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Happy Gilmore/Patch Adams
Released in DVD by Universal Studios (26 December, 2000)
Starring: Robin Williams
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Happy Gilmore is Great, Patch Adams isn'tMy advice for anyone who wants to buy this two dvd set is to keep Happy Gilmore, one of the funniest movies ever made, and sell Patch Adams on Ebay. Happy would be five stars, but I had to take one away for having Patch Adams in the dvd set.
Only seen Happy Gilmore so farHappy Gilmore is an awesome, laugh out loud movie, and I have seen Patch Adams, and remember it being a great movie, so for the price offered you're getting two good movies
Psychic Killer
Released in DVD by Elite Entertainment (18 May, 1999)
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killer movieIf you love B movies you'll love this. Nothing like a good thriller like this.
Good 70's chillerPsychic Killer is my favourite 70's B movie. The idea, and story of a killer who does not have to be near is victims, is handled exceptionally well. Jim Hutton is excellent as usual and the supporting cast relish in their roles. One either to buy or to borrow, but you must see it.
Psychic Killer
Released in DVD by (18 November, 2003)
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killer movieIf you love B movies you'll love this. Nothing like a good thriller like this.
Good 70's chillerPsychic Killer is my favourite 70's B movie. The idea, and story of a killer who does not have to be near is victims, is handled exceptionally well. Jim Hutton is excellent as usual and the supporting cast relish in their roles. One either to buy or to borrow, but you must see it.
Psychopath
Released in DVD by Avalanche Video (29 August, 2000)
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Great Sunday afternoon movie!I watched this movie this afternoon, & loved it. Its titlewas "Twist of Fate," & thinking it was the annoyingSteve Martin movie, I almost flipped the channel. I'm glad I didn't!
The star of the movie, actress Maedchen Amick, was honestly what kept me watching. However, the villain in the movie looked to me like a mixture of Bill Maher & David Caruso. Apparently, it was filmed in British Columbia. Overall, I'd say the movie was pretty decent...
Suspenseful & Excellent PlotHow to get a murderer behind bars even though he has already been acquitted? This is a great movie about the triumph of justice in the case of two murderers who are going to jail for each other's crimes. This movie will keep you at the edge of your seats, for you won't know until the very end how it's all going to end up.
Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection
Released in DVD by Miramax (02 April, 2002)
Starring: Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams
Writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks) makes a huge leap in sophistication with this strong story about a comic-book artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Joey Lauren Adams) and actually gets his wish that she love him, too. Their relationship is attacked, however, by his business partner (Jason Lee), who pulls a very unsubtle Iago act to cast doubt over the whole affair. The film has the same sense of insiderness as Clerks--this time, Smith takes us within the arcane, funny world of comic-book cultism--but the themes of jealousy, deceit, and the high price of growing up enough to truly care for someone make this a very satisfying movie. --Tom Keogh
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Opening doors.Good job of directing a minor masterpiece - Kevin Smith! The acting is wonderful, the story is lively, funny, sad, and full of surprises. I felt like I was given a born again insight into the problems of same gender, different gender, and both gender sexual feelings and expressions or repression there of. All of this and everyone's relationships are set in the world of comic books because the protagonists played by Affleck, Adams, and Lee all work as comic book creators. If you get queasy over rauchy language be warned - the film is full of it, like every other word from Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams, and everyone else except for Ben Affleck- but in the end it all makes sense and it all has pretty profound meaning. Read behind the lines and behind the comics. Clear your mind of stereotypes and you will find that truly "Chasing Amy" is a contemporary morality play. Not since Gone with the Wind....has an ending left me hanging like this one did. No hints, though, just see it. This time I think Siskel(who was still alive then) and Ebert are right....thumbs up!
The BEST Kevin Smith FilmI first saw Chasing Amy in my college's theater and was told that it was the sequel to Mallrats. I had no idea what that was or who Kevin Smith was - but when I saw it, I instantly recognized the genius of the writing. Smith has impressed me with Dogma and his works on Marvel Comics. But I believe Chasing Amy is his best film work ever.
The story, dialogue, and just how everything played out was truly beautiful, rare for love stories. I got the sense that it was real, not sappy, not pathetically romantic or predictable, as so many love stories are. The last love story I saw was How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days - hilarious film, but it was an amalgam of relationship generalities. Chasing Amy was not - it felt real. I learned later that the movie was based on Smith's former relationship with Joey Lauren Adams. I think Chasing Amy is a masterful work - a great story.
If you are looking for a movie that is real, a romance story that is real, or just a really good story - you have to watch this movie.
Smith's bestthis one is my favortie out of the Jay and Silent Bob movie because it has great writing and Smith apologizes for his last one MallRats which was ok. I liked the chemistry between Affleck and Adams I think they worked great and it helped with Jason Lee too. Silent Bob telling the Amy story is the best. other people like Matt Damon(Dogma, Courage Under Fire), Dwight Ewell(Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) and mostly a lot of people from the other Smith movies contribute parts as well.
Catch Me If You Can (Full Screen Edition)
Released in DVD by Umvd/Dreamworks (06 May, 2003)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Christopher Walken
An enormously entertaining (if somewhat shallow) affair from blockbuster director Steven Spielberg. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Frank Abagnale, Jr., a dazzling young con man who spent four years impersonating an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer--all before he turned 21. All the while he's pursued by a dedicated FBI agent named Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), whose dogged determination stays one step behind Abagnale's spontaneous wits. Both DiCaprio and Hanks turn in enjoyable performances and the movie has a bouncy rhythm that keeps it zipping along. However, it never gets under the surface of Frank's drive to lose himself in other identities, other than a simplistic desire to please his father (Christopher Walken, excellent as always), nor does it explore the complex mechanics of fraud with any depth. By the movie's end, it feels like one of Frank's pilot uniforms--appearance without substance. --Bret Fetzer
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Entertaining UNLESS you've read the book!I read this book before the movie came out, and Spielberg butchered the great story. The movie omits many of the best stories in the book, or twists and abuses them into inoffensive fluff, wrenching away their original intrigue. Spielberg confabulated a relationship between the lead and the FBI agent to make a better story, but it made both characters seem like woebegone fools.
HOWEVER, my friends who didn't read the book tended to like it.
I recommend you read the book instead--it's the first book in years that I couldn't put down until I had finished it. But if you don't like to read, then feel free to watch the movie and you probably won't be dissapointed.
So WASN'T what I thought, but betterI completely thought this was going to be like an thriller/intrigue thing... But it wasn't, and all the better! Great performances--and I am not a Leo fan. Even more interesting that the story is true! The interaction between Hanks and Leo is magical. Leo and his father--their relationship, as well as the unspoken expectations is terrific. Watch this, you'll like it!
Spielberg at the Top of His GameA personal film for Spielberg since he began his career in a vacant office (that he saw while on a tour) at Universal studios where he set up a (phony) office and pretended his way to fame and fortune. The divorce theme from most of his movies figures promenently here too, as he grew up a child of divorce. This is a very funny DRAMA, not a true comedy. This is based on a true story and is truly entertaining.
Catch Me If You Can (Widescreen Edition)
Released in DVD by Umvd/Dreamworks (06 May, 2003)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Christopher Walken
An enormously entertaining (if somewhat shallow) affair from blockbuster director Steven Spielberg. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Frank Abagnale, Jr., a dazzling young con man who spent four years impersonating an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer--all before he turned 21. All the while he's pursued by a dedicated FBI agent named Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), whose dogged determination stays one step behind Abagnale's spontaneous wits. Both DiCaprio and Hanks turn in enjoyable performances and the movie has a bouncy rhythm that keeps it zipping along. However, it never gets under the surface of Frank's drive to lose himself in other identities, other than a simplistic desire to please his father (Christopher Walken, excellent as always), nor does it explore the complex mechanics of fraud with any depth. By the movie's end, it feels like one of Frank's pilot uniforms--appearance without substance. --Bret Fetzer
Average review score:
Entertaining UNLESS you've read the book!I read this book before the movie came out, and Spielberg butchered the great story. The movie omits many of the best stories in the book, or twists and abuses them into inoffensive fluff, wrenching away their original intrigue. Spielberg confabulated a relationship between the lead and the FBI agent to make a better story, but it made both characters seem like woebegone fools.
HOWEVER, my friends who didn't read the book tended to like it.
I recommend you read the book instead--it's the first book in years that I couldn't put down until I had finished it. But if you don't like to read, then feel free to watch the movie and you probably won't be dissapointed.
So WASN'T what I thought, but betterI completely thought this was going to be like an thriller/intrigue thing... But it wasn't, and all the better! Great performances--and I am not a Leo fan. Even more interesting that the story is true! The interaction between Hanks and Leo is magical. Leo and his father--their relationship, as well as the unspoken expectations is terrific. Watch this, you'll like it!
Spielberg at the Top of His GameA personal film for Spielberg since he began his career in a vacant office (that he saw while on a tour) at Universal studios where he set up a (phony) office and pretended his way to fame and fortune. The divorce theme from most of his movies figures promenently here too, as he grew up a child of divorce. This is a very funny DRAMA, not a true comedy. This is based on a true story and is truly entertaining.
Happiness
Released in DVD by Vidmark/Trimark (27 April, 1999)
Starring: Jane Adams (II), Jon Lovitz, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
At times brilliant and insightful, at times repellent and false, Happiness is director Todd Solondz's multistory tale of sex, perversion, and loneliness. Plumbing depths of Crumb-like angst and rejection, Solondz won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1998 and the film was a staple of nearly every critic's Top Ten list. Admirable, shocking, and hilarious for its sarcastic yet strangely empathetic look at consenting adults' confusion between lust and love, the film stares unflinchingly until the audience blinks. But it doesn't stop there. A word of strong caution to parents: One of the main characters, a suburban super dad (played by Dylan Baker), is really a predatory pedophile and there is more than an attempt to paint him as a sympathetic character. Children are used in this film as running gags or, worse, the means to an end. Whether that end is a humorous scene for Solondz or sexual gratification for the rapist becomes largely irrelevant. Happiness is an intelligent, sad film, revelatory and exact at moments. It's also abuse in the guise of art. That's nothing to celebrate. --Keith Simanton
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The ugly side of lifeNow, I am not saying that this film is poorly acted, or unrealistic. On the contrary, it has very good performances and things portrayed in the film are as real as life. But I am giving it one star simply because I found it to be pretty much repulsive. I did not find it funny in any way. The things that happen during the movie are the ones that we often do not like to see in real life, because they are sick. Unhealthy relationships, perverted characters, obscure aspects of life are portrayed here, and to me, it is not a pretty nor enjoyable picture to watch.
unbelievably twisted"Happiness" is the most disturbing film I have ever seen (and I am not someone who's easily disturbed). It's also excellent. It explores the darker side of human nature in a way that's not only incredibly brave, but incredibly funny. An arrogant writer becomes infatuated with an obscene phone caller. A pedophile psychiatrist drugs his family so he can have sex with his son's friend. An overweight woman is raped by a midget bellhop, and then kills him. These are just a few of the many twisted stories that play out in this complicated and unsettling film.
Good family movie, cynical and emphatically hedonisticThis movie is not for everyone. Yet I enjoyed it from the first second to the last. I regret that I didn't discover it earlier, the reason being the chains like Blockbuster are way too up their assets to stir a controvercy by allowing a movie like this on their shelves. But I bought it, and showed to my friends at one of the parties. Oh boy. Judges, lawyers, accountants, bankers, and their wives were laughing their armanies off. Or maybe it's the appetizer to blame. It is a cinematography at its best. You get sucked in and stay in for the whole ride. Somewhat voyeuristic experience, unique and dazzling.
Friday the 13th
Released in DVD by Paramount Studio (19 October, 1999)
Starring: Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King
This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart
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SUCKIE MOVIE!Was this movie supposed to be gorry? Cuz guess what? It wasn't. It was sOoOoOo cheesy! It was so stupid it was funny! I don't know what the whole movie has to do with Jason! I would really reccomend these following horror movies to you: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Freddy Vs. Jason, and Thirteen Ghosts.
classic...or somethingThis film spawned the Jason icon. But, other than that, it's watered-down a bit for my taste. I saw this unedited for the first time not too long ago, and I was excited about experiencing the epic "Jason mask" for the first time! However, Jason doesn't emerge in the mask until,like, the third one. The main culprit in this first one is Jason's mother. Strange...and not as classic as the Jason Vorhees we all know and love. I suppose, by 80's horror film schlock standard, this film is mediocre. And, it has its place. But the down side is, it's not a Jason movie at all, so don't expect to see him.
It's Influence is still felt.I have read many of the reviews here that give this film a low score, and would hazard a guess that many of these writers were not in the theater in 1980 when this film was released. Most people hadn't seen anything like it up to that time, and so the response was something to see. Today, we're too jaded after 20 plus years of slasher movies, but back in 1980, Friday the 13th was a pure shocker. For those who weren't lucky enough to see this one in a drive-in theater, you sure missed the ultimate horror treat!
Friday the 13th
Released in DVD by Paramount Studio (19 August, 2003)
Starring: Betsy Palmer and Adrienne King
This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart
Average review score:
SUCKIE MOVIE!Was this movie supposed to be gorry? Cuz guess what? It wasn't. It was sOoOoOo cheesy! It was so stupid it was funny! I don't know what the whole movie has to do with Jason! I would really reccomend these following horror movies to you: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Freddy Vs. Jason, and Thirteen Ghosts.
classic...or somethingThis film spawned the Jason icon. But, other than that, it's watered-down a bit for my taste. I saw this unedited for the first time not too long ago, and I was excited about experiencing the epic "Jason mask" for the first time! However, Jason doesn't emerge in the mask until,like, the third one. The main culprit in this first one is Jason's mother. Strange...and not as classic as the Jason Vorhees we all know and love. I suppose, by 80's horror film schlock standard, this film is mediocre. And, it has its place. But the down side is, it's not a Jason movie at all, so don't expect to see him.
It's Influence is still felt.I have read many of the reviews here that give this film a low score, and would hazard a guess that many of these writers were not in the theater in 1980 when this film was released. Most people hadn't seen anything like it up to that time, and so the response was something to see. Today, we're too jaded after 20 plus years of slasher movies, but back in 1980, Friday the 13th was a pure shocker. For those who weren't lucky enough to see this one in a drive-in theater, you sure missed the ultimate horror treat!