Fall Guy

Starring:Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Hirata, Chika Takami, Daijiro Harada, Keizo Kanie, Rei Okamoto, Hyoei Enoki, Toshiya Sakai, Nagare Hagiwara, Akihiro Shimizu, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Etsuko Shihomi, Akira Shioji, Seizo Fukumoto
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Studio: Homevision
Product Type: DVD

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The hero of The Fall Guy, Colt Seavers--played by Lee Majors, the former Six Million Dollar Man--is a Hollywood stunt man, which lets the show do all kinds of spectacular car crashes with no justification whatsoever, and he's a bounty hunter, which lets him get into all kinds of fist fights and ridiculous plots with no justification whatsoever. It's the perfect 1980s TV show, and it's no surprise it was created by Glen Larson, the mastermind behind such hits as Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, and Magnum, P.I. Assisted by his handsome but not-too-bright cousin Howie Munson (Douglas Barr) and sexy stuntwoman Jody Banks (blonde bombshell Heather Thomas), Colt grapples with a corrupt sheriff, a mob hit man, a government secret agent, a neo-Nazi biker gang (which, naturally, Colt had to infiltrate through cunning disguise), women wrestlers, and more, more, more. Preposterous? Absolutely! It's all an excuse to set things on fire and parade scantily clad young women around (Thomas had a popular bikini scene that led to a top-selling poster), while the Hollywood setting allowed for cameo appearances by stars ranging from James Coburn (In Like Flint) to Lou Ferrigno (appearing as himself playing the Incredible Hulk--it's downright postmodern) to Farrah Fawcett (Charlie's Angels), Majors' just-divorced ex-wife.

But what kept The Fall Guy running for five seasons wasn't silly plots or leaping cars. Lee Majors is one of those relaxed, genial actors who were made for television. Manly but gentle, handsome but down-to-earth, Majors appealed to men and women equally, could toss off a snappy one-liner without effort, and gave the impression that, no matter what happened, it would come out all right in the end. He even sang his own theme song. The Fall Guy: The Complete First Season is pure comfort television. (Season 1 is the only season with Jo Ann Pflug as Colt's boss, "Big Jack"; her adult sexiness and worldly wit were much-missed on later seasons.) The only extras are a couple of brief but entertaining featurettes, featuring interviews with Majors, Thomas, and Larson. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Lee Majors stars as the Fall Guy, Colt Seavers, a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.

Customer Reviews:

TV series at its best!.......2007-06-27

If you never seen this show you don't know what you're missing. If you have then it speaks for itself. It's the best. I can remember watching this when I was little with my family. It's got it all, stunts, action, without all the drugs, swearing, and other crap on tv today. Now the question remains when will the other seasons be out>

It's About a &%*# Time Colt!!!!.......2007-06-09

MY God, it has been about 26 years since The Fall Guy debut on TV!!?? It just amazed me that it took this long to bring this show back on DVD. This DVD offers full screen and mono audio, and it does not provide today's standard such as widescreen or multi audio channels (not even stereo)
Ironically, it did not bother me at all because that was how I watched the show back then. This show turns out to be retro classic. It is unfortunate that we no longer see those old fashioned good tough ole boy like Colt Seavers on TV today, and it is priceless watching Lee Majors in action on this DVD.

Great '80's nostalgia and tough guy show.......2007-06-07

It's great to see the TV shows the way the used to be, with tough guys and studly vehicles. The action is great too, with stunts and car chase scences that you only see the in the movies now. It also reminded me how guys used to be (tough and macho), not the cafe latte coffee house crowd. I'm not meaning to say that isn't cool, it's just different, but it shows how our society has changed and what is deemed as cool. It's a great TV show to watch.

Heather Thomas, chases, Heather Thomas, crime fighting, Heather Thomas, stunts, and Heather Thomas what more could you want?.......2007-06-06

I have not watched anything yet but the featurette about the theme song, but wanted to say that I loved the series and am glad it is on DVD. I hope they do them all. I have loved this show since I saw Heather Thomases first poster (with the fall guy pickup truck) in at 3D 20 some odd years ago. But lest, you think she was the only reason to watch, I truly liked the show. She is just what made this guy check out the show when he was around 13-14.

A few points I did notice was that there are three separate DVD cases (holding 2 discs each). There is no booklet telling about the series, but on the back of each cover it lists the episode title, original airdate and a brief (one sentence or so) description of the plot. In some ways this is better, but I would have liked to have had a little more in the way of info although a lot of sets that have booklets probably don't give this much or a whole lot more. Maybe one of the bonuses will tell more. Bonus items are a featurette on the theme song (with Lee Majors and others) and "remembering the fall guy" (Which I haven't watched yet.)

I was really surprised at Lee Majors though. He is thinner (from what I saw), older (of course) but his voice also is pitched higher. I truly had to do a double take. I am pleased that he was involved in this and hope he is doing well.

Fun-lovin' action!.......2007-05-22

It's obvious that the cast and crew had a good time making this series. It was always a blast to watch; I'm looking forward to all the episodes WITHOUT the commercials! Go get 'em, Lee!

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Wonderful
Very trained in excellency! Its a good good good movie!!
Denzel is amazing
Denzel at His Best
Crime drama? No. Psychologcal thriller? Yes.

Training Day
Starring: Raymond J. Barry , Tom Berenger , Nick Chinlund , Raymond Cruz , and Scott Glenn
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B00005JKED
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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A powerhouse performance by Denzel Washington fuels this brutal urban police drama, in which a rookie narcotics cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad. Washington plays veteran detective Alonzo Harris, a self-proclaimed "wolf among wolves," eager to teach his rookie partner Jake (Ethan Hawke) that normal rules don't apply on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Caught in a web of deception, Jake watches with escalating horror as Alonzo uses his badge (and the support of his superiors) to justify a self-righteous policy of corruption. In stark contrast to most of his previous work, Denzel unleashes his dark side with fearlessness and fury, and the result is excellence without compromise. Director Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers) won't score any points for subtlety, but gritty details (including actual L.A. gang members as extras) and Hawke's finely tuned performance are perfectly matched to Washington's frightening volatility. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful.......2007-05-09

Denzel is by far a great actor. This is one of his best movies.

Very trained in excellency! Its a good good good movie!!.......2007-05-02

I love this movie when i seen it about 2 years ago, and now I bought it on HD DVD. I must say, it looks awesome. I recommend this move and just feel the realism of the movie! The actings is superberb, from Denzel to Macy Gray! It was absolutely a great movie to see how things can be so over powered by the dark to light and light to dark. In one hand you have a good cop trying be persuaded to be a corrupted cop, and the other hand you have a good cop that turn bad. Its a great movie! Very Good!

Denzel is amazing.......2007-04-24

Denzel absolutely earned his Oscar with this performance. I have never hated such a character before in my life. A good script, yes, perhaps a few too many coincidences; especially about the girl Hawk saves being related to the men Denzel recruits to get rid of Hawk. The one thing and perhaps the only thing you remember about this is Denzel. highly, highly recommended.

Denzel at His Best.......2007-03-28

This movie potrayed Denzel Washington doing one of his best performances as dirty L.A.P.D narcotics detective Alonzo Harris. His excellent job was almost surpassed by the excellent role of rookie cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk). Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog also did a great job acting as a dirty cop and a drug dealer, respectively, in this movie. This movie also seem so realistic with real South Central Los Angeles gang members as extras. It is amazing what a movie can make appear to take place only in the span of 24 hours. If you like action films or if you are just a big Denzel fan, then you will want to see this movie.

Crime drama? No. Psychologcal thriller? Yes........2007-03-25

Young Police Officer Hoyt begins wishing he could step out of his mundane job and put himself and his family into a bigger house, and just have a higher paying and more prestigious and important police job. His restlessness and ambition, unfortunately, leads him into the world of a basically demonic figure, Narc Detective Alonzo Harris. Watch as Harris "trains" Hoyt for a day and all during that day spins a cruel web of flattery and abuse around him, breaking Hoyt down and then building him up, all the while planning Hoyt's demise. It has been a long time since I have seen such pure evil in a character as in Harris, played by Washington. This is a good movie, with excellent performances all around. Don't watch it as a crime drama, though. Look deeper.

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daria - is it fall yet?
More Daria
Great Condition
"Turn the Sun Down": Teen summer fun cartoon with Daria.
Daria is it fall yet?

Daria - Is It Fall Yet?
Starring: Katie Kingston , Kevin Daniels , Stefanie Layne , Delon Ferdinand , and Jessica Zaino
Director: Karen Disher , Ray Kosarin , and Guy Moore
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Daria - Is It College Yet?
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ASIN: B00005S6KA
Release Date: 2002-01-15

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Populated by a variety of memorable characters, Daria: Is It Fall Yet? packs more intelligent humor into 75 minutes than most sitcoms manage in a full season. With its diva of the disaffected in the title role, MTV's animated series moved into Ghost World territory with this enlightening look at summer vacation, beginning with Daria's dilemma about dating her best friend Jane's ex-boyfriend. Jane's tolerating pretentious bohemians at an artists' retreat, and while Daria's playing "prison guard" at a touchy-feely summer camp, her fashion-drone sister Quinn is getting tutored to compensate for dismal PSAT scores. The razor-sharp script uses Daria's ultra-dry wit and too-cool irony (at times excessive) to skewer everything from upper-crust snobbery to the hazards of adolescent romance. It turns out Daria's outer shell protects a likable adult-in-the-making as she learns lessons that feed her heart as well as her head. --Jeff Shannon

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daria - is it fall yet?.......2007-03-10

all the things you love about the TV show... we craked up the whole way through.

More Daria.......2007-03-08

This one was just as funny as the other movie I bought and shipped quickly. Great service.

Great Condition.......2006-11-04

It arrived in great condition, and it played well. I enjoy watching it, and I am glad to own it.

"Turn the Sun Down": Teen summer fun cartoon with Daria........2006-09-26

I saw the preview of this cartoon on Netflix. Seeing the teen characters dancing and having fun on the beach (minus Daria, who sits by herself reading a newspaper - with interruptions), I knew I had to buy this. And I love it!

"Is It Fall Yet?" deals with the main characters' experiences during Summer vacation. The highlight: "The Tom Thing" -as Trent Lane, Jane's musician brother, nicely puts it. Daria and Tom have fallen in love, and are dating. Tom and Jane have broken up. This situation dents the friendship of Daria and Jane.

The two bonus episodes on the dvd ("Fire" and "Dye! Dye, My Darling!") show how "The Tom Thing" happened. It's recommended to watch those two bonus episodes FIRST as they lead up to the emotional turmoil and love triangle of Daria, Jane and Tom that is carried over into the movie.

Adding to Daria's anguish, her mother enrolls her to be a camp counselor at the `OK-to-Cry Corral' summer camp. Working with her are her teachers, dorky Mr. O'Neill and Anthony DeMartino (with his trademark bloodshot eyeball that widens when he's very irritated).

The other `Daria' characters have their own situations. Lovelorn Jane goes to a bohemian artist retreat that's out of Lawndale. Dim-witted lovers Kevin and Brittany provide comic relief as they both work as lifeguards at a local pool. They only have eyes for each other... and I won't go further than that. Watch the movie, and see for yourselves! Daria's spoiled brat sister Quinn and her `Fashion Club' gal pals get tutored due to low scores on their PSAT exams. (How I remember my high school days! I was a Junior when I took my PSAT exam - and passed it!) Lead `Fashion Club' member Sandi (with the deep voice) reminds me so much of Khan from Mike Judge's "King of the Hill" series. Like Khan, Sandi is often sullen-expressioned, and complains a lot!

Mack and Jodie also have their share of the `summertime blues'. Mack takes a job as an ice-cream vendor, in a truck, and has to put up with bratty kids who aggravate him as they buy ice cream. His girlfriend Jodie has her share of difficulties as she volunteers at an office, and is up to her neck in work. The pair doesn't have time to date.

I love the opening 'beach' number with the `Daria' cast frolicking on the beach... and with Daria not participating, of course. It is reminiscent of the "Beach Blanket" 1960's movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Jane, too, is seen isolated on another part of the beach, painting. Her isolation gives proof of her rift with Daria. The song "Turn the Sun Down", sung by the female band Splendora (who provide the theme song for `Daria'), is playfully catchy! Splendora sounds like the female version of the Beach Boys. The 'beach' segment concludes with the sun going down at the beach at dusk, with the frolickers still dancing...followed, in a dissolve, by the "Daria" logo in a similar 'dusk' color, with the film's title; and Splendora's melodic singing as the song concludes. This is a nice effect.

Another nice effect is in the dvd's Main Menu, with a scene taken from the opening of the `Daria' t.v. series. A somber Daria is at the movies. Her fellow moviegoers, surrounding her, are laughing at the scenes from the opening `Beach' segment. "Turn the Sun Down" is played in the background.

At the film's end, there are `Outtakes', which are cute and amusing involving the `Daria' cast. There are a few gross outtakes also included.

"Is It Fall Yet?" got me interested in the "Daria" t.v. series. To admit, Daria looks much nicer in her own series than when she was on Beavis and Butt-Head". I purchased her "Daria Diaries" and "Daria Databases" books to help me get to know the Lawndale characters. I'm presently reading her `Diaries'. And I, too, hope that the complete "Daria" series gets released on dvd in the very near future.

But treat yourself to the interesting summer experiences -- as well as the summer fun -- at Lawndale with "Is It Fall Yet?" And savor Daria's sweet smile at the near-conclusion of the opening sequence in the two bonus episodes. A little girl in the film asks camp counselor Daria "Do you ever smile??"

The answer is Yes! And this movie is sure to make you smile. It's a gem in the "Daria" series!

Daria is it fall yet?.......2006-07-02

I love anything to do with Daria, so I'm a bit biased. For those who dont know this cartoon series. It is about an anti-social teen with a razor edge wit which means if your a person that needs clever jokes repeated to you this isnt for you. I just wish that they put the whole series on dvds instead of just the two 90 minute movies that they made from the series. If you have never herd of Daria before you will be lost if you buy either movie. This movie serves as a bridge between the second-to-last season and the last season of this series. And the sequel "Daria- Is it College Yet?" Serves as a Series finalle.

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These Were Real People, People
Nicholas and Alexandra
Delightful spectacle, disappointing drama
Movie from R. Massey's book
We are the History.

Nicholas and Alexandra
Starring: Michael Jayston , Janet Suzman , Roderic Noble , Ania Marson , and Lynne Frederick
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: 0767827775
Release Date: 1999-07-27

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These Were Real People, People.......2007-01-19

I waited over 30 years to see this film, and now that I have -- I'm glad I waited that long. Its glaring defects might not have been so obvious to me 30 years ago.

Nicholas, Alexandra, their daughters, their son, the people surrounding them -- not only are they not fictional, but thanks to the era in which they lived, they were photographed, we know what they actually looked like. So who on earth did the casting?! It was impossible to tell one Grand Duchess from another, and as for Alexandra -- in the first few scenes, I had trouble distinguishing the actress from someone in drag. Janet Suzman was the worst casting flub of all, unless you count the stilted manner in which Michael Jayston delivered his lines. What a stiff and boring character he makes Nicholas to be. Yet there are photos extant of Nicholas smiling as he played with his children. Nicholas was also portrayed as obsessed with holding on to his power as Tsar. But in the Robert Massie book after which the movie was purportedly modeled, it was very clear that Nicholas was acutely aware of his responsibilities to the Russian people, as well as to his family, and above all his son, the future Tsar. There was nothing exceptional about his behavior; most of Europe at the time was ruled by kings and queens, and to all of them, the thought of losing their thrones was simply unthinkable.

Yet this film falls into the trap most of us do, of judging history not on the basis of its own terms, but with our usual spectacularly accurate 20/20 hindsight. Having been fed Soviet propaganda for 75 years, we have it entrenched in our minds that Nicholas was an extremely poor ruler. That's the stunning success of the Massie book, that someone who had absolutely no connection to Russians, and no connection to royalty save for the one coincidence of both their sons having hemophilia, was able to overcome the general (and erroneous) "knowledge" of his time and write the kind of sympathetic biography of this family that was long lacking. The movie, on the other hand, makes Nicholas look petty, and Alexandra slightly over the edge.

One petty anachronism was the scene that showed the royal family praying just prior to Nicholas's sending off his troops into World War I. It was badly researched, to the point of ludicrousness. The Tsars of Russia were all Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christianity has its own very distinctive music; in fact, Russian Orthodox chant is very different from Greek Orthodox chant. So what kind of background music did the director choose? Gregorian, of course! Can we at least *strive* for a little authenticity?!

Apparently not. Massie wrote in considerable detail about the attitude of the Romanovs towards their captors, how their guards had to be changed every three or so months because they kept winning over the Bolsheviks: "You aren't anything like what we thought," was the most frequently quoted comment on the subject. The movie showed nothing of that. Well -- in the end, it was this exact trait of graciousness and consideration towards their captors that ended up getting the Romanov family canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church. That movement was well underway by 1971; I wonder, if the directors and producers had done a little more thorough research, if the film would have been a tad more sympathetic to these five people caught between two worlds and two cultures.

All in all, purchasing the movie was a waste of money. Maybe the Bolsheviks over at the University's Russian Department will appreciate my donating it -- that way, others can get to see it without wasting their money.

Nicholas and Alexandra.......2007-01-04

Very good film of a historical tragedy that could have been prevented and well acted and the period very authentically presented.

Delightful spectacle, disappointing drama.......2006-11-18

Robert Massie's _Nicholas and Alexandra_ (1968), the book on which this film is based, enjoyed great popular success but suffers from one major flaw. Massie's own son is hemophiliac, and his view of Alexandra, really the pivotal figure in this saga, was inevitably shaped by firsthand experience of his wife's emotional turmoil as the mother responsible for her son's illness. Massie thus regarded Alexandra with great sympathy and his account heavily favors her. Until the late 1990s most writings about the Romanovs followed Massie: Alexandra's emotional excesses were excused as those of a distraught mother who could not escape her guilt and grief.

With the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1989, previously unknown Russian archival materials became available to historians and a drastically revised picture of Alexandra appeared. Letters and diaries from Russian political figures, members of the imperial court, and the Romanov family prove that she was deeply disliked and mistrusted by most people around her. She was cripplingly shy by nature (as the film amply shows), but unduly confident in her limited abilities as a political observer. Her health suffered as a result of worry over Alexei's health, but she used her illness to control those around her, particularly her children. She was demanding and emotionally distant from her daughters, and her obsessive watchfulness over Alexei kept him, like his sisters, isolated from other children and incapable of developing the social skills appropriate to their ages. Letters between Nicholas and Alexandra reveal her hectoring attitude toward him, which historians now attribute to her early experience of dominant women, especially her grandmother Queen Victoria. Alexandra lacked Victoria's sound political sense and intelligence, but considered herself cast in the same mold.

Against these sharply revised pictures of Nicholas and Alexandra, the portraits offered in this film seem quaint and outdated. The film is a brilliant visual spectacle, delighting the eye with sumptuous interiors, rich costumes and spectacular jewelry. But its picture of late Tsarist Russian society is skewed by the omission of any reference to the flourishing middle-class urban culture that produced the works of Petr Tchaikovsky and Maxim Gorky. We see the luxury in which the nobility lived, and the abject poverty of the workers; but while Massie's book gives full attention to Russian culture in Nicholas II's reign, the film omits it entirely.

Dramatically speaking, the film is turgid and confusing. Goldman was a gifted screenwriter, his abilities demonstrated in "The Lion in Winter" (based on his own play), but "Nicholas and Alexandra" achieves the level of "Lion" in only 2 scenes. After Alexei has run his sled downstairs and into a closed door, Goldman sensitively extends the conversation between Nicholas and his son into a dialogue between the deposed and disgraced Tsar and his lost empire, Russia itself. A second scene is noted below. But the rest of the film is not up to these levels.

We never have a worthwhile understanding of the relationship between Tsar and Empress. We see them endlessly pledging undying love for each other, or sniping about Rasputin or the way Nicholas ought to run the empire, but little of substance arises from these usually tedious conversations. We learn more about their relationship from the conversation Nicholas has not with his wife, but with his mother shortly before his abdication ("You can't say no to your wife!"). The film deals more satisfactorily with Alexandra's relationship with Rasputin, as most easily seen in their first meeting at the dowager empress's birthday party; here we can really understand how Rasputin played so deftly on Alexandra's fears.

Goldman has a casual attitude to historical chronology, which he seems to alter for dramatic effect even though the record is dramatic enough in itself. I suspect he put Alexei's near-fatal illness at Spala just before the outbreak of WWI in 1914 (the Spala episode was really in 1912)to juxtapose the boy's recovery, and Rasputin's consequent vindication, with the war during which Alexandra obediently appointed inept ministers whom Rasputin recommended, men in whose hands the Tsar's government collapsed in 1917. But if this was Goldman's intention, he didn't make it at all clear to viewers.

Other than Nicholas, Alexandra, Rasputin and the dowager empress, few figures in this drama are fully fleshed out. Even Laurence Olivier's role seems intended only to do what is expected of him, to enunciate some opposition to Tsarist autocracy. For all Olivier's immense gifts and the humanity with which he invests Witte, the character is basically static. The children, even Alexei, are cardboard cutouts, with the girls doing hardly anything more than we would expect high-spirited but isolated young women to do.

The exception is the scene Goldman invented showing Tatiana exposing herself to a young guardsman. It is shocking, but no more so than the proof historians have recently found that during a snap visit to the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg on June 27, 1918, officials discovered Grand Duchess Marie in a compromising "situation" with a guardsman named Ivan Sokhodokov. Goldman could not have known of this event; documents recording it were not available until after 1989. But that he invented the scene involving Tatiana's exposure shows that he had a sense of the frustration the young women felt as they endured imprisonment and faced death. Though his scene involves the wrong Grand Duchess, Goldman's dramatic sensibilities here were indeed on track.

Exactly what "situation" Marie was found in is not described in detail in any document, but the discovery proved that security at the Ipatiev house was unreliable. This realization combined with the approach of the White Army to Ekaterinburg led directly to the local Soviet's decision to execute the family 3 weeks later.

Movie from R. Massey's book.......2006-11-04

The movie is Robert Massey's book come to life. Wonderful movie.

We are the History........2006-05-28

It's a story,it's the past that we can't hold back.We must not be so dupe of what had happened.I watched it,I know it and I don't want to ask questions where the answers are there.We know the answers.Somehow rather,the movie is to me,very well done.It's enjoyable to me though there are few afflict scenes.It can happen to me,to you and to anybody.It's a story of the past that has shaped the World.I have also that documentary regarding Romanov.It's just that,when I learnt in school,at fourteen years old,I can't imagine how the Emperor and his Emperesse would look like.

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Excaliber
Dated, but still greaat to watch.
Excalibur (HD DVD)
Superior to all others!
Good History, good Movie

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Starring: Robert Addie , Charley Boorman , Katrine Boorman , Brid Brennan , and Barbara Byrne
Director: John Boorman
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ASIN: B000JLSLZG
Release Date: 2006-10-31

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This lush retelling of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a dark and engrossing tale. Director John Boorman (Deliverance) masterfully handles the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of England. Arthur pulls the famed sword from a stone and is destined to be crowned king. As the king embarks on a passionate love affair with Guenevere, an illegitimate son, and Merlin's designs on power, threaten Arthur's reign. The film is visually stunning and unflinching in its scenes of combat and black magic. Featuring an impressive supporting cast, including early work from the likes of Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne, Excalibur is an adaptation of the legend both faithful and bold. --Robert Lane

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Raised by merlin, young Arthur draws the mystical sword of Excalibur from the stone and becomes King. He grows to manhood and with his wife Guenevere and first knight Lancelot unites the country and founds the Knights of the Round Table. But the love between Lancelot and Guenevere, and the treachery of his sister Morgana and son Mordred cause King Arthur's pride to jeopardize the kingdom. An epic battle between the knights of good and evil decides the fate of Camelot,

Customer Reviews:

Excaliber.......2007-05-28

One of my all time favorites!! Its great to have it in dvd collection now too. A must have for the medival-King Arthur etc fans!!

Dated, but still greaat to watch........2007-05-14

I had forgotten how interesting this movie was -- a little frustrating with its mixing of the legends, but a good watch and a fun reminder of how film styles have evolved in recent years.

Excalibur (HD DVD).......2007-05-09

The enhanced sound and vision on HD DVD makes a good film even better.

Superior to all others!.......2007-04-08

Simply put..this is the best sword and sorcery movie of all time. And....arguably, one of the best films of any genre. I wish there were more footage available of this movie. A nice long directors cut would be nice.

Good History, good Movie.......2007-04-04

I enjoyed this book as it was sort of based on the series of books based on "Merlin" and his life. This movie follows closely to historical accounts, but the fantasy scenes are pretty good.....hated the ending, loved the movie.

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Top British Film
You're Not Going To Find It Easy To Forget
The Long Good Friday
Even gangsters have bad days...
Noteworthy British crime thriller

The Long Good Friday
Starring: Paul Freeman , Leo Dolan , Kevin McNally , Patti Love , and P.H. Moriarty
Director: John Mackenzie
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Release Date: 2006-04-04

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Intricately plotted and smartly paced, this gangster saga clicks as whodunit, social satire, and explosive thriller. The piece is crowned by Bob Hoskins's career-making turn as a London mobster courting respectability and Helen Mirren's subtly detailed performance as his upper-crust mistress. Cockney wiseguy Harold Shand is a would-be burgher whose domination of the city's underworld stems from his shrewdness as a mediator and his skill at harnessing political and economic clout. As Easter approaches, he's poised to launch an aggressive real estate development scheme along the depressed Thames waterfront when all hell breaks loose: a trusted lieutenant is brutally murdered, Shand's mother is nearly killed in a car bombing, one of his pubs is blown apart, and the visiting American don crucial to the pending deal is quickly growing wary.

Barrie Keeffe's original screenplay keeps the viewer a step ahead of Shand, providing us with a telling but teasingly incomplete glimpse of the misstep by his underlings that has set chaos loose. At the same time, Keeffe underlines the bourgeois pretensions of the rough-hewn, barrel-chested Shand, how the elegant Victoria (Mirren) helps serve those ambitions, and the myriad parallels between Shand's minions and the local politicians and police only too willing to join in his scheme. Tart, funny dialogue and alternately playful and pungent Eastertide imagery complete Keeffe's shrewd design--two key scenes, in a meat locker and a warehouse, invoke the Crucifixion itself.

Even with lesser performances, the script and John Mackenzie's solid direction would make The Long Good Friday a keeper, but Hoskins's explosive portrait of Shand and his descent toward brutal revenge elevates the film into the very front rank, earning admiring comparisons to The Godfather, Scarface, GoodFellas, and other classics of that genre. On DVD, Criterion's new digital transfer restores more than just the widescreen aspect ratio--the film has never looked better, even if an occasionally muddy sound mix survives to make the thick Cockney accents a challenge to decipher. --Sam Sutherland

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Academy Award® nominee Bob Hoskins delivers a ferocious performance as mobster Harold Shand, the all-powerful boss of the London underworld. But on the day he is about to close the ultimate deal with an American crime family, Shand's empire suddenly — and literally — begins to explode around him. Who would dare attack Britain's most ruthless gangster? How far will he go to find the truth? And what is the deadly secret behind the havoc of THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY? Oscar® nominee Helen Mirren (GOSFORD PARK, CALIGULA), tough guy icon Eddie Constantine (ALPHAVILLE), and Pierce Brosnan (in one of his first film roles) co-star in this now-classic crime drama that critics compare to THE GODFATHER and SCARFACE as one of the greatest gangster films of all time.

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Top British Film.......2007-06-07

This film, together with Get Carter (the original) are the two finest British crime/gangster films you can get.

Bob Hoskins gives his best ever performance as Harold Shand a cockney gangster whos trying to do a deal with an American over the (as was then) wasteland of London docklands. Unfortunately while he's in the states one of his gang has upset some rather nasty people. Upon his return things start to go badly wrong.

This film is full of great scenes - perhaps most memorably when the men Harold suspects are trying to muscle in on him are brought in hanging upsidedown from meathooks - Harold has a quiet word:

"For more than ten years there's been peace - everyone to his own patch. We've all had it sweet. I've done every single one of you favours in the past - I've put money in all your pockets. I've treated you well, even when you was out of order, right? Well now there's been an eruption. It's like f**kin' Belfast on a bad night. One of my closest friends is lyin' out there in the freezer. And believe me, all of you, nobody goes home until I find out who done it, and why".

Its all marvellously done, and the ending is very clever indeed - you will never forget it once you've seen it. The whole film is complimented by excellent music composed by Francis Monkman (who played with Curved Air and Sky).

Helen Mirren gives a great peformance as Harolds wife/girlfriend. The cast includes quite a few familiar faces such as Eddie Constantine and P H Moriarty as 'Razors'. The most noteable is a small role for the as then unknown Pierce Brosnan.

This film is also an interesting piece of British history as you can see docklands as it was before before Canary Wharf existed.

If you haven't already seen this, then you've missed a really cracking film.

You're Not Going To Find It Easy To Forget.......2007-03-23

"The Long Good Friday," (1980), made from an original script by Barrie Keefe, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, directed by John Mackenzie, makes just about everyone's short list of greatest British gangster movies. In fact, greatest gangster movies, period. It was nominated for a BAFTA (British Oscar) on its release. Gangster movies are said to depend on the energy and performance of their protagonists -- see George Raft, Jimmy Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson-- and this one made a star of Hoskins, who captured the explosive violence of its protagonist Harold Shand, a cockney gangster.

The late George Harrison, of The Beatles, served, among others, as the film's Executive Producer. The film opens on Good Friday, and is, in fact, full of Easter imagery. Shand's mother goes to mass; and scenes set in a slaughterhouse and a warehouse present specifically Christian iconography. "The Long Good Friday" is also set at a significant time, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's own Euro version of the greed-is-good 1980's. In fact, at moments, it almost seems the film is quoting Dante Aleghieri's famous Italian Renaissance poem "The Inferno," that also is set at Easter, and concerns the greed is good crowd of its own time and place. At any rate, the film makes good use of its era, as Michael Caine's memorable "Get Carter" did of Britain's sourly swinging 1970's.

Shand appears to be on the top of the world as the film opens. During Thatcher's reign, London's extensive docklands are just beginning to be profitably redeveloped, and he's getting in on the ground floor. He expects to get additional seed money for his projects from Charlie, a visiting American gangster, nicely played by that iconic French actor Eddie Constantine. Shand's got a gorgeous, upper crust, tough, sexy, smart mistress, Victoria; as played by Helen Mirren, nobody could doubt that she has her say in his organization. But while he's in the States, hooking up with Charlie, things begin to go wrong for him. And it takes him too long to figure out what's happening.

Pierce Brosnan, then evidently at the start of his career, has a bit, nearly non-speaking part: apparently he improvised one line, and it stuck. But he plays a bare-chested pool scene, showing off a fine body, and a charming smile, but, oh, those terrible not-yet-improved-to-American standards teeth! And he drives the car in the movie's gripping final scenes. Hoskins and Mirren give remarkable performances, together and on their own, never more so than these final, almost wordless scenes together. You're not going to find them easy to forget.

The Long Good Friday.......2007-03-22

Watching this again after several years is like experiencing an episode of Life On Mars, only vastly superior. No need for flashbacks as we're actually there: with the clothes, the cars, the non-PC language and an undeveloped London Docklands. A time when gangsters had (supposedly) strict rules of behaviour and decency, and worked with corrupt police officials with little danger of media exposure. And although this is a violent, fairly realistic film, it all has a strange feeling of innocence about it. If only they knew what was around the corner!

Add to this Barrie Keeffe's marvellous script, lots of dry humour (it's almost a black comedy), Bob Hoskin's loveable villain, Helen Mirren as his upper class moll, and early appearances from Pierce Brosnan (hardly speaking, but wonderfully nasty), Gillian Taylforth and Eddie Constantine - and you have 109 minutes of pure pleasure. A lingering final sequence will stay in your memory. Unreservedly recommended.

Even gangsters have bad days..........2007-03-20

The Long Good Friday depcits the day in the life of a gangster who is literally going through hell. The film is somewhat unorthodox in terms of its unique narrative structure, primarily with its ambiguous, yet suprisingly complex opening sequence (although the original script called for a much more complex and extensive setup).
The lead performances launch this film into arguably the best British gangster film ever made. Bob Hoskins is ferocious and commanding as the sedentary king pin, Harold Shanz, and Helen Mirren redefines the role of the ganster's girl as the loyal, highly influential and intelligent wife, whose essence serves as the bridge between Harold's existence as a typical gangster, and as a civilized and powerful businessman. What makes Bob Hoskin's performance even more noteworthy is when he wrapped up filming Zulu Dawn (1979), he became terribly sick and soon discovered a monstrous tapeworm inside him (discussed in an interview on the DVD's supplemental material), but after reading the script agreed to do the film, tape worm and all, and in the end delivers an unforgettable performance. Overall, the movie is energetic, intriguing, and powerful throughout. The music to Harold's introduction is fantastic, and take note of the beautifully choreographed meat hook scene!

Noteworthy British crime thriller.......2006-10-07

Bob Hoskins in a ground breaking role in his career expertly pulls off his portrayal of Harold Shand, Cockney accented British mobster, in the cracklingly good gangster drama "The Long Good Friday". Shand, a powerful figure in the underworld, using politcal and law enforcement connections is at the precipice of concluding a huge real estate deal along the London waterfront. In the entrepreneurial times spawned by the philosophies of Margaret Thatcher, Hoskins is looking to legitimize his businesses. Advised and comforted by his cultured and level headed girlfriend Victoria played nicely by Helen Mirren, he hopes to enlist the financial backing of the American Mafia.

French cinema legend Eddie Constantine playing Charlie, the prospective American partner arrives in London to consummate the deal. In conjunction with his arrival, the sky begins falling on Hoskins' head. One of his chief lieutenants is knifed and another blown up in a car bomb. When a bomb is found in a Hoskins backed casino and another explodes in one of his pubs, his American counterparts become jittery. With the deal tottering, Hoskins, who can't imagine who could be muscling in on his turf, sends out his troops on a seek and destroy mission.

Notable in this film is the appearance of a youthful Pierce Brosnan as an IRA gunman. In his first movie role the dentate Brosnan had yet to have his teeth fixed and featured a typically dreadful English smile. Also of note is that one of the exective producers of the film was Beatle George Harrison.

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Denzel at His Best
Crime drama? No. Psychologcal thriller? Yes.

Training Day [HD DVD]
Starring: Raymond J. Barry , Tom Berenger , Nick Chinlund , Raymond Cruz , and Scott Glenn
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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ASIN: B000E5KJE8
Release Date: 2006-05-09

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Working undercover is a job. And an attitude. A mad dog narco cop blurs the line between cop and criminal as he mentors an idealistic rookie partner during his Training Day.

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Wonderful.......2007-05-09

Denzel is by far a great actor. This is one of his best movies.

Very trained in excellency! Its a good good good movie!!.......2007-05-02

Denzel is amazing.......2007-04-24

Denzel at His Best.......2007-03-28

Crime drama? No. Psychologcal thriller? Yes........2007-03-25

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GOOD COP...BAD COP...ACTION THRILLER...

Training Day [Blu-ray]
Starring: Raymond J. Barry , Tom Berenger , Nick Chinlund , Raymond Cruz , and Scott Glenn
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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ASIN: B000H1RFKU
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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Working undercover is a job. And an attitude. A mad dog narco cop blurs the line between cop and criminal as he mentors an idealistic rookie partner during his Training Day.

DVD Features:
Alternate endings
Audio Commentary:Feature Length Commentary by director Antoine Fuqua
DVD ROM Features:Link to the original theatrical web site and other locations Log in to future events
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Documentary:Behind-the-Scenes Documentary
Filmographies:Cast and Crew Film Highlights
Music Video:2 Music Videos: - Nelly's #1 - Pharoahe Monch's Got You
Theatrical Trailer

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GOOD COP...BAD COP...ACTION THRILLER..........2006-12-17

This is a crisp, action thriller that focuses on one day, the training day of rookie narcotics undercover cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke). Jake is to be trained by veteren narcotics squad supervisor Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). Almost immediately, the viewer discerns that Jake's training day will be unlike any other day he has ever had.

Alonzo is an unbelievably corrupt cop, a once good cop who has lost his way. He now corrupts those cops who come under his command, all for one and one for all. Jake, the newcomer to the group, still innocent and wide eyed about his reasons for being a cop, will be a test of Alonzo's ability to corrupt the seemingly incorruptible. A series of trials and tribulations await Jake that day, situations that in his wildest imagination he could never have envisioned, all of them fiendishly and cleverly engineered by Alonzo. All of them insidious. All of them criminal. The only question is whether good will overcome evil.

Denzel Washington gives a performance of a lifetime and is certainly worthy of his Academy Award for Best Actor. He is at once both repelling and ingratiating as the character Alonzo Harris. His performance is charismatic, commanding, compelling, and completely mesmerizing as the narcotics commanding officer who has gone over the deep end and crossed a line that, once crossed, is final. Alonzo rules his territory and those within it with an iron hand, misjudging fear for respect. Murder and mayhem are the key words of his reign. He also seems to report to a trumvirate of corrupt police officials whom he refers to as the wisemen. Unfortunately for Alonzo, he has come to believe his own hype and bites off more than he can chew, ultimately pissing off the wrong people.

Ethan Hawke gives his best performance ever, imbuing Jake with a vulnerability and innocence that is believable and compelling, making Jake's struggle with his situation all the more angst ridden. It is a balance of the desire to succeed and get ahead with the instinctive knowledge of right and wrong. The viewer sees Jake going along with Alonzo at first, wanting to please his superior officer, even when some of the things Alonzo asks him to do are not only transgressions of police procedure, but violations of the very laws that they are employed as police to enforce. As Alonzo inveigles Jake to cross the line, the viewer can see the struggle within Jake take place, as shock gives way to a struggle for his very survival. The only question is whether Jake's better nature will ultimately allow him to do what he believes to be right. Ethan Hawke's a performance is certainly worthy of its Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

This is a gripping film, with a fair amount of violence. Wonderful performances are also given by Scott Glenn, a drug lord whose dream of retiring to the Phillipines is cut short, as well as by Macy Gray, who is sensational in the role of another drug lord's wife. While some of the film is over the top, it is a film that will not fail to entertain and engage the viewer.

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Blues no more...
Not a bad movie
Decent for a one time view, but not as good as Backbeat
The Crack House at Pooh Corner
A mildly entertaining biopic that couldn't stay a float

Stoned (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Leo Gregory , Paddy Considine , David Morrissey , Ben Whishaw , and Tuva Novotny
Director: Stephen Woolley
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ASIN: B000FDE5V2
Release Date: 2006-07-04

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Long since written off as "death by misadventure," the soggy demise of Rolling Stones founding member Brian Jones was in fact a considerably more sinister affair. At least that's what Stoned would have us believe. Director Stephen Woolley's 2005 film begins with the discovery of Jones' body at the bottom of his swimming pool in the summer of 1969, and while it jumps all over the place, chronologically speaking, it always comes back to the events leading up to that July night. As portrayed by Leo Gregory, the Jones we see in his final days is a drug- and drink-ridden wreck, utterly debauched, at once a misogynist who beats his girlfriend and a helpless child who can't bear to be alone; his contribution to the Stones now virtually nil, he barely notices when his bandmates show up to kick him out (the official line was that he quit). Enter Frank Thorogood (Paddy Considine), a local builder hired to fix up Jones' country manor (once owned by Winnie the Pooh creator A. A. Milne). Dour and dull, Frank is the perfect target for Jones' sardonic taunts ("You're fun to wind up," says Brian), and the movie posits the theory, supposedly supported by Thorogood's deathbed confession, that it all became too much for this simple country lad to take. Whether any or all of this is true seems almost inconsequential; many viewers won't even remember who Brian Jones was, and many others won't care. This unrated version is filled with sex and nudity (we see a good deal more of Jones', uh, tool than his guitar), and Woolley's style is hip and kinetic, as if he were trying to capture the swirling excitement of '60s England. Stoned is a bit muddled, sometimes cliched and often rather ridiculous (Jones in heaven, discussing his legacy? Hey, whatever), and it contains not a note of actual Rolling Stones music. But in a lurid kind of way, it's undeniably entertaining. --Sam Graham

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Blues no more..........2007-06-08

I read some of the other reviews in which the movie wasn't well liked. Personally though I love the Stones. I'm a Gen-Xer so I grew up with parents and their friends listening to the Stones and the like. Anyhow, the movie starts out with a foreshadowing to Brian Jones' death at his home in Cheltenham, England. Then Frank Thorogood is brought in as a builder for Brian Jones' mansion and the sinister mind games begin. The movie then goes back a few months to tell the story which is Brian Jones: the sex, drugs, the women... everything that is the glitz and glam of huge fame rock and roll. The actual Rolling Stones, as hinted on in other reviews, is definetly not presented in this movie. The film is about primarily Brian Jones and his love of women and wine. I love the Morocco scene with the rest of the Stones. It's so free and cool, except for one part when Brian beats his girlfriend Anita. Okay, so they get back to England then Brian's girlfriend leaves him so she becomes Keith's girlfriend then. So then Brian gets kicked out of the Stones in the next breath.

The film also portrays Brian's early love for music from early on in his life, even high school. He came from a fairly well off family. Now I'll jump back to the end of the movie to the mind games with the builder, Frank. The movie focuses a huge amount of time on this relationship and can drag a bit but some of it is funny with, for example, the "Sunday afternoon" song. All of the unpaid builders, including Frank are hanging outside while Brian's having a great time inside with Anna. Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" is used in contrast to show Brian's demise with Anita: the drugs and parties, etc.. At the end of Brian's life, he had a live-in girlfriend, Anna Wohlin, from a Swedish dance troupe. She stayed with him until his drowning, at the end of the movie, and this is a true life fact. Anna wrote a book on Brian's death called, "The Murder of Brian Jones."

Finally, the style of the film is very indy. The music is not very rolling stones. I did like the scene in the empty pool with Brian and Frank at the mansion where Brian plays his organ and really jams out but Frank's all awkward with the tambourine...kinda funny stuff. Basically the overall music is an original score. It's alright.

Here's an aside: I love the clothes! The characters who play the Stones are good. I thought that they did a good job.
"The Stones no longer play my brand of rock and roll..." Brian Jones loved the blues.

Not a bad movie.......2007-04-25

If you like the Rolling Stones, you may like this movie. It is not about the Rolling Stones, it is about Brian Jones and his abilities, his drug use and his 'fall from grace,' due to that drug use. All I had heard was that he had drowned in his pool. This movie presents one of at least three theories about what happened, what appears to be the most plausible, although there were no witnesses and no theories were ever proven. Briann Jones' loss to drugs, and to the music world, truly was a tragic loss.

Decent for a one time view, but not as good as Backbeat.......2007-04-21

Some folks will look at this and think that this is going to be like Backbeat, the story of the original beatles, but it is far from that. This movie tells the tale of Brian Jones, the founding guitarist of the Rolling Stones and how he lived his life, and how it possible could have ended. This does a decnet job of capturing the 60's and a hard partying crowd, but really lacked in the consistency of a timeline, had quite a few unclosed chapters, and did not play as much as it needed to of the interplay between the members of the rolling stones. It could have been much more, but it is what it is. For music fans, you should get a kick out of it, but if you know nothing about the Stones to develop the background, or are not a huge fan of the music, then pass this up for something else

The Crack House at Pooh Corner.......2007-03-29

I watched this movie expecting nothing and was suprised at how much potential it had. If Gregory looks nothing like Jones, at least those behind the scenes got more right than I ever hoped for: the guitars, the clothes, the oddly indefinable difference between attraction and repulsion to a beautiful, passionate, selfish, destructive person. Personally I don't know if Brian was murdered--I guess it makes a better movie premise than a portrait of a young man who was wasted beyond his years. I read once that after Brian was fired, he contacted Alexis Korner about joining Free At Last; Alexis declined the offer. To me that's an important part of assessing Brian's final months. He had burned his flame--it was over--he was an ex-pop star--a shade. Sure, if he had formed a band, fans would have flocked to see what music he had to offer except for the fact that he had nothing left to offer. The film does explore this idea when it shows him desperately snorting white powder after he's been fired from the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Corporation, and it is one of the spots where the film is successful. I know he loved the blues, drugs, beautiful women, great guitars, and one historic house. If only he had loved himself. It's true that there's so much more to this story, but we may have to wait for Ken Burns to make a series about Jones some day. I'd probably watch that.

A few years back I was driving past Cheltenham and stopped for a few minutes, as countless others have, at Brian's grave. The guitars, the girlfriends, the drugs all had a different perspective standing at the grave with the understanding that this is where it ended. I remember him for his contribution to bringing the blues to a new level of consciousness, but I forgot to bring a flower with me that day. Thanks Brian, but I was content to leave Cheltenham happy to be alive.

A mildly entertaining biopic that couldn't stay a float.......2007-01-25

I'm not really into rock music but I am into biopic films. Woolley has produced some amazing British films over the past two decades, so it's not surprising that he finally turns to directing. But despite some strong acting and a groovy 60s vibe, the film is a mess. "Stoned" concentrates on the last weeks in the life of "Stones"- founder Brian Jones (Leo Gregory), whereby earlier developments are integrated again and again in flash backs. By alcohol and drug craze incapably become to co-operate further as a guitarist with its volumes Brian spends most time partitioned from the external world as well as his Swedish girlfriend Anna Wohlin (Tuva Novotny) in its country house. In order to hold it there under control, route manager Tom Keylock (David Morrisey) sends a friendly building contractor (Paddy Considine) to Brian, in order to implement some work on the house and on his favorite, who loses itself ever more in psychedelischen intoxications and eroticism excesses to watch out. But franc is so fascinated by Brains unusual personality and its out-curving life-style that it in-increases ever more into a mixture from admiration and jealousy. When Brian a further Psycho spiel with its guest floats, it comes to the disaster...

At least I think that's the plot. Although the film does offer some interesting insight on the mystery of Brian's death, it takes 84 minutes before it even lets on that there IS a mystery. Given the framing structure of the film, I was led to believe that the flashback story was going to explain the psychological descent of the principal that led him to an excessive lifestyle, hence death style. You know, your basic "drugs suck" movie. Turns out it has a completely different story to tell, but takes a very long time to get to it. Too long, in my opinion, and too little energy is expended on the way. The scenes are beautiful to look at, and often dramatically strong, but without an overriding through-line, they feel like unrelated short films featuring the same cast.

Even though the cast is interesting to look at, only Considine has a proper character to work with; Frank's an intriguing bundle of hopes and insecurities, plus elusive dark demons. This is really his story, not Brian's. And while Gregory has some excellent moments, he struggles to emerge from the drugged-out wooziness, especially with those cheap-looking wigs. Of the remaining cast, only Mazur and Morrissey get interesting roles, although we never know much about them. The rest barely register at all. As a director, Woolley has some nice touches in capturing the raw eccentricity of a rock star lifestyle. But he's obviously limited by copyright issues from including any Stones music or focusing on the band's own story. Not to mention the relentless homophobia and a series of weak epilogues.

The story unfolds the shocking set of events that led to Jones' premature death at 27. So he joins the league of legends - Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain - who broke on through to the other side at the same age. His story differs in that he didn't self-destruct; though some would argue, after seeing "Stoned," that he chose the water he was in - but not whether to sink or swim.

The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1, Vol. 2

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The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1, Vol. 2
Starring: Nedra Volz , Jo Ann Pflug , and Markie Post
Director: Sidney Hayers , Don Medford , Alan Crosland (II) , Jack Arnold , and Vince Edwards
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000O77SOA
Release Date: 2007-06-05

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Lee Majors stars as the Fall Guy, Colt Seavers, a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.

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