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One of the best films of 2004, Kinsey pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviors previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, Kinsey shines a light where darkness once prevailed. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
For a movie about sex, it sure is boring........2007-03-14
This movie was long, drawn out and slow. If you want to know about the personal life of Alfred Kinsey, just read an article about him on an online encyclopedia.
The worst part of the movie was the horrible makeup job done to make Liam Neeson look like he was in his 20's. In fact, it was pretty disturbing.
Hmm.......2007-02-20
I'm not sure what I think. I definitely agree that much of our sexual hangups and perhaps darker eccentricities are the direct result of puritanical repression. Seeing so many of the clichés pulled together in one place made me wonder how any of us in the west (or anywhere?) manage a healthy sexual expression. It also indicates how much of repression and poorly expressed desires are widely cultural and not the result of personal accounts of sexual abuse. But it raised some really uncomfortable questions, even for the most open-minded, and presented some really painful moments just about anyone who's ever had sex can relate to. All-in-all, the film was well done.
Kinsey.......2007-02-12
Ok, so I bought this movie because I saw an HBO special on the making of Kinsey. When I actually got to see the movie I was hideously surprised. I saw this with a group of my college friends. Oh man. This movie is definitely not for the family. Extremely graphic. EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. Rating for this movie should be NC-17, not R. That's how graphic. There are certain scenes that are controversial, if you've seen this movie I'm sure you know what scenes. Watch this movie away from children. Good for adult viewing. Overall movie was funny and interesting. Not For Children.
fascinating research by a very strange guy.......2007-01-25
In 1938 Alfred Kinsey, a young Harvard-trained zoologist whose speciality was the gall wasp, took over a course on "marriage" at Indiana University and, based upon his relentless curiosity and unapologetically scientific treatment of the subject, turned the class into something akin to sexology. He subsequently published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), based upon 18,000 sexual histories he and his staff collected. For the first time ever, sex was scientifically-situated. This biographical dramatization reminded me of Ray, in the sense of an overwhelming human force who grappled with a perennial subject and in the process shaped American culture. The main message of the film, if it has one, seems to be that repression and taboo melt in the light of frankness and tolerance of difference, no matter how quirky: "We are the recorders and reporters of facts--not the judges of the behaviors we describe," insisted Kinsey. But the film is careful to show in some deeply painful moments like pedophilia, sex encouraged among staff members, Kinsey's bi-sexual experimentation, and broken marriages that human sexuality is far more, and more complex, than the mere scientific documentation of its parts. Fidelity, intimacy, integrity and love define sexuality as much as our habits. Kinsey died in 1956 at the age of 62, although the Kinsey Institute continues today.
Kinsey - great entertainment!.......2006-11-08
Last year, I skipped the movie about pioneer sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey, because I thought that I already knew everything about him and that it might be dry. Was I ever wrong! The dialogue in the movie was crisp and unexpectedly funny and the acting was stellar. (What else could be expected from Liam Neeson, Chris O'Donnel and Laura Linney?)
The movie traced the puritanical and oppressive upbringing that poor Kinsey endured as a boy who was born in 1894 and raised by a fire and brimstone, preacher father. Those were the days when no one talked about [...] and it was widely thought to cause blindness or insanity; oral sex was feared in the event that it resulted in infertility; and no one knew a [..] from a clavicle!
Kinsey was one of the first to break down those barriers in the 1920s and 1930s. He started classes at university for young couples who were about to get married in order to give them proper sex education, rather than the abstinence message that they had been receiving in their hygiene class.
He interviewed 18,000 people and wrote books about his findings, for which he was widely criticized because what he found was that there was a large disconnect between what people said was "moral" sexual behavior, and what they actually practiced behind closed doors. Moreover, he stated that "37 percent of U.S. men (and 13 percent of women) had had at least one homosexual experience, while 62 percent of women (and 92 percent of men) masturbated. Premarital sex was common. Half of married
men and a quarter of married women had cheated on their spouses." [Source -- National Geographic News]
In addition, Kinsey concluded that the majority of people were bisexual. This was during an era when adultery, homosexuality and oral sex were illegal in many states!
Kinsey had two great failings: firstly, as a zoologist, he could never understand that the human mammal with different from other animals. Humans had feelings that were intricately tied to their sexuality.
Animals did not. Secondly, Kinsey's research methodology was questioned by many sources as being skewed and lacking objectivity. He interviewed most of his people face-to-face and then transcribed his findings. At least one quarter of his subjects were prison inmates, 5% were male prostitutes and they were all volunteers. A good research design should have a randomized study, preferably double blind so that the researcher and his assistants did not directly interpret data from subjects in order to avoid potential bias on their parts.
The movie clearly discussed Kinsey's first failing but was not explicit enough about the second one regarding research methodology.
Having said that, Alfred Kinsey was an amazing man and this is an awesome movie. Great entertainment and it made me feel that despite our cultural ambivalence about sex, we definitely have come a long way, baby.
Sigrid Mac
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Two trigger-happy cops try to stop the distribution of mind-rotting Wilderness Girl cookies. Starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Ireland and Samuel L. Jackson.
Customer Reviews:
Good, but a bit of a let down.......2006-08-01
This is a very funny spoof of not just Naked Gun and Lethal Weapon, but every other movie in the genre. There's so many, I've even noticed a few that I missed the first few times I watched it.
I would have given it 4 stars, but the DVD is a let down for those who have seen the movie in theaters or on TV. Like too many others do when transfering to DVD, many scenes have been cut out. Often, these missing scenes are not missed, but with this movie, all of the parts are good ones and in some places, were essential to the movie making for some confusing lines later on.
Still, I think this is a very funny parody of action movies and is worth the time.
Heh, there's no Loaded Weapon 2.......2006-01-26
I'm really tired of critics trashing this movie, going so far as to say it's National Lampoon's worst. Have you seen what NL has been releasing? A big fan of NL, I rented a few of their recent movies, and the closest I got to laughing was during Gold Diggers, which was only kind of funny, but the best of the latest NL movies.
Anyway, Loaded Weapon 1 (a joke in itself) uses the ZAZ approach (you know, the guys who did Airplane! and The Naked Gun), parodying buddy cop movies, mostly the Lethal Weapons. Emilio Estevez is Colt, a loose cannon who leaves a mini-mart in shambles at the start (the highlight, in my opinion) and is obviously supposed to be Mel Gibson. Samuel L. Jackson is Luger, a by-the-book family man (cough, Danny Glover) who's paired with Colt to nab a drug czar (William Shatner) who is smuggling drugs through Wilderness Girl cookies, which gets Luger's old partner (Whoopi Goldberg) killed. Oh yeah, and Colt falls for Kathy Ireland, a babe who should always leave her hair down. Other Lethal Weapon references include Jon Lovitz (YES!) as the Joe Pesci/Leo Getz character, who appears to be dead many times but keeps showing up, Denis Leary has a cameo as someone like Michael Hunksacker in the first Lethal Weapon, and there's other great references, like Colt finding Luger on the toilet (LW 2), Luger yelling "Cigarette!" instead of gun like in LW 1, Colt having a dead dog instead of a wife, and so on.
This movie really is underappreciated. It mocks all the cop movies that are getting old with ease, and even though it's not up to par with Naked Gun or the other ZAZ tries (well, actually, "Mafia" and "Scary Movie 3" may conflict with that), it does what National Lampoon used to do: make us laugh.
VALIDATION.......2006-01-19
Another hilarious spoof. Who knew Samuel Jackson could do comedy? Jackson and Estevez are great together.
Awesome Spoof.......2005-11-21
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 Is the most funiest movie i ever saw. It Makes Fun Of Cop Movies. It is really funny. Emilio & Samueal will knock your socks off with laughter.
If You Liked This Film Check out the other National Lampoon Movies
Very funny.......2005-09-28
If you like this type of comedy where jokes are as visual as they are vocal (play on words, taking things litterally, and so on), then this is for you.
There aren't many movies like this nowadays...
I recommend you watch it before sleeping... that's a much better way to end your day (and start your night) than watching news about tragedies, war and so on... Enjoy!
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- The Best C&C Movie
- This is funny and engaging all over
- Two and 3 Quarter Gram Stars Review, Man
- Really hilarious film
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Cheech and Chong - Things Are Tough All Over
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Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
Customer Reviews:
The Best C&C Movie.......2007-04-02
Saw this when it first came out and remember my date just laughing constantly & loudly in the theater through the whole movie. I laughed alot myself. Good memory, Great movie. This is the funniest and best Cheech & Chong movie (I think that the 2nd best is "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie"). Being a musician and being the age that I am (47), I love the music/band scenes/jokes, of which there are many in this film. I haven't seen the DVD version, and don't think I'll buy it as there doesn't seem to be any extras on it at all. Are there?
This is funny and engaging all over.......2006-08-23
Cheech and Chong are back in such strong form here that it makes me wonder if I shouldn't reevaluate the previous film, Nice Dreams (1981), which seemed like a misstep to me on my last viewing.
Of course, there are some major differences with Things are Tough All Over. For Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong took the ultimate stoner/slacker route and made a film with little plot or direction. It seemed like they were engaging in the same behavior offscreen as on and just and playing around with loose, rough ideas. Maybe they also wondered what the heck they had done when later watching Nice Dreams (or watching the box office returns), because for Things are Tough All Over, they took an entirely different path and crafted an intricately structured comic misadventure where they play two interweaving sets of characters--Cheech and Chong, of course, and Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong), Arab brothers who serve as Cheech and Chong's employers in various guises.
The script for Things are Tough All Over may have been something Cheech and Chong were working on for awhile. The basic subtext (as reflected in the title) is the recession during the Carter years in the U.S. Slyman and Habib represent the flipside of the gas crisis (which is both metaphorically and literally in the plot at the same time in interesting and funny ways, even including flatulence jokes), and their prosperity as well as Cheech and Chong's role in the climax and denouement of the film represent the change of economic and social climate of the Reagan years. This may be reading a bit too heavily into the film, but to some extent, these themes were definitely intentional.
Not that this is a serious film. The gags here are on par with Up in Smoke (1978). And given the engaging misadventure/road-movie plot, the gags have a purpose that makes them that much better. Things are Tough All Over is also unusual in that it's the first Cheech and Chong film that's not focused on drugs. Not that I dislike drug humor (or the idea of drug use), but not _having_ to make this film about drugs opens up the door for Cheech and Chong to focus on comedy for its own sake. They go with material because it's going to be funny, and their timing is exquisitely on--they know just how far they can milk any particular joke for maximum effect.
Two and 3 Quarter Gram Stars Review, Man.......2005-06-14
This adventure of Cheech & Chong see's them playing a couple of dudes who work for some Arab dudes who like want them to drive a car from Detroit to Las Vegas but they have no idea why, they just wanna get paid for the job. Theres a lot of things happening to them as the drive from one place to the other.
There isnt much of the Stoner Humor in this one compared to other C&C movies. The laughs arnt there as strong as the other either, but the humour is still defintly there. I have a feeling Richard "Cheech" Marin probably wanted to show he could act as something other then the Cheech charactor, they play a couple of Arabs in the movie aswell, and lean more towards a humor not so pot headed. I think Cheech was trying to establish himself as a real actor. But least he stayed true to Cheech tho, he didnt kill the charactor or anything.
I'd say this is the weakest of all the C&C movies. I even think Get Out Of My Room is funnier then this... but dont count it out tho, it's still got some great bits in it.... my fav is when Cheech needs to go to the bathroom and ends up going a way he didnt expect.
There's no bonus features or anything which is a bummer. Seems the only one to get any attention has been the first movie... if there not going to give these things extra features, then they should have at least made the DVD a double feature with Nice Dreams (Columbian release's, thats why that particuler title)
We need a new Cheech & Chong movie, this may be the weakest, but it's still better then most of the stoner movies being made these days, thats why we need Tommy and Richard to make a new one to show the kids today how it's done.
Really hilarious film.......2004-11-14
Ditching their pot smoking image the duo suceeds brilliantly at more conventional humour. Best scene is the sobbing cry sketch the duo have with Rip Torn.
"Wherre Arre Dose Two Guyss?".......2004-08-14
Cheech and Chong are back as the usual miscreants whose motto is nothing less than sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Their present adventure carrying all the same low-brow humor as in their other great comedy films.
Cheech and Chong are now in Detroit working for an Arab sheik and his body guard (also played by Cheech and Chong) who own a car wash named 'The Two Guys From Mecca'. Being involved in rather shady business, the sheik gives Cheech and Chong a job driving a limousine to Las Vegas as a drive-away with $10,000 stashed in one of the seats. Broke and having no knowledge of the hidden money, the comic pair soon has to come up with clever ways of paying their way to Sin City. The audience follows Cheech and Chong in their wild trek to Las Vegas while they're being chased by their two angry employers: how will they get out of this pickle?
Another great adventure with the two miscreants of comedy. This film is just as great as their other films such as 'Up In Smoke' and 'Nice Dreams'. Don't miss it!
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- "Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation"
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Customer Reviews:
"Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation".......2007-02-06
Very chilling and atmospheric horror sequel to the "Unamable". Good story with good acting guaranteed to provide scares. If you like gothic horror you won't be disappointed.
Don't watch this alone!
John
Great sequel.......2006-12-29
Well, it was much better than the original, but literally had nothing to do with "The Last Statement of Randolf Carter', which it claimed to be.
Nonetheless, it was a Lovecraft based film, so therefore I HAD TO watch it Nor was I disapointed. It had the excellent acting of John Rys-Davies (you know, the axe-slinging dwarf in the Lord of the Rings Movies), and the gorgeous Maria Ford (naked scene), and even Julie Strain! So, we have nudity, the Necronomicon, pretty good acting (for the most part), and demons?!?!? COOL!
Add it to your collections, HPL fans!
Go on.
Do it!
Two cloven hooves up!
Awesome Sequal..........2006-04-24
This sequal was OUTSTANDING!!!!It follows thru from the 1st movie & even explains how the creature became the creature...Most sequal's are dumb & boring, however, this one is one of the great follow-ups...The ending is kind of sad, however, the entire movie will keep you on your toes through out...A MUST have for any horror fan...
A Decent Sequel.......2005-02-18
The first Unnamable movie is pretty generic, but so are a lot of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. These generic horror stories became the cornerstone of modern horror. The horror film genre as a whole is cheesey, with direct to video guilty pleasures doing it for me. Mainstream horror released in American theaters are watered down for mass audiences. The remakes of both Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were horrible, boring blasphemes that made both Lucio Fulci and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels seem good. Where were these newer fans when I was watching R rated horror in my teensage years? That being said, this is a movie best appreciated by the real fans, not critics or millenium generation wannabes. I prefer the first Unnamable movie, but I also like it's sequel.
Actually zero stars.......2005-02-11
John Rys Davies fans be advised: Mr. Davies puts in his initial appearance at Minute 16 (of 104) and departs the scene permanently at Minute 47, his brief 31-minute interlude hardly representing his most scintillating performance, being embedded in a swamp of idiot dialog, idiot acting, and idiot special effects. This flick is a sequel to another of the same name not seen by this reviewer. Its events start right where the previous flick chopped off. Missing that original is of no consequence.
That any film such as this one could claim to be a specific representation of Lovecraft's work is preposterous: Aside from the absurdity of the "plot," to make such claim, such a film would have to be structured like a travelogue WITH NO DIALOG. All "science" would have to be at least 100 years out-of-date. A narrator would be constantly voicing-over every scene in a script typically dealing with the so-called "Cthulhu Mythos," a Lovecraft construct featuring various inimical "elder god" supernatural entities, really nasty beings from ancient times predating modern civilization (and even geologic time), totally inimical and always plotting all manner of nasty and icky stuff for us humans from nothing more than sheer cussedness, and (of course) always on the brink of a comeback to world domination.
This reviewer tried (again) to read Lovecraft's 40,000-word novella "At the Mountains of Madness" (hereafter ATMOM) as a refresher for this review, and had to abandon it halfway through, confirming yet again that Lovecraft is fundamentally unreadable today, or (this reviewer contends) at any time in the past. Imagine page after interminable page of ponderously and turgidly boring, dialog-less narrative (the guy seemed incapable of writing even the crudest dialog), describing in copious detail and with all seriousness matters which would be so scientifically implausible today that it would be laughable to propose such be taken seriously: like ascribing credibility to modern air travel with airplanes that fly by flapping their wings; or with Venus being a jungle planet filled with earth-like swamps and nasty critters; or with the moon harboring a major civilization; or with atoms being miniature solar systems whose orbiting electrons are worlds visit-able by "shrink-science"; or a counter-earth planet unknown to science because it is always exactly on the opposite side of the sun. Could you seriously enjoy such a narrative today WHEREIN EVERYTHING HINGES ON THE VIABILITY OF SUCH A CLAIM? In ATMOM, Lovecraft's "geology," presented in all seriousness (though with deliberate fake additives), is about 100 or more years out of date, even for a work of speculative fiction. There is no way a mountain range of the type he surmises could be even speculated to exist. (Perhaps a hundred or more years ago before the advent of orbital photography such, while improbable, could have been speculatively imagined (rather like Doyle's "Lost World.")
For anyone to claim that Lovecraft had a major and meaningful influence on the work of other writers in this genre could only mean that his writings demonstrated every possible writing flaw known to man. Skip this turkey and avoid anything that claims to be based on Lovecraft.
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- Outlaw Justice
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- Travis is a great actor
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Release Date: 2003-05-20 |
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In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast-paced, action-filled western with unforgettable performances by an all-star cast: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Travis Tritt and Waylon Jennings. All hell breaks loose in this riveting story when a group of former outlaws with bad attitudes teams up to catch a killer with murder and revenge on his mind. After Tobey (Jennings), a retired member of the group, is brutally gunned down by former member and killer, Clinton Reese, our band of reformed gunslingers, Lee (Nelson), Tarence (Kristofferson) and Dalton (Tritt), sets out on Clinton's trail. They are joined by Tobey's reluctant young son Bryce. Following the trail of the killer, our heroes are lured across the border straight into Clinton's ambush. Clinton, aided by the Mexican army, squares off against our band of heroes. The action explodes as the ultimate sacrifice must be paid for justice...outlaw style!
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Outlaw Justice.......2007-01-14
Not a grammy winner but if you like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt and Kris Kristofferson, you will like this movie. It is entertaining. A really enjoyable DVD with some great one liners.
a cast of singers, but only a couple of songs.......2004-06-02
Rated R: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Lionsgate/Fox
Video Release Date: May 20, 2003
Cast:
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Waylon Jennings
Travis Tritt
Chad Willet
Jonathan Banks
Sancho Gracia as Holden (the bad guy)
A bunch of former outlaws (Willie, Kris, Tritt) are bent on revenge when one of their former "business associates" (Jennings)
is murdered by another outlaw, Holden (Sancho Gracia). They extract their own version of justice when Holden lures them below the border, with hopes of causing their deaths.
I don't know why the "R" rating. The violence was almost non-existent, no bad language, and no nudity or anything you would be ashamed for your mother or children to see.
Only Tritt and Willie sang in the film, and the motivation of Holden was ill-defined. Altogether a poorly motivated plot, with the cast providing the backbone of the film. They did their parts well, making it an adequate Western to watch and kill some time, thanks to them. Not a great film, or particularlt memorable.
I am always impressed by Kris and Willie when they team up. Kris is good at "looking menacing," and Willie is entertaining.
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A self-entertaining with too much money to throw away?.......2003-01-11
Loose script with holes as big as the Black Hole. At certain clippings, there were potentials to evolve into a good movie but always fell short. I could clearly see that none of the actors had put heart into this movie but just acting by wearing cool dark or black gears. Son of Tolby didn't know how to handle a six shooter but suddenly became a fast-draw gunfighter and shot to kill the tough gunslinger without even had to aim. The loud mouthed tough outlaw with fast draw was beaten by the young man due to ending was coming and had to die. Nelson and Chris just cash in for their cool images. There was no storyline whatever I could see, just contrite and joking around performance. The country singer sang a pretty good song but acting poorly with good western Texan accent. What's the deal between the Mexican officer and that look-tough-but-got-nothing-to-cash-in when the chips were down? Don't treat a viewer like me as a pea brain or even brain dead, OK? The script was obviously a die-trying by a high school drop out. What impressed me most is the snorings of these two old hombres. That's the only thing I could remember and visualized for this pathetic movie.
Travis is a great actor.......2002-10-21
Hi my name is Barbara and I'm from Canada and I think Travis is a great actor, just by the way he talks in his interviews tells you, what ever you buy of Travis you'll never go wrong. Thanks
Bill Corcoran's Outlaw Justice.......2002-05-27
Waylon Jennings, looking like Joe Spinell, is killed off in the first scene of this half baked western. He is the lucky one. His son, Chad Willett, decides to take revenge on Jennings' killer, a former member of Jennings' outlaw gang. Willett is joined by two other former outlaw gang members Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, making like Abbott and Costello, and they ride after the bland villain, taking poor Travis Tritt (a third gang member).
Nelson and Kristofferson do the same old TV western movie routine they have been doing for years- flat delivery, down home humorous bickering, and goofy grins. Tritt tries what he can, relying on all the acting chops he earned in his music videos. He has onscreen charisma, it would be interesting to see what a professional director might mold with him. Willett, probably the only real actor here, is okay. After getting killed, Jennings does what he does best- voiceover, as his son reads his diary.
The Unmagnificent Four get involved in little unthreatening scrapes here and there on their way to meet the villain. They are held up, but get their stuff back with the help of some friendly Native Americans they helped save. Willett finds romance, because if you are young and cute in a western, you must fall in love. Of course, that philosophy does not explain how Nelson manages to do the same thing. He falls for a local senorita in a town where the villain burned down the church. These happy outlaws help rebuild the church in one of those saccharine scenes that must be seen to be believed. The actual climactic shootout is dull, thanks to some really bland direction. At one point, Willett has a perfect opportunity to finish the villain off, thereby sparing Mexico and the audience from further torture, but he does not! The added "mystery" about the true identity of Willett's real father is never resolved, either!
This is just dumb entertainment for people who find "F Troop" too deep. I am warning you now, Nelson has a bathtub scene. No nudity, but proceed with caution. "Outlaw Justice" is an injustice.
This (R) rated "unedited director's cut" looks no different that a regular TV movie. It contains physical violence, gun violence, and mild gore.
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The Kinsey Sicks: I Wanna Be A Republican
Starring: Ben Schatz; Irwin Keller; Chris Dilley; Jeff Manabat
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Release Date: 2007-06-12 |
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It's more than a movie, it's a Grand Ol' Party!
In their first live concert film, The Kinsey Sicks - America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet - reveal the shocking news: they have gone Republican. In this mock GOP fundraiser, Rachel, Winnie, Trixie and Trampolina, the four gifted singers and comedians who comprise the quartet, defend their conversion to conservatism.
They sing - literally! - the praises of corruption, tokenism, greed and all things nuclear (both families and bombs).
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"DRAGAPELLA".......2007-06-27
"The Kinsey Sicks: I Wanna Be a Republican"
Dragapella
For those of you who do not recognize the word "dragapella", it is quite easy to explain. It is a capella music sung in drag. Don't feel uneducated--I had no idea of what it was until 2001 when someone told me about a group called "The Kinsey Sicks" and I have been a fan ever since. The Kinsey Sicks are Ben Schatz (Rachel), Irwin Keller (Winnie), Chris Dilley (Trampolina) and Jeff Manabat (Trixie) and they are fabulous. Dressed in cocktail dresses complete with white gloves and bouffant wigs, they perform singing parodies of songs we all know. The lyrics are irreverent as are the "girls". "We Arm the World" is just wonderful; the voices are just unbelievable and the harmonies are just incredible. They exchange barbs and puns, involve the audience and keep you laughing until you cry. They are blunt as they look at and sing about the hypocrisy of the world.
The movie starts with convention music and we watch the "girls" putting on their make-up. When they come on stage the audience cheers and each of the group tells how "she" became a Republican. Then audience harassment begins and so does the fun. The songs are popular melodies with the lyrics changed and we soon see that this film is not for the politically correct. It is very, very funny, Instead of "We Shall Overcome", we get "Gays Should Never Come" which shows how Republicans are against gay marriage. Their tribute to racism "All the right places have white faces and all the white faces are in the right places" and while you may not agree with the politics they "expound", you cannot help but enjoy the satire. The show closes with a parody of "We are the World" which is retitled to "We Arm the World" which is funny and shocking at the same time. Irreverent as the show is, it is hilarious. The satire sizzles and the dialog between the songs is trashy (and oh so wonderful). The entire program has you laughing wildly. The girls are as lewd as it gets and they challenge Divine as the world's filthiest. The envelope is pushed to the edge and taste and tolerance are totally lacking--while some audience members seem to be shaken and shocked, others are holding themselves from laughing so hard.
What makes The Kinsey Sicks so great? I think it is the way they use their drag personas. They look like Baptist ladies in their church going clothes and bouffant hairdos.
As a film, the movie succeeds because of the adroit camera work which spotlights the fun both onstage and off. It is a film for those who care not to care or who care too much and can laugh. The parodies and satire are just amazing. They lampoon the Bush presidency but also poke fun at everything sacred. Nothing is left untouched and these drag queens have a great time---as do we.
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ASIN: B0007Y08MO
Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
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Alfred Kinsey was a little-known biologist when, in the 1940s, he began compiling data from thousands of interviews about the sexual practices of men and women. The results of that research were the explosive "Kinsey Reports." Through interviews with his research assistants, his children, his biographers, and historians, this documentary assesses Kinsey's achievements, while examining how his personal life shaped his career.
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A true pioneer.......2007-04-02
Though there are a few things left out in this 90-minute film (such as Dr. Kinsey's relationship with his children), most of the important aspects of his life and work are presented in an in-depth, informative, and interesting way. One can't underestimate the importance Dr. Kinsey had on the 20th century. Before he published his two ground-breaking reports on sexual behavior in the human male and the human female, society was incredibly sexually repressive and ignorant. The things he taught about in his class on marriage, human sexuality, and birth control in 1938 and 1939 at Indiana University seem rather tame and normal today, but back then it was a scandal when word got out just what he was teaching his students, particularly because he said that the only abnormal sexual behaviors were abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.
The neo-Puritans of today who wax nostalgic for a past that never really was clearly have no idea just what it was really like back then. Back when Dr. Kinsey and his associates were conducting their interviews and doing their research for the reports, the only form of sex that was considered normal and moral was between a man and a woman within marriage (and then only intercourse, not any other varieties of sex). Things such as oral sex, masturbation, and homosexuality were criminalised and considered deranged instead of perfectly normal natural sexual expressions. A lot of people (particularly women) who were brought up sheltered from any knowledge of sex or told that it was dirty and sinful had no idea what to do once they were married and finally allowed to do it, as though they were suddenly supposed to turn into skilled receptive partners who knew exactly what they were doing and what they liked. Dr. Kinsey himself couldn't even consummate his own marriage for several months, not until his wife had a corrective surgery. People viewed sexuality in terms of morality and immorality instead of science or one's own personal convictions, and placed so many strict limits on what was and wasn't considered to be acceptable, basically dictating to everyone how to behave in the privacy of their own homes based on an arbitrary sense of morality. And when the report on the human male came out in 1947, the public for the first time discovered that a lot of men visited prostitutes, had had affairs, regularly masturbated, dreamt about sex, had had gay experiences, and had had premarital sex. The 1953 report on the human female caused a huge backlash, however, because people didn't want to be confronted with the proof that women were actually sexual beings instead of angelic wives and mothers who had no sexual desires and didn't even like sex. Unfortunately, Dr. Kinsey didn't live long enough to see all of the liberation movements of the Sixties and Seventies, when his work would be fully validated and society would finally snap out of its Puritanical repression.
The film also explores some of the controversies in his work, such as some of his rather unorthodox methods (like taping his associates having sex with one another), how he used data from the journal of a pedophile as standard information about sexual responses and behavior of young boys, and how he tended to interview people who were white, outside of the mainstream, and college students, instead of getting a more broad sampling of the entire population, even if some of those people would have given less earth-shattering responses to the survey. It also explores how he viewed human sexuality and his research as a science, a part of nature, and for that reason didn't feel the need to impose any moral limitations on it, such as saying that pedophilia is wrong or that sex is about love, not just biological urges, and that having affairs with one's associates just to further the research might not be the best idea.
Overall, it's a fascinating look into one of the people who had the most impact on the 20th century, helping to bring America out of the Victorian era and into modernity, into an era where morality is a matter of one's conscience, not something arbitrarily dictated to one by a bunch of self-appointed authorities with a very black and white view of the world.
Better than the Hollywood movie.......2006-06-12
I thought this documentary was great, and I considered it a nice supplement or even antidote to the dramatic film. You get to meet and hear from Kinsey's colleagues, and you get more about the science and the lasting cultural impact of the man's work. I noticed the word "bias" in one customer review headline, and I suppose that's because Kinsey comes off so clearly as a hero in this documentary (or did to liberal-scientific me at least). Well, um, could that be because he really was a hero? I wonder how many Western civilisation would have left if we had docu-dramas of the sex lives and marital issues of all of them. The PBS film doesn't ignore the sex and personal dynamics of Kinsey's circle at all, and in fact may dish more dirt than the movie, but people who were there seem today, in the interviews they gave for the documentary, utterly unconflicted and full of admiration, not to mention love, for the man. That had a big effect on me.
Science is Sexy.......2006-03-17
This was a great documentary. It was objective for the most part painting kinsey as neither a hero nor a villain. Too often I find that Kinsey is portrayed as one or the other. He played a large part in revolutionizing sexual research as we know it today but as the documentary showed this came at a price. His statistical methods were questionable as well as some of his methods of research. His level of authority and interactions with his employees were also questionable. He had his own agenda which clearly tampered with his objectivity as a scientist. But at a time when Americans were sexually repressed he was a voice of reason. He preached tolerance and acceptance and made it OK to talk about sex in the open and let it be known that it is normal to be sexual and nothing to be ashamed of. But the documentary also showed how Kinsey put science before everything. Even when it came to his family and making moral judgements at times.
But I felt like the documentary also glossed over a few subjects that could have been explored in deeper detail such as his marriage to Clara and his relationship with his children which was barely mentioned. Also, they never really said what specific masochistic tendencies he indulged in especially after he became depressed. The latter part of his life after the publication of his second volume of work was covered too briefly. I thought what his colleagues had to say on how he didn't include love in the "mechanics" of sex was also interesting and how he seemed to be detached. Ironic how the "father of sex" couldn't make love.....I would recommend the documentary and the movie with Liam Nieson as a complementary package. Whereas the movie portrayed him almost as the hero of sexual research, the documentary goes on to show that there were a few chinks in the knight's armor but without demonizing him.
Unsparing and Informative.......2005-07-26
If you've seen the recent movie ("the filme"), you'll want to check this out.
What I learned was that the film stayed fairly faithful to Kinsey's actual life experiences, with a few key omissions for dramatic purposes:
1. Kinsey's death is not treated in the film as it actually occurred. Actually, the movie pretty much avoids the issue entirely. The dang movie just had to have a happy ending.
2. Kinsey's ethical lapses are not treated objectively in the film. Gaps in his taxonomy and statistical technique are explained in the documentary, warts and all.
3. His wife's devotion to him is underplayed in the movie, as is Kinsey's more extensive personal experiments in sex.
Watch this documentary for a little balance...
Typically unbalanced presentation from PBS.......2005-06-14
Imagine a biographical documentary about the world's most famous sex expert that leaves out the bizarre truth about Albert Kinsey, that he was a homosexual, who often engaged in exotic tryts with his laboratory assistants, who got deeper and deeper into kinky masochistic sex, who circumcised himself without anesthesia--(who would do that except a real sicko?) No, PBS puts Kinsey on a pedestal as the man who freed us from sexual repression, and put us all on the road to sexual happiness. A very slanted propaganda piece, but what do you expect-major funding came from the Ford Foundation and Hugh Hefner.
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The Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy: The Complete Collection, Vol. 8
Starring: Stan Laurel , Oliver Hardy , Edgar Kennedy , Thelma Hill , and Ruby Blaine
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Release Date: 2000-10-17 |
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Mastered from the original 35mm material, this eighth volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes all silent shorts: "Two Tars" (1928, 21 min.), "The Second Hundred Years" (1927, 22 min.), "Slipping Wives" (1926, 23 min.), "From Soup to Nuts" (1928, 22 min.), plus the Stan Laurel solo shorts "Scorching Sands" (1923, 15 min.) and "Should Tall Men Marry?" (1927, 19 min., color tinted).
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Very enjoyable Laurel and Hardy silents.......2007-04-18
The above-average Volume Eight of THE LOST [SILENT] FILMS OF LAUREL AND HARDY has two of the funniest shorts the men ever made, TWO TARS and FROM SOUP TO NUTS (both 1928). In TWO TARS, they play two sailors out for a Sunday drive with two pretty women. They get involved in the greatest and funniest traffic jam in movie history, with everyone tearing apart pieces of everyone else's car. And FROM SOUP TO NUTS has Laurel and Hardy as klutzy waiters for a fancy mansion dinner, with hilarious results. Watch Stan serve lettuce in woolen underwear when told to serve the salad undressed. And watch how many times Ollie can trip, fall face first into a cake, and still make it funny. Both of these incomparable comedies have been mastered from the original nitrate camera negative from Hal Roach Studios.
I wish the other four shorts on Volume Eight were this stupendous; they are enjoyable and at least look great, masterered from 35mm camera negatives and with wonderful Jazz Age scores. In THE SECOND HUNDRED YEARS (1927), Stan and Ollie are convicts who escape from prison masquerading as painters who somehow end up pretending to be high society servants--before their French police hosts want to see the prison the boys have escaped from!
SLIPPED WIVES (also 1927) stars long-forgotten Priscilla Dean as a bored rich woman who hires Stan to make love to her to make her bored husband jealous. Hardy is a butler.
SCORCHING SANDS (1923), the weakest short in this set, is a one reel comedy with Laurel alone doing a parody of French Foreign Legion adventures. It somehow is not as funny for me as it should be. Maybe if I saw it with an audience.
Same with SHOULD TALL MEN MARRY (again 1927). The tinted archive print could not be more beautiful and the music score is wonderful. But the writing is lacking. In his last solo outing without Hardy, Laurel is working on a ranch with Jimmy Finlayson, his daughter Martha Sleeper, and a stubborn mule. Bad guys steal the daughter; Laurel and Finlayson rescue her. The movie is important because from now on every single film Stan made would have him starring as a team with "Babe" Hardy. But it isn't a very good movie for me. Again, maybe an art theatre audience would make it come alive.
The total running time for this volume is 119 minutes.
A piece of happiness.......2007-01-05
Every piece of those two guys work is only pleasure. I discovered them when I was 5 and now, more than 50 years later, they still make me laugh like a child.
Silent Classics From Stan and Ollie.......2006-05-19
A trio of classic Laurel and Hardy two-reelers highlight Volume 8 in "The Lost Films" series. "Two Tars" (1928), "The Second Hundred Years" (1927) and "From Soup to Nuts" (1928) remain masterpieces of comic invention and timing. The 35mm prints are very good, but the public-domain musical accompaniment becomes terribly repetitive. The remaining shorts in this collection -- the embryonic "Slipping Wives" (1926) and two Laurel solo efforts, "Scorching Sands" (1923) and "Should Tall Men Marry?" (1927) -- are worth seeing only from an academic standpoint. Hopefully, this series will be reissued with stronger music tracks while focusing solely on genuine L&H films.
Best in Series.......2005-06-16
This volume is one of the best of the "lost silent films" collection, comprised of three solid performances from 1928 that illustrate the diversity and sophistication of Laurel and Hardy's comic style. Two Tars implements the vintage L&H formula of orchestrated chaos (repeated in Your Darn Tootin, Big Business, and many other films) to perfection. Two Tars has an appealing breeziness that results from the story's premise: the boys are seamen on leave egged on to perform "senseless acts of violence" by two delectable flappers, inflicted on cars stranded in a traffic jam. The wave of destruction builds to a crescendo of twisted metal until the boys are exposed as the perpetrators, and a short chase ends the film.
The Second Hundred Years, by contrast, has a comic formula that explores fertile new ground for the duo's humor. They are prisoners (shaved heads and all) who through their incompetence can't quite adjust to prison routine. They pull off not one but two disguises, one as painters in order to escape prison, the other as French officials inspecting the very prison they have recently escaped from! The best scene is their attempt to convince a suspicious cop that they are real painters by literally "painting the town" -- including cars, street lamps, and a flapper's derriere. The ballet-like grace with which Oliver Hardy, especially, tries unsuccessfully to imitate a professional painter is priceless. Rotund Hardy has clearly learned from Fatty Arbuckle's ability to mine comic moments from being dexterous in spite of his girth. One leaves this film with the sense that the rich comic situations here could have been developed further, and indeed the basic structure of the film was repeated later in Pardon Us (1931) expanded into a feature length film.
From Soup to Nuts is the weakest of the three, but still entertaining, as the boys are hired by a "nouveau riche" family to serve dinner to a collection of distinguished friends. Most of the happenings are funny because of their predictability -- laws of nature dictate that when Hardy carries a large cake to a dining room, he must somehow fall into it, and the laws of nature are confirmed repeatedly here. The film also contains the popular and voluptuous L&H supporting case member Anita Garvin who performs the same gag with an uncooperative cherry that Laurel does in Second Hundred years.
Each volume in the series contains additional short films either by Laurel or Hardy alone, or by other comics in the Hal Roach factory, and this volume is no exception. These films tend to be at best of purely of historical interest to L&H fans, and at worst, worthless filler. But overall this volume in the series is one of the best.
Contains some of their funniest.......2005-03-26
This disc showcases some of Laurel and Hardy's funniest and best silent shorts, and I also found there was more variety in the backing music than in some of the other discs in this series. 'From Soup to Nuts' is hands-down the best and funniest one on here, their funniest silent short I've seen so far. Part of what makes their sound shorts so funny is the fact that their voices just totally matched their personalities and physical appearance, adding to already funny situations, but in 'From Soup to Nuts' the gags and situations are so hilarious they don't even need speech to add to the hilarity. 'Two Tars' and 'The Second Hundred Years' are also hilarious and classic, very strong material. The fourth L&H short on here, 'Slipping Wives,' features them together but not really a proper team, though they have more interaction here than in some of their other shorts where they appeared together before being officially teamed. That one is also very strong and funny. Of the two Stan solo shorts featured, 'Under Two Jags' (which admittedly might be a mislabeling of a different film, 'Scorching Sands') is the stronger and funnier, despite the fact that there's not a single intertitle besides the introductory one. In my opinion the weakest one is Stan's final solo short, 'Should Tall Men Marry?' It's well-written and well-acted enough, but just not as interesting, funny, or solid as the other five.
DVD:
- Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
- Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion
- Straight From the Heart
- Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
- Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
- The Razor's Edge
- Elizabeth R
- Chinatown
- The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection
- Blow (Infinifilm Edition)
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Ultimate Poker Babes
George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo
Passion Of Anna [1969]
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F1 Legends Of The 1960s - Vol. 1 - 1960-1962
