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Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Movie Streaming. Movie Title: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Average customer review: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

Dinosaurs are everyone’s favorite fossils. All kids seem to know about them in one way or another. There’s “Jurassic Park” and other movies. There’s Barney. All major natural history museums have exhibits. Dinosaurs are many states’ “official fossil” and on and on. Well, why not? Even though they constitute only a small portion of the total Mesozoic fauna, they’re generally large and spectacular and grab the imagination like no other fossil group. The Mesozoic Era was a glorious time for the reptiles and not just the Dinosaurs. The Mesozoic oceans had an assemblage of large marine reptiles that were just as remarkable in their habitats as the Dinosaurs were on land. Giant marine turtles, Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs of great variety and ferocious Mosasaurs, in addition to some pretty gigantic sharks and other fish, roamed the Mesozoic seaways. “Sea Monsters: A prehistoric Adventure” is a film put together to depict the marine fauna of this time span.

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“Sea Monsters” weaves multiple lines of information together. First, there’s the group of paleontologists who are collecting and curateing the fossils. Second are the nature and animated recreations of the fossils themselves. Third is a little story that the fossils supposedly reveal regarding some small short-necked plesiosaurs referred to as dollies (a mother and two siblings) who venture out into the mean Cretaceous sea about 82 million years ago. Finally, the movie gives an interesting and spectacular viewing of the geologic history of the seaway, both in map and perspective views. Would the average viewer (especially kids) comprehend and appreciate the complexly interwoven story? Probably not. However, they well might enjoy many facets of the film especially some spectacular animated versions of the Mesozoic marine creatures. A person well versed in natural history might view the film in an entirely different way and find it to be very interesting and well done. The DVD could be repeatedly viewed, especially by children. As their knowledge grew, probably their understanding and appreciation would also grow. Same for adults. The film has good educational potential. Personally, my favorite portion of the film would be the animations. It was delightful to view creatures that I’ve read about in spectacular live versions.

I should probably issue a disclosure at this point. I served as a scientific consultant to this film and I’m listed in the closing credits. I received no remuneration or expenses and have no financial tie-ins with the filming company or The National Geographic Society, and none was expected. My interest was in the fossils and the story they were telling and I’m delighted with the final results. I viewed the film at the Rueben Fleet IMAX Theater with Director Sean Phillips and others and greatly enjoyed the evening. The DVD could not possibly be as spectacular as my viewing, but I have full confidence that the DVD version will show well on a wide-screen TV.

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The special effects were amazing, a lot of information was given, wonderful narration, and the storyline was interesting.

However, I can’t bring myself to give more than three stars because the staged paleontologist scenes were too cheesy for me…I don’t know if better actors would have made a difference. Just when we were getting into the scenes with the prehistoric creatures, it would cut away to a reacreation of how the fossils were found - it was very distracting.

I think maybe they should have separated those scenes from the main storyline, and offered the fossil information as a special feature for the DVD.

If you prefer the set-up of DVDs such as Chased By Sea Monsters or When Dinosaurs Roamed America, you might have the same problem trying to sit through this DVD.

We bought this DVd for our three-year old son who is fascinated with prehistoric sea monsters…he loves the parts featuring the creatures, but kept wandering off whenever they cut to the staged “people” scenes. That kind of defeated the purpose of buying this DVD.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Streaming. Movie Title: Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Average customer review: Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Leonard Bernstein’s Candide

This is a splendid performance of Candide. But before you go any further, you should realise that this is a concert performance, not a full scale operatic staging of the work. That said, the singing is glorious and the acting, despite this being a concert performance is outstanding. It is driven to milk all the comic elements out of the play. It all works delightfully. It is so brimful of joie de vivre, it leaves you smiling and humming all day. I must disagree with a previous reviewer who said, Bernstein wouldn’t be amused. This is precisely what he would have wanted to achieve.

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Sir Thomas Allen is superb as Dr. Pangloss who doubles as the narrator of the concert. Paul Groves and Patti LuPone are both excellent. But the star of this Candide is surely the lovely Kristin Chenoweth as Cunegonde, who in addition to having a magnificient voice shows that she is a natural comedienne and actress. This recording of Candide immediately goes to the top of the list. Now, if only we could have Bernstein’s own production of Candide recorded live at the Barbican Theatre in London. That recording under the Deutsche Grammophon label is yet to appear on DVD.

I should comment on the camerawork which received criticism from a previous reviewer. It is a mark of the electric quality of this bravura performance that most viewers don’t even notice the occasionally almost amateurish shakiness of the camera. The cameraman was shaky at times and faces occasionally went in and out of focus but a large part of what I initially attributed to poor camerawork was in fact artificially introduced motion artifacts. This is a problem with the DVD encoding and not the camera. These cause apparent jumps in the picture. But this is present only in DVD players with low end video processors. Switching to a better DVD player or processor solves the problem.

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The DVD by Image Entertainment is in 1.78:1 widescreen (anamorphic enhancement). Picture quality is very good, clear, sharp and with rich natural colors. The picture is flawless provided you play it on a good DVD player. It comes with 3 audio tracks, DTS 5.1, Dolby Surround 5.1 and Dolby Stereo. Excellent immersive sound. It would have been good if they had included an uncompressed PCM track as well but I suppose that’s asking a bit much. All in all, an outstanding concert and one to be forever treasured.

Technical note: As noted above I noticed a strange problem with this particular DVD. It seems to play quite flawlessly on certain systems, yet throw up irritating problems on others. On one set-up I noticed numerous motion artifacts and lots of combing issues. Motion appears jerky and horizontal scan lines appear whenever fast movements occur or rapid scene changes take place. I’m not quite sure why they should be there but I attibute it to faulty encoding or improper flagging. No other DVD exhibits these errors on this particular system. I believe what one of the previous reviewers complained about could be due to this. The problem goes away when switching to an alternate system with a better deinterlacer / video processor. However that does not absolve Image Entertainment from responsibility for producing a sub-standard DVD which requires high end equipment to compensate for its deficiencies.

P.S. Bernstein’s Candide can be interpreted in many ways. Some approach it as serious opera, others as light operetta, still others as a Broadway musical or even farce. Liking or disliking a particular production is very subjective. If you adhere to Bernstein’s final vision of this work, enshrined in his by now legendary Barbican performance (Final, revised edition, first premiered 1988 by Scottish Opera and later performed with the LSO at the Barbican in 1989 with high powered opera stars singing all the roles), then you will tend to view this more as Opera and consequently your attitude to any performance that detracts from that operatic image (like this one) will be very negative. But you must remember that for many years, and for most Americans, Candide was considered a Broadway musical and at most a comic operetta. The two contrasting visions are equally valid and are a testament to Bernstein’s genius and Candide’s status as a true masterpiece.

Based on the wickedly funny satire by Voltaire, CANDIDE was originally produced on Broadway in 1956. The Leonard Bernstein score was greatly admired, as were the lyrics from an unexpected combination of Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, and Dorothy Parker. Sadly, the script by Lillian Hellman and the production as a whole proved hamfisted, to say the least, and in spite of a legendary performance by Barbara Cook the show closed after a mere seventy three performances.

On-going admiration made the original cast album a favorite in theatre circles, and over the years there have been numerous attempts to revive CANDIDE–but each attempt proved problematic at best. Even when Hellman’s script was discarded, the show simply proved impossible to stage… until 2004, when director Lonny Price staged the piece for a limited engagement at Lincoln Center.

Like most post-1956 directors, Price largely discarded the Hellman script. He also went quite a bit further: he makes no effort to “stage” CANDIDE in a traditional style. Placing no less than the New York Philharmonic and Westminister Symphonic Choir in the middle of the stage, using a minimum of props and even fewer costumes, Price has his actors romp through the orchestra and play directly and pointedly to the audience–and the result is theatre at its most theatrical and most uniquely powerful.

The cast is superior. Paul Groves and Kristin Chenoweth offer memorable vocals in the leading roles of Candide and his lady love Cunegonde, and while Chenoweth doesn’t manage to best Barbara Cook’s memorable performance she at least equals it; in her hands the famous “Glitter and be Gay” proves as comic as it is beautiful. Sir Thomas Allen provides tremendous stability in multiple roles, including the misguided Dr. Pangloss. Patti LuPone is somewhat less effective; although she performs both script and score with the remarkable vocal skills and tremendous aplomb for which she is so famous, she seems faintly miscast as The Old Lady. Even so, this indeed Patti LuPone in full stride, and that compensates for a great deal.

Like most theatre-to-film projects, CANDIDE has the occasional photography problem, but over all film director Fritz Zeilinger captures the excitement of this memorable live performance without major gaffes. If you are a fan of the score who has never seen the play in performance–well, as Dr. Pangloss might say, this is indeed the best of all possible productions. Greatly recommended.

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After releasing only selected episodes in volumes (4 episodes in 1 DVD), it is good to see that Universal Home Entertainment is finally releasing this show in season box sets (and hope that they continue to release the remaining seasons in the future).

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Premiered on October 1st, 1955, this wonderful series ran for seven seasons, and afterwards for another 3 seasons as “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”. This set contains the first 39 episodes of Season 1, told by the `Master of Suspense’, Alfred Hitchcock. The episodes include:

01. Revenge

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02. Premonition

03. Triggers in Leash

04. Don’t Come Back Alive

05. Into Thin Air (aka The Vanishing Lady)

06. Salvage

07. Breakdown

08. Our Cook’s a Treasure

09. The Long Shot

10. The Case of Mr. Pelham

11. Guilty Witness

12. Santa Claus and the 10th Avenue Kid

13. The Cheney Vase

14. A Bullet for Baldwin

15. The Big Switch

16. You Got to Have Luck

17. The Older Sister

18. Shopping for Death

19. The Derelicts

20. And So Died Riabouchinska

21. Safe Conduct

22. Place of Shadows

23. Back for Christmas

24. The Perfect Murder

25. There Was an Old Woman

26. Whodunit?

27. Help Wanted

28. Portrait of Jocelyn

29. The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby

30. Never Again

31. The Gentleman from America

32. The Babysitter

33. The Belfry

34. The Hidden Thing

35. The Legacy

36. Mink

37. The Decoy

38. The Creeper

39. Momentum

Along with the above episodes, this DVD also contains a featurette called “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back” on the show. Compared to the Season Sets of “The Twilight Zone” (which ranges from $75-100), I feel the price for this DVD is very decent and is worth buying.

All in all, this is a great release and I hope Universal will continue releasing more seasons of this show in the future.

I haven’t seen “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” since it was last shown on TV Land quite a few years back. This show is one of the best anthology series ever and deserves to be shown and enjoyed. Thankfully Universal has seen fit to release season one on DVD. All 39 episodes (yes, 39!) of this incredible show.

The one constant element throughout the series is the presence of Alfred Hitchcock with his dry, macabre sense of humor. This show made the well-respected film director a huge TV personality of the 50s and 60s. It was part of his deal with CBS that he would direct many of the episodes but as it turned out he directed only 17 segments during the series entire run.

Many well-known actors from film and television made appearances on the show during it’s run. In this season one set you can expect to see Aunt Bea (Frances Bavier), John Forsythe, Cloris Leachman, Joseph Cotten, Peter Lawford, Barry Fitzgerald, Carolyn Jones, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Claude Rains and many others. There was also a bit of nepotism afoot as Pat Hichcock made numerous appearances on her dad’s show. Fortunately, she was a pretty good actress.

The episodes are based on great short stories by writers such as Alexander Woollcott, Ambrose Bierce, Cornell Woolrich, Frederic Brown, Henry Slesar, H.H. Munro (aka Saki), John Cheever, John Collier, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch and Roald Dahl. Yes, that’s the same Roald Dahl who wrote those entertaining children’s stories (you’ve heard of Willy Wonka, I presume). He wrote one of the series most famous episodes “Lamb to the Slaughter.”

I have read that Hitchcock actually filmed two openings and closings for each episode. The ones Americans are familiar with feature Hitch sarcastically commenting on the show’s sponsors and TV in general. The other openings and closings were created for the European market and featured Hitch poking fun at Americans. I don’t know if any of these alternate scenes are included but they would be fun to watch.

A price tag of under $30 for 39 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” is a great bargain compared to the ridiculously overpriced “The Twilight Zone” seasons. As much as I like “The Twilight Zone” I refuse to pay those prices. As for “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” I’ll be the first in line to drop my $30 for these great shows.
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I think one of the most annoying things about movie critics is that they’re supposed to know their stuff, but in the end they come across as just being college guys looking for something dirty to watch! Isn’t it funny how they can’t help but get down on a hilarious, old fashioned comedy like this and yet show them something like American Pie and it’s great intellectual humor! A modern classic! Sickening! This movie was totally hilarious with hardly any sexual humor at all! Allright, just a hint here and there that wasn’t necessary. Beyond that this movie was such a perfect comedy for everyone! I absolutely loved this movie! They used every cartoon trick in the book to try and stop that mouse! And wasn’t Christopher Walken just incredible?!!! The casting in this was soooo great! It makes me so sad when movies like this come out and hardly get noticed by the public for whatever reason! Probably the lack of sex humor is evident and the previews and it keeps the movie goers away. Anyway I loved it! Do yourself a favor and pick it up! I’ve got it on VHS but hope to get the DVD eventually!

Mix in the elements of an early Coen brothers film with some Disney magic, a mouse that could star on digital cable’s “Bridezilla”, some Laurel and Hardy slapstick with generous portions of “Home Alone” and “The Money Pit” and you’ve got “Mouse Hunt”, an offbeat comedy that is great for everyone.

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Comic actors Nathan Lane and Lee Evans star as the Smuntz brothers, a pair of schlemiels that inherit a rickety factory and even more rickety house. Through a freak, they learn the house is potentially worth big bucks and the brothers do their best to turn it into their personal cash cow amidst failures in their professional and personal lives.

The fly in the ointment is a mouse that lives in the house and won’t be discarded. This little critter is surely the star of this show and the one you root for over and over again during this happy time DVD. The little guy seems to have a brain bigger than Chicago the way he outwits everyone in the movie time after time.

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Kids will enjoy this with you although they won’t enjoy the echt-Coen brothers production values. The factory scenes seem stolen from “Hudsucker Proxy” and many of the characterizations are cacricatures you may have seen in “Miller’s Crossing”. A lot of people will simply call this “Home Alone” with the rodent substituted for the kid and the dopey brothers for the crooks.

Still this is an enjoyable and amiable two hour venture into laughs and wonder that you won’t often see on DVD. The script is clever and the action plenty in this little flick. Take it home tonight and look forward to an evening of fun for the whole family.
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Stream Blue Seed Online. Movie Title: Blue Seed Average customer review: Blue Seed is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Blue Seed

Blue Seed is the story of Momiji, the descendant of the legendary Kushinada princess and last hope for humankind against the plant-like monsters called Aragami. I really enjoyed this series. It has humor, sadness, action (you know, the stuff that makes anime great). The characters are well developed and the storyline in intriguing. However, the story does have a tendency to become more repetitive at the middle of the series. The ending was not disappointing, though. If you like action anime, I reccomend this.

I first heard about this anime was in the mid 90s. I did not watch it but my friends kept saying how good, how exciting this anime was. At that time, I was not interested in watching it. If I did not watch this anime, I would have regreted. It is because it is a really exciting anime. The story is complicating, though it never loses its track. No wonder this anime was taken as a high profile during the debut. Everybody was talking about it, at school, hangout, etc. In the middle of the story, I always wondered what would happen next and in the end. The monsters, aragami and another enemy, Susano ou are strong. One complicate thing is they are not joint enermies at all but it seems like they are up to one common desire. I do not say much about the story because I want you to watch the anime before knowing the result. Besides the fighting and the excitment, the relationship between Momiji and Kusanagi can stick you on the chair until you watch the ending. I do not find boring in even one of the episodes. Every single episode is so good and attractive that no one would like to wait for the next episode. Another good point about this anime is it makes you use your brain to figure out what is happening. There are jokes but not meaningless, lame jokes.
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Two veteran cops, Turk and Rooster (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino) work to solve a string of murders in which the victims are criminals that they have previously arrested and have been acquitted of their crimes. Something’s seems a bit fishy, at least that’s what two younger cops, Detectives Riley and Perez (Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo) start to think. Furthermore, they suspect it’s a cop. Anyway you splice it, the decorated members of the NYPD are looking for a killer. One who leaves a bit of poetry at every scene and happens to murder the filth of society that has slipped through the cracks of the judicial system.

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“Righteous Kill” is only a slightly above average thriller given the big name talent. De Niro and Pacino both put forth great performances; De Niro as the hot headed, do whatever it takes to get a conviction cop and Pacino as a much calmer, honest detective. It seems a bit cliché, the whole good cop bad cop, but nonetheless it worked well and the duo’s performances were very well balanced to convey not just an occupational partnership, but also a friendship. While the film will leave the audience thinking they know all the answers within the first twenty minutes, the plot does take some interesting turns.

It’s great to see the two legendary actors are still performing. “Righteous Kill” is not completely predictable nor is it unwatchable. Give it a try.

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Righteous Kill is only the second pairing of two of cinema’s greatest actors - Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Their first on-screen collaboration, only featured them together in a couple of scenes, and left the public wanting more.

Righteous Kill has them playing NYC detective partners who’ve been on the job for 30 years. A serial killer start killing criminals who gotten off on technicalities. Soon, all the evidence points to the killer being a cop. And the cop would seem to be De Niro’s character, Turk, a rough-edged type who isn’t above falsifying evidence to convict suspects. He’s balanced out by Pacino’s Rooster, a calm, soothing influence on Turk in a relationship that seems as much like a marriage as it does a professional partnership. Added to the mix are John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg as younger cops investigating the killings and Carlo Gugino as a forensic specialist in a relationship with DeNiro.

The movie works well as a police drama, less so as a mystery, although the solution of the killings does take some interesting turns. If two lesser actors were playing Turk and Rooster, the film might have been touted as asking interesting questions about the nature of friendships, partnerships, and romantic relationship amid all the stresses and strains of police work. But with De Niro and Pacino in tow, the viewer expects more, and doesn’t necessarily get it with this film.

However, the two greats still know how to pull off great performance, and know how to elicit sympathy, affection, and every other possible emotion from an audience. Righteous Kill isn’t a complete misfire, but might require a third teaming of these great actors.
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The historical significance of the typeface as well as the on-going evolution of typography make this a must see for anyone interested in typography and graphic design, but also a fine entertainment for film enthusiasts. Compelling interviews with notable professionals are informative, witty and often hilarious. Visuals run the gamut from elegance to true grit. Kudos to Gary Hustwit and his crew for this living history before it is not longer possible.

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I’m a working graphic designer.

I’m an art graduate. As a child, I enjoyed to look at fonts for hours - a Letraset catalogue(titled in big Helvetica letters) from the 80s was one of my (most) prized possessions.

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When I first heard about this movie I was thrilled. Now that I saw it, I can say it was worth my time. The movie is smart, witty, and a pleasure to behold - an endless stream of layouts. And valuable insights, commentaries and history. Oh yes, the film is also inspirational - it makes you think about good design. It makes you desire good design, whatever that may mean today.

My favourite quote from the movie:

“The life of a designer is a life of fighting–fight against the ugliness, just like a doctor fights against disease. For us visual disease is what we have around and what we try to do is try to cure it somehow, you know, with design.” Thanks Mr. Vignelli for putting things into perspective.

Given Helvetica’s importance in design history, this is not a movie you should miss.

I first saw Helvetica(the font) as a child, I first acknowledged it as a high school design student, now it’s one of my 3 most used fonts at work. I know it’s flaws and shortcomings, and I’ve come to rely on it’s many strengths and virtues. It’s versatile, strong and straightforward. It’s one you can trust. It’s also got a softer side, when you come to know her better. It’s an old friend of mine, that now is starring in it’s own movie! Now that’s something to celebrate.

Cheers, Helvetica! Cheers, old friend!
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The Big Lebowski is on my top ten list of all time best films. I’ve seen A LOT of films by the way. I don’t need to explain to anyone why this movie is so brilliant, and why it continues to be a cultural phenomenon. I mention these things first because I don’t want people to feel like I’m giving the film one star. If I could I would give the movie 100 stars. What I’m giving such a poor review for is my distaste for movie studios pumping out special editon dvd’s every few years because they know a film has a huge following. This new “bowling ball” edition of Lebowski is further proof that Universal has nothing but contempt for the fans of Big Lebowski. They wrap it up in a nice big package and make it look slick, but that’s as far as the creativity goes into supplying anything new in terms of extras. Does anyone remember the terrible repackage they gave it a few years ago with a towel and coasters? No actual extras existed, but they still put it out as a revamped “deluxe edition”. Well, don’t expect much more here.

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The only new extras to this edition are four very brief featurettes. They feature new interviews with all of the major players (with the exception of the Coen brothers, of course), but they mostly just sit around and say stuff like, “It’s a great film! It’s hilarious! Coen Brothers are geniuses!”. Err, yeah, we know all of that. It also has a featurette that centers around the Lebowski Fest which is vaguely interesting for a few minutes until it turns into the same old “Lebowski is great!” territory. The featurettes are a snooze fest to say the least.

What really annoyed me with this DVD, though, is that they included the SAME “Making of Big Lebowski” documentary that has been on every release of this film! Not only that, it looks as if it was recorded from an old VHS tape and plastered onto a full screen format. It looks horrible, and what’s more, we’ve all seen it before! How many times is Universal going to pump out the same damn extras to the same audience?? It’s an insult to be charged more and more money for the same mediocre extras that were never that good to begin with. Luckily I was able to rent this and didn’t actually buy it! “The Big Lebowski” will NEVER have proper extras until the people who created it (the Coen Brothers) are involved. We want a commentary, a full length documentary with in-depth interviews, and deleted scenes (and plenty of them!).

DON’T BUY THIS EDITION. It’s junk! Simply keep the edition you already have (the very first edition) safely knowing that you are not missing anything with any other edition!

Here we are, its Shabas, the Jewish day of rest…white russians in hand, awaiting the special edition of the greatest movie ever made…and what do we get? A bunch of fig eaters wearing towels on their heads…this is not a worthy adversary.

Compared to the original DVD release which is at least 5 years old, this so-called special edition offers nothing new except a strange intoduction and some on-set pictures from Jeff Bridges’ archives. Big deal. Hell, this “collector’s edition” doesn’t even offer the teaser trailer and the luxury of both wide-screen and full-screen formats, as the original release did. The making-of featurette is the exact same as before.

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Basically, my associate and I have concluded that the Coen brothers have not achieved in the most modest task which was their charge. They have stolen our money and we have no choice but to warn you bums not to be swindled as we were.

Are we to believe that for $13.00, all we have paid for is new packaging, new interactive menus, and some bogus special features. Am I also to believe that Jeff Bridges and the Coen brothers were too busy to even spend a day recording commentary tracks and drinking some oat sodas? Hardly, dude.

Overall, this DVD did not tie my collection together. Go bowling instead.

My god, sirs, I will not abide this “special edition”.
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This movie is packed with action. I have long been waiting for the blu-ray release.
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Watching the Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz film “The Long, Long Trailer” some 50+ years after it was made, is a rather surreal experience. By 1953, The “Baby Boom” was indeed booming, tract housing was all over the place like crab grass, trailer parks multiplied like jackrabbits, and Americans were inundated with the wonders of “space age” technology. Big, flashy-looking cars, refrigerators, TV sets, “streamlined” furniture, and snazzy clothes were the things that everyone wanted to have. It was as if America wanted to wipe away its gritty, unglamourous past and face the space age all polished and waxed and Simonized. To see Eisenhower’s America as depicted by MGM in better-than-real-life Technicolor and filmed largely on MGM’s backlot (interspersed with location photography of Yosemite Park,etc) I feel like I’m watching home movies that were shot in a suburb of a distant planet! “The Long, Long Trailer” was made to capitalize on the overwhelming popularity of TV’s “I Love Lucy”, which finally made a star of 40ish Lucille Ball, who had never really achieved “big stardom” in the 20 years she had been in showbiz. So, if you REALLY loved Lucy, you could go and spend money to sit in a theater and watch Lucy and Desi on a big screen in an “Air-Cooled” theater in COLOR, and with no commericials! This film has always been a favorite of mine, ever since I first watched it with my sister on our parents’ blonde wood console black-and-white TV back in the mid 1960s. See Lucy fall in the mud (I have to admit I get a rather sadistic pleasure out of watching this bit over and over again). See Lucy try to prepare a gourmet dinner while in a moving trailer, with disastrous results (God, the things they did to this lady!) See Desi perform a medley of songs while driving a huge convertible, pulling an even MORE huge trailer, all in stunning Technicolor. How could you NOT like this film? I must have seen this film at least 50 times when I was growing up! Detractors call this film one long “I Love Lucy” episode which, of course it is, but it certainly isn’t dull, and Lucy and Desi were very talented, hardworking people. Who cares about their less-than-happy personal life? The supporting cast is great, filled with many characters actors who had long, long careers, such as Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Moroni Olson, Madge Blake, and Bert Freed. The picture quality on the DVD is beautiful, with crisp imagery and breathtaking color. One can really understand why Lucille Ball was dubbed “Technicolor Tessie”. She looks great. The location photography is picture-postcard lovely, and all of the pathologcally “Fifties” trappings, such as the Helen Rose clothes and humongous cars, remind us of a VERY different time. This film is a real time piece, it brings back very fond memories of a time that really seems “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” Where’s my TV dinner?

We watch this wonderful movie once a year, just for the pleasure of anticipating each perfect scene. Directed by Vincent Minelli, and perfectly acted by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, this comedy takes us through the engagement and honeymoon of a young couple starting out life in an “up to date” way, in a trailer. Each cameo appearance by marvelous second and third banana studio people whose faces any movie buff will recognize is very enjoyable, too. There are two several scenes that are our favorites. 1) Tacy (Lucille B.) fixes dinner in a moving trailer (HAH) 2) Nicky (Desi A.) freaks out trying to get his golf clubs to fit in the trailer; 3) Tacy and Nicky try to get over the high passes in Colorado with a rock-filled trailer); 4) a mechanic explains why trailer brakes are soo important. This film is just too magical to believe. You have to see it.
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