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#The Quiet Man (Collector’s Edition)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
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QUIET MAN – COLLECTOR’S EDITION – DVD Movie
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#Gojira / Godzilla Deluxe Collector’s Edition (Gojira/Godzilla [1954] / Godzilla, King of the Monsters [1956])# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
I saw this movie for the first time last night with my girl friend whom is Japanese, but has never seen Godzilla. I am not entirely sure what enticed me to buy this DVD, but a few days ago I had this itch to watch Godzilla, so I figured I’d star with the original considering I’d never seen it before and it is the first.
When I received the package I was blown away by the care and craft of the DVD’s package. It comes in a very classy cardboard special edition case with a Toho official holographic seal and well presented sash with the Godzilla stamp. This DVD is high quality and worth every penny.
I have yet to watch the “King of Monsters” version, but the original Gojira was really fantastic. It achieves this sense of urgency, panic, and terror better than many modern films that had huge budgets and rich names attached to them. Sure–it seems that as time went on Godzilla was turned into a more cheesy character (not necessarily a bad thing) but don’t be fooled. This movie is very serious and very epic.
It should also be noted that this is not simply a Giant Monster movie, but also contains a love triangle between three of the movie’s key characters, scientific morality, anti-nuclear weapon messages, atomic devastation imagery, and loads of science fiction. Dr. Serizawa is am iconic character playing the 1950s scientist with the black gloves and white over coat who has to make a terrible moral decision. It is everything classic sci-fi was about and at the same times dabbles in the terror of the unknown and lost ancient.
If you see some of my other reviews you will see that I never give anything five stars. I give Gojira five stars because to me it was the perfect movie untainted and pure. I am truly glad to have this DVD up on my shelf, and am very happy with the money I have spent for it. They just don’t make movies like that used to. Five stars.
My girlfriend also enjoyed it and she rarely enjoys science fiction or giant monsters.
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This package contains:
* Godzilla (1954 Japanese Edition-english subtitles)
* King of the Monsters (1956 U.S. Release Edtion-english v/o dub)
Featuring:
* Audio commentaries
* Original trailers
*”Making of the Suite” Featurette
*”Godzilla: Story Development” featurette
Excellent flick – Richard L. Marazzo – Florida United States
I saw the Godzilla movie that was released in the States when it was on TV in the fifties/sixties and then again when it came out in VHS format. This movies answered a lot of questions (like why was R. Burr the only one facing the camera when inter-acting with any of the main Japanese characters) and cleared up a lot of things that just happened (where did this huge electrical fence come from) in the US version. I can understand why they did not release the Japanese version being so close to WWII, but in addition to wanting to save a ton of money by manipulating someone else’s product, a movie with subtitles just would not have gone over with the public of that era no matter what country was its producer. I am happy that I was able to view something I had not known existed and it was excellent.
Godzilla crushes Gojira – Boyd Henson – West Melbourne, FL, US
As a kid growing up I always looked forward to the monster movies. “Godzilla” was the ultimate monster, of course. What separated Godzilla from the other creatures bent on destruction was that this particular creature seemed to be out for revenge. He apparently did not take too kindly to being reawakened by atomic testing. Curiously, he took his revenge on the Japanese people, the very people who has suffered the most from the atomic bomb. Much has been made of the supposed symbolism employed in the original Japanese film “Gojira”. In the original film it was supposedly made clear that the monster was, in fact, the product of atomic testing and in fact could be equated with the atomic bomb. Maybe yes, maybe no. He certainly leveled Tokyo as if he were a nuclear device.
Surprisingly, watching “Gojira” is nothing like watching “Godzilla”. Employing Raymond Burr was a stroke of genius on the part of the American producers. The feeling of hopelessness and helplessness is conveyed much more skillfully in the Americanized movie. Perhaps it’s Burr’s delivery that is so effective. Couple his somber deliberations with the Japanese funereal soundtrack and the viewer can easily relate to the utter hopelessness of the victims when confronted with an unfeeling, unrelenting destructive leviathan.
Watch “Gojira” first and then “Godzilla”. Marvel at the editing process, noting how Burr’s scenes incorporating stand ins are skillfully interwoven with scenes from the original movie. Next appreciate how the editing process actually cleaned up and improved the Japanese version. The American version is shorter but not a single critical element was excised. “Godzilla” is simply better paced than “Gojira”.
The best adjective to describe “Godzilla” is “dread”. Never has hopelessness and impending doom for all humanity found a better vehicle than in “Godzilla”. See it again with a loved one.
Truly frightening – Brad J. Lewis –
The differences between the two versions are amazing! The original Japanese version actually makes a lot more sense. Godzilla is truly frightening here– a nuclear bomb incarnate! Watch both versions and compare them!
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#True Grit (Special Collector’s Edition)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
TRUE GRIT (1969), from the novel by Charles Portis published in 1968, was a paradigm-shift in the way we watch film and the way films are shot. (How I hate the word “paradigm” and the term “shot” in reference to film.) The lush and healthy outdoors locations, Yellowstone National Park among them, and the super-detailed outdoor sets added to the genuine flavor hitherto unrealized in Westerns.
Naturally, the story has that elegant simplicity of the classic: a young teen Arkansas girl from out in the country pursues her father’s murderer with the help of a grizzled old marshal. This is Charles Portis we’re talking about here, and he is the master of subtle comic writing as well as an ex-Marine from Arkansas. Portis is a writer of orderliness, so aside from the wickedly colorful villain Tom Cheney (ohh, Dick Cheney’s grandfather?–here spelled “Chaney”, played by bit player Jeff Corey) whom they all are pursuing, there are yin/yang characters.
Into the story steps handsome Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glenn Campbell, ohhh, Shia’s great-grandfather?) who is pursing our ex-vice president’s grandpa for the murder of a Texas senator. He throws in with young Mattie (played by the reputedly vicious Kim Darby, an old Disney Studios player). Marshal Ruben “Rooster” Cogburn (John Wayne) is irritated but amused at La Boeuf’s presence.
An early and poignant bit part, Moon, is expertly offered by the late and sorely missed Dennis Hopper; Alfred Ryder (as defense attorney Mr. Goudy who has a hilarious courtroom exchange with Rooster), Strother Martin and the incomparable John Fiedler (immortal voice of Piglet) round out the talent on display. I was very taken with Judge Isaac Parker (James Westerfield) and his courtroom; also by his famous black bailiff played by James McEachin. Jay Silverheels and Wilford Brimley make uncredited appearances here too. EVERYBODY was in this!
Portis does not stop there–later in the story comes Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall), gang leader extraordinaire and Cogburn’s old nemesis. The action is unparalleled and does great justice to the novel, with an exception: Mattie is about 14 years old and a 30-year-old Kim Darby was unwisely chosen to play this role. Allegedly, Wayne wanted his then-14-year-old daughter, Ayissa, to have the role. Ayissa was said to have cried for a week when informed that the role had gone to someone else…but Wayne bitched about it for years to come. And it is true that Darby was even-handedly nasty to every single person she encountered. Director Henry Hathaway was less frightened of rattlesnakes, he said, than of Kim Darby’s filthy temper.
Hathaway also had a great battle of the wills with Wayne on account of Rooster Cogburn’s appearance: Portis modeled Cogburn after President Grover Cleveland, who weighed about 365 LBS. and sported a huge walrus moustache. Cogburn also wore an eyepatch. Wayne was so incensed about the makeup that he refused to wear any at all. It took Hathaway some serious bone-crunching just to get Wayne to agree to the eyepatch. On the bright side, Wayne was told not only to forget about his weight problem but to pack on some extra pounds, so in the end he happily agreed.
The film got Oscars. More importantly, Wayne got his one and only for this role. It is a subtle, hilarious and profound portrayal that some people believe was Wayne lampooning himself. I do not see it that way: John Wayne had a flair for “camera acting” and was well aware of the camera’s presence. This, combined with his true talents, make Rooster Cogburn his most unforgettable character of all, and one of the undisputed Western icons. And Wayne was worried all along that audiences wouldn’t recognize him!
This film cannot be done any more justice than I did here. It is rich and innovative, inspired by the original novel, and makes all earlier Westerns fall flat. It has inspired and informed every Western that has been made since, and Brendan Gleason’s (a/k/a Gleeson) portrayal of Alastair “Mad-eye” Moody in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is an obvious homage to Wayne’s Cogburn.
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TRUE GRIT SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION – DVD Movie
No challenges, no questions – John D. Beatty – West Allis, WI USA
This is the role Marion Morrison crafted John Wayne for, and this is why the Academy rewarded him for the performance.
Another Boring John Wayne – Red Sun – New Jersey
This movie is so naive and predicable. Boring and boring. I’d rather watch “Angel and the Badman”. Like Gail Russell, but she died so young.
A gritty, no holds barred Western – Claudia J. Hill – Aguila, Arizona USA
While I would not rate this as the Duke’s best film, it is certainly a gritty, no holds barred Western that is as authentic to the time period in weapons, costumes, etc. In fact the dialogue is so true to the way people used to talk back then that it sort of detracts from the enjoyment, especially for younger folks who can only speak and understand modern, 20th. Century english.
We enjoyed it a lot and are happy to add it to our Western collection, but it was sure heart-rending when one of our favorite characters got killed (I won’t tell you who as that might spoil the movie for those of you who haven’t yet seen it).
As I said, this is not John Wayne’s best film in spite of the fact he was given an Academy Award for the role. Which ones do we rate as the Duke’s best?? In order of their excellence, and in our opinion, they are:
THE SEARCHERS (The one he shoul’ve won the Oscar for!!!)- THE QUIET MAN – THE ALAMO – THE GREEN BERETS – HONDO – McCLINTOCK – THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA – NORTH TO ALASKA – and THE THREE GODFATHERS…of course, to see him when he was young and athletic, pick any of his pre-1940’s Republic Westerns.
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#Music of the Heart (Miramax Collector’s Series)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
Music Of The Heart is an excellent movie regarding a music instruction program. Meryl Street and Aiden Quinn are two of my favorite actors. However, the big surprise for me was the companion documentary Small Wonders. My husband and I both teach music and marvelled at the work done by Roberta in her violin program. We were both in tears at the powerful success of this music program. I wish I could buy several copies of Small Wonders (haven’t been able to locate it) so that I could give a copy to each of my students and their parents. Doing anything well…whether playing music, painting pictures, designing rockets, etc. takes an enormous amount of work and dedication. Inspiration can come from many sources…in this case, what I would call the “tough love” of a woman who obviously loves the music of the violin. I highly recommend these DVDs…two great movies for the price of one!
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Two-time Academy Award(R)-winner Meryl Streep (1983 Best Actress, SOPHIE’S CHOICE; 1980 Best Supporting Actress, KRAMER vs. KRAMER) stars with Angela Bassett (HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK) in a heartwarming, acclaimed true story of how one woman’s musical gift affected those who least expected it. A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Roberta Guaspari (Streep) overcame the skepticism of everyone who didn’t think she should be teaching violin to students in a tough inner-city neighborhood. But even after a decade of ever-growing popularity and countless success stories, Roberta and her kids must rise to meet an even greater challenge: budget cuts aimed at shutting down her valuable program for good! Also starring Aidan Quinn (PRACTICAL MAGIC) and Grammy-winner Gloria Estefan in a stellar cast, this extraordinary story will inspire anyone who’s ever thought their dreams were too far out of reach!
A Must SEE! – C. Pelletier – Avondale, Arizona, US
Music of the Heart sends a message to every single human being in the world… especially if music has been, is, or was a part of your life, or the life of your child. The message is brilliantly presented by the intensity of the actors, and Meryl Streep is at her ultimate best. This movie doesn’t miss a beat! Pun intended… but, seriously presented! If you miss this one, with your family, you all lose. And, if you are motivated to make changes in the realm of education, pertaining to the fine arts, and particularly music, watch this film, and take some serious action! This movie is so good, it should come with a money back guarantee, of course, it would never have to pay out a cent!!! Kudo’s to all who made this movie! It should have been a tremendous hit!
Great Movie! – Guy M. Marzano – Minnetonka, MN USA
This is an absolutely wonderful movie. I’ve seen a lot of Meryl Streep movies, and this is probably her best role. She should have an Academy Award for it. If you aren’t crying and cheering by the end of the movie, you were asleep during most of it. It is a great show!
A Warm Family Oriented Film – Michael Paul – JACKSON, MI, US
For those into music movies. A real good family friendly film. For those who love Meryl Streep, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, or Aidan Quinn.
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#Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
I think Quentin creates films that are masterpieces of creativity, just like Kubrick uses imagery. This film has really great characters who just come across with dialog that doesnt so much ring with wit but with imagination. The film uses actors who just turn their roles into scene stealers again and again. It is about gangsters who work for the big boss Maurice. Maurice doesnt show up too much except for a cat and mouse run that turns into a trial of shame and pain for this heavyweight criminal. Willis doesnt say too much, but he reflects his nonverbal as stoic until he turns into a baby talker with his uniquely attractive french girlfriend with a very round apple face. The two main thugs are Fishburne and Travolta, they both do a good job. I like the way Fishburne uses his speech and articulates so eloquently, he finally feels his bible verse during a murder raid, which will change his life. He decides to become a savior to another mixed up couple during a coffee shop burgler gone wrong. Travolta and Thurman are the most inventive and I loved when they share an intimate outing with drugs overtaking the real connection. They do the twist at a rock a billy diner with the old caddy cars as booths for the lucky few. Keitel plays an organized yuppie sweeper almost seen as godlike by his fame of handling dirty jobs so perfectly. He has a short take but its another creme de le creme character. The things I liked were the cool connection of the Travolta and Thurman, the twist and the fun of showing off their style. I liked Thurmans camera director meeting with him. She displays this air of creativity and in the moment fun even though on a high. Filming is fun, I liked to do little short character takes or shooting your friends like an interview. It was different. I liked the coffee shop. I liked the motel with the anonimity and intimacy they shared, with the overcast skies. I liked the thought of a big breakfast with blueberry pancakes and sausages with lots of maple syrup. I liked that they could go anywhere and experience great adventures like Bora Bora. I liked that Willis went back to help the oppressor out of so much degradation. I liked the way Fishburne wanted to walk the planet, meeting others sharing moments and being open to life. A must see flick.
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Critics and audiences worldwide hailed PULP FICTION as the star-studded picture that redefined cinema in the 20th Century! Writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Academy Award(R) Winner — Best Original Screenplay, 1994) delivers an unforgettable cast of characters — including a pair of low-rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), their boss’s sexy wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis) — in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating motion picture adventure that both thrills and amuses!
If you like slime-balls, you’ll love this movie – Mr. Critical – Cleveland, OH
Philosopher Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” comes to mind. I just can’t get interested in shallow, repetitive antics of such characters.
You can throw in clever dialog, cinematic techniques, A-list stars until you are blue in the face; but the utter hallowness of the movie remains.
Love It!!! – Jamisha King – MEMPHIS, TN, US
Bought this movie for my friend and he loves it. It is one of his all time favorite movies!!!
Like it – Chicoodee – Lompoc
Bought this for my husbands birthday and it was good. Initially when we watched it I thought, hmm, I wish this was a directors cut or unedited or something. After then watching the 2nd disc and hearing the method behind the madness of deleting parts the director had, it made the movie more complete and understandably enjoyable.
I was a little bummed by the box it came in. It arrived warped.
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#Rear Window (Collector’s Edition)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
This 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic was nominated for four Academy awards. I remember seeing it years ago and loving it. Seeing it again, I’m reminded of the way things used to be, and it is certainly worthwhile as a retro experience. It’s interesting to see the clothing styles and the dial telephones. There’s also a mystery that kept me interested.
Jimmy Stewart is cast in the role of a photographer with a broken leg. He’s confined to his apartment which is supposed to be in New York’s Greenwich village. From his window, he observes his neighbors. And the apartment house across the street just happens to be designed in a way that he can look into the windows of all the apartments and get a bird’s eye view into the lives other people’s lives. Every day a nurse, played by Thelma Ritter, comes to look in on him. She shares his interest in his neighbors and she counsels him about his love life. It seems his girlfriend, played by Grace Kelly, wants to marry him but he holds back because she is a society girl and he doubts if she can fit into his life of international travel to a wide variety of war-torn and isolated places. But as the film progresses, she gets more and more involved in what he suspects is a murder in the apartment across the courtyard. She’s beautiful, of course, with an unnaturally tiny waistline which was the style in those days, and she plays her part well. Raymond Burr is cast in the role of the supposed murderer. Did he or did he not kill his wife? This is the storyline that keeps the audience guessing.
The plot moves swiftly and it certainly captured my interest. And Hitchcock had a way of capturing suspense that is unique. It is successful as a film in most ways. But it’s 2010 now I’m a bit jaded. That why, in spite of my giving this film a high recommendation, I’m not exactly sure that it has stood the test of time.
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None of Hitchcock’s films has ever given a clearer view of his genius for suspense than Rear Window. When professional photographer J.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events… Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history.
movie “Rear Window” – Sue –
I have always loved this movie and was so happy to get it. I recieved it in excellant condition and very quickly. I reccomend this seller and will use them in the future.
Fun, Entertaining Two Hours – R. Swanson – New Mexico
This isn’t as tense and scary as a lot of Hitchcock films. It’s much more main-stream, American, 50’s era, middle of the road. That’s not entirely bad. The cast is great. James Stewart is charming and likable as usual, Grace Kelly is exquisite, as usual in her gorgeous Edith Head created wardrobe, Thelma Ritter is endearingly wise-cracking as usual.
The story is clever enough featuring a photographer who approaches life through the safe distance of a lens. I didn’t see a lot of chemistry between Kelly and Stewart; he seemed much older than she was, which strained the credibility of her adoration and patience. There were other things that didn’t really make sense, but overall the film pulls you along pleasantly.
Hitchcock fans will go gaga over it, uncritically, because it is, after all, Hitchcock. But if you just want to enjoy a movie on its own merits, this is fun, but a little dated.
It still creeps me out – C. Wagner – On the banks of the Wabash far away
Actually, “Rear Window” is a great film- suspense, Jimmy Stewart, and Raymond Burr as the brow beaten heavy you love to hate. The VHS version is fine with me. You can read the summary on Wikipedia. What creeped me out was the love interest between the aged old Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. (I did not need to see Jimmy with his shirt off either.) The makeout scenes could have been deleted, for all I care, or an older attractive actress could have been more demure. Oh, well… I mean…it was like some sweet young thing doing you know what with her grandfather. But, the VHS still stacks up well against most new releases. Watch for Alfred in the songwriter’s apartment.
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