Fiber Movie Reviews
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A Great Love StoryI also recommend Commitments on DVD and the book.
definately a good movie
The second to best book yet!Fortunately, the Goblet of Fire will not be two films long. However, it is most probable that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be two films long. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Volume I will be released in theaters June 2007. Volume II, may take even to 2009.
Back to the topic, I can definetely tell that this movie and the third movie will both be great movies. But I daresay, since the books are being so long, it may take over 2010 to finish the whole movie series. And hopefully, until then, all Harry Potter fans will stay fully Harry-Potter active.
A Little Info On The FilmThe rumors of Daniel Radcliffe not returning for his role has been shot down, his mother says he will be back for the rest of the movies.
Also the movie will have a new director and is so far becoming so long it might be split into 2 films.
If you want more info go to
http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/h/harrypotterandthegobletoffire.shtm
to see what is up.
THE ANTICIPATION
Maiznkaiser with drawalMaybe if ADVfilms.com realizes that there is a high demand from the sales of Mazinkaiser. Just maybe they will release Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger on DVD here in America. I am aware that there are more dvds of Mazinger Z out there(about 3 or 4) but they are in Japanese with English subtitles, which is not a problem for me. Now the only problem I see is that they say they that they can be played in any dvd player which is untrue. All dvd(s) are created to work for only one certain region of the world and it will not play on a dvd player that is from a different region.
Once, I did receive my copy of the DVD. I was disappointed to read on the back of the casing that this would be the final episodes. During the final battle it leaves the possbility of a future emergence for the evil Dr HELL. E-mail ADVFILMS.COM and let them know you want more Mazinger dvd(s) created for us. Also tell them to contact Amazon.com to ditribute them.
*** The following IS A SPOILER do not read unless you have already seen the dvd.
*** During the final battle Mazinkaiser is at the door steps of the evil Dr HELL. It seems that the armies of the island are no longer there for the DR. The only option left for the Doc is to retreat and fight another day. Well, here is where the creaters of Mazinkaiser have left the possibility for the series to continue. You see it seems that the Doc's rocket that he was escaping in calapsed during maiznkaiser's final attack. The entire island was on fire as this occured. So it could have been some other form of explosion that just so happened to obstruct Koji's view leaving him to believe that the Doc is dead.
Another excellent installmentThen, I saw that the second volume was due out shortly. Once it arrived, I picked it up too, and was not disappointed. It has the same excellent animation and campy, over-the-top storyline we expect from a Mazinger series, as well as (of course) the super robots themselves.
My only complaint is that this is the LAST DVD in the series, and that it contains only 3 episodes. Mazinkaiser must have been only a 7-episode miniseries. Still, it was quite thrilling, and no punches were pulled. I hear there are Mazinkaiser movies out there as well, so I wait on them with baited breath.
Long story short, if you're a Mazinger fan, get this DVD. It's not for kids (it had graphic violence and some nudity, like the first DVD), but it'll make you feel like one.
A must see for the 70s/80s generation!The only ultra robot, with the capability of wreaking havoc into the heart of evil! On the first volume, Mazinger Z, and Great Mazinger, two of Japan's mos powerful titans, duke it out against Baron Asura, and the nefarious Doctor Hell. Mazinger gets kidnapped, and Koji finds out, that the answer for this new menace, with old enemies, is Mazinkaiser, built by his grandfather, Dr. Juzo Kabuto, who built Mazinger, in hopes that he could stop Dr. Hell's evil plans of new world order. In this volume, Koji finds himself, fighting the ghosts from his past... Anyway... you need to see this one, and buy the first one, if you have not bought it yet!!!! A remake of the 1972 series, MAZINGER Z, you will find this series, worth watching, and collecting.
Not BadIn fact, Michael hides alot of things from his family. He and his chopsocky gang have robbed a bank of several million dollars. It was successful in part because the bank executive Peter Stern (Drake Diamond) is on their side. After locking up their stolen haul, the bad guys destroy the keys to their vault, but not before making impressions of them in a plastic pizza and dividing it equally to keep the honor amongst themselves.
After Stern decides to turn himself and the gang into the cops, the gang shows up and kills him and his wife, but thier daughter Annie (Laura Hamilton) escapes with her father's slice of the pizza and heads to David, Charlie, and Tony, who agree to protect her.
BREATHING FIRE, like so many other "kickboxing" martial arts movies, has a cast that is composed mostly of real-life martial arts champions. That's a wise choice to satisfy martial arts fans. Those in search of riveting, oscar-worthy performances, however, I would advise to steer clear. PKC Kickboxing Champ Jerry Trimble may have a well-molded physique and that overall look of pure evil, (He was also the bad guy in the kick-{ing}Jet Li 1989 Hong Kong movie, THE MASTER, which is now finally seeing a stateside release) but it doesn't much help him. Trimble is so lacking in any acting ability, his performance in BREATHING FIRE achieves somekind of benchmark : it may not be possible for another martial arts champion to give a worse performance.
However, who does watch these movies for their crummy dialouge and tacky acting? Not me, but we do watch for the martial arts action, which BREATHING FIRE has plenty of. It's so loaded with hyperactive karate mayhem, it more than makes up for the lousy acting. BREATHING FIRE certainly lives up to it's title.
Very Good
Made Just for BOLO Fans!As for the films, themselves, Breathing Fire was a good story - two brothers who try to foil bank robbers w/the help of their uncle, a martial artist. Bolo Yeung was, of course, one of the robbers - seeing him in a dress made it worth watching right there! There was lots of action, with numerous fight scenes, and betrayal and backstabbing. All through the story, one of the boys, a Vietnamese, searches for his roots, though he may not care for what he finds.
In Blood Fight, we see through the eyes of Kai as he re-lives what brought him to the finals of the Free Fighting Tournament- where he is about to face Chang Lee (Bolo Yeung). Lee killed Kai's student at a previous tournament, and now Kai seeks revenge. The tournament fighting is vastly different from Bloodsport - the first fights are often comical - I loved it! And the final fight is longer and much more dramatic - it deserves the name Blood Fight.
These films really enhanced my appreciation for Bolo Yeung's acting and fighting abilities. I think you'd enjoy them, too.
1940's outdoorsmen become war heroes and moreAnyone should find this video entertaining, but outdoor enthusiasts should find it particularly enjoyable. These men are admirable to me for their skill and dedication in the outdoors in an era before such activites became fashionable; add in their sense of duty and honor as well as their eloquence and I find them to be true heroes. I thank the producers of this film for introducing them to me
'Classic Kung Fu Collection
heaven's firei love it when he plays a good guy.
he is a great actor and very handsome one at that
this is a most see movie for all erics roberts fans
i definely recommand this isone to any one
The Best DVD of the Kyoto Saga
Ok,One Word:AUESOME!!!!!until next time,
KENNY ~_~ >_< :) :(
Barely A Five Star Effort...More Like 4 and a HalfAnd that's all this disc really is, closure. The best fights of the series have already taken place (the two Kenshin/Aoshi fights; the Kenshin/Cho fight; the Kenshin/Soujiro fight, and the best of all, the Kenshin/Saitoh fight). Still, the Hitokiri Battousai does have some moves left up his sleeve that we haven't seen yet, and that make this disc worth watching. About 60 percent of the show, however, is taken up by long speeches by Shishio (about why his plan must take place and is right) and from Kenshin (about why Shishio's vision for his Kunitori to take place is clouded). The fights are quick and almost anti-climactic to the long stares, speeches and analysis by the remaining spectators.
There are some definite cool shots in this; the screen splits into long, cross-wise screens that move toward Kenshin and Shishio to build up tension.
A disc that highlights what is good and bad about Rurouni Kenshin: great buildups of tension and clever, dramatic, tragic sword strategies versus the long speeches, long stare-downs and buildups ala Dragonball Z. The final fight doesn't even rank in terms of the best of the series, but it still holds its own. Pretty much, you can't not buy it cause you need to know how the Kyoto arc concludes, but not a recommended buy by itself, or as a first disc for a newcomer.
1. The existence of suffering, or dukkha
2. The cause of suffering (karma)
3. The cessation of suffering
4. The Path that leads to the cessation of suffering
This set of four videos collects a series of lectures on the Four Noble Truths given by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in 1997 in England. The lectures were a landmark event, bringing together for the first time in the West a nonsectarian Buddhist and lay audience for over six hours of emotional and intellectually challenging engagement with these central teachings of the Buddhist canon. The impressive intellect and scholarship of His Holiness is everywhere evident in these tapes as he traverses the expansive body of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. One also catches glimpses of his mischievous sense of humor and, of course, his inspiring compassion.
The first tape is a framework for the discussion of the Four Truths. His Holiness discusses the importance of developing a critical insight toward one's perceptions of reality, and he emphasizes the value of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) in finding the way to this insight. Though he begins in English, as he gets into the finer points of Tibetan philosophy he turns to his native language and speaks through a translator. The tape concludes in a lighthearted mode with a question-and-answer period, again in English, in which he giggles over the Western interest in finding the "quickest, cheapest, and most efficient" way to enlightenment.
The second tape addresses the First of the Truths, of dukkha, or suffering. Here His Holiness searches for the roots of this suffering in an understanding of cosmology, both among Buddhist writings and among the work of contemporary physicists, but ultimately he points to our human ignorance of the fleeting nature of pleasurable experience as the root cause.
Tape 3 opens with an analysis of the causes of suffering (the law of karma). He begins to set out the Buddhist path, which, he says, must always be grounded in the aspiration for "freedom from samsara"--life amid the world of afflictive emotions. In the most impassioned moment of the hours of lectures, His Holiness uses his surprisingly deft English to explain how our emotions are the true "enemy" and destroyer of all of our happiness and health. If you believe, he argues, that one can do something about one's feelings of greed, anger, etc., then one should dedicate oneself to study and mental training to root out the afflictive emotions and foster the positive emotions. The end of tape 3 briefly addresses the Third Truth, of the cessation of suffering.
Finally, tape 4, which is peppered with references to classical Buddhist texts, takes up the Path (The Eight-Fold Path, as it is usually called) to "direct, intuitive realization of emptiness." At the root of this path, His Holiness says that one most foster bodhichitta, the altruistic desire to attain enlightenment for oneself so that one may help others. He recommends that one devote oneself, above all else, to seeing oneself as interconnected with all other beings. To stay on the Path, one must be devoted to single-point meditation and analytical meditation. And one must be determined. Enlightenment may, he admits, take eons.
One curiosity of the videos is the cameraperson's roving eye. Frequently, the picture will settle on a rapt or amused audience member. On a couple of occasions, the faces in the audience are famous: John Cleese and various British TV personalities. Each of the four videos also includes a brief introduction by Tibetan Buddhism scholar Robert Thurman, who contextualizes the lectures within the many Buddhist traditions. --Patrick O'Kelley
words of wisdom
Worth every penny
A rare opportunity....