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Got this Blu Ray from Amazon today and put it on tonight. The video and DTS Master Audio 5.1 are unreal. It’s like your at one of the best jazz concerts ever. I was expecting a good concert but this is blowing me away. If you are a jazz or Quincy Jones fan….get it.

Quincy Jones has had one heck of a career! Older jazz fans know him from his years as trumpeter and arranger for Dizzy Gillespie, sixties rock and roll fans know him from all the hits he produced with Lesley Gore and - of course - everyone knows him from his work on the mega-platinum albums of Michael Jackson. He even worked with early hip-hop artists with his “Back On The Block” CD - still one of my favorites.

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Jones is highly respected in every pop and jazz genre and has fostered young musicians with his involvement in school music programs and with scholarships.

This beautifully crafted - once-in-a-lifetime concert - was organized by Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs - in July 2008 and features, not only well know artists who Jones has worked with over his career - a literal “who’s who” including, Al Jarreau, Toots Theilmans, James Moody, Nana Mouskouri, Petula Clark, Chaka Kahn and the incredible Patti Austin - who in my opinion steals the show! It concert must have lated longer, but its edited here down to THREE HOURS! The combinations of performers is unique: Herbie Hancock, with Patti Austin vocalizing on the theme from the film “The Good , The Bad and the Ugly” start it off and later Miss Austin joins Miss Kahn for “Miss Celie’s Blues” from the film “The Color Purple”. (Oh did I mention that Jones composed lots of film scores, including this one? Michael Jackson was not in attendance at the party so All Jarreau and the a capella group Naturally 7, handle his hits. The camera work is excellent - as it usually is on the Montreux Jazz DVDs from Eagle Vision and there’s a nice 48-page booklet of photos and tributes included. (They could have used some of those pages to discuss Q’s career, but that’s just a minor quibble.

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The guy is still producing and making great music at age 76. Imagine what they’ll come up for his 80th Birthday party!

Steve Ramm

“Anything Phonographic”

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This is a beautiful film, well directed by Hugh Hudson in his theatrical film debut. It features the true life story of two Olympic runners, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) and Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympic Games and brought home the Gold.

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The film tells the story of these two individuals, who are as different from each other as different can be, and explores their personal drive and reasons for running. Eric Liddell is a staunch Scot and a fervid Presbyterian (He would put John Knox to shame!). The son of a missionary and himself a missionary by avocation, he runs because “God made him fast for a reason”. His running is a reconciliation of his faith and his passion, which is running. He runs for the glory of God. His faith always remains constant and pre-eminent in his life. His devotion to it causes some controversy during the Olympics, as a consequence of the stance he takes when he discovers that the preliminary mete for the 200 metre race would be held on a Sunday. Liddell simply refuses to run on the Sabbath! Luckily for Great Britain, Lord Andrew Lindsay (Nigel Havers), a gentleman and fellow competitor, graciously steps in and, as he had already won a gold medal in the hurdles, gives him his place in the 400 metre dash, which would take place on a Thursday. This would never happen today in the dog eat dog world of competitive sports, much less in the Olympics of today!

Harold Abrahams is completely different. A secular Jew and Cambridge scholar, he studies in the bastion of upper crust British society, struggling to fit in but always remaining the proverbial outsider. He has a passion for running that is motivated by his passion for winning. In his world, God has nothing to do with it. Winning is merely an affirmation of himself in a world that he believes thinks less of him because he is a Jew. Consequently, his desire to win is superceded only by his fear of losing. When two Cambridge dons, the Master of Trinity, played by the late John Gielgud, along with the Master of Caius, meet with Abrahams, they are concerned that his hiring of a personal professional trainer, Sam Mussabini (Ian Holm), to help him with his running is not quite in keeping with the amateur tradition of the Cambridge gentleman. Implicit in their criticism is an undercurrent of anti-Semitism, one to which Abrahams does not take kindly. It is that moment that defines what makes Abrahams run.

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This is ultimately a story about faith. With Liddell, it is about his faith in God. With Abrahams, it is about his faith in himself. Both were propelled to Olympic glory by it. It is a story sublimely told, though a little slow at times. It is not an action type of sports movie. It speaks gently of a time long passed, when the Olympics was truly the bastion of amateurs. It is amazing to see track events of the Olympics of 1924 depicted in all their simplicity…no flash, no glitz, no gimmicks. The runners ran on dirt tracks. They all carried spades in which to dig their footholds for their starting “blocks”, something that surprised me. This attention to detail permeates the entire film, and its evocation of a bygone era makes the film linger in one’s memory long after it has ended.

Ian Charleson gives a notable performances as Eric Liddell, infusing him with a gentleness and purity of spirit that is compelling, while Ben Cross plays Harold Abrahams with an intensity and singularity of purpose that is riveting. Their stellar performances, as well as those given by the excellent supporting cast, coupled with exquisite cinematography and the excellent direction of Hugh Hudson, make this film worthy of its 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture. The beautiful and soaring, synthesized music of Vangelis also won an Academy Award and went on to become a number one hit in the pop charts in 1982.

The athletes of the British running team who went with hope in their hearts and wings in their heels in the VIII Olympiad in Paris in 1924 is the focus of this movie, but there’s also the dynamics of what it means to be English, and the reconciliation of one’s soul and religious convictions in the Modern Age. Three of them are students from Cambridge. There is the quiet and soft-spoken Aubrey Montague, Lord Andrew Lindsey, and Harold Abrahams. As the head of Caius (pronounced Keys) College tells them when they first attend in 1919, they are the first post-war generation who have inherited the dreams of a generation that perished on the fields of France, a generation embodying “goodness, zeal,…and intellectual promise.”

The two main athletes here are a contrast from one another. One is Harold Abrahams, a Jew who wants to be seen as English as the fellow next to him. Hence his enrolling in all these clubs and fraternities in Caius College, from track, tennis, and even the Gilbert and Sullivan glee club-he wants to enter the Christian, Anglo-Saxon corridors of power, i.e. the old school tie. He succeeds in getting to an English girl in the form of Sybil Gordon, who doesn’t mind he’s Jewish. He can run like the wind, and nothing would fulfill his dream of being English more than winning so he’ll be accepted, but he’s so driven, hinging so much of his success on his winning, that he acts like its his own funeral when he loses in a race. He engages Sam Mussabini, a private and professional coach, which is contrary to the implied rules of Cambridge. When the heads of Trinity House and Caius House, (Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson) use their prep-school mentality to chastise him, saying Cambridge prided itself on the amateur attitude as opposed to the professional, and an esprit de Corps as opposed to individual glory, Abrahams tells them off.

Scottish Eric Liddle, on the other hand, is a missionary born in China, who plans to return there to continue God’s work, but the “muscular Christian” runs like a wild animal. With religion as a metaphor, he compares faith to running a race, describing the energy of the soul, the elation of breaking that tape, but he says that the power comes from within. “If you commit yourself to the love of Jesus Christ-that is how you win a straight race.” To win is to honour God, and the gift he was given. His faith is tested twice, between the missionary work and running, and his respect for God and running on the Sabbath. He’s clearly more Victorian, but also a Scot, choosing God over country instead of the more secular British. But will his faith help him triumph over favoured Americans Jackson Scholz and Charles Paddock?

The slow-mo shots of the running athletes, the looks of elation, the disappointment of those who didn’t qualify shows the various reactions of the soul. And New Age composer Vangelis Pathaniossou made his mark with his score, during the races and the scenes of Americans training, but especially the moving main theme that opens and closes the movie as the athletes are running along the ocean shore. This sequence itself is repeated twice, once where we know nothing about these athletes on who the cameras pan in on, but by the end, when the camera does its work, we know these people better, and they have names, as the credits identify actor and role. This was an early role for Nicholas Farrell (Montague), who was Horatio in Branagh’s Hamlet. But Ben Cross as the driven Abrahams, Ian Charleson as the debonair blond Christian Liddell, Nigel Havers as Lindsay, Ian Holm (Mussabini), and Alice Krige (Sybil) do well. And yes, the Head Porter at Caius College is Richard Griffiths, best known as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon, and quite thinner too.

As the winner of four Oscars including Best Picture, Chariots Of Fire remains an unpretentious film where the finish line is a moral, spiritual, and of course a physical goal, and how one must be true to oneself to reach that goal.
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Nothing is sacred to Matt Groening’s Futurama, so buckle your seatbelt and get ready to take off again with the crew of the Planet Express. Volume Two leaps directly into more sticky situations for Frye, Leela, Bender, Dr. Zoidberg, Amy, Hermes, and Professor Farnsworth. Back for more episodes are Zap Brannigan and Kiff, (Brannigan’s uniform is still waaaaaaay too short!) and more of Mom from Mom’s Robot Company.

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The only problem with Volume Two is that, again, there is not ‘Play All’ option on the discs, which is really annoying. You have to start each episode separately and hit Play a second time. (This is fixed by Volume Three). There are more commentaries and deleted scenes though, available for each episode.

Here’s a rundown of the episodes:

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Disc One:

Episode One-I Second That Emotion.

Nibbler chips a tooth biting Bender’s hinder. Everyone makes a fuss over Nibbler and Bender gets jealous. Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Bender has to wear an emotion chip tuned to Leela’s frequency so he will feel her pain of loss. Everyone winds out down in the sewer looking for nibbler and finds the mutants colony.

Episode Two-Brannigan, Begin Again.

Zapp and Kiff are stripped of their titles for destroying the DOOP station. This episode spoofs Midnight Cowboy in a hilarious, side-clutching parody. Professor Farnsworth hires Zapp and Kiff. Zapp fools Bender and Frye into mutiny against Leela, but then they have to reinstate her so she can save the day.

Episode Three-A Head In The Polls.

It’s election day. Bender sells his body for cash, and Richard Nixon’s head buys it to run for presidency against clones John Jackson and Jack Johnson. Leela and Frye have to help Bender get his body back and get Nixon out of the presidential race.

Episode Four-Xmas Story.

Nothing says xmas like a roaring fire and a super-squirter full of cognac. The crew visits the Catskills on a ski trip. The skiing is sidesplitting, especially the professors and Zoidberg’s. In Xmas of the future, the robot Santa Clause’s standards are too high, so *everybody* is naughty. If you are caught out after dark, Santa will cut your head off. Not one for the kiddies. “I’m going to shove coal so far up your stocking you’ll be coughing out diamonds.”

Episode Five-Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?

One of my favorites! Dr. Zoidberg becomes heavy with male jelly, and must visit his old scuttling grounds on his home planet for the mating frenzy. But Edna, the female of Zoidberg’s interest, becomes infatuated with Frye. Zoidberg challenges Frye to Claw-Plock, a fight to the death.

Disc Two:

Episode Six-The Lesser Of Two Evils.

While driving an old fashioned automobile at the Past-O-Rama, fry hits another bending unit named Flexo. Bender and Flexo become friends. The professor takes everyone into his bed to show off the jumbonion atom they have to deliver to the Miss Parallel Universe Contest. The crew requests a more comfortable setting for the showing, so Farnsworth takes them to the bath. The atom is stolen on the trip to the Contest, and Flexo is suspected.

Episode Seven-Put Your Head On My Shoulder.

Amy buys a new car and takes Frye on a drive to Mercury, where they run out of gas. Amy and Frye become an item afterward. But when Frye tries to break up with Amy by taking Zoidberg with them on a trip to Europa, Zoidberg crashes the car and has to attach Frye’s head onto Amy’s body.

Episode Eight-Raging Bender.

Hermes comes back from vacation with a brain slug on his head. In an incident at an ‘All My Circuits’ movie, Bender accidentally takes down The Masked Unit and is recruited for Ultimate Robot Fighting as Bender The Offender. When he looses popularity, he has to wear a tutu and fight as The Gender Bender. But the fight is really between Leela and an old acquaintance that hurt her feelings a long time ago.

Episode Nine-A Bicyclops Built For Two.

Everyone enters the internet, and spends time in chat rooms. During a virtual reality game, Leela finds one of her own species but Frye destroys him. Now she has to find him in real life. When he contacts her, she abandons a delivery to visit him, but discovers he’s not what he says he is. This episode spoofs ‘Married With Children’.

Episode Ten-A Clone Of My Own.

It’s Professor Farnsworth’s 150th birthday. Faced with his own mortality, he presents a clone he created 12 years ago from one of the shapelier growths on his back. Hubert Farnsworth. Hubert is such a brat that the Professor calls the Sunset Robots to take him away. Now the crew must find him and bring him back.

Disc three:

Episode Eleven-How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back.

Hermes makes a mistake and is demoted by the Central Bureaucracy and forced onto paid vacation. Morgan, a level 19 bureaucrat, replaces him, and is turned on by Frye’s filthiness. (Dirty Boy! Dirty Boy!) Morgan takes Bender’s brain because Bender catches her with Frye. It’s up to Hermes, who knows his way around Bureaucracy, to save the day.

Episode Twelve-The Deep South.

Instead of a pet license for Nibble, Hermes requisitions a mandatory fishing license. So the crew goes fishing. Bender catches a colossal big mouth bass that pulls the ship underwater. Frye meets a mermaid named Umbriel from the Lost City of Atlanta.

Episode Thirteen-Bender Gets Made.

Bender causes an accident on the Elzar show (digs on Emeril) and has to work off a debt. He falls into company with the robot mafia, and has to assist them on a heist of Zuban cigars from Leela and Frye.

Episode Fourteen-Mother’s Day.

Mom is back! The bony, chainsmoking old woman in the mechanical fat suit. Mom has always hated mother’s day, so she programs all the robots to rebel against humans unless she is elected Supreme Overlord of Earth. Mom is grumpy because Dr Farnsworth once played ‘pelvic pinochle’ with her, and she misses him. Now Farnsworth must step up and steal Mom’s bra.

Episode Fifteen-The Problem With Popplers.

This is one of my very favorites. Two days away from earth with no food, the Planet Express stops at a remote planet for food. They find a hole filled with fried shrimp and discover they are delicious. Frye says, “They’re kind of like $ex, except I’m having them.” Bender starts selling popplers and their franchise is bought by Fishy Joe’s. But Leela discovers Popplers are intelligent, and while trying to ban the consumption of them, the popplers violent space parents show up. Zap Brannigan is back as negotiator.

Disc Four:

Episode Sixteen-Anthology of Interest 1.

Professor Farnsworth activates his “What If” machine. Bender wonders, ‘What if I were 500 feet tall?’, Leela asks ‘What if I were more impulsive?’, and Frye asks ‘What if I never fell into the freezer?’. Guest stars Steven Hawking, Nichelle Nicols, and ex-VP Al Gore.

Episode Seventeen-War Is The H Word.

Love this episode too! Frye and Bender join the army to get their 5% discount on ham-flavored gum, but are sent to war. Leela must enroll as a man to save them, because Zap Brannigan doesn’t allow women in the armed forces. Spoofs M.A.S.H. Bender becomes a hero and is planted with a bomb set to explode when he says the word “AxSS”. Time is short for Leela and Frye to save him. Very funny shower scene in this episode, plus the hilarious scene where Henry Kissinger’s head tells the Ball-People that, in war, we’ve all seen too many body bags and ball sacks.

Episode Eighteen-The Honking.

Bender’s uncle dies and leaves him his castle, on the condition that he spends one night in it. The crew stays the night, but Bender becomes haunted by a strange car. After consulting a circus fortune telling booth, Bender discovers he’s a Were-car. This episode makes fun of Christine and Dracula.

Episode Ten-The Cryonic Woman.

Bender and Frye steal the Planet Express ship and go for a joyride. Leela is held responsible and all three are fired. Through an employment chip mix-up, Frye gets a job as cryogenic counselor in charge of waking freezers. He is surprised to see his old girlfriend Michelle waking up in the future. Michelle doesn’t fit in and convinces Frye to go to the future with her. Guest stars Paulie Shore.

As in Volume One, the humor of Futurama is adult and racy, but campy and hilariously enjoyable. It’s a warped comedy with a naughty sense of humor, so if that is your cup of tea, run out and grab all four seasons! Enjoy!

The Pitts…. still on the air
Cedric the Entertainer…. still on the air
30 Seconds to Fame…. still on the air

Futurama…. Cancellation Announced

You have got to be kidding me. Shows like Cedric, The Pitts, and 30 Seconds to fame…not to mention Married by America, Temptation Island 3, and Wanda at Large still get production dollars, but they are cutting Futurama, and they already cancelled the Family Guy? Jeez. There truly is no accounting for taste. Futurama really hits it’s stride in Season 2, but even Season 1 was sharp, and well written. Buy this DVD and you will be turned on to the best show you’ve never seen. Trust me and everyone else that write a review for this DVD set, you will be glad you bought it. And try out Season 1 and the Family Guy Seasons 1 and 2. Now that is MUST SEE TV.
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This DVD is very sweet and generally good-natured. At the same time, it is a little odd. In one episode, one of the friends borrows another’s sunglasses while she sleeps. She accidentally breaks them and then simply returns them to the sleeping friend without saying or doing anything. Only after others borrow and further accidentally break them, and then the owner goes home in tears, is there any resolution. It doesn’t seem to me that there is any good message in this. It doesn’t show examples of taking responsibility or of conflict resolution or anything. That said, the DVD is appealing and has a great theme song!

I got this from the library along with some other vids, such as Barney & the Wiggles. I was not expecting… this. The theme song is super cheerful and hard to get out of your head (a little creepy to me, because NO ONE is that happy) I thought my daughter who is almost 2 wouldn’t be interested since the little characters don’t really talk, but BOY was I wrong! Thanks to this video, Dora has been displaced as my daughter’s obsession. If I could get “kitty” squash, I think she’d eat it. Anyway, I haven’t seen the other videos in this series, but here’s what I have to say.

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Good:

Short intro with limited/no commercials at the beginning.

Intro is VERY identifiable as “kitty” so my daughter calms down and knows she’s gotten what she wants right away (unlike some other movies which leave her guessing and doubting my reassurances.)

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Divided into short episodes, so my daughter can get a fix without me having her in front of the tube for an hour. (and she doesn’t get bored)

Bad:

Ending credits take FOREVER. They seem almost as long as the actual show, so I frequently have to FFWD to the next ep. if I’m letting my daughter watch more than one so she doesn’t have a coronary from the waiting.

Questionable point/purpose/moral. Maybe I’m over thinking this, but it seems so odd that the “friends” take things that belong to the others even though the owner has expressed a desire to not share, breaking said items and not owning up to it, and are getting mad at each other and not forgiving each other for days. I guess… they seem to be modeling the same behaviors that young kids exhibit (toddlers), but without explaining that we’d rather people share, take turns, own up to their mistakes, forgive each other, etc. I don’t know…

Oh, and you will have that intro song stuck in your head forever.

Despite the negatives, however, I gave this a pretty high rating since I will be purchasing the DVD tonight. The other Hello Kitty DVD’s (they appear to be from an 80’s TV show) we’ve since rented from the library have come nowhere close to this in popularity in my household.

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Finally, Zac Synder’s vision as it was meant to be. I can’t believe they milked the DVD release for literally ever last penny they could. Nevertheless, I am incredibly pleased to own ‘Watchmen: the Ultimate Cut’.

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With ‘the Black Freighter’ interwoven into segments throughout the film, Synder’s phenomenal and slavishly faithful adaptation of the ‘Watchmen’ is complete. It extends the movie to over three and a half hours long and fills in the missing pieces from the graphic novel along with a few other small live-action scenes, that weren’t in the ‘Director’s Cut’, making it all the more magnificently epic, fresh and unique. The extra material included is massive and comprehensive, which is only fair to the fans, who feel milked and cheated, or who just love the ‘Watchmen’.

‘The Black Freighter’ is a grim tale that parallels the lives of different Watchmen, particularly Rorschach’s, and their compulsion to fight evil everywhere they think they find it, blinded to the consequences of their actions. Tremendously realistic and beautiful animation and the voice of Gerald Butler, bring this intriguing and fan-favorite aspect of the story to life, but it’s the effective and pragmatic interweaving of it, that reflects on the Watchmen and stays true to the original source.

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The film itself is still uncompromising, uncommercial, and unprecedented. It’s still the ‘Watchmen’ movie you always wanted, but never thought you’d get, but now, even more so. All the crime-noir, political satire, superhero mythology and science fiction is still there, so unless you forgot or missed the most ambitious, most reverent, most obsessively faithful (to a point) cinematic adaptation of a graphic novel ever and all the stunning and innovative movie magic that went with it, then there won’t be much else new for you to get your hopes up for.

O, except maybe for the 4 additional discs with extra material, the set includes:

Disc 1

- Watchmen, the Ultimate Cut

- Commentary from Zac Snyder and Dave Gibbons

Disc 2

- The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics

- Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes

- Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World

- Watchmen: Video Journals

- Under the Hood

- Story Within a Story: The Books of Watchmen

Disc 3

- Digital Copy of the Theatrical Version.

Discs 4 & 5

- Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comics (325 minutes & in it’s own case within the box)

I think there’s a music video or two as well, and the box it comes in, is pretty snazzy too.

I love ‘Watchmen: the Ultimate Cut’. I’m glad I bought it. If you’re a fan of the ‘Watchmen’, and need the complete version of the film, then you’ll love it and be glad you bought it too.

I knew there was a reason I was waiting to buy the movie (aside from the fact that my wife doesn’t want me to). I loved the film (she hated it) and have wanted to see the animated portions done on DVD at the time the film was in theaters. Now, I can get both on one disc (and watch it only when she’s not around).

The fact that it’s incorprated into the Director’s Cut of the film is awesome. Can’t wait for it to arrive!
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Dr Brier is the best…read the book first but the footage brings out new information and is not only plausible but truely revolutionary.

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Let me start off by saying that I read the manga before buying the anime, so it influenced my viewing experience quite a bit.

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That being said, I feel the series was an amusing adaptation of the GTO story and characters. However, after waiting months for the second boxed set to be released, I was somewhat let down (though not enough to make me regret the purchase). The ending was my main sticking point in the series. It just didn’t fit at all. My guess is that the anime series got ahead of the manga at the time (as often happens in Japan), ratings went down, no third season was secured and an ending had to be wrapped up in the last few episodes of the second set.

Other than that, the series is funny and at times almost shows a glimmer of the downright touching bits contained in the manga.

This leads me to my second, slightly less major gripe: the changes in the storyline aside, there were many critical points in many of the character’s backgrounds and certain key plot points that were changed in a debilitating manor or removed completely. Many of the points that were changed seemed to have been modified to “purify” the show for TV (a shock to me, considering the racious nature of Japanese TV (fan service anyone?)) due to their sensitive subject matter. The changing of these points, specifically Aizawa’s reason for hating teachers and Kanzaki’s revenge plot against Aizawa (and the complete removal of the REAL reason Kanzaki wanted revenge in the first place and her subsequent suicide attempt), removed the gravity from the situations, dumbed down the series, and inevitably lead to the unsatisfactory ending mentioned in the Editorial Review (which needs editing by the way: it was Uehara Anko causing trouble on the trip, Aizawa refused to even go on the trip, let alone cause trouble on it).

Personally though, I implore you to read the manga as it is far easier to appreciate and well worth the read. I feel you can appreciate the anime significantly more if you understand the characters and their real motivations before you watch this series. It will help you to avoid any confusions one might have about certain events, such as why Yoshikawa and Uehara end up together even after all of the abuse she puts Yoshikawa through, why Kanzaki and Aizawa are at each other’s throats, and to tie up loose ends such as what happens regarding the whole Teshigawara mess (they reintroduce him for a few brief seconds for what seems like no good reason (they apparently thought hard about writing his second plot in the manga into the anime, but whoops, no money)).

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Overall, while having significantly less character depth and gravity and an ending that falls flat on its face, the series is an amusing and enjoyable romp through the highlights of the first handful of volumes of the manga.

I fully recommend this set to anyone. It is just so hilarious and brillantly written. I’ve watched the entire series and want more.
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Set List:

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1) Jumpin’ Jack Flash

2) Shattered

3) She Was Hot

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4) All Down the Line

5) Loving Cup (w/ Jack White)

6) As Tears Go By

7) Some Girls

Just My Imagination

9) Faraway Eyes

10) Champagne and Reefer (w/ Buddy Guy)

11) Tumbling Dice

12) You Got the Silver

13) Connection

14) Sympathy for the Devil

15) Live With Me (w/ Christina Aguilera)

16) Start Me Up

17) Brown Sugar

18) Satisfaction

Though the actual track ‘Shine a Light’ from Exile on Main Street is not played during the (film version of this) set, it is an excellent title for this rock documentary as Martin Scorcese is shining a light so to speak on the Stones themselves, and this light shines mighty bright and mighty close. But Scorcese is not as invasive as you might expect. And this documentary/concert film does not feel like an expose as much as a celebration of a band that still has some kick left in it. Instead of being overly reverent and even elegaic (as perhaps he was in The Last Waltz) Scorcese, takes a lighthearted & lighthanded approach. The first thing that Scorcese documents is the planning of the show itself and the miscommunications that took place between what the Stones wanted (a big venue) and what Martin wanted (an intimate one); miscommunications that could have been avoided had the band been available to actually meet face to face with Scorcese, but these and other miscommunications are treated more as running jokes than as genuine problems. Another running joke is that meticulous detail man Martin Scorcese (perhaps the only living director with a fame that rivals the Stones own) wants to know ahead of time what the set list will be or at least what the first song will be so that he can plan his first shot, but the Stones keep it a secret until seconds before the show begins. Its funny even though no one really thinks for a second that with his arsenal of cameras on and off stage there is any chance that Martin Scorcese will not get the exact shots he wants. But even while having some laughs with the band (at the bands and at his own expense), Scorcese is excellent at capturing what an immense task it is working with a band that is not used to surrendering control nor opening up on camera (and Scorcese inserts several old interviews into the concert footage to document Mick’s ability to dodge questions with charm and Keith’s utter refusal to play the q & a game at all). The irony is that the Stones have been public figures for over four decades now but we really still don’t know them very well. Scorcese does a very good job at remedying this situation by peeling back the Stones mystique and allowing us to see the real personalities behind the public performances. As with his Dylan documentary, he does this by going though the immense Stones Interviews archive and coming up with some very rare interview footage (much of it from Asian and European tv programs). We get to hear the notoriously reticent Charlie discussing an alternative career as a painter, and Ron Wood discussing Keith and how he is nothing like his public image, “Keith’s a very decent and very moral guy”. The interviews are culled from all phases of their career and are very brief and very selectively inserted between the live songs. Most of them are humorous and/or ironic. Notably absent: any mention of Brian Jones or Mick Taylor or Bill Wyman.

No doubt there will be Stones fans who wish that Scorcese had teamed up with the ‘72 or ‘76 or ‘78 Stones, when the band was a bit more like Scorcese’s screen outlaws, but better late than never.

For Stones fans the thrill (and it is immediate and lasts the entire show) is having the feeling of being onstage with the Stones. Jack White, Buddy Guy, and Christina Aguilera all do guest stints onstage but we as audience members feel like we are onstage as well and this is the truly brilliant thing about this film. The cameras are so close that we actually get to see the band play (and see who plays which guitar lines) and hear the between song banter between band members. Scorcese allows us to affirm or reaffirm that Mick is without a doubt the leader of this band and his relentless energy and seductive charms seem to wow his bandmates as much as they wow the crowd. Micks age shows in the close-ups but his real instruments, his voice & his body, seem completely immune from the ravages of time. Keith, at times, seems a bit lost (as when Christinsa Aguilera steps onstage) and he misses chords in a few places, but Scorcese’s intimate style really serves Richards well. He is an intensely likable guy who loves what he does and still seems to feel adorably awkward when he takes center stage to sing “You Got the Silver” & “Connection.” He is in many ways Mick’s opposite. The chemistry of the band and especially the chemistry that exists between the Glimmer Twins is the thing that continues to fascinate and continues to evade documentation.

The show is intense and intimate and revealing. The guest appearances are well chosen. And the ending (which I will not reveal) is perfect.

Note on the soundtrack: The 2 cd edition of the Shine a Light soundtrack will contain four bonus tracks (”Paint it Black”, “Little T & A”, “I’m Free”, & “Shine a Light”).

Going to see a concert nowadays takes all one’s resources. Ticket prices often go up to three digits, and most likely the best view is watching the band perform on a video screen. Sometimes people (myself included) are willing to travel long distances to see one’s favorite acts perform onstage. Getting to see the biggest bands, like Paul McCartney, U2, and The Dave Matthews Band is difficult at best. Ironically, the cost of a ticket to see The Rolling Stones play in Martin Scorsese’s documentary/concert film ‘Shine a Light’ is about the same as it would cost to see a live concert when many of their featured songs were popular. It ain’t like it used to be.

However, the sheer power and able musicianship haven’t gone stale nor retro, so the film is a real treat for those of us who have all but given up on seeing them in person.

It is a testament to Scorsese’s directing abilities that the prologue, the intermittent vintage vignettes, and the conclusion are uncluttered. We get our introduction to the band and the various methods of setting up the stage, the play lists, and the operating procedures of the filming. Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese go at the logistics in a way that has tension, but never garners animosity or loses affection for the project. In many ways, it is a labor of love for both sides, but it is Scorsese who seems the most piqued by the end.

On stage it becomes a celebration. There’s no arguing these guys are dedicated. After an exuberant rendition of “All Down the Line,” an early song, Charlie Watts looks directly into the camera and with a few facial gestures lets us know without pretense how demanding it is to be one of the nimblest drummers of one of the most celebrated rock bands ever. Equally flexible is a slender Mick Jagger who still struts his stuff as well as ever. Rising to the occasion is the guitar interplay of Ron Wood and Keith Richards, whose camaraderie outmatches Keith and Mick.

There’s good will and good vibes all around that never seem forced. The concerts draw from San Bernadetto and New York City, and the former concert is a benefit for The Bill Clinton Foundation. Near the end of the introduction, we get the former President, his senator wife, Hillary, and several relatives who get a chance to meet and have pictures taken with the band. On stage, they’ve never seemed happier. The energy has always been there, but the warmth between the band members seldom has seemed more cohesive. This concert shows them having fun, almost like they’ve taken themselves too seriously in the past. Never has Mick Jagger seemed so willing to share the stage. There are moments that Keith is front and center with Mick off of the venue. Then, Mick gets almost deferential with guest guitarist, Buddy Guy, and singers Jeff White III and Christine Aguilar. Even the back up members in the brass section, the dancer-singers, and the other musicians get the spotlight. As Keith says in a fairly recent interview, “I don’t THINK when I’m up there. All I can do is feel,” and more simply, “We love what we do.” (Yet, I couldn’t help but notice Mick stop in the middle of the stage while he was singing “Jumping Jack Flash” as he was in the sites of a pretty fan’s picture cell phone. Some things never change.)

After a huge catalog that forty-five active years can garner, they bring a lot during their vintage performances. The play list? Well, there will always be a bone to pick, but what makes the “light shine through” is their ability to play any song and make it really rock. I was surprised, for instance, by the number of songs they drew from `Some Girls,’ which happened to be my first Stones’ album, but while I don’t think it’s their best selection, I loved what they did with it in concert. Besides several tracks from `Some Girls,’ they take highlights across the board, but showcase variety in their repertoire. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash, as an opener, “Tumbling Dice,” “Brown Sugar,” and “Start Me Up” are The Stones playing big, but, then, “Far Away Eyes” is a sample country serving that is contrasted with blues numbers like “I’m Free”. Acoustically, they play just fine with “You Got the Silver” and “As Tears Go By”.

For a concert movie, they still know how to show everybody a good time. They are vintage rockers: smooth, seasoned, but still with a kick after all these years.
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Watch SLC Punk Online. Movie Title: SLC Punk Average customer review: SLC Punk is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download SLC Punk

Being an ex-punk (my punk years were 1978-1983) I didn’t expect much from this movie. what a pleasant surprise! Rather than the fashion clones most movies portray, the punks were all individuals, no two the same. Matthew Lillard was absolutely brilliant. I agree that he is probably one of the best and most under-rated actors of his generation.

The soundtrack was HOT too! They included many of the bands that were part of punk’s eclectic mix, including Roxy Music (mother of pearl at that!), all the way through the Dead Kennedy’s. The only reason I did not give it a 5 was that the punk scene was portrayed as much more violent than the one I experienced. Then again, I was in San Francisco at an earlier time - perhaps SLC punks were more into thrashing.

Even the commentary on the mods was appropriate! The entire film had much more depth and was much more thought-provoking than other more “serious” films I had recently watched. One other caveat - I would have liked to see more women with short hair. Try this movie - it will surprise you!

I am not trying to insult anyone here, but I have read dozens of reviews of this excellent movie, and it seems a lot of folks miss the point.

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This is a great movie, and I’ll tell you why: it is a very very authentic insight, not into the punk scene in 1980s America (which there was one, but it wasn’t very widespread or mainstream), but into adolescence and the transitions into maturity we all have to make. It is a very good study on what happens to the identities we assume for ourselves as teenagers when we discover, in our early twenties, that they no longer fit.

If you haven’t seen it yet, you may not want to read this review any further.

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Stevo was a poser! I can’t say it any plainer than that. He admits it too, so anyone who wastes the energy to type “Stevo wasn’t very convincing as a punk,” or criticizes the punk scene as portrayed as not accurate, completely miss the point of this movie. They weren’t punks! They were teenagers, trying to find an identity for themselves. They knew what their parents and city were offering wasn’t for them, but they had no clue what was, so they were trying something out. And for most of them (let us not forget Mike, my favorite character) the whole punk thing didn’t stick.

If you view the movie through that lense, it was fantastic. Lillards performance was outstanding. The music was great. The script was very witty and entertaining. And yes, I imagine the punk movement in SLC, if there ever was one, was pretty lame. I know it was in the midwest where I grew up. That doesn’t take away from the movie - it makes it more authentic and accessible.
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I have been a fan of Dragonball for years. I have the anime from Dragonball to Dragonball GT. But after seeing this so called movie I felt apart of my childhood destoryed within a hour and 30 minutes. So where do I begin? Well first, the Story was a mess there was little to nothing about Dragonball in it, and the pace felt rushed. There was no time for any plot development, or character development. Basically You meet Goku, then Bulma, Roshi, Yamacha and then final battle. So you can’t get to know the characters, and understand why they are on this quest to collect all 7 Dragonballs before Piccolo. Also, it felt Fox was using other material from other famous movies and cartoon shows. Films like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, ans some materical from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Plus the movie never explain som important factors, for example, how does Piccolo escape his imprisonment, how does he hook up with Mai, How can Mai shape shift, Why does Piccolo need the Dragonball and so on. Second problem with this movie is the actors. Poorly casted, and they poorly portray their characters. For example; Justin Chatwin makes Goku sound and act like Robbie (played by Chatwin) in War of the Worlds. He does want to take on this mission to save the world, complains all the time and tries to hit on girls. Please if you have see the manga or anime you know Goku isn’t like that at all. He stand for good and justice and all the heroic stuff; many Main characters stand for. Thrid, the speical effects look like some thing for the late 80s or early 90s. I can tell you used guide wires and the Kai or engery waves looked fake. I mean come on Look at Iron Man when Tony shots the glass in his lab they looked more realist then what you see in this movie. To rap this review up after watching Dragonball Evolution you don’t feel they put any effort in this movie, they don’t want to please the fans, or get people who don’t know what Dragonball is into the series, no Fox did it to make a qucik Buck. So I say Skip It.

Being unfamiliar with the graphic novels, anime, or video games that have made the Dragonball saga a world-wide sensation, I viewed “Dragonball: Evolution” with an open mind, hoping to see the kind of frenetic martial arts, magic, and humor I had enjoyed in “Mortal Kombat”, a few years back. Well…”Mortal Kombat” this ain’t, and despite the presence of legendary “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” star, Chow Yun-Fat (who must have needed the paycheck), I can’t recommend this turkey to anyone over the age of 4!

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The plot is confusing; thousands (or 2,000) years ago, an insane demon lord, Piccolo (if somebody named me that, I’d be pretty mad, too), and his evil right-hand demon, Ozaru, nearly destroyed the world, until he was bound within the earth by seven sorcerors who gave their lives creating the mystical Dragonball orbs that focused their energies. Now, with a ‘blood moon’ total solar eclipse approaching, Piccolo (an unrecognizable James Marsters) is somehow free (how he accomplished that isn’t explained), and gathering up the Dragonballs (which, together, according to legend, will allow the possessor the fulfillment of one ‘perfect’ wish). He plans to use it to release Ozaru, and finish what he started, before (uh, if any wish would be granted, why not simply WISH the job to be finished?)

Meanwhile, in true “Karate Kid” fashion, young Goku (Justin Chatwin) is being trained by his Asian grandfather (Randall Duk Kim) martial arts, and harnassing The Force (oops, I mean, his Ki). Goku’s past is unknown to him (to be revealed on his 18th birthday), and to celebrate the birthday, Grandpa gives him a Dragonball (which flashes images of Ozaru to him). Of course, Goku cannot display his formidable skills to his high school classmates (even the hot Asian girl he secretly likes, Chi Chi, played by pretty Jamie Chung). With the violent death of the old man, Goku learns of Piccolo’s quest, and races to gather all the Dragonballs, himself, joined by greedy Bulma (Emmy Rossum, who must have needed the paycheck, also), a thief, Yamcha (Joon Park), and happy-go-lucky Master, Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat). The story goes downhill, from here…First the Dragonballs are all-important, then they’re not, then Chi Chi is revealed as a martial arts expert, who isn’t very formidible, then (with very unimpressive CGI), Goku’s ’secret’ is revealed, but it turns out IT isn’t that essential, anyway. The story keeps building to less-than-overwhelming climaxes, with a finale that had me wondering why I’d stuck with the film so long!

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The Special Features are so-so (the gag reel is funny, an interview with Justin Chatwin doesn’t really provide much more insight than a Google search, and a ‘Making of’ featurette of the Chi Chi vs. Chi Chi fight scene is informative, although the scene isn’t the lynchpin of the movie that it is implied as).

“Dragonball: Evolution” is a poor movie…skip it, you won’t be missing anything!
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