Guns Movie Reviews

Eight spectacular specimans of youthful manhood. With casting by Bel Ami, Vulcan:Fresh and Cheeky Young Guns features eight of Slovakia's most beautiful specimans of youthful-manhood. Sensual and erotic, this video epitomizes the skill and sensitivity of European erotica producers. 55 Minutes. Rated NR

Federico Luppi, the fine actor from Argentina, takes the lead role as Dr. Fuentes. He sets out to find his former students on the road to places he's never been. The shift in his life is caused by the death of his wife. He sets out in spite of his family not wanting him to leave. The aging doctor first encounters one his former students, now a drug dealer, using the same drugs he taught him to cure others, he is now using them for ill purposes. His journey has only begun and he finds many more dissapointments along the way. This is a beautiful film that is allegorical, historical, contemporary and packed with messages for the viewer to interpret. In his quest to find his students he finds his country to be quite different from the view he had of it prior to his leaving the city. He encounters missing people and tales of abductions from men with guns. The villagers call them white men with guns but are quick to say that the Indios are also now white men. Although the story takes place in an unnamed country, the parallels to Guatemala are clear. Having witnessed a corpse on the roadside while travelling in a bus (everyone gawked with little concern, as though it were a common sight) in Guatemala and seeing the treatment first hand of the military I am pretty sure this is where it is. However, this is unimportant as these occurences of hit squads and paramilitary goons, in cahoots with the military, are a frequent sight in many Latin American countries. Anyway, Dr. Fuentes picks up several people along the way to expand the tale. He picks up a "liberation priest" who abandons his collar and those who believed in him, a former military thug turned thief, an indigenous young woman who doesn't speak since she was raped by soldiers and a street-savy kid who is an orphan and Dr. Fuentes's guide. All represent the society Dr. Fuentes is unaware of and as they tell their sordid stories, amidst flashbacks and surreal dreams, a country whose people live in brutal chaos is revealed . This is a powerful movie, one to be seen more than once in order to fully enjoy. Although the story evolves around Dr. Fuentes and his crew, there are several encounters with a funny couple who are "informed" tourists with bad Spanish accents and worse pronunciation. A completly enthralling film, in spite of its length, that hits close to the harsh reality of life in Latin America. A beautiful film that is set to the backdrops of the jungle and it's relics from the past, as well as present day village life , it is a movie that is visually breathtaking and mentally stimulating. Recommended for those that like movies that carry a political and social commentary. Great stuff, see it before your next vacation to the tropics, so that as the guy from the radio says"and now you know the rest of the story" before you get there.

The main charachter is approaching his retirement. As for his last vacation, he decides to check up on his students. Students that he trained to help the poorer people of his country. However, he soon discovers that something is wrong. His students are missing, and the only explanation he can gather about them is that somehow "Men with Guns" were involved. What starts as a vacation soon turns into a quest. Soon more charachters join him, including an orphan boy, an awol solidier, an ex-priest (my favorite) and a mute woman. All of which leads to the ending. No hollywood fairytales here. Just a solid story, and a solid cast. Part thriller, part drama, this is a truly great film.

This is a great film. Don't be deceived by the title, it is not a violent film, though it is about violence.

There seems to be a debate here about where the movie takes place, whether Mexico, Guatamala, or somewhere in South America. According to John Sayles, the answer is all of the above. Though it was filmed in Mexico, Sayles purposely set it in an unnamed country to illustrate that, at least in one sense, the various conflicts in latin american countries are essentially the same--one group of "men with guns" supposily is fighting with another group of "men with guns," but really all both groups are doing is terrorizing the local people who live there. To the villagers, it doesn't matter which group is the government and which are the rebels, or which ideology each group claims to be fighting for. This general point could apply equally to many countries in latin america who have had rebel movements over the past 20 years (this includes Guatamala, but also Columbia, Peru, El Salvador, and unfortunately several others). While people familiar with Central America will recognize that the villagers wear Mayan dress, that is more due to where the movie was filmed than an intent to set it in a particular country. The soundtrack is comprised of music from almost every latin american country, from Argentina to Mexico, and Sayles says in the liner notes that he did this to emphasize that the film is not about any particular place, but rather what those conflicts have in common and why they remain so intractable.

I think this is better then the first one. with an allstar cast you can cut with a knife. you got your Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Ruck, Viggo Mortensen, Lou Diamond Phillips and your William Petersen. with more roust um up action and gunplay. Slater stands out in this entire movie and Im just glad he made it out alive. though did they have to kill off Kiefer and Lou, come on man. packs a screaming wallop. yeeehaw, ride um cowboys.

The comedy is top notch, and the characters are great. I saw this before Young Guns I (go figure) and I thought it was the best ever. Now I'm not sure... "Young Guns I" might have been better (especially the plot).

Either way, you should own both of movies, I and II. Get them. NOW.

Not many sequels surpass their original sibling but this DVD does. Billy's back, so is Pat Garrrett (although he is played by a different actor) and this is the showdown. This movie is the story of an old man claiming to be Billy who is after the pardon he was promised almost a lifetime ago. This movie picks up pretty much a year after Young Guns with the surviving regulators being round up and set for a hanging. Meanwhile Billy is being promised a pardon by the governor in return for testimony against his old enemies who killed John Tunstall. Of course there is no pardon and Billy must escape and rescue his pals. Pat Garrett is of course paid a lot of money to turn on Billy, track him down and bring him to justice.

Out of the two Young Guns movies this is the more well known story of the life of Billy the Kid. You don't actually need to have seen the original to enjoy this movie but the original is pretty good too so you might as well.

The trailer for the movie is also included which is pretty interesting to see how it was marketed in the USA. There's also a featurette which is a sort of behind the scenes, interview with the actors type thing. It's pretty interesting. You can also just watch the credits if you want to listen to Jon Bon Jovi's Blaze of Glory and Billy get Your Guns songs.

Like Young Guns this movie has an excellent cast with Keifer Sutherland, Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater and Lou Diamond Phillips being the most famous ones. My only criticism is that they used William Petersen a different actor to play Pat Garrett than Patrick Wayne who played him in Young Guns. Once you get used to this it doesn't matter. This is a sensational DVD you should buy it as well as Young Guns. If you love the movie consider buying Blaze of Glory the solo album inspired by the film by Jon Bon Jovi as it'll take you back memory wise to the film each time you play it.

I was very excited when I heard that the whole video collection of my favorite band was going to be released on DVD. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

I finally received the disc a couple of days ago, but oh, what a disappointment! The sound is just horrible, unbearable.

The sound is too harsh, contains a lot of treble, it seems like it's over-compressed or something, and then they have raised the high frequencies. At Patience, the whistling is scratchy and noisy, and after that I couldn't watch it no more. I've asked to return this.

It's about time that G N' R put in a DVD appearance with this 13 track video compilation (and the 2 Use Your Illusion live DVDs). That's the good news. The bad news is that this release is the exact same as the VHS that came out in 1998. Why is that bad? The VHS was missing the "You Could Be Mine" video (and had no extras such as the other material from the 3 Making The F@*!ing Videos [1993/94] VHS tapes). The more things change (format), the more they stay the same (content). This DVD could easily have been a 5 star affair. Instead, it'll have to do for those of us wishing for a G N' R fix while waiting for Axl to drop Chinese Democracy (if ever).

I agree with Michael Zoglio -- the exclusion of "You Could Be Mine" is disappointing. Chances are they had trouble clearing rights to footage from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (which is now distributed by Artisan, I believe), which had been used liberally in the video, since the promotional value of "You Could Be Mine" has long passed. Too bad, because that was a great Guns N' Roses on-camera performance.

There's still tons of great music video filmmaking here. "Sweet Child O'Mine" is a bare-bones performance video, but superior because it's free of the hyperactive post-modern techniques that characterize music videos today. And I seem to remember the girl in the video is Axl's ex, Erin Everly, who had inspired the original song. "Welcome to the Jungle" is chaos incarnate, with Axl's prominent hairdo and psychotic performance sending the song over the top. "Patience" has Slash's pet snake and Axl's subdued studio performance, "Don't Cry" began the band's experimentation with narratives in its videos, and of course "November Rain" is one of the greatest videos ever made, with a grand stage performance (Axl doing his Elton John, sitting at the piano with Roger McGuinn-flavoured 'granny' sunglasses) juxtaposed with beautifully shot narrative footage, and the dizzyingly gorgeous Stephanie Seymour. The small moments in this video (Seymour licking wedding cake from Axl's finger, best man Slash losing the wedding ring) were beautiful to behold, and Slash's guitar solo outside a hilltop church is still rock n' roll at its most sweeping.

Guns N' Roses were one of the great on-camera performance bands of its time and this DVD release was long overdue. Essential music-video viewing.

I was very excited when I heard that the whole video collection of my favorite band was going to be released on DVD. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

I finally received the disc a couple of days ago, but oh, what a disappointment! The sound is just horrible, unbearable.

The sound is too harsh, contains a lot of treble, it seems like it's over-compressed or something, and then they have raised the high frequencies. At Patience, the whistling is scratchy and noisy, and after that I couldn't watch it no more. I've asked to return this.

It's about time that G N' R put in a DVD appearance with this 13 track video compilation (and the 2 Use Your Illusion live DVDs). That's the good news. The bad news is that this release is the exact same as the VHS that came out in 1998. Why is that bad? The VHS was missing the "You Could Be Mine" video (and had no extras such as the other material from the 3 Making The F@*!ing Videos [1993/94] VHS tapes). The more things change (format), the more they stay the same (content). This DVD could easily have been a 5 star affair. Instead, it'll have to do for those of us wishing for a G N' R fix while waiting for Axl to drop Chinese Democracy (if ever).

I agree with Michael Zoglio -- the exclusion of "You Could Be Mine" is disappointing. Chances are they had trouble clearing rights to footage from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (which is now distributed by Artisan, I believe), which had been used liberally in the video, since the promotional value of "You Could Be Mine" has long passed. Too bad, because that was a great Guns N' Roses on-camera performance.

There's still tons of great music video filmmaking here. "Sweet Child O'Mine" is a bare-bones performance video, but superior because it's free of the hyperactive post-modern techniques that characterize music videos today. And I seem to remember the girl in the video is Axl's ex, Erin Everly, who had inspired the original song. "Welcome to the Jungle" is chaos incarnate, with Axl's prominent hairdo and psychotic performance sending the song over the top. "Patience" has Slash's pet snake and Axl's subdued studio performance, "Don't Cry" began the band's experimentation with narratives in its videos, and of course "November Rain" is one of the greatest videos ever made, with a grand stage performance (Axl doing his Elton John, sitting at the piano with Roger McGuinn-flavoured 'granny' sunglasses) juxtaposed with beautifully shot narrative footage, and the dizzyingly gorgeous Stephanie Seymour. The small moments in this video (Seymour licking wedding cake from Axl's finger, best man Slash losing the wedding ring) were beautiful to behold, and Slash's guitar solo outside a hilltop church is still rock n' roll at its most sweeping.

Guns N' Roses were one of the great on-camera performance bands of its time and this DVD release was long overdue. Essential music-video viewing.

We now see a little more about Vash. We get to see what is under that coat and special gadets he has. Also we see a dark side. I guess you would say. His eyes glow a couple of times. Hopely the Vash we know and love will not change in the up and coming volumes. I haven't seen them yet but I can't wait. Love and Peace.

As the series becomes more complex, the characters grow into people you can start to relate too. As for Vash, he proves to himself that death, although tempting, is not the way to release pain, no matter how great. In these episodes, you will see the man Vash truly is, you will see his life in a new prespective, and you will fall more in love with the foolish Vash that we have come so far with.

These three episodes lay the groundwork for season 2 of "Trigun," both in terms of tone and plotting. 'Eascape from Pain', episode 11, initially resembles "Quick Draw", a light, self-contained romp. The writers use the plot, however, to further delineate each character. Vash and company are individually drawn into a complex moral dilemma. Each character finds themselves weighing the good of the individual against the good of the many, and making a decision. The decisions reached by each of the principals, while seeking the same outcome, are very different. And the scene where Wolfwood puts a gun to his own temple will not easily be forgotten. All in all, a complex, ambitious episode that poses questions not often raised in anime. The standout episode of season 1.

Episode 12, "Diablo", features the return of Legato Bluesummers, as well as introducing the first of Vash's season 2 adversaries, the Gung-Ho Guns. This marks the evolution of "Trigun" from a humor series with serious moments to a character-driven drama with the occasional light-hearted moment. Most of the episodes that follow are completely serious, darker, and more ambitious. Even the villians become darker. Though no less bizarre, the Gung-Ho Guns exude more menace than, say, the Nebraska family.

The last episode in this collection, "Vash the Stampede", closes out season one with an episode that is mostly a recap of the preceding episodes. A good jumping-on point for newcomers, though the episode does delve further into Vash's mysterious past and background.

This is one of those rare genius', smart TV Shows out there. I just recently discovered 'My So-Called Life' last year while flicking through cable and saw A.J Langer as Rayanne, who is one of my all time favourite actors. I then saw Clare Danes come onto the screen (who I'v always liked), and then I saw Jared Leto, while the time I was thinking ''What is this show'', I couldn't help but notice and be impressed by the humour of it and the true honesty of it. Watching Clare Danes as Angela Chase and her questioning of things and the humour of Rayanne, I really felt that I had stumbled onto something special and unique. Now I'm really femiliar with the show and a definite fan, I have yet to buy this on DVD but I can't wait to be the proud owner of this fine, witty, wonderful show.

The complete set is available on DVD through this site as well as others. So stop complaining.

Good show. DO NOT order through Another Universe, it is not worth the hassle. It is no longer exclusive to them, so you have a choice. Buy it now. It's up to you. Just don't buy from AU. You have been warned.

K

I agree with the last reviewer. I am a huge fan of the show, My So Called Life, and was very sad when they decided not to air it any more. Luckily though, a local movie store started to carry these boxed sets of the show. I was happy again. I bought the first two boxed sets on video (one tape being the video form of this DVD selling on this web site). I came back again and again for the third, for the last episodes. Because each set, as you see, only contains six episodes. (two on each video tape or DVD) Unfortunately for some reason they discontinued them. So I have searched far and wide for the last boxed set that was apparently dicontinued and I have had no luck so far. I am now anxious to watch the other episodes seeing as when I am done watching the first twelve, I am continuously left hanging. Knowing there are seven (I thought there is only 18 episodes all together, I have now been informed there is 19!) All in all I agree with my fellow fans of the show. NO MORE MESSIN AROUND! Either continue the sets again, ALL OF THEM! Or come out with a boxed set with THE ENTIRE SERIES! EVERY EPISODE! I will for sure be one of the first to buy it. It is true the reason this DVD is not selling well. We want ALL the episodes! Not just three, or six, or twelve...ALL OF THEM! Well thanx for listening. Hope to see the entire series soon. PS I gave the DVD a five star rating based on the show itself, not the form it comes in.

this movie has great gunplay and a great cast. but Jack Palance as the badguy seems miscast and theres someparts that sorta take it down a notch. but the cast work well. Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney , Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemazko and Charlie Sheen. hang on for some good old western gunplay

Even if it is not 100% historically correct. After all, how do we know what was actually said between the players? Still, it's a great story. A great guy flick: pure and simple.

This is the best movie ever. If you enjoy movies that you can watch over and over then this is one for you. If you like to watch movies with a perfect mix of bad [guy] lines and funny lines then yep, this movie is for you. William H. Bonnie aka "Billy the Kid" is played by Emilio Estevez who was made for this role. Almost everything in the movie can be related to what actually happened. The sequel is neither true nor that good. It has Christian Slater playing a cowboy...enough said.

this movie has great gunplay and a great cast. but Jack Palance as the badguy seems miscast and theres someparts that sorta take it down a notch. but the cast work well. Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney , Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemazko and Charlie Sheen. hang on for some good old western gunplay

Even if it is not 100% historically correct. After all, how do we know what was actually said between the players? Still, it's a great story. A great guy flick: pure and simple.

This is the best movie ever. If you enjoy movies that you can watch over and over then this is one for you. If you like to watch movies with a perfect mix of bad [guy] lines and funny lines then yep, this movie is for you. William H. Bonnie aka "Billy the Kid" is played by Emilio Estevez who was made for this role. Almost everything in the movie can be related to what actually happened. The sequel is neither true nor that good. It has Christian Slater playing a cowboy...enough said.

this movie has great gunplay and a great cast. but Jack Palance as the badguy seems miscast and theres someparts that sorta take it down a notch. but the cast work well. Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney , Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemazko and Charlie Sheen. hang on for some good old western gunplay

Even if it is not 100% historically correct. After all, how do we know what was actually said between the players? Still, it's a great story. A great guy flick: pure and simple.

This is the best movie ever. If you enjoy movies that you can watch over and over then this is one for you. If you like to watch movies with a perfect mix of bad [guy] lines and funny lines then yep, this movie is for you. William H. Bonnie aka "Billy the Kid" is played by Emilio Estevez who was made for this role. Almost everything in the movie can be related to what actually happened. The sequel is neither true nor that good. It has Christian Slater playing a cowboy...enough said.