims winds up the splattered punch line to a grim joke and elaborate Rube Goldbergesque chains of cause and effect become inspired spectacles of destruction. Final Destination is a pretty silly thriller when it takes itself seriously, and the filmmakers play fast and loose with their own rules of fate, but once they stick their tongues firmly in cheek, the film takes off with a screwy interpretation of the domino effect of doom. --Sean Axmaker

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Horror tale with a twist, Final Destination tells the story of teenager with strange premonitions about death and the mysterious accidental deaths that follow his life. Directed by X-Files veteran James Wong.

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Surprisingly good!.......2007-09-12

One day, while flipping through the channels on my tv, I caught a glimpse of Final Destination. Having worked in the electronics department in a big box store, I knew that the Final Destination movies were rather popular although I didn't know why. The storyline seemed silly to me and the actors turned me completely off from the movie. But when I watched a little more of the movie on tv, I was actually interested in it, and I ended up watching the rest of the film.

So what's this movie about? A high school kid named Alex is supposed to be going on a trip to Paris with some of his classmates. The problem is that he's having bad thoughts about his flight. He even has a nightmare that the plane is going to blow up upon takeoff. Upon waking up, he realizes that his fears and his nightmare seem awfully real. He, along with a few other classmates, get kicked off the plane when Alex panics and gets in a fight with another classmate. The twist? It turns out that his nightmare comes true-the plane blows up, killing everyone on board. The even bigger twist? Each of the surviving classmates are being killed one by one because they "tricked" death.

Let's talk about the positives first. Yes, the plot is pretty silly but the directors did a great job of keeping the audience entertained and the shock value high. The death scenes for the surviving classmates are creative and original and keep you at the edge of your seat. And unlike a lot of scary movies, the movie moves rather steadily with only a couple of slow spots here and there. Some parts are scary, some parts are funny, and some parts are pure fun-all ingredients for a good movie.

And now for the negatives. As I said above, the actors in this movie aren't anything special. Devin Sawa and Ali Larter? Those two are enough to make me puke. I can't say that the acting was horrible but it certainly isn't good by any means. Another thing that I have to point out (and judging by the other reviews, other people have noticed it as well) is the unrealisticness of it all. Obviously the whole "tricking death" thing is unrealistic but some of the scenes just make you want to say "Well that doesn't make much sense". And in some ways, the unrealisticness ruins what could have been a really good movie (hence the 4 stars).

Bottom line, Final Destination is a different kind of scary movie that many people will enjoy. I definitely recommend it.

Rube Goldburg reinvents the scythe. Both Clever and Stupid........2007-09-05

(don't look it up, a scythe is that big bladed thing the "Grim Reaper" claims lives with. You can look up Rube Goldburg though, I don't feal like explaining him).

So lets get to the point, "how can a stupid movie get 4 stars?. How can a stupid movie be clever? I'm sure this has happened before, but let me explain why I like this stupid movie/DVD as much as I did; ** = mild spoiler.

What makes it stupid?
-suspend disbelief very hard. Though psychic phenonenon are pretty well documented, never in such an extreme or systematic way as far as I know. I really had no problem with this aspect of the film.
-**A mortition who just happens to know way too much. This guy appears in one scene out of the blue. He basically is good friends with death and so, knows how everything works. Oh, and he's a real nut job to boot. This was the single most stupid and overly convenient caveat in the film.
-**Death as a shadowy, entity was really not necessary. This aspect kind of dumbed things down a little to much. I expect some dumb stuff in horror films. This was overt and lame.
-Some of these kids hate each other and we never know why. This is probably my single biggest beef about the acting/script/story. The whole rivalry thing was forced and over-blown (and otherwise unnecessary).
-The authorities, as usual, are idiots. Very cliche.
-One giant plot hole **(In what order did the other passengers die?).

So, what makes it clever?
-**The entire concept of cheating death and the rules that go with it. The mortition conveniently explains the rules and the kids go with it.
-**The methods of making people un-alive (here's where Rube Goldburg comes in). One little act or defect leads to a rediculous and entertaining chain of events. Trying to stop death is like playing wack-a-mole the size of a pool table. You had better be quick.
-Despite the "hate" thing, emotions and diologue usually seam reasonably believable. Different personalities react differently. Decent acting for a film of this type.
-Special effects are well done. you may never again want to fly after seeing the opening sequence.
-Overall, a well made, quality production.

About the DVD:
-limited extras; lame deleted scenes, "when will you die?" game (always march 19th no matter what I put in), "are you psychic?" game, Good documentary about a psychic investigator in California.
-An insert. No, really. An actual paper insert. These days; stunning.
-screened image on disk (again, stunning.)
-good sound, good image.

Now, let me explain what 4 stars actually means for this film.
There's the "Citizen Kane" 5 stars, and then there is the "Alien" 5 stars.
This is on the "Alien" 5 star scale.

Recap; film 4 stars, DVD 4 stars.

3.5. solid atmosphere but has its issues.......2007-04-15

Like music "scenes"; from hair metal to grunge to nu-metal to garage rock, films as well have their eras. 80's masked killers slashers (Halloween) to the 90's teen slashers (Scream) to the Japanese remakes (The Ring) to the current era which is the uber-gory films (Hostel). Final Destination plays with the teen slasher conventions a little bit (before they fell into the uber-gory camp with the sequels) but ultimately it still fits and despite some problematic script issues, it's still an effective horror film at times.

Alex Browning is a kid in a French class boarding Flight 180 en route to Paris. Just after takeoff, the plane's side rips off and it explodes. Of course it wasn't real as Alex just had a premonition and his erratic behavior and rantings of planes exploding is met with hostility from 5 of his classmates, his teacher and the staff and they're forced off the plane. Imagine everyone's shock when the plane actually indeed explodes in mid-air. But Death is mad as the all-powerful beings grand scheme of when people die was disrupted so he's hunting them one by one.

Main issue with the script is that the premise is intriguing but let's face it: it's still an oddball concept. Why would Death have flaws in its plan, even if we could see the signs? You'd think someone who has such a foresight and knowledge of fate wouldn't have things mess up easily. Alex almost becomes a gifted crime fighter with his know-how on how to beat death but it's a horror movie and it never makes sense. Plus he catches on incredibly quick to the idea that Death is playing hitman now that it seems kinda laughable he figured it out at all.

In a way, Final Destination reminds me of the first 2 Jurassic Parks while its sequels are like the third Jurassic installment: there's a sense of seriousness with this one and the Spielberg films whereas part 2 and 3 basically made it a thrill-ride and the gore almost becomes the reason to see it whereas this film was based on atmosphere and it does have a sense of foreboding. Now the very environment is threatening and anything can bring about someone's doom instead of a dude in a hockey mask.

Is it enjoyable? Sure. It's maybe not a great film through and through but as a horror film, it does its job well.

GENIUS.......2007-03-21

TALK ABT RESPECT FOR A MOVIE. I GIVE THIS FILM TWO AMZING THUMBS UP! NOT ONLY FOR ORIGINALITY BUT FOR THE AMAZING SHOCK FACTOR..I MEAN THE BUS SCENE IS BY FAR ONE THE BEST SCENES IN HORROR FILM HISTORY. AND THERE HAVE BEEN MANY, NOT SO MUCH IN LAST 10 YRS, BUT STILL...YEAH! OH MY GOODNESS, JUST THINKING OF THAT SCENE ALONE BRINGS A TEAR OF PURE JOY TO MY EYE....TALK ABT SHOCK VALUE, UR JUST NOT EXPECTING IT. THERE WAS A WAVE OF SH** AND F**** AT THE MOVIE PREMIER. I CAN NOT SAY ENOUGH ABT JUST THAT ONE SCENE...BUT THE WHOLE MOVIE IS WORTH A WATCH...JUST THE FACT THAT BASICALLY UR WHOLE LIFE IS PART OF SOME F***** UP DESIGN, CREATED BY DEATH, LEADING UP TO UR EVENTUAL DEMISE, IS PRETTY MESSED UP. BUT TO ALSO KNOW THAT THERE IS NO ESCAPING IT, THAT EVENTUALLY DEATH WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU, JUST AMAZING...FROM START TO FINISH UR ENGAGED IN THIS WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW ARE THESE KIDS GOING TO DIE..A MUST SEE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN...

Final Destination.......2007-02-07

A thriller that really makes you think about the "design" of things. Best horror I have seen, because it is based on things that could really happen, not about some crazed killer that keeps coming back from the dead.

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YOU CAN'T FIND "SCHOOL DAZE" LIKE THESE IN A YEARBOOK!
A Must For Anyone HBCU student...Past, Present, or Future!!!
Old School Stomp the Yard
Boring movie
A+

School Daze
Starring: James Bond III , Tisha Campbell , Ossie Davis , Giancarlo Esposito , and Art Evans
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ASIN: B000051YMS
Release Date: 2001-01-30

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Spike Lee's follow-up to his unlikely hit She's Gotta Have It was this ambitious--some would say too ambitious--attempt at a musical about college life. But Lee, ever the provocateur, doesn't settle for a simple college comedy. Rather, he wants to make a point about the social divisions within all-black colleges: between the socializers and the socially conscious, and between light and dark-skinned blacks. Laurence Fishburne plays a politically aware student trying to bring his fellow students together; Giancarlo Esposito plays the fraternity boss who constantly seeks to insert a wedge between the haves and have-nots. Lee himself plays a pawn in the middle, a would-be frat boy undergoing a wicked Hell Week as a pledge. The story doesn't pull together and the musical numbers--more spoof than anything else--only serve to fragment it. While it offers interesting points, it never does so in a particularly cohesive way. --Marshall Fine

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YOU CAN'T FIND "SCHOOL DAZE" LIKE THESE IN A YEARBOOK! .......2007-09-07

My My My 1988. A lot was going on that year. The Huxtables was in the middle of captivating audiences worldwide as America's favorite family on "The Cosby Show". "A Different World" wasn't yet the funny and insightful spinoff it would become in later seasons. The showtime Lakers were the reigning NBA dynasty, the "Bad Boy Pistons" were quickly becoming the beast of the east, and Micheal Jordan became the fastest rising star of the NBA. Underprivileged Blacks and working class americans were still feeling the effects of "Regannomics" only to give way to the Bush Sr. era (which wasn't any better). The Golden era of hip hop was in full effect with the most priceless possession being Public Enemy's "It takes a nation of millions to hold us Back". Guy and Keith Sweat would only revolutionize R&B in a way that P.E. revolutionized hip hop. and any Mike Tyson fight was a major event on television.

Some of ya'll may be buggin' on my trip down memory lane but School Daze does that me! Out of all of Spike Lee movies, this may be his most overlooked film along with "Bamboozled" and "He Got Game". This inspired if flawed movie was ahead of its time in exploring the class differences in the black race. but rather than beat a dead horse that has alraedy been tried and won by other reviewers who made the same point about the point of black on black discrimination in this movie, I wanna bring up some points that adds to the high quality of this great movie.

In my opinion, the two key elements that makes this a powerful film are the three main characters and the musical skits. There's never a dull moment as Laurence Fishburne is reliably compelling as the soically aware Mission College student who's asking the school to divest their money in South Africa. Giancarlo Esposito is a convincingly menancing (in a school bully type of way) as the narcissistic frat leader of Gamma Fi Gamma. Not only is he the perfect moral adversary to Dap's(Laurence fishburne) agenda, his frat brothers, the hopeful Pledgers, and the those lovely Gamma Rays led by his Girlfriend Jane(Tisha Campbell), stregthens his power tripping vanity which provides many of the film's laughs. Half Pint (played by yours truly) brings more comic relief as the charmingly pathetic cousin of Dap as he pledges to be a member of G Fi G. He's also a perfect medium between the conscience driven Dap and the image driven Julian (or Dean Big Brother Almighty as Half Pint likes to call him).

Some complain about the musical skits being overdone. That's true, but they're also fun and provides an extra edge to the film's story. The hair musical between the light skinned Gamma Rays and the dark skinned sisters, drives home the point of how these opposing sides resents each other's skin color and how they wouldn't trade places with each other if they could save money on their next trip to the hair dresser. Powerful stuff Spike. That doesn't compare to the best scene of the movie when Dap and his boys interrupt G Fi G's stepping routine to perform a routine bashing the Gammas (Daddy long stroke). Too funny!! the daddy long stroke scene is one of Spike lee's best of all his films. EU's cameo appearance is bound to bring back nostalgic memories of times when we and our mamas were doing "Da Butt".

School daze has a steady balance between entertianment and the seriousness about the dislike blacks display toward each other.

While School daze is entertaining as well as educational it's not without its flaws. While Dap, julian, and Half Pint's intentions are clear, thier characters lack range. The film spends too much time reaffirming Dap's social conscience and Julian's vanity as a cocky frat leader. How many times does the film have to stress Dap resentment toward appartiad in South Africa and Julian's egocentric indulgences. They don't provide any personal insight to their characters that give viewers a reason why they act the why they do as individuals as it relates to the main story. In addition to the lack of motive, the film don't give the main characters a chance to deeply reflect on their lifestyles and views and how it affects themselves as well as those around them. The best and the worst of guys have motives and some sort of reflection and that's the film biggest setback. The dialogue is so repetitive that the film's finale with Dap urging everyone to wake up is not as climatic as it intends to be since that point has been hit home so many times throught the course of the film.

If the characters were better textured with more range and if they used that character depth to deepen the story, Spike Lee could've had another classic under his belt. But as it stands, I would say School Daze is a near classic that would've been a much tighter film without the excess.
It's all good because the scenes are so beautifully shot and the performances solid enough to make you overlook the flaws.

A Must For Anyone HBCU student...Past, Present, or Future!!!.......2007-08-27

School Daze is to an HBCU student as the Bible is to a Christian...you must know it. Not only is School Daze entertaining, but it also brings up some important issues that address the students at HBCUs such as Greek life, color complexes, and many more. Spike made this movie to challenge the minds of the watchers so that they can think about their actions. Hopefully we all will "wake up." Until then, enjoy School Daze.

Old School Stomp the Yard.......2007-07-31

This should be a must see BEFORE other up to date movies about Fraternities and Sororities. Spike Lee looks at some of the "sterotypes" that plague our Fraternities and Sororities. This is a classic that everyone should have in their personal collection.

Boring movie.......2007-07-21

I thought this movie was boring and not well acted. The musical numbers sort of came out of nowhere. Avoid it. The lighting is really bad. Its a typical Spike Lee movie, and that is not a compliment.

I would not want to waste another 2 hours watching it.

A+.......2007-06-17

This is Spike's magnus opus. Over the top? Sure...Heavy handed? You bet...Preachy? Of course...none of that changes the fact that Spike makes a powerful statement about the continuing conflict Africans in America have with each other. 'Bamboozled' is a close second...'Do the Right Thing' rounds out the top 3. Love him or hate him, Spike leaves you with something relevant to ponder...isn't that what art is supposed to do?

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Classy stylish French '60s film noir
Essential French cinema: Melville's 'Le Samouraï.'
Melville's version of a killer's code of honor. Carefully constructed, and cineastes will love it
Dressed to Kill
Le Samourai

Le Samourai - Criterion Collection
Starring: Alain Delon , François Périer , Nathalie Delon , Cathy Rosier , and Jacques Leroy
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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