Pitch Black (Unrated Version)

Pitch Black (Unrated Version)


Starring:Diesel, Mitchell, Hauser, David
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon
Riddick Trilogy (Pitch Black/  The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury/ The Chronicles of Riddick)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Now we need a pre- and post-Riddick trilogy...
  • Riddick's dark furia?
  • Loved this set of movies
  • You Keep What You Kill!
  • Totally surrounded by Riddick!
Riddick Trilogy (Pitch Black/ The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury/ The Chronicles of Riddick)
Starring: Vin Diesel , Colm Feore , Thandie Newton , Judi Dench , and Karl Urban
Director: David Twohy , and Peter Chung
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000EQHXN2
Release Date: 2006-05-30

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Pitch Black
Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Dark Fury - The Chronicles of Riddick (Animated)
Taking a page from The Animatrix, Dark Fury is part of a new trend of bridging theatrical sequels. As an official product of a franchise, the 35-minute anime benefits from having the original actors voice the characters, including Vin Diesel as Riddick. This story opens with the new action hero and the two other survivors of Pitch Black already caught by a giant spaceship filled with dread. The sinewy leader has a unique--and creepy--jail for master villains and she has her sights set on Riddick. The film--indeed the series--is indebted to animator Peter Chung, who brings his techno style from his Aeon Flux series. His smooth animation for Riddick doesn't reinvent the character as much as give him a new, appealing fluidity. As anime goes, there's nothing really new here--plenty of action, cool killers, and dramatic spurts of blood--but it's a building block for how this genre might enliven movie series and sequels in the future. --Doug Thomas

Description

Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear in Pitch Black. Then, see him battle ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures in renowned animator Peter Chung's The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury. And finally, Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion in the special effects-fueled The Chronicles of Riddick. Join Riddick in three times the action, three times the adrenaline and three times the adventure as the Riddick Trilogy makes complete one of the greatest sci-fi epics of all time!

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Now we need a pre- and post-Riddick trilogy..........2007-06-05

This big winners in this series were Crematoria, Elementals, the Under-verse, Necros, and Riddick as a surviving Furyan. Anything that helped in understanding these five essential elements of the Riddick Trilogy were greatly appreciated. The rest was just...entertaining.

I watched and read The Chronicles of Riddick (III) before watching Pitch Black, although I had read the book Pitch Black. The Chronicles was a better film than Pitch Black, but I know Pitch Black helped make sense of some of The Chronicles. There were a number of ah-ha moments... Riddick's relationship with the Imam and "Jack", why he is on the run, "Jack's" statements that were repeats of what she learned and heard in Pitch Black, and more.

Dark Fury is an animated short that really does a number of neat, but non-essential things: introduces Toombs the merc, demonstrates Riddick's fighting abilities, and explains the tightness of him, Imam, and Jack.

The Chronicles of Riddick (III) was great. As I mentioned, the concept of and cinematography "on" Crematoria was worth the price of the movie.

There's what is missing. We really need to know more about the pre-Pitch Black portion of Riddick's life. What was Furya really like... a futurist Sparta? And then, given that Riddick got to "keep what he kills," what does he do with the Necros when he becomes Lord Marshall? What happens to their search for the Under-verse?

Oh, right... this is fiction, science-fiction. But I still want to know what happens next!

4 out of 5 stars Riddick's dark furia?.......2007-02-16

Violent but good entertainment for those who are able to discern reality from fiction, usage of an dramatic license, realty, and hype. Those unable to, will be disturbed and should be allowed to view under Compentent, mature supervision.

5 out of 5 stars Loved this set of movies.......2007-01-16

These movies are so cool. I rented the Chronicles of Riddick from Hastings and loved it so much I had to buy it. Having the whole series in this easy package makes the last movie so much more interesting. The first movie introduces the character of Riddick and explains the connection he and Jack (the girl whose life he saves) have. Plus, for those of us who enjoy mixing diffrent genres the first movie is action horror where the third and final movie is more action drama. The second movie helps provide an explanatory bridge between the two. Also, it is a great way to see the developement of Jack and Riddick's trust relationship. However I still wish that the producers had been able to use the actors instead of animated characters in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury. All around a really good set of movies. Buy it if you like great action, a love story, evil monsters, and good (or should I say better) guys against the evil ones.

5 out of 5 stars You Keep What You Kill!.......2006-10-29

Buy this CD for "Pitch Black" and (especially) "The Chronicles of Riddick". "Dark Fury" is an animation piece which I won't comment on.

"Pitch Black" uses the standard SF plot of crash-survivors battling for their lives against hostile alien life forms. Vin Diesel, as a convict and murderer, adds another dimension to the story though. The production also adds some fresh twists and great effects. This is VERY good stuff despite the familiar theme.

The gem in this collection is "The Chronicles of Riddick". This is imaginative 'space opera' at its finest. The production is lavish with detailed and overwhelming sets of mysterious deities. The dark plot is driven by otherworldly religious fanaticism, ugly politics, human greed and Riddicks revenge. There's lots of action here but thought provoking grist as well. The movie stands out as some of the very best SF ever made.

Both movies are the Directors Cuts and are burned on a separate disk. Each movie has Special Features/Bonus Material, including director's and actors' comments. Don't pass this DVD up. It's well worth the money.

5 out of 5 stars Totally surrounded by Riddick!.......2006-09-24

Great box set and I'm really happy that it "Includes ALL 3 MOVIES from the RIDDICK TRILOGY!" Boy, it would have been scary if there were only two movies from the trilogy...
Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • i love this movie!!!
  • To all Red Sox Fans!
  • FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING
  • Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways.
  • Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com
Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Drew Barrymore , Jimmy Fallon , Jason Spevack , Jack Kehler , and Scott Severance
Director: Peter Farrelly , and Bobby Farrelly
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ASIN: B000A0GXRO
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon

Description

According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie!!!.......2007-05-15

i absolutely love drew barrymore. so of course i needed this movie in my dvd collection. it's adorable... funny, romantic... the whole bit! i recommend it to everyone!

5 out of 5 stars To all Red Sox Fans!.......2007-05-08

If you're a true blue New Englander, you'll love this light romantic comedy. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious in his depiction of an overly zealous Red sox fan witnessing the demise of the "curse of the bambino" and the winning of the world series.

4 out of 5 stars FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING.......2007-04-10

Barrymore and Fallon work well together in this sports nut romantic comedy. One of the better ones I've seen in a while. A good DVD transfer and some funny extras make this a good buy.

4 out of 5 stars Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways........2007-03-11

I really like the Red Sox Trivia and memorabilia found in this movie. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite Red Sox Memories on a movie screen. I thought that Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore did a great job. There was a great chemistry bewteen them. That is to say...I was convinced that they were in love. The ending of the movie was great. I liked the drama of watching Lindsay run across Fenway Park just to get back together with Ben before he sells his tickets. I think the best word to use when describing this movie is "cute."

However, I'm just tired of watching movies that make men look like idiots. Clearly, the main focus of this film is the stupidity of men and how they need women to teach them how to act appropriatly. I mean, in many ways, Ben is no more mature than an eight year old. That is an extreme and unfair portrayal of male baseball fans in my opinion.

3 out of 5 stars Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com.......2007-02-05

At the core of this genial, by-the-numbers 2005 rom-com is a great idea - can a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan find a loving relationship with anything but his season tickets at Fenway Park? The Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, seem like the ideal choice for the potential comic hi-jinks, but it turns out to be a much softer, more predictable film than I hoped it would be. The plot focuses on Ben, a high school geometry teacher whose lifelong obsession with the Red Sox has obscured other aspects of his life. Through a field trip with a group of his students, he meets Lindsey, a successful executive at a firm that appears to specialize in statistical information. Given that Ben is a man-child and Lindsey has exalted expectations about men that need to be cut down a few pegs, they hit it off, especially after he nurses her through a strenuous bout with food poisoning. But things start to go rather awry when spring training begins. The rest is pretty formulaic until it hits a crisis point just before the Red Sox turn it around and become play-off contenders. Real-life events intrude upon the plot as we know the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

Although he is convincing as a baseball fanatic, Jimmy Fallon is a bit too herky-jerky a screen persona to be entirely comfortable as a romantic lead. As Lindsey, Drew Barrymore, however, appears to be maturing into a fine comic actress. At her most idiosyncratic moments, she reminds me a bit of Jean Arthur. The rest of the cast is made up of ensembles of actors representing his and her friends and his Sox-based family in his ticket section at Fenway. Even with welcome faces like Ione Skye (where has she been since ""Say Anything"?) and Marissa Jaret Winokur of Broadway's "Hairspray" as two of Lindsey's friends and even JoBeth Williams as her mother, the characters remain pretty much generic filler. The predictable elements should come as no surprise since Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the team behind Billy Crystal's generic 1990's comedies, wrote the screenplay. Regardless, there is a certain charm that persists through the whole venture. The 2005 DVD has the usual assortment of extras - insightful though sometimes random commentary by the Farrellys on an alternate track, an eight-minute making-of short produced for the FOX network, two-minute featurettes on the love story angle and the Red Sox's comeback over the Yankees, thirteen deleted scenes of varying interest, a so-so gag reel and the theatrical trailer.
Pitch Black (Unrated) [HD DVD]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Director's log
  • Great movie even better on HD-DVD
  • good movie
  • Not too hot
  • SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS
Pitch Black (Unrated) [HD DVD]
Starring: Simon Burke , Keith David , Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Cole Hauser , and John Moore
Director: Ian "Thistle" Thorburn , and David N. Twohy
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000FGG60W
Release Date: 2006-07-11

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Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Director's log.......2007-05-02

(Pitch Black) is an unrated movie about transporting forty passengers and one Furian murderer. The ship gets caught in a meteor shower, kills the captain. The ship crashes on a baren desert planet. Soon the as lights go off, the only one they can trust is the murderer,because he's the only one who can see in the dark so I hope you're not afraid of the dark.

4 out of 5 stars Great movie even better on HD-DVD.......2007-03-24

The extras are sparse, but the transfer really shows how much better HD-DVD looks over DVD. I have both and side to side you can see the lifelike coloring of the flashlights in the dark, details are clear. The movie is one of my wife's favorites and one of Diesels best.

4 out of 5 stars good movie.......2007-03-06

not saying Vinn Deisel knows how to be anything else, but I do think he plays this role well. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.

2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2007-02-15

Not sure what I was expecting but it was a let down as far as the movie goes, would not suggest to other to spend the bucks on this one.

5 out of 5 stars SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS.......2007-01-27


Transport crashes onto hostile planet.
The usual crew and passengers(Claudia Black),
and bounty-hunter(Cole Hauser) with murderer(Vin Diesel).
The worst kind of murderer, experienced, smart, with piloting skills.
Monsters (billions of 'em) and mazes.

What should you do when it's hopeless?
Give up hope, and then work the problem!

DRAMA,ACTION,THRILLER,VIOLENCE,DRUGS

If you like this movie try
Silent Running
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The Chronicles of Riddick - Pitch Black (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Director's log
  • Great movie even better on HD-DVD
  • good movie
  • Not too hot
  • SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS
The Chronicles of Riddick - Pitch Black (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
Starring: Vin Diesel , Radha Mitchell , Cole Hauser , Keith David , and Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Director: David Twohy
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ASIN: B0001O3YD0
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Director's log.......2007-05-02

(Pitch Black) is an unrated movie about transporting forty passengers and one Furian murderer. The ship gets caught in a meteor shower, kills the captain. The ship crashes on a baren desert planet. Soon the as lights go off, the only one they can trust is the murderer,because he's the only one who can see in the dark so I hope you're not afraid of the dark.

4 out of 5 stars Great movie even better on HD-DVD.......2007-03-24

The extras are sparse, but the transfer really shows how much better HD-DVD looks over DVD. I have both and side to side you can see the lifelike coloring of the flashlights in the dark, details are clear. The movie is one of my wife's favorites and one of Diesels best.

4 out of 5 stars good movie.......2007-03-06

not saying Vinn Deisel knows how to be anything else, but I do think he plays this role well. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.

2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2007-02-15

Not sure what I was expecting but it was a let down as far as the movie goes, would not suggest to other to spend the bucks on this one.

5 out of 5 stars SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS.......2007-01-27


Transport crashes onto hostile planet.
The usual crew and passengers(Claudia Black),
and bounty-hunter(Cole Hauser) with murderer(Vin Diesel).
The worst kind of murderer, experienced, smart, with piloting skills.
Monsters (billions of 'em) and mazes.

What should you do when it's hopeless?
Give up hope, and then work the problem!

DRAMA,ACTION,THRILLER,VIOLENCE,DRUGS

If you like this movie try
Silent Running
Event Horizon
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Outland
Pitch Black (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Director's log
  • Great movie even better on HD-DVD
  • good movie
  • Not too hot
  • SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS
Pitch Black (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Vin Diesel , Radha Mitchell , Cole Hauser , Keith David , and Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Director: David Twohy
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B0001O3YC6
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Director's log.......2007-05-02

(Pitch Black) is an unrated movie about transporting forty passengers and one Furian murderer. The ship gets caught in a meteor shower, kills the captain. The ship crashes on a baren desert planet. Soon the as lights go off, the only one they can trust is the murderer,because he's the only one who can see in the dark so I hope you're not afraid of the dark.

4 out of 5 stars Great movie even better on HD-DVD.......2007-03-24

The extras are sparse, but the transfer really shows how much better HD-DVD looks over DVD. I have both and side to side you can see the lifelike coloring of the flashlights in the dark, details are clear. The movie is one of my wife's favorites and one of Diesels best.

4 out of 5 stars good movie.......2007-03-06

not saying Vinn Deisel knows how to be anything else, but I do think he plays this role well. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.

2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2007-02-15

Not sure what I was expecting but it was a let down as far as the movie goes, would not suggest to other to spend the bucks on this one.

5 out of 5 stars SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS.......2007-01-27


Transport crashes onto hostile planet.
The usual crew and passengers(Claudia Black),
and bounty-hunter(Cole Hauser) with murderer(Vin Diesel).
The worst kind of murderer, experienced, smart, with piloting skills.
Monsters (billions of 'em) and mazes.

What should you do when it's hopeless?
Give up hope, and then work the problem!

DRAMA,ACTION,THRILLER,VIOLENCE,DRUGS

If you like this movie try
Silent Running
Event Horizon
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Outland
Fever Pitch (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • i love this movie!!!
  • To all Red Sox Fans!
  • FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING
  • Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways.
  • Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com
Fever Pitch (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Drew Barrymore , Jimmy Fallon , Jason Spevack , Jack Kehler , and Scott Severance
Director: Peter Farrelly , and Bobby Farrelly
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ASIN: B000A0GXRE
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon

Description

According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie!!!.......2007-05-15

i absolutely love drew barrymore. so of course i needed this movie in my dvd collection. it's adorable... funny, romantic... the whole bit! i recommend it to everyone!

5 out of 5 stars To all Red Sox Fans!.......2007-05-08

If you're a true blue New Englander, you'll love this light romantic comedy. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious in his depiction of an overly zealous Red sox fan witnessing the demise of the "curse of the bambino" and the winning of the world series.

4 out of 5 stars FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING.......2007-04-10

Barrymore and Fallon work well together in this sports nut romantic comedy. One of the better ones I've seen in a while. A good DVD transfer and some funny extras make this a good buy.

4 out of 5 stars Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways........2007-03-11

I really like the Red Sox Trivia and memorabilia found in this movie. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite Red Sox Memories on a movie screen. I thought that Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore did a great job. There was a great chemistry bewteen them. That is to say...I was convinced that they were in love. The ending of the movie was great. I liked the drama of watching Lindsay run across Fenway Park just to get back together with Ben before he sells his tickets. I think the best word to use when describing this movie is "cute."

However, I'm just tired of watching movies that make men look like idiots. Clearly, the main focus of this film is the stupidity of men and how they need women to teach them how to act appropriatly. I mean, in many ways, Ben is no more mature than an eight year old. That is an extreme and unfair portrayal of male baseball fans in my opinion.

3 out of 5 stars Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com.......2007-02-05

At the core of this genial, by-the-numbers 2005 rom-com is a great idea - can a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan find a loving relationship with anything but his season tickets at Fenway Park? The Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, seem like the ideal choice for the potential comic hi-jinks, but it turns out to be a much softer, more predictable film than I hoped it would be. The plot focuses on Ben, a high school geometry teacher whose lifelong obsession with the Red Sox has obscured other aspects of his life. Through a field trip with a group of his students, he meets Lindsey, a successful executive at a firm that appears to specialize in statistical information. Given that Ben is a man-child and Lindsey has exalted expectations about men that need to be cut down a few pegs, they hit it off, especially after he nurses her through a strenuous bout with food poisoning. But things start to go rather awry when spring training begins. The rest is pretty formulaic until it hits a crisis point just before the Red Sox turn it around and become play-off contenders. Real-life events intrude upon the plot as we know the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

Although he is convincing as a baseball fanatic, Jimmy Fallon is a bit too herky-jerky a screen persona to be entirely comfortable as a romantic lead. As Lindsey, Drew Barrymore, however, appears to be maturing into a fine comic actress. At her most idiosyncratic moments, she reminds me a bit of Jean Arthur. The rest of the cast is made up of ensembles of actors representing his and her friends and his Sox-based family in his ticket section at Fenway. Even with welcome faces like Ione Skye (where has she been since ""Say Anything"?) and Marissa Jaret Winokur of Broadway's "Hairspray" as two of Lindsey's friends and even JoBeth Williams as her mother, the characters remain pretty much generic filler. The predictable elements should come as no surprise since Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the team behind Billy Crystal's generic 1990's comedies, wrote the screenplay. Regardless, there is a certain charm that persists through the whole venture. The 2005 DVD has the usual assortment of extras - insightful though sometimes random commentary by the Farrellys on an alternate track, an eight-minute making-of short produced for the FOX network, two-minute featurettes on the love story angle and the Red Sox's comeback over the Yankees, thirteen deleted scenes of varying interest, a so-so gag reel and the theatrical trailer.
Fever Pitch (Boston Red Sox Curse Reversed Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • i love this movie!!!
  • To all Red Sox Fans!
  • FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING
  • Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways.
  • Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com
Fever Pitch (Boston Red Sox Curse Reversed Edition)
Starring: Drew Barrymore , Jimmy Fallon , Jason Spevack , Jack Kehler , and Scott Severance
Director: Peter Farrelly , and Bobby Farrelly
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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  5. Crash (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B000A3XZ0Y
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Amazon.com

The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon

Description

According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie!!!.......2007-05-15

i absolutely love drew barrymore. so of course i needed this movie in my dvd collection. it's adorable... funny, romantic... the whole bit! i recommend it to everyone!

5 out of 5 stars To all Red Sox Fans!.......2007-05-08

If you're a true blue New Englander, you'll love this light romantic comedy. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious in his depiction of an overly zealous Red sox fan witnessing the demise of the "curse of the bambino" and the winning of the world series.

4 out of 5 stars FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING.......2007-04-10

Barrymore and Fallon work well together in this sports nut romantic comedy. One of the better ones I've seen in a while. A good DVD transfer and some funny extras make this a good buy.

4 out of 5 stars Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways........2007-03-11

I really like the Red Sox Trivia and memorabilia found in this movie. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite Red Sox Memories on a movie screen. I thought that Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore did a great job. There was a great chemistry bewteen them. That is to say...I was convinced that they were in love. The ending of the movie was great. I liked the drama of watching Lindsay run across Fenway Park just to get back together with Ben before he sells his tickets. I think the best word to use when describing this movie is "cute."

However, I'm just tired of watching movies that make men look like idiots. Clearly, the main focus of this film is the stupidity of men and how they need women to teach them how to act appropriatly. I mean, in many ways, Ben is no more mature than an eight year old. That is an extreme and unfair portrayal of male baseball fans in my opinion.

3 out of 5 stars Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com.......2007-02-05

At the core of this genial, by-the-numbers 2005 rom-com is a great idea - can a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan find a loving relationship with anything but his season tickets at Fenway Park? The Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, seem like the ideal choice for the potential comic hi-jinks, but it turns out to be a much softer, more predictable film than I hoped it would be. The plot focuses on Ben, a high school geometry teacher whose lifelong obsession with the Red Sox has obscured other aspects of his life. Through a field trip with a group of his students, he meets Lindsey, a successful executive at a firm that appears to specialize in statistical information. Given that Ben is a man-child and Lindsey has exalted expectations about men that need to be cut down a few pegs, they hit it off, especially after he nurses her through a strenuous bout with food poisoning. But things start to go rather awry when spring training begins. The rest is pretty formulaic until it hits a crisis point just before the Red Sox turn it around and become play-off contenders. Real-life events intrude upon the plot as we know the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

Although he is convincing as a baseball fanatic, Jimmy Fallon is a bit too herky-jerky a screen persona to be entirely comfortable as a romantic lead. As Lindsey, Drew Barrymore, however, appears to be maturing into a fine comic actress. At her most idiosyncratic moments, she reminds me a bit of Jean Arthur. The rest of the cast is made up of ensembles of actors representing his and her friends and his Sox-based family in his ticket section at Fenway. Even with welcome faces like Ione Skye (where has she been since ""Say Anything"?) and Marissa Jaret Winokur of Broadway's "Hairspray" as two of Lindsey's friends and even JoBeth Williams as her mother, the characters remain pretty much generic filler. The predictable elements should come as no surprise since Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the team behind Billy Crystal's generic 1990's comedies, wrote the screenplay. Regardless, there is a certain charm that persists through the whole venture. The 2005 DVD has the usual assortment of extras - insightful though sometimes random commentary by the Farrellys on an alternate track, an eight-minute making-of short produced for the FOX network, two-minute featurettes on the love story angle and the Red Sox's comeback over the Yankees, thirteen deleted scenes of varying interest, a so-so gag reel and the theatrical trailer.
Pitch Black (Unrated Version)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Director's log
  • Great movie even better on HD-DVD
  • good movie
  • Not too hot
  • SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS
Pitch Black (Unrated Version)
Starring: Simon Burke , Keith David , Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Cole Hauser , and John Moore
Director: Ian "Thistle" Thorburn , and David N. Twohy
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B00003CXFG
Release Date: 2000-10-24

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Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Director's log.......2007-05-02

(Pitch Black) is an unrated movie about transporting forty passengers and one Furian murderer. The ship gets caught in a meteor shower, kills the captain. The ship crashes on a baren desert planet. Soon the as lights go off, the only one they can trust is the murderer,because he's the only one who can see in the dark so I hope you're not afraid of the dark.

4 out of 5 stars Great movie even better on HD-DVD.......2007-03-24

The extras are sparse, but the transfer really shows how much better HD-DVD looks over DVD. I have both and side to side you can see the lifelike coloring of the flashlights in the dark, details are clear. The movie is one of my wife's favorites and one of Diesels best.

4 out of 5 stars good movie.......2007-03-06

not saying Vinn Deisel knows how to be anything else, but I do think he plays this role well. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.

2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2007-02-15

Not sure what I was expecting but it was a let down as far as the movie goes, would not suggest to other to spend the bucks on this one.

5 out of 5 stars SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS.......2007-01-27


Transport crashes onto hostile planet.
The usual crew and passengers(Claudia Black),
and bounty-hunter(Cole Hauser) with murderer(Vin Diesel).
The worst kind of murderer, experienced, smart, with piloting skills.
Monsters (billions of 'em) and mazes.

What should you do when it's hopeless?
Give up hope, and then work the problem!

DRAMA,ACTION,THRILLER,VIOLENCE,DRUGS

If you like this movie try
Silent Running
Event Horizon
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Outland
Pitch Black (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Director's log
  • Great movie even better on HD-DVD
  • good movie
  • Not too hot
  • SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS
Pitch Black (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Vin Diesel , Radha Mitchell , Cole Hauser , Keith David , and Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Director: David Twohy
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B0001O3YCG
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Amazon.com

Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts.

A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory.

What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Director's log.......2007-05-02

(Pitch Black) is an unrated movie about transporting forty passengers and one Furian murderer. The ship gets caught in a meteor shower, kills the captain. The ship crashes on a baren desert planet. Soon the as lights go off, the only one they can trust is the murderer,because he's the only one who can see in the dark so I hope you're not afraid of the dark.

4 out of 5 stars Great movie even better on HD-DVD.......2007-03-24

The extras are sparse, but the transfer really shows how much better HD-DVD looks over DVD. I have both and side to side you can see the lifelike coloring of the flashlights in the dark, details are clear. The movie is one of my wife's favorites and one of Diesels best.

4 out of 5 stars good movie.......2007-03-06

not saying Vinn Deisel knows how to be anything else, but I do think he plays this role well. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.

2 out of 5 stars Not too hot.......2007-02-15

Not sure what I was expecting but it was a let down as far as the movie goes, would not suggest to other to spend the bucks on this one.

5 out of 5 stars SPACESHIP-WRECK SURVIVORS.......2007-01-27


Transport crashes onto hostile planet.
The usual crew and passengers(Claudia Black),
and bounty-hunter(Cole Hauser) with murderer(Vin Diesel).
The worst kind of murderer, experienced, smart, with piloting skills.
Monsters (billions of 'em) and mazes.

What should you do when it's hopeless?
Give up hope, and then work the problem!

DRAMA,ACTION,THRILLER,VIOLENCE,DRUGS

If you like this movie try
Silent Running
Event Horizon
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Outland
Pitch Black - The Chronicles of Riddick
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    Pitch Black - The Chronicles of Riddick
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    Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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