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Sergio Corbucci is primarily responsible for the emergence of the spaghetti western film genre. I know, I know; you are saying to yourself right now that Sergio Leone’s movies starring Clint Eastwood define the genre, and you are correct in this assertion. But Corbucci’s film “Django” made it possible for people like Leone to make his vast contributions to the genre. “Django,” with its gritty atmosphere, grim violence, and delightfully slick conclusion set the stage for everything that came after. Fortunately, director Corbucci didn’t quit making films after his initial success; he made several other films including this 1968 classic spag western, “The Great Silence.” Starring the always wonderfully warped Klaus Kinski and French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, Corbucci’s film is an intriguing entry in the universe of Italian westerns. For years the only way to acquire a copy of the movie was to shell out big bucks for cruddy looking VHS dupes usually three or four times removed from the original source. Not anymore. Now you can watch Corbucci’s film with great sound, a nice picture, and you even get a few extras. It’s too bad they don’t make films like this one anymore.

Trintignant plays Silence, a brooding, mute gunslinger moving from place to place gunning down bad guys. He’s not a bad guy himself, though, because he only kills goons who prey on innocent people. A burning need for personal revenge fuels these vendettas–several men slaughtered Silence’s own family when he was a young child, cutting our hero’s throat in the bargain. Silence survived the attack and, even as he avenges innocents egregiously wronged, seeks out the evil ones responsible for his own personal tragedy. And find them he will even if it means dying in the process. Things start to heat up when the mute avenger stumbles across a band of rogue Mormons hiding out in the snow covered mountains. A banker in a small town has put a price on these outcasts’ heads, leading to a search and destroy mission conducted by every slimy bounty hunter in the land. Leading the charge to bring in these “baddies” is none other than the psychopathic Loco (Kinski), a smirking thug who shoots first and asks questions later. You just know Loco and Silence will have a showdown somewhere along the line.

In the meantime, several subplots help move the film along: a black woman widowed when Loco gunned down her husband hires Silence to avenge his memory, a new sheriff who refuses to go along blindly with Loco’s violent ways arrives in town, and the banker funding most of the mayhem carries an intriguing secret of great interest to Silence. The tension slowly builds as Loco and Silence head towards their final, fatal showdown (not giving anything away here–all of these films have a final, fatal showdown). Will the new sheriff manage to remove Loco and his fellow thugs from the equation before the bullets start to fly? Will the banker manage to eradicate Silence and the sheriff by employing the wily Loco? Will Silence avenge the horrors visited upon his family years before? All of these questions, and many others, find some resolution by the end of the movie. By the way, the conclusion to “The Great Silence” is not at all what you would expect from a movie in this genre. I think the end alone qualifies this movie as a must see for the spag western fan. It’s unique in its grimness.

“The Great Silence” is really a fairly standard revenge film of the type often seen in the spaghetti western canon. What sets Corbucci’s picture apart is the distinctive atmosphere, the unusual backdrop against which the characters play out their fates. Most low budget Italian western films take place in blasted, desert like landscapes full of wind, dust, and tumbleweeds. The sun beats down on the characters in these films with an unrelenting intenseness, throwing off shadows that stretch for miles, turning faces into dry leather masks, and drenching every living being in a constant sheen of sweat. “The Great Silence” definitely doesn’t take place in a desert. Instead, Corbucci opted for snow-covered mountains, ice covered lakes and rivers, and a town with streets mired in deep mud. The freezing cold of winter in the “The Great Silence” acts as a metaphor of sorts, an external symbol of the icy detachment of a speechless gunslinger as he methodically and ruthlessly tracks down his enemies. Throw in a pounding score from veteran Italian master Ennio Morricone and you have all the elements of a great western. I’ve seen films in the genre that are better than “The Great Silence,” but not very many.

A few extras on the DVD version of the film are noteworthy. There’s an alternate ending for the film, a “happier” ending without any audio that employs a standard “last minute save” technique seen in dozens of other films. Corbucci apparently shot this conclusion in case audiences rejected his downbeat original idea. I think the film works great with the original ending if for no other reason than it is more realistic. You’ll want to pick up Corbucci’s movie if you like westerns. The picture quality is quite good, there are extras, and it’s just plain fun to watch. Pick up “Django” while you’re at it and make it a double feature.

You can not go wrong with Sergio Corbucci’s THE GREAT SILENCE. The movie is simply one of the best spaghetti westerns ever directed and belongs to the priceless category of cult movies. If you consider that, apart of the haunting musical score of Ennio Morricone, Klaus Kinski is one of the main characters of the film, nothing, except maybe the bad quality of the sound, can prevent you now from ordering this Image DVD.

You’ll find in THE GREAT SILENCE moments of anthology such as a love scene between a mute and a black woman (I remind you that the scene is happening in 1998 in the Utah mountains) with a violin concert as musical background. You’ll suffer with the hero -Jean-Louis Trintignant- who is mute and has to face the fiendish Klaus Kinski with a burnt hand, and bullets in the shoulder AND in the other hand. I hardly mention that it is snowing during the entire movie and that the final scene of the GREAT SILENCE is so pessimistic that the movie’s producer asked Sergio Corbucci to shoot an alternative ending you will find as bonus feature.

Other bonus features include a trailer and an interview of SID AND NANCY’S director Alex Cox. Images are average and the sound, as I mentioned it before, poor.

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The legendary Star Blazers TV series (the Americanized version of Japan’s “Space Battleship Yamato”) has finally arrived on DVD! …But don’t get too excited yet, fans, because this DVD edition (which includes the first 5 episodes of Star Blazers) comes to us NOT from a major anime studio, but from a little company called Voyager Entertainment. It seems that Voyager holds exclusive rights to all things Yamato, and that is very bad news for the millions of rabid Star Blazers enthusiasts in this country (and the world). Why? Because it appears that the folks at Voyager know about as much about how to make a DVD as my cousin Bubba does! If you can manage to wrest this disc away from its fancy case (complete with typos on the back cover!) without breaking it in half (and that’s a big IF, `cause this bad boy is constructed like a plastic bear trap!) and pop it into your player, you will immediately be struck by the obvious shoddiness of this production. Even the obligatory FBI warning looks cheesy! Then there’s the menu design: nothing but a solid gray screen with two little pictures at the bottom left (one for PLAY and one for CHAPTERS)! Select PLAY to start the feature, and step back in time to the year 1979 - long before DVDs were even thought of. In 1979, the audio and video quality of this disc would have seemed good. Keep that in mind, and you won’t be quite so disappointed. Now you can sing along to the inspiring theme song, marvel at the stylish animation, and savor the sophisticated storyline. Remember that an inferior Star Blazers disc is a whole lot better than nothing…and nothing is what we’ve had for far too long. And unfortunately, since Voyager OWNS the Star Force, a properly restored version of this excellent animated program may not be available for many years…if ever. For that reason alone, I will (reluctantly) recommend this disc. The picture is a bit grainy and the sound warbles in places, but it’s still _Our_ _Star_ _Blazers_! Keep your digital expectations low and let your imagination soar with this blast from the past! …1 star for the DVD, 5 stars for the show.

NOTE: I read on the Web that Voyager is waiting for the little consumer response cards (included with the DVD) to come back before starting on a Volume 2 disc, so if you want more Star Blazers, make sure you fill the card out and send it in (YOU provide the stamp, of course).

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar Part I, contains the first five episodes (of 26) of the first season of the cult-favorite Americanized Japanese Anime series from the early 1980’s.

For the uninitiated, here’s a rundown of the plot. In 2199 Earth was under attack by an “evil” alien race called the Gamilons. The Gamilons bombed earth with “planet bombs” which destroyed the planet and emitted high levels of radiation, thus driving mankind into underground cities. In one Earth year the planet would become uninhabitable. Queen Starsha of Iscandar offers mankind hope in the form of the Cosmic DNA which would cure all mankind from the radiation sickness. She sends Earth a message along with powerful technology that will allow mankind to travel to Iscandar to get the Cosmic DNA. The Star Force is formed to travel to Iscandar to fetch the Cosmic DNA. Their faithful battleship is the Argo, a renovated WWII era navy battleship remade into a Starship. There is just one minor problem though, Iscandar is 148,000 Light Years away. No one has ever traveled that far before. More importantly, the Star Force only has one year to travel there and back for a total of 296,000 Light Years.

Here is a summary of the first five episodes included on this DVD:

Episode 1: Introduction to the Earth-Gamilon war, The Battle of Pluto and the bravery of Alex Wildstar. Also, the mysterious spaceship from deep space and its offer of hope to mankind and a dogfight over the Yamato.

Episode 2: Raise the Yamato!!! Converting the Yamato to Space Battleship Argo. Argo’s first attack.

Episode 3: Assemble the Star Force!!! The Gamilon’s try to take out the Argo before it takes off. The Argo launches. Plus, take a tour of the Argo.

Episode 4: In order to travel to Iscandar (296,000 light years) within one year the Argo must travel beyond the speed of light. The crew prepares for a Space Warp while avoiding a Gamilon attack. Plus, snow on Mars.

Episode 5: The Argo gets pulled into Jupiter and comes across a Floating Continent which holds a Gamilon base. Plus, the Argo tests out its greatest weapon - The Wave Motion Gun.

Overall, I can’t be any happier that Voyager has released the series on DVD. Star Blazers was one of my all-time favorite childhood cartoon series (along with Transformers, Robotech, GI Joe, He-man and Thundercats). However, you must admit that the production work of this DVD was VERY bush league. The navigation is laughable and the chapter breaks are almost non-sensical (about 5 minutes before the end of each episode).

Here’s my rundown:

Great: Star Blazers on DVD

Good: The episodes

Bad: No DVD exclusive features???

Ugly: Pitiful navigation.

Summed up, if you were ever a Star Blazers fan, give this a watch. It’s great for a trip down memory lane. If you’ve NEVER seen Star Blazers, give it a try, it’s a cult classic from the 80’s (along with other Americanized anime greats like Robotech, Voltron, Transor Z, etc). The animation may look a little dated, but the storyline still holds its own very well against anything out there today. This series has stood the test of time. Due to limited distribution this show may have slipped by the radar of a lot of people but it caught on like a fire with those who did catch it. Try it, you WON’T be disappointed.

Overall assessment: 5 stars for Star Blazers, 1 star for Voyager’s production.

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Anchor Bay has decided to rerelease the films in their Hammer Studios catalogue not individually, but paired up in a series of double features, each set available for the original price of only one film. And to them I extend a hearty thank you … not only for budget reasons, but for the combinations they seem to have decided upon. Stuck together here are a pair of Peter Cushing films, giving us two samples of him at work with two of the characters he is most remembered for bringing to life.

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The first film of the two we’re given in this wonderful set comes to us from 1967. Despite the cheesy and rather misleading title, “Frankenstein Created Woman” is a wonderful tale, sporting a simple but excellent story and some marvelous performances from everyone in the cast. Peter Cushing excels, as always, as Doctor Frankenstein (who’s not so villainous this time around), displaying unfailing dedication to his experiments and marvelously dry wit (check out his remarks while being questioned in the courtroom. Classic!). Showing us a softer side of Doctor F, Cushing reanimates the body of a homely, outcast girl, a suicide victim, with the soul of her lover, Hans, a young man executed for a crime he did not commit. Hans went to the guillotine rather than ruin his lady’s virtue and name her as his alibi (as they were spending the night together the night the murder took place), and after finding himself alive again, holds no other thoughts but taking revenge on the real killer(s).

It`s not a complicated tale at all, but the wonderful performances, nice sets, and striking images (such as the opening shot, as the camera looks up at the guillotine blade) make it a very memorable and enjoyable film indeed.

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But as much as I did enjoy “Frankenstein Created Woman”, I must admit that I went for this double-feature set for the second film included here, 1974’s “Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires”. In an attempt to inject new life into the struggling series, the folks of Hammer Studios took their Van Helsing franchise to Hong Kong, where they made an unusual film featuring Professor Van Helsing, Vampire Hunter (Peter Cushing, wonderful as ever) fighting more of his undead adversaries in turn of the century China. And believe me, this is one fun movie.

The land is under a terrible curse, as the peasants cringe in fear beneath a brotherhood of seven vampires, led by none other than Count Dracula himself, come all the way from Transylvania (and beneath the mask of a Chinese vampire … and no, Christopher Lee does NOT play Dracula when we see him in his true form at the beginning of the film. I understand that Lee had tired of the role and wished to move on at this point in the series). Van Helsing agrees to use his vampire slaying expertise and come to the aid of a young man named Hsi Ching, and together with Hsi Ching’s six brothers put an end to the Seven Vampire’s reign of terror.

What follows is an unusual half-martial arts/half-British gothic horror story, with armies of Chinese Zombies, Kung Fu fighting, vampire attacks, Kung Fu fighting, scenes of blood letting, and more Kung Fu fighting, until at the very last Van Helsing and Dracula face each other off for one last time (as this would prove to be the final entry to the series). Both goofy and serious at the same time (like the moment when Hsi Ching wipes his fingers off on a falling enemy’s shirt), you`ll be hard pressed to find a more interesting or unusual tale … but at the same time you can’t deny that it’s a well written, well made, and well acted film. The fight scenes are masterfully choreographed, and we even get to see the aging Mr. Cushing himself do a number of impressive stunts.

This double-feature set from Anchor Bay Entertainment doesn’t skimp out on the extras. Though there are no commentary tracks, we still get, with FCW, a nice selection of trailers plus an interesting overview of the entire Frankenstein series, narrated by British actor Oliver Reed. As for Lot7GV, we’re given both the original and American cuts of the film (where basically, for the American version, they left in all the action scenes and cut everything else out), a trailer for the American cut (sporting some [un?]intentionally hilarious narration, and an audio dramatization of the film’s story, read to us by Peter Cushing himself (great to have on while you’re doing housework, though I’m not totally sure what purpose it was originally meant to serve).

So go ahead and give this set a try. You’ll get two great movies for one great price, and you’ll have a pair of excellent films that you’ll want to revisit often and should be sure to share with friends. In addition to this, if you’re a Peter Cushing fan and are wondering where to start, this set would make an ideal beginning to your movie collection.

Carry on Carry on,

MN

Frankenstein Created Woman is one of the better of Hammer’s Frankenstein sequels, an efficient programmer that sees Peter Cushing’s Baron trapping the soul of his guillotined assistant and putting it in the body of his disfigured girlfriend, only for the wronged boy to use her to kill those who really done the crime he was executed for. There’s more build-up than payoff, but its very sedateness (indeed, almost cosiness) is part of the pleasure, and it’s hard not to warm to the Baron’s arrogance and aloofness, whether it be reading in the witness box or casually answering a policeman’s “Do you take us for fools?” with a simple “Yes.” Still, it is remarkable just how well preserved that severed head is after six months…

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a much less successful hybrid combining Hammer horror and mid-70s chop socky movie as Dracula (not Christopher Lee but an inadequate John Forbes Robertson), for reasons never really explained, possesses the body of a Chinese bad guy to control six golden vampires while Cushing’s Van Helsing, on a far from successful Chinese lecture tour, finds himself teaming up with seven brothers and their one sister to rid a remote Chinese village of yada yada yada.. “Black belt against black magic” screams the trailer, and while it’s not as poor as I recalled, the only things going for it are a few okay action scenes and a magnificent display of bosom heaving from Julie Ege in one particularly memorable shot.

But it’s a masterpiece compared to the butchered US version, retitled The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula, which makes it sound like a bad Howard Keel musical. Although the original was far from dialog-heavy, a good two-thirds of the dialog has been dropped completely (in some cases you can still see the actors’ lips moving but no sound emerging). Even more bizarre is the opening two reels, which reuse much of the same footage three times in a row in three separate scenes, hoping that by flipping it around no-one will notice. The end result is a surreal experience that just washes over you.

Although I’d probably not have been tempted to buy either of the two main features, as a double-bill they make for a nicely complimentary package. Anchor Bay’s extras package on the films are good: Frankenstein comes with trailer and TV spots (for its double-bill release with The Mummy’s Shroud - “Beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!”) and an episode of the World of Hamer clip show, while The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires includes both cuts of the film, the US trailer (which the narrator constantly refers to as ‘The Seven Brothers and Their One Sister Meet Dracula’!) and the old LP narrated by Peter Cushing as an audio extra.
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Disc 1 is great, with Ravi explaining the structure of classical Indian music, his relationship with his students (including his daughter, who performs with him on disc 2) and his school; you’ll also meet Mrs. Shankar and see their obviously loving relationship. Disc 2 is the reason you want this. It features two long ragas performed in concert, and they’re quite astonishing. The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is a personal hang up I have about film directors cutting to extreme close ups of musicians every time they smile or nod. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen too often, but there it is. The concert was filmed in a beautiful place and the sound is also wonderful.

Very wonderful, informative, and enjoyable DVD.

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Some history of Ravi and how he came to play the sitar.

Told who he influenced. Showed his wife and daughter/
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This video is a masterful work of art. It had me entranced the moment they took me up Magnolia Lane to Tiger’s 18th hole fist pumping celebration.This video truly shows what a great course Augusta National really is, and shows how amazing some of the shots Tiger played really were.You see how Tiger blows it past the fairway bunkers and into the history books.You will notice how Tiger eats up the dreaded Amen Corner and sets a record for largest margin of victory in a major championship that even the great Nicklaus couldn’t match. If Tiger keeps playing the way he did in those ‘97 Masters he might really live up to Jack(Nicklaus) and Arnie’s (Palmer) prediction of winning more Masters than the two of them combined.

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I was disappointed to learn that 2 of the 4 films in this collection were, in fact, half-hour t.v. shows. But if you’re a fan of Lon Jr. (and I certainly am), it’s kind of nice to have them. “The Golden Junkman” is by far the better of the two, with Chaney evoking sympathy as Greek immigrant. “Lock Up” is a standard prison drama.

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Chaney fairs somewhat beter in “Manfish,” a low-budget but still fairly attractive production, with some great underwater photography. Again, he’s a sympathetic character, as opposed to the hulking brutes he often played. And speaking of hulking brutes…

“The Indestructible Man”–curiously relegated to “bonus feature” status in this collection–is the real reason to get this disc. The story is familiar to fans of b-movies of the fifites: Chaney’s a convict excuted for murder, but brought back to life to seek revenge against those who wronged him. It’s one his signature roles, and Lon has a field day with the limited premise. And you can throw out all those bargain-bin copies of The Indestructible Man…this is as clear a version as we’ll ever see.

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If you’re really a fan, you’ll skip the “Remembering Lon Chaney” segment. Gary Graver, apparently a cinematographer on Al Adamson’s “Dracula vs. Frankenstein,” spends almost the entire time talking about his old boss (Adamson), and barely even mentions Chaney! No mention is made of any of the films contained in this DVD. The whole thing is complete waste of time, and an insult to Chaney and his fans.

Even if you have one of those cheap copies of Indestructible Man, you still need this disc. Beyond that, there’s not much to recommend this release.

This DVD is a must have for any Lon Chney Fan. He is 1950’s Lon Chnaey, haggered, weathered, still enthusiastic with his unique personality shinng thru.Manfish- is a real treat with lovely location shots and a fine plot.One problem at the end you see color by DeLuxein the credits but the print is black and white.The scuba and location shots would look great in color and I wish I could get a color print.The 2 Tv shows are very interesting. The Golden Junkman is a rare film in which Lon attempts an accent, it sound more Mexican than Greek but this a is a nice piece of 1950’s schmaltz. Lon plays a “dumb” washed out lawman as well as anyone and his performence is familar.It is great to see theIndustructible man in all it’s glory.Wonderful film.The remembering Lon Chnay segement was very disappointing with a not very attractive rememberence of not only Lon Chaney working for Al Adamson on Dracula Versus Frankenstien but also unkind remberences of Boris Karloff working for Jack Hill and J. Carrol

Naish from a Al Adamson flunky.
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Leading naturally from Learn to Dance Salsa One, this DVD continues the excellent intrustional techniques that make it a standout, as well as plent of additional movements to add to your repertoire, insider secrets and special tips to continue your growth and improvement as a dancer.

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Anyone reading my review of Learn to Dance Salsa One will realize that I was very, very nervous about my ability to learn this dance, a style of dance I’d always admired but thought far beyond my skills.

Trust me, if I can do this, ANYONE can. It is not only detailed but clearly explained and the DVD is an excellent value, containing over 2 hours of instruction. The time flies by and before you know it, you’ve not only gotten valuable info about the various patterns and variations of Salsa but you’ve been moving for quite some time, getting exercise while having fun.

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The “picture in picture” close ups help ensure the beginning dancer gets every step down correctly and there are also full length shots so you can see how your entire body should move. Once you master the basics, it becomes automatic and you’ll find yourself amazed to be dancing Salsa and looking better than you’d ever expected! Highly recommended!

Once one has mastered the very important style, posture, and basic moves from the Salsa Crazy Beginners Volume 1, you’re ready for more complex patterns. This DVD contains the “Inside Turn” and its many variations, the “Hammerlock”, and the “Cross Body Lead” (”the move that separates the beginner from the intermediate”). The instruction is at a much quicker, up-to-tempo pace than in Vol. # 1, and there is more dancing to music (from Benny Velarde y Super Combo) rather than the slowed down verbal counts from teacher Evan Margolis. Evan has a marvelous partner in Moira Denike, who also gives excellent tips for the women. Both have delightful personalities, and are great to watch and learn from. The instruction portion of this DVD is a terrific 1 hour and 45 minutes + an extra warm-up with an explanation of different handholds, and Evan is an extremely meticulous and articulate teacher.

The visual/darkness problems I had with Vol. 1 on my 12-year old television are here solved, with Evan wearing light colored clothes, and Moira showing her spectacular toned legs in a nifty outfit throughout the lesson. There is also an insert box on the lower left-hand corner, which is usually focused on the feet, and is helpful. Bonus extras are Evan’s “Dance and Club Etiquette” tips, with the very important topic of “Hygiene”! Since a night of Salsa dancing probably equals several aerobic classes (and is much more fun!), these tips are essentials. There is also the extra warm-up with music, and some funny outtakes. As a former dancer, I really appreciate Evan’s technique, his calm, relaxed approach to teaching, and his expertise. If you want to learn Salsa, you can’t do better than Salsa Crazy’s DVD series.

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TMNT: Fast Forward takes the Turtles from the revamped 2003 series and tosses them 100 years into the future. There they team up with Cody Jones, great grandson of April and Casey, and must learn to live in a world now teeming with alien life.

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This show reeks of corporate interference all over. The original 2003 series, despite its obvious problems, took itself seriously and featured an ongoing storyline that gave the characters something to do. It was also reasonably well animated, especially in the later seasons when the show amped up its fight choreography and featured varying colour palettes.

All this seems to be gone with Fast Forward. The action has been toned down to generic brawls, the animation is flat and the colours are garish and bright. The writers seem to be building some kind of ongoing story, one featuring Cody’s corrupt uncle and another featuring an alien threat; it’s vaguely interesting, just nowhere near as fun as the old Shredder, Bishop, Hun, Karai stories. In-between there are lots of pointless filler adventures and Cody Jones is shoved down the viewers’ throats every episode. As the obligatory kid character he could be worse, but he’s not a character you’ll miss. And “It’s Ninja Time!” is just stupid and grating.

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Really, the show isn’t quite Ninja Turtles anymore, you could replace our heroes with anyone and the dynamics wouldn’t change. It’s still amusing every so often, and over the course of these 13 episodes the show does seem to find its comfort zone. It’s probably for the best that 4Kids is giving us a cheap 2-disc set, as the series would be hard to recommend otherwise.

I bought this the other day having seen it on 4Kids one saturday. I’m a fan of the turtles so whether its that great or not I’ll buy it just to have it probably lol but yea this is decent enough.

Don’t expect it to be overly mature or as dark as the previous incarnation. It can be be described as probably a mixture of the first and the 2003 series. They don’t look overly childish but at the same time they aren’t that as dark as you’d maybe expect.

I’m almost through the two discs and maybe its because I’ve only recently starting watching again, I dunno, but I’ve pretty much enjoyed it. It was a bit of a dissapointment but if you give it a chance its not that bad.

I’m actually looking forward to season two. (I’m 18 by the way and its just as entertaining and engaging as it can be in my opionion)

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The first time I saw this film was when I was 13 or so on a late night horror movie show in the mid sixties, I thought it was just a really dumb movie, but I liked it, I thought it was just someone trying to make a serious horror film that just turned out funny. When I saw the film for sale on DVD I just had to buy it, just to see if my boyhood memory of the film was true what I found was a film that must have been planed to be funny or at least I hope so, as a fan of really campie movies I have to rate The Creature from the Haunted Sea right up there with Plan 9 and other dumb movies, call me weird but I just like it its good for a giggle.

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…Kubrik masterminded Dr. Strangelove, loosely basing the movie upon the book “Red Alert” (the book is a completely serious Cold War nuclear war scenario, but Strangelove is a complete and total farce). “Strangelove” came out a year or two after the Cuban October missile crisis, a year after US President John Kennedy was assassinated as well as 2 other contemporaneous films, the brilliant and paranoid “The Manchurian Candidate” and the serious treatment of the same book, “Fail Safe.”

Kubrik originally set out to do a serious treatment of the book. But Kubrik found as he tried to develop the screenplay that he kept running into scenes that he ended up writing as satire. Recognizing the challenge, Kubrik enlisted the talents of one of the best comedic screenwriters in Hollywood, Terry Southern, to do the screenplay.

Casting the film was part genius and part hit-and-miss happy accident. … Somehow Slim Pickens’ name came up and Pickens accepted the role of the B-52 bomber pilot. Even more ironic yet, Slim Pickens was more conservative than Dan Blocker, but Pickens never caught on during the film’s production that Dr. Strangelove was a comedy, much less a satire and a farce unsympathetic to the official propaganda of the cold war.

In of itself, it was a comic master stroke telling Pickens play the role seriously. Pickens was apparently no great wit, so Kubrik was able to keep Pickens completely unaware that Pickens was actually playing in a comedy, not a serious war movie (one can only assume that the humor of the situation was not lost on the other cast members, including James Earl Jones who played Capt. Kong’s bombardier.. “Don’t tell Slim this is all a big joke, we have to let him think this is a real war movie.” ).

Other than Peter Sellers’ roles, George C. Scott (later in “Patton”) and Sterling Hayden delivered memorable performances. Both were obviously instructed to play their roles “over the top.” Kubrik instructed Scott to overact the role of the cigar-smoking, gut-slapping, martini-drinking & womanizing General Buck Turgidson (get it? Turgid-son?). In the scene in the war room where Turgidson exuberantly proclaims the spectacle of a B-52 bomber evading radar by hedge-hopping, Kubrik instructed George C. Scott to deliberately overact the part. Kubrik had Scott re-take the scene several times, asking Scott to make it even more over-the-top than before. On the last take of that scene, Scott practically performed it as a burlesque parody, which was of course, the final take that Kubrik actually used.

Sterling Hayden delivered a brilliant performance as the psychotic Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the Air Force general who unilaterally orders the nuclear strike against the USSR. The confusion of Cold War paranoia, paranoid psychosis and false sexual power in Hayden’s scenes is the blackest of black satire. Totally over the top, ludicrous and frightenlingly possible (what if one of your top military brass really went insane and over-rode all the safe-guards against nuclear war?). The insane babblings of General Ripper set the film’s direction and act as its centerpiece, delivering both Kubrik’s satire of anti-communist propaganda and the air of impossible odds for the rest of the film’s characters to overcome that they might somehow avert doomsday.

Peter Seller’s performances as the President, the British officer and Dr. Strangelove (a left-over Nazi scientist) are memorable, Sellers delivers the title role as the deranged wheelchair-bound Nazi scientist who suffers from involuntary palsied “Seig Hiels!” in his right arm. Again sex is the real underlying motive to yet another character and the opportunities for a sexually prodigious post-apocalyptic eugenic world brings the deranged Strangelove to a frenzied outburst of libidinal energy: “Mein Fuhrer! I can vwalk!” But as much as I enjoy Sellers’ roles, they seem overshadowed by the rest of the film’s characters. P>It comes probably of no surprise that the U.S. Air Force refused to assist Kubrik in shooting the movie. Having to choice, Kubrik had to resort to mocking up the B-52 flying scenes and bomber interior cabin scenes as best he could (the bomber interior was apparently such a good replica of the real thing that the FBI launched an investigation into who gave Kubrik such a detailed layout of a B-52’s flight deck). Appropriately, the exterior B-52 flying scenes hold a comic flaw if you look closely enough: In one scene, as the damaged bomber hedge-hops across the Siberian taiga (northern boreal forest), you can see that the underlying shadow of the plane is actually that of a four-engine propellor aircraft and doesn’t match the profile of the overlaid B-52 model.

Suffice it to say, when the movie came out, it was not universally received or even widely understood. It was drummed by political commentators and movie reviewers who found it to be tasteless and sophomoric. The studio was very concerned about the potential a negative backlash from its release (consider that in the same year, the Manchurian Candidate was withdrawn from theaters after Kennedy was assassinated). An internal memo described Dr. Strangelove as “a huge, sick malefic joke” and questioned the wisdom of even releasing the movie at all. After all, the movie starts off with B-52’s and tanker planes copulating during mid-flight refuelings, displays Air Force “Peace is Our Profession” billboards in the midst of a fire fight between the US Army and Air Force security, depicts two Air Force generals as complete sex-obsessed baffoons, one a psychotic and the other a braying ass, delivers a deranged Nazi scientist and finally a cowboy pilot bucking the biggest phallic bronco of his career (never mind blowing up the world).

I can think of few other films whose film makers so defied convention and created a story that really turned conventional wisdom on its head. Dr. Strangelove keeps coming at you as one outrageous scene after another, interspersed with segments of complete straight-faced dead-pan, piling them all on until the fateful end. When Pickins died in 1983, CBS news anchor Dan Rather delivered the obituary replete with the out take of Pickins riding the bomb (Perhaps DeForest Kelley topped that and made good on his threat to have “He’s dead, Jim” engraved on his tombstone….).

There are some things you just can’t live down: Being the face that gets a great closing falling scene that leads to the end of all life on Earth happens to be one of those things. Poor Slim, he’s probably suffering in a purgatory of a Liberal Methodist heaven.

In closing, I have to agree with that long-forgotten studio executive who wrote in the memo: Dr. Strangelove *IS* a huge, sick malefic joke. But it is one of the finest huge, sick malefic jokes ever created, and stands as a film masterpiece. Those who extoll the virtues of this fil

I doubt that you could imagine how much it would pain me to give a single-star rating to an edition of the film I consider to be the singular greatest contribution to the motion picture. However, the new “40th Anniversary” edition of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb is, unquestionably, requiring of such a rating. Why?, you ask.

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Because about fifteen to twenty percent of the screen image has been removed!!!

If you take a look, you will see that this new “Special” edition of Dr. Strangelove is presented in anamorphic widescreen, with a 1.66:1 aspect ratio. This, as you can find from examining older editions of the film, is the first time the film has ever been presented in such a manner. The reason why (and you may cross-check this with the Internet Movie Database [IMDb] or any book on Stanley Kubrick worth its salt) is because Dr. Strangelove was NOT FILMED in 1.66:1. It was technically filmed with a varying aspect ratio (the reasons for which are still not fully explicated, as far as I’ve seen), but, in general, it was filmed in about 1.33:1.

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So, you ask, how does a film shot in 1.33:1 get presented in 1.66:1? Did someone return to the original negative and uncover material previously hidden from sight, lost on every print and VHS, Beta, laserdisc and DVD copy heretofore released?

NO!

They simply cut off the top and bottom of the screen!!!

Such things are not unprecedented. An extremely similar case is the so-called “panoramic” Gone With The Wind. The film, made in 1939 (before there was anything BUT 1.33:1, the “Academy” aspect ratio), when released in the Panavision/Technorama age of the mid-1960’s was similar chopped and changed to magically become 2.35:1. This edition was released on video and DVD a few times before, finally, it was restored to its original 1.33:1 glory.

Stanley Kubrick was absolutely notorious for his perfectionism and auteur status in the film industry, and I cannot believe that a company proposing to release a definitive “Special” edition of his greatest masterpiece would be so heartless as to unnecessarily delete a good portion of the screen.

Please avoid this new, bastardized Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. While the few new extras thereon are of interest, they can easily be seen via rental from the local video store, as suplemental to the last “Special Edition” of the DVD (which, incidentally, clearly states on the back that it is “Presented in the original aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1″.

Thank you,

Marc-David Jacobs

P.S. For those of you interested in seeing the terrible editing job for yourselves, feel free to go out and rent the new edition and the previous edition and go to seven minutes and forty-eight seconds, which is the extreme tight shot of the B-52’s CRM-114 decoder book. As you will see, an entire line of text on the top, and about one-and-a-half on the bottom are not completely missing.
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