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Cropped Image Sacrifices Picture Quality
on April 26, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
this full-screen dvd set alters the original theatrical aspect ratios of the movies from 2.35:1 to 1.33:1, giving a picture in which you lose almost 50% of the image in every scene!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Often lost in the morass of inferior sequels, Jaws 2 is actually a fairly decent follow-up to Spielberg's masterpiece. Now viewers can take a look for themselves with this excellent DVD edition from Universal. The picture is presented in an exquisite widescreen anamorphic format with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The film retains the soft, postcard look of the first film, and this DVD helps it to shine. Sound is a bit of a letdown, presented in Dolby two-channel mono, but it still sounds pretty good nonetheless. Where the disc really takes off is with the extras. Viewers can enjoy a 45-minute documentary that goes into every detail about the making of the film. Also included is a look at the film from actor Keith Gordon, who has gone on to great things as a director. He talks about what he learned on the film and shares a few anecdotes. There are also four deleted scenes, a still gallery with storyboards and production photos, a collection of shark facts, and the usual trailers, production notes, and bios. While the other two sequels in the Jaws series may not receive similar treatment, the first two have both been given an excellent presentation on DVD and belong in any fan's library.
 
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Pointless Sequel
on April 26, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
Failing to live up to the quality of its predecessor, 'Jaws II' will only be enjoyed by people who like the series and/or cannot find anything better to watch. Skip it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Every movie star has to start somewhere, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, then little-known outside of body building circles, made his screen debut in this comic variation on the "sword and sandal" epics popular in the 1950's and '60's. Hercules (Schwarzenegger) has grown tired of his life on Mount Olympus, and wishes to visit Earth. His father Zeus (Ernest Graves) forbids such a voyage, but a misdirected thunderbolt sends Hercules tumbling down the mountain and into New York City, where he's befriended by Pretzie (Arnold Stang), who runs a pretzel cart in the park. As Hercules tries to make his way in the big city with Pretzie's help, he runs afoul of a crooked wresling promoter, gets mixed up with gangsters, rides his chariot through Times Square, descends into Hell, and dines at the Automat (which some contend is not unlike descending into Hell). Just as Hercules is getting used to life on Earth, his angry father decides it's time the boy came home, and Zeus sends Nemesis (Taina Elg) and a handful of other gods to retrieve him. For the original American release of Hercules In New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger was billed as Arnold Strong, and his voice was dubbed by another actor to remove his accent; when the film was re-released on video in 2000, Schwarzenegger's original vocal tracks were restored, though the dubbed version appears on several previous video releases.
 
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You Need to See This Film
on April 26, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
Just about everyone, especially Arnold Schwarzenegger fans for that matter, needs to see this film in order to see what a high quality actor Arnold really is (sarcastically speaking of course). For some reason, it has always been my opinion, that just about every film Schwarzenegger starred in would have been a hit film whether or not he was involved in the project. Think about it...makes sense doesn't it? Not that Arnold didn't contribute anything at all, he just had the right people around him to make sure he did all the right things like reminding him to 'look big and strong in front of the camera, and speak as little as possible'. Anyway, 'Hercules in New York' is a piece of junk riot that is sure to keep you laughing for days. For the ultimate laugh, die hard fans will want to try and track down one of the previous video versions, prior to this dvd release, that has Arnold's voice having been dubbed. It's a hoot.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Cropped Image is Inaccurate
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
this full-screen dvd version alters the original theatrical aspect ratio of the movie from 2.35:1 to 1.33:1, giving a picture in which you lose almost 50% of the image in every scene.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. His experiences there convince Adams to become a doctor, and he enrolls in medical school, where he is appalled at the cold, clinical professionalism that alienates patients from their caregivers. Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as medicine, Adams clowns around for his patients, getting to know them personally. Although his efforts seem to work wonders and the hospital nursing staff is grateful for the levity Adams provides, his methods alienate his uptight roommate Mitch (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as well as the staff and faculty of his school. Adams perseveres, however, even starting his own low-cost rural clinic called the Gesundheit Institute, and wooing a pretty fellow student, Carin (Monica Potter). Tragedy strikes, and Adams' career is put in jeopardy, forcing him to defend his style and philosophy before a board of jurists determined to bar him from practicing medicine. Patch Adams (1998) was produced by former M*A*S*H (1972-83) star Mike Farrell, who met the real-life Adams when the offbeat doctor served as an advisor to the actor's popular TV series.
 
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Boring Movie, Good Dvd
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
'Patch Adams' is a disappointing and boring movie that gets more attention on this dvd than it deserves. Skip it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait made his directorial debut with this black comedy about a unsavory clown, which has been given a bit of polish for its release on DVD. Shakes the Clown has been given a letterboxed transfer to disc in the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which is also enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors. The original English-language soundtrack appears in Dolby Digital Surround, while a dubbed Spanish version is in Dolby Digital Stereo. Optional subtitles in English and Spanish are also included. As a bonus, this edition also includes biographies of the leading cast members and the film's original theatrical trailer.
 
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Oh My...Unbelievable
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
You know, back when dvd was starting to get popular in the late 1990's, there were a few films of such awful quality that I thought would never get released on the format. Boy, was I wrong, because here's one of them. It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many good movies out there which have yet to get proper dvd treatment, and here we have 'Shakes the Clown'... oh yeah, in widescreen too?! All you need to know about this movie is right there on the dvd cover. If that doesn't do it for ya, just read the film's synopsis.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Just Awful...
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
'300' is actually one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Had I not been with a group of friends at the theater, I would have walked out within the first 30 minutes of the film. Don't bother with this pathetic piece of junk.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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This third sequel to the 1975 mega-hit Jaws returns Lorraine Gary to the role of Ellen Brody, widow of the Roy Scheider character from the first two films. When her son Sean, the current police chief of shark-plagued Amity Island, is killed by the beast, Ellen goes to the Bahamas to comfort her surviving son. Michael Brody (Lance Guest) and his friend Jake (Mario Van Peebles) are marine biologists there to help, but in the end it is up to Ellen and her new beach-bum love -- played by Michael Caine -- to put a halt to the fishy horror. Director Joseph Sargent concludes the series with an ending chosen from several alternate possibilities.
 
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Best of the Sequels
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
This fourth of the 'Jaws' series is actually the best of the sequels, unfortunately, that isn't saying a whole lot. Good acting is really all that salvages this low-grade production. Recommended only to fans of the series.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the horror series. The film maintains only a loose relationship to the original Steven Spielberg hit, centering on Mike (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch), the sons of police chief Martin Brody (originally played by Roy Scheider). Mike works at Sea World, where a baby Great White shark has accidentially been let into the park. Soon, the baby's vicious and extremely powerful mother comes in search of her child. The film focuses most of its attention on the series of tense shark attacks that follow, as tourists run for their lives while the park workers struggle to destroy the sharp-toothed beast. The suspense sequences were made somewhat more memorable during the film's original release with 3-D photography, an attribute lost on video, thereby removing the most distinctive element of an otherwise run-of-the-mill sequel.
 
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Another Pointless Sequel
on April 25, 2008
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'Jaws III,' originally shown theatrically in 3-D, is a worthless piece of junk. Don't bother.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Though it makes up for some of the previous edition's mishaps, the Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition is an almost-perfect DVD that suffers only from a bit of laziness on the part of Universal. Released in 2000 as one of director Steven Spielberg's first blockbusters unveiled on DVD, the Jaws: Collector's Edition was a big seller in the stores, yet still managed to fall short thanks to the studio's unwillingness to include the full two-hour documentary from the laserdisc, long thought of as the definitive look back on the troubled production. So now here comes this two-disc set celebrating the crowd-pleaser's pearl anniversary and the good news is that the documentary has indeed been reinstated to its full glory. Those who have only seen the previous hour-long cut are in for a big treat here, thanks to the incredible detail that was culled from the various sources in the production, including John Williams, Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Peter Benchley, production designer Joe Alves, and, of course, Spielberg himself. Another bit of good news involves the inclusion of a never-before-available nine-minute interview on-set with the director from 1974 that gives the audience a rare glimpse of the young director on just his second day of shooting, no doubt already feeling the constraints of the sea-bound production. For aficionados, it's the kind of engaging footage that is endlessly interesting, given the kind of Vietnam hell that followed Spielberg on the rest of the shoot. Other new bits of goodness involve the inclusion of both 5.1 DTS and Dolby tracks (previous versions included either one or the other) along with the infamous original theatrical mono audio track, which will please the hardcore fans out there to no end (many were not happy with the enhanced 5.1 tracks). What isn't pleasing about this edition is the exclusion of the famed theatrical trailers that figured prominently into the success of the film. This lone exclusion will prevent most customers from getting rid of their previous version, which makes little sense in the grand scheme of things given that the rest of the still archives were carried over, including other marketing pieces such as posters, books, T-shirts, and much more. This, along with the fact that no new menus were designed for this edition, just makes Universal look bad. It's like they listened to the gripes about the documentary on the last one, but didn't feel the need to dedicate more money into an anniversary edition of one of the biggest films of all time. The result is yet another DVD that gives the same "play all" feature to the deleted scenes, with the added annoyance of outtakes being thrown into the same feature as well. Though no one will miss the trivia game or the shark facts from the previous version, there will be those who will resent the silliness involved with the loss of the very integral trailers. Still, with the full documentary and the reinstated original mono mix, many will pony up for this release, which comes with a nice commemorative booklet and the same fine 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer carried over from the Widescreen Collector's Edition.
 
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This Movie Will Make You Uncomfortable
on April 25, 2008
Posted by: kevman79
'Jaws' is a good movie, but not one I would add to my dvd collection because it's not the type of movie you tend to watch over and over. It's worth a viewing though, especially for those who haven't seen it...good bonus features and widescreen transfer.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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