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Rollerball

John Houseman, Maud Adams

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Be aware that reviews of the original and the lousy remake are mixed together here

+ SAD OLD MAN 3
+ ladies and gentlemen, our corporate anthem!

Amazon has mixed up the reviews for the original Rollerball (with James Caan from 1975) and the remake (with Chris Klein from 2002). The customer reviews for the original are generally fairly good (user rating average at IMDb is 6.4/10, above average), for the remake the opposite (2.7/10, ...

Mad Max (Special Edition)

Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel

MGM (Video & DVD), 2002

mad max ftw!

+ Awesome Post-Apocalyptic Setting!
+ The Best Post-Nuclear, Action Film Ever to Hit!
+ The first the better !
+ Don't overlook the supporting actors!

City of Hope

Jace Alexander, Angela Bassett

Sony Pictures, 1995

Pay no attention to Maltin...

+ A big idea
+ Slightly didactic, immensely powerful
+ Sayles is a Master

Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition

Anna Aleksakhina, Konstantin Anisimov

Fox Lorber, 2003

Not for Everybody

+ A Glimpse of Russian Art, Culture and History
+ Worth the effort

I love this movie but I do realize it's not for everybody. In a single long take we travel trough Russian history in the great Russian Art museum, The Hermitage. The Hermitage is incredible, the art is great and the sense of Russian History as seen through art throughout the ages is unique. This ...

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott

Sony Pictures, 2004

GREAT FILM

+ IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE.?
+ Peace is our profession

Simply Kubrick at his best! Directing, writing, the cast all showing how to make a good film!

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Mel Gibson, Tina Turner

Warner Home Video, 1997

Lush continuation of 'The Road Warrior'. Buy It.

+ No future in feudalism and slavery
+ Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
+ One of those universal epics

GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta

Warner Home Video, 2004

Goodfellas HD DVD

+ Goodfellas (Blu-Ray review)
+ Dope
+ Classic Mob Movie

The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn

Warner Home Video, 2003

A Great Story and Movie

+ The Right Stuff
+ A Good but Somewhat Disjointed History of the Mercury 7 Astronauts
+ Yay Astronauts!
+ "Oh Lord, what a heavenly light!"

The Road Warrior

Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence

Warner Home Video, 1997

Unique and Marvelous.

+ Best movie ever made
+ Max used to be a cop with a family
+ WOW
+ A fight to the death for gasoline

Full Metal Jacket (Limited Edition Collector's Set)

Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa

Creative Design Art, 2001

Blu-ray MUCH better than DVD version

+ one of the best "war" films, yet it's not really about "war"
+ A 1960s "Paths of Glory"

My comments only concern the DVD versus Blu-ray issue. I have an older version of the DVD (Stanley Kubrick Collection, white box) and the deluxe Blu-ray version. My experience has been that DVDs mastered in high definition look identical to the Blu-ray version (either on a Blu-Ray player or an ...

The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection

Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel

Criterion, 2000

Faith-Stretcher!

+ Last Temptation- The Real Story
+ important discussion movie
+ A very human Jesus, one would actually follow...