Art of Revenge

Starring:Stephan Jenkins, Joyce Hyser, Nichole Hiltz, Tembi Locke, David DeLuise, Anthony John Denison, Lowe Taylor
Director: Simon Gornick
Studio: Mti Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Mallrats [HD DVD]
Starring: Ben Affleck , Elizabeth Ashley , Priscilla Barnes , David Brinkley , and Shannen Doherty
Director: Kevin Smith
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000OHZL2Q
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Description

From Kevin Smith, the acclaimed director of Clerks, comes this outrageous story of two loafers, Jeremy London (The Babysitter) and Jason Lee (Kissing a Fool), who spend way too much time hanging out at the mall. When Brodie (Lee) is dumped by his girlfriend, Shannen Doherty (Heathers, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), he retreats to the mall with his best friend T.S. (London), whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated twosome decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of the ultimate delinquents, Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) and Jay (Jason Mewes), whose continuing adventures take the word "nuisance" to a whole new level.

Payback - The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition)

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Hmm...you won't like this cut if you liked the "smart-a**" Porter.
Better!
A good movie that got better.
If You Saw The Theatrical Version...
What a waste

Payback - The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition)
Starring: Mel Gibson , Gregg Henry , Maria Bello , David Paymer , and Bill Duke
Director: Brian Helgeland
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B000M3439O
Release Date: 2007-04-10

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There were reasons writer-director Brian Helgeland's cut of Payback was dismissed by distributors Paramount and Warner Bros., then heavily re-shot and re-tooled by Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Entertainment. Those reasons are explained in detail by Gibson, Helgeland, and others in the special features of Payback: The Director's Cut (Special Collector's Edition). Among them: Helgeland's version was too dark. America wasn't ready in 1999 to see Gibson play an unapologetic, 1970s-style antihero who might not get exactly what he wants. Audiences didn't have the patience to wait for answers to their story questions. A dog dies. (A big no-no.) All of these comments make sound, practical sense. But here's the bottom line: Helgeland's cut, perhaps even a bit more disciplined and taut (according to Payback's editor, Kevin Stitt) than it was in 1999, is a serious movie with an organic tone and logic that makes the film look the way it was meant to look: as a neo-noir film for adults. The theatrical release of Payback, by contrast, was and is silly and vulgar, self-sabotaging, pointlessly vicious, and perversely jaunty. It is very much like--deliberately like--the Lethal Weapon series. The Director's Cut makes clear that's not at all what Helgeland had in mind.

Kudos to Gibson and Icon for giving Helgeland a chance to restore his film and get it out on this DVD. But a look at both versions (this disc does not include the theatrical cut) back-to-back can certainly make one's head spin. Icon's revisions in the original release show little faith in a contemporary audience's ability to discern much about a story or mood or character from spare but telling details. That film relies on crass swatches of voiceover narration, cute inserts, added scenes, and hipster tunes on the soundtrack. All of that was designed to tell an audience how to feel rather than encourage a cinematic experience encountered with an open heart and mind. Worst of all is a specious third act nakedly built around an obligatory Gibson-gets-tortured sequence, leading the film to a lazy, comforting conclusion. The Director's Cut eschews all of that. Gibson's character, Porter (based on the central character in the novel "The Hunter," written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark), is a man returning from the brink of death with nothing but his identity and the memory of something (an almost-nominal amount of money) taken from him. His iron determination, his capacity for brutality and inducing fear, and his survival instinct make him anything but warm and cuddly. It's his few ties to the past--especially an interrupted relationship with a call girl (Maria Bello)--that humanize him. One doesn't have to like Porter; one just accepts him and follows his journey in an honest, unmitigated fashion. That's exactly what Helgeland does, and his cleaner, leaner, smarter cut is instantly rewarding for its uncompromising, undistracted toughness. Special features include a documentary about the film's history, and a wonderful interview with Westlake. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Hmm...you won't like this cut if you liked the "smart-a**" Porter........2007-06-13

My brother and I love the theatrical cut because of the dark humor throughout the film. To the director's cut credit, we always thought the kidnapping part of the rich son was stupid. So we watched this D.C. last night and we were both disappointed. My problem w/ the d.c. is that eliminates a lot of the dark humor. The new score is a more serious one which doesn't mix well with the exsiting parts that were funny or the subtle things all the actors did to give it a "smart-a**" feel. The new voice over for Kris Kristoffersen's character, Bronson, is done by a woman. The new scene with William Devane (Jack Bauer's nemesis) & Porter on the phone with Bronson, doesn't work for me. She sounds like grandma acting ticked off rather than a "head boss". A trash talking Kris Kristoffersen was better than that "phone in". It gets dumber when she's on speakerphone w/ James Coburn. She's says Porter has hit the "end of the road" and will go nowhere in one breath. Then Porter shoots the alligator bags while Bronson thinks it was Fairfax and then in the next breath, she just gives in and says Ok, you win pretty much. Again, another "smart-a**" Porter part they cut was the toe torture scene.

The ending is totally different. I didn't mind the newer one but it was the "everyday" shootout. I miss the old phone trick, him blowing the car up with ciggy, digging the bullets out of his back and "fata-boy". I don't see how the theatrical cut was a happier version but for us it was funnier & a little less melodramatic.

Better!.......2007-06-13

I thought the original was a classic but this is def. a classic in it's own right.

A good movie that got better........2007-06-02

The first movie was good but this was a totally different take. They definitely should have released this version the first time out. I think the mysterious Sally Kellerman no show on the phone as the syndicate boss instead of the visible Kris Kristofferson was much more effective. The last different fifteen minute ending was also such a pleasant surprise you could not help but enjoy it that much more. Kudos to director Brian Helgeland.

If You Saw The Theatrical Version..........2007-06-01

If you saw the theatrical version of this movie don't bother buying this one. It is not better at all! In fact it is a completely different movie. However if you teach editing courses at school this is a perfect movie to buy along with the original to show how different one movie can be. Besides this version sucking, they also changed the score and let the guy who composes temporary scores to compose a whole new soundtrack for the movie. Not impressed at all.

What a waste.......2007-05-21

Good movie gone bad is the only thing I have to say.

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Enjoyable pulp nonsense.
Revenge of the Sisterhood
Interesting Remake of John Boorman's Classic
LOVE MEL
Payback

Payback
Starring: Mel Gibson , Gregg Henry , Maria Bello , David Paymer , and Bill Duke
Director: John Myhre , and Brian Helgeland
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Release Date: 1999-07-27

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They stole his money, turned his woman against him, and left him for dead. Now tough-guy poster child Porter (the appropriately world-weary Mel Gibson) is back, bad to the bone, and a mite ticked off at the Organization that done him wrong. Mucho macho carnage ensues.

It took some major guts for first-time director (and Oscar winner for the script of L.A. Confidential) Brian Helgeland to take a shot at adapting Donald Westlake's pseudonymous, legendarily gritty novel The Hunter for the screen (especially considering that director John Boorman and irresistible force Lee Marvin had already produced a fairly definitive rendering of the source material with their enigmatic 1967 masterpiece Point Blank). Nonetheless this novice auteur managed to pull out a winner. Put simply, this compulsively watchable piece of scuzz-art hits like a well-placed Magnum round, with a wonderful '70s vibe and an awesome rogues' gallery of baddies (including James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, William Devane, and the riotously sadistic Lucy Liu) for the charmingly battered star to play off of--and ultimately wade through.

Although this enjoyably seedy roll through the gutter of Crime Alley does occasionally threaten to wander off its downturned track (hands-on producer Gibson reportedly stepped in at the last moment to make his antihero a little more heroic), the final result is an admirably pulpy, distinctly dirty slice of neo-noir liberally marinated in blood, blue smoke, and bourbon. This particular payback's one tough little SOB, indeed. --Andrew Wright

Customer Reviews:

Enjoyable pulp nonsense........2007-04-25

Mad Mel is Porter, a crafty crook out for revenge on his wife and cohorts after they betray him for a meagre amount of stolen money and leave him for dead. Five months later, a not-dead Porter returns, recuperated and motivated by pure rage. He wants his end of the stolen money ($70, 000), nothing more. And he's prepared to start killing off Syndicate Thugs one by one, working his way up the food chain until he gets to boss Kris Krisopherson. If only they would part with their petty $70, 000!

Shot and narrated in a very pulpy style, Payback almost seems like a gritty 1970s revenge thriller. But it doesn't seem to go all the way and injects humor into the proceedings, which contrasts with the genre. The humor is entertaining and works as a breather between the action scenes, but it would have been a better and more original film if it was tough all the way through.

I guess that the producers wanted Payback to be more of a Lethal Weapon movie rather than an homage to Point Blank or Death Wish. It can't be written-off though. For what it is, it's very entertaining, fast-moving and witty. Just not the kind of film it was aiming to be.

The DVD is in gorgeous-looking 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby 5.1 sound.

Revenge of the Sisterhood.......2007-04-05

Who are the bad characters, and who are the good? In this installment of the Revenge of the Sisterhood series, you may be turned upside-down.

Interesting Remake of John Boorman's Classic.......2007-03-01

This is an interesting remake of director John Boorman's POINT BLANK. Gibson is good. He just wants his money back, no more and no less. It is curiously sinister and bleak yet less confusing than the original.

LOVE MEL.......2007-02-23

BOUGHT THIS FOR A FRIEND WHO LOVES MEL GIBSON! SHE IS OVER 13 -- IN FACT "MUCH" OLDER -- BUT STILL GETS EXCITED ABOUT MEL!!!!

Payback.......2007-02-16

I love the grittiness of this movie and the cinematography. Gibson's attitude is great and the other characters are diverse and unique.

Masterpiece Theatre - Painted Lady (1997)

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Not Mirren's best work
Painted Lady --- Boring Lady!
Top Flight PBS Masterpiece Theatre DVD!
Helen Mirren shines....
Helen Mirren & Masterpiece Theatre at its best

Masterpiece Theatre - Painted Lady (1997)
Starring: Helen Mirren , Iain Glen , Franco Nero , Michael Maloney , and Lesley Manville
Director: Julian Jarrold
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ASIN: B0002XVRVQ
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect, The Clearing) stars in this compelling murder-mystery set amid the murky underworld of illegal art trade.

Maggie Sheridan (Mirren), once one of the most famous blues voices of her generation, lost decades of her life to drinking and hard-living. After a failed suicide attempt, she was taken in by Sir Charles Stafford (Iain Cuthbertson, Antonia and Jane) and his son Sebastian (Iain Glen, Tomb Raider). She has lived quietly on their Irish estate for ten years. But one summer evening, her peaceful life is shattered when Sir Charles is brutally murdered, and a valuable sixteenth century painting is stolen. The painting is one of several disturbing pictures sent to Sir Charles marking the major events in his life.

Maggie is convinced that the stolen painting holds the key to Sir Charles' death and decides to track it down. Meanwhile, Sebastian uncovers a terrible secret, with horrific consequences.

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Not Mirren's best work.......2007-04-20

The protagonist is not very sympathetic, the plot line is pretty weak, not very compelling after the first minutes. Watch another one of her movies instead.

Painted Lady --- Boring Lady!.......2007-03-12

Nothing but a star vehicle for Mirren. No wonder she is a co-producer. She overacts like it's going out of style. Story line totally ludicrous, windier than the top of a hill, hideous music. I am sorry I purchased it.

Top Flight PBS Masterpiece Theatre DVD!.......2007-01-25

Both episodes of "Painted Lady" are included on this FINE-AAA+++ DVD with Helen Mirren starring in a very different role for this exceptional Leading Lady. Definitely a high suspense story that starts with well crafted character building and then explodes into an intriguing plot with exploration of all the character's human strengths, as well as their weaknesses, centered around a stolen painting--a masterpiece of it's type--and the effort to recover it from the all too evil UK criminal element that forcefully "acquired" it. A not completely "film noire" story line, the script has it's humorous moments to balance the difficult and sometimes tragic events shown in this eventful and sometimes shocking and seedy--but with good taste--quest to recover the painting, and hopefully to redeem the various character's failings at the end (I'm not telling!). If you 1] value PBS Masterpiece Theatre's superb programming and 2] enjoy watching Helen Mirren literally BECOME the character she portrays, this is a MUST HAVE DVD to be viewed--say twice a year to keep it fresh?--as a treat in believable "high drama"!

Helen Mirren shines...........2007-01-11

again! I am so addidicted to her portrayal as DCI Tenison it is so wonderful to see Helen Mirren's range is truly diverse.

Helen Mirren & Masterpiece Theatre at its best.......2006-10-18

The nicest part of owning the DVD version of a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series is that the entire series is edited to play like a continuous 3.5 hour feature length film and you can watch the entire series in one night. The Painted Lady is one of the more innovative, compelling and consistently intriguing English mysteries to be produced by the Masterpiece set. Though this addition to the Masterpiece Theatre collection will appeal to devotees of the series, there are enough original elements here to win the kinds of viewers who may be turned off by some of the stuffier BBC productions. This one, while staid enough to keep the loyalists, is also hip enough to win a new legion of followers.

Like many English mysteries this one examines not crime so much as social relationships and this glimpse into the mysteries of British class and character is one of the most interesting that I've seen. Helen Mirren plays "Maggie Sheridan", a British Isles pop star whose bluesy-rock voice tinged with just the right amount of Celtic grandeur made her one of the biggest stars of the sixties and early seventies but due to a combination of hard-living and bad relationship choices she went from star to down and outer virtually overnight. Lucky for her, longtime family friend Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian allowed her to crash in a cottage on their family estate when she hit rock bottom and its there that she has been sitting out the last two decades (the 80's & 90's) of her life. When we first see Maggie she seems to be wearing the same hairstyle and clothes she probably wore twenty years earlier and she just seems to be driftin' from one day to the next in a kind of drug & alcohol induced has-been haze livin' a care free & rent free life with her musician boyfriend. But then something wakes her up.

One night art thieves break into the main house and Sir Charles Stafford is murdered while trying to prevent them from stealing the one treasure that is sacred to him: the portrait of his dead wife. Sir Charles' death disgusts Maggie; it stirs her out of her nostalgic haze and opens her eyes to contemporary realities. When the police fail to catch the thieves Maggie decides to take matters into her own hands. Though this miniseries is ostensibly about Maggie's attempt to hunt down a murderer the real excitement is in watching Maggie transform her life. She goes from looking and acting like a cultural refugee held captive by the rememberance of things past into an international mover and shaker who is as intrigued with her own untapped potentials and newly discovered freedom as we are. If she is to succesfully infiltrate the international art community and catch Sir Charles's killer Maggie must not only learn about art history and the ins and outs of the art market but she must don an entirely new persona (as an eastern European countess no less). Maggie not only takes to her new identity but she really seems to come to life in this new role she's fashioned for herself; it's as if she has finally found a role that gives her life meaning, purpose, and direction and she actually enjoys playing it. Once "Maggie" the folkie drop-out becomes "Magdelena" the art dealer/detective there is no limit to what she is capable of. Mirren accomplishes the near impossible task of making this transformation seem believable. She does such a good job at playing both Maggie/Magdalena that we never really question it but only marvel at the fact that some people can and do change.

Maggie's transformation into Magdelena occurs against an ever-changing backdrop of social settings not one of which seems to shake the versatile Maggie/Magdelena who seems to inherently know how to act in all situations. Through her eyes we get a glimpse of every imaginable social space and every imaginable social type. Only Helen Mirren could make it seem so natural to be so many different things to so many different people. When Maggie is living on the estate we see her relate to her musician boyfriend in one way and to Sir Charles in another, when she goes to London we see her relate with her gentrified bourgeois sister in one way and her sister's husband in another, and when we see her in New York City we see her relate with international art connoisseur Robert Tassi (played by Franco Neri) in one way and in quite another way with ex-flame Eddie Mullen (played by Roland Gift) . And every performance is seamless. Mirren makes it seem like her character is not conflicted in the least but is simply a facinating myriad-minded individual who inhabits the world in her own way.

Maggie/Magdelena's most fascinating attribute may just be her ability to see through the haze of class that seems to blind everyone else. English mysteries are almost always about the license and liberties of the upper crust and the envy of those less fortunate and this series is no exception. The Masterpiece Theatre lens loves to gaze upon impossibly posh estates and their impossibly posh inhabitants as they go about their business within rooms littered with historical paintings and artifacts but that lens is also very curious and it loves to have a look in to the musty old closets and attics and graveyards as well. The secrets contained within those dark spaces show that the markers of social class are invaribaly superficial and that two things are always certain: 1) that the life of the cultured is never as far removed from the life of the streets as the cultured would like to think, and, 2) that the social markers of wealth and cultivation and high living are also invariably markers of moral and ethical compromise and decay. Maggie/Magdelena is fascinating and she succeeds magnificently precisely because she is comfortable with both of these truths which would unnerve most others.

During Maggie/Magdelena's investigation of Sir Charles' murder she must negotiate the art world and the underworld and ultimately she finds that they are each populated by equally seedy types. Occupying a middle ground between these two extremes is the gentrified bourgeois who like to imagine that they are part of an incorruptible majority, but the landed gentry (the middle-aged professionals) just come off as self-deluding hypocrits in this clever mystery which is, among other things, a critique of the habits and practices of each echelon of the social world. If Maggie/Magdelena fares better than most by stories end its because she knows the world better than most as a result of her having inhabited so many roles and seen the world from so many different angles. So although the plot of this film is rather mandarin (the "Sebastian" sub or co-plot intrigues and frustrates in equal measures; and the critique of the aristocracy and its self-serving alliances may seem overwrought) its really only a minor distraction in an otherwise immensely enjoyable and remarkably well conceived study of character and class.

This is a Masterpiece Theatre that is hip to contemporary social realites and thus current & relevant. Plus Helen Mirren has never given a more versatile and more interesting performance. Her character defies the idea that a person's character is defined by class and her character defies the idea that a person must have only one character. And this last point is what really lingers in your mind long after you've put the DVD back in its case and the case back on its shelf.

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Colours
A Beautiful, Bucolic Tragedy.
Ju Dou: Razor D. E. lo-fi remix
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Different

Ju Dou
Starring: Wu Fa , Zhang Yi , Zhijun Cong , Wei Li , and Li Gong
Director: Fengliang Yang , and Yimou Zhang
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Colours.......2007-04-18

The best type of Chinese film. Sumptuous colours,Gong Li, and a love triangle. I cannot recommend this film more highly. Buy it, and enjoy the experience. There is not a bad thing to say about it!

A Beautiful, Bucolic Tragedy........2007-04-10

Director -and ex-cinematographer- Zhang Yimou infuses a simple tale of lust with beautiful visuals and a strong sense of foreboding. Hazy yellows, midnight blues and strong reds alternate to create an overwhelming sense of melancholy and desire in this tale of a servant (Li Baotian) who falls for his sadistic master's slave wife Ju Dou (Gong Li).
The film recalls silent cinema's use of tints while at the same time creating a languid editing cadence totally at odds with Hollywood technique, and succeeds in creating a bucolic tragedy which boils over with desire and death.
Ju Dou was banned in China on release, because it was seen as focusing on the persistence of feudalism in modern (post-1948) China. Although this issue is not immediately apparent to Western viewers, the film is seen as a key work of the Chinese Fifth Generation directors, and is a great example of an aesthetic in Chinese cinema which blends the personal with the political comment in a distinctively rural environment. Yimou's subsequent work has not really lived up to this and the other films he made in the 1980s, as he has veered onto big-budget works such as "House Of Flying Daggers", which unapologetically aim for international audiences.

Ju Dou: Razor D. E. lo-fi remix.......2006-09-16

Ju Dou is a great movie, I'd only previously seen it on VHS borrowed from the public library and was so looking forward to this release, but sadly I concure, this DVD is as bad as the other reviewers have previously stated. Worse than the old VHS recording I saw 7 years ago. So bad, that it's gotten someone like me, one who never writes reviews, to comment on it. This DVD should not be sold in the United States, or anywhere. Unfortunately, I picked this DVD up on a whim before reading any reviews.

I'd suggest you just cherish your memories of this wonderful film until a better transfer is made available. It was good to be reminded of the story, but very sad to see how carelessly Razor Digital Entertainment handled this transfer.

It really baffles me how terrible this transfer is. A few moments here and there the picture actually looks acceptable, but then the rest of the time it's blurry, washed out, monochromatic yellows and browns, lines and dust marks everywhere, and occasional digital glitches. This dvd has probably any bad transfer cliche you can imagine; more than I've seen anyway.

Yimou Zhang is a great director, Li Gong a wonderful actress, and it was from two beautiful films(seen only on VHS :( ) that I discovered this, Red Sorgum and Ju Dou. But heed the reviews, this DVD lo-fi remix of Ju Dou by Razor Digital Entertainment is a nightmare.

Amazon should not sell these titles.......2006-09-04

I believe the quality of this transfer (along with the one for Raise The Red Lantern) is so horrific that it completely ruines the beautiful experience of watching these Gong Li/ Zhang Yimou movies and should not even be offered for sale. Truly Bad

Different.......2006-07-31

I own a lot of Asian movies. They are different from western movies. I really enjoy them. I own most of Yimou's movies. He is an excellent director. The very enchanting Gong Li stars in a lot of them and is quite an excellent actress. A lot of his movies have a political statement. You will find an excellent story of a woman married to an impotent man. Has a child by another. She's abused by this old impotent man throughout. I won't ruin it,but I really enjoyed it. Buy Shanghai Triad,Temptress Moon,Chinese Box,Qiu Ju,Empress Dowager,Emperor and the Assasin,Zhou Yu's Train and Soul Haunted by painting. Gong Li is an excellent actress and called the best in China. I believe it.

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What Great Movie Kuffs.
Time travel back to the early to mid 1980's
Kuffs
Sadly Overlooked Action Adventure Comedy
7 out of 10

Kuffs
Starring: Christian Slater , Milla Jovovich , Ric Roman Waugh , Steve Holladay , and Chad Randall
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ASIN: B00009AOBM
Release Date: 2003-08-12

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What Great Movie Kuffs........2007-02-13

I forgot how funny this movie is kinda of a ferris bueller/fletch comedy thriller keep you on the edge of your seat while laughing too what a great movie. supporting cast is wonderful in this film you'll just love it.

It's PG-13 For Lauguage , Action Violence.

Time travel back to the early to mid 1980's.......2007-01-04

Now exceeding 20 years, this 1980's movie may attract
viewers on account of the big-name actress Ashley Judd in
it, although in reality she's shown for less than 90
seconds in the entire movie, and this in an action
sequence, showing a paint shop getting drilled with
machine gun fire. In that respect, KUFFS will be a major
disappointment for those expecting Judd to be at the
center stage.

In reality, the protagonist is the Jack Nicholson wannabe
or hopeful of the time, Christian Slater as well as the
city of San Francisco. Much like the other movie, also in
San Francisco, (TWISTED with Ashley Judd), that city is
prominently shown in various aspects, namely the world
reknowned bridge, and some surroundings of the area,
parks, hills, etc.

The story is not entirely serious, which is a benefit,
considering most people going to the movies want to relax,
so in this sense, the picture is successful, if not for
the not tasteless but redundant nudity involving Slater
and the lovely and young Milla Jovovich, playing his girlfriend.

The movie, from a visual point of view, works extremely
well, with many varied, sharp,colored and interesting
streets, buildings and filming locations chosen. Anyone
not having done tourism in that city or area will benefit,
much like that which is the case in another movie, showing
Raleigh, NC, "Kiss the Girls" with Morgan Freeman, for example.

There is a focus on the clothes people wear, obviously, as
the characters seem to only wear pastel-colored items that many
for some were trendy at the time, as made clear from other
movies, such as Miami Vice, also from the 80's, for example.
Ironically, in the opening sequence, the bad guy has his mug
shot stenciled onto his pastel T-Shirt, yet is covering his
face with a scarf, to avoid being later recognized. How
his victims would fail to remember to police the image seen on his
T-Shirt, to track him down, is less understood.

The weak spot, clearly, is the music, as it is had considerably
aged and seems considerably unsophisticated. In reality, the music may
or may not be a liability, considering often there's a
discrepancy in tastes and musical experience among the
audience, regardless of age, who themselves are very differnet
from one another.

A a recurring jingle is obviously inspired from the one heard
on Beverly Hills Cop, a big commercial success at about the
same year KUFFS was released.

Overall, KUFFS completely wasted Judd's acting talents, as
only 90 seconds were shown. On the other hand, for those
wanting a light-hearted time travel back to the early to
mid 1980's this is not a bad place to start.

Kuffs.......2006-01-15

This is a great Mid 90s movie.

Sadly Overlooked Action Adventure Comedy.......2005-01-16

Christian Slater's character reminds me of a young Jack Nicholson, who replaces his brother on the Police Force after he is murdered. I was surprised that he didn't become as popular as Tom Cruise after this film was released in 1992, but he had a few personal issues during the 90s that stalled his career. I think he's a better actor than most people realize, with much more talent than making below average movies like "Broken Arrow".

7 out of 10.......2004-08-18

Kuffs is a highly enjoyable Christian Slater film. Great narration. Very quirky ideas. Clever at a lot of times. Great acting by Christian Slater. There is a certain "Johnny Depp" quality about Christian Slater when I saw this film. He pulled it off great. Great comedy. Very good lessons taught here also. Consider the film as a smart comedy about being stupid but lucky. A couple highest points in this film were the gunshot wound lesson and the subtitles while being duct taped. There are other great moments. It is very unpredictable and fun movie to watch. This movie has solidified me as a great Christian Slater fan. Although it was made in 1992, I find it hard to believe that I haven't seen films like this. That is amazing. This kind of thing just tells me that Hollywood is releasing the wrong kinds of films. Kudos to Bruce Evans for witty direction.

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Scary in any generation
Brooding psychological horror
Not the best, but
why is cronenberg alone in this world?
Another David Cronenberg gem!

The Brood
Starring: Oliver Reed , Samantha Eggar , Art Hindle , Henry Beckman , and Nuala Fitzgerald
Director: David Cronenberg
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ASIN: B00009PY2T
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita

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From famed writer-director David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone, The Fly, Scanners)comes a chillingly twisted masterpiece of psychological horror. Oliver Reed (Gladiator) and Samantha Eggar (The Astronaut's Wife) star in this shocking, intense thriller about how misdirected rage can literally take on a life of its own. Behind the walls of his secluded Somafree Institute, Dr. Hal Raglan (Reed) experiments with "Psychoplasmics," a controversial therapy designed to help release pent-up emotions in his patients. He keeps his star patient Nola (Eggar) in isolation, but as she vents her fury during their sessions, brutal murders befall the people she's angry with outside the institute. What is the connection between Raglan's methods and these monstrous killings? The answer will unleash a whole new breed of terror!

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Scary in any generation.......2007-06-23

One of the best psychological horror films of all times. Reed is so good in this movie that you'll find yourself thinking that all this bizzare stuff is actually feasible.

Watch it alone for the full effect.

Brooding psychological horror.......2007-05-03

David Cronenberg's 1979 film was an effective and highly disturbing horror piece, perhaps the first fully realized work of his career. Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar brought class to what could have turned into an over-the-top genre workout. The notion that whenever a character walked into a darkened room, a killer dwarf could come leaping out of the shadows armed with a paperweight or whatever was at hand proved reliably unsettling. One of the most chilling scenes actually takes place in a fully lit elementary teacher's classroom, proving there is no safe haven. But beyond the obvious scares is the creepiness of the psychiatrist character played by Reed, whose aggressive therapeutic techniques push Eggar to physically manifest her anger in a manner that drives the plot and sets up an effectively shocking visual for the climax. The psychological subtext keeps the viewer engaged as much as the suspense of the situations and the menacing music by Howard Shore.

Not the best, but.......2006-12-28

Maybe it was that it was an old horror film but I didn't care for this movie that much. I searched this movie out and other movies out because they were David Cronenberg films. I really do like his work and the way they are written, but not this one. I thought that the acting was very corney and the atmosphere of the movie was not that good either. All through this movie I was wondering where the story was. The only reason that I gave this movie a 3 star rating was that it was a David Cronenberg film and it had a twist in the end.

why is cronenberg alone in this world?.......2006-10-25

usually a maverick film maker does a few features and then right along side comes five or six imitations. not so with mr cronenberg. he has a monopoly on science-fusion-fear of tech and the mythos of psychosis. he has the enormous brain to take a very simple thing and elongate it to posit all of its potential without seeming either preachy or overdrawn. he shows stories that scare and disgust and at the end leave that burning hole like we entered a world, got our heads chopped up a bit, and somehow escaped through a generous and maybe too convenient wormhole. for this viewer, the brood was the first (of his chronologically) to set that standard. it takes place in a world of EST-like proportionality and Gerstalt-ian tactics that probably existed in another plane of our reality and somehow fell just short of our noses, where the shrinker, played with usual strong-arming by oliver reed, is holding his very special patient (samantha eggars) away from her husband and daughter, though not really against her will. don't want to spoil anything (aside: hey, don't reviews always go too far with detail and tempt you to lie and say you have seen a pic just to amass a gigantic amount of viewed pieces without the effort. no bones here, boy) else for the unfamiliar, except to say that sometimes our anger and raw emotions have to go somewhere when they exit our bodies. where, you might ask? mr. cronenberg will show you and then the way out. but you have to sit and baste here awhile first.

Another David Cronenberg gem!.......2006-06-12

When a wife (Samantha Eggar) is at a psychiatric clinic that runs a controversial therapy experiment called "Psychoplasmics" thanks to Dr. Hal Ralgan ( Oliver Reed), while she's over there she suddenly feels inner rage about to literally come to life out of her. This therapy helps patients release out their emotions but suddenly the experiment goes wrong as it makes her create little dwarf-like creatures that begin to kill people off, her husband and daughter are threatened by these creatures because only he must find out the secret behind all this.

Shocking, intelligent and dark horror/sci-fi psychological thriller that only David Cronenberg could pull off in his unique kind of style. The storyline is complex yet kind of interesting to say and there's some scares with splatter included! there are some smart ideas about the effects of being divorced and seperated from a child with how it can bring out inner pain with a twist on the killer kid genre.

The DVD is alright with good picture & sound quality but the only extra is the theatrical trailer, this is a highly recommended movie but not for those who are light sleepers.

Also recommended: "Scanners", "Videodrome", "Basket Case", "Bloody Birthday", "3 Extremes", "The Fly ( 1986)", "The Toxic Avenger", "It's Alive!", "It Lives Again", "It's Alive III: Island of the Alive", "The Stuff", "Slither", "Monkey Shines", "Society", "The Dead Zone ( 1983)", "Possession", "Beware! Children at Play", "Demons", "Dawn of the Dead ( 2004)", "The Pit", "The Children", "A History of Violence", "Naked Lunch", "Tetsuo The Iron Man", "Dead Ringers", "Phenomena", "Night Breed", "The Fury", and "Children of the Corn".

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Tommy Gibbs Is One Bad Mobster
It's Okay but nothing special
A tough, gritty blaxploitation classic not to be missed
Good
Blaxploitation.....A Perfect 10

Black Caesar
Starring: Fred Williamson , Gloria Hendry , Art Lund , D'Urville Martin , and Julius Harris
Director: Larry Cohen
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ASIN: B000053VB6
Release Date: 2001-01-09

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Shot on the streets of New York, writer-director Larry Cohen captures the bustle and color of the city in this violent, low-budget crime film. Ambitious Tommy Gibbs (a swaggering, self-confident Fred Williamson) has risen from shoeshine boy to Harlem crime lord, but he wants a bigger piece of the pot. With a racist, high-ranking cop (Art Lund) in his pocket, he begins his expansion with a bloody takeover bid but finds himself betrayed from within and the target of both the cops and the mob. Cohen invests this fast-paced tale (partially inspired by the 1930 gangster classic Little Caesar with a touch of Scarface) with colorful characters (notably a hustling religious leader played by D'Urville Martin), high energy, and a scruffy style. Black Caesar is one of the most entertaining movies to come from the 1970s explosion of low-budget black cast genre pictures, more commonly known as "blaxploitation" films. --Sean Axmaker

Description

Fred Williamson is "imposing, tough and unflappable" (The New York Times) as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick crime drama that became the smashhit of its genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up In Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud, Tommy resorts to running "errands" for The Man. But when a crooked cop beats him up, Tommy realizes there's a better way to live: by making The Man deliver for him! Infiltratingandthen destroyingthe infamous Cardoza family, Tommy takes over Manhattan as the first black Godfather and puts the squeeze on anyone who dares to get in his wayincluding the crooked cop! But as he tightens his grip on others, he loses his hold on the most important things in his own life, making him the vulnerable target of every cutthroat gangster who ever dreamt of ruling an empire!

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Tommy Gibbs Is One Bad Mobster.......2007-04-11

Taking its cues from a pair of classic mobster movies - Little Caesar (1930) and Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) - Black Caesar aptly shows the blur between organized crime and crime fighting, with the impact reverberating through society.

Fred "The Hammer" Williamson magnificently portrays Tommy Gibbs, who - as a child - is facing straight down life's dead end street in a cold, uncaring city after being crippled by a racist cop; that is until he channels his ambition into the hustle for survival.

Tommy - who is equal parts gangster & Robin Hood - claws his way to the top of crime world, but the rules of the game never stay the same and betrayal by mobsters & cops is always right around the corner. The movie does a good job in depicting Tommy's complex character and who ultimately should carry the tag as "criminals."

The outstanding soundtrack is composed by James Brown & Fred Wesley, with Lyn Collins deliver a tour-de-force lead vocal in Mama Feelgood.

Black Caesar was released in February 1973 and its sequel, Hell Up in Harlem, debuting 10 months later. In 1974, Williamson - a former AFL star - was briefly part of the Monday Night Football broadcast team.

Willamson's nickname "The Hammer" came from the forearm shots he gave opposing players on the pro gridiron. Black Caesar finds Williamson tackling the lead role with a zeal that has made Tommy Gibbs eponymous with Celluloid gangsters.

It's Okay but nothing special .......2007-03-13

After about two viewings of Black Caesar I am rather disappointed with the results. The movie in hearled by many on amazon and by critics as being one of the better so-called blaxpoltation movies. Despite all the recommendations, I was not overly impressed by Black Caesar.

The movie does have many important chracters,elements,and plot but what makes the movie suffer is the bad acting of Fred Williamson. Williamson's preformance is much too wooden and flat to bring interest into a figure like Tommy Gibbs. Williamson is not alone either with most of his supporting cast providing little substance. The notable exception is the racist Irish cop played by Art Lund.

The script was written by a white[I am guessing Jewish] Larry Cohen and it definately shows. The dialogue is flat,boring,and unrealistic for the 50's Harlem setting. The script also is severly flawed by the same instances.

Black Caesar,while not being an awful film, has very little entertainment value. Many films actually are worse than Black Caesar but have a great amount of entertainment value. Black Caesar aspires to be a serious gangster film but falls from glory. Quite disappointing considering the freshness of the story. The story of a ghetto kid rising up in the mafia underworld would be compelling even in modern cinema.
For many that might not know the movie is supposed to be loosely based upon real life black gangsters named Nikki Barnes and Frank Matthews. Ironically, Frank Matthews was a gangster from the 60's-70's that ran most of the ghettoes in NYC including Harlem.

A tough, gritty blaxploitation classic not to be missed.......2005-06-05

Black Caesar (1973) is one heck of a good movie. I hate the term blaxploitation that is used to describe movies of this genre because it implies that these sorts of films are somehow second-class entries in the world of cinema. Black Caesar is a first-class ride from start to finish, taking as much from classic gangster films of the 1930s and 1940s as it does from earlier blaxploitation films such as Shaft. Larry Cohen gave us a tough, mean, dirty, gritty film that tells it and shows it like it is: plenty of cursing, gunplay, blood, profanity, nudity, and racism. I have heard that the starring role was originally written for Sammy Davis, Jr. Nobody loved Sammy more than I do, but there's just no way he could have done the things that Tommy Gibbs does effectively. A lot of people deride the acting skills of Fred Williamson, which makes no sense to me; the man is just fantastic in this film.

Tommy (Williamson) grew up on the streets of Harlem, where the living was hard. When a corrupt, racist cop smashed up his leg at a pay-off exchange gone wrong, young Tommy's future was set. Eight years in prison taught him everything he needed to know to pull off his master plan of becoming the man who runs Harlem. Just after he limps back into town, he scores a mafia hit in broad daylight and uses that audacious act to nose his way into the local Family. Back then, the Mafia didn't make a habit of embracing blacks, no matter how useful they could be. All Tommy asks for is a block in Harlem to call his own; he gets it, and a new reign of terror begins as Tommy and his associates begin cleaning house. At first, they talk about helping the blacks in the community at the same time, but this whole thing is really just about the money and the power. Ironically, Tommy finds himself working with the same slimy cop who broke his leg as a youth, but he's got the guy by the short hairs thanks to his acquisition of certain evidence against him.

As you might expect, a couple of blocks in Harlem is just the beginning for Tommy. He quickly expands his operation and puts the screws to the Italians running the show in New York. He becomes, for all intents and purposes, "the man" and gains control of all of Harlem. All the power and money can't make him happy, however; no one seems to appreciate the things Tommy can give them, especially his mother and his wife. As things start unraveling in his personal life, he is set up for a fall - and his Italian "friends" are ready and willing to take him down. The final half hour of the movie is nothing short of intense, as Tommy tries to deal with betrayal and simply stay alive. His final encounter with the racist cop who has tormented him for so many years makes cinematic history, as far as I'm concerned.

The music makes this fantastic film even better, as the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, supplies the funky soundtrack. Songs such as Down and Out in New York City and Mama's Dead sharply define pivotal moments and make sure the film always fires on all cylinders. It's hard to believe Black Caesar was filmed in only 18 days, especially given some of the elaborate chase scenes taking place on New York streets. This is a masterpiece of a low-budget film. Maybe a couple of the sociological aspects of the film don't play as effectively as they did back in 1973, but Black Caesar has really lost nothing of its raw power and intensity over the years.

Good.......2004-12-29

i havent seen this movie in a while, but I know it was good.Ill redo this when i watch it again.

Blaxploitation.....A Perfect 10.......2003-10-21

This is by far the best in the genre.....raw and rugged....a perfect 10....should not be missed if your a fan of blaxploitation flicks.....enjoy!

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fun flick
Beautiful horses -- beautiful Pierce!
The Heist
A Great Heist Movie
Brosnan's good, but movie doesn't make it around the track

The Heist
Starring: Pierce Brosnan , Tom Skerritt , Wendy Hughes , Noble Willingham , and Tom Atkins
Director: Stuart Orme
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ASIN: B0009NZ30A
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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Neal was framed by his partner and put in jail for four years. He lost his business and lost his woman, but now he's back and he's looking for revenge. Neal's swindling ex-partner is about to get taken for everything he's got-and then some.

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fun flick.......2007-07-03

This is a really fun movie, and amazingly similar in plot to the remake of *Ocean's 11*, which came many years later.

Brosnan's character is like Danny Ocean, having spent his jail time plotting to get back his girl and get even with the guy who sent him to jail and walked away with the beauty. A cat-and-mouse game follows leading to the finale, where Brosnan's big plan is enacted.

Definitely worth watching.

Beautiful horses -- beautiful Pierce!.......2006-11-03

I am so glad that I bought this movie -- Pierce Brosnan really knows his way around women and horses. I enjoyed the story.

The Heist.......2006-05-31

A fun flick, with beautiful Brosnan growing into his bones
as he hit age 35. An elegant man playing a small-time hood
is a nice contrast. Note the hair slicked back. Audrey
Wood plays the bubble-headed moll who divides her favors
between Brosnan and Skerrit, showing little emotion for either
guy. Nice seedy race track atmosphere, pretty hot love scenes,
and a light hearted adio accompanied by the Spanish version
of "My Way". Recommended.
Adrienne Fischier, New York City

A Great Heist Movie.......2005-08-12

Where can one start with a review of The Heist. It is a well crafted movie from begining to end. All the colorful characters are well defined and exciting to watch. There is a scene in the middle of the movie where the bad guys are attempting to figure out how Neil "Pierce" is going to rob the track and are able to predict a great many thing and still Neil is able to outwit them all and the cop who is trying to put him back in jail. The Gipsy Kings version of "My Way" at the end is great. Pierce Brosnan loved this story so much and the whole making of a caper movie in general and that this is one of the reasons he went on to develop and star in the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair", but thats another movie review.

Brosnan's good, but movie doesn't make it around the track.......2005-06-13

This movie is a poorly made farce, on a par with a bad "I Love Lucy" episode. Its only virtues are a fine performance by Pierce Brosnan, showing the "action" talent he later developed as Thomas Crowne and James Bond, and the Gypsy Kings' cover of "My Way".

Chewing gum for the mind.

Deserves zero stars, if it weren't for Brosnan.

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Gave as a gift
Renegades (1989)
THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE MOVIE
Formula revenge, a little mystic and a lot of fun.
Great Action Movie

Renegades
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland , Lou Diamond Phillips , Jami Gertz , Robert Knepper , and Bill Smitrovich
Director: Jack Sholder
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Gave as a gift.......2007-01-09

As you can see I am friends with a huge Kiefer fan. Heard this was good.

Renegades (1989).......2005-05-24

In 1989, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips were teamed up again for the action/adventure/comedy, RENEGADES.

BUSTER MCHENRY (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is an ill-tempered cop. HANK STORM (played by LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS) is a wise Lakota Indian, full of peace and serenity, but lethal. As fate would have it, Buster and Hank are teamed up together on a mission: to track down BOB MARINO (played by Robert Knepper), a vicious mobster, who stole diamonds from a jewel store. Now, Buster was involved in the robbery, but he was there doing his job as the cop that he is to find out which one of his cop friends is involved. Apparently, not one, but two of Buster's cop friends are involved in this crime, which resulted in the death of Hank's brother and father. Now, the two must set out together, with the help of BARBARA (played by Jami Gertz) to find Marino and these two crooked cops and put an end to this crime that has called grief for both Buster and Hank.

I have read some reviews on this film from some Amazon.com reviewers and they were scathing. Let me tell you that you all have misjudged this film. I really enjoyed this film for many reasons: It contains a lot of action. Kiefer Sutherland has the lead role and does a kick-a** job. Lou Diamond Phillips is the co-star, and, as usual, does a great job. And last, but most certainly not least, RENEGADES was filmed in my hometown of Philadelphia. This is a great movie and I recommend that everyone here see it.

THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE MOVIE.......2002-01-06

Clean but full of action and violence [layed to human nature]--
No overly done female traipsing through to spoil the action.
Excellent macho performance by Kieffer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips [as should be expected].
Story line still had enough punch to make it interesting.
Hate to say it, a great acting job by the top nasty - couldn't stand the guy.
Would have liked a commentary about the actors and the work they put into their roles.
I would definitely recommend this movie and will certainly watch it over again.

Formula revenge, a little mystic and a lot of fun........2001-06-28

This has all the basic revenge elements and formula. And who better than Kiefer Sutherland as the "Dirty Harry" type out to make amends for his dirty cop father and find other dirty cops. He teems up with "Chief" Lou Diamond Phillips of [Bats (1999) ASIN: B00003L9CQ] fame. The bad guy takes diamonds, and knows who the dirty cops are. So naturally Kiefer has to get him. This same bad guy gets an Indian sacred relic and bumps of an Indian in the process. So naturally Lou Diamond Phillips also has to seek revenge and retrieve the item. Together with the reluctant assistance of Jami Gertz the bad guy's quasi girl, this odd couple does tracking, and hitting, and jumping, and shooting, and horsing around, and and and.

If you cant remember where you saw Jami Gertz before then you may have missed [Sibling Rivalry (1990) ASIN: 0792837754] see my review.

This movie has lots of action and standard dialog some Indian mystery and you will never guess who the real bad guys are 20 minutes before the end of the movie, when they practically rub your nose in it.

Great Action Movie.......2001-06-11

I just saw this movie last night and I really enjoyed it because it had action, drama, and everything you expect. Lou Diamond Phillips and Sutherland give great proformences. So if you are in the mood the a great movie then you need to sit down and watch this one.

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