She's the Man (Widescreen Edition)

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Shakespearean comedy and American high school are a match made in heaven--or Hollywood, at any rate. Somehow the exaggerated emotions and budding hormones of adolescence are perfectly suited to Shakespeare's twisty plots, and She's the Man is a perfect example. Viola (Amanda Bynes, What a Girl Wants) is furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has cut the girl's soccer team--so furious that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian (James Kirk, Final Destination 2) skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in love with "Sebastian"... Bynes may not be entirely persuasive as a high school boy, but she's got the charm and sprightliness to make the audience follow her anyway. The clever script walks a fine balance, treating the situation realistically enough to make Viola's efforts matter, but zipping along quickly enough that we don't worry too much about the details. As Duke and Olivia--the other two parts of the love triangle--Channing Tatum and Laura Ramsey combine sex appeal with engaging sweetness; the excellent supporting cast includes David Cross (Arrested Development), Julie Hagerty (Airplane!), and former British soccer star Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). All in all, a delightful bit of fun. --Bret Fetzer

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Amanda Bynes proves that girls can do anything guys can do in She's the Man. The laughs are non-stop when Viola (Bynes), disguised as her twin brother, Sebastian (James Kirk), joins the high school boys' soccer team and helps win the big game while unexpectedly falling for Duke (Channing Tatum) the hot star forward. Viola discovers that dealing with high school politics and twisted love triangles is a major challenge when you're a guy who's really a girl! She's the Man features an ensemble cast of up and coming stars and hit songs from OK-Go, The Veronicas & the F-ups. It's perfect for good-time summer fun!

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Cute Gender-Bending Comedy.......2007-07-12

I really enjoyed this film. It stars a teen girl (Viola) who longs to be a soccer player. When her team gets cut she joins the team of her twin brother's school disguised as him. The ensuing misunderstandings and troubles this causes complicate both their lives.

I really loved the film. I admit I was a little leery when I read this was derived from Shakespeare's 12th night. I know it is plebian but I loathe Shakespeare and don't care for remakes. However this film is thoroughly modern and thoroughly funny.

I particularly enjoyed Viola's male roommate, her hairdresser buddy and the interaction between Vi and her new jock friends. 5 stars.

APRENDIENDO DEL SEXO OPUESTO.......2007-06-30

Esta comedia, que explota una tematica bastante interesante (una chica aprendiendo a vivir como un chico) nos muestra los altibajos de vivir las ventajas y desventajas de alguien del sexo opuesto, de una manera tremendamente caotica (hay que ver los lios en los que la chica se mete y las hilarantes escenas que protagoniza); en realidad lo que ella quiere es jugar futbol, y al clausurarse el equipo femenino de su escuela, ella es capaz de volverse hombre para seguir practicando su deporte favorito; al final, se mete en un lio de faldas (o de pantalones, quizas) en el cual involucra a su hermano, su ex-novio, se enamora de uno de los jugadores y se arma una situacion que ni ella se imagino; al final todo se vuelve un desastre, del cual ella debera buscar la manera de librarse; divertida de principio a fin, es una pelicula que todo amante de la comedia adolescente deberia de tener...SIMPLEMENTE FANTASTICA!!

Not a Chick Flick! Males and Females love this the same! .......2007-06-28

This movie is just hilarious. I went to watch this in theaters when it had just came out with some friends and we all had such a great time because their are so many funny lines to laugh out loud at. Over all this movie relates with guys and girls. And also, this is NOT a chick flick nor is this one of those stupid 'Teen Movies'. It's well written and the acting is great. I seriously could NOT have seen any other person in the staring role than Amanda Bynes - She's hysterical in this film!

I cannot find words to describe how surprised I was with this movie!
I recommend you to watch this movie if your up for a laugh.
*This movie does lean more towards the teen audience but I feel that a parent would enjoy this as well.

Very funny.......2007-06-02

This was a very well done teen movie, and it is watchable for a much wider audience. This is enjoyable entertainment that just about anyone 13 and up could enjoy. Amanda Bynes was a delight. I will say that Duke had to be a little on the slow side brain ways not to figure out that his roommate was a girl, but that is part of the cuteness of the movie, much like the part of Viola in Twelfth Night. You have to suspend reality a bit to go along with the premise but it's worth it. Also, the soccer coach at good old Illyria. He was a hoot. Good movie. Watch it. Have fun.

She IS the Man.......2007-05-28

This was an excruciatingly hilarious take on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. I had expected it to be entertaining but had in no way expected it to be constantly laugh-out-loud hilarious. Obviously no one is going to win an Oscar for superior acting or impeccable script writing but nonetheless Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum managed to pull off a very fun and adorable film. Admittedly the chemistry between the two main stars was lacking a bit but her hilarity and his hotness more than made up for it. My husband and I both thoroughly enjoyed the film and so it comes highly recommended.

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Cute Gender-Bending Comedy
APRENDIENDO DEL SEXO OPUESTO
Not a Chick Flick! Males and Females love this the same!
Very funny
She IS the Man

She's the Man (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Amanda Bynes , Channing Tatum , Laura Ramsey , Vinnie Jones , and David Cross (II)
Director: Andy Fickman
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ASIN: B000FIHN8E
Release Date: 2006-07-18

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Cute Gender-Bending Comedy.......2007-07-12

APRENDIENDO DEL SEXO OPUESTO.......2007-06-30

Not a Chick Flick! Males and Females love this the same! .......2007-06-28

Very funny.......2007-06-02

She IS the Man.......2007-05-28

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Funny Film !
Dead On!
mark paul gosselaar the world loves you
"You guys ever been in a high speed chase before? It's intense!"
Awesome!

Dead Man on Campus
Starring: Tom Everett Scott , Mark-Paul Gosselaar , Poppy Montgomery , Lochlyn Munro , and Randy Pearlstein
Director: Alan Cohn
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: 6305310254
Release Date: 1999-03-09

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Well, it's a good idea. Dead Man on Campus had the potential to be a classic dark comedy: Two students at a prestigious university are flunking out; however, due to a provision in the school's charter, if they had a roommate who committed suicide, they'd both get straight A's as a form of reparation for grief and trauma. So, to stay in school, they seek out the most depressed student on campus and transfer him into their three-person dorm room. Unfortunately, rather than satirizing the real issues--academic narrow-mindedness, parental pressure, the obsessiveness of late adolescence--the movie is a compilation of frat-boy clichés and jokes that want to be in bad taste but are actually quite tame. The leads (Tom Everett Scott and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) are pleasant and the soundtrack (produced by the Dust Brothers) has some very hip selections, but after a snappy opening-credit sequence, the movie stumbles along, aimless and sluggish. Alyson Hannigan (American Pie, Willow on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has a small role and is her charming geeky self. --Bret Fetzer

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Funny Film !.......2007-06-03

The first time I seen this film I could not stop laughing it's a great film with great characters and a great story line. It is the character of Cliff which makes this film so good really this film is totally underrated and should have been much more popular than it was however it is good to own on DVD.

Dead On!.......2007-01-10

I looked everywhere for this movie! Wal Mart, Circuit City, KMart, Target, FYE, EB Games and a few other places. My husband loves it!

mark paul gosselaar the world loves you.......2006-12-03

wow wow wow mark paul gosselaar is an explosive actor. he can do any genre comedy, suspense, romantic oh and did i mention comedy. this film is amazingly funny. the acting skills from mark paul are second to none

dont rent this film buy is its a masterpiece

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"You guys ever been in a high speed chase before? It's intense!".......2006-08-14

"Dead Man On Campus" is a film about two guys who enroll at Daleman College, and become roommates. Josh enrolls via a scholarship, and is studying to become a doctor, and Cooper, well, he's just there to avoid having to clean toilets for a living at his father's business, and of course, to goof off and party. Josh eventually decides to party with Cooper, and as a result, starts to fail every class he's in. He winds up failing his mid-terms, and he finds out that he needs to maintain a B+ average if he wants to keep his scholarship.

One night, while the boys are at a local bar, they find out that if your roomate commits suicide, you get straight As for your grief, so they decide to move a suicidal roommate into their dorm!

In my opinion, the best roommate they find is a no holds barred psychotic named Cliff O'Malley (played by the underrated Lochlyn Munro). Cliff is my favorite character in this film! He's so wacky, and he completely lacks sanity or a conscience! Most of his dialogue and facial expressions in this film is priceless! I'd list a few quotes, but I'm sure Amazon will bleep 'em out!

As for their other roomates:

Buckley: He's a computer nerd who's paranoid, suicidal, and thinks Bill Gates is after his brain!

Matt Noonan: He's the "depressed" goth rock star who acts happy and likes to sing show tunes when no one's around!

In the end: This is one of the most underrated teen stoner flicks ever! For off the wall teen comedies, this is as good as it gets, right up there with "Wayne's World" and "A Night At The Roxbury". This movie originally bombed at the box office when released in August of 1998, and seems to be forgotten nowadays, but trust me, it's funny, and the character Cliff totally makes it worth the admission! It's bound to become a cult classic sooner or later.

3 1/2 stars out of 5.

As for the DVD: It contains a non-anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer, as well as English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround 2.0 soundtracks, as well as a French Dolby Surround 2.0 soundtrack. The only bonus feature is a theatrical trailer for the film.

Awesome!.......2006-07-28

I love this movie before i bought it and i couldn't find it in any stores, so i looked on [...] and i found it very easily. this movie is great and it came even faster in the mail than what they predicted. it was quite a surprise when i got it early, but it was also very nice.

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I've seen this movie so many times
The Strongest Man in the World
Enjoyable for kids
Silly But FUN!
Over-the-top cornball, good-clean-fun!

The Strongest Man in the World
Starring: Kurt Russell , Joe Flynn , Eve Arden , Cesar Romero , and Phil Silvers
Director: Vincent McEveety
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ASIN: B0000DZTN4
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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Once again Dexter Riley (a young Kurt Russell) and his science lab pals astound and confound Medfield College's head dean when their latest concoction might either save the struggling institution from bankruptcy or get the top-level staff fired. In this third of the four Medfield films, Riley accidentally ingests a vitamin compound that gives him superhuman strength, leading to sponsorship by a cereal company and possible defeat of a rival university in a weightlifting contest. Although today Medfield's team would be disqualified for drug use, in this pre-steroid scandal picture it's the scheming adults who are the bad guys. Thanks to a Medfield Board of Directors traitor (an amusingly villainous Dick Van Patten), the competing sponsor sends a couple of bungling burglars (one played by Cesar Romero) to steal the formula. Kidnapping, hypnosis, and a down-to-the-wire weightlifting finale mark this 92-minute, G-rated film, which is short on subtlety but long on wholesomeness. Kids as young as 4 will enjoy the weightlifting and burglary antics, but the school politics and corporate warfare subplots will lose them temporarily. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Medfield College science major Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box! After breakfast the next morning, Dexter is transformed, possessing a superhuman strength that levels lampposts and destroys doorknobs. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events. Ultimate control of the moneymaking formula rides on a weight lifting match between the pitifully small Medfield team and the superior State challengers. It's a mixture of fun, comedy, and adventure that will have everyone exploding with laughter!

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I've seen this movie so many times.......2007-08-11

I never get tired of the goofball things, love the dog Brutus! Its so neet.

The Strongest Man in the World.......2007-07-11

I was so happy with this movie.It came in a timely fashion and in exc.Condtion. I would highly recomend this to any family that enjoys good clean entertainment! Brought back some of my childhood.( LOVE IT)!!!!!!!

Enjoyable for kids.......2007-07-07

I saw this movie at the right time-when I was about 10 years old circa 1975. Wacky, silly fare about Kurt Russell as a college kid who comes across a weightlifting formula and the crooks who try to steal it.

Good goofy gags for the tot set, especially the guy whose arms turn to rubber when he tries to lift weights.

Adults will not want to bother with this unless they see it with kids or have nostalgia for seeing in their own childhood. With that said, leave your brains at the door and enjoy.

Silly But FUN!.......2007-01-03

This movie is typical of the live-action Disney fare from the 60s and 70s. Harmless fun based on a silly premise. Kurt Russell was always so fun to watch in his Disney movies. This is the type of movie that was on Sunday nights when I was a kid and afterwards on various local stations and finally on the Disney Channel before they started original programming and adding other shows of a dubious (but more "hip") nature. If you like silly fun for the whole family, check out this title or any other family movie that features Kurt Russell, Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Joe Flynn, Ken Berry, Keenan Wynn & Ed Wynn, Hayley Mills, Jim Dale, Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Robert Morse, Phil Silvers, or Mickey Rooney. You won't be disappointed!!!

Over-the-top cornball, good-clean-fun!.......2005-07-24

Forgetting the Disney corporate and technical criticism, the movie itself is thoroughly entertaining, good clean fun. It's full of great character actors from the 60's and 70's including a hilarious Joe Flynn. The movie is full of over-the-top cornball fun and thankfully it's devoid of profanity, flatulence jokes and violence found in so many movies geared at kids today. Great for kids and parents who enjoy innocent, G-rated entertainment.

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Well done.
Great story, terrible acting
Interesting Drama
Can You Say 'Nut Case' Boys and Girls?
He didn't go far enough

Oleanna
Starring: William H. Macy , Debra Eisenstadt , Scott Zigler , and Diego Pineda
Director: David Mamet
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ASIN: B00009Y3N9
Release Date: 2003-09-16

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David Mamet's hot-button stage work comes to the screen, with Mamet at the directing helm and all of the play's provocations intact. It's a sinister two-hander, with William H. Macy as a smug college professor and Debra Eisenstadt as a desperate student who's struggling in his class. When the story moves to its second act, the twin specters of sexual harassment and political correctness are raised, forcing us to reassess the argument we've been watching. Brilliantly tooled as a stage workout, Oleanna loses something in its transfer to the screen, although it is always bracing to see Macy create one of his meticulous portraits of a less-than-heroic man. Mamet's ear for the absurdities of late-twentieth-century jargon (especially of the politicized variety) is mercilessly accurate, and in this ticked-off look at the intricacies of a power play, he gives you an earful. --Robert Horton

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From OscarÂ(r)-nominated* writer-director David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) comes this chillingly provocative, incisive drama that dissects the controversial issue of sexual harassmentfrom every emotionally wrenching side of the equation. When a college professor about to be tenured (William H. Macy, Fargo) meets a struggling student (Debra Eisenstadt) behind closed doors,their conversation yields only mutual misunderstanding and a charge of sexual harassment. And as their mutual antipathy turns ugly, it destroys lives, derails careers and ultimately leads to a cataclysmic event that no one ever expected! *1997: Adapted Screenplay, Wag the Dog (with Hilary Henkin); 1982: Adapted Screenplay, The Verdict

Customer Reviews:

Well done........2007-05-31

It is not an easy thing to attack a trendy kind of facism which makes young people feel important. Even written descriptions of this film stop short of saying whether there is sexual harrassment or not. Brilliantly done.

Great story, terrible acting.......2007-05-13

Saw this on the stage and was blown away. However, in this movie version, the acting is just mechanical, wooden and unconvincing. It really spoils such a solid play. Half the time, I feel like I am watching a continuation of GlenGarry GlenRoss.

Interesting Drama.......2006-08-29

This DVD version of the Mamet play has been reviewed by quite a few people in this forum. I just want to add one observation that moves away from the common perception that the play is simply about a mentally disturbed woman who employs feminist politics to presecute a college professor. That's true as far as it goes, but the play also seems to be about a college professor who digs his own grave by undermining the student's faith in the educational process and the institution that provides it. The student comes to the professor with a burning desire to learn, yet a marked inability to understand the terms in which knowledge is transmitted. The professor takes this as a legitimate criticism of traditional education, and an occasion to advance a highly idealistic view of education as the questioning of authority. Unfortunately, this is not what the student is looking for. She wants certainty, security, positive meaning, and the power that, in her mind, the possession of such knowledge confers upon the professor. She wants exactly that which the professor proceeds to denigrate. He overestimates her, which is to say that he utterly fails to understand her in her youthful confusion, yearning, and anxiety. Adrift, she finds the unambiguous truth she desires through her feminist "group", and uses this "knowledge" to turn the tables, to seize for herself the power she perceives the professor as having held over her. In so doing, of course, she destroys not only the professor, but any form of education that you or I would recognize as having value. This, then, might be seen as a comment on the politicization of the curriculum that began in higher education in the 1980s, of an advanced humanism sowing the seeds of its own destruction. The play seems to suggest that society at large cannot accommodate the insights of the humanist intellectuals, but survives on a simpler faith. Our professor destroyed that faith insofar as the student sought it in higher education, so she found it elsewhere. In a sense, his loss of nerve opens the floodgates. I think of Hitchcock's movie, "Rope", also about a professor the effect of whose words on a pair of students provides the "rope" with which he "hangs" himself, in a manner of speaking (the professor in that movie isn't the victim, but he is brought face-to-face with the consequences of his own superficial nihilism. I'm not equating the Macy character's humanism with nihilism, just noting a similarity between the ironic structure of the two films).
Anyway, the Mamet film is a good one to spark excited discussion among students. I recommend it.

Can You Say 'Nut Case' Boys and Girls?.......2006-08-08

Funny, only one other reviewer here noticed, or had the guts, to state the obvious: the girl in this movie is OBVIOUSLY delusional and in need of psychotherapy. But I digress...

Alright, here's the truth about this movie. The always-great Macy plays a middle-aged college professor who offers help to one of his failing students, in this case a young woman with CLEAR psychological problems. The student in question blows a simple misunderstanding into a full blown sexual harassment charge aimed at destroying the professor, which in turn would mean losing his hard-earned tenure. Any NORMAL woman would CLEARLY have seen the misunderstanding for what it was: A MISUNDERSTANDING, and consequently drop the matter entirely. Not so the student-from-hell in this film. She not only misconstrues the professors intentions, she goes on a personal vendetta with the single-minded purpose of a shark hunting a baby seal (only the shark is more intelligent), whereas the girl comes accross as a moron with schizo-affective disorder. She tries to completely and utterly destroy the man.

Just when you think it couldn't possibly get any better, things go from bad to worse. What happens next could only take place in the mind of someone in desperate need of thorazine: She accuses the professor of RAPING her.

Can you say 'nut case' boys and girls?

I enjoyed this movie only because of Macy, who in my opinion is one of the most underrated actors of our times. However the movie is a bit unrealistic in that most men would have either walked away from this girl completely, told one of their peers about it soon enough to make others aware of the situation, OR - and this is what most men would have done if it came to the same point as it did in the movie. Hire a lawyer!

He didn't go far enough.......2006-07-19

Oleanna is about a twisted, vicious young woman's need to bring a man (and by extention, all men) down. John, played by William Macy, is a college professor. Carol, played by Debra Eisenstadt, is one of his students. When Carol seeks help for a failing grade, John goes out of his way to help her personally, on a one to one basis. Carol is more than a little irritating and John becomes more than a little irritated by her seeming inability to grasp the simplist concepts. Playing the good professor, John faults his pedantic self for her failure to understand the material. Days later, John is caught off guard when Carol maliciously levels the charge of sexual harrasment against him - just in time to destroy his bid for tenure. Her earlier need for help has been a set up. Carol has been keeping notes all along - cataloging any word or action she might turn against him. Carol's campaign against John is facilitated by what she refers to as "the group." That is to say, by the usual nest of ideological feminists on campus in which Carol has "found herself" and a place for her sexual neuroses. She comes fully armed with her feminist groupthink about sexual harrassment and rape. Her arguments against John rest on rejecting the evidence of one's own senses in favor of a left wing vocabulary thick with words like "patriarchal," "hegemonic," "classism," and an obvious hatred of men. The director, David Mamet, tests the audiences patience as Carol apes the usual post-modern jardon that would put into question our everyday intersubjective (common sense) consensus about the meaning of our everyday words and actions -- especially the everyday words and actions of men. For Carol and "the group,'" reality is always trapped between parentheses because it is always determined by power and those who have it. Men had it in the past. She and her group have it now. Her "reality" takes precedence over John's. Carol eventually trumps her charge of sexual harrassment with a charge of rape and John, bless his heart, loses his inhibitions about hitting a woman. All in all, this movie held my attention, made me needlessly anxious, and pissed me off just enough to want to write my take on it.

The Classic Sci-fi Ultimate Collection (Tarantula / The Mole People / The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Monolith Monsters / Monster on the Campus)

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More Classics Coming!
Wonderful collection, but don't deal with the scalpers
Memories from the 50's
THIS IS A GREAT COLLECTION!
Discontinued?

The Classic Sci-fi Ultimate Collection (Tarantula / The Mole People / The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Monolith Monsters / Monster on the Campus)
Starring: John Agar , Grant Williams , and Joanna Moore
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Tarantula
The Mole People
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ASIN: B000IV9CDM
Release Date: 2007-01-02

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This 3 dvd set includes 5 classic 1950's science fiction films, all availabele here for the first time on dvd!

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A quintet of fun '50s science-fiction thrillers from the Universal vaults make their DVD debut in this three-disc set that's sure to please fans of vintage creature features. Arguably, the best of the lot is The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), with Grant Williams as a businessman whose exposure to a radioactive cloud causes him to decrease in size exponentially until he is literally microscopic. Based on a novel by legendary fantasy writer Richard Matheson, director Jack (Creature from the Black Lagoon) Arnold's balance of suspense (Williams' battles with a house cat and common spider) and pathos (the effect his condition has on his marriage) make it one of the most memorable science-fiction films of the decade, and a favorite even of those with only a passing interest in the genre. On the entirely other end of the spectrum is The Mole People (1956), a loopy pulp adventure with John Agar and Hugh (Leave It to Beaver) Beaumont as intrepid adventurers who discover a lost city and the title creatures at a top of a Middle Eastern mountain. Campy to a fault, with a logic-straining script and ridiculous monsters, The Mole People is also a goofy good time for B-movie mavens. Agar, whose faded star power forced him to seek work in low-budget films during the '50s and '60s, also turns up in the effective Tarantula (1955), a fast-paced "big bug" creepshow modeled after Them!. (1954), and featuring a cameo by Clint Eastwood as a jet pilot; the rest of the set is rounded out by the truly wacky Monster on the Campus (1958), with Arthur Franz as a college professor whose exposure to a prehistoric fish turns him into a rampaging Neanderthal, and The Monolith Monsters (1957), about fragments of a meteor that grow to colossal heights when exposed to water and threaten a small desert community. For TV babies that grew up on a steady diet of Saturday afternoon monster movies, The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection offers a nostalgic trip back to those cathode-soaked days, but without the barrage of commercials. The set offers trailers for each film by way of extras, as well as an anamorphic presentation of The Incredible Shrinking Man; the rest of the titles are presented in full screen. -- Paul Gaita

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More Classics Coming!.......2007-09-04

This is one of the best Sci-Fi sets I have ever seen! Five classic movies that I was waiting to see released on DVD and suddenly I got them all in one amazing collection!
Now a second set is coming with five more classics from the Atomic Age! First is THE DEADLY MANTIS featuring special effects by Willis (KING KONG) O'Brien. Second is LAND UNKNOWN which features Jock Mahoney in a journey to a lost world beneath the Artic ice. Third is CULT OF THE COBRA, the story of a group of GI's whoe are cursed after they are caught sneaking into a private, oriental ceremony. Marshal Thompson and Faith Domergue star. The fourth is THE LEECH WOMAN featuring Gloria (I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE) Talbot and Grant (THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN) Williams. This is an entertaining flick with one major drawback, Gloria Talbot gets croaked by the Leech Lady! Oh, boy, you're gonna get your woman! The fifth is DR. CYCLOPS which stars Albert Decker as a looney scientist who shrinks a handful of people and then cruely dominates them until...well, it isn't hard to figure out what the little folks have got on their minds!
This set sounds like another winner, though it's not as impressive as the first one. Still, this set adds five more titles to my collection that I have been waiting for.
Now, how about the remaining flicks on my want list. I wanted to put up a list on Amazon but they won't let me list items that they don't have for sale so I thought I'd list them in this review. Here goes:
ONE MILLION B. C. (Thirties Caveman classic with Victor Mature)
WHEN DINOISAURS RULED THE EARTH (Jim Danforth animation & Victori Vetri)
CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (Lighting/ Mario Bava & a BLOB-like monster)
GOG (Sci-Fi gem from Ivan Tors which stars Richard Egan)
WORLD WITHOUT END (Excellent movie with Rod Taylor & Hugh Marlow)
IT CONQUERORED THE WORLD(Corman classic with Peter Graves & Lee Van Cleef)
COSMIC MONSTERS (stars Forrest Tucker & a lotta giant insects)
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (A Burt I. Gordon classic that belongs on DVD!)
THE CYCLOPS (Unofficial sequel to the Colossal Man flicks/ Gloria Talbot)
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (Herman Cohen classic with Michael Landon)
I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (Another Cohen Classic starring Gary Conway)
INVASION OF THE SAUCER-MEN (What's keepin' this one from DVD!?!)
HAND OF DOOM (A wacky but fun John Agar romp!)
FROM HELL IT CAME (Where's the killer tree when ya need him? Not on DVD!)
MONSTER FROM PIEDRAS BLANCAS(A Creature wanna-be who carries human heads!)
THE UNDEAD (Another Roger Corman classic featuring Allison Hayes)
NOT OF THIS EARTH(Another Corman classic with Paul Birch& Beverly Garland)
AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA(Adventure w/ Lloyd Bridges & Shirley Eaton)
BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (T. Rex, Guy Madison & Patricia Medina)
DAMNATION ALLEY (Another Adventure Sci-Fi that should be on DVD!)
THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE (Good but weird fifties horror movie)
COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK (A strange little "giant robot" movie)
BRAIN EATERS (a dark, documentary style sci-fi movie)
HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (Lee, Cushing, Price, & Carradine!!!)
Here's two more that I've never seen but I will if they come out on DVD!
MAGNETIC MONSTERS ( I think it's another Ivan Tors Production)
CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON (Beverly Garland and, I think John Bromfield)
C'mon Universal, MGM, Warner Bros. and the rest. Let's get these movies out on DVD as soon as possible! How 'bout it?

Wonderful collection, but don't deal with the scalpers.......2007-08-23

Two or three of these movies are truly classics, and overall the collection is worth every bit of the fifteen or twenty dollars it originally sold for.

Unfortunately, every time a DVD goes 'out of print' for a few months, slime-ball scalpers show up on Amazon trying to sell it at five or ten times it's original price.

Take a lesson from the "This Island Earth" DVD, that I can remember seeing scalped for 180 dollars or more when it went out of production a few years back, but which is now 'back in print' and available on Amazon everyday for less than 12 dollars.

So I will be looking forward to seeing this DVD collection back in production, both so I can buy another set (I gave the original away as a Christmas present for a friend), and so I can have the satisfaction of watching all the greedy scalpers who were holding out for that big payoff see the value of their stock drop to next to nothing (Gee, maybe if you had been willing to accept only a 300% markup you might have sold at a nice profit, but now, toooo bad!!!)

I can highly recommend this set, but NOT at scalper prices. My advise is to just wait until the set is available again through Amazon at the normal price. This set will probably be back, and if not the individual movies are bound to be released again (perhaps this time with extras).

Memories from the 50's.......2007-07-29

As a kid from the 1950's I sure remember these movies. And when I found them in one collection as Classic Sci-Fi, I jumped all over it. Now, what shocked me was the going price at over $100 for the DVD set that I paid $15 for just a year ago at BestBuy's. What happened?! Did BestBuy only sale a certain number and that was it? Whatever, I still enjoy watching old 50's sci-fi movies. In this collection, you have five movies. Of those, I really only like three. Tarantula, Monolith Monsters, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. The other two, The Mole People and Monster on the Campus, are campy at best and only worth about one viewing.
Tarantula is your basic science run amouck. The movie is noteable as Clint Eastwood's first, althought a very small part. They pretty much have to burn the whole town down to destroy the creature.
Monolith Monster is unique in that it's not your convential creature, but instead rocks from outer space that keep growing.
My favorite, and one of the BEST sci-fi movies ever is the Incredible Shrinking Man. Almost like a documentary but told from the prespective of the shrinking man, you follow his plight from the beginning. While on a boat, he is caught in some kind of radioactive cloud. Soon, he begins to shrink until he winds up being chased by his pet cat and escapes into the basement where the fun really begins.
There are many 'classic collections' out there, but for my $15, this is the best!

THIS IS A GREAT COLLECTION!.......2007-07-15

I HAD BEEN TRYING TO FIND A DVD COPY OF "THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN" FOR QUITE SOME TIME. I FOUND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT UNIVERSAL HAD JUST DROPPED IT SINCE ITS VHS RELEASE. I'VE READ IT WAS ONCE ISSUED ON LASER DISC, BUT I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO STILL OWNS ONE OF THOSE PLAYERS. I WAS CONSIDERING PURCHASING A VHS VERSION UNTIL I FOUND THIS CLASSIC SCI-FI COLLECTION ON AMAZON. "SHRINKING MAN AND "TARANTULA" ARE THE REAL STAND OUT FEATURES,BUT I HAVE ENJOYED THEM ALL. "THE MONOLITH MONSTERS" WAS A BIT OF A SURPRISE AS THE TITLE TENDS TO GIVE YOU THE IDEA OF ACTORS IN ROCK COSTUMES. TO THE CONTRARY IT IS INTELLIGENT; ALBEIT SOMEWHAT SLOW-MOVING AND LACKING IN ACTION, VERY MUCH LIKE A CLASSIC SCI-FI SHORT STORY. THIS IS A VERY GOOD COLLECTION AND WORTH THE PRICE FOR THE TWO MOVIES "INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN" AND "TARANTULA" BOTH OF WHICH I REMEMBER FROM LOCAL TV MATINEES IN THE '60S. I HAVE ENJOYED WATCHING THEM ALL AND RECOMMEND THIS COLLECTION TO ALL FANS OF VINTAGE SCIENCE FICTION.

Discontinued?.......2007-07-09

It's probably a good collection, but since it's discontinued I'm not going to spend $180+ to find out.

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The 80's rock!!
A Nice Story, Well Acted with a Good Feel
Cinematic Classic!
Good College Movie
reflection of the 80's

Campus Man
Starring: John Dye , Steve Lyon , Kim Delaney , Kathleen Wilhoite , and Miles O'Keeffe
Director: Ron Casden
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000A2ZNY
Release Date: 2003-09-23

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In CAMPUS MAN, college business major Todd Barrett (Dye) is $10,000 in the hole for his school tuition, with only 30 days to produce the funds. Convincing his good friend, Brett (Lyon), who is also the star member of the school diving team, to pose for a beefcake calendar, Todd intends to get rich quick with this entrepreneurial endeavor. But, when the calendar threatens Brett's amateur athletic status and his dreams of Olympic gold, Todd finds himself in possession of excess cash but lacking in the friendship department.

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The 80's rock!!.......2004-03-09

Well, it wasn't a horrible movie!! I liked it! It was very 80's ish! Good clean movie!!

A Nice Story, Well Acted with a Good Feel.......2003-05-23

This is one of those movies that really can't be catagorized by Comedy/Drama/Suspense..etc. 'Campus Man' is a low-budget story produced in the times of Good-Natured movies directed at teenaged audiences (A dying breed of film by now). The movie features 'Touched By and Angel's' John Dye, Morgan Fairchild and a young model named Steve Lyon who appears in this..one of his only two movies. A young entrepreneur-to-be (John Dye) spends his last year at Arizona State University struggling to come up with the perfect marketing idea that will secure his future. He invests his new idea of a 'male calender for women' in his long-time friend and classmate (Steve Lyon), a handsome and promissing young diver for the school. When a tough buisness shark (Morgan Fairchild) and an outlaw loan officer put weight on his shoulders, he is forced to mend the damage to his friendship with Brett choose between a great deal of money and getting Brett's diving scholorship back. It's an 'Alex P. Keaton' type story which was popular in the 80s', very well done by all four lead actors with comedy and mild drama that makes it a nice summer vacation movie. It falls into the same catagory as 'Summer School', 'The Allnighter', and 'One Crazy Summer' and it's worth a try if you're a fan of 'beach-comedy' type stories from the 80s'.

Cinematic Classic!.......2003-03-07

My girlfriend originally wanted to rent James Cameron's Titanic, but instead I argued for one of Ron Casden's more controversial works. Boy are we glad we decided on this. For the girls, this movie has John Dye, and for the gents, need I say more than Kathleen Willhoite? This uproarious comedy has you in stitches while still tugging at your heart-strings with its many twists and turns. Morgan Fairchild also makes a guest appearance as the editor of a magazine, now that's star power!!! This movie makes you feel great, case in point the now infamous high five scene at the end ; ). Side note for you movie buffs, Bob G. Anthony turns in an early stellar performance as the loan officer. Breath taking. If you're looking for an hilarious comedy that really makes you think and keeps you on your toes the whole way through...DROP EVERYTHING!!! and BUY this movie today!!

Good College Movie.......2002-06-26

The movie is a comedy/Thriller non horror movie, When i say non horror thriller, another words you wonder what is going to happen next. The movie is about a college student who needs to come up with $10,000 in 30 days for tution or he will be thrown out of college. He comes up with an idea to make a Sports pin up calander with college boys on it. He borrows $12,000 from a loan shark to start his project but with a %30 interest rate. He has to come up with $25,600 in 30 days OR ELSE.

reflection of the 80's.......2002-06-11

A good movie for a reflection of the 80's. A great cast. This movie helped launch john dye's career, although not sure what happened to steve lyon? a must see movie.

60 Minutes - Big Man On Campus (October 29, 2006)

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60 Minutes - Big Man On Campus (October 29, 2006)

Manufacturer: CBS
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000K2VI2W
Release Date: 2006-11-02

Description

Air Date: 10/29/06 If one school defines college football in America, it's Notre Dame, but for 18 years the Fighting Irish have not won a national championship. Enter Coach Charlie Weis. At 6'1" and 300 pounds, Weis has a girth exceeded only by his oversized personality and his keen determination to win. Big and blustery, blunt and demanding, Weis doesn't mince words as he coaches his players. "I consider myself brutally honest," he tells Steve Kroft.

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