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1 comments about Memorial Day (2001).

1. MEMORIAL DAY is one of Jeff Speakman's later movies. Speakman looks a little out of shape and doesn't have much heart in his performance as Ed Downey, a former agent of The Agency, who has been placed in a mental institution because he knew about the Eagle satellite and it's laser shooting death ray. Of course, now the Agency has him back, programmed to help in the assassination of presidential candidate Frederick Coffin. Bruce Weitz plays Speakman's former mentor whose involvement in the conspiracy is predictable. Stephanie Niznik (Looking a lot like Falcon Crest's Susan Sullivan) is the dedicated t.v. reporter who wants to crack the story. Veteran actor Paul Mantee plays the corrupted general.
   All in all, a derivative and not too exciting offering from the usually more interesting Speakman movies.

5 comments about Memorial Day.

1. This movie is a total cult classic. My girlfriends and I like to get together and watch it. That frat guy is so cute.



2. Not only does this movie have a less than weak plot, it is also made in such an amateur manner, I was astonished such nonsense can make it to a DVD. The performance by the actors is unauthentic and weak. When watching it, I had the feeling of being in a bad, vastly unrehearsed, amateur theater. It is a total waste of time and money. Just forget it.



3. [good things]
   Watching this movie brings back feelings of good ole backwoods slasher movies like Friday The 13th, The Burning, Madman and Bloody Murder. The movie is an obvious take from Friday The 13th, right down to the back story. The script and plot aren't great, but it gets right down to the point. One thing I did like about the story was the twist at the end (every movie seems to have them now). When I watched the movie I suspected both obvious people that you were meant to suspect, and then we see who was the real killer, and who started everything. I thought the ending was far from brilliant, but very well done. The location was great, it's too bad they weren't able to utilize the cabins and camp other than a couple shots.
   
   
   [the bad]
   I have no clue who these "actors" were, but they were very bad and very annoying. While, the 3 more important characters were about as good as you can get in a low budget production, the rest horribly over acted, and made me want to gouge out my eyes and ears. The blood was almost nil,and the deaths weren't very well done. I thought the movie started off too fast, there was really no character development before they started dying off one-by-one. I think the characters could have been developed to the point where anyone could have been the killer, but that didn't happen. The killer was an obvious Jason Voorhees ripoff, but that wasn't a bad thing. The bad thing was that Trevor Moorhouse (Bloody Murder 1 and 2) was a more intimidating killer, and that is just pathetic.
   
   
   [final thoughts]
   Memorial Day is a good movie to kick back to on a Sunday and watch, it rates up there with Bloody Murder, Adam & Evil and Generation Ax. The movie doesn't play well when actually looking for an interesting movie, it plays well when you want to watch something short and something that you can laugh at. The movie isn't that bad considering the movie was made on a miniscule budget, and was made as a carbon-copy Friday The 13th. Yes, the blood, deaths, acting and dialog could have been much better. But, it is a backwoods slasher, we see people die. We see boobs, we have the slasher staple "camp fire" scene, we have a solid back story/legend to base more movies on, we have just about everything a million dollar slasher movie has (other than the things I listed that it lacks!). When I watched this, I really didn't hate it, I didn't love it, but I did like it. I like movies that play like fan films, and in my opinion this was nothing more than an homage to the backwoods slasher genre.



4. Ummm...let's see, a group of kids goes to a cabin on the lake and gets killed by a crazed maniac wearing a hockey mask. Gee...never heard of that plot before. How original. Where did the braintrust of Memorial Day ever think of such a fantastic plot. These guys are geniuses! Seriously now...that is the plot...and unabashedly, and pretty much shameful ripoff of Friday the 13th, and the producers don't seem to care one bit. This is one of those films where it was the first...and only acting credit of the cast involved and one can certainly see why. It's absolutely atrocious. Beyond bad. Have these people ever had a single drama class? Did they rehearse? It's shot poorly...the special effects suck...just bad all around and if you rent this you'll lose 80 minutes of your life that you will never get back. Don't say you were not warned!



5. What makes a cheesy B-movie a cult classic that people end up laughing at and liking? For me, it's at least a little bit of originality and likeable characters with distinct personalities. This film has neither. This film took no time to give each character a little differentiation, so how can you be intrigued by a bunch of strangers running through the woods (or a large backyard)? Not to mention the close-ups were...um, close up! So close up that I found myself pulling back, "Who are you? I don't want to see your nostril hair! At least leave a little room to see what is going on around you!"
   Almost all the killings were off screen, drug out, boring. At least pay an old retired guy $15 to make an appearance as the crazy townsman, "There's a curse on that lake! Go and you'll be doomed!" But, no.
   
   How can you not look at the video cover, read the title, read the summary of this film without noticing that it is a clear ripoff of Friday the 13th? I won't even address that.
   
   Even the little "twist" in the end left me feeling, "ho-hum." My daughter kicked within me during this whole movie as if to say, "Mom, turn this waste off!" Glad it was a free rental.

5 comments about George Stevens - D-Day to Berlin.

1. I just wish it were longer. There is actually a fair amount of color film shot from the war (I believe Stevens himself shot far more than this tape shows), and what's been released so far is just the surface. I'd like to see the rest made available.



2. I purchased this video for my father for Christmas 1999. He watched it three times just on Christmas night! A veteran, he considers it our obligation to educate today's youth about the war...he found this video an excellent means to accomplish this task.



3. Dear Mr. Peter Lorenzi,
   
   I must disagree with you completely, As a photography/film student, I viewed this film in part and soon realized that this film was not tinted with any type sepia-acetone color of any form. These motion pictures were shot directly from Kodak color film in "home movie cameras" that were brought along with the regular potion picture industry equipment that was used mostly for black and white shots. But this documentory was shot with real Kodak Technicolor: Called "IB Technicolor" for Imbibition. The most fade resistant color process. Found in 16mm from the mid 1940's to the early 1970's.
   
   Also, Reviewed by Linda, Yahoo contributer.
   At the start of World War II, famed Hollywood director George Stevens (Woman of the Year, A Place in the Sun, Shane), like several of his film-world cohorts, volunteered for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, whose assignment was to document the front lines of the war as it happened. Their footage accounts for the many famous black-and-white newsreels that were the public's only moving-image link to what was going on in the war. But Stevens also brought along his home movie camera and shot color film at the same time, capturing many images both informative and horrific, that he shelved away until his death. George Stevens Jr. inherited a treasure trove of film lore, and assembled this footage to show to the public for the first time in this documentary.
   
   George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin is really an astonishing collection of personalized movies. We've seen much of this before: D-Day in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the discovery of the horrors of the concentration camp in Dachau. But being used to seeing these images in gritty black-and-white, it is almost alarming to see it in full, vibrant color. These films aren't washed out, and they certainly aren't sepia-toned. They are brightly colored as though they could happen today.
   
   One should do their home-work before commenting on something in public.



4. Adding color film like these to the grainy black-and-white images that have become the public memory of World War II is illuminating. These are original color films, not colorized black and white films. The war in color is how people who were there saw and lived the war.
   
   Yet the color footage is mostly of the photographers themselves, the ones who spent 99% of their time shooting the black-and-white footage we often remember or that serves as our memories of the war. There is some shocking footage of dead bodies, Dachau, and destruction. There is even more footage of mundane scenes of jeeps, soldiers, scenery, cities, and ceremonial meeting sin Paris and on the Elbe. And there are plenty of shots of the film crew shaving, eating, meeting dignitaries, opening Christmas presents, and looking like a bunch of buddies on a fishing trip. The narrator explains who the men were and what they did later, making them - not he soldiers -- the feature players of the story. These home movies at times separate us from the war and the men who fought the war. This dilutes the power of the message and of the memory.
   
   This is a nice way to revive memories and to honor the service of the men who defeated the Nazis. But this DVD is short, superficial, overhyped, and oversold.



5. Director, producer George Stevens spent the war years in uniform. Along with a number of veteran Hollywood cameramen and screenwriters they formed a film unit dedicated to recording the events transpiring in Europe in 1944 and 45. Narrated by his son, we follow "The Stevens Irregulars",as they called themselves, from the landing on Normandy to the Allied Forces trek across enemy territory to Berlin. We see the liberation of Paris and the discovery of the camps at Aushwitz to the fortress in the Alps where Hitler spent much of his time. What is remarkable is that these movies were shot in color. To view the D-Day landings in technicolor makes that events so real, we are not watching grainy black and white film, we are seeing it as it was seen by those who were there those fateful and historic days.. I was stunned seeing them for the first time. It is a time capsule like no other.

3 comments about Willie Nelson and Friends - Outlaws & Angels.

1. A Stellar Lineup w/DYLAN, KEITH RICHARDS, AL GREEN is what sold me on this Disc. I figured why pick up the CD for $12 when I could get a DVD with VIDEO, better sound than CD AND Bonus Tracks (The BOB DYLAN number's not even on the CD...Now I know Why!)for $3 or $4 more. Unfortunately many of the performances by those mentioned above are throwaway cuts. Dylan and Nelson both seem disinterested in their tune, alternating with mumbling and guessing at the lyrics. There's little spark in AL GREEN's
   vocals while he's distracting himself by PRETENDING to play the guitar he's holding. KEITH RICHARD tries to get in a couple of decent licks in the old Blues Standard TROUBLE IN MIND only to be shut out by a geriatric JERRY LEE LEWIS flailing away.
   
   Better served are the duets with the ladies. LUCINDA & WILLIE's version of Lucinda's smokey Ballad OVERTIME is one of the highlights as are tracks by SHELBY LYNNE and RICKIE LEE JONES.
   Do yourself a favor and start the Disc about midway around Willie's duets w/TOOTS HIBBERTS from the reggae band TOOTS & THE MAYTALS. The second half of this disc is stronger by far.
   Also, while the sound isnt bad (5.1 Dolby Digital AND DTS) the crack back-up band is buried in the background of the mix.
   
   Also the introductions of the Guest Artists by some disembodied voice from Backstage that sounds like the announcer
   from the Hollywood Squares (this show was Broadcast on cable TV first in a Truncated version) get real old / real quick!!
   
   A bit of a dissapointment. You might fare better by spending your
   Pesos on Willie's new Studio album IT ALWAYS WILL BE.



2. I agree with RobbyDee. I viewed and taped the TV special, then bought the CD. The most exciting event of the entire special was Willie with Los Lonely Boys on Cisco Kid. Willie seemed to take much pride in his adopted sons and was emotional in his intros. of them. Clearly, there was something about performng with LLB that energized him, to which the audience was very receptive. I taped over the lst half of the Special on my VHS tape, and I wish I could do the same with the CD. The first half was just plain out-right dull. Not even Willie was getting into it. Bob Dylan? It doesn't become Willie at all to try to slow down to that style of music, loosely named. I looked forward to Al Green, expecting to hear the Green sound that put him on the map, such as Let's Stay Together. Instead, I felt as if I were in a day-long, gospel-shouting, countryside church service. Yes, I agree the duets with the girls gave the show a better side. The entire Jerry Lee, Keith R., and Kid Rock interlude was surreal. Does Jerry Lee have Altzeimers? And what is with this saturation of Kid Rock into country music, which is being shoved down everyone's throat? Yep--best part: Willie with Los Lonely Boys. 2nd was the classic On the Road ending, where Willie signaled for LLB to stand directly behind him and even moved aside to allow for better coverage of them. Clearly, Willie enjoyed himself most when the young vibrancy of LLB surrounded him.
   
   I will buy the DVD, even though I have the CD, simply and only because I want to have Los Lonely Boys and Willie performing together, when they all 4 are having the time of their lives.



3. It Started out with a bang, then was just ok for some songs. I was also dissapointed in Al Green's choice of song. But it was worth watching. I really enjoyed Toby Keith, Carol King, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard and Kid Rock. The shining moment for me was the finalle with Keith Riohards, Jerry Lee Lewis et.al.