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![Dragon Blade [Blu-ray] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4716/4716323_sa.jpg)
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4
Imperfect but worthy
on March 28, 2016
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from Long Beach, CA
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Not perfect, particularly the editing, but visually stunning with a strong story line and not your typical battle story. Jackie Chan shines both in acting and fighting. John Cusack has never been better. Adrien Brody has a smaller but strong part. Will watch this again.
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![Bone Tomahawk [Blu-ray] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4725/4725803_sa.jpg)
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This is not for everyone, but I personally think it was tremendous. It's a western, a comedy, and a monster movie rolled into one. The acting is mostly great, especially Richard Jenkins. The humor and dialogue are unique and interesting. To enjoy this movie, you need to be mentally prepared for a massive shift in tone at the end. Structurally it reminds me of Dusk til Dawn that way. This seems like a well done western all the way UNTIL... things go horribly wrong. The massive shift from western to... well, horror I guess, really generates a deep sense of how quickly things can go from normal to absolutely horrific. There is no warning or build up, just like real life can be. So much so, you start to wonder "is this really happening?" I'm sure this will turn some viewers off, especially if they were enjoying the regular old posse round-em up story. But I think the juxtaposition only drives home how awesome the movie really is. It's a wonderful risk taken by the film makers, turning this movie into anything but the normal Hollywood movie. The first 66% of the movie is necessary though, to connect us to the characters in such a way that we are right there with them at the end. One word of warning: there is one absolutely gruesome and graphic murder later in the film, like nothing I've ever seen. Again, necessary to drive home how real things have suddenly gotten for our heroes. As long as you're mentally prepared for what this movie is like, I think you'll enjoy it.
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![No Escape [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2 Discs] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/4639/4639701_sa.jpg)
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People forget that Owen Wilson did a good drama role as a Navy pilot in Behind Enemy Lines (2001). Forget the PC critics, this is a suspense action movie worth watching. An American family moving to Thailand (my guess) to make a new start. We take things for granted as Americans and expect to live overseas without difficulty or inconvenience.
This movie shows how quickly political climate can change in a country, 17 hours to be exact; for the Dwyer family. A simple story line that must have gone deep into the critics psyche. A family fighting for their life, trying to escape an internal civil war or a revolution without social order or peaceful demonstrations. Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) leaves the hotel to grab a newspaper, and sees the storm gathering in the streets. His life and his families will change for the worse right before his eyes. He takes off like a fugitive for his life to save his family back at the hotel. Critics are crying about the lack of a plot, it is what it is; a family fighting for survival while death surrounds them. A stranger who shares a common language, reaches out to help them; Hammond (Pierce Brosnan) who knows the land and it's people. A dynamic role for him, he lights up the screen as a guardian angel of sorts.
This movie delivers tension, action, life and death decisions that must be made, at a steady to fast pace. I haven't held my breath like this since the first Die Hard movie. A pleasant surprise in a sequel flashback summer of doldrums. It is rated R for a reason due to violence and blood, only those kids 16 and up should view this.
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![Code of Silence [Blu-ray] [1985]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/5945/5945151_sa.jpg)
Customer Rating
4
Not to Bad for Blu Ray
on March 28, 2016
Posted by: Stylez
from Long Beach, CA
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This is Chuck Norris' finest hour. This isn't Norris wrapped in the Flag, going gonzo and wiping out everyone in sight with an M-60 and a thousand deadly spin kicks. Instead, CODE OF SILENCE is a gritty, realistic (for the most part) crime story about honor, sacrifice, truth & personal integrity, and the sometimes high cost of doing what's right, instead of what's easy or convenient. Norris turns in a solid, low-key, believable performance here. The rest of the ensemble cast is also quite good, with the exception of the Colombian goons, a bunch of one-note gorillas who are there purely for Chuck to beat the living snot out of. One such encounter results in Chuck giving one of the best tough guy lines in screen history "If I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you." OHHH YES! LOL The great Henry Silva played villainous parts throughout his long career, and he's just as cold and brutally lethal this time around as the Colombian cartel's mercilessly sadistic crime boss. Dennis Farina has a small but amusing role playing Cusack's sidelined partner, who's always coming up with odd but well-intentioned schemes that he & Eddie can retire on, once they leave the force.
This Blu-ray release for CODE OF SILENCE is another minimalist MGM effort. Nothing in the way of bonus extras except the theatrical trailer. The good news is that the picture & sound are quite strong; not much in the way of artifacting or pixelation. Soundmix is level & solid. Norris fans will regret the lack of extras, but we can at least be thankful that this, one of the better entries in Chuck's career, is finally on Blu-ray. It's a pretty good little movie, with just enough traditional Norris kick-punchery to satisfy his hardcore fans, while also offering crime drama enthusiasts an intelligent, engrossing story. 4 solid STARS for the gritty urban police saga CODE OF SILENCE.
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![Peppa Pig: Peppa's Christmas [2007]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/da2c2f90-86ec-41e9-bd2f-bfa928286ae8.jpg)
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Disappointing! Cute Christmas clip but very very short and then just re-runs we can get for free. Don't advertise it as a Christmas video an hour long then it's a very small portion of the whole DVD
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No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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![American Sniper [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [Only @ Best Buy] [2014]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/2110/2110025_sa.jpg)
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In American Sniper, the 34th film to be directed by Clint Eastwood, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) rarely has a clear view of the field of battle. As perhaps the most accomplished marksman in US military history, he’s invariably lying on his belly on a dust-blown rooftop, staring down a telescopic sight, methodically picking off one enemy after the next. His experience of war is an endless extreme close-up.
Eastwood’s tense and absorbing film was adapted from the memoirs of the real Chris Kyle, a highly decorated American Navy SEAL who served on four tours of duty in Iraq before being honourably discharged in 2009. He was great at what he did, which is to way say he was a skilled and dependable killer. He had 160 confirmed kills to his name – the actual total may have exceeded 250 – and proved so deadly that the Iraqis eventually put a six-figure bounty on his head.
But Eastwood doesn’t care about the legend. Instead, he shows us Kyle much as he saw his targets: with that strange combination of extreme intimacy and extreme remove that a long-range sight confers.
The film begins by turning its sharpshooting star into a target. During a nerve-wracking confrontation in Fallujah, we watch Kyle take aim at a young boy who’s about to hurl a grenade at his platoon, a neat match-cut whips us back in time to a young Kyle being taught how to hunt by his father in the Texas backwoods. It’s as if the adult is taking aim across time and space at his younger self – abnegating his own life in order to do this job he believes is simultaneously terrible and right.
Cooper, who’s bulked up to the size of a largish bottle bank for the role, deftly captures Kyle’s experience of operating in this eerie moral dead zone. (The film’s not interested in the morality of the Iraq War itself, just Kyle’s actions within it.) When he takes a successful shot, often at a near-impossible distance, his colleagues cheer and whoop, but he remains still, silently processing what’s just happened. (His boot-camp instructor encourages him to “find the space between heartbeats” in which take each shot.) The black-and-white simplicity of the mission briefings – move in, clear this, capture that, get out – become trampled into a morass of moral greyness. In that sense, Kyle is a typical Eastwoodian hero: another lone gunman on a wild frontier, trying his best to square his actions with his code.
Between tours, Kyle tries to decompress back at home in Texas with his wife Taya, who’s terrifically played by Sienna Miller: with this and her equally subtle, shaded turn in Foxcatcher, she seems to be gearing up for an overdue career renaissance. The couple’s domestic strains aren’t all that interesting or unusual for a film of this type, but Cooper and Miller play them with a clarity and rawness that keep the R&R sequences from feeling like dramatic down-time.
Besides, regardless of whether the film has us in a suburban Texan bedroom or a firefight in the shattered Iraqi streets, each scene is built as solidly and methodically as a chest of drawers, with no confusion over where the pieces fit. Panic has never been Eastwood’s style, and even during the climactic shoot-out, where a sandstorm engulfs both sides in a symbolic fog of war, the camera remains perceptive and alert.
In the scheme of Eastwood’s career, this comes as something of a relief. After the murky triple-flub of Hereafter, J. Edgar and Jersey Boys, American Sniper brings us back the Eastwood who made Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, his magnificent paired war films from 2006, and reminds us that the theatre of war – a stark testing ground for manhood – may be the ideal stage for this filmmaker’s late-career concerns.
But what’s missing – and what lifted Kathryn Bigelow’s recent, thematically similar war films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty into the realm of great cinema – is a sense of fatefulness. Kyle’s story, finely textured as it is, doesn’t tell us much about anything other than Kyle himself, whereas the intensely personal stories in Bigelow’s films posed bigger questions, broadening their outlooks even as they narrowed their focus. American Sniper is too direct for that, but it's still a welcome comeback for Eastwood.
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![Hot Tub Time Machine 2 [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2015]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/5231/5231069_sa.jpg)
Customer Rating
5
Missed John Cusack
on May 23, 2015
Posted by: Stylez
from Long Beach, CA
Verified Purchase:Yes
So far the funniest movie I saw this year. I don't understand why there are a lot of negative reviews. I laugh so much that I almost pi**ed my pants. It was a very great unique movie, without any of that comedy rust jokes. Very creative piece of material. Don't mind the negative reviews it is an animal comedy, if you like the first one you will love this sequel.
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![Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy [2014]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/324cffff-7979-47aa-84ea-a2dd924a455e.jpg)
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5
Kids loved it!!!
on March 27, 2015
Posted by: Stylez
from Long Beach, CA
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Sofia The First is going on another adventure with her step-sister Amber in “The Curse of Princess Ivy”, this was a decent special episode. It’s highlight was easily the special guest Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore from Disney’s “Tangled”). This show amazes me how it is able to steal my 2.5 year old’s attention until the end credits when she says “Play Sofia again?” Additional episodes included on this DVD are “The Amulet of Avalor”, “Princess Butterfly” and “The Emerald Key”. Also as an added bonus, you will get a very cute butterfly necklace that gets color when exposed in the sunlight. A must have for any “Sofia the First” fan!
Official Premise: The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history of Sofia the First! After learning that the Amulet of Avalor is magical, Amber snatches it while Sofia is sleeping. Unfortunately, she unwittingly unleashes a curse that summons evil Princess Ivy, who threatens to destroy the amulet, seize the crown and turn the entire kingdom black-and-white! Amber and Sofia soar through the skies on a flying dragon – aided by special guest Rapunzel – as they embark on a daring quest to defeat Ivy, break the curse and save Enchancia. Packed with high-flying excitement, plus three more song-filled episodes, The Curse of Princess Ivy shows how love, trust, and unselfishly putting others’ needs first can truly work magic!
Official Premise: The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history of Sofia the First! After learning that the Amulet of Avalor is magical, Amber snatches it while Sofia is sleeping. Unfortunately, she unwittingly unleashes a curse that summons evil Princess Ivy, who threatens to destroy the amulet, seize the crown and turn the entire kingdom black-and-white! Amber and Sofia soar through the skies on a flying dragon – aided by special guest Rapunzel – as they embark on a daring quest to defeat Ivy, break the curse and save Enchancia. Packed with high-flying excitement, plus three more song-filled episodes, The Curse of Princess Ivy shows how love, trust, and unselfishly putting others’ needs first can truly work magic!
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![Big Hero 6 [2 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2014]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/9558/9558201_sa.jpg)
Posted by: Stylez
from Long Beach, CA
Verified Purchase:Yes
“Big Hero 6” is, shot after shot, an intelligent and artful creation. There’s a scene in which the filmmakers convey a funeral taking place with a medium shot of black umbrellas opening. They pull back to show people standing at a cemetery in the rain and then dissolve to a post-funeral gathering, filmed from the outside of the house through rain-spattered windows. And all the while, the camera is slowly moving.
At the same time, “Big Hero 6” makes full use of the animation medium. It takes place in the fictitious city of San Fransokyo, a mashup of San Francisco and Tokyo, with elevated trains and a pagoda design for the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a pleasure just to ride the back of the camera as it swoops above these cleverly reimagined streets. And this is even before the story kicks in, which is a good one.
Without giving anything away, it’s about the partnership between a teenage robotics prodigy and a home health care robot, who join forces to solve a crime. The robot is adorable. I know, it’s weird (and more than a little pathetic) to call something adorable that doesn’t really exist except as a computer rendering, but Baymax the robot truly is lovable — white, inflated, very fat, with a soothing, unthreatening voice (Scott Adsit) and a desire to help everyone.
Baymax and Hiro (Ryan Potter) go off into the San Fransokyo streets to solve a mystery, and along the way they’re joined by a group of computer nerds, all experts in robotics. In future movies they will be known collectively as Big Hero 6, and they very well might become as annoying as the Fantastic Four. But the story of their origins makes for pleasant viewing.
At the same time, “Big Hero 6” makes full use of the animation medium. It takes place in the fictitious city of San Fransokyo, a mashup of San Francisco and Tokyo, with elevated trains and a pagoda design for the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a pleasure just to ride the back of the camera as it swoops above these cleverly reimagined streets. And this is even before the story kicks in, which is a good one.
Without giving anything away, it’s about the partnership between a teenage robotics prodigy and a home health care robot, who join forces to solve a crime. The robot is adorable. I know, it’s weird (and more than a little pathetic) to call something adorable that doesn’t really exist except as a computer rendering, but Baymax the robot truly is lovable — white, inflated, very fat, with a soothing, unthreatening voice (Scott Adsit) and a desire to help everyone.
Baymax and Hiro (Ryan Potter) go off into the San Fransokyo streets to solve a mystery, and along the way they’re joined by a group of computer nerds, all experts in robotics. In future movies they will be known collectively as Big Hero 6, and they very well might become as annoying as the Fantastic Four. But the story of their origins makes for pleasant viewing.
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Only @ Best BuyImmerse yourself in the graphics of your smart television with this Insignia HDMI cable. Supporting resolutions up to 4K UltraHD, this 6-foot cable features HDR support to increase color and contrast for a realistic viewing experience. This Insignia HDMI cable features triple-layer shielding to keep interference out for a crisp picture.
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Cables work great no issues what so ever......especially for a last minute pick up....
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