Airsoft Movie Reviews

"Feel so Numb" Rob Zombie

"Invincible" Capone and Noreaga

"A Need To Escape" Souldivider

"Trouble" Cypress Hill

"This Life" Primer 55

"Rock Star" N.E.R.D.

"Killing Spree" Swollen Members

"Burn it Black" Injected

"Now or Never" Dope

"Madness" DELTRON 3030

"Take Your Best Shot" Dope

"Cute Without the E" Taking Back Sunday

"Boomerang" Cirrus

"Fuel Injected" Swollen Members

"Seperate Kingdom" Fu Manchu

"Breathe" Swollen Members feat Nelly Furtado

"Hang On" 3rd Strike

"Keep the Sabbath Dream Alive" Workhorse Movement

"Flow Heat" 3rd Strike

"Time Goes By" Soul Hooligan

"Things You Can Do" DELTRON 3030

match 2- X-pac vs. Road Dogg 2/5 just as bad as the first.

match 3- (mixed tag) Eddie and Chyna vs. Val Venus and Trish. 3/5 not too bad

match 4- Tazz vs. Jerry Lawler. 3/5 pretty good. good ending

match 5- (hardcore title) Shane McMahon vs. Steve Blackman. 3/5 went pretty slowly, last 5 min. were good.

match 6-(2/3 falls) Jericho vs. Benoit 4/5 both were entertaining

match 7-(tlc tag titles) Hardyz vs. Dudleyz vs. Edge and Christian. 4.5/5 lots of action, could have been longer.

match 8- Undertaker vs. Kane. 3.5/5 match was pretty good. bad ending

match 9- (thong stink face match)The Kat vs. Terri 3.5/5 stupid but fun to watch. could have lasted a little longer.

match 10- (triple threat for WWF title) Rock vs. HHH vs. Kurt Angle. 4.5/5 all around good match.

X-Pac Vs Road Dogg: At the time, Road Dogg and X-Pac were members of Degeneration X but were beginning to feud because of an incident in a tag team match where Road Dogg left X-Pac to be taken out. The match had some entertaining spots, but as a whole it was short and under-whelming.

Mixed Tag Match Val Venis (C) &Trish Stratus Vs Chyna &Eddie Guerrero: Venis was the Intercontinental Champion, but the stipulation was that if either Chyna or Eddie got the pin (even if it was on Trish), that individual would win the belt. I was rather bored for this match. The only thing that interested me was watching Eddie wrestle, but this was fairly blah and ended exactly how you would expect.

Tazz Vs Jerry "the King"Lawer: This was junk. While Lawler is rightly a legend in the business, he fails to entertain in the ring (or as an announcer). As it stands, this match was more about Tazz and J.R. than it was about the ringwork.

The Kat Vs Terri Thong Stink Face Match: Even worse than the last match. This has no place in wrestling as there was no actual wrestling.

Shane (C)Vs Blackman Hardcore Title Match: For a man who is not an everyday wrestler, Shane McMahon never fails to entertain when he steps in the ring. Steve Blackman, amazingly enough, also did a good job at working this match and entertaining. The big thing about this match is the fall Shane took off a 50ft support tower and the elbow Blackman followed that fall with.

TLC Match Hardys Vs Dudleys Vs Edge&Christian (c) for the Tag Team Championship: This was the very first Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. Like the 4 that I have seen, it was incredible. The risks that these men take to entertain'unbelievable.

Two out of Three Falls Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit: This was one of the better feuds that I can remember. Jericho and Benoit have always worked well together, and had there not been a TLC match, this would have been the match of the night.

Undertaker vs Kane: The Undertaker took off Kane's mask. Junk match.

Triple Threat for the WWF Championship - The Rock (c) Vs Kurt Angle vs Triple H: It's hard to get excited for the main event match when it feels like a sideshow the the Kurt Angle/Stephanie McMahon/HHH love triangle. The match itself was quite good, but it even in the wrestling, it played second fiddle to the story. Very good match, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations (perhaps unreasonably high.

Overall, this is one of the better WWF DVDs that I've seen.

Too Cool and Rikishi vs.Right Too Censer-This match was o.k. A little slow a the end,and dispite who won its a good match 7/10

X-Pac vs. Road Dogg-This match was cool.You get to see who is the better man in DX.I didn't like the end but,its a great match 7.5/10

Tag Match For IC Title-Val Venis and Trish vs.Chyna and Eddie Guerrero-This was a cool match.A women kicking a guys butt.Fun match to watch. 8/10

Tazz vs.Jerry (the king)Lawler-Jerry Lawler finlly gets to wrestle in a ppv again.Good moves and submissions.I like the end when Tazz head getssmached with glass. 8.5/10

Thong Stink Face Match-The Kat vs.Terri-Its a short match.But thats how women matches are.Kinda some boring moves. 6/10

Two-Out-of-Three falls match-Y2j vs.Benoit-Benoit and Jerico matches are always boring.Its like these two have been fighting for the whole 2000 year.zzzzzzzzzzz. 4/10

Hardcore Title-Shane vs.Steve Blackman-Awesome!At first its a regular hardcore match but,than shane falls off the titon tron.That was cool. 9/10

T.L.C Match for the Tag Titles-Hardys vs.Edge ans Christian vs. Dudleys-fun match to watch!All the chair shots to the haed(with out putting thir hards up).Ladders everywere(one broke on accident).Don't forget abot the tables.Bubba going through four tables.They still could off done more tables. 10/10

Undertaker vs.Kane-the match never really happend.It would've been better if they used more hardcore stuff.Its cool seeing kanes mask getting riped off than almost trips over Undertakers bike.8.5/10

WWE Triple Treat Title Match-Rock vs.Kurt Angle vs.HHH-funny when the announcers table brakes on Angle and HHH and Angle smacks his face.Its a little slow and boring when Angles out.Its a very cool Match. 9/10

Overall this ppv was awesome. 9.5/10

I love watching this DVD on airplanes, its the best crowd pleaser you'll ever get, everyone wants to watch it. Great photography, colors, waves and story. Nice work Laird!

However, MMA has changed hugely since the UFC started (showcasing Rickson's brother Royce Gracie) in 1993. "Choke"'s Japanese tournament in 1995 was still early days. While Rickson was (and is) one of the best MMA fighters ever, his opponents weren't as competent as the top fighters are today. The Pride tournaments in Japan and the UFC in the USA showcase the world's top MMA talent fighting today.

You shouldn't watch Choke looking for insight into strategies the very best fighters use in unarmed combat, because aside from Rickson most of the competitors in Choke were relatively new to the sport. That said, Choke is a much higher quality documentary than almost anything else you'll find, and it is much more accessible and entertaining to the casual MMA fan. (It's also a must-see for any fan of Rickson Gracie.)

(For more about Rickson, check "http://rickson.com/". For more about Rickson's martial art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, check my site "http://bjj.org/".)

This movie shows this wonderful man's philosophies, training and attitudes towards training, fighting and life.

The fights are incredible and Rickson looks like he's more than human. It's like "The Matrix" in a ring, without the wires!

Some men get in the ring and fight, some do battle, but only a few ever perform an art. Rickson Gracie is this man.

My complaints (besides lack of boxing):
It spends excessive time showing some of the clips from concerts with James Brown, B.B. King, and etc. They're great musicians, but I watched the movie to see boxing and boxing-related things, not a music video.

It spends another length of time, talking about how the fight was tying roots of blacks back to African and such. I thought it was bit of hogwash, because the fight was in Zaire only because the dictator of Zaire paid the 10 million for the fight: no other reason.

In summary, a very good film if you want to see Ali in action. If you want to see a lot of the fight, don't get this.

When the "Rumble in the Jungle" promoters traveled to Zaire in 1974, they were entering one of the worst disaster zones in post-colonial Africa. Fourteen years earlier, Joseph Mobutu had seized power after torturing and murdering Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the nationalist movement and Zaire's first Prime Minister. He did so with the help of the CIA, who had fingered Lumumba as a potential troublemaker. Mobutu's government (which lasted until his overthrow in 1997) was brutally repressive when it bothered to govern at all. Even by the standards of African strongmen, Mobutu was a monster, and this was as clear in 1974 as it is today. Yet almost no one in "When We Were Kings", either the subjects of the documentary or present-day commentators, has anything to say about it. The fact that Mobutu was a dictator is mentioned only is passing, and is quickly shrugged off. He was an African leader, seems to be the attitude. They're all dictators. What do you expect? Then it's on to Ali's inspired riffing for the press and the inner workings of the rope-a-dope.

If Gast's film were only about boxing, its cynicism might just be bearable. After all, no one pictures Don King losing sleep over geopolitical niceties. But "When We Were Kings" also has a political agenda. It wants to depict a heady moment in the Black Power movement when African American luminaries traveled to Africa to express solidarity for the people of that continent. For the Americans in the movie, the trip to Africa was a profound exploration of their heritage and identity. We see Ali moved by the experience and don't doubt that he's sincere. It's just not clear what the Africans got out of the deal. They seem mostly just props in the first worlders' journey of self-discovery. In one of the movie's few interviews with an African, a man recalls how Ali's visit was a bright spot in the lives of many of his countrymen, who were generally having a hard time of it. That's about the best "When We Were Kings" can do by way of justification. Given the circumstances, this silence is galling. Maybe Ali could have come up with a clever rhyme for "let them eat cake."

Of course, it's a fact that many post-colonial governments were and are dictatorships, and Africa got more than its fair share. A certain degree of cynicism about third-world politics is realistic. But when the subject is Africa, a whole other level of cynicism comes into play: not only do you accept injustice; you don't even have to rationalize your acceptance. There's no way back in 1974 a left-wing Chilean-American boxer would have taken part in a title bout staged by Augusto Pinochet. Nor would Muhammad Ali have fought in the U.S. in a match bankrolled by a black gangster with known ties to white supremacists. So why does Mobutu's dog-and-pony show get a pass? The culprit appears to be the need on the part of the African Americans in the movie to romanticize Africa. (Tellingly, almost no one says the word "Zaire.") In one scene, Muhammad Ali stands in the cockpit of an African airliner. He expresses amazement at the fact that blacks can fly a jet plane, then amazement at himself for having ever thought otherwise. It's a powerful moment. You can see how a black man like Ali would crave an idealized image of Africa to serve as armor against the insidiousness of racism back home. Unfortunately, idealization comes at the price of ignoring a continent's worth of reality. In order to raise your fist, you have to close your eyes.

In his scathing criticism of "Heart of Darkness", the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe accuses Joseph Conrad of a particular sort of racism. What bothered him was the way that Conrad used an entire continent and its people as nothing more than a foil for European introspection: "Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor." "When We Were Kings" is about as far from racist as a movie can get, but it still falls into Conrad's trap. Here the backdrop is a romantic notion of an African motherland, and the human factor is the reality of the brutally oppressive Mobutu regime. Gast may have gone all the way to Africa to get his footage, but the mindset of his film never left home.

As documentaries go, it's never less than thoroughly entertaining, with great commentary from Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, and great performance footage of James Brown and BB King.

Far superior than Michael Mann's flawed "Ali" biopic. There's no re-enactment of fight footage that can replace the real thing.

All the skiiers are great skiiers, from Les Trois Philipes to pretty boy Moseley and Seth Morrison - no Tommy Moe or Picabo here.

The soundtrack alone is worth buying, with bands such as Methods of Meyham (Tommy Lee), Crazytown, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Popa Roach, Sum 41, and more.

Definitely THE first ski movie to own. btw- JP Auclair is sick.

The sheer quality of the historical film footage is what particularly fascinated me, far more than who failed to be included but who ought to have made it etc etc which I am sure will bug some people. I have a feeling that the average standard of professional baseball in the post-war years became much higher than that of the pre-war wars, hence the absence of .400 hitters - especially pitchers who hit .400!

Although some of the pre-war players were doubltess great talents the exagerated claim made on video such that Walter Johnson pitched faster than 100mph is just laughable. Just as the fisherman's fish get bigger with time it sounds like the speed of pitchers becomes faster as the years go by. Footage of Johnson pitching is nonetheless fascinating because his mechanics are just as how people remembered him: effortlessly smooth and fluent. But then it is also obvious that his mechanics lack the dynamism of a similar side armer, namely Randy Johnson, who follows through with more thorough weight transfers to the front foot and thus with a flatter back at follow through. That, combined with the fact that Randy is much taller and whippier than Walter can only mean that Walter Johnson cannot possibly be pitching faster than 100mph. However, it is obvious that Walter does have remarkably late shoulder rotation - something that makes a pitcher appear much faster than he actually is.

Nonetheless a student of the art of pitching could still learn a thing or two from studying the beautifully fluent text-book pitching mechanics of a Walter Johnson, or a Lefty Grove. If that were not enough the superb color pictures of Sandy Koufax pitching are a wonder to behold. I couldn't help but put on the slow motion replay to study him over and over. His mechanics have always struck me as being perfection itself and the footage quoted here only reinforces this.

On the other hand Warren Spahn's pitching mechanics are by modern standards thoroughly Baroque. Gross leaning backwards used to be common fault amongst an older gneration of pitchers such as Bob Feller and Johnny Vander Meer, but Spahn outdoes them all with a degree of leaning backwards that would make a modern pitching coach go pale. It's a small wonder he doesn't fall over backwards and even more of wonder that he was able to maintain control of his pitches with mechanics like that.

Although being a pitcher myself it is harder to comment on hitting mechanics it is obvious that Ty Cobb's hitting mechanics are equally bizzare starting with the hands apart on the bat followed by a ridiculously large 'hitch' in which he almosts touches the home plate with the tip of his bat before lifting it up to start his swing. On the other hand seeing Ted Williams (in beautiful color) swing the bat is a joy to behold as a model of perfection. You can see how hitters in opposing teams used to come out just to watch and learn from him when he was at bat.