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I really enjoyed this film when it came out at the theater in 1976, and I have owned the open-mat full screen version on VHS for a while now. When I found out this was being realeased on DVD I was pretty happy & ordered it right away. To my horror, MGM has dropped the ball for a change, and this Midnight Movie release is a total flub!

I became suspicious when I first watched the trailer, and right away it was obvious it was a badly matted, with the tops of people’s heads clipped off. So I decided to ge out my open-mat full screen VHS and play them at the same time, switching between VCR & DVD player to compare. Here’s where the fun begins…

The opening credits on the DVD are totally matted, blocking off the top & botom of the picture, and to make matters worse, the edges have been clipped quite a bit as well.

On the VHS the credits are near the middle, with a large empty area on the sides… The DVD has the credits zoomed in on, making them 3x as large, and going off the edge of the screen on the left & right.

Things gets stranger… Some scenes on the DVD appear to be from a truely ‘widesceen’ print, but approx. 80-90% of the movie is just matted full screen, blocking off much of the picture, and cutting the tops of people’s heads off!

It looks like MGM took 2 prints; one a fullscreen (open-mat) print, and mabey a partial print that was widescreen, and spliced them together, then matted the fullscreen parts in an attempt to ‘blend’ it in. Arrgg!!

A few more problems I noticed, are that the color seems wrong on the DVD, way too much red. (yeah, its supposed to be red, but not THAT red.), and that the VHS copy I have exibits very little to no speckles at all on the source print, but the DVD is riddled with speckles, especially noticable during the opening credits. The DVD does however look alot better than the VHS as far as clarity, detail and sharpness goes.

I really waited a long time for this to come out on DVD, and I didnt even have very high expectations, considering the B-grade of this flic, but this DVD has turned out to be a huge dissapointment for me. Dispite it’s great low price, I have already returned it.

Shame on you MGM, this DVD is a mess! Stop trying to be cash in on the trendy ‘anamorphic widesceen’ craze by selling terrible FAKE widescreen bunk!!!!

AT THE EARTH’S CORE (based on a story by Edgar Rice Burroughs) never quite achieves good movie status but you have to give it credit for trying. Thankfully the film is set in motion the minute the credit sequence ends. Cushing and McClure (the latter shamefully getting top billing) are set to do a test run with their “iron mole”, a great looking giant drill. Only minutes after their journey begins the two men are knocked out. Shortly after waking the mole has a power failure and the two men find themselves AT THE EARTH’S CORE.
For the uninitiated the Earth’s core is full of giant plastic plants, bird beaked monsters, a tribe of human slaves (that speak English), some bizarre pasty faced creatures that serve a strange race of hypnotic pterodactyls. The core is bathed in pink light (which eminates from the magma above). At first the color scheme is quite neat but after awhile it becomes a nauseating experience.
It is of course Cushing and McClure’s job to end the pterodactyls reign and free the humans, especially the most attractive human, the scantily clad Caroline Munro.
Munro sports an outfit similar to the ones she wore in The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (One wonders if such races would ever be saved if it weren’t for beautiful women with sweaty cleavage). Her character, Dia, is an enslaved queen looking for the right man. McClure steps up to the plate but doesn’t follow through with the native’s customs and nearly loses Dia. Cushing later informs the dullard to be “forceful.” McClure is clearly bothered by taking on such a masculine role at first but he gets into it quickly enough after Dia shows her submissive approval.
The humans manage to destroy their evil rulers and eventually Cushing and McClure return to Earth’s surface (one of the film’s intentionally funnier moments).
Cushing is most endearing as a wacky British scientist. He adds a level of touching humor and professionalism not usually found in such a picture. McClure is a fine enough actor but he annoyed me to no end. I am not familiar with his career so I am quite surprised to see such unappealing person as the star of this film.
The truth is the special effects are the star of the picture. Being a fan of non-CGI effects it is always a pleasure to see a film like this. That said, some of the effects are laughably bad. A particular standout is when a bird beaked dinosaur eats a man. The man is clearly a stuffed dummy. Surprisingly the camera lingers on the hysterical carnage for some time.

The DVD is part of MGM’s impressive budget priced Midnight Movies series. The enhanced widescreen picture is excellent. The source print is clean and vibrant (almost too much so). The film’s keyboard soundtrack sounds very John Carpenterish. The mono sound is strong. The DVD also includes a theatrical trailer which is in fine shape.

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In a world of adults Anime that is populated with allot of extreme Hentai content, it is nice to go with a nice change and watch a adult’s Anime that has not got any of the extreme Hentai content in it.

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But it still does NOT make this anything for the kiddies as the storyline and the scenes still have allot of adult content, but it is just not as extreme as the hentai that Jap-animation is well known for in it’s adult market.

Step up Love Story tells a story of a married couple who’s married life starts out awkward but then snowballs into what is a life changing event in their lives.

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While there is sex, and lots of it, it never goes too far for those who are sensitive to the explicit nature that some other Anime for Adults go.

Also for any Otaku couple who would love to watch an Anime for adults that also explores married life, then I would give this one a good recogmendation.

I think the seller should have given a more detailed rating such as this film being soft core and not having any explicit sex scenes. The story seems to start out very sensual and misleads the veiwer the women are drawn very sensual but there is no hardcore sex.

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The price of this boxed set needs to be lowered. You can buy each DVD separately and save a few bucks. There aren’t any extras unless you count the box.

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this movie is one of the best ones i have seen last year - although it does not follow any standard criteria for arthouse or ‘foreign’movies but instead marches to his own drum - weird and funny in the most honorable sense of the word.

Dear god where do I begin?

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This film had so much potential. Uschi Obermaier is a former fashion model, actress and one of the protagonists of the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany. She is considered an iconic sex symbol. She also wrote an autobiography of her wild life called Das Wilde Leben which was a best seller.

This film was *suppose* to be based on her book. Some parts are some aren’t. For starters I think they did a terrible job picking the actress to play Uschi. The girl looks nothing like the real Uschi Obermaier. The real Uschi Obermaier was so gorgeous it hurt to look at her. To know what I mean, google her name and look under images. Natalia Avelon is pretty but she is all “makeup pretty”. No natural beauty like Uschi Obermaier. Another thing is the badly done chronological order. “Uschi” looked exactly the same from 1968 all the way through 1983.

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All in all, just rent this movie. If you’re a guy you might like the film a lot since “Uschi” is naked 90% of the time she’s on screen.

Also they left out the music video of Summer Wine starring Ville Valo and Natalia. Very very stupid thing to do seeing that was the best thing about the film. The song.

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This boxed set comes with the first thirteen episodes of the series and the movie. In the episodes, we start out differently from the original story in the manga, but it does tend to run parallel with it. The movie is a whole different story, almost literally. With stunning visuals and beautiful animation, The Adolesence of Utena offers a different approach to the whole story itself. The characters have obviously grown in different ways, but haven’t changed completely. To some, the movie seems “weird”, “stupid” and “unnecessary”, but the very basic of ideas is to follow the symbolism, just as in the series. The movie explains some of the things that may have not been so clear in the series, and adds more to it in its own way (or continues an idea, such as Nanami!Cow). I’ve seen some personal reviews with their own ideas and explanations of the meaning of all the symbolism, and most of them thankfully add just that much more to the story.

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On a personal note, I love the music throughout the series, but absolutely adore the movie soundtrack. I thoroughly recommend the manga, episodes, movie, and sountracks.

To add any and/or all of these to your current collection(s) is a very good idea, to those who aren’t opposed to a few new (and open-minded) ideas…

I think that the beginning of the series, included here, is the most widely liked portion of this anime. Later on the series becomes darker and (it is possible) stranger, and less appropriate for younger audiences.

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I also loved the movie, but understand that those people who haven’t seen the series seldom understand or like the movie. The reason is that here the movie is essentially the entire series metaphorically presented in less than two hours. If you don’t know what’s going on, you’re not going to get it from the movie. That said I thought it was a fantastic (graphically and otherwise) way to present the story. It doesn’t add to the storyline, nor does it try to do a full arc of the series in coherent movie format, it just presents it differently. (I also loved the car-thing, what a great way for her to rescue Anthy!)

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Richard E. Grant as Bagley brings to the film both his best and most outrageous performance. As the slick advertising salesman, Bagley is the cold-hearted business man who would see his own mother lose all her teeth if he thought it would sell more denture cream. The brilliant opening scene has him announcing that we want to sell them 30% less [of fat] and 20% more [of nutrition]; they are selling an image and idea, not a product! Bagley begins to second guess his profession and when the idea of having to come up with a boil cream begins to make his conscience ill, he opts to quit in pursuit of higher ideals.

It is then, that the supernatural takes over, and Bagley gets a boil on his neck that he believes has begun to turn into a face, causing him to go utterly insane to the horror of his wife who sees nothing but the boil. The insanity multiplies and the boil becomes Bagley’s evil advertising alter-ego, and the insanity delves into the depths of all that is great in British black humour.

The boil-alter-ego finally takes over the reformed Bagley identity, and Bagley becomes much worse than he’d ever been.

The script is poignant, if not a little bit preachy on the evils of advertising. But Richard E. Grant gives his heart and soul to make the character fully dimensional and incredibly funny. His insanity is put in perfect perspective by his wife, played sublimely by Rachel Ward, who is as supportive and understanding as she can to a husband who seems to have gone over the brink.

For the originality, commentary, wittiness, acting, quotable dialogue, and pure insanity, this has been one of my favourite movies ever. It’s no Citizen Kane (do people really like that movie, anyway! ), but it is without a doubt a must-see, just for the experience!

This movie is a riot. Richard E Grant gives an amazingly intense performance. His entire role seems to consist of nothing but brilliantly scabrous monologues. His acerbic take on everything around him starts at a fever pitch and then giddily topples over into outright inspired lunacy. See this film if for no other reason than to get a glimpse of him naked save for a kitchen apron, gleefully stuffing raw chickens down the toilet drain and all the while explaining, ” Everything I do makes sense, everything i do has a reason!”

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I prefer this style of over the top attack much more than the drier and more subtle (!) mode employed by both writer-director Bruce Robinson and Richard E. Grant in their first collaboration, WITHNAIL & I.

The heights of comic outlandishness achieved in HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING is something that is rarely achieved by any film and it is doubly commendable that everything done here ( no matter how tastelessly crazy) still never stoops to the childishly vulgar levels that most American comedies regularly splash about in like mental asylum inmates happily playing with their own feces. Yes, despite everything this film attempts ( and achieves) it still retains a sense of sophistication that shows what thuddingly awful garbage ( i am looking directly at you AUSTIN POWERS, SCARY MOVIE, etc, etc) is usually regarded as the height of comedy. This film knocks them all dead.

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Slap Shot is a great hockey comedy. It’s a hilarious, vulgar, completely wild joyride through the trials of a failing 70’s steelmill-town based, utterly amateur hockey team. Failing, that is, until their players resort to pure violence in an attempt to keep their franchise alive.

Paul Newman plays the womanizing player/coach who, after a series of embarassing losses (including one to a visitng team’s center who’s flat drunk) needs to work with a 3 brother gang of misfits, who all look alike and have an incredibly aggressive style of playing.

Chaos insues when Newman’s character decides to finally play these “goons” with his other teammates, and he watches as the fan base increases when they proceed to physically demolish - without any love for the game - the opposing teammates in an series of hysterical scenes that combine the best in hockey photography with hilariously explicit dialouge and violence. The shot of the goon’s nonchalanty skating past the visitor’s box and smacking each of them in the head with their sticks is classic.

This action scenes in this movie is everything you wished your NFL highlight tapes to be. The DVD itself is excellent quality, including the true film soundtrack (copyright limitation prevented some of the songs from appearing on the VHS and cable versions).

Extra bonus features are pretty nonexistent - just some scene selections and generic Actor Profiles that were prelevant in the first generation of DVDs created a couple years ago - but the quality and entertainment value of the movie more than makes up for these shortcomings.

Ask hardcore hockey fans (the kind that are familiar with the Montreal Maroons or that understand that present-day hockey is virtually figure-skating compared to the seventies) what their favorite sports movie is, or ask hockey pros what their favorite sports movie is; probably more than half the time, you’ll hear “Slap Shot”. Some “serious” sports films suffer from self-importance or a lack of realism; try watching a good war documentary for actual life-and-death situations. Thankfully, “Slap Shot” doesn’t take itself terribly seriously yet still manages to paint an accurate, believable picture.

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Sure, the humor is rude and crude, but necessary to paint a somewhat accurate picture of `70’s minor league hockey (surely these guys weren’t discussing Plato or speaking in blue-blood accents). It may be offensive to uninitiated people (e.g. people who don’t watch hockey or team sports in general), but the humor is oft-hilarious for hockey fans.

Paul Newman plays crafty, alternately obnoxious and charming player-coach Reg Dunlop, leader of the mediocre minor league Charlestown Chiefs (though in reality the movie was filmed in Johnstown, PA). Fearful that the team is going to fold (now that the big mill in town is closing), Reg concocts a scheme in which he’ll find a way to make the team better and profitable in the hopes that the yet-unknown owner will opt to sell the team rather than disband it.

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What eventually generates interest and success in the team is their change to a rough-and-tumble style of play, mercilessly beating on opponents (a la the typical style of play for many `70’s teams), largely thanks to the infusion of the three Hanson brothers (who in real life actually were minor-league bruisers), who also provide much of the humor in the film. Michael Ontkean plays Ned Braden, the Ivy Leaguer who is a skilled scorer and naturally is unhappy with the fight-first direction of the team. His dysfunctional relationship with his young alcoholic wife serves as a subplot and also reminds Reg of his own unhappy marriage, largely due to his hockey life.

The film is full of fantastically funny moments: Reg’s disbelief upon seeing the Hanson’s for the first time (”They brought their f**kin’ toys with `em!”), the players being forced to do a fashion show that goes awry when one of the players strips, the great Strother Martin as the cheapskate conniving general manager, the French-Canadian goaltender having hallucinations after being pummeled with shots, the Hansons starting a fight before the national anthem even starts, etc.

This is definitely one of the best sports films ever made (both in terms of comedy, and strangely, realism); don’t expect anything highbrow, though, “THIS IS HOCKEY!” as the Chiefs rug-adorned announcer yells as the Chiefs are mercilessly pummeling their opponents.

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Wubbzy is great and we love to watch him and his friends. The movie is very cute also. My only con on this is that the movie is 90 mins long and that is a bit much when you are used to 15-20 min episodes. We all needed to watch it in two parts because our attention span is diminshed. I have a boy and he loved it. I think girls would love it even more, but that’s just my opinion.

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Mario Van Peebles directed and starred in this film about a group of African-American soldiers (and one white one) on the run from a corrupt military officer. The officer (Billy Zane) had the posse steal some gold from Cuba during the Spanish-American War. He planned to kill them afterwards, but the group proved stronger than he thought and they escaped. They come back to the states and follow Jesse (Van Peebles) to the dream town of his deceased father in west Texas. Jesse has some inner demons to silence and they won’t be still until he has settled an aged score.

The film is interesting. However, the movie relies heavily upon typical Western cliches which dampen some of the it’s uniqueness. Nevertheless, the film does raise awareness about all the black cowboys and settlers that were so instrumental in taming the West that most people don’t even know existed. An educational film that is quite entertaining to watch.

Mario Van Peebles “Posse” is a movie with flaws, but it treats its source material with respect. Unlike the shallow and silly “Rosewood” Van Peebles “Posse” gives viewers a clear picture of what life was like for African-American cowboys at the turn of the century. We get to know characters in the story. The production values are low budget, and several roles are miscast, but Van Peebles’ heart is in every second of this film. He loves the material and wants us to learn as much about these forgotten black heroes as he has. Part “spaghetti western”, part action flick, part historical drama, Posse is a lot of fun to watch. Mario Van Peebles, Billy Zane, Melvin Van Peebles and Salli Richardson in her first role are great. Tis one is worth owining for your collection.

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It would have been easy (and probably expected) for a reality series on the porn industry to showcase nothing but the most shocking. While there’s plenty of nudity and a few on-set scenes that pushes the limits of even pay television, this series succeeds because it allows you to see that porn is a business (almost) like any other, and the people involved can be pretty normal. Everybody is extremely likable - Adam is the hip, badly dressed drinking buddy, his mother is the caregiver concerned about her son’s lack of a significant other, and Cousin Steve is the cantankerous relative who you can’t help but love despite his lack of tack. Even the porn actors and actresses that frequent each episode are not the stereotypical strung-out sluts willing to be degraded for a few bucks. Instead, they’re seen as fun-loving women (and men)who love their job. I’m sure some of this viewpoint is intentional on Glasser’s part, but this is easily one of the most enjoyable reality tv series I’ve ever seen…it certainly beats the Real World, Average Joe, and those wretched Bacherlor/Bachelorette cretins.

Most of us have already seen the show on TV, that’s probably what’s brought you here. Of course the box includes all 10 episodes on 3 discs. On the 3rd disc are additional features like deleted scenes and interviews with the cast. I was hoping for even more deleted scenes than were on the disc, but they weren’t bad. There’s a music video for the opening song as well. All of the episodes can be viewed with commentary by The Jay and Tony Show. You can also view the episodes in French and Spanish. I think this is an all around good buy. I hope this info helps answer a few questions you might have.