Green Dragon

Starring:Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker, Don Duong, Hiep Thi Le, Billinjer C. Tran, Kathleen Luong, Phuoc Quan Nguyen, Long Nguyen, Catherine Ai, Phu Cuong, Kieu Chinh, Trung Nguyen, Jennifer Tran, Linda Tran, Tuan Tran, Le Van Tuoi, Joe Ho, Elyse Dinh, Michael Minh, Victor Thang Do
Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Katharine Hepburn fans--and let's face it, who isn't one?--will be delighted by The Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection. It showcases juicy, sometimes overlooked roles played by the winsome Hepburn both early and later in her career. The set includes 1933's Morning Glory, for which Hepburn won her first Best Actress Oscar, playing a determined young actress who just knows she's going to make a splash on the stage, and not fade like, well, a morning glory. The early screwball-era tempo is infectious, and young Kate, though insecure and--Lord help us all--skinny, beats the odds as she forges ahead in her career. Her rapid-fire delivery rivals that in another underrated Hepburn classic, Desk Set. Up next is Undercurrent, a gripping film noir that's slow in starting, but gets under the viewer's skin. Hepburn plays against type as an Ashley Judd-style gal-in-peril (or is she?), with a menacing husband (Robert Taylor) and a brother-in-law (Robert Mitchum) whom she may not be able to trust.

Sylvia Scarlett is a George Cukor-directed gem costarring Cary Grant, though Hepburn and Grant are most decidedly not in wacky Bringing Up Baby mode. The film wasn't well received when it was released in 1935, but it's a revelation now, for its daring homosexual subtexts--quite apparent to the modern viewer--and for Grant's against-type dark persona. Without Love, from 1945, is one of the first films to team Hepburn with Spencer Tracy, and yes, their onscreen chemistry is palpable. The conceit is one they would go on to use successfully time and again--plucky single woman resigned to living solo; rumpled, affable, slightly clueless bachelor who only needs to be shown just how much in love with our heroine he is. The supporting cast includes a terrifically cast Lucille Ball and Gloria Grahame.

Dragon Seed (1944) is an honorable misfire, an earnest period drama about the Japanese invasion of China. Through 21st-century eyes, Hepburn's impersonation of an Asian woman isn't great casting, and yet, Hepburn's honest, clear-eyed portrayal saves it from caricature. The Corn Is Green, a TV film from 1979, is an excellent counterbalance to all the brash, dewy-eyed roles in the rest of the set. Hepburn reteams with director Cukor for what is both a showcase for the diva's mighty talent, and yet also a completely even-handed ensemble piece, about a teacher's dedication in a small Welsh village.

Extras are plentiful on this already-packed disc, and include public-service and other shorts compiled by Warner Bros. that provide a window into mid-20th-century life. The short "Traffic with the Devil" (from the MGM Theatre of Life series) showcases the musings of a traffic cop, the real life Sgt. Chuck Reineke, who helps clueless, hapless drivers over what appear to be the wide-open spaces of L.A. highways. As a window to the truly more innocent times in Hollywood, the shorts are priceless. --A.T. Hurley

Studio description

Includes: Morning Glory (1933), Undercurrent (1946), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Without Love (1945), Dragon Seed (1944), The Corn Is Green (1979).

Customer Reviews:

What a Pleasure!.......2007-07-03

What a pleasure to watch Kate! After buying this collection, I recently spent a day off from work with Katherine Hepburn (one from the 30's- "Slyvia Scarlett," one from the 40's- "Undercurrent" and one from the 50's- "The Rainmaker,"--not in this set.) She was fascinating in each of those decades.

Something must be said about "Dragonseed." I loved this film when I saw it as a teenager on TV years ago and have been waiting for it to come available on DVD. Much will be said about non-Chinese actors playing Chinese with the funny-looking make-up, etc. Points well made. But also points to be forgiven. If the viewer can get over these things (with this one and with "The Good Earth") and get into the characters and stories, this is wonderful story-telling and these are worthwhile stories to be told, both as the Pear S. Buck novels and as the MGM films, Caucasian actors notwithstanding.

I would collect "The Good Earth," "Dragonseed," and "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness," to get a sense of pre-WW2 China and the Japanese invasion.

An odd mix of films, with some great moments.......2007-06-18

2007 is the centenary of quite a few who touched the movies one way or another:
the poet W.H. Auden, novelists Robert A. Heinlein and Daphne Du Maurier, singers Gene Autry, Kate Smith, and Connee Boswell, bandleader Cab Calloway, film score composer Miklós Rózsa, director Fred Zinnemann, and the actors Dan Duryea, Cesar Romero, Buster Crabbe, Laurence Olivier, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Fay Wray, Burgess Meredith - and one Katharine Houghton Hepburn of Connecticut.

We have already seen tributes to Wayne, and no doubt Olivier and Stanwyck will also be acknowledged. In honor of Miss Hepburn, Warner has issued a rather odd and quite endearing six-disc boxed set of films not previously available on DVD. They range widely in both chronology and quality, and few would put these particular films at the very top of the Hepburn canon, even the one that won her her first Oscar. But as I watched this motley group of films - two from RKO in the 1930s, three from MGM in the 1940s, and one TV film from the late 1970s, I was reminded what a treasure she was and is. Even in the midst of misguided melodramas and not-quite-good-enough romantic comedies, she gives unique, memorable performances. In two cases, her acting may in fact be memorably off-key rather than memorably wonderful, but she makes all these worth seeing.

Morning Glory (1933) won Hepburn an Academy Award. She's excellent as a stage-struck young woman who is trying to make it as a Broadway actress. Her eccentric, fascinating performance can even be seen as a stylized self-portrait. The film itself, directed by Lowell Sherman, is dated in fascinating ways: the stilted storytelling, the 1920s/1930s view of Broadway as the ultimate place to become a dramatic star, the sexual mores. Although it's presented rather obliquely, the parts of the plot involving Hepburn ending up in bed with big producer Adolphe Menjou, falling instantly in love with him and being just as summarily dumped, may leave your jaw dropping both at the "adult" subject matter and the attitudes of another era. Of course, Hepburn eventually understudies for a star-making part, and gets her chance to shine. The bittersweet last scene is both wonderful and a bit ridiculous; this isn't just from an earlier time - it seems to be from another planet.

Without Love (1945) is often described as the worst of the pictures Hepburn made with Spencer Tracy. It's no classic, but if you set your expectations accordingly, it's very entertaining. Defense industry scientist Tracy and well-to-do young widow Hepburn decide to enter into a marriage "without love," based on mutual respect rather than, well, sex. This being Hollywood, you can guess how long that lasts (about ten minutes less than the running time). Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn have amusing supporting roles - it's fun to see Ball playing a sexy sophisticate, leagues away from Lucy Ricardo. The competent but uninspired direction is by Harold S. Bucquet. His name was up until now unknown to me, but he co-directed another film in this very DVD set (see below), after doing mostly Dr. Kildare series movies before that. And although this is based on a play by Philip Barry, in which Hepburn starred on Broadway in 1942, it is a much less satisfying piece than Holiday or The Philadelphia Story, two earlier Barry-Hepburn collaborations. But she's very charming and perfectly cast.

Dragon Seed (1944) is the oddest of these six movies. It features a largely Caucasian cast playing poor Chinese farmers during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s. It's just about impossible for a 21st-century audience not to respond with appalled laughter at what seems now like a stunt. But the script, based on a Pearl S. Buck novel, is nothing if not sincere, and it has its effective moments. Still, seeing the inconsistent and almost entirely unconvincing ways the Hollywood makeup artists try to make Hepburn, Walter Huston, Agnes Moorehead and others look like Asians - well, this is entertainment in itself, after a fashion. But only for half an hour or so, and the film runs a stultifying 148 minutes. It was lavishly produced by MGM. The co-directors were Bucquet (of Without Love) and Jack Conway. Hepburn manages to project some real feeling through the silly makeup and the platitudinous dialogue.

Hepburn gives the nearest thing to a poor performance (in this set, I mean) in Vincente Minnelli's noirish melodrama Undercurrent (1946). Married to yet another war-era defense scientist (Robert Taylor), this one with a mysterious past, she's supposed to be meek and scared, and as we all know, that just ain't Hepburn. But the glossy production, along with Minnelli's gift for décor and movement, keep this one interesting, even, or especially, when it's ridiculous. Robert Mitchum plays a supporting role that many have called inappropriate for him, but I think he's just fine, as is Edmund Gwenn as Hepburn's father (he turns up again in this set, too).

Although it's flawed, George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett (1936) is probably the best movie in the set. It features a fierce, sexy, and delightful performance by Cary Grant as a Cockney con man - a role quite different from most of his starring parts. Hepburn is on the run from the French police with her gambler father (Gwenn again), and to put them off the trail she cuts her hair and dresses as a boy - Sylvia becomes Sylvester. This leads to some startling and very entertaining scenes with a bit of bisexual innuendo: a woman kisses and tries to seduce "Sylvester," and both Grant and Brian Aherne find themselves strangely attracted to this young man. At one point, Grant and Sylvester are set to bunk together in close quarters. "It's a nippy night out," says Grant, "and you'll make a nice little hot water bottle." Sylvester flees in fright, even though Sylvia of course has a crush on Grant. The Grant and Aherne characters are both visibly relieved when Sylvester transforms back into Sylvia, but the audience may feel a letdown: Sylvester is a captivating, unusual presence, while Sylvia tends to mewl and whine too much. The later twists and turns in the comic-melodramatic plot are far from convincing, but it's all stylish and fun nonetheless.

I considered cheating a bit on this review and skipping the 1979 The Corn Is Green, also directed by Cukor. But although it is formulaic, it hooked me right away and I enjoyed it right through to the happy-teary climax. The story is a familiar one, a la Pygmalion and To Sir With Love, an 1890s period piece about a teacher, done up in the Hallmark Hall of Fame manner, and Hepburn is probably 25 years older than the part as written. (Bette Davis, born a year later than Hepburn, played this same role in a 1945 film when she was about 36; Hepburn was about 71! Still, Ethel Barrymore was over 60 when she played the part on Broadway in 1940.) There is beautiful Welsh scenery and a fine cast, and Cukor guides it home like the old pro he was by 1979.

Produced under the auspices of Turner Classic Movies, the discs all offer splendid picture and sound quality, and all include short subjects from their era, such as a Tex Avery "Wolf" cartoon and a fabulous Technicolor travelogue of Los Angeles in the forties. Maybe you only want to see the pedigreed Katharine Hepburn classics like Little Women and Adam's Rib and Summertime; if so, only Morning Glory and Sylvia Scarlett come close to that grade here. But the other, less familiar movies offer aspects of Hepburn you may not see elsewhere, and their Hollywood craftsmanship, as wrapped by Warner and Turner Classics in nice shiny packages, provides several hours of great entertainment.

KATHERINE HEPBURN 100TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION.......2007-06-02

For once, WB have chosen not to detail the extra features on this set....and it's probably because they're underwhelming. Here's the lowdown:

MORNING GLORY(RKO, 1933)
-Menu(1933 MGM short), Pete Smith, 2 strip Technicolor
-Bosko's Mechanical Man(1933 WB cartoon)

WITHOUT LOVE(MGM, 1945)
-Purity Squad(1945 Crime Does Not Pay short)
-Swing Shift Cinderella(1945 MGM Tex Avery cartoon)
-Trailer

SYLVIA SCARLET(RKO, 1935)
-Los Angeles: Wonder City Of The West(1935 Traveltalk short)
-Alias St. Nick(1935 Happy Harmonies cartoon)

UNDERCURRENT(MGM, 1946)
-Traffic With The Devil(1946 MGM Theatre Of Life short)
-Lonesome Lenny(1945 MGM Tex Avery cartoon)
-Trailer

DRAGON SEED(MGM, 1944)
-20 Years After(1944 MGM Romance Of Celluloid short)
-Happy Go Nutty(1945 MGM Screwy The Squirrel cartoon)
-Trailer

THE CORN IS GREEN(1978, TV movie, matted 1.85:1)
-No Extras

As with other recent WB sets, the selection of films here does not represent the "best of" Katherine Hepburn. Since many of her better films have already seen DVD release, the WB classics folks had to choose from "the best of what's left!" Like any backseat driver, I would have made other selections than they did.

What we get is a lesser known Tracy/Hepburn vehicle(WITHOUT LOVE), a landmark early Hepburn performance(MORNING GLORY), a clever comedy(SYLVIA SCARLET), a horribly miscast and botched epic(DRAGON SEED), a lukewarm suspenser(UNDERCURRENT), and one of her last great roles(CORN IS GREEN).

The sources look pretty good overall. As usual, the MGM transfers are the best, with the RKO transfers from existing materials of varying quality. SCARLET looks pretty good, MORNING GLORY has white botches all over the picture and a soft, dupey quality.

I have to pick another bone with WB over the packaging. I've gotten used to the keepcases or slimcases featuring original poster art. In a departure from the normal, this thing is presented in a digipack(discs stacked 2x2 on three panels) with a clear plastic cover (like that seen on the WB/BBC new DR. WHO series). The individual discs also do not feature poster art...mostly black with pink lettering! Pink!?! I doubt Kate would have approved! Hopefully, this is a one-off and WB will return to original poster art covers for subsequent classics releases.

Anyway, given any negative statements, it's a pretty good set overall.

FINALLY.......2007-03-09

Thank God Warner Bros is on the ball with Katharine Hepburn!

She deserves this and so do her fans.

"Sylvia Scarlett"- panned in 1936 when RKO released it, this gem directed by George Cuckor with Hepburn and Cary Grant about con artists and sexual ambiguity was scandalous at its time, and although the plot is thin in certain parts, as a whole today it's a great movie. Hepburn looks great dressed as "Sylvestor."

"Without Love" - one of the lesser known pairings of Hepburn and Tracy, but still a gem about a loveless marriage of convienance. Lucille Ball plays Hepburn's best friend/realtor.

"Undercurrent" - beautiful cinematography, yet Hepburn never struck me as the "victim." Robert Taylor and Robert Mitchum costar with her in a story about a newly married couple, and Hepburn's worries over her husband's mysterious past and mysterious brother.

"Morning Glory" - "My name is Eva Lovelace, my stage name, you've probably never heard of me because I'm just starting." - Hepburn won her first Oscar for Best Actress as a stagestruck girl destined to get into the theatre. There's supposedly a cut scene between her and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. where they perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, and I wish they would include it on the extra features, but I don't think they will for some reason. Adolphe Menjou co-stars as well.

"Dragon Seed" - this is probably the only one of the bunch that I wish they'd left out. At the time it was critically acclaimed (it was 1944), yet by today's standards having American actors portraying Chinese peasants is ludicrous. The movie isn't horrible; however, I don't see why they couldn't have actually used Chinese actors, but blame the Studio System of the 1940's and racial intolerance for that. Hepburn however does portray and independent, freedom fighter peasant woman, and that is the only admirable thing I can think about this movie based on Pearl Buck's novel.

Finally Katie gets one of her own!.......2007-02-27

Not a moment too soon, the Katharine Hepburn Signature Collection finally arrives on DVD. A brief description of the titles:

Morning Glory (1933)
Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom or the "casting couch"? Will she fade after the brief blooming of a "morning glory"?

Undercurrent (1946)
Young bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who, to avoid detection, "disguises" herself as a boy, "Sylvester." They are joined by amiable con man Jimmy Monkley, then, after a brief career in crime, meet Maudie Tilt, a giddy, sexy Cockney housemaid who joins them in the new venture of entertaining at resort towns from a caravan. Through all this, amazingly no one recognizes that Sylvia is not a boy...until she meets handsome artist Michael Fane, and drama intrudes on the comedy.

Without Love (1945)
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}

In WWII Pat Jamieson is a scientist working, without backing, on a high-altitude oxygen mask for fighter pilots. But he has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love (and neither does Pat) but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes this quirky scientist and his dog, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead of honeymooning. But as the footing of their relationship begins warm up, Jamie is courted by another man and the old flame that broke Pat's heart is back in his life. It will take a sleepwalking ruse, dodging in and out of doors, and a working oxygen mask to get them together again.

Dragon Seed (1944)
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. And heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.

The Corn is Green (1979 TV version)
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.

Let's hope they do a 'Warner Night at the Movies' section for this release :o)

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One of the old classics
ANOTHER HARRYHAUSEN CLASSIC
Jason, Hercules. . . and his argonauts
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST TOLD VERSION OF THIS STORY !

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ASIN: 0767810864
Release Date: 1998-07-14

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Arguably the most intelligently written film to feature the masterful stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, Jason and the Argonauts is a colorful adventure that takes full advantage of Harryhausen's "Dynarama" process. Inspired by the Greek myth, the story begins when the fearless explorer Jason (Todd Armstrong) returns to the kingdom of Thessaly to make his rightful claim to the throne, but the gods proclaim that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. Consulting Hera, the queen of gods, Jason recruits the brave Argonauts to crew his ship, and they embark on their eventful journey. Along the way they encounter a variety of mythic creatures, including the 100-foot bronze god Talos, the batlike Harpies, the seven-headed reptilian Hydra, and an army of skeletons wielding sword and shield. This last sequence remains one of the finest that Harryhausen ever created, and it's still as thrilling as anything from the age of digital special effects. Harryhausen was the true auteur of his fantasy films, and his brilliant animation evokes a timeless sense of wonder. Jason and the Argonauts is a prime showcase for Harryhausen's talent--a wondrous product of pure imagination and filmmaking ingenuity. The DVD contains an informative interview with Harryhausen by filmmaker John Landis. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Times change.......2007-06-26

This was far and away one of my favorite childhood movies. So I got this DVD with the highest hopes that my kids (ages 8 and 6) would enjoy it as much as I did. Overall they found the story entertaining but they were utterly unimpressed by these same special effects which are so memorable to most of us. The skeleton battle scene was the notable exception but its' anticlimactic end left them wondering: "That's it?". The bottom line is my kids have not asked to see it again.

Sadly, I actually can see their point. Technology has come too far. Watching this movie now reminded me of when I was a kid watching movies from the 30's (e.g. King Kong, Flash Gordon) and thinking then how crude those special effects seemed. Since special effects were the main reason (acting or dialogue certainly aren't) for watching "Jason and the Argonauts", this movie has lost its' allure for me too.

One of the old classics.......2007-03-11

There is no way you can go wrong with this movie.....highly entertaining.

ANOTHER HARRYHAUSEN CLASSIC.......2007-03-08

This is another fine example of the incredible body of work the Master Ray Harryhausen has to offer. The dreaded 7 headed hydra and the famous 7 skeleton sword fight are two of the many highlights in this film. The DVD transfer could have been better, but there are some nice extras.

Jason, Hercules. . . and his argonauts.......2007-02-17

Not only does this one have rollicking special effects by the master Harryhausen, but it is quite intelligent in delivery. The negotiations between the gods of Mt. Olympus, Jason and his people leave you wondering if real life actually works that way. Are the gods that watch over us, playing us like pawns? Who knows, but Jason, who arrives personally to Mt. Olympus and discusses his longing to find the "golden fleece", then finds the paths that the gods bestow to the ends of the earth.
Wonderful movie, fine cast, believable effects, and astounding score by Bernard Herrmann, the John Williams of his day.

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST TOLD VERSION OF THIS STORY !.......2007-01-25

IF YOU LIKE THIS KIND OF STORY THIS IS THE BEST TOLD VERSION WITH THESE'S ACTOR'S IF THEY HAVE A BETTER ONE OTHER THERE I NEVER SAW IT AND I SEEN LOT'S OF MOVIE'S ! ... P.S. SOME OF THE BEST SCI/FI F/X OF IT'S TIME !

Winx Club, Vol. 2 - The Power of Dragon Fire

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My girls love them!
Winx Club Volume Two: The Power of Dragon Fire
LOVE IT!!!
Winx Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Winx Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winx Club, Vol. 2 - The Power of Dragon Fire
Starring: Liza Jacqueline , Christina Rodriguez (II) , Dan Green (III) , Carol Jacobanis , and Sebastian Arcelus
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Winx Club, Vol. 5 - Battle for Alfea
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ASIN: B000AARKYY
Release Date: 2005-11-15

Description

As Bloom tries to understand why the witches have stolen Stella's solaria ring, a restricted book opens for her and she learns about the myth of the Dragon Fire. If the myth is true, there's a power out there stronger than anything they could ever imagine. Is it in Stella's solaria ring? Is it hidden at Alfea? Or somewhere else? As the witches try to find the Dragon Fire, they get into an epic battle with Bloom and rest of the Winx Club girls. As they're about to destroy Musa, Bloom begins to glow with a strong and powerful light. Could it be? Is the Dragon Fire inside her?

Customer Reviews:

My girls love them!.......2007-01-14

My 9 and 12 year old girls watch these episodes over and over again. It's like "Harry Potter" for girls except it's "good fairies" battling "bad witches". Other than the skimpy costumes the characters wear sometimes, I have nothing bad to say. I've watched a few episodes and they have some good lessons to teach.

Winx Club Volume Two: The Power of Dragon Fire.......2006-07-28

The second volume of Winx Club has six episodes, and each one of them is, as Musa (one of my favorite Winx Club fairies) would say, slammin'! Bloom, Stella, Musa, Tecna, and Flora are five fairies at a magical school called Alfea. (My favorite fairies are Musa and Flora, who have the powers of music and flowers.) Buy this DVD so you can join them and their friends in their many magical adventures! I loved this DVD, and I watched it over and over again many times. It is very helpful because it let me catch up on the early episodes I hadn't seen yet. I'm eleven, and Winx Club is my favorite TV show. I can watch it every Saturday morning at 9:30 on 4Kids TV.

Winx Club Theme Song:

Close your eyes, and open your heart, believe in yourself, that's how it starts! Dreams will come true, just wait and see, 'cause the magic's in you, and the magic's in me! We are the Winx, we are the Winx, come join the club, we are the Winx, we are the Winx, we are the Winx, come join the club, we are the Winx! Magical flowers, digital powers, rhythms and tunes, the sun and the moon! Keep on searching, far and wide, for the fire burning deep inside! We've got the style, and we've got the flair, look all you want, just don't touch the hair! We are the Winx, we are the Winx, come join the club, we are the Winx, we are the Winx, we are the Winx, come join the club, we are the Winx!

LOVE IT!!!.......2006-07-17

Like some other girls i love the winx club. I am 15 years old and i absolutly love it. I watch it every weekend morning and on the internet at foxkids.com. I am just hooked to the show.

Winx Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-02-16

I starting watching Winx Club back in 2004, when i was 14, and i totally fell in love with the show. i then starting it on cartoon network on mondays-sundays. then, when i turned 15 in 2005, it then only came on channel 75, fox tv, they took it off cartoon network when the last episode was over and they started all over and the next day it didn't come back on cartoon network. I record every single Winx Club episode on channel 75 every saturday morning 9:00-10:00. the second one ends at 10:30.every saturday i wake up at 8:00am.
Winx Club Is The Best Tv Show Ever!!!!!
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Come Join The Club!
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p.s.I HAVE THE 2 WINX THEMES MEMORIZED!!!!!
WHICH MEANS I CAN REMEBER THE WORDS!!!

Winx Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-02-16

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Release Date: 2006-05-23

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The Witches ambush Bloom and steal her Dragon Fire power. They use this power to summon the Army of Decay and launch an all out attack on Magix. Now Magix's only hope for survival is Bloom and the Winx Club girls. They are sent to the dangerous world of Sparks on a last-chance quest to find another source of the Dragon Fire...but will it be in time?

Customer Reviews:

Soooo cute.......2006-06-20

I don't own this DVD YET... but i soon will. I've seen it on tv before it stoped play season 1. I'm soo excited to get my DVD. I love all the episodes in this Volume. My fav is when Bloom thinks Princess Diaspro is Icy and fights her and then Bloom finds out that "Brandon" is actually Sky and that Diaspro is his finance. I love this cause I love the whole action and romance combined movies. I soooooo can't wait

oh on.......2006-06-04

i love this film i sat and watched it 5 times and gonna watch it a 6th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love breaks and re-blooms for Bloom.......2006-04-24

I love this DVD so much in the 1st episode: a Princess named Diaspro fights Bloom and then Bloom finds out Brandon and Sky switched identities, then in the 2nd episode Bloom goes to earth and the witches steal her Dragonfire power, then in the 3rd episode The witches seek revenge on Cloudtower and Alfea fights the army of Decay, and in the next 2 episodes the winx club goes two Sparx for the Dragonfire but end up having to fight a Yeti an army of ice crabs,and a great blizzard but all ends fine when Bloom and Stella make up with Sky and Brandon. This DVD is filled with fast action and romance!

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Green Dragon
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ASIN: B00006BS7R
Release Date: 2002-09-10

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A little-known aspect of America's Vietnam War debacle--life in the temporary camps set up in the States for the thousands of refugees who came here after the fall of Saigon in 1975--is the subject of this 113-minute film, released in 2001. Director-cowriter Timothy Linh Bui and his brother, writer-producer Tony Bui, have made a movie that's obviously very sympathetic to its Vietnamese characters; Green Dragon is also apparently quite realistic, and refreshingly lacking in excessive sentimentality. Much of it is in Vietnamese (with English subtitles, of course); indeed, one senses that nominal top-liners Patrick Swayze and the always-reliable Forest Whitaker are on hand more for their star power than for the importance of their roles. In the end, this is a good story that's rather well told. The DVD is packed with extras, including director commentary, deleted scenes, trailers, and a behind-the-scenes documentary. --Sam Graham

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I was 4 years old when this happend........2006-03-30

I was 4years old when this happend. My mother and father and sisters were living in Savannah,Ga. We were from New England and it was like being a fish out of water. We made frends with a husband and wife who escaped from Vietnam. I think my parents were there only frends. They had a good store(Genrel goods store). Werever they are Thank You very much hope you are well.I saw this on tv WOW! very good!3/29/2006.

Provoking and Haunting, but Wonderful.......2005-03-09

Powerful, provoking film full of raw emotions. The story plods along very slowly and what it lacks in plot it more then makes up for in splendid acting and story telling. You will be a better person for having watched it.

This is a new kind of role for Patrick Swayze, who is still a terrible actor, in my opinion... thus 4 stars and not 5. But, he's not dancing with a doctor's daughter, he's not blowing anything up, instead he's a kind-hearted but stern marine sergeant who's been put in charge of a Vietnam refugee camp and finds himself more involved with the lives of the camp members then he ever expected.

We become familiar with a small handful of the refugees and the pain and loneliness they are feeling. Families have been torn apart, loved ones lost, children left orphans, husbands and wives lost forever. But at the same time, we also see the heeling also starting. New relationships begin, new love is found, old wounds heel, and most importantly, the newly arrived refugees begin to understand the potential of life in America and look forward to finding a "sponsor" so they can leave the camp and begin life in a new world.

This is no action packed thriller, or even an academy award winning drama, but it is most certainly a movie that will tell a story you most likely knew nothing about before, and will leave you more open minded, educated, and compassionate. I would recommend watching as a double header, to be followed up with a light-hearted romantic comedy.

I applaud the authenticity of this Vietnamese refugee story.......2005-01-22

This 2001 film is set in 1975, at Camp Pendleton in California. This is where Vietnamese refugees were processed after fleeing the aftermath of the American pullout in Vietnam. The place is crowded, emotions are high, and there are multiple individual stories. Written and directed by the Bui brothers, who came to America as babies in the 1970s and there's an authenticity to the film that goes deeper than the surface tales. 1975 seems a long time gone now, but this film brings it all to life as the refuges live in this shadow world between Vietnam and America for several weeks or months. As background, we hear frequent news broadcasts about the situation in Vietnam and the fall of Saigon. It gave me the shivers.

The basic storyline casts Don Duong as an uncle who has escaped with his small niece and nephew. The children believe that their mother will join them soon but it is likely she has not escaped. Trung Hieu Nguyan is cast as the small boy with big wide eyes who discovers Mighty Mouse comic books. He is befriended by Forest Whitaker, cast as a volunteer cook at the camp and who teaches the youngster some valuable lessons in life. Patrick Swayze is the camp commander whose job seems impossible at times. To some, he represents the ugly Americans who caused all the trouble in the first place.

Most of the stories play like a soap opera and the entire film moved much too slowly for my taste. However, it really didn't matter that this film will never win any academy awards. I applaud it for bringing a long-gone time and a place to life. And for raising my own consciousness about the Vietnamese people who made the long journey to America. This is a sad movie and I found myself depressed afterwards. But I know I'll never forget it.

A Beautiful Film.......2003-11-05

This is a wonderful and often overlooked film that deserves more attention than it received. It explores an entirely different side of the Vietnam war and uses a moving story and terrific characters to do so. The film follows several Vietnamese refugees in Camp Pendleton in California who have fled from Saigon in the closing days of the war and their struggles in adapting to a new life in a foreign land. Performances are great all around and you will barely recognize Patrick Swayze as the overseer of the refugee camp. The story following a young boy in the camp and his friendship with Forest Whitaker's characters was especially moving. If you like good stories and are tired of mindless action and explosions, this is a great film to check out.

Boring a good sleeper.......2003-08-06

Patrick Swayze worst movie ever you hardly ever seen him in the movie, Forest Whitaker scene's may been the the best thing about the movie pluse you had to read the whole movie it may been better if it wasn't in a letterbox verson i gave it a 2 star instead of one just because it was base on a real war

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Somewhat minor kung fu movie, but good
This is NOT Dragon Gate Inn
Action-packed movie with lots of sword- and fist-fights

The Green Dragon Inn
Starring: Yue Hwa , Polly Kuan , Lo Lei , and Shangkuan Ling-Feng
Manufacturer: Tapeworm
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Somewhat minor kung fu movie, but good.......2007-03-19

'Green Dragon Inn' has a well told story, very good acting, and slightly above average action. Yueh Hua plays a marshal who is sent to capture a murderer. The murderer's father doesn't want him to be taken to jail so he hires assassins to take out the marshal. One is Sze Ma-lung who is known as The Shaking Eagle in the UK for his oustanding fist forms, and of course because of his role in '18 Fatal Strikes'. So be sure to watch for the guy who is always looking to show off his iron fist. I could have used more action from The Shaking Ealge, but he is awesome when he does get to show off. Lo Lieh and Polly Shang Kwan also star.

While the action is good, it can be a bit slow at times. There is some good hand to hand at the end and Kwan is very good in her limited action. The fighting was more grounded than a lot of movies that take place in the martial world, and I can't complain about that. 3.5/5

Picture from World Video is full screened but watchable.

This is NOT Dragon Gate Inn.......2002-05-07

This film is listed under IMDB and Amazon as "Dragon Gate Inn". It is in fact a totally different film, and bears no relation to the classic 1966 film

Action-packed movie with lots of sword- and fist-fights.......2001-02-13

The story is rather simple: an arrogant warlord son committed murders and was arrested by a government marshal. In order to bring the criminal, the government entourage had to pass by an area controlled by the warlord. As his soldiers fell one by one and he himself got trapped in the Green Dragon Inn, the marshal not only had to face the formidable warlord, but also two mysterious strangers, a man and a woman. Will he escape with the prisoner?

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Get twice the action and twice the fun in this exciting two-pack jam-packed with supernatural martial arts action. Hajime discovers he has the power to transform into a dragon, and he has superhuman fighting skills to boot. Unfortunately, when the richest man in the world decideds to use his brothers as bait, Hajime finds himself drawn into a nefarious plot for military domination.

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4 dragons.......2003-12-21

The legend of the four kings is the best Manga cartoon that have watched. I love the way Amaru turned into a dragon with tremendous power and defeated the navy army. The way the writer structured the four brothers is excellent, for instance the 4 brothers behavior is very opened and caring. The Manga gives me an cam feeling it makes me relaxed.

The Manga is about 4 king dragons disguise as human beings trying to fit in our society, but cant theirs
An secret co-operation called the Mulligan foundation who are trying to exposed them of there powers.

finaly this OVA gets a DVD realese.......2003-09-30

Im a anime veiwer from the UK and picked this DVD up on import.
first impression on this disc was a nice menu system with a picture of the black dragon in the background with rain and thunder crashing down, this was a nice feature as for the extras they were ok not great but acceptable for the age of the OVA
as im from the UK the first thing i noticed was the opeing credites was different from the one i was familier with but the artwork seemed realy nice.
onto the feature this disc picks up were under fire left off gozan is still after the dragon kings blood this time he captures the dragon kings cousen matsuri and her parents and lead the kings into a war games firing ground were all havoc breaks loose
the second episode with out giving spoilers the dragon kings and there cousen decide to go to their local fun park and what do you know more trouble awaits them their, i cant tell too much about this one as it may spoil.
from the dvd i can see the animation looks alot sharper and much clearer sound as well as a 5 channel sound track has been added in as in the US you only got the subbed version of this the new Dub will be a welcome to this dvd were as i gave it 4 stars becasue it is not the oringal english dub but a brand new one this making it confusing for me as i have to warm to all the charicters again on the whole a must buy

Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 3 Red Dragon

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it gets better and better with each release

Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 3 Red Dragon
Starring: Yotee , Kappei Yamaguchi , Hideyuki Hori , Masahiro Anzai , and Jamie McGonnigal
Director: Norio Kashima
Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video
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Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 4 Iron Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - Black Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - Blue Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - White Dragon

ASIN: B0000C52FW
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Description

In this magical adventure, the young Ryuudo brothers discover they aren't quite human. As each comes of age, he gains the ability to transform into a fire-breathing dragon. Now danger pursues them in the form of a mad scientist bent on dissecting them and revealing their secret! Can the brothers escape this fiendish plot?

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it gets better and better with each release.......2004-05-05

Well, I have the whole series in vhs, and am buying the dvds as they come out, and whoever I show this too, promptly loves it, so now I'm buying the complete set when it comes out 5/11/04 for my sister, and also the last of the 2 dvds for me. Please see my review on the first volume for why I love these so much, and why these dvds were what kept in interested in anime (Spirited away introduced anime to me).
This time, the series focuses on second brother Tsuzuku and what happens when he gets physically stressed to the max - he transforms to a fire breathing dragon. The plot here starts getting complex but stays very understandable and logical. The writer of this series of manga from which this anime is based is, Tanaka, Yoshiki and I have bought his other anime (Arslan, legend of the galactic heroes).Per another lover of Sohryuden - he is still continuing this series and realease one novel each year updating this series - so it is not done yet!
Tanaka Sensei makes constant commentaries on his views of world politics in his anime and they are detailed in history lessons-such mind candy - especially when paired with great storytelling and likeable characters.
Anyway, there are 4 brothers who are dragons, and by now they are fully aware they will transform when under extreme stress into dragon form - and the second brother's greatest fear is that he will lose his humanity, or his understanding and self-presence once he finds himself inadvertently transformed into dragon form.
The best part of this is the Seiyuu, or the voice actor who plays the second brother - Tobita, Nobuo, This actor's voice sounds like silk (I have been buying japanese anime dvds just because his voice is used!)! His voice matches the personality of the seemingly laid back, loyal,noble and infinitely polite second brother, Tsuzuku. There is a hilarious scene (I'm not sure which volume) where he is powerfully dispatching all the bad guys (in an armored tank-who are shooting at him and his brothers) but as he is removing each bad guy from the tank, he is very graciously saying with great sincerety to each person he removes (as the enemy represents men of authority (soldiers)with very formal salutations such as,"how nice to meet you for the first time", "I look for your favor", "deep apologies" etc etc. This is totally hilarious. I play this scene back repeatedly for my friends, and they find also it so funny.
I believe this sort of anime will appeal to anyone who likes dragon mystique (yay!) and who like their characters basically positive, noble, and self-sacrificing. Another reason why I like this volume so much is that in episode 5 (I think), Matsuri - the 4 boys female cousin (who in previous life was the eldest son's great love)is dressed in a dark blue summer kimono as they go to a bon dance festival- hearing the scratchy recorded sound of the old bon dance songs is so nostalgic.
This is a very traditional Japanese anime - not for everyone at all, but for those who like anime with a strong Japanese flavor, this is so much fun!!!!

Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 4 Iron Dragon

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Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 4 Iron Dragon
Starring: Yotee , Kappei Yamaguchi , Hideyuki Hori , Masahiro Anzai , and Jamie McGonnigal
Director: Norio Kashima
Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video
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Legend of the Dragon Kings - Blue Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - White Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - Black Dragon

ASIN: B0000DFZZN
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Description

In this mystical coming-of-age adventure, Owaru is a super-powered teenager with an attitude-and lots of problems! It's bad enough that he transforms into a dragon when he gets mad, but now the neighbors are trying to run his family out of town. Worse, a diabolical scientist has dispatched an army of cyborgs to destroy him!

Legend of the Dragon Kings - White Dragon

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Legend of the Dragon Kings - White Dragon
Starring: Yotee , Kappei Yamaguchi , Hideyuki Hori , Masahiro Anzai , and Jamie McGonnigal
Director: Norio Kashima
Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video
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Legend of the Dragon Kings: Vol. 4 Iron Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - Blue Dragon
Legend of the Dragon Kings - Black Dragon

ASIN: B00014K5X2
Release Date: 2004-02-10

Description

The adventure continues as the dragon-boy Owaru is kidnapped by a double agent with a vendetta. Alone and desperate, the teenager loses control and transforms into a monstrous wind dragon. Can his family rescue him before he annihilates the city?

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