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Downtown 81
Released in DVD by Zeitgeist Video (10 September, 2002)
Starring: Jean Michel Basquiat
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KID CREOLE ROCKS
A trippy almost surreal peek into the 80s New York art sceneIf you can bypass the bad acting(might've been intentional for art's sake but doubt it)and the Kid Creole number, this is a really good ,and dare I say it, art movie. It's a rare treat for anyone to see classic No Wave bands like DNA,Tuxedomoon & James White and the Blacks on film,hands down. And who can ever say even one bad word about the Japanese band the Plastics? My only slight beef with the film was that it sometimes tried to drive the point too much in the premise that "This is New York,baby!!!" Also,it vacillated between Basquiat,his poetry art and the bands so often you weren't sure what was the film's true focus. Still,for a 21 year old lost movie(that survived only by the master negative being locked away and forgotten)it's a gem of a period piece. The special appearance by Debbie Harry makes things even more quirky. Very definitely an excellent companion video to the Basquiat biopic.
a time and a placeimportant film for documenting a great time and place. the music scenes make it worthwhile as well as getting to see basquiat in action, only downside is the kid creole stuff which was is and shall always be awful. if they could delete kid creole i'd give it 5 stars. the extras are pretty good.
Ride
Released in DVD by Dimension Home Video (14 January, 2003)
Starring: Melissa De Sousa, John Witherspoon, and Cedric the Entertainer
When Leta (Melissa De Sousa) gets a job as an assistant to a big-time rap video director, she doesn't realize her duties will consist of chaperoning a bus full of would-be rap stars from Harlem. Ride follows this collection of hip-hop misfits on a smelly, broken-down charter bus that they have to take to get to Miami for a video shoot in 24 hours. Naturally, there's bickering, breakdowns, impromptu jam sessions, and a lot of bonding. Leta finds an ally in Poppa (Malik Yoba), an old friend of the music producer who wants to start a program for youth in the inner city. Meanwhile, Poppa's younger brother has stolen a backpack full of money from a couple of thieves who are not happy about it and are tracking him down--but story isn't really the point in Ride. This is a movie about elaborate insults and verbal riffs, a nonstop flow of talk ranging from the bad-girl back and forth of a female rap duo to the crazed mixture of bragging and trash from the middle-aged bus drivers who cast an unfazed eye at these aspiring ghetto stars. Fleshed out with scatological humor, loony dream sequences, and a soundtrack featuring the Wu-Tang Clan, Onyx, and Naughty by Nature, Ride is slapdash but entertaining. Also featuring cameos from Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre, Downtown Julie Brown, Redman, and others. --Bret Fetzer
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The most ridiculously stupid movieA movie with a so called "righteous black man" and some students he takes to Florida the possibility of making in entertainment only in the end to buy into the sterotype of black entertainers.
Actually better then i thoughtI must say when i saw this film when it was first release in theatres i didnt know what expect.. I thought just some second rate low budget comedy.. with the laughs comin at crude humour..but to my surprise the laughs were ginuwine.. they were forced like you get in some movies.. a good cast of hip hoppers, unknowns, veterans.. a Slamming Soundtrack ! made this movie very entertaining
GREAT MUSICThough the movie was very predictable, the music was great! Some of the storyline was so stupid it actually made it funny. Again clearly the star was the music of DUNN PEARSON!!
Downtown Torpedoes
Released in DVD by Tai Seng Video (24 October, 2000)
Average review score:
Interesting movieI really enjoyed this film although some of the technology seemed a little far-fetched. It had a lot of hongkong type action and a lot of flash in it. I have watched the show several times and have found it to be quite entertaining. I suppose the presence of my favourite actors helped a bit, Jordan Chan and Takeshi Kaneshiro!
Entertaining flick, but DVD is so-soA hip, modern Hong Kong flick inspired by Mission:Impossible (and more fun), that manages to be big, flashy, and entertaining. Fast-paced action, excellent editing, cool stunts, and energetic direction make it feel like a slick, animated Japanese cartoon. Particularly noteable is Jordan Chan in the film, who does much of the movie's cool fights, dodging, and running. Takeshi Kaneshiro, however, doesn't do much here, other than look pretty for the female audience. Needless to say, at around 90 minutes, you won't get a whole lot of character development, but there's plenty intriquite action, nice European locations, twists with plenty plot-holes (yet "cool" nevertheless). If you're looking for substance in your film, you won't find it here, but you will get a "fun," entertaining, spy flick with speedy Hong Kong action, at least more entertaining than a James Bond flick (although it makes just about as much sense). Not bad if you want to be entertained for 90 minutes. As for the DVD: The DVD I got didn't have any extras, which was a shame. The english subtitles were part of the image.
Quite interesting... but that's it.As far as I know, this movie was incredibly influenced by "Mission Impossible" (the first one) with Tom Cruise. Well, I may say that this movie is kinda like that with more HK style action and humour. So it's quite exciting to watch after all.
But as for an entertaining action "blockbuster typr" movie, this one's story was quite a little bit too complicated and too up-and-down. But who cares, when Takeshi Kaneshiro is in there?
Bug Buster
Released in DVD by Dmg Entertainment (24 October, 2000)
Average review score:
Bug BusterWell guys, I was one of those who made the movie. Comical is the only word for it. Let me tell you, it wasn't intended to be a humorous film at first!
-this from the hard working art department
-this from the hard working art department
You Need Not Take It Seriously to Like ItBUG BUSTER is one of those rarest of fright films: it knows when not to take itself too seriously even if it does not know when to frighten and when to amuse. The Bug of the movie is the Mother Bug, a flying roach that looks exactly like what is it, some guy on wires wearing a bug suit. It is hard to imagine even small children being fightened, but it is far easier to see that the audience is titillated by overlapping waves of corny dialogue, cheesy special effects, and guest appearances by Star Trek's James Doohan as a corrupt small-town sheriff and George Tokei as a demented entymologist. The plot is nonsense, of course. A Mother Bug lays eggs that threaten everyone in town. This theme of insectoid mother love we have seen before. ALIENS showed us how it could be presented in a serious vein. But here, in BUG BUSTER, everything is played for laughs. Randy Quaid steals the show as exterminator General George, who squares off in a boxing match with the Mother Bug in a scene that pays homage to Charles Dutton, who tried much the same in ALIENS 3. The result of this slugfest is a microscopic metaphor of the joy that a Big Bug movie can bring if only it refuses to take itself too seriously.
One of Heigl's best filmsOK, there are two reasons why this film gets 5 stars. You Katherine Heigl fans know what I mean.
Here Heigl's family moves to a small west coast town being pleagued by giant bugs. And only the cast of 'Star Trek' can save her.
For a B movie the production is suprisingly good.
For those of you disapionted by Heigl's recent films 'Valintine' and 'Evil Never Dies' have no fear. Thoses film stunk because Heigl barely had any screen time. In 'Bug Buster' she is truly the main character and does what she does best, taking baths and showing.
I'd probably rate this film third after 'Wish Upon a Star' and 'Prince Valient' (where is that DVD?)
If your a guy wondering "who in Katherine Heigl?" Look her up on the internet. Then come back here and order this film.
Fist of the North Star
Released in DVD by Fox Lorber (26 October, 1999)
Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken, literally Ken the Great Bear Fist) which premiered on Japanese television in 1984, looks like a Saturday morning version of Mad Max starring a caricature of Sylvester Stallone. Searching for his lost love, Julia, Ken(shiro) wanders an Earth that was devastated by nuclear war. In each episode, he takes on a new sadistic motorcycle gang. (Food and water are scarce, but there's apparently plenty of gasoline.) In his travels, Ken acquires two sidekicks: Bart, a comic musician-thief, and Lynn, an adoring little girl. Ken is the last master of secret Chinese martial arts techniques: his specialty is making foes blow up from the inside. In every episode, several heads explode, actions that would be quite gory if they weren't so crudely animated. (Rated 13 and older, but more appropriate for 15 and older: considerable violence, profanity, grotesque imagery, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
Average review score:
Fails UtterlyI am a huge fan of the Japanese anime "Fist of The North Star" which is of course the story of Kenshiro's quest to save his beloved Yulia from the clutches of his arch-rival Shin. What impresses me the most about this series is not the violence and fighting but the way Ken deals out justice. The way Ken delivers vengeance upon the evil-doers and tries to save as many good people as he can. The dialogue between Ken and Shin and between Shin and Yulia is some of the best I've heard in terms of outrageousness and hubris.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
BAD!!!I'm sorry but like other movies that follow after an Anime (i.e. Guyver, and Street Fighter) this movie sucked. It took the name Fist of the North Star and tainted it so much I think a tear came to my eye. It took everything I held dear about the Anime (the story, the fight scenes, the coolness) and raped it. Bad action sequences and poor martial arts left me wondering where had all the choreographers gone? I think I've seen better fight choreography from my neighbor kids in the back yard with their sticks pretending they were in slow motion! If good action movies were a building, this movie would be the plane that crashed into it! I put this on par with Mortal Kombat: Total Annihilation! STUPID! You wanna see a bad ass action movie? Well watch the Anime. It'll put this live action movie to shame!
Post-apocalyptic gore-fest"You are already dead" A phrase uttered by the main star Kenshiro, many a time, after performing one of his numerous killing techniques. The dialogue is a little cheesy , the bad-guys cookie-cutter,the animation primitive, but so what? This DVD is chock-full of violence and cool martial arts. Definetely watch this series in order, to understand the back-story and why the hell Ken is tromping around wasting baddies.
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
Fist of the North Star 02
Released in DVD by Wea Corp (25 March, 2003)
Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken, literally Ken the Great Bear Fist) which premiered on Japanese television in 1984, looks like a Saturday morning version of Mad Max starring a caricature of Sylvester Stallone. Searching for his lost love, Julia, Ken(shiro) wanders an Earth that was devastated by nuclear war. In each episode, he takes on a new sadistic motorcycle gang. (Food and water are scarce, but there's apparently plenty of gasoline.) In his travels, Ken acquires two sidekicks: Bart, a comic musician-thief, and Lynn, an adoring little girl. Ken is the last master of secret Chinese martial arts techniques: his specialty is making foes blow up from the inside. In every episode, several heads explode, actions that would be quite gory if they weren't so crudely animated. (Rated 13 and older, but more appropriate for 15 and older: considerable violence, profanity, grotesque imagery, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
Average review score:
Fails UtterlyI am a huge fan of the Japanese anime "Fist of The North Star" which is of course the story of Kenshiro's quest to save his beloved Yulia from the clutches of his arch-rival Shin. What impresses me the most about this series is not the violence and fighting but the way Ken deals out justice. The way Ken delivers vengeance upon the evil-doers and tries to save as many good people as he can. The dialogue between Ken and Shin and between Shin and Yulia is some of the best I've heard in terms of outrageousness and hubris.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
BAD!!!I'm sorry but like other movies that follow after an Anime (i.e. Guyver, and Street Fighter) this movie sucked. It took the name Fist of the North Star and tainted it so much I think a tear came to my eye. It took everything I held dear about the Anime (the story, the fight scenes, the coolness) and raped it. Bad action sequences and poor martial arts left me wondering where had all the choreographers gone? I think I've seen better fight choreography from my neighbor kids in the back yard with their sticks pretending they were in slow motion! If good action movies were a building, this movie would be the plane that crashed into it! I put this on par with Mortal Kombat: Total Annihilation! STUPID! You wanna see a bad ass action movie? Well watch the Anime. It'll put this live action movie to shame!
Post-apocalyptic gore-fest"You are already dead" A phrase uttered by the main star Kenshiro, many a time, after performing one of his numerous killing techniques. The dialogue is a little cheesy , the bad-guys cookie-cutter,the animation primitive, but so what? This DVD is chock-full of violence and cool martial arts. Definetely watch this series in order, to understand the back-story and why the hell Ken is tromping around wasting baddies.
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
Fist of the North Star Volume 1
Released in DVD by Wea Corp (25 March, 2003)
Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken, literally Ken the Great Bear Fist) which premiered on Japanese television in 1984, looks like a Saturday morning version of Mad Max starring a caricature of Sylvester Stallone. Searching for his lost love, Julia, Ken(shiro) wanders an Earth that was devastated by nuclear war. In each episode, he takes on a new sadistic motorcycle gang. (Food and water are scarce, but there's apparently plenty of gasoline.) In his travels, Ken acquires two sidekicks: Bart, a comic musician-thief, and Lynn, an adoring little girl. Ken is the last master of secret Chinese martial arts techniques: his specialty is making foes blow up from the inside. In every episode, several heads explode, actions that would be quite gory if they weren't so crudely animated. (Rated 13 and older, but more appropriate for 15 and older: considerable violence, profanity, grotesque imagery, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
Average review score:
Fails UtterlyI am a huge fan of the Japanese anime "Fist of The North Star" which is of course the story of Kenshiro's quest to save his beloved Yulia from the clutches of his arch-rival Shin. What impresses me the most about this series is not the violence and fighting but the way Ken deals out justice. The way Ken delivers vengeance upon the evil-doers and tries to save as many good people as he can. The dialogue between Ken and Shin and between Shin and Yulia is some of the best I've heard in terms of outrageousness and hubris.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
Now we get to the live-action version of this classic...
Great dialogue totally written out. Script seems like something from a bad pulp fiction novel. Flat performance from most although Shin and Bart were passable. No mention whatsoever in the movie of Ken's classic "I struck your hidden power point which controls your arm muscles..you have 3 seconds..." or Shin's "I am not meek...and contrary to what you may have heard, it is the strong who will inherit the earth" or Yulia "all I want...is kindness as vast as the sea, a heart as warm as the sun...like a wind blowing through a meadow" We get none of this great dialogue. Also missing are all of the great villians such as the martial arts killer, a giant of a man with a body like a sumo wrestler who absorbs blows with his body.
This movie takes the name of Fist of The North Star and totally fails to do justice to it. While watching this movie I at first laughed out loud at the bad special effects and poor acting but soon felt disappointment and later anger at this travesty styling itself as my beloved Fist of The North Star. If you are a fan of this series don't bother to view this movie. It should be called "Bloody Cross" or some other nonsense as it doesn't deserve the name Fist of The North Star.
BAD!!!I'm sorry but like other movies that follow after an Anime (i.e. Guyver, and Street Fighter) this movie sucked. It took the name Fist of the North Star and tainted it so much I think a tear came to my eye. It took everything I held dear about the Anime (the story, the fight scenes, the coolness) and raped it. Bad action sequences and poor martial arts left me wondering where had all the choreographers gone? I think I've seen better fight choreography from my neighbor kids in the back yard with their sticks pretending they were in slow motion! If good action movies were a building, this movie would be the plane that crashed into it! I put this on par with Mortal Kombat: Total Annihilation! STUPID! You wanna see a bad ass action movie? Well watch the Anime. It'll put this live action movie to shame!
Post-apocalyptic gore-fest"You are already dead" A phrase uttered by the main star Kenshiro, many a time, after performing one of his numerous killing techniques. The dialogue is a little cheesy , the bad-guys cookie-cutter,the animation primitive, but so what? This DVD is chock-full of violence and cool martial arts. Definetely watch this series in order, to understand the back-story and why the hell Ken is tromping around wasting baddies.
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
You get 7 episodes, very adequate compared to other companies. *cough*Funimation*cough. Audio in English and Japanese, with Subtitles. Let's be honest...you don't want to listen to this in english. The voice acting is really bad (read:Atrocious dialogue), and will make you run home crying. Stick to the Japanese track with subs, and you'll be fine.
Extras are the same old Manga previews from the previous disc,kinda dissapointing. All in all, a great buy...dont miss it!
The Homeboy
Released in DVD by Mti Home Video (08 October, 2002)
Average review score:
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one might take notice of the Kid Creole performance...looks very familiar to the Talkin Heads "stop making sence" concert performance video of 1984. well, Creole did it in 1981! David Byrne obviously saw it and got away with it...till now! Kid Creole ROCKS!!!!