Love's Long Journey

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Missie's shocking discovery is not the end of the story in?Love's Long Journey. After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again.

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Excellent Movie.......2007-09-14

I think all Hallmark movies are brillant and these 4 dvd sequels are brilliant. I highly recommend them to anyone. If you are a struggling christain these will help lift your spirits. At first I didn't know there were 4 that went together, till I got the dvd. Great movie.

Love's Long Journey.......2007-09-11

I have enjoyed all the "Love's...." series i.e. "Love Comes Softly", "Love's Enduring Promise", etc. They have all been great, decent, family-friendly, moral films, without the language and sexual content. I would highly recommend them all for anyone's movie library.

Love's Long Journey.......2007-09-08

All of this movies by Janette Oke and Michael Landon Jr are very very good

no title.......2007-06-26

I think this is the weakest of the 4 movies in series. I hated it when they changed actress's in the 3rd. series and then they changed Marty in the 4 th. series.
I loved 1 and 2 and liked 3 and 4
Ron

This is my favorite of the Love Come's Softly Series.......2007-06-05

I have four of the Love Comes Softly series movies on DVD now and watch them over and over.
This one is my favorite. I am very sad that the story for Missy and Willie didn't continue in the 5th movie, (Loves Unending Legacy) that was on the hallmark channel a couple of months ago. I probably will not buy that one and just stick with the four.

Laurel & Hardy II (Way Out West / Block-Heads / Chickens Come Home)

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Laurel & Hardy II review.
"Two Gloriously Funny Men"
Funny
Two Classic Comic Actors in Three Classic Comedies
Block - Heads

Laurel & Hardy II (Way Out West / Block-Heads / Chickens Come Home)
Starring: Stan Laurel , Oliver Hardy , Elizabeth Forrester , James Finlayson , and Gordon Douglas
Director: James W. Horne , and John G. Blystone
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B00079I006
Release Date: 2005-03-15

Product Description

Way out west (1937)
while trying to deliver the deed for valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector, stand and Ollie run into her evil guardian, who wants to keep the gold mine for himself. One of Laurel & Hardy s funniest full- length feature film and their only western spoof!

Block-Heads(1938)
Stan and Ollie are first seen as soldiers with the AEF in France in 1917. Stan receives orders to stay in the trench and guard his post while the rest of the company makes a sweeping attack. Time passes indeed, 20 years go by and Stan is seen still faithful to his charge. Stan is finally told that the war is over; he returns home and is reunited with Ollie. It is immediately evident that Stan has not changed, and he is still as big a blockhead as he used to be.

Chickens Come home
Ollie, running for mayor, is blackmailed by an old flame. Illie agrees to meet both his old girlfriend and his wife at the same time. Stan gets cough in the middle and unbridled commotion results.

Critical Acclaim

Way out west 1938, Nominated for an Oscar®

Best music, Score

Block-heads 1939, Nominated for Oscar®

Best Music, Original Score

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Running Time 150 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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The combination of choleric, combustible Oliver Hardy and mild, perpetually helpful Stan Laurel sustained dozens upon dozens of comedies, including the popular Way Out West. What makes this hour-long feature stand out is not just the physical hijinks (of which there are plenty), but the moments of surprising elegance, like a supple soft-shoe duet accompanied by what can only be called cowboy doo-wop. The plot concerns keeping the deed to a gold mine out of the hands of a greedy saloonkeeper (frequent comic foil James Finlayson), but it's just a pretext for gleeful slapstick orchestrations. Laurel & Hardy II also includes the underrated Block-Heads, another hour-long feature which starts out in the trenches of World War I and ends in a 13th floor apartment in New York; domestic strife and even lost limbs become fodder for jokes, yet the movie never feels cruel or ghoulish. It's the lightheartedness of their brutal mishaps that marks their success. Both features are from the late 1930s. An additional short from 1931, Chickens Come Home, features Hardy running for mayor and trying to squelch his past indiscretions, with Laurel as his right-hand man. No matter the circumstances, they wear bowler hats; wherever they go, madcap devastation follows. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Laurel & Hardy II review........2007-08-05

I think that these three movies were some of their best comedy. The pictures were good quality. However there was one slight problem: the speech and the lip motion were not quite in sync with each other on some DVD players. The sound was very good.
Thank-you.
Dorothy Fabi.

"Two Gloriously Funny Men".......2007-06-01

Laurel & Hardy still remain the greatest comedy team of all time . Their material stands the ' test of time" hmdodd/ highland twp, mich

Funny.......2007-04-14

I liked the whole DVD but I was hooked after watching Stan Laurel getting tickled in one of the scenes in Way out West, say no more, just watching Stan in that scene had me in stitches. I have always liked Laurel & Hardy and I would like to own more of these DVD's.

Two Classic Comic Actors in Three Classic Comedies .......2007-03-10

Not much more than the three titles here - the "extras" aren't much - but here we have very fine DVD pressings of top drawer L & H. Some lesser known Stan & Ollie flicks from the non-independent, large-scale studios in the following decade have been released recently, and though they have historical significant and some sporadic fun (if you can supress your "couda-shoulda" button), they only emphasize the often brilliant and heartwarming stuff which really made them famous. We have three examples here: a 1937 trip out West, about one hour long, yet absolutely loaded with inventive gags (though a midnight attempt to hoist Ollie to the second floor of Finlayson's Saloon is badly dragged out) and clever dialogue. Ofcourse, the performances are great, and in Way Out West have the added dimension of music and "magic". While Hardy tries to plot out the rescue of a young lady and her deed to a goldmine, Laurel constantly befuddles his partner with all kinds of reality manipulations - like using his thumb as a lighter!
The next year, they produced a partial remake of their very first "talkie" - it's fun to compare Unaccustomed As We Are from '29 to Blockheads. The later film is far better and contains much pathos. Hardy's wife, who starts off her day reminding her husband that he forgot their anniversary, then returns to find old buddy Stan lounging about, delivers an incredible, drammaticly schizophrenic display - one of the great moments in comedy history. Ultimately, it is typical L & H - Ollie's new found respectability is torn asunder by the well-meaning but completely incompetent Stan, who wrecks his car, his apartment...and his marriage. By the end of the film he flees with his friend from his home and a violent neighbor who believes he is a filanderer.
The 1931 short-subject is an hilarious work - again Ollie is on the threshold of true acceptance in high society, until Mae Busch shows up to upset his political plans, his marriage, and Stan himself in a wild wrestling match outside of her hotel suite. This is perhaps her sexiest performance - and her attitude is all business - she wants her share of the success. Her acting is bit more nuanced than usual - she projects admiration and revulsion of Hardy at the same time.
Side note: I've read of the Spanish-language version of this film and hope that it can become available through this company.

Block - Heads.......2007-02-19

I (Jim McCutcheon) saw this film way back in the 50's and it cracked me up. I have hankered for it for some time and althouh I have matured somewhat (68years) still found if highly amusing, and thanks to Amazon, now have a copy for myself.

I would class it as one of Laurel and Hardy's better efforts.

Cheers,
Jim.

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Isn't mainstream enough.
For a movie about sex, it sure is boring.
Hmm
Kinsey
fascinating research by a very strange guy

Kinsey
Starring: Liam Neeson , Laura Linney , Chris O'Donnell , Peter Sarsgaard , and Timothy Hutton
Director: Bill Condon
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ASIN: B0007PALGG
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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Liam Neeson stars as Alfred Kinsey, a man driven by scientific passion and personal demons to investigate the elusive mystery of human sexuality. Laura Linney garnered a Best Actress Oscar® nomination for her compelling performance as Kinsey s free-thinking wife. This provocative drama dares to lift the veil of shame from a society in which sex was hidden, knowledge was dangerous and talking about it was the ultimate taboo.

Bonus Features:
Full-length Feature - Widescreen.
Searchlight Sizzle trailer
Inside Look: Kingdom of Heaven (2:39)
Commentary with writer/director Bill Condon

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Running Time 118 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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One of the best films of 2004, Kinsey pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviors previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, Kinsey shines a light where darkness once prevailed. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Isn't mainstream enough........2007-08-19

Kinsey starring Liam Neeson is the story and evolution of zoologist Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey is known for his books about female and male persectives on sexuality. In the film, he is married to a plain Jane played by Laura Linney, it is shown that Kinsey was also bisexual and his wife also had an affair with his male lover, strange huh? Anyways the film is not too graphic, they could have pushed the envelope a bit more I thought, Neeson is brilliant as always and Linney's character well you just wanted to punch her in the face, not sure why? Chris O'Donnell is ok, haven't seen him in awhile but overall Kinsey is pretty tame and a tad disappointing. It's a hit or miss, good luck!

For a movie about sex, it sure is boring........2007-03-14

This movie was long, drawn out and slow. If you want to know about the personal life of Alfred Kinsey, just read an article about him on an online encyclopedia.
The worst part of the movie was the horrible makeup job done to make Liam Neeson look like he was in his 20's. In fact, it was pretty disturbing.

Hmm.......2007-02-20

I'm not sure what I think. I definitely agree that much of our sexual hangups and perhaps darker eccentricities are the direct result of puritanical repression. Seeing so many of the clichés pulled together in one place made me wonder how any of us in the west (or anywhere?) manage a healthy sexual expression. It also indicates how much of repression and poorly expressed desires are widely cultural and not the result of personal accounts of sexual abuse. But it raised some really uncomfortable questions, even for the most open-minded, and presented some really painful moments just about anyone who's ever had sex can relate to. All-in-all, the film was well done.

Kinsey.......2007-02-12

Ok, so I bought this movie because I saw an HBO special on the making of Kinsey. When I actually got to see the movie I was hideously surprised. I saw this with a group of my college friends. Oh man. This movie is definitely not for the family. Extremely graphic. EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. Rating for this movie should be NC-17, not R. That's how graphic. There are certain scenes that are controversial, if you've seen this movie I'm sure you know what scenes. Watch this movie away from children. Good for adult viewing. Overall movie was funny and interesting. Not For Children.

fascinating research by a very strange guy.......2007-01-25

In 1938 Alfred Kinsey, a young Harvard-trained zoologist whose speciality was the gall wasp, took over a course on "marriage" at Indiana University and, based upon his relentless curiosity and unapologetically scientific treatment of the subject, turned the class into something akin to sexology. He subsequently published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), based upon 18,000 sexual histories he and his staff collected. For the first time ever, sex was scientifically-situated. This biographical dramatization reminded me of Ray, in the sense of an overwhelming human force who grappled with a perennial subject and in the process shaped American culture. The main message of the film, if it has one, seems to be that repression and taboo melt in the light of frankness and tolerance of difference, no matter how quirky: "We are the recorders and reporters of facts--not the judges of the behaviors we describe," insisted Kinsey. But the film is careful to show in some deeply painful moments like pedophilia, sex encouraged among staff members, Kinsey's bi-sexual experimentation, and broken marriages that human sexuality is far more, and more complex, than the mere scientific documentation of its parts. Fidelity, intimacy, integrity and love define sexuality as much as our habits. Kinsey died in 1956 at the age of 62, although the Kinsey Institute continues today.

Cheech and Chong - Things Are Tough All Over

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A WORTHY INSTALLMENT IN THE C&C SERIES!
The Best C&C Movie
This is funny and engaging all over
Two and 3 Quarter Gram Stars Review, Man
Really hilarious film

Cheech and Chong - Things Are Tough All Over
Starring: Toni Attell , Mike Bacarella , Billy Beck , Don Bovingloh , and Richard 'Moon' Calhoun
Director: Thomas K. Avildsen
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B00005BIU7
Release Date: 2001-06-12

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A WORTHY INSTALLMENT IN THE C&C SERIES!.......2007-07-25

This is a very good installment and forth in the Cheech & Chong movie series. It is hard not to like this film, if you are a fan, but this is the last film in the series worth your time. Once again the DVD is in need of an upgrade.

The Best C&C Movie.......2007-04-02

Saw this when it first came out and remember my date just laughing constantly & loudly in the theater through the whole movie. I laughed alot myself. Good memory, Great movie. This is the funniest and best Cheech & Chong movie (I think that the 2nd best is "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie"). Being a musician and being the age that I am (47), I love the music/band scenes/jokes, of which there are many in this film. I haven't seen the DVD version, and don't think I'll buy it as there doesn't seem to be any extras on it at all. Are there?

This is funny and engaging all over.......2006-08-23

Cheech and Chong are back in such strong form here that it makes me wonder if I shouldn't reevaluate the previous film, Nice Dreams (1981), which seemed like a misstep to me on my last viewing.

Of course, there are some major differences with Things are Tough All Over. For Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong took the ultimate stoner/slacker route and made a film with little plot or direction. It seemed like they were engaging in the same behavior offscreen as on and just and playing around with loose, rough ideas. Maybe they also wondered what the heck they had done when later watching Nice Dreams (or watching the box office returns), because for Things are Tough All Over, they took an entirely different path and crafted an intricately structured comic misadventure where they play two interweaving sets of characters--Cheech and Chong, of course, and Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong), Arab brothers who serve as Cheech and Chong's employers in various guises.

The script for Things are Tough All Over may have been something Cheech and Chong were working on for awhile. The basic subtext (as reflected in the title) is the recession during the Carter years in the U.S. Slyman and Habib represent the flipside of the gas crisis (which is both metaphorically and literally in the plot at the same time in interesting and funny ways, even including flatulence jokes), and their prosperity as well as Cheech and Chong's role in the climax and denouement of the film represent the change of economic and social climate of the Reagan years. This may be reading a bit too heavily into the film, but to some extent, these themes were definitely intentional.

Not that this is a serious film. The gags here are on par with Up in Smoke (1978). And given the engaging misadventure/road-movie plot, the gags have a purpose that makes them that much better. Things are Tough All Over is also unusual in that it's the first Cheech and Chong film that's not focused on drugs. Not that I dislike drug humor (or the idea of drug use), but not _having_ to make this film about drugs opens up the door for Cheech and Chong to focus on comedy for its own sake. They go with material because it's going to be funny, and their timing is exquisitely on--they know just how far they can milk any particular joke for maximum effect.

Two and 3 Quarter Gram Stars Review, Man.......2005-06-14

This adventure of Cheech & Chong see's them playing a couple of dudes who work for some Arab dudes who like want them to drive a car from Detroit to Las Vegas but they have no idea why, they just wanna get paid for the job. Theres a lot of things happening to them as the drive from one place to the other.

There isnt much of the Stoner Humor in this one compared to other C&C movies. The laughs arnt there as strong as the other either, but the humour is still defintly there. I have a feeling Richard "Cheech" Marin probably wanted to show he could act as something other then the Cheech charactor, they play a couple of Arabs in the movie aswell, and lean more towards a humor not so pot headed. I think Cheech was trying to establish himself as a real actor. But least he stayed true to Cheech tho, he didnt kill the charactor or anything.

I'd say this is the weakest of all the C&C movies. I even think Get Out Of My Room is funnier then this... but dont count it out tho, it's still got some great bits in it.... my fav is when Cheech needs to go to the bathroom and ends up going a way he didnt expect.

There's no bonus features or anything which is a bummer. Seems the only one to get any attention has been the first movie... if there not going to give these things extra features, then they should have at least made the DVD a double feature with Nice Dreams (Columbian release's, thats why that particuler title)

We need a new Cheech & Chong movie, this may be the weakest, but it's still better then most of the stoner movies being made these days, thats why we need Tommy and Richard to make a new one to show the kids today how it's done.

Really hilarious film.......2004-11-14

Ditching their pot smoking image the duo suceeds brilliantly at more conventional humour. Best scene is the sobbing cry sketch the duo have with Rip Torn.

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Good, but a bit of a let down
Heh, there's no Loaded Weapon 2
VALIDATION
Awesome Spoof
Very funny

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Starring: Emilio Estevez , Samuel L. Jackson , Jon Lovitz , Tim Curry , and Kathy Ireland
Director: Gene Quintano
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ASIN: B000031EFZ
Release Date: 1999-12-21

Description

Two trigger-happy cops try to stop the distribution of mind-rotting Wilderness Girl cookies. Starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Ireland and Samuel L. Jackson.

Customer Reviews:

Good, but a bit of a let down.......2006-08-01

This is a very funny spoof of not just Naked Gun and Lethal Weapon, but every other movie in the genre. There's so many, I've even noticed a few that I missed the first few times I watched it.

I would have given it 4 stars, but the DVD is a let down for those who have seen the movie in theaters or on TV. Like too many others do when transfering to DVD, many scenes have been cut out. Often, these missing scenes are not missed, but with this movie, all of the parts are good ones and in some places, were essential to the movie making for some confusing lines later on.

Still, I think this is a very funny parody of action movies and is worth the time.

Heh, there's no Loaded Weapon 2.......2006-01-26

I'm really tired of critics trashing this movie, going so far as to say it's National Lampoon's worst. Have you seen what NL has been releasing? A big fan of NL, I rented a few of their recent movies, and the closest I got to laughing was during Gold Diggers, which was only kind of funny, but the best of the latest NL movies.
Anyway, Loaded Weapon 1 (a joke in itself) uses the ZAZ approach (you know, the guys who did Airplane! and The Naked Gun), parodying buddy cop movies, mostly the Lethal Weapons. Emilio Estevez is Colt, a loose cannon who leaves a mini-mart in shambles at the start (the highlight, in my opinion) and is obviously supposed to be Mel Gibson. Samuel L. Jackson is Luger, a by-the-book family man (cough, Danny Glover) who's paired with Colt to nab a drug czar (William Shatner) who is smuggling drugs through Wilderness Girl cookies, which gets Luger's old partner (Whoopi Goldberg) killed. Oh yeah, and Colt falls for Kathy Ireland, a babe who should always leave her hair down. Other Lethal Weapon references include Jon Lovitz (YES!) as the Joe Pesci/Leo Getz character, who appears to be dead many times but keeps showing up, Denis Leary has a cameo as someone like Michael Hunksacker in the first Lethal Weapon, and there's other great references, like Colt finding Luger on the toilet (LW 2), Luger yelling "Cigarette!" instead of gun like in LW 1, Colt having a dead dog instead of a wife, and so on.
This movie really is underappreciated. It mocks all the cop movies that are getting old with ease, and even though it's not up to par with Naked Gun or the other ZAZ tries (well, actually, "Mafia" and "Scary Movie 3" may conflict with that), it does what National Lampoon used to do: make us laugh.

VALIDATION.......2006-01-19

Another hilarious spoof. Who knew Samuel Jackson could do comedy? Jackson and Estevez are great together.

Awesome Spoof.......2005-11-21

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 Is the most funiest movie i ever saw. It Makes Fun Of Cop Movies. It is really funny. Emilio & Samueal will knock your socks off with laughter.

If You Liked This Film Check out the other National Lampoon Movies

Very funny.......2005-09-28

If you like this type of comedy where jokes are as visual as they are vocal (play on words, taking things litterally, and so on), then this is for you.
There aren't many movies like this nowadays...
I recommend you watch it before sleeping... that's a much better way to end your day (and start your night) than watching news about tragedies, war and so on... Enjoy!

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Isn't mainstream enough.
For a movie about sex, it sure is boring.
Hmm
Kinsey
fascinating research by a very strange guy

Kinsey (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Liam Neeson , Laura Linney , Chris O'Donnell , Peter Sarsgaard , and Timothy Hutton
Director: Bill Condon
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ASIN: B0007PALGQ
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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Description

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Isn't mainstream enough........2007-08-19

For a movie about sex, it sure is boring........2007-03-14

Hmm.......2007-02-20

Kinsey.......2007-02-12

fascinating research by a very strange guy.......2007-01-25

Police Academy 2 - Their First Assignment

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Astonishing!!!
Marvellous!
This Movie Is Hilarious!
"O-eight hundred hours. Time to deploy for school."
Art Metrano gets stuck with these cops.

Police Academy 2 - Their First Assignment
Starring: Steve Guttenberg , Bubba Smith , David Graf , Michael Winslow , and Bruce Mahler
Director: Jerry Paris
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000190758
Release Date: 2004-04-06

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A much inferior sequel to the first hit film, Police Academy 2 nevertheless manages to keep a free-spirited, juvenile tone. Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby) returns as the charming goof-off, now graduated from the academy. He and the usual batch of misfits are let loose on the streets as rookie cops, wreaking havoc everywhere they go as they do battle with terrorists threatening the city. Some choice moments from the likes of Michael Winslow, as the man whose voice can imitate any sound, barely compensate for this being a pale imitation of the original movie. --Robert Lane

Description

Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists?

DVD Features:
Featurette:"Accidental Heroes: The Best Of"
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Astonishing!!!.......2006-11-10

This movie is great!! It tells the story of a Police Captain (Howard Hessemen) who realizes that he needs some "Healthy Young Men." His brother tells him there are places he could go, bars of such. He asks "Does your wife know about this?" Then Hesseman's brother drops an entire can of fish food in his fishbowl of goldfish. Nice. This film is graced with brilliant acting performaces. Steve Guttenberg, Bobcat Goldwaitt, Bubba Smith, David Graff, Ted Kinsinskiksy, and that moron who makes stupid noises. It is a true classic. The only scene that really disturbed me was the one where the Police Commander runs around with no clothes on. Also, I didn't like how Bobcatt Goldwaitt was baised against ferris wheels!!!

Marvellous!.......2006-01-04

Ideal for people who liked the film Police Academy or for people who didn't like the film Police Academy but want to give the series a second chance.

This Movie Is Hilarious!.......2005-10-15

I like the Police Academy movies and this is definitely one of the best movies in the series and Bubba Smith, David Graf, Steve Guttenberg and the rest of the cast are hilariously funny and I highly recommend this movie!

"O-eight hundred hours. Time to deploy for school.".......2005-06-26

Still a funny film after all these years, though it would never get a PG rating nowadays! Steve Guttenberg and his fellow cadets from the original "Police Academy" must help Howard Hesseman ("WKRP In Cinncinnatti", "Head Of The Class") take back the streets in this funny follow-up to the original. Not all of the original cadets make it into the sequel, but it does introduce some new characters, such as Mahoney's sloppy partner "Schtulman" (I don't remember if he was in any of the subsequent films, but if he wasn't, he should've been). The film also introduces Bobcat Goldthwait, one of my all-time favorite comedians, as "Zed", the gang leader.

The film *is* a bit dated at times (check out Guttenberg driving around the beach on an ATV with a sweater tied around his neck), but for the most part it's still an effective comedy. Crude, but very funny.

Art Metrano gets stuck with these cops........2005-02-23

Directed by Jerry Paris.
Original Cast Members returning for the second film are: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bruce Mahler, Marion Ramsey and George R. Robertson.
They must help out Peter Van Norden and Colleen Camp who are also on the force. They must obey the orders of Howard Hesseman and Art Metrano.
Around for comic relief is: Tim Kazurinsky, Bob Goldthwait, Jennifer Darling, Jackie Joseph, and Lucy Lee Flippin.
Runs: 86 min.
The next film in the series: Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986).

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A true pioneer
Better than the Hollywood movie
Science is Sexy
Unsparing and Informative
Typically unbalanced presentation from PBS

American Experience: Kinsey
Starring: Campbell Scott , Caroline Harting , Joan Kinsey Reid , Bradley Douglas Cook , and Martin Duberman
Director: John Maggio , and Barak Goodman
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ASIN: B0007Y08MO
Release Date: 2005-05-17

Description

Alfred Kinsey was a little-known biologist when, in the 1940s, he began compiling data from thousands of interviews about the sexual practices of men and women. The results of that research were the explosive "Kinsey Reports." Through interviews with his research assistants, his children, his biographers, and historians, this documentary assesses Kinsey's achievements, while examining how his personal life shaped his career.

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A true pioneer.......2007-04-02

Though there are a few things left out in this 90-minute film (such as Dr. Kinsey's relationship with his children), most of the important aspects of his life and work are presented in an in-depth, informative, and interesting way. One can't underestimate the importance Dr. Kinsey had on the 20th century. Before he published his two ground-breaking reports on sexual behavior in the human male and the human female, society was incredibly sexually repressive and ignorant. The things he taught about in his class on marriage, human sexuality, and birth control in 1938 and 1939 at Indiana University seem rather tame and normal today, but back then it was a scandal when word got out just what he was teaching his students, particularly because he said that the only abnormal sexual behaviors were abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.

The neo-Puritans of today who wax nostalgic for a past that never really was clearly have no idea just what it was really like back then. Back when Dr. Kinsey and his associates were conducting their interviews and doing their research for the reports, the only form of sex that was considered normal and moral was between a man and a woman within marriage (and then only intercourse, not any other varieties of sex). Things such as oral sex, masturbation, and homosexuality were criminalised and considered deranged instead of perfectly normal natural sexual expressions. A lot of people (particularly women) who were brought up sheltered from any knowledge of sex or told that it was dirty and sinful had no idea what to do once they were married and finally allowed to do it, as though they were suddenly supposed to turn into skilled receptive partners who knew exactly what they were doing and what they liked. Dr. Kinsey himself couldn't even consummate his own marriage for several months, not until his wife had a corrective surgery. People viewed sexuality in terms of morality and immorality instead of science or one's own personal convictions, and placed so many strict limits on what was and wasn't considered to be acceptable, basically dictating to everyone how to behave in the privacy of their own homes based on an arbitrary sense of morality. And when the report on the human male came out in 1947, the public for the first time discovered that a lot of men visited prostitutes, had had affairs, regularly masturbated, dreamt about sex, had had gay experiences, and had had premarital sex. The 1953 report on the human female caused a huge backlash, however, because people didn't want to be confronted with the proof that women were actually sexual beings instead of angelic wives and mothers who had no sexual desires and didn't even like sex. Unfortunately, Dr. Kinsey didn't live long enough to see all of the liberation movements of the Sixties and Seventies, when his work would be fully validated and society would finally snap out of its Puritanical repression.

The film also explores some of the controversies in his work, such as some of his rather unorthodox methods (like taping his associates having sex with one another), how he used data from the journal of a pedophile as standard information about sexual responses and behavior of young boys, and how he tended to interview people who were white, outside of the mainstream, and college students, instead of getting a more broad sampling of the entire population, even if some of those people would have given less earth-shattering responses to the survey. It also explores how he viewed human sexuality and his research as a science, a part of nature, and for that reason didn't feel the need to impose any moral limitations on it, such as saying that pedophilia is wrong or that sex is about love, not just biological urges, and that having affairs with one's associates just to further the research might not be the best idea.

Overall, it's a fascinating look into one of the people who had the most impact on the 20th century, helping to bring America out of the Victorian era and into modernity, into an era where morality is a matter of one's conscience, not something arbitrarily dictated to one by a bunch of self-appointed authorities with a very black and white view of the world.

Better than the Hollywood movie.......2006-06-12

I thought this documentary was great, and I considered it a nice supplement or even antidote to the dramatic film. You get to meet and hear from Kinsey's colleagues, and you get more about the science and the lasting cultural impact of the man's work. I noticed the word "bias" in one customer review headline, and I suppose that's because Kinsey comes off so clearly as a hero in this documentary (or did to liberal-scientific me at least). Well, um, could that be because he really was a hero? I wonder how many Western civilisation would have left if we had docu-dramas of the sex lives and marital issues of all of them. The PBS film doesn't ignore the sex and personal dynamics of Kinsey's circle at all, and in fact may dish more dirt than the movie, but people who were there seem today, in the interviews they gave for the documentary, utterly unconflicted and full of admiration, not to mention love, for the man. That had a big effect on me.

Science is Sexy.......2006-03-17

This was a great documentary. It was objective for the most part painting kinsey as neither a hero nor a villain. Too often I find that Kinsey is portrayed as one or the other. He played a large part in revolutionizing sexual research as we know it today but as the documentary showed this came at a price. His statistical methods were questionable as well as some of his methods of research. His level of authority and interactions with his employees were also questionable. He had his own agenda which clearly tampered with his objectivity as a scientist. But at a time when Americans were sexually repressed he was a voice of reason. He preached tolerance and acceptance and made it OK to talk about sex in the open and let it be known that it is normal to be sexual and nothing to be ashamed of. But the documentary also showed how Kinsey put science before everything. Even when it came to his family and making moral judgements at times.
But I felt like the documentary also glossed over a few subjects that could have been explored in deeper detail such as his marriage to Clara and his relationship with his children which was barely mentioned. Also, they never really said what specific masochistic tendencies he indulged in especially after he became depressed. The latter part of his life after the publication of his second volume of work was covered too briefly. I thought what his colleagues had to say on how he didn't include love in the "mechanics" of sex was also interesting and how he seemed to be detached. Ironic how the "father of sex" couldn't make love.....I would recommend the documentary and the movie with Liam Nieson as a complementary package. Whereas the movie portrayed him almost as the hero of sexual research, the documentary goes on to show that there were a few chinks in the knight's armor but without demonizing him.

Unsparing and Informative.......2005-07-26

If you've seen the recent movie ("the filme"), you'll want to check this out.

What I learned was that the film stayed fairly faithful to Kinsey's actual life experiences, with a few key omissions for dramatic purposes:

1. Kinsey's death is not treated in the film as it actually occurred. Actually, the movie pretty much avoids the issue entirely. The dang movie just had to have a happy ending.

2. Kinsey's ethical lapses are not treated objectively in the film. Gaps in his taxonomy and statistical technique are explained in the documentary, warts and all.

3. His wife's devotion to him is underplayed in the movie, as is Kinsey's more extensive personal experiments in sex.

Watch this documentary for a little balance...

Typically unbalanced presentation from PBS.......2005-06-14

Imagine a biographical documentary about the world's most famous sex expert that leaves out the bizarre truth about Albert Kinsey, that he was a homosexual, who often engaged in exotic tryts with his laboratory assistants, who got deeper and deeper into kinky masochistic sex, who circumcised himself without anesthesia--(who would do that except a real sicko?) No, PBS puts Kinsey on a pedestal as the man who freed us from sexual repression, and put us all on the road to sexual happiness. A very slanted propaganda piece, but what do you expect-major funding came from the Ford Foundation and Hugh Hefner.

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"Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation"
Great sequel
Awesome Sequal...
A Decent Sequel
Actually zero stars

The Unnamable II
Starring: Brad Blaisdell , Peter Breck , John Rhys-Davies , Richard Domeier , and Alexandra Durrell
Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette
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Release Date: 2004-08-17

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"Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation".......2007-02-06

Very chilling and atmospheric horror sequel to the "Unamable". Good story with good acting guaranteed to provide scares. If you like gothic horror you won't be disappointed.

Don't watch this alone!

John

Great sequel.......2006-12-29

Well, it was much better than the original, but literally had nothing to do with "The Last Statement of Randolf Carter', which it claimed to be.

Nonetheless, it was a Lovecraft based film, so therefore I HAD TO watch it Nor was I disapointed. It had the excellent acting of John Rys-Davies (you know, the axe-slinging dwarf in the Lord of the Rings Movies), and the gorgeous Maria Ford (naked scene), and even Julie Strain! So, we have nudity, the Necronomicon, pretty good acting (for the most part), and demons?!?!? COOL!

Add it to your collections, HPL fans!

Go on.

Do it!

Two cloven hooves up!

Awesome Sequal..........2006-04-24

This sequal was OUTSTANDING!!!!It follows thru from the 1st movie & even explains how the creature became the creature...Most sequal's are dumb & boring, however, this one is one of the great follow-ups...The ending is kind of sad, however, the entire movie will keep you on your toes through out...A MUST have for any horror fan...

A Decent Sequel.......2005-02-18

The first Unnamable movie is pretty generic, but so are a lot of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. These generic horror stories became the cornerstone of modern horror. The horror film genre as a whole is cheesey, with direct to video guilty pleasures doing it for me. Mainstream horror released in American theaters are watered down for mass audiences. The remakes of both Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were horrible, boring blasphemes that made both Lucio Fulci and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels seem good. Where were these newer fans when I was watching R rated horror in my teensage years? That being said, this is a movie best appreciated by the real fans, not critics or millenium generation wannabes. I prefer the first Unnamable movie, but I also like it's sequel.

Actually zero stars.......2005-02-11

John Rys Davies fans be advised: Mr. Davies puts in his initial appearance at Minute 16 (of 104) and departs the scene permanently at Minute 47, his brief 31-minute interlude hardly representing his most scintillating performance, being embedded in a swamp of idiot dialog, idiot acting, and idiot special effects. This flick is a sequel to another of the same name not seen by this reviewer. Its events start right where the previous flick chopped off. Missing that original is of no consequence.

That any film such as this one could claim to be a specific representation of Lovecraft's work is preposterous: Aside from the absurdity of the "plot," to make such claim, such a film would have to be structured like a travelogue WITH NO DIALOG. All "science" would have to be at least 100 years out-of-date. A narrator would be constantly voicing-over every scene in a script typically dealing with the so-called "Cthulhu Mythos," a Lovecraft construct featuring various inimical "elder god" supernatural entities, really nasty beings from ancient times predating modern civilization (and even geologic time), totally inimical and always plotting all manner of nasty and icky stuff for us humans from nothing more than sheer cussedness, and (of course) always on the brink of a comeback to world domination.

This reviewer tried (again) to read Lovecraft's 40,000-word novella "At the Mountains of Madness" (hereafter ATMOM) as a refresher for this review, and had to abandon it halfway through, confirming yet again that Lovecraft is fundamentally unreadable today, or (this reviewer contends) at any time in the past. Imagine page after interminable page of ponderously and turgidly boring, dialog-less narrative (the guy seemed incapable of writing even the crudest dialog), describing in copious detail and with all seriousness matters which would be so scientifically implausible today that it would be laughable to propose such be taken seriously: like ascribing credibility to modern air travel with airplanes that fly by flapping their wings; or with Venus being a jungle planet filled with earth-like swamps and nasty critters; or with the moon harboring a major civilization; or with atoms being miniature solar systems whose orbiting electrons are worlds visit-able by "shrink-science"; or a counter-earth planet unknown to science because it is always exactly on the opposite side of the sun. Could you seriously enjoy such a narrative today WHEREIN EVERYTHING HINGES ON THE VIABILITY OF SUCH A CLAIM? In ATMOM, Lovecraft's "geology," presented in all seriousness (though with deliberate fake additives), is about 100 or more years out of date, even for a work of speculative fiction. There is no way a mountain range of the type he surmises could be even speculated to exist. (Perhaps a hundred or more years ago before the advent of orbital photography such, while improbable, could have been speculatively imagined (rather like Doyle's "Lost World.")

For anyone to claim that Lovecraft had a major and meaningful influence on the work of other writers in this genre could only mean that his writings demonstrated every possible writing flaw known to man. Skip this turkey and avoid anything that claims to be based on Lovecraft.

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Outlaw Justice
a cast of singers, but only a couple of songs
A self-entertaining with too much money to throw away?
Travis is a great actor
Bill Corcoran's Outlaw Justice

Outlaw Justice
Starring: Willie Nelson , Kris Kristofferson , Travis Tritt , Waylon Jennings , and Chad Willett
Director: Bill Corcoran
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Release Date: 2003-05-20

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In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast-paced, action-filled western with unforgettable performances by an all-star cast: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt and Waylon Jennings. All hell breaks loose in this riveting story when a group of former outlaws with bad attitudes teams up to catch a killer with murder and revenge on his mind. After Tobey (Jennings), a retired member of the group, is brutally gunned down by former member and killer, Clinton Reese, our band of reformed gunslingers, Lee (Nelson), Tarence (Kristofferson) and Dalton (Tritt), sets out on Clinton's trail. They are joined by Tobey's reluctant young son Bryce. Following the trail of the killer, our heroes are lured across the border straight into Clinton's ambush. Clinton, aided by the Mexican army, squares off against our band of heroes. The action explodes as the ultimate sacrifice must be paid for justice...outlaw style!

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Outlaw Justice.......2007-01-14

Not a grammy winner but if you like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt and Kris Kristofferson, you will like this movie. It is entertaining. A really enjoyable DVD with some great one liners.

a cast of singers, but only a couple of songs.......2004-06-02

Rated R: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Lionsgate/Fox
Video Release Date: May 20, 2003

Cast:

Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Waylon Jennings
Travis Tritt
Chad Willet
Jonathan Banks
Sancho Gracia as Holden (the bad guy)

A bunch of former outlaws (Willie, Kris, Tritt) are bent on revenge when one of their former "business associates" (Jennings)
is murdered by another outlaw, Holden (Sancho Gracia). They extract their own version of justice when Holden lures them below the border, with hopes of causing their deaths.

I don't know why the "R" rating. The violence was almost non-existent, no bad language, and no nudity or anything you would be ashamed for your mother or children to see.

Only Tritt and Willie sang in the film, and the motivation of Holden was ill-defined. Altogether a poorly motivated plot, with the cast providing the backbone of the film. They did their parts well, making it an adequate Western to watch and kill some time, thanks to them. Not a great film, or particularlt memorable.

I am always impressed by Kris and Willie when they team up. Kris is good at "looking menacing," and Willie is entertaining.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

A self-entertaining with too much money to throw away?.......2003-01-11

Loose script with holes as big as the Black Hole. At certain clippings, there were potentials to evolve into a good movie but always fell short. I could clearly see that none of the actors had put heart into this movie but just acting by wearing cool dark or black gears. Son of Tolby didn't know how to handle a six shooter but suddenly became a fast-draw gunfighter and shot to kill the tough gunslinger without even had to aim. The loud mouthed tough outlaw with fast draw was beaten by the young man due to ending was coming and had to die. Nelson and Chris just cash in for their cool images. There was no storyline whatever I could see, just contrite and joking around performance. The country singer sang a pretty good song but acting poorly with good western Texan accent. What's the deal between the Mexican officer and that look-tough-but-got-nothing-to-cash-in when the chips were down? Don't treat a viewer like me as a pea brain or even brain dead, OK? The script was obviously a die-trying by a high school drop out. What impressed me most is the snorings of these two old hombres. That's the only thing I could remember and visualized for this pathetic movie.

Travis is a great actor.......2002-10-21

Hi my name is Barbara and I'm from Canada and I think Travis is a great actor, just by the way he talks in his interviews tells you, what ever you buy of Travis you'll never go wrong. Thanks

Bill Corcoran's Outlaw Justice.......2002-05-27

Waylon Jennings, looking like Joe Spinell, is killed off in the first scene of this half baked western. He is the lucky one. His son, Chad Willett, decides to take revenge on Jennings' killer, a former member of Jennings' outlaw gang. Willett is joined by two other former outlaw gang members Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, making like Abbott and Costello, and they ride after the bland villain, taking poor Travis Tritt (a third gang member).

Nelson and Kristofferson do the same old TV western movie routine they have been doing for years- flat delivery, down home humorous bickering, and goofy grins. Tritt tries what he can, relying on all the acting chops he earned in his music videos. He has onscreen charisma, it would be interesting to see what a professional director might mold with him. Willett, probably the only real actor here, is okay. After getting killed, Jennings does what he does best- voiceover, as his son reads his diary.

The Unmagnificent Four get involved in little unthreatening scrapes here and there on their way to meet the villain. They are held up, but get their stuff back with the help of some friendly Native Americans they helped save. Willett finds romance, because if you are young and cute in a western, you must fall in love. Of course, that philosophy does not explain how Nelson manages to do the same thing. He falls for a local senorita in a town where the villain burned down the church. These happy outlaws help rebuild the church in one of those saccharine scenes that must be seen to be believed. The actual climactic shootout is dull, thanks to some really bland direction. At one point, Willett has a perfect opportunity to finish the villain off, thereby sparing Mexico and the audience from further torture, but he does not! The added "mystery" about the true identity of Willett's real father is never resolved, either!

This is just dumb entertainment for people who find "F Troop" too deep. I am warning you now, Nelson has a bathtub scene. No nudity, but proceed with caution. "Outlaw Justice" is an injustice.

This (R) rated "unedited director's cut" looks no different that a regular TV movie. It contains physical violence, gun violence, and mild gore.

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