Raw Foodism Movie Reviews

if you like dennis than buy this. this one is great quaility sound, film and content.well worth it.

Wow. Until his recent comments about the various states of the world at large on Jay Leno, the news and print, I knew him only from Saturday Night Live and Joe Dirt (I realize it's an abomination of a movie but it does have Christopher Walken). Upon reading about his various quips relating to the world today and various entertainers and celebrities constant whining, I knew I had to see his act.

Dennis Miller is a rare breed of entertainer. He talks to you, not at you. He doesn't espouse slogans and chants, he speaks with clarity, reason and incredible wit. Even when he's not particularly funny, he speaks with the mind of someone who; at the very least, is incredibly observant. He completely brushes aside the agendas of the whiny left and the argumentative right and breaks it all down the middle with common sense. He leans in neither direction but instead steps back and views the world from an objective stand point and even when you disagree with him, you still hang on every word because he speaks like someone who thinks constructively and free of the sheepishness of a good number of people. And, to top it all off, he is very funny.

What can I say... I'm sold.

This is one of Dennis's best HBO specials! It contains a lot of new funny material like carobou living in Alaska,Iraq,his kids,and going to church.The people in Chicago are very lucky that he came to their state to do this! But on September 7th Dennis finally came to my state and cracked us up with a lot of the material from this very funny HBO Special.So see this you wont be dissappointed!

Viewed this just yesterday and I have to have it for myself on DVD. This is "Internal Affairs" & "The Corruptor" combined, but taken to another level--this movie (as unethical, debased, avaricious, secular, materialistic, brutal and downright sinister as it is) was entertaining, gripping, powerful, fast-paced, bold, funny and educational. Educational from a criminal or subjective point of view. The main character did lots of foolish and crazy things, but you may also come to realize he was pretty intelligent, nimble and brazen. Not a movie to be viewed by kids, but great adult action and entertainment. Mario van Peebles gave a superb performance...and he's not at all one of my favorite actors. If not for the wayward, perverse and twisted nature of this movie, you would have heard more about this one.

Up until the end of this turbo-feuled film I was wondering who was going to make it, who was going to get whom!?! The story of a bad cop with little time left and what he finds he is capable of made me wonder to what lengths a human being will go to validate his life choices before dying. Mario Van Peebles gives his best performance since New Jack City in this intense triangle tale of a man, his ex-partner and his beautiful girlfriend (a stunning and revealing Nicolette Sheridan)and survival of the fittest. A must see (especially since Sheridan has a lot to show off... fast forward to the love scene!).

Gotta see it to believe it! Fantastic DVD, with catfights having a separate section on the DVD! 5 REAL girl fights! Almost every fight on that DVD is GREAT fun! 1 girl fight is particularly good (last one) because it has two attractive girls fight extremely well in the backyard of their house. The first catfight is also very good. What makes the DVD so excellent is the crowd and the reality of the fights.

This video gives a very rare overview of the band's gear, information about what goes in to p0utting together an REO Speedwagon show, and other very cool tidbits that is sure to make any REO fan want to watch the video over and over again. It literally takes multiple times to pick up every bit of info that if shared on this DVD. It's a must have for your REO Speedwagon video collection!

YEAH I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE MOVIE WAS OK FUNNY AND INTERESTING I REALLY LOVED KOBE BRYANT RAPPIN THE HARDCORE LYRICS DID NOT KNOW HE WAS TUFF LIKE THAT. THE TOOTHDOGG CHARECTER IS FUNNY MY KIDS LOVE HIM. THE 2PAC AND BIGGIE FOOTAGE WAS NICE OTHER THEN THAT IT WAS OK.

This movie had everything about street life in it. It was a real eye opener, easy to relate to. I felt like I was in the movie or like it was something that was happening around the corner. I recommend this movie to all that want to know what life is like in CA. or would like just a glimpse, cause you'll never get the whole story unless you take a trip for yourself. But this will bring you as close to being there without actually being there. I reall enjoyed the movie and think there should be more like it. Hey! L.A. Nutt, when's the sequal?

I GIVE AN A FOR EFFORT TO THIS COMPANY RICH ROLLIN ENTRTAINMENT.
ITS HARDCORE JOURNALISM ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES LIFE STYLES OF HOLLYWOOD, CELEBRITIES, CHURCHES, AND POLITICIANS WHO ALL PLAY A PART IN THE GANG VIOLENCE PROBLEM IN LOS ANGELES. STARTS OFF SLOW PICKS UP AND ENDS WITH A BANG. "L.A. NUTT" THE HOST DOES A WONDERFUL JOB OF BRINGING THE REAL STREETS TO YOU RAW FOR A DOCUMENTARY "SOUTH CENTRAL'S FINEST RAW FROM L.A." IS WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY. ITS ABOUT TIME BLACK CELEBRITIES DO INTERVIEWS WITH REAL SITUATIONS AND REAL PEOPLE.

There is little doubt that Eddie Murphy is a great Comedian. However I was highly disapointed with his supposed best work in the field of Stand Up. His jokes only focused on 1 primary area and that is how women and men are different. For 90 minutes it is one long run on joke that gave me a few chuckles in between. Overall this is not as great as the reputation states. This is in fact a renter at best.

This is a CLASSIC Stand Up Comedy, I Love it and to this very day I quote so many lines from this movie. I wish that the studio would put it on DVD already. To just hear this on surround sound would be awesome.
Awesome...............

I am the biggest fan of Eddie Murphy, and although many argue that Raw is not up to par with Delirious, I have a deep deep fondness for Raw. His blatant vulgar words are soooo right to the point. I love the way he just comes up with this stuff, right on the spot. It is possible that i know every line by heart. No matter how many times i see delirious, Raw is still my favorite. It was the first one i saw and the best one, in my opinion. I own 5 copies of it and still look for collectible covers. Now am i really a fan or what?

DISC 1 - Late 1997 to Late 1998
Footage of many superstars and their best moments and matches from the year 1998, including Stone Cold, The Rock, Undertaker, Kane, De-Generation X, Mick Foley, Val Venis, the Austin/McMahon rivalry, and the 'Austin is reinstated' storyline. DVD EXTRAS include 6 matches and 8 promos and interviews! Matches include: X-Pac v Rock, Mankind v Taker, The Stooges v Stone Cold, a handicap match, Mark Henry v Mankind & a Tag Match. Promos include: Shawn and Taker, Austin throwing the IC Belt into the river, Austin promo, Kane & the Gorilla, Dude Love's return, Kane/Paul Bearer & Undertaker, and a sort-of hell in a cell match.

DISC 2 - Late 1998 to Late 1999
Footage from the best matches and moments of the year 1999, including the Ministry, 1998 Survivor Series aftermath, approaching the 1999 Royal Rumble, Mr McMahon in the Rumble match, Chyna & Mark Henry, Leading up to WrestleMania XV, Corporate Ministry, Beer Truck incident, WrestleMania aftermath, Triple H, Chris Jericho, Rock n Sock Connection, the end of D-X, and a highlight reel of the year 1999. DVD EXTRAS include 11 matches! They are: Shane/Kane v HHH/X-Pac, Chyna v Patterson & Brisco, Rock v HHH in 'I Quit' Match, Bart Gunn v Hardcore Holly, Bulldog v Test in a Cage match, Big Show v Taker, Hardyz v Acolytes, Acolytes v Kane/X-Pac, Rock & Mankind v Kane/HHH, Hardyz v Edge & Christian and Goldust v Kane.

Overall, a great DVD set, which includes over 3 and a half hours of exclusive footage! Definately recommended and well-worth the money.

This DVD is great if you are a Rock/ Austin/ DX/ Mankind/ Vince fan. These 2 DVD's are over 6 hours long and contain many great moments including Test/ Bulldog in a cage, Rock/ HHH in a I Quit match, Kane/Mankind Vs. Undertaker/3;16 in a cell, E+C Vs. Hardyz, Kane and XPAC Vs. APA, Kane Vs. a Gorilla, the Corporate Royal Rumble, and remember Taker + Big Show= a broken ring! This DVD looked OK, but is great. Highly recomended.

This DVD is awesome. Even if you own one of the Best of Raw Volumes, you should still get this. The Best of Raw footage in Volume 1 talks about DX, Shawn Michaels and Undertaker, Kane, Steve Austin, The Rock and the Nation, Mankind, Vince McMahon and Val Venis.

Some of the extras in Volume 1 are:

-The Rock vs X-Pac(Intercontinental Title)
-The Rock, Ken Shamrock, and Mankind vs Undertaker and Kane
-Steve Austin vs Brisco and Patterson(Street Fight)
-Mankind vs Undertaker(Hardcore Match)
-Mankind vs Mark Henry

Volume 2 is better with The Rock and Sock Connection, More on the McMahon/Austin feud and the beginning of "The Game". Also the Corporate Ministry and the debuts of Chris Jericho and Big Show. The extras are really great on here too.

Some of the extras in Volume 2 are:

-Triple H vs The Rock("I Quit" Match for the WWF Title)
-Chyna vs Patterson and Brisco
-Test vs British Bulldog(Cage Match)
-Undertaker vs Big Show
-Mankind vs The Rock(Ladder Match for the WWF Title)
-Hardy Boys vs Edge & Christian(T.I.T. Tourney)
-Hardy Boys vs The Acolytes(WWF Tag Team Championship)

The extras alone on this DVD are worth the money. The footage on this is just extra. Get out and buy this DVD!!

Few american directors can claim as large a volume of quality work as Anthony Mann. This dvd has two of his best and one of his lesser film noirs. T-MEN and RAW DEAL are worth buying these disks for on their own, HE WALKED BY NIGHT, while a good film doesn't come close to the other two in terms of Mann's spatial awareness and Alton's expressionist camera work. I can't help feeling that one of Mann's other great film noirs like THE TALL TARGET, RAIROADED, BORDER INCIDENT or STRANGE IMPERSONATION would have been more appropriate (but then again the films on this dvd also showcase the talents of John Alton while some of those other films don't). The reviewer below is right to say that the sound on these films is substandard (T-MEN is alright but the other two are unsatisfactory) but the dialogue is still audible and the quality of the transfer, especially in the case of RAW DEAL, is amazingly clear. Finally, that these three films should be available at this price means that these disks are a must-buy. I hope that the Roan Group releases a second collection of Anthony Mann film noirs, including the films listed above, as this is my favourite dvd in my limited collection.

I had been trying to obtain a copy of this dvd for some time and was delighted to finally purchase it via amazon. It is a beautifully presented dvd with three superb examples of what makes film noir (a movement, not a genre!). Aldrich's direction is as tight and claustrophobic as you would expect and the cinematography of John Alton can be seen to define all the charactersitics associated with noir. Long may films such as these be available on dvd.

It was a great idea from the Roan Group to present three movies directed by Anthony Mann in the late forties. Unfortunately, their copies have seen better days ! Too bad.

So, the sound and the images of HE WALKED BY NIGHT are simply awful. There's a slight improvement for RAW DEAL and only T-MEN could be qualified as visible for the average DVD addict.

But, as always, if the movie is interesting, I try to forget the imperfections and concentrate myself on the movie. And, believe me, these three are good movies. I personally have a little preference for RAW DEAL with its typical Film Noir mood : a hero, played by Dennis O'Keefe, two girls - the blonde and the brunette - and a sadistic villain impersonated by Raymond Burr.

HE WALKED BY NIGHT and T-MEN are typical examples of the semi-documentary style used in a lot film noir of the 1945-1950 period. They present a case which, if you want to believe the narrator, was a real story. Well, well, well. Naturally, it's one of the numerous clichés used by Hollywood in order to nail the viewer.

Director Anthony Mann is known for his westerns of the 50's starring James Stewart ; he deserves also to be recognized as a Master of the Film Noir genre.

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A DVD for your library.

Originally released in 1948, "Raw Deal" is the story of a bitter, tough gangster (Dennis O'Keefe again) who seeks revenge after being framed and sent to the big house. With the help of an innocent woman he seduces, the ex con carries out his murderous scheme of vengeance, eventually coming face to face with the psychopathic pyromaniacal creep (Raymond Burr) responsible for his jail time. John Ireland, Marsha Hunt, Chili Williams and Claire Trevor co-star -- with Trevor responsible for the terrific, fatalistic voice over narration.

Mann's direction is as tight and stylized as the screenplay. The often low angle black and white photography by John Alton, who also did "T Men," is a perfect match for this tale of dark justice. A very young, surprisingly trim, Raymond Burr is a standout as the bad guy. In the scene that introduces him, he gleefully burns the ear of one of his flunkies with a cigarette lighter. It's a cruel joke and Burr obviously relishes the role of the sadistic heavy. The quality of the full frame print is pretty good. The sound could be a tad cleaner. The extras are limited to some great noir trailers and "video liner notes" by mystery writer Max Collins. Definitely entertaining and better than might be expected.

I am honored to be the first reviewer of this film! This is definitely a "B" noir flick in terms of the look and feel, but the script is taut and the acting is tough as nails.Some of the visuals (shot by John Alton) are as dark and as well-composed as any in Noirville--great low angle shots especially! See a pre-Perry Mason/Ironside Raymond Burr as a power-mad pyromaniac, and John Ireland as his hapless flunkie. And of course Claire Trevor as the co-dependent floozie following her man all the way to the gutter. Her laconic, downbeat voice-overs are superb, and set the emotional tone for the movie throughout. I had never seen the lead actors before--Dennis O'Keefe and Marsha Hunt, but found their portrayals quite compelling. The love story was a bit soapy but tolerable. The quality of the disc by VCI was very good in terms of the picture quality, though sound was a bit muffled. Some fun extras, including trailers from several other unrelated noir films, like Impact, and a really cool behind the scenes interview with Sinatra, Preminger, Kim Novack on the set of Man With the Golden Arm--what these are doing on this disc is beyond me, but it is a nice non sequitor nonetheless. Also, a film critic does a little analysis of Anthony Mann's style, and it is pretty darn interesting. See the companion DVD, T-Men, also an A. Mann film, but Raw Deal is the Real Deal!!

Anthony Mann's films -- whether they are Noire, War Film, Western, or Costume Epic -- are all about one thing: characters doomed to self-destruction. In that light "Raw Deal" is probably his best, because here *everyone* is going down.

O'Keefe escapes from prison, bent on collecting his dough from Crime Boss Raymond Burr, and leaving the country. But on the way he becomes trapped between the woman who broke him out, and the beautiful parole officer they kidnapped. Meanwhile the sadistic pyromaniac Burr has sent killer John Ireland to make sure O'Keefe meets a sticky end.

"Raw Deal" starts as an exercise in classic film-noire style: tough-guy dialogue, gun-play, and simple low-key sets. Forunately (and unlike most directors), Mann is aware that these are just *noire motifs*. So rather than produce a cliche by playing *to* them, Mann (and his collaborators Alton and Sawtell) produces a masterpiece by playing *against* them.

What would normally be a conventional revenge flick, becomes a complicated emotional journey, in the guise of an equally meandering -- occaisionally surreal -- road trip across post-war middle-America.

John Alton photographs it beautifully (the Greg Toland of B-Movies): a fight in a bait-shop takes place under a grid of black fishing nets; a woman's face reflected in the face of a ships' clock (also under a net... hmmmm); a forest at night; an alleyway choked with fog -- all of it exquisitely illuminated (or NOT illuminated, depending on your lighting philosophy).

And instead of the standard -- Dum-Da-Dum-Dum Dragnet score, composer Paul Sawtel (the Bernard Herrman of B-Movies) gives it a quivering, supernatural flavour -- with a Theramin.

The cast is perfect, particularly Ireland whose moral ambivalence can't conceal his distain for Burr and respect for O'Keefe. And Whit Bissel does a run throught in one of the films more surreal moments.

As i said before, the characters in a Mann film are always trapped by their own weaknesses. This is a standard B-movie/noir device, usually explained to the audience by a cynical Private-I with words like lust, betrayal, murder, etc. etc. What sets "Raw Deal" apart from the ordinary Noire fodder is that we don't just observe, we sympathise. In "Raw Deal" the trap isn't "greed" or "lust" -- it's loyalty, devotion, duty, and self sacrifice. Anthony Mann's characters are doomed by their virtues, not their vices.

And they take us with them.

Ever entertain thoughts of throwing off the shackles of your work a day, hum drum life and pursuing an existence as a cannibalistic, subhuman mole man? Who hasn't? Well, according to this movie, it's possible.

Raw Meat...the title pretty much says it all. Not very subtle, but it does give you an idea of what you're in for, watching this movie. Released in 1972, it predates C.H.U.D. by 12 years (and it's lesser known and more dubious sequel C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud by 17 years).

The movie starts out in a fairly trippy manner, with groovy music and annoying psychedelic visuals, and we see a fairly well to do foppish Englishman in a three piece trolling a very seedy street of London. Eventually he strolls into a mostly deserted underground subway station (the tubes, as referred to by the British), and he makes an indecent proposal to a fairly nasty looking streetwalker. Unable to reach an equitable pricing structure, she knees him in a sensitive area and leaves. As he's recovering, some unknown menace attacks him. This attack is interrupted by the arrival of a train, and some people exit the train, including Alex and Patricia, who we find out later are a young college living together who attend the same college. They see this man lying prone on the stairs and Alex, clearly your typical, jaded American, assumes he's drunk. Patricia, English by her accent, is concerned that he may be hurt, so in an effort to shut her up, Alex agrees that they should seek help. Coming back with a police officer (a bobby), the man is gone. Where did he go?

Turns out this man is some high ranking government type, so pressure is put on the police to find him. Enter Inspector Calhoun, played by Donald Pleasance. Quite easily the best performance in the movie, he plays his role exactly the way you would think it should be played, a curmudgeonly type, who is surprised by very little, but underneath a diligent officer who takes in all the facts and sorts them out appropriately. The investigation, appearing haphazard at first, reveals itself to be much more in depth, focusing on pertinent details, creating an appearance of intelligence and professionalism within the police force, which counters the inept, doofus stereotype we are accustom to in movies of this genre.

We learn that at the turn of the century, a small group of miners (men and women, men doing the digging, while the women removed the dirt to the surface) got trapped due to collapse of the mine. The mining company, going bankrupt, never made an attempt to recover the supposedly deceased, and the people were forgotten. Turns out they survived, living off the flesh of their own as they passed away (yuck), and are now down to the last two surviving descendants, a male and a female. Food being scarce, the male, or Uggo, as I affectionately called him, has started venturing into the subway tunnels, looking for fresh meat. The make up on these two is very realistic, in that they appear as how you'd expect underground dwellers to look, all scabby, covered in lesions, boils, open sores, unkempt, wild hair, and just generally disgusting. Uggo had one feature that really gave me the creeps in that he always seemed to have a foot long length of spittle dangling from his scraggly beard. Every time I saw that, I unconsciously wiped my own chin in hopes that he would get the message.

Anyway, through happenstance, Uggo accosts Patricia, and this sets up for a confrontation between Alex and Uggo, and, eventually, the police. The realism of the scenery, specifically the underground locations were extremely impressive. The dirt, grime, rats, garbage, dankness, mold, the intermittent yet appropriate lighting...it all came through and set the mood proper.

My only qualms with the movie are sometimes the pacing was such that the movie plodded along. Some scenes, especially the one near the beginning showing the underground human larder, were drawn out unnecessarily. I think this was more for setting up the mood, but it felt like padding to me. There are some very visceral scenes within this movie, so if you're easily queasable, you should probably avoid this one. The dating of the movie is evident in the outfits worn by Alex and Patricia. I thought maybe they were escapees from the circus, but then I remembered that's how people dressed in the 70's.

Extras are pretty barebones, but I was truly thankful for English subtitles as the cockney accents by some of the actors made some of the dialogue difficult to discern. By the way, a number of reviewers reference the line 'Mind the doors!' which is what Uggo yells at Patricia when he's trying to communicate with her. He learned this from the conductors, as that's what they tell passengers as they enter and exit the trains. Actually, when he yelled it, it came out more as 'Muuuhind tha dooooooors!'

Here's a lost classic I never thought would see the light of day on DVD. Trapped underground in 1892 by a cave in, 8 men and 4 women survived by eating their dead. Their last decendent, a sore covered, plague infested cannibal and his pregnant dying mate have survived by picking off modern day London subway commuters. That's the premise of Raw Meat, Gary Sherman's directorial debut, which he also wrote. Sherman also went on to direct the Norman Rockwellian zombie film Dead and Buried which has greater reknown than Raw Meat. Although I never warmed up to the American lead actor, the cannibal, played by Hugh Armstrong, gives a performance regarded as both fearsome and tragic, Donald Pleasance as a police inspector is always fun and the make up effects are superb. The larder, stocked with rotting, half consumed corpses and the burial chamber where the cave in survivors have laid their dead to rest are especially impressive. I've had a terrible bootleg copy of this film for many years and it's nice to see it finally get the treatment it deserves.

Interesting, imaginative low budget British horror film from 1972 (once known as "Death Line") that sustains your interest despite flaws. Those flaws being the awful performance of David Ladd as the young American hero, the cheesy porno-style opening music, and a few too many long stretches of police work. Yet, somehow, it's all counterbalanced by great claustrophobic photography in the underground tunnels where a lone survivor of a tunnel disaster years before has survived on human flesh. When building the underground railway system in the 1800's, a tunnel collapsed trapping men and women beneath in the catacombs. They lived on each others flesh to survive. Over the years, they all began to die off---until now, when one "Man" is left after his "Woman" dies with child. The "Man" is a shambling sore-ridden lunatic. He has resorted to kidnapping travelers on the "tube" for meat. A young couple (Ladd and Sharon Gurney) stumble onto a mystery when they find a man unconcious in the railway. He later disappears before help arrives. Donald Pleasance is the police chief who gets onto the case. His performance is somewhere between over-the-top obnoxious and just plain funny. Gurney is kidnapped by the "Man" as a replacement for his "Woman". The "Man", as played by Hugh Armstrong, is pitious and revolting at the same time. Armstrong's performance is remarkable. His only spoken words are "Mind the doors" as he hoarsely calls for his companions who are no longer there but rotting corpses he has kept in reverence with token gifts taken from the victims. These scenes of the "Man"'s world are very effective with panning shots of half-eaten body parts and victim's bodies hanging on hooks as reserve food. The whole grisly scenario is lit by old fashioned lanterns and gas lights. The tracking shots through the tunnels are particularly well done also. There are a couple of surprisingly gory scenes (the "Man" bites a rat's head off in one) but the film is not "extremely gross" as one reviewer put it. It's more grisly than gross. The DVD is a good print but the sound fades here and there. All in all I recommend it for lovers of offbeat horror films. It's different than I thought it would be---which is not a bad thing. Christopher Lee has a bizarre one scene cameo and Peter Frampton is listed as make-up artist!