Fever

Starring:William H. Burns, Ken Comer, Yehuda Duenyas, Bill Duke, Patricia Dunnock, Charles E. Gerber, Guy Griffis, Helen Hanft, Teri Hatcher, Alex Kilgore, Lisby Larson, David O'Hara, Marisol Padilla Sánchez, Remak Ramsay, Irma St. Paule, Henry Thomas, Jon Tracy, Sándor Técsy, Nan Wilson
Studio: Lions Gate
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- Travolta's Defining Role!
- Dance the night away
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Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
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Saturday Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's release in 1977, disco ruled the dance floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub; Tony's brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony's ambitions to break out of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive" (Travolta's theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The Oscar
®-nominated Travolta, plucked from the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter, for his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules. --Robert Horton
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Travolta's Defining Role!.......2007-04-28
Tony Manero (played brilliantly by John Travolta) is a 20 year old paint shop assistant living with his devout Catholic mom and his hard working dad. He doesn't get along very well with them. There are a lot of tense moments at the dinner table.
But on the weekends, Tony rules the disco! But this dancing champion of the New York disco scene needs to learn about how to treat other people like champions. He talks sassy to his mom, and he treats females with disrespect. He even blows off and ignores a friend who admires him and needs him most (the boy who commits suicide by jumping off the Verrazano Bridge).
But Tony starts to change when he meets a slightly older and more mature disco queen. He learns from her that treating people with respect is just as important as being good at what you do.
All the while, the movie is propelled by one of the greatest soundtracks in movie history, certainly the best disco album ever assembled. You also get a look at one segment of the late 1970s New York youth culture scene.
The movie still hits hard after 30 years.
Dance the night away.......2007-04-17
This movie is about a man and a woman, in the prime of their lives fighting the New york city meat grinder. They both find one another in a smoke filled bar and lit dance floor.They equally appreciate glances as one impresses the other on the dance floor. In the sounds of the legendary "Bee Gees" you find your self dancing your imagination away as the leading actors fight against each others impossible love that will never happen. Both actors find resolve in dance, and agree to be friends in the crazy world that is entertainment.
TRAVOLTA CARRIES THIS MOVIE!.......2007-04-11
Like another reviewer said, I too grew up hating this film. I was a young teen and a rocker and would not be caught dead watching this film. I have seen it many times now and I think it captures that 70's disco time period perfectly. Travolta is the whole show and of course the classic music soundtrack. The DVD has a good transfer and weak extras.
Classic film about the 1970s, filmed in the 1970s... .......2007-04-01
I had watched "Summer of Sam" not that long ago, and it seems like they tried to cram too many characters into this one neighborhood block. "Lords of Flatbush" also sprung to mind..this could've been one of their kids 20 years later.
Getting past the music, this is a downbeat film about people who live their boring lives to rule the night, some people who don't want to move on, others who want to get the hell out of there.
The people are portrayed as average joes, unsophisticated,the language is shocking by PC standards, sexual and vulgar. Travolta's Tony kind of reminds me of Tony from "West Side Story", someone who is a reluctant leader, only because they're the smartest out of the group. When he's on the dance floor, he is in his element.
I think that the people who hated disco at this time and the parodies that followed didn't give this film a chance, and the cut version really neutered it, but watching it uncut, it's a working class love story without turning into a chick flick.
They made a sequel but it was more over the top than gritty. Hopefully Travolta can return to being Tony one more time the way Stallone wound up Rocky's character.
Great Product & Service.......2007-03-26
I really bought this video because I love the Bee Gee's music. The story is just so-so but oooooh those moves. I love to watch people dance. Too bad the disco days are long gone. Travolta is great fun to watch. I pretend I am there with him on the dance floor. I would recommend this to anyone who loves dancing ang the Gibbs brothers' music.
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- Spike Lee - The Man
- You really get ur money's worth
- Good selection!
- YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!
- A Fantastic Collection That Is Very Affordable
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Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)
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Clockers
Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has the hyper-real quality of a stylized documentary. Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, the film focuses on Strike (newcomer Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious "clocker"--or drug dealer--who works the streets of his New York housing project, selling drugs for a local supplier named Rodney (played with ferocious charisma by Delroy Lindo). Just as Strike is struggling to get away from his dead-end life of crime, another dealer is murdered in a fast-food restaurant and local detectives (Harvey Keitel, John Turturro) consider Strike the primary suspect. In cowriting the script with novelist Price, Lee uses this murder mystery to explore the plague of guns and black-on-black crime in America's inner cities, in which drugs and death are familiar routines of daily life. The film doesn't pretend to offer solutions, nor does it dwell on the problem with numbing insistence. Rather, this taut, well-acted film takes the viewer into a world often hidden in plain sight--a world where options seem nonexistent for youth conditioned to have little or no expectation beyond a probable early death. Lee and Price are deadly serious in handling this volatile subject (which incorporates racism, powerless law enforcement, and political indifference), but Clockers is also blessed with humor, insight, and humanity. It's one of Lee's most confidently directed films, signaling a creative maturity that Lee continued to develop throughout the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon
Jungle Fever
Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another out of frustration with social obstacles as well as pure attraction--but is that enough for love to survive? John Turturro is featured in a subplot as an Italian American who grows attracted to a black woman and takes heat from his numbskull buddies. --Tom Keogh
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colorful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small misunderstandings. Set on one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer, the movie shows the whole spectrum of life in this neighborhood and then leaves it up to us to decide if, in the end, anybody actually does the "right thing." Featuring Danny Aiello as Sal, the pizza parlor owner; Lee himself as Mookie, the lazy pizza-delivery guy; John Turturro and Richard Edson as Sal's sons; Lee's sister Joie as Mookie's sister Jade; Rosie Perez as Mookie's girlfriend Tina; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as the block elders, Da Mayor and Mother Sister; Giancarlo Esposito as Mookie's hot-headed friend Buggin' Out; Bill Nunn as the boom-box toting Radio Raheem; and Samuel L. Jackson as deejay Mister Señor Love Daddy. A rich and nuanced film to watch, treasure, and learn from--over and over again. --Jim Emerson
Mo' Better Blues
With Mo' Better Blues, the story of a young trumpeter's rise to jazz-world stardom, Spike Lee set out to counter Clint Eastwood's cliché-ridden biopic of Charlie Parker in Bird. But the final product, a slick, glossy drama (with hip-hop jazz provided by Gangstarr no less), is just as superficial as the numerous Alger-esque stories of music stardom to which movie audiences are accustomed.
Denzel Washington gives a typically charismatic performance as the trumpeter in question, as does Wesley Snipes as his sax-playing rival. And as with most Spike Lee films, there are numerous solid performers in small roles such as Bill Nunn, Latin-music star Rubén Blades, and comedian Robin Harris. One character, however, attracted unwanted attention: John Turturro's role as an unscrupulous music-industry exec. Critics called the Turturro character, who is at once money hungry, swarthy, and perpetually shrouded in darkness, a classic anti-Semitic caricature. But the charge seems almost irrelevant in Spike Lee's cartoonish, overstylized world of impossibly hunky jazzmen, curvaceous hangers-on, and incessant bebop. --Ethan Brown
Crooklyn
Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences (mom and dad are played by Delroy Lindo and Alfre Woodard), and who navigates the life of her neighborhood. Lee tosses in a lot of '70s detail (watching The Partridge Family) and other diversions (Harris's journey through suburbia), but he has no master sensibility controlling the flow of it all. The film is more wearying than anything, although bright spots include Lindo's fine performance as a talented man suffering from irrelevance. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Five groundbreaking films from prolific filmmaker Spike Lee come together in this collection. Starring such heavyweights as Rosie Perez, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and John Turturro in career-defining roles, the films include CROOKLYN, DO THE RIGHT THING, CLOCKERS, JUNGLE FEVER, and MO' BETTER BLUES. See individual titles for descriptions.
Format: DVD MOVIE
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Spike Lee - The Man.......2007-06-20
They could have put a movie on the other side of Crooklyn :(, Im still extremely satisfied. This is a piff collection. Spike did a great job capturing the essence (the lighter side) of emotion of every day life living in relative poverty like he did in Crooklyn. Watching these movies made me feel as if I were an invisible character.
You really get ur money's worth.......2007-05-14
I really like this collection, even though I thought it should have included his first work, school daze, instead of Clockers, u get five dvd's for the price of 1.
Good selection!.......2007-03-21
The only reason I gave it 4 stars and not a 5 is because not everyone will be happy with all 5 Films in this Collection. Point blank is that this a must get. You cannot beat the price for a good selection of quality American films. Very satisfied!
YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!.......2007-03-16
5 CLASSIC FILMS BY ONE OF THE BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME FOR $20.00! IF YOU THINK THIS ISN'T A GREAT DEAL THAN OBVIOUSLY THERE IS A PROBLEM! MO BETTA BLUES IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL PUT TOGETHER PIECES AND IF YOU ENJOY THE FILMS I SUGGEST LISTENING TO THE ACTUAL SOUNDTRACKS.
A Fantastic Collection That Is Very Affordable.......2007-03-12
There are a few artists who come to mind - Peter Max, for example - who strongly believe that their craft should be accessible to fans at any income level. Simply, art is solely not defined by its high price tag.
With the release of the Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn), the legendary film maker is making a very strong statement in the movie industry on producing an extraordinary product at an affordable price.
This is Economics 101 at its simplest, five movies for the cost of a couple of movie tickets at most theaters. It is as much a collection for fans of Lee's career as it an outstanding sampler for those just getting into his style.
And it begs a very important question; if Lee and Max - along with others - can do it, why isn't this practical approach done industry-wide within the arts?
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- Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways.
- Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com
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Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Drew Barrymore , Jimmy Fallon , Jason Spevack , Jack Kehler , and Scott Severance
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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon
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According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.
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i love this movie!!!.......2007-05-15
i absolutely love drew barrymore. so of course i needed this movie in my dvd collection. it's adorable... funny, romantic... the whole bit! i recommend it to everyone!
To all Red Sox Fans!.......2007-05-08
If you're a true blue New Englander, you'll love this light romantic comedy. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious in his depiction of an overly zealous Red sox fan witnessing the demise of the "curse of the bambino" and the winning of the world series.
FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING.......2007-04-10
Barrymore and Fallon work well together in this sports nut romantic comedy. One of the better ones I've seen in a while. A good DVD transfer and some funny extras make this a good buy.
Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways........2007-03-11
I really like the Red Sox Trivia and memorabilia found in this movie. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite Red Sox Memories on a movie screen. I thought that Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore did a great job. There was a great chemistry bewteen them. That is to say...I was convinced that they were in love. The ending of the movie was great. I liked the drama of watching Lindsay run across Fenway Park just to get back together with Ben before he sells his tickets. I think the best word to use when describing this movie is "cute."
However, I'm just tired of watching movies that make men look like idiots. Clearly, the main focus of this film is the stupidity of men and how they need women to teach them how to act appropriatly. I mean, in many ways, Ben is no more mature than an eight year old. That is an extreme and unfair portrayal of male baseball fans in my opinion.
Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com.......2007-02-05
At the core of this genial, by-the-numbers 2005 rom-com is a great idea - can a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan find a loving relationship with anything but his season tickets at Fenway Park? The Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, seem like the ideal choice for the potential comic hi-jinks, but it turns out to be a much softer, more predictable film than I hoped it would be. The plot focuses on Ben, a high school geometry teacher whose lifelong obsession with the Red Sox has obscured other aspects of his life. Through a field trip with a group of his students, he meets Lindsey, a successful executive at a firm that appears to specialize in statistical information. Given that Ben is a man-child and Lindsey has exalted expectations about men that need to be cut down a few pegs, they hit it off, especially after he nurses her through a strenuous bout with food poisoning. But things start to go rather awry when spring training begins. The rest is pretty formulaic until it hits a crisis point just before the Red Sox turn it around and become play-off contenders. Real-life events intrude upon the plot as we know the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
Although he is convincing as a baseball fanatic, Jimmy Fallon is a bit too herky-jerky a screen persona to be entirely comfortable as a romantic lead. As Lindsey, Drew Barrymore, however, appears to be maturing into a fine comic actress. At her most idiosyncratic moments, she reminds me a bit of Jean Arthur. The rest of the cast is made up of ensembles of actors representing his and her friends and his Sox-based family in his ticket section at Fenway. Even with welcome faces like Ione Skye (where has she been since ""Say Anything"?) and Marissa Jaret Winokur of Broadway's "Hairspray" as two of Lindsey's friends and even JoBeth Williams as her mother, the characters remain pretty much generic filler. The predictable elements should come as no surprise since Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the team behind Billy Crystal's generic 1990's comedies, wrote the screenplay. Regardless, there is a certain charm that persists through the whole venture. The 2005 DVD has the usual assortment of extras - insightful though sometimes random commentary by the Farrellys on an alternate track, an eight-minute making-of short produced for the FOX network, two-minute featurettes on the love story angle and the Red Sox's comeback over the Yankees, thirteen deleted scenes of varying interest, a so-so gag reel and the theatrical trailer.
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Funny Farm
Starring: Chevy Chase , Madolyn Smith Osborne , Kevin O'Morrison , Joseph Maher , and Jack Gilpin
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Release Date: 1999-05-18 |
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George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this 1988 comedy that gives star Chevy Chase one of his better-quality vehicles. Chase plays a New York sportswriter who turns to the country for a simpler, happier way of living. He discovers, of course, that things don't work out that way. Hill's usual touch with comic timing, tone, and dialogue give Chase a rare career opportunity to be part of something a little classier than most of his other movies; but Funny Farm nevertheless has its share of so-what gags. Still, the film's overall tone is winning and laid-back, and it makes for nice escapist fare. --Tom Keogh
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Funny Farm DVD.......2007-06-01
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Favorite all time holiday movies. It will keep you laughing from beginning till end.
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Another great film by Chevy Chase. The entire movie provides laughs and lite entertainment. Great for all ages.
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Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such. Lee makes an interesting and subtle case that they are driven to one another out of frustration with social obstacles as well as pure attraction--but is that enough for love to survive? John Turturro is featured in a subplot as an Italian American who grows attracted to a black woman and takes heat from his numbskull buddies. --Tom Keogh
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way to scary and crazy!.......2007-06-17
Look I have seen some people diapprove of interracial relationships but not like this. I mean in this film the way Spike lee show's people being against these two people being together is as if's the End of the world or someting. And I remember the first time I saw this movie it was on TV But I sure as Hell didn'd buy it so I decided to bowor it from the library and there was some seens that was to strong for me to watch. Please Take my advice if you want to see a movie about interracial relationships then please don't buy this garbage. Instead get the movie called Far from heaven now that movie makes more sense. And let me tell I am so aganist Racism as a matter of fact I'm a member of an Organization that fights hard against racism and that Organization is called the Communist Party of the USA yes that's right I'm a Communist and I'd rather be one than be a Racist and I'm black. Please don't get the misconception that were evil and against religion we just help people that are oppressed and we fight peace for proof go CPUSA.org
Open up your eyes, and you will be surprised to see what the world is truly like........2007-06-05
Ever since "Romeo and Juliet" people have been fascinated by love that crosses cultural barriers. Romeo and Juliet a la Spike Lee is the story of Flipper, a middle-class black architect from Harlem and Angie, a working-class Italian-American from Brooklyn. In Jungle Fever, Lee returns to the theme of racial tensions that marked his breakthrough film, "Do the Right Thing." The result is big, bold, vibrant and more than a little sprawling. By the end of it you feel run over by a truck. Everyone in the film has been somehow touched by Flip and Angie's affair. Drew throws Flip out of the house (and some people may wonder why Lee finds the affair's interracial nature more of a sin than its being a marital infidelity). Fathers on both sides disown their children. And a lot of people become self-conscious about their own ethnicity - dark-skinned Italians just as much as light-skinned blacks.
Lee's forte is scenes of confrontation, and Jungle Fever is a series of them, scorchingly written, extremely well acted and utterly riveting. (Sensitive souls should note that, along with "Goodfellas," this film held the Hollywood record for profanity, though it's long since been surpassed.) What he isn't able to do - at this stage of his career at least - is to organize them into a shapely narrative. The film doesn't really build, but stays pretty much on one pitch throughout. And, towards the end, Lee loses the love story in favor of a subplot featuring Flip's crack-addict older brother Gator (Samuel L. Jackson). The scene where Flip has to go to a crack den called the Taj Mahal to find Gator, scored to Stevie Wonder's "Livin' for the City", is terrific, and one of the best-sustained sequences Lee has ever filmed. But it's in the wrong film. Gator's story has no relevance to the central story of interracial love, apart from his addiction being a parallel sin of the flesh to Flip's adultery in the eyes of their father, played with painful dignity and restraint by Ossie Davis. Samuel L. Jackson broke out from a series of minor roles as hoodlums with this performance, which won him a specially-created Supporting Actor Award at Cannes. But by this time in the film, Flip and Angie's story has almost been forgotten. That's Halle Berry, by the way, as Gator's equally addicted girlfriend.
You could say that Lee is less interested in the love story than in examining its effects. He's also far less interested in Angie (though Sciorra does her best with the part) than he is in Flip: the film ends with him with her all but written out. Lee had faced accusations of sexism from his first feature (She's Gotta Have It) onwards. He certainly tries to answer them here: there's a long sequence where Drew and her friends pour out their grievances about the men in their lives. It's a brave attempt, though it fails Joanna Russ's test for fully-dimensional female characters: do two women have a conversation at any time in the story that isn't about men? Not here they don't: the conversation is entirely about men, their ways, and their......parts.
Other pluses are Ernest Dickerson's camerawork, the visual stylization toned down somewhat since Do the Right Thing - though Lee has developed a signature shot, where characters seem to glide rather than walk. The film also benefits from several newly-written songs from Stevie Wonder, though the best-used example is a pre-existing one, "Livin' in the City" cited above.
Interesting, from start to finish!!!.......2007-02-09
This is a film that looks at interracial dating from all walks of life. I think that this is one of Spike Lee's best films to date. Spike Lee literally makes your conscience alert and aware with all of his films. He is a genius, and this film makes his point. Great acting by all, especially Lonette Mc Kee, and definitely Tyra Ferrell. I love this film, one of my favorites of all time!!!!
Truth hurts doesn't it!.......2006-11-22
I read some of the negative reviews on here and I just laughed at how naive some people are. They call this a racist movie, it is horrible, and spike shouldn't make movies anymore. But if these people open their eyes, they will realize that all of the negative comments and actions in the movie really happen. It is true on both sides black and white. The movie was made to expose how we are as a people in general and to expose the ignorance that different races have about each other. Not only does the movie address race but it also addresses drug problems in the community as well as issues that affect families. But I guess some people are too narrow minded to catch that. Anyway this is a classic Spike Lee film with great cinematography, good script, and an awesome cast. Definitely a dvd for your collection
Wesley should do more of this type of movie.......2006-09-14
he is a good actor and good looking. But this movie is like most of Spike's movies, always with the Black/White at odds issue. I think the subject should be put to rest, it has become boring. To each his own, I say, and everyone is entitled to her/his own opinion on the subject of race relations. Life could be so simple if the powers that be, Black & White, were not so power hungry and greedy. Why can't they let us live in peace and tolerance without pitting us against each other for their amusement. Wake up people - all governments are evil!
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Starring: Richard Boone (II) , Hal Courtney , Charee Cuthrell , James DeBello , and Jana Farmer
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A sneaky and surprisingly smart horror flick, Cabin Fever sets up all the cliches of its particular subgenre (what might be called the "sexy young people go into the woods" horror movie, featuring hostile redneck locals, dead animals on hooks, cars that suddenly stop running, etc.) and by the end has played a clever twist on every standard element, often to darkly comic effect. What's the plot? Well, five sexy young people (Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, Cerina Vincent, and James DeBello) go to an isolated cabin where they contract a nasty bacteria that eats their flesh; this, combined with a bad-tempered dog and a party-loving police deputy (Giuseppe Andrews, giving a particularly funny performance), leads everyone into confusion and bloody chaos. Some of the ironic twists are a little obvious, but most of them effectively subvert your expectations to entertaining effect. --Bret Fetzer
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Well...least it was better than Hostel.......2007-07-01
Cabin Fever has a weirdly unique place in the recent horror movies in that it's not completely part of that "torture porn" crop of movies that focus mainly on disgusting audiences than outright terrifying them. Cabin Fever on the other hand wants to be a horror film like seen a lot during the 70's. Problem is the film has an identity crisis in that it doesn't know what it wants to be. A funny horror movie? A scary comedy? Sometimes that dual personality works but here it feels too disjointed...plus it's kinda bad too.
Taking the familiar theme of a group of teenagers into the woods, you'd think some mask-toting killer with stalk ever so slowly after them right? Wrong. Turns out, the cool guy and the sex bomb, the awkward teen and the sweet chick and a lunkhead have to deal with a flesh-eating disease, a rabid dog and weird locals. You know, the usual.
That's pretty much the plot in a nutshell. Granted, it's nice to see a new killer wiping out the kiddies but even then, it's still a little thin. Not to mention these are some of the illogical choice-making kids ever and in the horror genre, that's seriously saying something. One character, the sweet guy, decides to fondle the object of his desires since grade 8...while she's sleeping. Yes, that's right, sleeping. And when said girl has to be sheltered off somewhere, he decides to have sex with the sex bomb. Figures he might as well get in some sex since he knows he's going to die anyway. Or maybe he's just dumb.
The disjointed feel comes in the way of humor adding in. There's the infamous "pancakes" scene that feels like it should be in a parody of bad kung fu movies then horror. Was it meant to lighten the tension? Or is it just simply trying to be a funny movie mixed in with the gore stuff to set it apart from serious ilk such as High Tension. Either make it a straight ahead horror comedy like Army of Darkness or go completely for the horror.
Like Hostel, the DVD is loaded with more commentaries than anything. And of course, writer/director Eli Roth is everywhere with a track by himself, with the girls, the guys, Rider Strong who's so gabby he needs his own track and a filmmaker commentary. But that don't mean anything if it's attached to a good movie and in this case, it's all for naught.
I don't know if a horror fan will completely love it. From Saw to Shining, Cabin Fever is just somewhere else. Don't mean unique means quality either.
Im Shocked.......2007-06-21
Not only with the movie itself, but with all these low reviews on it. Ive seen the movie quite a few times and its never failed to creep me out, or to entertain me. Ive always thought it to be one of the better horror films, especially with this new crap coming out. In my eyes this movie is 10x better than Hostel and many other horror films made around the last few years. It never trys to be a serious film and it never wants to be. Its a fun, thrill you, make you piss your pants type film. Just gory fun is the best way to describe it. This isnt the most graphic horror film Ive seen, but nevertheless it makes me feel sick everytime I watch it. To me the whole idea of just one little glass of water causing all this conflict is just scary because it feels like it could happen. Not to mention, I had a glass of water beside me during the whole film! Needless to say, I only took one little sip. I must be a coward, but the film can be very creepy. I really loved the effects in the film and the acting. Its just a fun horror flick. It succeeds as that very much. I enjoyed it a lot.
Not So Good.......2007-05-21
My viewing of Cabin Fever was inspired by Eli Roth's recent success with the Hostel franchise, and involvement in Grindhouse. I must, say that I was disappointed in Cabin Fever. The premise is good enough, but the inclusion of the townfolk, and the wild karate child are too much. With all that going on, the stoy is not developed enough. If they had only focused on the teens in the cabin, and their issues, it might have been a better movie.
Simply one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen..........2007-04-18
...Definetley the grossest. So I guess that counts for something. This movie is truly disgusting. So if that's what you're into then you'll ptobably really like this movie. Other than the gross out factor there's really not much more to this movie. So there's really no need to spend anymore time on this review.
Run For Your Lives!!! It's the... uh... slow-acting, easy-to-detect disease..........2007-02-01
Not a good horror movie.
Cabin Fever, the story of teens who waste away from a flesh-eating bacteria while camping in the woods, sounded like it might have the potential to be a sort of ground-breaker. A slasher film where the "slasher" is disease? Tons of interesting possibilites, there. Sadly, this movie doesn't follow any of the cool new roads it had open to it, instead relying on the same tired formulas we've already seen a thousand times. Worse, though, is that none of those formulas really work in this movie, either. This isn't just cliche; it's cliche done poorly.
One of the basic problems Cabin Fever suffers from is this: the Stupid Teens of this film are only camping. It's not like they're in some remote jungle of South America or anything, so it's hard to understand how they can all waste away from a disease, since 1) they have a car, 2) there are plenty of other people around, 3) they know about the disease, and want to leave the campsite and 4) the disease takes some time to take over and has obvious symptoms.
So: how do we keep those Stupid Teens at the camp, despite the fact that they're being ravaged by a disease? By making them Extra-Super Stupid! Also, by coming up with a series of contrived coincidences and happenings to delay and deter their efforts to leave. And so, the kids manage to shoot up their own car (even then, it's still basically operable, but never mind that); there's a mean dog that they're afraid of, discouraging them from going outside; the local deputy is a dimwit party boy, and thus is no help; the town locals are Deliverance-style, and so actually scarier (and more villainous) than the disease is; the teens accidentally offend the other backwoods people in various ways.
It's just all... silly, when they could just, you know... drive away to a city or something and get help. But they don't do that, because the characters don't want to get in their "diseased car" and so they stay in the (healthy?) cabin in the (healthy?) woods.
In the end, and sadly, the disease just makes for a poor villain. Disease can't chase someone. It can't jump out from behind a corner. It can't hide in a closet. So, instead of the disease threatening our Teens, we need all sorts of other, contrived things to provide our suspense and death-sequences. Almost no-one in this movie dies of the disease--instead, they're accidentally killed by others, or shot by local yokels, or hit by cars, or mauled by dogs, etc. The diesase is just what makes everyone act like (more of) an idiot.
Except for Masque of the Red Death, Cabin Fever is the only disease-centered horror story I can think of. The idea has a lot of potential, but Cabin Fever takes advantage of none of it, instead relying on the same horror movie conventions that we've seen for almost thirty years. That would be okay if they were done well; they're not--the events in this movie feel contrived and corny and there's no real suspense or fright to be found. A complete disappointment.
Two stars.
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Rumpled, amiable Colin Firth plays a rumpled, amiable English teacher named Paul. He's also an obsessive football (soccer to us Americans) fan who's been avidly following the Arsenal team for 18 years. When he falls into a relationship with a new teacher named Sarah (played by Ruth Gemmel), his deep attachment to Arsenal proves an obstacle. This sounds like some cheap men-and-women-don't-understand-each-other setup, but instead Fever Pitch not only explores the origins of Paul's football fandom, it actually communicates an infectious sense of what that kind of sports enthusiasm can mean, how it can provide an almost tribal identity. Even better, the movie takes this devotion seriously without ever losing sight of how it can be completely ridiculous at the same time, resulting in some amazing, funny scenes. Gemmel is charming, and Firth is simply superb. He's a great actor who's never quite fit into conventional leading man roles and so tends to play oddballs and redeemable villains, as in Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, and Apartment Zero. He's a perfect fit for this script, written by Nick Hornby (author of High Fidelity and About a Boy) from his novel of the same name. The humor of this movie is all the more engaging because it's grounded in richly developed characters and emotions. Fever Pitch is excellent. Also featuring a hilarious cameo by Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Guinevere). --Bret Fetzer
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Good- not great.......2007-06-13
I much prefered the book to the movie, and was especially disappointed by Colin Firth (who I normally love in movies!) I found the main character not charming and relatable, though a bit quirky like he was in the book- but completely annoying and a bit crazy. That said, anything with soccer fields in it makes me happy. And I definately prefered this version to the baseball american one.
Horrible cover art for a great film.......2007-05-13
Although the cover art for "Fever Pitch" gives one the impression that the film is some kind of soccer sex comedy, the film is actually a touching and funny account of one man's obsession with an English soccer team and how that obsession can get in the way of real life. Adapted by Nick Hornby from his excellent memoir of the same name, the film has fine performances from an able cast that includes Colin Firth. If you are an English soccer fanatic like me, the film is a must see. An American remake was made later that uses baseball as the obsession rather than soccer, but who cares?
Fever Pitch Supreme.......2006-08-29
This is a funny and touching movie at times. I saw the American re-hash of it but it didn't traslate as well to baseball. As this is Nick Hornby's autobiography how could it. He's English and an Arsenal fan. It's a shame this movie will not be seen in the States. Whoever made the decision to change it to an American version did a gross mis-service to this film. I have found American audiences to be very receptive to British movies
Fever Pitch.......2005-07-20
This movie is pretty good if you like British films which I do. Colin Firth does a great job at playing the crazed Arsenal football fan, and I have a feeling that if you also live and die for Arsenal, you'll like the film even more than I did. The only downside to the movie is that it does drag at parts, but overall, it's witty and funny.
Have you ever cared for anything for 18 years?.......2005-06-28
This is the original Fever Pitch, with the screenplay based on the novel both written by Nick Hornsby, who really knows how to write about people. It is a very likable film. Colin Firth plays a wonderful Joe Sixpack; who knew?! It is interesting to see other members in the cast, who have also played more august roles on BBC productions on PBS play regular folk. This is an obsessive guy who questions why we aren't obsessive too - and his reasoning is hard to discount. However there is a point where I was so fed up with him and angry after his speech about caring for anything for 18 years that I was ready to shut the DVD player off. Since when does an obsessive have the right to make a moral judgment? For a comedy, it was teetering on the edge of becoming too dark. Well, the big match is preparing to happen and I feel like I should be getting snacks and be worried about traffic. Also, the actors interacting with the action on television was priceless. The drama building up was a rush. Without wanting to spoil any endings, I almost died laughing with how a climactic moment is portrayed. The soundtrack is wonderful, capturing the time and mood very well.
I have no idea if Hornsby will ever resent how some of us look forward to his hand the storytelling and in the music direction of films with his name in the credits. He is one of those writers who seems to offer clarity on living in the modern world and also include a refreshing list of musicians I never heard before in the process or a refreshing perspective of music I have been listening to for most of my life.
It is disappointing that this movie was not marketed on this side of the pond. A good movie like this can teach even Americans to understand soccer. Although, being a neophyte baseball fan, I am curious how the American remake will translate with what sounds like an interesting cast. Still, my fellow Americans, give this a chance. If you like it and feel a little more adventurous, if you have 3 1/2 hours, make some time to learn about cricket by watching an Indian music set in the Kutch during the British Raj titled Lagaan.
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The Farrelly brothers continue their good-natured winning streak with Fever Pitch, a romantic comedy charmed by fate and last-minute improvisation. The movie was originally written with a bittersweet ending, but something unexpected happened (kismet, or perhaps divine intervention?) when the Boston Red Sox scored miraculous victories in the 2004 playoffs and World Series, and Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were there, in character, to celebrate love and baseball as a pair of amiable lovers who learn to share their lives while accommodating Fallon's life-long passion for the Red Sox. You really have to love baseball to forgive the formulaic romance by veteran Hollywood screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (who also wrote A League of Their Own, and could write this stuff in their sleep), but the codirecting Farrellys make it work, along with the easygoing chemistry of Barrymore and Fallon. The movie bears little resemblance to Nick Hornby's source novel (which was more faithfully adapted as a 1997 British comedy starring Colin Firth), but anyone who enjoyed High Fidelity or About a Boy will recognize Hornby's keen understanding of men and women, and the hazards we all endure when playing the game of love. --Jeff Shannon
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According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon), finding romance is about as likely as his beloved team winning the World Series. But when Ben scores a beautiful new girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way... if he doesn't strike out first.
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i love this movie!!!.......2007-05-15
i absolutely love drew barrymore. so of course i needed this movie in my dvd collection. it's adorable... funny, romantic... the whole bit! i recommend it to everyone!
To all Red Sox Fans!.......2007-05-08
If you're a true blue New Englander, you'll love this light romantic comedy. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious in his depiction of an overly zealous Red sox fan witnessing the demise of the "curse of the bambino" and the winning of the world series.
FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WORTH WATCHING.......2007-04-10
Barrymore and Fallon work well together in this sports nut romantic comedy. One of the better ones I've seen in a while. A good DVD transfer and some funny extras make this a good buy.
Funny Movie...just a bit harsh in some ways........2007-03-11
I really like the Red Sox Trivia and memorabilia found in this movie. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite Red Sox Memories on a movie screen. I thought that Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore did a great job. There was a great chemistry bewteen them. That is to say...I was convinced that they were in love. The ending of the movie was great. I liked the drama of watching Lindsay run across Fenway Park just to get back together with Ben before he sells his tickets. I think the best word to use when describing this movie is "cute."
However, I'm just tired of watching movies that make men look like idiots. Clearly, the main focus of this film is the stupidity of men and how they need women to teach them how to act appropriatly. I mean, in many ways, Ben is no more mature than an eight year old. That is an extreme and unfair portrayal of male baseball fans in my opinion.
Baseball Obsession Becomes a Relationship Hurdle in a Genial Rom-Com.......2007-02-05
At the core of this genial, by-the-numbers 2005 rom-com is a great idea - can a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan find a loving relationship with anything but his season tickets at Fenway Park? The Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, seem like the ideal choice for the potential comic hi-jinks, but it turns out to be a much softer, more predictable film than I hoped it would be. The plot focuses on Ben, a high school geometry teacher whose lifelong obsession with the Red Sox has obscured other aspects of his life. Through a field trip with a group of his students, he meets Lindsey, a successful executive at a firm that appears to specialize in statistical information. Given that Ben is a man-child and Lindsey has exalted expectations about men that need to be cut down a few pegs, they hit it off, especially after he nurses her through a strenuous bout with food poisoning. But things start to go rather awry when spring training begins. The rest is pretty formulaic until it hits a crisis point just before the Red Sox turn it around and become play-off contenders. Real-life events intrude upon the plot as we know the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
Although he is convincing as a baseball fanatic, Jimmy Fallon is a bit too herky-jerky a screen persona to be entirely comfortable as a romantic lead. As Lindsey, Drew Barrymore, however, appears to be maturing into a fine comic actress. At her most idiosyncratic moments, she reminds me a bit of Jean Arthur. The rest of the cast is made up of ensembles of actors representing his and her friends and his Sox-based family in his ticket section at Fenway. Even with welcome faces like Ione Skye (where has she been since ""Say Anything"?) and Marissa Jaret Winokur of Broadway's "Hairspray" as two of Lindsey's friends and even JoBeth Williams as her mother, the characters remain pretty much generic filler. The predictable elements should come as no surprise since Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the team behind Billy Crystal's generic 1990's comedies, wrote the screenplay. Regardless, there is a certain charm that persists through the whole venture. The 2005 DVD has the usual assortment of extras - insightful though sometimes random commentary by the Farrellys on an alternate track, an eight-minute making-of short produced for the FOX network, two-minute featurettes on the love story angle and the Red Sox's comeback over the Yankees, thirteen deleted scenes of varying interest, a so-so gag reel and the theatrical trailer.
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From Joone, the award-winning director of Pirates, comes Island Fever 4, the most beautiful and erotic DVD you will ever experience. Shot entirely in HD on location in the Bahamas and Bora Bora, starring Jesse Jane, Teagan Presley, Jana Cova, Sophia Santi, Kinzie Kenner and Marie Luv. Over 3 hours long with an additional 2 hours of bonus materials. XXX version.
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Set sail for erotic adventures as Peach DVD invites you to journey to the Far East. Gorgeous geisha girls Felicia Tang, Linda Tran, Teanna Kai, Josie Lee and Akira Lane will shower you with affection and attend to your every need. Experts in the ancient art of kama sutra and seductive satisfaction, these smoldering beauties are the perfect remedy for anyone lucky enough to catch...Asian Fever.
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Peach's finest to date........2006-06-20
Softcore doesn't come much more enjoyable. "Ultra Vixens: Asian Fever" is Peach's most sustained effort to date. The opening salvo in this fine series contains no recycled stuff as of the time of its appearance, and is chock full of extras. Best of all, it serves up one smoking stroker of a nude scene after another, with some of the hottest Asian temptresses on the internet.
Models include, in sequence:
1. Linda Tran, Teanna Kai, & Felicia Tang
2. Akira Lane
3. Linda Tran
4. Felicia Tang
5. Josie Lee
6. Felicia Tang & Teanna Kai
7. Linda Tran
8. Teanna Kai
9. Josie Lee
10. Akira Lane & Josie Lee
Chapter one sets the tone, with Linda Tran, Teanna Kai, and Felicia Tang frolicking wet and au naturel, rubbing their frisky hardbodies together in a fountain. It really makes for an eye-popping opener. While it's true that this multi-angle segment's been reprised and used to pad other releases, I believe it appeared here first. Akira Lane's up next, posing nude in the California sun against a brilliant blue sky. Akira's a big-boobed girl with curves in all the right places, albeit with some tummy chubbiness. She's a knockout, though, and is obviously having great fun being an exhibitionist. Her attitude's contagious.
Linda Tran is always a welcome sight on these kinds of discs. Linda has a killer smile, plus one of the most amazing butts I've seen. She's easily as glamorous as anyone here, but half her appeal is that simultaneously, she also manages to come across as very much the cute girl next door. My favorite, Felicia Tang, is also well represented by three fantastic chapters, including a solo where she writhes completely naked by a waterfall, and two fantasies with other ladies. Of the latter, one shows Felicia and Teanna Kai washing a Mercedes in a driveway on a scorching, hot day. This is another multi-angle bit that's been replayed several times on other Peach offerings, but again, I think it was available here initially. Josie Lee, a cute, pigtailed model with whom I was previously unfamiliar, is also glimpsed in three erotic vignettes, two with her alone, and one a steamy, girl-girl grope co-starring Akira (also multi-angle). I liked her a lot, and hope to see more.
My sole complaint about this DVD is that there's no chapter index to view these individually, a curious omission. One opts to "Play All," and fast forwards as desired, and that's about it. Of the special features, I particularly appreciated the inclusion of commentary with some of the women (Felicia, Akira, and Linda). These show good cheer on the part of everyone who's interviewed, as far as how they feel about the crazy thing they do for a living (and God bless 'em, each and every one, for doing so). It's funny how certain questions that I'd really like to hear the answers to never quite seem to come up, though (for instance, "How does your family feel about what you're doing?"). Well, maybe next time.
There's also a clever "Take Your Order" interactive game, where the viewer gets to choose from a list comprised of Akira, Josie, Felicia, Teanna and Linda. The player's asked to select which exotic food is each girl's favorite, and three correct answers in a row yield bonus video centerfolds.
Peach has yet to match the level of enthusiasm that clearly went into creating this. Happily, this excellent title continues with 2004's "Ultra Vixens - Asians II" and 2006's "Ultra Vixens: Asians III."
Peach Ultra Vixens- Asian Fever DVD Guy review.......2005-08-07
I think Peach did great DVD. It is one of the best DVDs I have ever seen. To me all of the women in the DVD are good looking. The three I liked the most were Felicia Tang, Akira Lane, and Teanna Kai. Felicia Tang was the best looking one of them all. I loved all three parts she was in. The part in the DVD I like the most is when Felicia Tang and Teanna Kai got together and had themself's a little car wash. That was very very very very hot. In short I liked or loved everything in it and did not dislike anything in it. I know they have a two but I think they need to make more.
Now that's what I mean............2005-01-25
This video is a good showcase of sexy Asian women. Peach has done well with this video. Professionally done, as are most of Peach's products.
Forget Asians II with massive silicone. That was mediocre in comparison. This DVD features all attractive,sexy women with silicone that doesn't overwhelm or look phony. Different sizes to satisfy all. Hot is the term that describes this DVD quite well. Good job.
HOTT!.......2004-03-10
Teanna Kai and Felicia Tang are definitely the stars of this DVD. Beautiful, with perfect bodies. Funny behind the scenes footage and a bonus scene worth finding!
Cute.......2004-03-02
Awesome babes. All of them! Needs more action though. Some dancing woud be nice. They mostly sit around and pet themselves.
A few segments have multipule angles. To bad all the segments don't. Some of the angles are too much alike or too far away.
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