Cool World
Starring:Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Michele Abrams, Deirdre O'Connell, Janni Brenn, William Frankfather, Greg Collins (II), Maurice LaMarche, Joey Camen, Michael David Lally, Carrie Hamilton, Stephen Worth, Murray Podwal, Jenine Jennings, Gregory Snegoff, Candi Milo, Charles Adler, Patrick Pinney, Frank Sinatra Jr.
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
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Cool World
Starring: Kim Basinger , Gabriel Byrne , Brad Pitt , Michele Abrams , and Deirdre O'Connell
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B0000AUHQC
Release Date: 2003-11-11 |
Customer Reviews:
Cool World.......2007-06-11
Cool World is a great movie. I love the way they did the cartoon world mixing with the real world. Reminds me of Roger Rabbit, only this is made for adults, not kids.
Ghastly.......2007-06-08
Brad Pitt tried when he was younger to do cutting edge work in film. As he rose the ladder he succumbed to the Hollywood cookie cutter style of acting, but you have to give him points for trying early on (remember 12 Monkeys and Fight Club or if you're really good - Johnny Suede). However this mishmash of an attempt to cash in on the success of Roger Rabbit was ill-conceived and badly executed. Not that Pitt didn't bring somehthing to his role and the same can be said for Kim Bassinger's badgirl, which made Jessica Rabbit look like Snow White, but they both failed to salvage the movie. The interaction with the doodles (toons in Rabbit) is mostly annoying and lacking in wit and style.
The movie is noisy and meandering. Save your money.
Save your money.
Cool World.......2007-04-07
Cool World is a weird mix of live-action and animation. There's the real world, with flesh-and-blood people, some of whom discover they can cross over to Cool World, which is like a tawdry version of a Warner Bros. cartoon; anvils routinely fall on various cartoon extras, and countless noisy animated creatures race around the colourful scenery...but a few Doodles (animated characters) are really interested in sex with Noids (real people). It turns out that too much shenanigans between Doodles and Noids crossing crazily between worlds can cause damage to the fabric of reality--like, destroy Cool World and Real World--especially if Holli Would, a sometimes drawn/sometimes real Kim Basinger--tampers with a Spike (some kind of key to keeping the worlds from intermixing) at the top of a casino in Las Vegas.
Here's the real problem in this surreal film: we never care about the real-world characters...that would be Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) and Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne). Harris is a fella who has a horrible motorcycle accident in 1945, before finding himself transported to Cool World, where he proceeds to make himself at home in a place where he can forever escape from reality beside a doodle girlfriend. His mother dies in that motorcycle accident, but that doesn't matter; it has no bearing, unfortunately, on what happens to Frank Harris, and could easily have been written out of the movie. But I can kind of forgive the 2D nature of Pitt's character because he inhabits a 2D world for most of the film--his only connections are to shrieking cartoon pratfallers, along with a few over-the-top doodle females who have only one emotion, sultriness, if that's an emotion (if it isn't, they have no emotions). But I can forgive Pitt's character for having no complexity and very little personality: he's chosen to live in cartoonland with all its freedom from logic, tragedy, and edges.
But Gabriel Byrne's character--Jack Deebs--is also completely uninteresting, and he has no excuses. His real-world scenes add nothing to our interest in him. We see him being released from prison--it doesn't matter. We see him thrash around in Cool World--it doesn't matter, but at least it's an entertaining place to toss him. Then, whenever he's thrust back into the real-world, Jack Deebs STILL doesn't matter. We see him buying comics at a comic-book store, where he is recognized as the creator of Cool World: it doesn't matter. We see him interact with his two neighbours: it also doesn't matter. Byrne is a good actor, but he's got nothing to work with here, when it comes to making us care about him, or what happens to him. With the scenes in Real World feeling as superficial as what happens in Cool World, the entire film begins to fragment into meaninglessness. And near the end, when both realities are in jeopardy as Real World begins to morph into another animated world..uh...: it doesn't matter.
Cool World, as a locale, is the best thing about the film, with its manic energy, it's hopping, howling, animated cast of thousands of unidentifiables. It's fun to watch, in the way that most cartoons are fun to watch. But the films is still obligated to make us care about the flesh-and-blood characters, and instead they're just bland.
Despite my low rating, this film is actually worth a look, just for the strangeness of it. But as a comedy--if that's what it's supposed to be--it is funny/strange, not funny/ha-ha. Enjoy the funny/strange, I guess. But anything flesh-and-blood in this film is dull, and all the real world scenes are flat.
My Favorite Movie.......2007-02-14
I'd been looking all over the place for this movie because i have love'd it ever since i was a kid. so i finally gave up looking for it in the stores and i found it on Amazon and ordered it.
The movie over all is really good and funny. It has some similarities to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which i also love, but Cool World is no kids movie. It's like the Simpsons in the fact that even though it is animated doesn't mean that it is for children.
Cool World is a Cruel World.......2007-01-16
When Cool World was released, the Hollywood sign was modified. I saw this movie first in the theater with a good sound system, paid to see it at least 3 times, bought the two movie related albums, one traditional movie music, the other "Inspired by" which provide musical food as i worked my way through bands that appeared. Was not able to go back and compare music in the movie to inspired by. Noticed familiar music in parts of the movie. Sat in a nearly empty theater on a weeknight, with the screen filling the view, like sitting arms length to a 42 inch wide screen, my first reaction to the movie was Cool World was like the nightmares I had as a child, scary. Sent chills up my spine. I didn't like parts, have been to Vegas so many times, the Vegas parts don't seem real. But had to return and see it again before it was done with the theater run. It affected me each time. Combination of the music, energy, video. Cool World is one that is/should be a cult classic. It's not a romantic love story, only a little is shown of 'toon love and although Holly is desireable as drawn, she's the sort you'd want to stay away from in real life. Worth owning, viewing, but for adults, not kids.
This one is not batgirl or supergirl, even Poison Ivy is a better partner.
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Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie
Starring: Gregory Isaacs , Rita Marley , Melody Makers , Musical Youth , and Gil Scott-Heron
Director: Robert Mugge
Manufacturer: Xenon
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ASIN: B0009R1SPA
Release Date: 2005-08-02 |
Description
Welcome to the 1983 edition of Jamaica's annual Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay, a week-long showcase for some of the greatest names in reggae, ska, funk and dub poetry. This magnificent snapshot of the Jamaican music scene of the early '80s includes legends such as Gil Scott-Heron, Alton Ellis, and the reunited Skatalites, newcomers the Melody Makers featuring Ziggy Marley, and hitmakers Third World and Musical Youth. Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie is a must-have for any World Music fan, and a wonderful memento of this golden age in Jamaican culture.
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Live in Cannes
Starring: Ahmad Jamal
Manufacturer: Fs World Jazz
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ASIN: B0007LYSFK
Release Date: 2005-07-19 |
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- Definitely not the product that is advertised
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Boney M - Live
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ASIN: B000B7ABWO |
Product Description
Special Edition, LIVE hits from this '80s glam/disco pop act.
TRACKS:
1) Rivers Of Babylon;
2) Brown Girl in the Ring;
3) Ma Baker;
4) Hooray! Hooray! It's a Hooray;
5) Painter Man;
6) Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord;
7) No Woman No Cry;
8) Belfast;
9) El Lute;
10) We Kill The World;
11) Baby Do You Wanna Bump;
12) Plantation Boy;
13) Kalimba De Luna;
14) Nightflight To Venus;
15) Still I'm Sad;
16) Gotta Go Home;
17) Happy Song;
18) Daddy Cool;
19) Sunny;
20) Rasputin;
21) Children Of Paradise.
++++ DVD FEATURES: This officially licensed release from South Korea is NTSC Code 0 All-Region (works in players worldwide); 4:3 Full Screen display, in ENGLISH with Dolby 2.0 Digital Digital Sound.
Customer Reviews:
Definitely not the product that is advertised.......2006-04-17
For those of us who enjoyed Boney M in the 70s', this DVD is worth buying purely for presenting a fairly good collection of their hit songs. However, the production of this DVD seems like a home project by some Korean guy who is smart to market & make some money on Amazon. "DTS Surround" is mentioned on the cover but the only audio available is in stereo. The songs are not in their respective order as per the label. While the DVD cover mentions "Live", many of the songs are studio recordings & some of the live material does not seem to sync with the singers'lip movements.
Be careful when you buy this.
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Cool World [Region 2]
Starring: Kim Basinger , Gabriel Byrne , Brad Pitt , Michele Abrams , and Deirdre O'Connell
Director: Ralph Bakshi
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ASIN: B0000DG5LA |
Customer Reviews:
Cool World.......2007-06-11
Cool World is a great movie. I love the way they did the cartoon world mixing with the real world. Reminds me of Roger Rabbit, only this is made for adults, not kids.
Ghastly.......2007-06-08
Brad Pitt tried when he was younger to do cutting edge work in film. As he rose the ladder he succumbed to the Hollywood cookie cutter style of acting, but you have to give him points for trying early on (remember 12 Monkeys and Fight Club or if you're really good - Johnny Suede). However this mishmash of an attempt to cash in on the success of Roger Rabbit was ill-conceived and badly executed. Not that Pitt didn't bring somehthing to his role and the same can be said for Kim Bassinger's badgirl, which made Jessica Rabbit look like Snow White, but they both failed to salvage the movie. The interaction with the doodles (toons in Rabbit) is mostly annoying and lacking in wit and style.
The movie is noisy and meandering. Save your money.
Save your money.
Cool World.......2007-04-07
Cool World is a weird mix of live-action and animation. There's the real world, with flesh-and-blood people, some of whom discover they can cross over to Cool World, which is like a tawdry version of a Warner Bros. cartoon; anvils routinely fall on various cartoon extras, and countless noisy animated creatures race around the colourful scenery...but a few Doodles (animated characters) are really interested in sex with Noids (real people). It turns out that too much shenanigans between Doodles and Noids crossing crazily between worlds can cause damage to the fabric of reality--like, destroy Cool World and Real World--especially if Holli Would, a sometimes drawn/sometimes real Kim Basinger--tampers with a Spike (some kind of key to keeping the worlds from intermixing) at the top of a casino in Las Vegas.
Here's the real problem in this surreal film: we never care about the real-world characters...that would be Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) and Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne). Harris is a fella who has a horrible motorcycle accident in 1945, before finding himself transported to Cool World, where he proceeds to make himself at home in a place where he can forever escape from reality beside a doodle girlfriend. His mother dies in that motorcycle accident, but that doesn't matter; it has no bearing, unfortunately, on what happens to Frank Harris, and could easily have been written out of the movie. But I can kind of forgive the 2D nature of Pitt's character because he inhabits a 2D world for most of the film--his only connections are to shrieking cartoon pratfallers, along with a few over-the-top doodle females who have only one emotion, sultriness, if that's an emotion (if it isn't, they have no emotions). But I can forgive Pitt's character for having no complexity and very little personality: he's chosen to live in cartoonland with all its freedom from logic, tragedy, and edges.
But Gabriel Byrne's character--Jack Deebs--is also completely uninteresting, and he has no excuses. His real-world scenes add nothing to our interest in him. We see him being released from prison--it doesn't matter. We see him thrash around in Cool World--it doesn't matter, but at least it's an entertaining place to toss him. Then, whenever he's thrust back into the real-world, Jack Deebs STILL doesn't matter. We see him buying comics at a comic-book store, where he is recognized as the creator of Cool World: it doesn't matter. We see him interact with his two neighbours: it also doesn't matter. Byrne is a good actor, but he's got nothing to work with here, when it comes to making us care about him, or what happens to him. With the scenes in Real World feeling as superficial as what happens in Cool World, the entire film begins to fragment into meaninglessness. And near the end, when both realities are in jeopardy as Real World begins to morph into another animated world..uh...: it doesn't matter.
Cool World, as a locale, is the best thing about the film, with its manic energy, it's hopping, howling, animated cast of thousands of unidentifiables. It's fun to watch, in the way that most cartoons are fun to watch. But the films is still obligated to make us care about the flesh-and-blood characters, and instead they're just bland.
Despite my low rating, this film is actually worth a look, just for the strangeness of it. But as a comedy--if that's what it's supposed to be--it is funny/strange, not funny/ha-ha. Enjoy the funny/strange, I guess. But anything flesh-and-blood in this film is dull, and all the real world scenes are flat.
My Favorite Movie.......2007-02-14
I'd been looking all over the place for this movie because i have love'd it ever since i was a kid. so i finally gave up looking for it in the stores and i found it on Amazon and ordered it.
The movie over all is really good and funny. It has some similarities to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which i also love, but Cool World is no kids movie. It's like the Simpsons in the fact that even though it is animated doesn't mean that it is for children.
Cool World is a Cruel World.......2007-01-16
When Cool World was released, the Hollywood sign was modified. I saw this movie first in the theater with a good sound system, paid to see it at least 3 times, bought the two movie related albums, one traditional movie music, the other "Inspired by" which provide musical food as i worked my way through bands that appeared. Was not able to go back and compare music in the movie to inspired by. Noticed familiar music in parts of the movie. Sat in a nearly empty theater on a weeknight, with the screen filling the view, like sitting arms length to a 42 inch wide screen, my first reaction to the movie was Cool World was like the nightmares I had as a child, scary. Sent chills up my spine. I didn't like parts, have been to Vegas so many times, the Vegas parts don't seem real. But had to return and see it again before it was done with the theater run. It affected me each time. Combination of the music, energy, video. Cool World is one that is/should be a cult classic. It's not a romantic love story, only a little is shown of 'toon love and although Holly is desireable as drawn, she's the sort you'd want to stay away from in real life. Worth owning, viewing, but for adults, not kids.
This one is not batgirl or supergirl, even Poison Ivy is a better partner.
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Bonsoir Amis: Le Live du Palais des Congres 2004
Starring: Henri Salvador
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
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