5 comments about Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition).

1. Sean Penn saying "Hey, dude" is enough reason to watch this gem. I'm currently reading the Fast Times at Ridgemont High book and the movie is soooo close! It's fun to see Nic Cage, Judge Reinhold (after Stripes), Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker and more before they became famous. Yes, it touches on sensitive subjects, but overall, it isn't smutty or dirty as others such as Porky's and such have mastered. It's touching and you root for everyone, even Damone.
   
   Take a couple hours off and remember or find out what the late '70s/early '80s really were like!



2. Has some wild and crazy times for everyone!!With Mr.Hand, eating pizza in class, Getting high on paper,.



3. Yes, I am one of those 30 something individuals that think this movie is awesome. Other movies of this genre are 16 candles, The Breakfast club, Pretty in Pink etc.. This is a highly recommended movie that I don't will disappoint you. An original 80's classic.



4. You can't call yourself a teenager if you haven't see Fast Times at Ridgemont High . The film is required viewing for teens of the eighties, nineties, seventies or any time period. Cameron Crowe made a film that teens can relate that still stands the test of time. I would love to go to Ridgemont and hang out with Spocolit, Brad Hamltion & Mike Damone. I would also love to get Linda Barret and Stacy Hamltion in the sack. For their nude scenes the film gets a 10.



5. My son in Iraq asked for this movie (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). I was able to find this movie at a great price and with great delivery. He has already gotten it over there! BTW, a really funny movie.Thanks!

5 comments about Teen Witch.

1. I just love this movie! It's about an insecure, unpopular, nice girl who becomes a witch on her 16th birthday. Will she use her powers for good or evil? Will everything she sets in motion end up the way she planned? You'll just have to watch and see. Yes, it has some 80's cheese factor, but that's part of why it's so great!



2. I watched this when I was a teen and when I saw it on here I had to get it for nastolgic purposes. It is a silly movie and has a rap in there that will have you peeling over in laughter! Good price, fast shipping, good condition. So top that!



3. Great movie about wanting to be noticed and popular. Teen Witch is magic with a twist.
   
   Great 80s soundtrack and gorgeous actors.
   
   Dan Gauthier is Hot, Robyn Lively is sweet and Caren Jaye is a joy.
   
   Teen Witch is a movie for all ages wishing to relive their school days



4. Ok, this movie is awful...but that's why it is so amazing. I put this movie on with my friends and we didn't stop laughing the entire time. Nothing makes sense--nothing. That's why it is amazing. You never know what is going on. Is it a drama? A comedy? Why are they singing? Why are they RAPPING? Who wrote the script? Were they on crack? Who cares?! This movie is the funniest thing I've ever seen. The opening sequence alone is the most ridiculous four minutes that have been captured on film--the two "romantic" leads doing some "sexy" dream-sequence dance that is a combination of Saturday Night Fever and West Side Story, all in slow motion. FOR NO REASON. The soundtrack is out-of-this world. I particularly enjoyed the catchy "I'm gonna be the most popular girl" and "Top That," during which two middle-class white kids, one of whom is dressed like a 40s gangster, have a "rap-off" that trumps anything Vanilla Ice could have pulled off in his wildest dreams. An instant classic. WATCH THIS MOVIE AND YOUR ABS WILL TIGHTEN FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH. peace.



5. I find it fascinating to watch teenage films from the 80s; their values, what it is that kids aspire to...and because most pander to American's sexual repression and cross over into the realm of what I call "ultra" soft-core. Teen Witch is an undiluted relic from this era, a horrific piece of garbage only outdone by truly satanic filth like "Clueless" and "Can't Buy Me Love."
   
   There are things that are dated but reveal the charming and sincere aspect of a cultural epoch, and then there are things things like Teen Witch -- with its "rap" musical aspirations and depressingly awful stereotypes. Apart from the botched comedy, fantasy, melodrama... we have a film that aspires to say something about teen angst but says nothing as it is so dishonest and only furthers the repressive, hate-filled environment in its ersatz sentimentality. Joseph Goebbels would have loved "Teen Witch."

5 comments about Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series).

1. I LOVE this movie. Romantic, but not too sappy (guys will totally like it too). How cool that this one comes with the soundtrack!!



2. I loved this movie when it first came out. (so does my boyfriend) And the soundtrack is really good. I highly recommend.



3. It's not often my sports nut fiance and I agree on not only which movie to select, but whether or not it's actually good! Love and Basketball is one that we both really enjoyed. The film heats up both on and off the court- satisfying his need for slick b-ball moves and my quench for romance. Perfect flick for date night! The soundtrack is a great bonus.



4. This movie was a really pleasant surprise. I hesitated seeing this movie because I thought it would be another guy sports movie but it came recommended by a friend. I rented it then ended up buying it. The storyline is great, the love story really sweet and the music even better than I thought as well. Highly recommend it!



5. This is a classic movie. It's entertaining for both guys and girls and would be a cute to give as part of a Valentine's Day gift. My husband loves sports and enjoys watching the DVD, but I kept the soundtrack for me! Win/win!

5 comments about The Game Plan (Full Screen Edition).

1. Madison Pettis plays a young girl who walks up to her father's door. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson's door! It's made headlines that Johnson is a father! Everyone is in shock over this news. Meanwhile Peyton (Madison Pettis) has a lot of things up her sleeve for Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson! You'll laugh it out in this movie-let me tell you!
   
   This is a touching movie and it's also one of those few movies where it's "clean". The language is very mild and there are no bad "scenes" in it. This is a great Family movie. Also it's a pretty good football movie too! I definitely recommend this to you!



2. OK, Here it comes! I don't even know why I do reviews on these sort of films!?? This movie is so routine that I felt like I had "ESP". Completely riddled with clichés` this movie drags on and on and offers the viewer nothing new and it's just painfully sweet and annoying! I don't mind "heartwarming", but this film is vomit inducing!
   
   The biggest problem in "The Rock" can't act his way out of a paper bag! His earlier film 'Run Down' wasn't bad as action movies go and I think he should stick to that genre. If you want to see a big action hero play the fool watch 'Kindergarten Cop'.
   
   With so many good family movies out there, this one is completely avoidable! Stay Away!



3. Arnie did in Kindergarten Cop, Stallone sort of did it in "Stop! or my mom will shoot" and Vin Diesel did it in Pacifier... a movie where they take a top action star who knows only one thing, and throws a kid or two at them and tells them to stop the action, and become a family man.
   
   This ones story stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who plays a superstar American football player who thinks about nothing but himself. Then one day a little girl appears on his door step claiming to be his kid he did not know about, and The Rock's life is turned upside down as he discovers what being a father and what kids get up to is about.
   
   The plot is not much, I knew what was going to happen only a few minutes into the movie, but by the time it does come, you do feel all warm and mushy and happy through it.
   
   I haven't been a fan of The Rocks acting career so far, everything I have seen him in has been pretty average. But I have expected he will do something huge that sticks out for him sooner or later. Funnily enough, so far this is it. I'm sure his best movie is yet to come, but for now this one took the Rock away from all that action and guns kind of thing and shows the lighter side of his acting ability.
   
   The little girl, I have no idea who she is, but shes done a pretty good job of acting in this movie. They said in a featurette shes like a 30 year old in a 8 year olds body... nah... shes more believable then that annoying Dakota Fanning and you actually beleive this kids a kid.
   
   The surprising role for me was Kyra Sedgwick. Usually she plays a very sweet and always smiling character, in this one she is the (that word for a female dog) and I almost did not recognize her for a while. It's defiantly a different character then what you usually see her playing.
   
   Overall, it's pretty much what you expect the movie to be, it could have been a bit better with the laughs, but they focused this more as a drama movie with comedy added instead of the other way around. It's a decent family flick, and sure to get bad reviews from those rockin wrestling fans who just want the Rock to go back to sports entertainment.... but there going to have to come to terms with it not happening and see the Rock is now an actor.



4. One thing I do like about this movie is that has a good concept-probably would have made a decent Chick Lit book. I even think Madison Pettes is adorable, but on a whole, this movie never ceases to be missing something. Johnson does an okay job-not quite an actor but manages not to have that stiff, deer-caught-in-headlights look either on screen. As a woman, I can look at his body for hours. The script didn't know which ingredients to put in here so they decided to put it all in and, on top of that, put too much of it in. I was literally recognizing different scenes having been in other movies. From Jerry McGuire to Pretty woman to even Will Smith's Hitch. There's not one original idea in this movie. And still I didn't totally hate it. Go figure.



5. We have five boys, so I am always on the lookout for movies we can watch together. I want movies that will hold the interest of my younger boys, have enough jokes that my older boys will not be bored, but not be so 'dumbed down' that my husband and I are asleep in the first 30 minutes. Not always an easy task...But "The Gameplan" was close enough. Dwayne Johnson was a pro wrestler, not sure of all the details, but that is a fact that caught my older boys'attention. We all enjoyed him in "The Scorpion King," and my younger boys just thought it looked like a funny movie, and it was. Many of the jokes are recycled from other, similar, films and it is a rather predictable ending, though I was caught off guard by 'the twist.' But it is a sweet story, with a lovely sentiment. It's a movie you can enjoy as a family, and movies like that always rank high in my book.

5 comments about Cool Runnings.

1. This is the story of the Jamaican bobsled team that made it to the Olympics. It is based on a true story.
   
   Unfortunately, true or not, there are scenes you just don't want children to see, and we were prettty shocked that it was rated only PG.
   
   We could maybe have lived with one character calling another "*ssh*le", but there is an extended scene in a bar, involving a bar fight, during which the drinking, name-calling and fighting in that scene bracket another scene in the mens room of the bar, where one of the characters looks into a mirror and says, over and over, " I'm a bad-*ss mother who don't take no cr*p off of nobody!"
   
   If these don't bother you - or if your child is of an age where you feel it's ok for them to see these scenes - then "Cool Runnings" is an otherwise ok movie. But these scenes were of a magnitude that for us this movie was definitely not ok.
   
   Anne
   [...]



2. no issues with this purchase. Got a little nervous because it didn't arrive until the day before Xmas, but otherwise fine.



3. A Jamaican man has the dream to make it to the Olympics, and while he is the fastest runner in the Island nation, he is tripped and unable to win.
   
   He finds out that there is another opportunity, and that is for a bobsled team, something Jamaica has never attempted because... who would ever dream of a team from a Caribbean Island that competes against the best of the best... they don't even know about snow!!!
   
   John Candy is a retired Olympic gold medal winner and he lives in Kingston. The team enlists his services and soon we find ourselves witnessing a rather funny story of a group of athletes going to compete in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where cold is something beyond every conceivable idea of this group of four great athletes.
   
   Simply, don't' miss this fun Caribbean story of the struggle to achieve greatness.



4. This is such a great movie - I loved it in the theater and now my kids love it!



5. JMJ JULY09,2008
   
   COOL RUNNING IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE, IT HAVE ACTION,COMMITMENT,PERSISTENT
   COURAGE AND MOST OF ALL NEVER NEVER SAY I CAN'T DO IT. I RECOMMEND THIS
   FLIM FOR A FAMILY TO SEE WITH THEIR CHILDERN AND AFTER HAVE THE PARENTS
   TO ASK THEIR CHILDERN WHAT DID THEY LEARN FROM THIS FLIM.
   
   THANK,YOU
   GOD BLESS
   MARIE L. BILLS

5 comments about NFL Super Bowl XLII - New York Giants Championship DVD.

1. It's a good DVD. Though it's not the Superbowl from start to finish, it is the next best thing and actually you get some good stuff of other things (NYG climb to the superbowl this season). A must for NYG fans and/or someone who enjoys watching a team climb to the top. Very good.



2. PURCHASED SEVERAL AS GIFTS, MOMENTS TO REMEBER. REASONABE PRICE, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR NFL ,THE GIANTS SUPER BOWL WIN, MOMENTS TO REMEBER, GET THIS VIDEO AND ALSO PURCHASE THE HARD COVER BOOK, WE HAVE BOTH THE VIDEO AND THE HARD COVER BOOK, IT REALLY IS A HIT.THKS M.COLOMBO AND FAMILY(S)



3. NOT the Superbowl. What does the Amazon title say?
   
   NFL Super Bowl XLII - New York Giants Championship DVD (2008)
   
   CHAMPIONSHIP! Hello? Where's THE GAME???
   
   BS. NO STARS. $20 down the drain. Thanx for nothing.



4. The content is ok but it is not what I was looking for. I wanted to see all the plays of the game, not only the most important.



5. A great review of the 2007 season capping it off with memorable footage from their march through the playoffs and their amazing accomplishment as SB 42 champs.

5 comments about Facing the Giants (Widescreen).

1. Coach Taylor is having all kinds of problems in his life. He's about to be fired from being a football coach and he can't have any kids because of him. When things get really bad, he turns to God. Facing the Giants is a movie that expresses what God's love really is and how he can really work in people's lives. Never underestimate God. He can do anything and everything. Facing the Giants is the best Christian movie I've ever seen to this day. If you're looking for hope, turn to Facing the Giants. You won't be disappointed.



2. This is a great movie...brings us to tears every time we watch it. I think Christians should watch this atleast once a month just to keep in check.



3. The movie is called "Facing the Giants" and one of the first characters you meet is a small kid named David who is just trying out for the football team since he can't play soccer at his school. He becomes the back-up kicker; hmmm... what's he going to do against the Giants?
   
   So as far as movies (just writing, acting, filming etc. not message), this movie is awful. The plot is formulaic to the point that you think it might be making fun of Christian formulaic movies.
   
   Outside of this, the movie sends terrible messages. First is race. There is not one single black player on the football team, in Albany, GA! There is only one black character with any speaking lines - an assistant coach. He is used specifically for comic relief. The only other time he is used is when the coach ignores his input. The only other black people in the movie are all opponents. They are described as faster and stronger, but the all-white Christian team can beat them, as the main character (and writer-director) says, "we can out think them." The movie appears to promote the marginalization of blacks in a protestant christian context. Great Christian message for kids!
   
   The second issue is Creation Care. The wife in the movie drives a gigantic SUV and the coach gets an F150 as his reward. So this double income, no child family has two gas guzzlers that destroy God's Creation of gift to mankind - and this is considered a good thing. Another great Christian message!
   
   Issue number 3, pray to God and you'll get everything you want in life. This is not only simplistic but also offensive to everybody from Southern Sudanese to Jews and Christians under Soviet Communism to Job! Not one bad thing happens to the team after they become Christians. This is not the message that any of the Christian or Jewish writers of the Bible protrayed! In this awful film, salvation comes as material rewards in this life. Great Christian message!
   
   The fourth issue has nothing to do with Christian values. The score is 23-21 with like 15 seconds left in the game and the coach of the other team (the only one with black players) goes for it on fourth down instead of kicking the field goal. No coach who has one three straight state championships has done so by being an idiot! But, this coach blows the game by not kicking the field goal! It's just ridiculously implausable.
   
   I would never show this movie to anyone. Its racist undertone, its lack of concern for the God's creation and its complete highjacking of Christianity into an instant-gratification materialist consumerist faith are offensive to me and to my faith. While I know lots of people misuse or misrepresent the bible for their own purposes, this one is so egregious, I cannot accept it. If I could give it fewer than one star, I would!



4. Facing the Giants is a small budget movie about a high school football team that needs some help. Ultimately, the coach and the team have a religious awakening and are able to play much more effectively with their increased faith.
   
   The movie is kind of like Remember the Titans, but instead of overcoming race as the team's obstacle to unity, they overcome spiritual apathy. This is not what you normally see coming from Hollywood. In fact, for the first half hour, I was very close to giving up on it for the bad acting, the ridiculous story and more. However, after the first half hour, the movie starts to find a rhythm and pull itself together. It turns out to be a nice, inspiring feel-good story.
   
   I would recommend this movie to all church-going sports fans. If you don't believe in God, you would probably find the movie very strange. Shoot, I do believe in God and I found the movie pretty strange, but got used to it, accepted it and by the end of the movie, embraced it. I will likely add it to my sports-underdog collection of movies with Pistol Pete, Birth of a Legend, Remember the Titans, Rudy, Miracle, Chariots of Fire, and more.



5. Una pelicula que nos enseña a depender de Dios primero, cumplir con Dios y todo lo demas se arregla.

5 comments about Friday Night Lights - The First Season.

1. Get this even if you haven't seen an episode. You will fall in love with every character and keep wanting more. This show has a cult following, similar to My-So-Called-Life. The fans are keeping this show alive, and I hope we can keep reeling people in! This is a great gift idea for anyone 15-35. It isn't like most teen dramas (The OC, Gossip Girl) because you really like EVERYONE. I enjoy the real-life stories between the teens and the adults. The camera angles are similar to if you were sitting right beside the character, while the conversations mirror real-life. You will not regret this addictive, touching, funny, and entertaining series! Make sure to check out season 2, which is also out on DVD, and get ready for season 3 which is being produced thanks to the fans!



2. I am not a fan of 95% of what is put on TV today, but this show has me hooked. Not only is it based on charachters you could meet in any American town, but it also uses rural America as the backdrop. The absence of the glorification of big city life and rampant materialism is nothing short of refreshing. The personal life of the coach is the most accurate representation of marital life than I have ever seen on TV. The pride in a state (Texas Forever! ongoing dialogue between Street and Riggins) is admirable and more than I can say for the mess of a state I live in. The key word for this program is real. It seems like a real small town withreal people living with real problems. The complete first season at about $20 is a great value for hours of truly interesting and entertaining tv.



3. It's a great pity that here in Australia only a handful of episodes of this show have ever made it to air and even then only at 10.30pm or later. It's a pity because this is one of the best shows to come out of America in years. American football is at best barely appreciated here mainly due to the popularity of our own version of football as well as two codes of rugby. Yet much like the West Wing where American politics served more as a back-drop to a brilliant character driven series so too does the football act as a backdrop here. A mainly unknown bunch of young actors plus two brilliant veterans in Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton drive storylines that deal with sporting accidents and life-changing decisions,drugs in sport,relationships,sexual assault,teenage angst,etc. Peter Berg,Brian Grazer and Jason Katims are the combined force behind 22 episodes and keep a tight rein on the quality throughout. I liked this so much I bought Season 2 at the same time and watched all 37 episodes within 6 weeks! Do yourself a favour and buy them both too!



4. I bought this for hubby and I's 3rd anni. He loved it. ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Its something we can watch together since there is both a Dramatic story line and a Football story line. Great for the whole family. Our children would all pile in the bed with us and watch the Whole dvd. I am so sad they cut the show but this fall its coming back on Directv.... cant wait will MOST DEF> BUY SEASON 2



5. Great series about a small town in the USA and how dedicated they are to their football team. Very interesting characters and storylines hard to stop watching.

5 comments about Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition).

1. After all the hype about this movie, I decided to rent it.
   And I really didn't care for it.
   Yes, Hanks puts on a good performance........but, it's corny and his voice is annoying.
   "Life is like a box of chocolates"
   I felt like shoving the whole box in his mouth at once.
   SILENCE!!!
   It's too unrealistic to even suspend your imagination for a second.
   That's where Big Fish has it beat, just as unrealistic but at least "Fish" doesn't try to convince you it's real. The movie lets you figure that you for yourself.
   Do I recommend Gump? Yes.
   Because you'll have a hard time keeping a dry eye at the end.
   Three stars for a great movie, but an annoying performance.



2. No, I'm not talking about the movie. I'm pointing at all of the people who gave it one star. You people can't appreciate anything. Is it even possible for you to find something good about the film? I think Hanks does a wonderful job. Yes, maybe the messages presented don't really pertain to reality, but the effort made should at least be acknowledged. Give me a break.



3. What makes this film so irritating is its pro-American propoganda and religious undertones, which reaches levels few films dare to trot.
   
   It's a fictional story of someone who was born mentally challenged. As a school kid he has a crush on a girl (who later becomes his wife). He is good at running (which gets him into college). He becomes a war hero and meets the president. He fulfills a promise he made to his dying best friend (who died in his arms) and enters the shrimp boat industry. He asks God to help him succeed and God (instead of making more shrimp) helps him by destroying every other shrimp boat (you can't make this stuff up) and Gump becomes super rich. He has a child with his future wife and the kid is the "smartest" in his class. And all throughout this improbable story, he remains blissfully ignorant at how extraordinary it is.
   
   I want a film about the real world. This film does the mentally challenged no services. Rather, it patronizes them. If they decided to make a film based on a true story of a REAL mentally challenged person, I think I would have liked the film. And besides all that, this film is downright annoying. Someone had to say it. 2/5



4. Great movie, unlikely story of course...but that's the beauty of this movie. If you want to see a movie that's more realistic about life then watch a documentary because people who criticize this movie obviously have no imagination and should drop the whole "I'm gonna take every movie i see literally" mindset, and to give it one star?...in the words of Gob Bluth "COME ON!"



5. One of the greatest touching movies ever. Forrest Gump is a movie that will make you cry, and it will make you laugh. When I first saw it in 2001, It touched my heart. I watched the first few minutes of it, and I couldn't stop. I watched it downstairs and stayed their all night to watch it. And it was spectacular. Tom Hanks is perfect as Forrest Gump. Won 6 Oscars for Best Actor (Tom Hanks), Best Director (Robert Zemekis), Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay. Went to this touching story about a simple man named Forrest Gump who, even though isn't very bright, accidently ends up getting involved with some of the biggest key moments of the 19th century. It's funny, touching, heart warming, and sad. I read the book, and the first line even touched me. I highly recommend watching this. It deserves a chance. I've seen it 14 times in counting too! Get it, buy it, see it, and you'll see what makes this a 100% succesful movie.

5 comments about NFL- New York Giants - The Road to Super Bowl XLII.

1. I was thrilled to see this release. These were historic games (even if you're not a die hard Giants fan, as I am) and the ability to keep them forever was fantastic. However (and it is a HUGE "however") when they arrived and I played the first DVD I was surprised to see that the set I received was in old-style 4:3 video format (remember the square screen tv's of the 20th century?) So I contacted Amazon thinking I ordered the wrong format, yet was blown away to find out that this is the only was it was released!!! Come on now, you can't buy a 4:3 screen TV anymore, EVERYTHING is WIDESCREEN! WHY RELEASE THE MOST EPIC SERIES OF SPORTS EVENTS IN 4:3???? The games were even recorded in widescreen! They INTENTIONALLY crippled them.
   
   I returned the set. Disgusted.



2. This is a great video for any giant fan. To sit and watch it over and over and you still can't believe it, its just awesome. To watch the game and see everything again and again not just the highlights that they want you see. Its fantastic. Its like having a superbowl party all over again.



3. This is an excellent collection for anyone who likes to watch the Giants' rise from an underdog/wild card team to a Superbowl champion
   
   These 5 DVDs have no extra behind the scenes or boring documentary, just the last 5 regular season game and the 2008 playoffs in which the giants dominated (specially on the Defensive side) and managed to upset the previously undefeated New England Patriots.
   
   A real interesting thing is that you can listen to Michael Strahan commenting throughout the Superbowl game.
   
   If you are a Giants fan then this is a must buy.
   
   If you're not then maybe watching this will make you one.



4. the games are like new every time i watch them. i know the results but these dvds are like games written for tv movies where the underdog comes out a head



5. Excellent, all the games that I wanted to see again & again! Now, I can delete the [...] condensed version form my DVR!!