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Starring:Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Director: Richard Linklater
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD
Cache (Hidden)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Long enough for a good nap!
  • A "guilty" pleasure
  • Intriguing
  • A Must see
  • A magnificent script, painfully wasted!
Cache (Hidden)
Starring: Daniel Auteuil , Juliette Binoche , Maurice Bénichou , Annie Girardot , and Bernard Le Coq
Director: Michael Haneke
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B00000F7E6
Release Date: 2006-06-27

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Hidden throughout Caché is the sense that you should be watching every moment in this film closely, just as the protagonists are themselves being watched by someone unknown. Georges and Anne Laurent's (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche) enviable lives are terrorized by the sudden arrival on their doorstep of a videotaped recording of their Parisian townhouse. It's nothing but a long, unedited shot of the façade of their house, but it's disturbing nonetheless. Soon another arrives, this time of the farmhouse Georges grew up in, and then another of a car driving down a suburban street, and a walk down a hallway to a low-rent apartment. Again the videos are benign but unsettling. Then the mystery becomes more threatening when they receive gruesome postcards depicting child-like drawings of bloody, dead stick figures. Georges believes he knows who the culprit is, but for reasons all his own refuses to let his wife in on the secret. Clearly more is hidden here than just the identity of their stalker. In Caché, writer and director Michael Haneke skillfully, methodically pulls back multiple layers of deception, like new skin being pulled off an old wound. he masterfully fuses elements of his predecessors to create a film that is haunting and memorable. There is Bergman's fascination with the complexity of relationships, the suspense and lurking danger of Hitchcock, and the unique cinematic sensibility of Antonioni. In fact, the provocative final shot is practically a tribute to The Passenger--a lot of people will want to rewatch it many times to see what they can find in it (if, after watching it, you are still unsatisfied with the resolution, then watch the interview with Haneke in the DVD's special features for his insights). It's a film of great effect and intrigue. There are no easy resolutions, and the answers given in this mystery will only lead to more questions. --Daniel Vancini

Description

Academy Award®-winner Juliette Binoche (1997, Best Supporting Actress, The English Patient) stars in CACHÉ, a psychological thriller about a TV talk show host and his wife who are terrorized by surveillance videos of their private life. Delivered by an anonymous stalker, the tapes reveal secret after secret until obsession, denial and deceit take hold of the couple and hurl them to the point of no return. CACHÉ is director Michael Haneke's dark vision of a relationship torn mercilessly apart by the camera's unblinking eye.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Long enough for a good nap!.......2007-05-27

If too long scenes, irritating characters, unrealistic plot devices, and elementary life lessons constitute fine film making, then yes, this film is truly art. But the rest of us will only appreciate this film if they are awakened by their DVD's shutting off having fallen into a nice nap by the first quarter of this plodding bore-fest.

There really isn't a story worth telling here. Save your time!

5 out of 5 stars A "guilty" pleasure.......2007-05-21

Cache is a film, that right off the bat you understand isn't going to be like all the others. First off, it begins with a still camera focusing on a house while nothing particularly important goes on. One soon finds off that the well off family of main characters is being harassed with mysterious video tapes and postcards, but with no real idea on who is sending them. Slowly as things start to unravel, one gathers more and more questions about, well basicly everything in the movie. This will be enjoyed by most film buffs who don't mind not having anwsers spoon fed to them. The plot gets better as you start to see the characters secrets come to life. Cache keeps a atomsphere all to itself as well, the film does not rush itself, and also lacks a score which is a brillently vital way to keep suspence to those who can pay attention without it. The moments of shock that come in a largely suspence building movie are heightened I would say actually in the movie, because we are so use to scores as psychological clues in film, we almost feel lost without them.
One reviewer said that "personal guilt" is overplayed. The odd thing about that is that guilt is the main theme of the entire film, so i'm far from agreement about that. The film as a whole is about exploring not just personal guilt, but the guilt of a society as well. The director has a fairly well thought out interview in the dvd as well, that is recommended viewing as it gives very clear thoughts on what the director wanted. However, even with all the explanation there is no clear anwsers to certain questions, and you might end up re-watching to try and catch things you missed in the background the first time around.
Its not called "Hidden" for no reason..

4 out of 5 stars Intriguing.......2007-05-20

Strange how, in 90-odd reviews, this film has provoked such a variety of responses, from a kind of reverential respect to downright anger. From US (re)viewers, generally, there is continual reference to 'arthouse' movies, and often to French offerings in particular, as 'pretentious'. This is a distinction that died long ago in Europe, though as an Englishman in his mid sixties I can recall the term 'continental cinema' being used often enough to suggest the same kind of genre, (often with a bit of nudity thrown in.)
'Hidden' is a fascinating and often masterly piece of film-making, beautifully acted, slowly paced, to be sure, but working at many levels and utterly intriguing throughout. I, like many others, was shocked by the brief scenes of Majid's suicide and the slaughter of the rooster, but shocked even more to find that the static wide shot of the school exterior at the end was in fact the final shot of the film and that I was to be told no more!
This didn't make me angry, as it seems to have done so many reviewers, - on the contrary, the compelling nature of everything that had preceded this had already created sufficient respect for the director for me to gently 'close the book', as it were, close my eyes and start thinking!
I don't actually know anyone that I would recommend the film to, but that's because 'Hidden' is one of those films that engenders a reaction based on our own prejudices and our own degree of receptivity.
As for 'watching paint dry', a phrase that has cropped up several times in previous reviews, if Daniel Auteuil did the painting, I'll happily watch it dry!
Four stars, as I feel the flow of the film would have benefited from an occasional touch of warmth or humour. The mood was a bit 'unrelieved'.

5 out of 5 stars A Must see.......2007-05-12

An extremely intelligent film unable to be made in Holleywood. While the subject matter is a bit too complictad to reveal ia a paragraph, suffice it to say that it does address the world in which we live in today.
The ending, when you find it, will blow you away.

3 out of 5 stars A magnificent script, painfully wasted! .......2007-05-08


Cahe (Hidden) is a remarkable and fruitful script that failed in hands of a young director who pretends to rediscover the existential silence of Michelangelo Antonioni.

A succesful young marriage is continuously frightened through sevarl VHS tapes that are recording every one of their steps and minor activities. This febrile state of tension obviously, increases to unbearable limits, but the narrative dynamic is so poor, that almost I leave the projection's hall.

Think for instance, in these two clever directors: Claude Chabrol or Francois Ozon: Anyone of them could have led to a better and more secure port this film that began with so many expectatives and failed in the middle of the river.

An awful pitty, because the cast was extraordinary:
1 Night In Paris
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    2-disc set featuring infamous full-color footage of heiress Paris Hilton with her boyfriend in a hotel room. Over 1 Hour includes never before seen footage! Added Bonus: Four of Red Light District's hottest hardcore scenes. Scene 1: Taylor Rain; Scene 2: Monica Sweetheart; Scene 3: Randi Wright; Scene 4: Teagan!
    The Firm: Firm Parts - 5 Day Abs & Tough Tape 2
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Five day abs is the best! Tough tape is pretty good too.
    • Don't waste your money
    • Buy it for the 5-day Abs!
    • You'll feel like you've really worked out
    • It Increased My Endurance and Strength
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    ASIN: B0000639G1
    Release Date: 2002-04-09

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    5 out of 5 stars Five day abs is the best! Tough tape is pretty good too........2007-03-16

    The Five Day Abs is the best tape I've found for abs since it really keeps you going to town on your abs every single day by having a different ten minute routine for each of five days. This reinforces the idea that every single day you need to do a brief but effective ab workout and these moves will give you a flat stomach. After a couple of weeks you should see noticable results if you do this every day.

    The tough tape is good too and gives an excellent workout.
    It is a bit freaky watching the beautiful young women in revealing outfits flirting and looking suggestively at the camera while doing these exercises but I remember back when this was made. It was the early days of exercise videos. There was some thinking that people were not really buying these types of tapes for the actual exercise, but instead as a form of soft porn, so these play up to the guys who just want to enjoy seeing fit young women working out.

    The Firm series has proven itself to millions of home exercisers as the best of all of the exercise videos and really delivers on the promise of "Visible results in ten sessions." There are millions of loyal followers of The Firm who wouldn't think of using any other tapes.
    In spite of the dated costumes and suggestive looks the workouts are as good as it gets for givng you the results you are looking for. I use them every other day and just purchased The Transfirmer kit. I would never spend a total of $80 including shipping for The Transfirmer kit if it didn't work, but after doing these few old tapes (I have old VHS tapes of these same workouts) for a couple of weeks and seeing and feeling myself getting stronger and fitter, and seeing that they do not really get too boring or stale after many repititions, I'm a convert.
    Ther Firm gives you what you want from a workout-results.

    1 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money.......2006-07-04

    This workout (or should I call it that) is composed of pieces of all different workouts put together. There is no class, no instructor, forget about cueing, no rhythm - it's horrible. The abs part is even worse. A kindergartener can do it. 5 day abs? Yeah right. I'm an advanced exerciser and this workout is a nightmare. Trust me - DO NOT waste your money.

    5 out of 5 stars Buy it for the 5-day Abs!.......2006-03-02

    OK, yes the tape is filled with obnoxious 80's music, but in all my years of exercising, it is still THE BEST abs workout I have ever done. It is hard. But it does the job. Combined with cardio, it will get your abs flat. I have owned the VHS tape for over a decade, and am now buying it on DVD, so I will never be without it.

    4 out of 5 stars You'll feel like you've really worked out.......2004-08-13

    If you're like me and like to feel a bit sore after a tough work out, this is the one to get. I've tried numerous aerobic videos and they are either way too cheesy or way too easy for my level. Yes, a couple of the women on this video are a little too "cheerleaderish" for me but most aren't that distracting. And after you do it over and over like I have, you can fast forward through the brief sections with the annoying girls and get to the meat of the video and burn.

    I've been using this video for a year now and yes, I've really seen the difference. I tried Taibo, Pilates, and othe workout videos but if you want a sculpted look, this is the video to get. I've always had strong legs but weak girly arms and wanted them to look a bit more toned--not GI Jane looking but more like Angela Bassett arms. My husband has noticed too and likes the new look. They've definitely firmed up finally and the butt/abs are firmer too.

    The abs part is great...not too long but just long enough to feel it. Who cares if it's 80'sish...it's still a good workout and it's definitely not Richard Simmons.

    4 out of 5 stars It Increased My Endurance and Strength.......2004-08-03

    I love this DVD, ok maybe some of the tough tape intro segments with some of the instructors may be cheezy, but I don't care. I am happy with it, the abs workout is really tough, and the tough tape 2 is definitely tougher. If you want a workout that is more challenging and you don't mind compilations, then I definitely recommend this one.

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    JFK: Assassination Files
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Some reviews are proof positive that the Cover-Up is alive and well
    • Groden has done it again!
    • tainted by poor production
    • Groden continues his Conspiracy Theories in Spite of Evidence to the Contrary
    • Excellent historical documents.
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    ASIN: B0000DC14U
    Release Date: 2003-11-18

    Description

    Now you can see for yourself what really happened on November 22, 1963. These DVDs will take you back in time to Dealey Plaza where you will become a witness to the "crime of the century."

    Robert J. Groden is acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on the photographic evidence relating to JFK's assassination. Mr. Groden was technical advisor to Oliver Stone's JFK.

    Here, for the first time, are his optically enhanced films and photographs from that dark day and the investigation and cover-up that followed. Mastered from Mr. Groden's original materials.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Some reviews are proof positive that the Cover-Up is alive and well.......2006-06-30

    Imagine that: just 1 star by another reviewer for a DVD that is essentially the first comprehensive photographic record of the most important murder of the 20th Century! Now, why do you think anyone might want to discourage you from seeing it? Being a three-decade student of the JFK assassination, I watched both the Peter Jennings documentary ("Beyond Conspiracy") and Dan Rather's earlier special. They, along with the books "Case Closed" (a title which reflects the wishful thinking of surviving conspirators) and "Marina and Lee," all recommended by our 1-star reviewer, are merely the latest slick, well-funded attempts to poison the well of truth. If they can at least leave an uninformed public with the impression that the lone-gunman theory isn't totally laughable, then they can count these productions as money well-spent.

    But, please by all means check them out. Watch "Beyond Conspiracy"...and then go to www.dealeyplazauk.co.uk/ and read "A Critical Review of the TV Documentary `The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'" by Dr. Tony Austin. Read "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner...and then buy "The Great Zapruder Film Hoax" by James Fetzer and a host of other film and photography experts. See what Priscilla Johnson McMillan, long believed by many researchers to be a CIA operative with a role in handling Lee Harvey Oswald, has to say in her book "Marina and Lee," but don't miss reading Mark Lane's "Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?" And when you are done, you will be convinced of three truths: that a U.S. president was abruptly removed from office through a meticulously-designed act of treason involving well-placed government figures; that no grown person of average intellect who has actually studied one-tenth of the evidence for a conspiracy could still believe that the crime was committed by a nutty lone gunman; and that the continuing efforts to make this claim with a straight face in books and TV documentaries serve only as evidence that some powerful people still alive today are worried enough to keep muddying the water.

    For those who seek the truth about who controls the world in which they live, Robert Groden's collection of priceless historical evidence (whether or not some of it was altered by the guilty) is unquestionably a treasure worth owning.

    5 out of 5 stars Groden has done it again!.......2005-12-30

    Quite simply, you MUST own this! This is an amazingly well done dvd of all the primary film footage for 11/22/63. 'Nuff said (great bonus footage, too)
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    3 out of 5 stars tainted by poor production.......2005-11-26

    Groden would have done well to have a professional narrator do the commentary. It would have been more powerful that way. I'll leave it at that. Sometimes it's just a hoot!..Also the music sounded a bit on the homemade side too and also made me laugh at one point. But....lots of great photos and films. 21 films...who knew?....

    1 out of 5 stars Groden continues his Conspiracy Theories in Spite of Evidence to the Contrary.......2005-08-25

    Robert Groden suggests that the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination has been tampered with to cover up the real killers of Kennedy. In my opinion, his "evidence" is shaky at best. Groden has made a lucrative living off of proposing alternative theories of who "really" shot Kennedy, and here he is in 2003 suggesting that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary presented by ABC, CBS, and many books. Groden needs to finally realize that the Kennedy assassination has been solved definitively, and his continuation of conspiracy theories is clearly his lame and pathetic attempt to keep his money cash-cow alive.

    Don't draw a conclusion based on this DVD! Look at other sources listed below and then draw your conclusion:

    1. ABC's Peter Jennings presentation of the Kennedy Assassination (available on Amazon.com) clearly shows that Oswald was the one and only killer of JFK.
    2. CBS's Dan Rather's special program on the Kennedy Assassination (available on CBS website) also suggests that the preponderence of the evidence points to Oswald as the lone killer.
    3. The book "Case Closed", by Gerald Posner. He uses the physical evidence collected in Dallas, logic, and his ability to see through the fallicies of the conspiracies to show that Lee Oswald is the lone assassin.
    4. The book "Marina and Lee", by Priscilla Johnson McMillian. This book shows that Oswald was certainly capable of the assassination, and the circumstances of his life point to the conclusion that he killed Kennedy.

    My advice is to watch this DVD first, and then look at the sources I list above, and then make an intelligent conclusion. If you are like me, you will see that Groden really has nothing solid to stand on.

    Jim "KOnedog" Konedog, Kennedy Assassination Stuudent


    5 out of 5 stars Excellent historical documents........2005-08-24

    I always figured that there HAD to be other films of the actual assassination of Kennedy November 22nd, 1963. And, there IS! This DVD has them. With brief commentary by Robert Groden, describing what is being filmed, this collection is only part of mountain of evidence that this WAS AND IS A CONSPIRACY.
    Shocking graphic detail as only home movies of that era can present, this collection puts the event in perspective from many different angles and positions in and around Dealy Plaza.
    Thank you Robert Groden for this contribution to what any thinking person already figured out...Kennedy was killed by several gunmen in different locations.
    The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
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    • Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved
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    ASIN: B00005JLZN
    Release Date: 2003-07-22

    Product Description

    Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) stars with Oscar nominee Kate Winslet (Titanic) in a powerfully gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller hailed as provocative (ABC-TV). An electrifying suspenseful journey into deadly conspiracy and murderous deception begins when a respected professor who may or may not be guilty is charged with a brutal crime. The Life of David Gale is a brilliantly unpredictable thriller, which builds relentlessly to a shocking final twist guaranteed to blow you away!

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  • Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
  • Directed by Alan Parker
  • Running time: 2 Hours 11 Minutes
  • Copyright Universal Studios 2003

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    Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer

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    3 out of 5 stars Something Was Missing.......2007-03-22

    I don't know quite how to put it. The Life of David Gale is certainly a message film sprinkled with suspense, but the ending left me bewildered. Why did the murder suspect mail Bitsey a second tape that showed David Gale involved with the suicide? Other questions I raise are: What motive did Berlin have for charging Gale with rape? Why did Gale's wife and son flee to Italy or was it Spain? Is Gale's situation so hopeless that he decides to die for the cause? Gale and the murder suspect didn't seem to have a strong bond of friendship, yet what would compel the murder suspect to travel to Europe with a suitcase of money and make sure that Gale's wife receives it? Does anyone have any answers? The film is complex with its layers of left wing politics, morality plays, and Hitchcockian twists, but still comes up short. A classic film that contrasts innocence with guilt without the death penalty issue is The Wrong Man starring Henry Fonda.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the great undiscovered flicks........2007-03-21

    Just one of those great movies that didnt get the recognition that it deserved. Of course, Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of his time in my opinion, but overall this movie is a must see.

    4 out of 5 stars Worth watching.......2007-02-10

    This was a film of two intentions - a thriller, and a message movie. It is a worthy intention to put the message into some context as a thriller to make it palatable; it makes the medicine easier to swallow. However the film is beset by a problem of balance .. Where the thriller slacks off, the message seems too in your face, and where the thriller takes off it seems too shallow for want of the message.
    Alan Parker handled the balance so much better in Mississippi Burning, that if you came to this expecting the same standard you would be very disappointed.
    However, the cast do adequately, and Spacey and Linney do brilliantly, adding the depth that makes the film engrossing enough to enjoy watching.
    Those who are expecting the film to hold its own as a thriller will be disappointed however.

    5 out of 5 stars very good.......2007-01-23

    This movie is well written and the acting is great. Yet Again, Kevin Spacey gives a great performance. His job being a drunk philosphy prof. walking down the street loudly lecturing people as they happen to walk by is simply brillant. Kate Winslet is very convincing as a sympathic journalist. The writing is original and thoughtful. It has a great premise with a even greater and suprising ending. I was pleasantly suprised by this movie.

    3 out of 5 stars Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved.......2006-09-12

    The Life of David Gale is an attempted morality play on the subject of the death penalty in America today. Its title character, a former Texas college professor and anti-death penalty activist, David Gale, stands convicted of murdering his friend, played by Laura Linney, and is down to the final days of his existence on this earth. His downwardly-spiraling life story, from arrogant leftist intellectual to condemned inmate, is told in flashback form via the exploration of the case by an idealistic young reporter, Bitsy Bloom, who believes in Gale's innocence and desperately seeks to prove it before it is too late. With the talent Alan Parker had here this should have been a great film, but the plot was dense and the characters one and all with the exception of Kate Winslet's naively duped reporter, Bitsy, were so disturbed and disturbing that I didn't like them. This is a bleak motion picture that seems padded out to the point of it being obvious this was a one message story. I honestly think the writers had just a single firm notion here, that being how they wished to end The Life of David Gale with its admittedly powerful twist, and the remainder of the run-time was hasty-concocted filler.
    Red Green - Duct Tape Forever
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • Red Green's Duct Tape Forever
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    Red Green - Duct Tape Forever
    Starring: Steve Smith (II) , Patrick McKenna , Bob Bainborough , Wayne Robson , and Jeff Lumby
    Director: Eric Till
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    ASIN: B00008R9KR
    Release Date: 2003-04-29

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    The cult PBS comedy The Red Green Show stretches into a feature film with Duct Tape Forever, still very much about a batch of underachieving Canadian men and their high church of low expectations, the Possum Lodge. The longtime TV series, starring Steve Smith as flannel-shirted handyman Red Green, makes a comic virtue of Canuck self-parody and universal male ineptness.

    "Whenever a man does a dumb thing," says Red, "it's better if he doesn't have an audience." Well, a lot of eyes are on Red, his geeky nephew Harold (Patrick McKenna), and the other boys after a rich man (Richard Fitzpatrick) drives his car into a Possum Lodge sinkhole and sues for damages. The solution: Build a giant, duct tape goose and enter it in a Minnesota contest for cash prizes. Of course. Co-creator Smith re-tools the show's self-deprecating essence and run-on joke about male incompetence into a winning movie. --Tom Keogh

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Anything Red Green is Gold!.......2007-05-28

    If you like the Red Green crew and you also like classics like Animal House, this is the two joined. Red and Harold are in a race aginst time to save...

    It doesn't have all the odd handyman projects and the tidbits of wisdom you fine in the show, which made it seem somehow refreshing.

    5 out of 5 stars SIDE-SPLITTING FUN!.......2007-05-17

    More of the gange at the "Moose Lodges" slap stick humor through various antics. Halarious good fun that will keep you rolling on the floor and your sides sore from laughing so hard. OH MY GOSH!!!

    1 out of 5 stars Oh my god . . . .......2007-04-29

    Okay, I work nights for a good part of the year (tax accountant), and my local PBS station runs two episodes of Red Green every night at 10PM, and I think I've seen nearly every one of the 300 episodes, I practically lived with Steve Smith's creation. So, like you, being a fan of the show, I thought this was probably marginal and somewhat predictable, but I figured I'd show my appreciation and put a nickel in his pocket.

    So, having done so, I'd like to talk to all the middle aged guys out there who are fans of the show. Do not watch this DVD. Not ever. You want to give Steve a few bucks? Fine. Buy a coffee mug off his website or something. My copy went straight from the DVD player to the trash bin, I don't even want to own it, much less ever disgrace my memory of Possum Lodge with this . . . goose by watching it again. It's that bad, it really is. Take your stick off the ice and bash this DVD with it.

    3 out of 5 stars Red Green's Duct Tape Forever.......2007-04-22

    As funny as the TV series. Warning - the DVD is promoted as providing 1.85:1 aspect ratio, ideal for widescreen HD TVs, but the image size is inexplicably reduced in size and does not fill the screen, leaving an annoying letterbox frame on all sides. The DVD does not provide any setup options to correct this.

    4 out of 5 stars Red Green Show.......2007-01-13

    Purchased this for my friend's little brothers, who have discovered this show just recently. It was an instant hit & we all enjoyed watching the shows.
    Hellraiser - Deader
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Extremely Brilliant , Complainers for this are hypocrits!
    • Falls short again
    • Hellraiser-Deader.....Direct to Video for a reason.
    • Endurable B-movie instalment in tired saga
    • Not great.
    Hellraiser - Deader
    Starring: Kari Wuhrer , Paul Rhys , Simon Kunz , Marc Warren , and Georgina Rylance
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    1. Hellraiser - Hellworld
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    ASIN: B0007US7BC
    Release Date: 2005-06-07

    Description

    HELLRAISER: DEADER is the latest, most terrifying chapter in the wildly frightening HELLRAISER legacy! Once again, the ultimate evil -- the dreaded Pinhead (Doug Bradley -- HELLRAISER franchise) -- leads an army of the dead who come back to life with a bloodthirsty vengeance! For an undercover reporter (Kari Wuhrer -- PROPHECY: UPRISING) who becomes entangled with the deadly underground group responsible for the malevolent resurrections, any moment could be her last! With Pinhead in all his gory glory, the thrilling villain you love to fear delivers another hellish nightmare you'll never forget!

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    5 out of 5 stars Extremely Brilliant , Complainers for this are hypocrits!.......2007-04-18

    This movie is a great horror!/Suspense!
    All these people complaining about this are lame just looking for an excuse to complain!

    First of all,All you so called Hellraiser fans,Pin head only appears in the first Hellraiser movie for about 5 minutes total also!So why are you complaining?

    This Has an excellent plot to it,The production is nice,The acting is good,And even if this wasn't a hellraiser movie it is still a great story.
    Especially for a true horror fan!!!

    3 out of 5 stars Falls short again.......2007-01-06

    3.5 Stars. I don't think the writers/producers get this Hellraiser series. The entire idea of Hellraiser is to have Pinhead in the scenes because he is one of the scariest, most curious characters in horror. Again, he isn't shown enough. I want to see him lurking out of the darkness and showing up in flashbacks and threatening people.

    The theme of the movie isn't bad: It's about a guy who can bring people back to life once they've been coaxed into killing themselves and he's been annointed by Pinhead to do this. All of these people are called "Deaders".

    The strangest and most mysterious part(s) of the movie is when a journalist (Kari Wuhrer) checks all of this out and enters the subway and gets on a subway train which is a trashy hedonistic palace/chamber to get information from a fellow. The costumes and people on the subway are freaks and you can't take it all in because there's too much going on: there's sex and drugs and mutilation taking place among small groups of people.

    Kari Wuhrer puts in a great performance I think, especially when she becomes one of the "deaders" and it freaks her out because she's bleeding everywhere she goes.

    The climax always falls short in these Hellraiser movies for some reason. When Pinhead confronts Kari at the end she takes the box and says, "Go to Hell!" and throws the box. I still have no idea what this gesture means to Pinhead because it sends him into complete madness but it happens in every Hellraiser movie.(?) I mean all he has to do is walk over and pick it up!!! What's the big deal? My suggestion would be to end a Hellraiser movie differently by letting Pinhead torture someone physically or mentally for ten minutes or so and make the ending more complex.

    Could have been much better but check it out.

    3 out of 5 stars Hellraiser-Deader.....Direct to Video for a reason........2006-07-08

    Ever since Hellraiser:Bloodline(4) all subsequent sequels have been direct to video. Why? well Hellraiser: Inferno, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, and this installment Hellraiser:Deader have used the same premise; screw with you head. In the first 4 films it was that when you solved the puzzle box you summoned Pinhead and crew, got hook chained back into hell. With the exception of a couple delusions/hallucinations that was basically it. In #5 on it changed you opened the box and you went on this mad journey through you own psychosis, almost like a dream where your mind is manufacturing things and at the same time Pinhead and the powers of hell are supplying their own special effects. I'm not feeling all that.
    In Deader we have the lovely and talented Kari Wuher playing Amy Klien reporter for a paper called the London Underground. She gets an asignment to check out the Deaders after watching Deader front man "Winter" bring some chick back to life. Taking place in Romania Klein acquires the puzzle box and solves it, sending her on her own little psychotic journey into her own personal hell. As with #5 and 6 the big mystery for Klien is figuring out what the hell is going on, is she crazy or not and why does this Winter guy possess the ability he has to bring the dead back to life......whatever! Trying to follow her mental break path to hell is a waste of time. Just let the movie unfold as it does and all--however thin will be revealed. For Fans of Pinhead, yes Doug Bradley reprises his role as the brooding darkly poetic, and articulate Cenobite. Pinheads presence in the first half of this 88 minute outing is nil. The second half has a bit more but not much.
    Some of the effects in this film are I think not up to snuff, like the Cgi chains that pinhead uses. However Makeup jobs are cool, and there is a fair amount of blood being spilt. which make for some disturbing visuals, I found myself saying; "Dang, thats messed up!" a few times in this Film. Overall for a direct to video sequel, Kari Wuher does a great job, and its always good to see Pinhead warp reality and twist words. For those reasons I went from 2 to 3 stars. Bottom Line.....Stronger sequel that Both Hellraiser: Inferno, and Hellraiser: Hellseeker.

    2 out of 5 stars Endurable B-movie instalment in tired saga.......2006-07-02

    Hellraiser: Deader is the eighth (or so) in the series kicked off by Clive Barker's cinematic magnum opus of gore: Hellraiser, which brought to eighties audiences the ultimate slasher villain: the immortal, vain and verbose Pinhead. This film, however, is far removed from the master's original vision of a pleasure-seekers' purgatory.

    More importantly for fans, the series' Cenobites, grotesque, pleasure-and-pain-inflicting supernatural entities led by Pinhead, do not appear at all, except in the DVD extras, and the storyline itself was clearly intended to be a Pinhead-free affair. That is, until the Dimension straight-to-DVD department signed a cheque and made a sensible commercial decision to adapt the story for the Hellraiser canon.

    I certainly am not one to be riled by capitalism and its inherent compromises, and this film unquestionably presents decent, low-grade genre fare, with an easily-digestable side of gore.

    Our lead screamer, Kari Wuhrer, an exploitation-film actress who found fame on the syndicated Sliders TV show, is watchable, overcoming some dodgy dialogue and terrible costumes. Shot in Romania, no doubt for budgetary reasons, the film-makers manage to find several spooky locations and evoke a cool, wrong-side-of-the-iron-curtain creepiness throughout proceedings.

    The plot is as follows: a star writer for a sleazy Fleet Street (London) tabloid begins to investigate a strange cult of young people in Bucharest, who appear to rise from the dead after having committed ritualistic suicide. Hellraising elements become merely an adjunct to our self-destructive heroine's temptation by, and ultimate victory over, these nasty young hedonists: the "Deaders".

    Solid production values - considering what it is - and a moderately interesting underlying concept, see this film make the grade (just) as far as this horror fan is concerned. And, while reduced to side-show status, the Hellraiser cycle's iconic bad-guy does get to spout a few lines and chuck a few chains around, even if the lines are uninspired and the chains cheesy CGI.

    Nonetheless, it really is hard to get past those shocking costumes the film-makers force our leading lady into. Beautiful as she is, Wuhrer is no teenager, and the character she is playing is portrayed as younger than she clearly is. But decking her out in boots and grunge jackets and tying her hair into goofy teen styles does not mask her age, it just looks ridiculous. And what single woman, travelling alone, wears a man's shirt (and no bra) to bed? Really, it was all highly alienating! Call me unreasonable or unfair, but I am rounding down the 2½ stars just for that.

    I cannot recommend you buy the DVD, but check out your local video library for some guilty, spooky pleasures, then make a decision as to whether you want Hellraiser: Deader in you collection.

    2 out of 5 stars Not great........2006-06-30

    I love the hellraiser series, and I can honestly say I was dissapointed in this installment. It was boring, slow, and had bad visual effects (CGI chains, what the hell is that?).
    But the worst thing by far is that Pinhead was hardly in it. I dunno what's going on with the series but it seems that in every installment, we see Pinhead less and less.
    The only reason I'm giving this 2 stars is because it doesn't even come close to the piece of garbage the INFERNO was...
    Thank God for Hellworld...which isn't an amazing film, but still better then the last few sequels.
    Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Embrace Some Ambiguity, Baby.
    • It's not that bad...well, in a way
    • absolute insult to the origional!
    • Better than the first, Better than most....
    • bottom of the barrel film making
    Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2
    Starring: Anja Baron , Deb Burgoyne , Pete Burris , Peggy K. Chang , and Andrea Cox
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    ASIN: B00005NB8M
    Release Date: 2001-09-18

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    This thoroughly second-rate follow-up to the groundbreaking (and highly profitable) horror flick The Blair Witch Project--produced by Blair Witch directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez--plays with the notions of reality and fantasy that surrounded the hype of the original movie, and attempts to throw in some scares along the way. A year after the release of the original film, a group of five Blair Witch aficionados--four out-of-towners led by one seriously unhinged "tour guide"--venture into the woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland, on a tour of the sites made famous by missing documentarians Heather, Mike, and Josh. After a drunken night of camping out in hopes of communing with the spirit of the Blair Witch, the five wake up to find that their seemingly innocent sleep may have been disturbed somehow. But what exactly happened? If you're expecting suspense of the first degree and a horrifying payoff similar to the one that climaxed the first film, you'll be sorely disappointed. After retreating to an old, run-down broom factory (get it? Broom factory? Blair Witch? Oh well...), the five go over their videotapes of the night in question to get some answers, and basically wind up screaming at each other for the remainder of the film, and shedding some blood along the way. Documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (of the highly acclaimed Paradise Lost and Brother's Keeper) proves that he should definitely stick to nonfiction filmmaking, and the entire cast is grating and unpleasant, aside from a scene-stealing turn by Kim Director as a goth chick with attitude to burn and a no-nonsense approach to this Blair Witch stuff. Strictly for hard-core Blair Witch fans only, and even then this sequel may prove to disappoint. --Mark Englehart

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    2 out of 5 stars Embrace Some Ambiguity, Baby........2007-07-01

    I love the first thirty minutes of this movie. I like the characters, the feel of things, the way the story is developing and the constant use of the soundtrack. Then, as the movie winds its way into "scare" mode, things start to stall and finally come to a screeching halt. But back to the good points. Kim Director is excellent as "Kim Diamond" the goth empath. I also liked Erika Leerhsen as overbearing "Wiccan Hottie" and Jeffery Donovan as the slightly crazy Jeff Patterson (In an homage to the first Blair Witch, the main characters have the same names as the actors portraying them). Tristan Skyler and Stephen B. Turner have taken a lot of flack on here for their portrayals of a researcher and his fiance, but they do the best with what they are given: the "serious" roles in the group of four people taking the inaugural trip on Jeff's "Blair Witch Hunt" tour of Burkittsville, MD, home of the Blair Witch. Look for product placement galore: Shinerbock beer, Pete's Wicked Ale, Moosehead Beer. The scenes at the convenience store are hilarious: the store only sells the above three beers! Also, the weird little hidden things that the DVD touts as the "Secrets of ESREVER!" are interesting to try to find.

    The next two thirds of the movie is awful and not in a funny way. I never stop being disappointed in what I see. Much has been made of the movie "operating at a higher level" than a horror movie or suffering from its relationship to the original Blair Witch movie. Nothing could be further from the truth. This movie was promoted as a "real life" documentary that had to be altered slightly to avoid a lawsuit from the families of the victims. There was a made for TV movie called "Shadow of the Bliar Witch" released just before BW2 that played this up to the hilt: in it footage of the "REAL" Jeff Patterson and his "REAL" tour group are spliced in with "REAL" news footage from Burkittsville, etc., all in an attempt to make the viewer believe that BW2, like BW1, was based on real events. So, everything was set up to make a movie IN the "Blair Witch Mythos," but something bad happened along the way. It's my opinion that writer/ director Joe Berlinger really dropped the ball in his work on this movie and he proves it in his comments in the DVD booklet. He goes on and on about his "vision", etc., etc. and finally makes the statement that with BW2 he has "embraced ambiguity." In other words, he doesn't know what it means either. Well, that might be a good thing when one is describing their 12th grade charcoal drawing for art class, but it's not enough when one is attempting to justify screwing up what could have been a great movie.

    3 out of 5 stars It's not that bad...well, in a way.......2006-12-25

    You know it's strange but I swore I could've remembered watching the entire film once. It's been on TV quite a few times and I remember watching it when I rented it but watching it recently I was surprised by how little I remembered of it. Walking around at the store, I noticed one of those patented gift sets where you can buy a set containing all the movies about a certain subject or filmmaker or franchise and sure enough there was a double-pack containing both Blair Witch films, a CD-Rom and a stick-man necklace. I thought I'd just review 2 since I haven't done that yet and found that while it's not Battlefield Earth or House of the Dead bad, there's a huge chunk of "missed opportunity syndrome" running rampant.

    The original was a mock documentary that was advertised as the real deal. The sequel pretends it really did happen so we have 2 researchers (Tristan and Stephen), a goth chick (Kim) an unbelievably sexy Wicca (Erica) and a former mental patient/director (Jeff) who attend Jeff's tour of the famous sites. Only things, naturally, turn creepy and find everything totalled and hours missing. They go to Jeff's house where things get even more twisted and videotapes show lots of things that go bump in the night.

    Cheesy story description I know but seriously, how else can I do it? As director Joe Berlinger says in the booklet, it would've been silly to continue the story of Josh, Mike and Heather since they're on and about and doing movies and TV shows so instead they have a story that pretends the movie was real, hence stuff like "man that movie was so cool, we really connected" or the trailer line "cause I thought the movie was cool". The one problem with the film was that it just didn't feel scary or suspenseful. Sure the story was interesting and the premise but nothing seemed to match the tent scene, the ending or even Heather's apology in the original.

    The acting is kind of hit-or-miss. We get scene-stealing Kim Director who thankfully isn't that brooding "I love goth stuff, woo goth!" that I sometimes see and we get the unbelievably hot Erica Leerhsen who's also a talent to watch but then we get Lanny Flaherty who's ridiculously over-the-top or Stephen Barker Turner who almost tries too hard. But the film as a horror is only very marginally effective but at least the cast at times acts like it's worth a damn unlike the new wave of horror actors where it's like "please, write her off".

    Book of Shadows is almost like those inoffensive films that I sometimes see: it didn't make me outright hate it, but I didn't really love it but I didn't feel I wasted my time.

    1 out of 5 stars absolute insult to the origional!.......2006-12-04

    anyone who likes this sequal (i don't even consider it a sequal to BWP)is mentally retarded...or just like crappy movies.

    5 out of 5 stars Better than the first, Better than most...........2006-10-17

    Okay, if I get one person to see this movie and like it as much as I did, I feel like I accomplished something. From the opening credits w/Marilyn Manson's 'Disposable Teens' set to a flurry of autumn colors and blood spatter to the whole 'nothing was what it seems' ending, this movie is classic in almost every way. Forget the fact it's a sequel. Forget anything that annoyed you about the first movie. Think of this as just 'Book of Shadows', not a sequel...Joe B. is a smart filmmaker, and at least this movie offers us something than the usual slasher fare; There are some truly unsettling developments in this movie; The production, art design, and acting are much better than most. I was most impressed with the reactions of the characters during the final 15 minutes of the movie, when things really start to fall apart; One of the last scenes involves a certain character(this is NOT a spolier....)screaming that what he had just saw on tape was not what he had seen himself in person; His reaction was just like mine would have been, and it was pretty intense to say the least. This movie got a raw deal. I'm sure someone out there agrees...

    1 out of 5 stars bottom of the barrel film making.......2006-06-29

    this in name only sequel to the hit blair witch movies is the pits. the only good thing about it is they did try to make a different kind of film from the first.but having said that,that is the only good thing. the plot is a mess and the cast really gets on your nerves. the story about a group of kids taking a tour of the sites of the first movie and finding themselves in over their heads after a night where they can't remember what they did or how their campsite got torn up is very thin(i spoted the "twist" 5 mins. after it started)and it never gets you to belive in the story! SKIP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Life of David Gale (Full Screen Edition)
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Something Was Missing
    • One of the great undiscovered flicks.
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    • Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved
    The Life of David Gale (Full Screen Edition)
    Starring: Jim Beaver , Matt Craven , Jesse De Luna , Vernon Grote , and Constance Jones
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    ASIN: B00009M6VJ
    Release Date: 2003-07-22

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    Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer

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    3 out of 5 stars Something Was Missing.......2007-03-22

    I don't know quite how to put it. The Life of David Gale is certainly a message film sprinkled with suspense, but the ending left me bewildered. Why did the murder suspect mail Bitsey a second tape that showed David Gale involved with the suicide? Other questions I raise are: What motive did Berlin have for charging Gale with rape? Why did Gale's wife and son flee to Italy or was it Spain? Is Gale's situation so hopeless that he decides to die for the cause? Gale and the murder suspect didn't seem to have a strong bond of friendship, yet what would compel the murder suspect to travel to Europe with a suitcase of money and make sure that Gale's wife receives it? Does anyone have any answers? The film is complex with its layers of left wing politics, morality plays, and Hitchcockian twists, but still comes up short. A classic film that contrasts innocence with guilt without the death penalty issue is The Wrong Man starring Henry Fonda.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the great undiscovered flicks........2007-03-21

    Just one of those great movies that didnt get the recognition that it deserved. Of course, Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of his time in my opinion, but overall this movie is a must see.

    4 out of 5 stars Worth watching.......2007-02-10

    This was a film of two intentions - a thriller, and a message movie. It is a worthy intention to put the message into some context as a thriller to make it palatable; it makes the medicine easier to swallow. However the film is beset by a problem of balance .. Where the thriller slacks off, the message seems too in your face, and where the thriller takes off it seems too shallow for want of the message.
    Alan Parker handled the balance so much better in Mississippi Burning, that if you came to this expecting the same standard you would be very disappointed.
    However, the cast do adequately, and Spacey and Linney do brilliantly, adding the depth that makes the film engrossing enough to enjoy watching.
    Those who are expecting the film to hold its own as a thriller will be disappointed however.

    5 out of 5 stars very good.......2007-01-23

    This movie is well written and the acting is great. Yet Again, Kevin Spacey gives a great performance. His job being a drunk philosphy prof. walking down the street loudly lecturing people as they happen to walk by is simply brillant. Kate Winslet is very convincing as a sympathic journalist. The writing is original and thoughtful. It has a great premise with a even greater and suprising ending. I was pleasantly suprised by this movie.

    3 out of 5 stars Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved.......2006-09-12

    The Life of David Gale is an attempted morality play on the subject of the death penalty in America today. Its title character, a former Texas college professor and anti-death penalty activist, David Gale, stands convicted of murdering his friend, played by Laura Linney, and is down to the final days of his existence on this earth. His downwardly-spiraling life story, from arrogant leftist intellectual to condemned inmate, is told in flashback form via the exploration of the case by an idealistic young reporter, Bitsy Bloom, who believes in Gale's innocence and desperately seeks to prove it before it is too late. With the talent Alan Parker had here this should have been a great film, but the plot was dense and the characters one and all with the exception of Kate Winslet's naively duped reporter, Bitsy, were so disturbed and disturbing that I didn't like them. This is a bleak motion picture that seems padded out to the point of it being obvious this was a one message story. I honestly think the writers had just a single firm notion here, that being how they wished to end The Life of David Gale with its admittedly powerful twist, and the remainder of the run-time was hasty-concocted filler.
    Tape
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Pretentious
    • Duck Tape
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    • Richard Linklater's "Tape"
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    Starring: Ethan Hawke , Robert Sean Leonard , and Uma Thurman
    Director: Richard Linklater
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    Release Date: 2002-04-16

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    3 out of 5 stars Pretentious.......2007-02-08

    This film is over-rated at 4 stars. It starts off slow and eventually gets to something that is interesting. But it's very pretentious and not very believable.

    2 out of 5 stars Duck Tape.......2006-10-30

    If you see this movie heading your way, duck for cover. Tape is a film of almost unimaginable cruelty. Three very good actors, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Robert Sean Leonard, (now seen on the excellent TV show, House), are trapped in a cheesy motel room for 83 minutes, more to the point, you are trapped in there with them. This is the kind of film that aches for an obligatory car chase, frat house bikini contest, or helicopter crash.

    It's easy to affix the blame. Stephen Belber wrote the play and adapted it for film. (Note to Mr. Belber: Unless you're Samuel Beckett, do not attempt a three-person, one-room play, it's almost impossible to do well.) This horrific gaff would seem to explain it, but there's more. The film was directed by Richard Linklater, who gave us Waking Life, (also featuring Ethan Hawke). For those of you who have not seen Waking Life, let us simply say that, though it features splendidly original animation, the film is arguably the largest swamp-gas-filled-dirigible ever to cross the horizon.

    One can easily see why Mr. Linklater would be drawn to Mr. Belber's play, both Tape and Waking Life feature almost identical dialogue, it goes something like this:

    Why are we here? What? You know. You mean now? Yes, well, I think so. What? Stop kidding yourself, you know exactly what I mean. No I don't, honestly. What? Oh for God's sake, if you won't do it for me, do it for them. I'm not following you. But don't you see it? There are options, certainly. What? Would you like a beer? How many do you have left? Several, well, some, not as many as I thought I had, but enough to let you have one, depending on how badly you want one, do you want one? What? A beer. Is that why we're here, to talk about beer? No, of course not, it's what you might call polite conversation. Oh well that's just fine, our friendship has been reduced to the point of polite conversation, we no longer talk about real things, honest things? Great, now Mr. Smarty Pants wants to talk about real things, honest things, this is a very intriguing if not astounding turn of events. What? Since when are you interested in what's real, aren't you the one who spent years building a castle of lies, a fortress to protect you from feeling anything? I'm sorry, why am I here? Isn't that a question for you to answer? Perhaps, but you did, after all, invite me. What?

    For 83 minutes - and you never leave the room.

    5 out of 5 stars Very good.......2006-08-21

    Thought provoking film with good performances from Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman.

    5 out of 5 stars Richard Linklater's "Tape".......2006-06-03

    Vince, a drug dealer who loves to party, rents Room 19 at a Lansing, Michigan hotel, then waits for his friend Jon, a documentary filmmaker, to show up, and they talk about the "good old days" while trying to pass the time. Vince decides to record their whole conversation, and the film takes a turn when Jon admits to possibly raping Vince's ex-girlfriend, who joins the conversation later on. The three then decide to try to figure out if the rape was fictional or actually happened.

    "Tape" is a film adaptation of Stephen Belber's play. The film was directed by Richard Linklater, who decided to shoot the entire film on DV. It's an excellent, well acted, independent, dialogue-driven drama that will keep your attention throughout the duration of the film. One of the best films of 2001!

    4 out of 5 stars Riveting psychological drama features 3 great performances..........2006-02-28

    ...well actually the movie only stars 3 people and never moves outside of a hotel room.That may sound dull to most but this film has more tension and powerful moments than most big budget movies.A sharp playbased script about love and blackmail and assorted mindgames are what sets this movie apart from other "normal" films.Ethan Hawke is especially electrifying as the manipulative Vincent.Uma Thurman also proves she's a great actress even when she's not Killing Bill.This little gem fell through the cracks and deserves to be discovered.

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