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01 10, 2018

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Kathy

I purchased this for my Mom, who is a big Thunder Head, for Christmas & she LOVES it!

A Homerun Christmas Gift!

01 8, 2018

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mika74

Excellent concert - listen to it over and over - I have both DVD's and both CD's and listen to all over and over. Had no problems with ordering this item.

Great Show!

12 7, 2017

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Suzanne Wirth

Exceptional music

Five Stars

11 29, 2017

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Rgm

Love Celtic Thunder. Can't say more than that.

Love Celtic Thunder

10 16, 2016

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Amazon Customer

ok

Three Stars

07 21, 2018

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Amazon Customer

Good movie

Four Stars

11 22, 2016

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Colleen

Wow! ! This is a movie you will never forget. I'm so glad I took a chance and bought this.

I'm so glad I took a chance and bought this

3

08 24, 2016

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Phelps Gates

This movie makes the Jerry Springer Show look highbrow. It's poverty porn at its worst, and probably qualifies as actual porn. The PG rating seems to be an in-joke of some kind: X would be more fitting. Copious nudity (male and female), sexual activity (which seemed to be unsimulated), foul language (including racial slurs), and constant drug use. The high point (?) comes when a pregnant woman gets a shot (apparently of heroin) in her... um... chest area. You have to give the filmmaker some credit for somehow persuading these people (with money, probably) to allow themselves to be filmed doing these things. The filmmaker is Italian and his intention seems to be to make American culture look utterly degraded, while giving his audience some shocks, and he has certainly succeeded on both counts.

Not for the squeamish

6

04 12, 2017

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The Movie Guy

Another upbeat crime tale by Sacha Bennett who also wrote himself a small role. The "not quite over the hill gang" lead by Richie Archer (Ian Ogilvie) gets caught performing an old fashion bank heist...deliberately. Their plan is to go to prison and spring George (Patrick Bergin) so he can visit his dying wife. Rival Vic Farrow (Billy Murray) "He's not the devil, but he comes a close second" throws a wrench into the works. This production smartly moves between a crime drama and a prison drama with the right amount of humor mixed into the dialogue. Julian Glover has a minor role as compared to his billing. Not to give too much away, but the film sets up for a better sequel. I loved the scene when they all have on reading glasses attempting to make out the color of an alarm wire. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

WHAT COLOR IS THIS ONE?

06 3, 2017

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holmes

This movie would not playin any DVD or blue ray player! It kept asking for a security codequick makes me think it's not leg!. Would never purchase from this seller again!

So not order

05 29, 2018

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Glenn Richards

This is a BBC production, edited with American voice-over for PBS. The good: as is always the case with the BBC, the photography is outstanding, and the science is done accurately. The bad: the information is rather banal. Most of the science here is very basic, and seems designed for viewers who never read a textbook. Also, the narrative tends to wander. There are too many digressions into peripheral topics like primitive cultures in Africa and New Guinea. As a result, the presentations drag in places. This documentary series would have been better if it had been more concise, and stayed on point.

Impressive visuals, very basic science

10 29, 2017

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Amazon Customer

Like the film

Four Stars

10 9, 2017

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A. Sandy

Absolutely awesome, all 4 episodes! It's too bad this wasn't filmed in 4K.

Brian Cox at his best!

08 26, 2017

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MR C.

Good video, well presented

Five Stars

07 16, 2017

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sigtrap

I should have looked more closely. (Really, it was obvious). This is not the incredible BBC original, but the PBS 'remix' that's been neutered of Brian Cox's energetic, honest and engaging hosting. The cinematography is there, but it's just another semi-boring Nova miniseries now, with a bland voiceover narration. What's next? Replacing Sagan in Cosmos with a public radio voiceover? I'm sure there was some silly legal reason for it, but still. Brian Cox is not just a narrator, he's the real deal. A physicist with the power to make complex things understandable by all, and removing him from this series should never have even been considered.

I should have looked more closely. (Really, it ...

4

02 23, 2017

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G. Prowse

I thoroughly enjoyed all episodes.

Wonderful Video

3

01 8, 2017

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Scott Barolo

I'm still shaking my head at this bizarre documentary series. Imagine that you live in a alternate universe where discussing any scientific fact is forbidden. Then imagine you are asked to produce a science/nature documentary in that universe. You might come up with something very similar to "Forces of Nature," which goes out of its way to avoid discussing the actual topic of each episode. Take, for example, the episode about elements, titled "Elements." At the start of the program, you might expect to learn something about elements over the course of the next hour. Like what an element is, or what makes one element different from another. Nope! You do get a lot of footage of Costa Rican children playing with water, and there's some cool-looking film of people in Indonesia putting out a sulfur fire. You learn that water is made of the elements hydrogen and oxygen, and that sulfur is an element. (What's an element? Who cares!) Later, there are mountain goats in northern Italy that lick salt off a dam. That footage is pretty cool, since the goats have to climb an extremely steep wall to get to the salt. But what does this have to do with elements? I guess the salt and the goats are made of elements, but that's true of literally everything in the universe; there's no indication of why these particular images are being shown. Then there's a section bout mayflies, in which, again, no elements are mentioned by the narrator. Finally, there is some discussion about the possibility of life on other planets, I kid you not. Once again, elements are not mentioned in this segment. Wait, I think I just figured out the reason why this series exists; I'll save that for the end.* Speaking of the narrator, I should mention that the narration is unexpectedly poor for a BBC series. Most of the time, it seems to go far out of its way to avoid mentioning elements by name or discussing anything about them. (There are quite a few uses of the word "alchemy," which is here used as a synonym for chemistry. Since alchemy was a pseudoscience that denied the existence of stable elements, I was confused by its frequent use, with a positive connotation, in a show about elements.) The narrator reads every word with the same emphasis, as if he was reading them off flash cards shown to him one at a time. Let me be clear: I'm not saying that the show did a bad job of explaining what elements are. I'm saying it didn't even try. I feel like I know less about the universe now than before I watched this show. Don't miss the episode "Shape," in which we learn about the concept of "round" by interviewing people in Florida about manatees. Apparently manatees are round, or close enough. In an ideal world, they would be perfectly spherical, the narrator tells usbut sadly, "nature doesn't work that way." I guess nature abhors a sphere. Also, manatees are vegetarians, they have bad breath, and they like to hang out near power plant water outlets for warmth. And that's just about all you need to know about shapes. *Here's my realization about this show. The producers at BBC must have tons of unused nature footage lying around, stuff that didn't make the cut at the real nature shows. Apparently the bit about mayflies wasn't exciting enough for Planet Earth. But this footage (along with the manatees, dam-climbing goats, diving Korean grandmothers, etc.) was expensive to produce. Why not make a whole new series out of this second-rate footage? Great idea, but what is the series about? Let's find some themes that could pertain to anything, properties that almost everything has: Color, Shape, Motion, Elements. Add some vague narration about "the alchemy of life" (and don't bother to have actual scientists vet the content), and this rejected footage is now a brand-new BBC/PBS documentary series. Congratulations, BBC: you've just devalued your brand! I'll be less excited about future BBC/PBS documentaries after wasting my time with this one.

The least informative science/nature documentary I have ever seen, by far.

8

01 7, 2017

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Eric Shea

As someone who enjoyed past series of BBC documentaries that featured Prof. Brian Cox (Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe, etc.), I was quite excited to see the newest of this series titled "Forces of Nature." I was a bit surprised to discover that this documentary was to be released in the US by PBS, instead of the usual BBC. But so long as there is Brian Cox, what difference does this make? Quite a lot, actually. At its core, the PBS release of Forces of Nature takes the original BBC release, and edits out all of Brian Cox. So while most of the wonderful BBC cinematography and scrip has been retained, the wonder-filled narration of Brian Cox has been replaced by a flat, stilted American narration. And nowhere is Cox to be seen. For fans of Brian Cox's work, I would recommend the BBC release of Forces of Nature instead of this lesser PBS version.

A most wonderful Brian Cox documentary, but where is Brian Cox?

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12 29, 2016

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human

Brian Cox is my generation's Carl Sagan. With even better hair.

With even better hair.

2

11 16, 2016

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SALLY THOMAS

Saw this on tv and thought it was really colorful and knew I would like to share with my friends and have it for my collection.

wonderful and very informative

2

09 5, 2018

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Amazon Customer

Daughter loves it

A+

06 26, 2018

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Sandra Dorsey

We have all the Barbie movies!!!!!!

Five Stars

06 22, 2018

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Jimmy Martin

daughter loved it

Five Stars

06 19, 2018

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christina88

Love anything Barbie. But this wasn't a favorite of my girls

Three Stars

06 9, 2018

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Work Horse

Daughter loved

Five Stars

05 17, 2018

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ncrayd

Adventure can be watched over and over.

Five Stars

03 16, 2018

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Chris Hall

If you have a little girl who loves Barbie, she will enjoy this movie. It even entertained me as an adult.

Brand New Age for Barbie Fans

03 7, 2018

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Cindy from WI

My daughter loved it!!

Five Stars

01 30, 2018

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Paige

Rating it two stars because its a barbie movie, however, it was the WEIRDEST movie ive seen! I felt so UNCOMFORTABLE well watching it. The whole futuristic thing felt almost like the hunger games! Wanted to like it so much but couldn't! Dont buy this movie and get princess charm school or any other movie BESIDES this one!

Weirdest movie ever

09 7, 2018

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Mushka

Absolutely beautiful!! The niggunim were all beautifully sung and presented, and the entire video can be geared for children and adults, to enjoy the niggunim

Amazing!

02 14, 2017

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J. Srugo

amazing my kids love it

Five Stars

01 2, 2017

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Daniil Rapoport

My children loved it! I liked it too. Its very well made! Highly recommend.

Get it!

09 8, 2016

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Shalcher

awesome CD. My 2 year old sings the nigunim and even my older kids love it. Well done.

Five Stars

08 25, 2016

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Tzippy Weiss

Fantastic! Absolutely wonderful!!

Super happy!

08 22, 2016

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Accu

Awesome Keep up the great work of the REBBE

Five Stars

08 4, 2016

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Berko

Excellent DVD

Five Stars

07 22, 2016

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Avraham Orimland

We just bought this dvd and my kids LOVE it! They've been watching it over and over back to back. This is entertaining and at the same time such a beautiful way to teach my children Niggunim of the Rebbe that we were brought up with as kids!

My kids LOVE the dvd!

2

06 28, 2018

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Amazon Customer

What a remarkable resemblance to LBJ!!

Five Stars

05 6, 2018

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Michael Randolph

2018-05-06

Five Stars

04 3, 2018

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Chuck Brady

Good Movie

Great Movie

02 27, 2018

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vernon egolf

this is one of HBOS best movies ALL the WAY the story of president LBJ and the civil rights movement Bryan Cranston as LBJ dose a great acting job this is a great movie and the Blu-ray is excellent.

ALL the WAY

02 4, 2018

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Sapara

Brian Cranston is a terrific actor...Very much looks & talks like LBJ.5 stars

Great Movie!

01 20, 2018

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T

Definitely worth the couple hours of time to watch an important part of our history. Cranston got the appearance and mannerisms down proving once again the range of his acting ability. I was entertained and taken back to the sixties. I recommend this movie almost all of you will like it as well. T

I recommend this movie almost all of you will like it ...

01 1, 2018

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Garey G.

Outstanding

Five Stars

12 18, 2017

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LOUIS C.

GREAT MOVIE

Five Stars

12 18, 2017

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Mikeinwyoming

A decent movie....Not 5 stars but dang good!

Not 5 stars but dang good!

2

09 24, 2018

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Michelone

....shouldn't. This is a superior musical performance sabotaged by poor production. Antonenko has the power and acting ability for the role. Yoncheva sings and acts to great effect and the baritone, Lucic is perfection itself. Nezet-Seguin conducts a powerful performance. Everything is wide open and can be seen or spied by all the performers. Even during the great monologue, "Dio mi potevi", a very private moment, Desdemona is seen watching a bit...luckily she moves away quickly. The action seems to have been moved up to the 19th century; the pretty gowns worn by the women are merely a distraction. Why isn't Otello in blackface? Kaufmann, in his DVD also is clearly white. Verdi referred to the as his "chocolate project". There's no drama without this distinction. Othello in Shakespeare is black, a prince among his people. Tebaldi and DelMonaco were the great team in this opera at the Met. Tebaldi chose it as her final performance. Her acting was sincere and her singing perfect, with all the high notes and diminuendos in place. Another great Met Otello on DVD stars Jon Vickers and Renata Scotto. There's no greater opera than this and Verdi profited from the wonderful libretto of Arrigo Boito.

People Who Live in Glass Houses....

12 6, 2017

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David Bresch Md

I got this to augment my other Otello blu ray with the same Otello and Muti conducting. The production sound and video are heart-stopping-ly gorgeous, truly stunning. The singing is inferior in every respect, the Otello's voice is significantly degraded for example. Yoncheva's costume is very sexy compared to Poplavskaya her singing is slightly less pure though.

I got this to augment my other Otello blu ray ...

01 21, 2017

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Steffi B. Rath

No problem whatsoever

Five Stars

01 17, 2017

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Incantessimo

This is a very, very good production of Verdi's Otello -- an operatic retelling of Shakespeare's classic play. We watched this and enjoyed it very much. If you like opera, and like Verdi, then this is a no-brainer in my opinion at $15-$20. The video is very clear and the audio is excellent. The singers are superb -- especially Yoncheva and Antonenko. His voice is so incredibly powerful -- it's huge! And Yoncheva's voice is glorious -- with great control even when singing very high up and pianissimo -- and a lovely vibrato. I felt great emotion in their singing. She is beautiful and was very convincing as Desdemona. Antonenko does a good job too and does look positively scary at the end. Watching this for the first time, and immediately after watching the new Met version of Wagner's Ring, we were initially a little underwhelmed by the first half (acts 1 and 2). I felt it really picked up towards the end of act 2. Then acts 3 and 4 are really superb -- the pace quickens a bit and the drama increases, with more interesting singing passages. That is just my opinion as a first-time watcher. By the end, I thought it was really great. Eric Owens (who I love) does some nice interviews mid-production, which are good, but they are short and there aren't many extras sadly.

Great production, wonderful singing, bargain at this price

7

01 1, 2017

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Ali A. Diba

The singing parts are very good as expected from Sonya Yoncheva and Zeljiko Lucic but the acting and character of Otello is not as impressive in comparison to Franco Zeffirelli's production with Placido Domingo in the title role.

Verdi's Otello

4

12 6, 2016

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Amazon Customer

This recording of the 2015 production by the Metropolitan Opera of Verdi's take on Shakespeare's Othello, is worth the watching and the addition to the collection. Shakespeare's multi-subjected play of a warrior brought down by jealously, is in part the Bard's look at undeserved European racism. This being opera, where the old play teenagers, productions have traditionally had the lead roll masked in blackface. (While having African American singers in all kinds of characters these days without disconnect by the audience) The Met abandoned this convention for this production much to its credit and without any issue - particularly since it serves little purpose in Verdi's take on the story. The production is both abstract and particular. The singers superb.

Verdi's Take on Shakespear's Othello

8

12 6, 2016

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Noam Eitan

I do not wish to write a review about this release. I would only like to point out that the voices on all MET video releases, broadcasts and HD transmissions are compressed. The result (and the goal) is that all singers sound equally loud. They usually don't use body mics, so it solves them the problem of singers voices' dropouts when a singer is off the axis of the super-cardioid stage mics on the MET huge stage. It also saves singers with a small voice an embarrassment. The result flattens the real dynamics of the voices of the live, inhouse performance, and singers with bigger voices, like Antonenko lose the ping of their projection. Listen to the long quiet passages in the last act where there is no music - they are far from quiet, the noise floor is very loud, you can clearly hear the sound 4,000 people make - AND THIS ONLY FROM THE STAGE MICS (because the pit tracks are not compressed)!. This can only happen with dynamic compression, which increases the noise floor - if you place a Schoeps microphone of the kind they use, even an omni-directional one, in the house, even if you place it in the audience, rather than on the stage and pit as they do, you will NOT get this level of noise floor as long as the rest of the gear chain is top-notch. They could have used compression without increasing the noise floor by NOT choosing the lowest starting point for the compression as minus infinity. They could have chosen about 3-5 dB ABOVE the noise floor, but this could have resulted in "pumping" - any sound that falls around the starting point for compression to kick in would be intermittently amplified and not amplified as it dances around the chosen point for starting the compression. There is a way around that in post-production, but not in a live transmission, and it seems they used the audio from the live transmission straight off the mixing-board - lazy bazzturds. Also, they did not have to chose such an aggressive (high) ratio of compression - a ratio of 1.1/1 soft-knee compression would have been enough IMHO, but they used in my estimation at least 2/1, because they wanted to completely flatten the voices. Update 4/8/17: where I'm wrong here is that they use analogue limiters for the stage, not digital compression. The result is still extreme dynamic compression of the stage tracks.

Voices on all MET video releases, broadcasts and HD transmissions are dynamically compressed

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11 6, 2016

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Amazon Customer

It was a gift.

Five Stars

08 21, 2016

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Peter

This Otello originates from the Salzburg Festival, and it is apparent in many ways. The singers seem to be chosen so that their voices can fill the Grosses Festspielhaus. This is not always comfortable when it comes to listening at home. Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello) and Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona) have big voices, but I've seen much better acting. The sets are dull, but the costumes are fine. Superlative playing from the Wiener Philharmoniker under Riccardo Muti. The sound is terrific. Despite some virtues, this is not my first choice for Otello. Look for&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Levine-with-Domingo-Fleming-and-Morris/dp/B00012AST0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Levine with Domingo, Fleming, and Morris</a>, or&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Solti-with-Domingo-Te-Kanawa-and-Leiferkus/dp/B00005BI90/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Solti with Domingo Te Kanawa, and Leiferkus</a>, or even the old&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Karajan-film-with-Vickers-Freni-and-Glossop/dp/B0007P0LP2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Karajan film with Vickers, Freni and Glossop</a>.

Not my first choice

02 17, 2017

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theresa johns

I love anything John Denver and this is no exception arrived on time and in great condition. Thank you!

Five Stars

01 26, 2017

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C. E. Blin

Soooooo great to see him in his prime performing his best hits. Really studio quality performances each song, and to see him chat with the audience. Great editing, moves right along!

Soooooo great to see him in his prime performing his best ...

01 30, 2017

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Sheila Petter

Nowhere on the order screen did it say this movie was in German. I watched this movie on the Hallmark channel and it was in English which is why I purchased it. This was a waste of my money. Very disappointed in Amazon for not stating this up front.

Very Disappointed!!!

12 7, 2016

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N

OK, it's a Christmas film (and Hallmark) so we didn't expect much. It was described as a comedy (which we soon discovered to be totally untrue). Just wanted to settle down and enjoy a film. The blurb states 'A guardian angel tackles his first assignment; helping a woman develop the self-confidence she lacks. Great. Unfortunately, the actor playing the angel (he's NOT called Mr Miracle, but Mr Mills), is in the film from the start. Yes, we get it, he's just landed on earth; his first time, but his overplaying and overacting had me sighing from the start. He gets excited at the stairs in his house, the bed, a mirror -yes we get it! And so the childlike performance goes on, along with odd facial expressions, an odd pigeon toed walk, odd voice, OTT autistic/asperger's like behaviour. We nearly switched over after watching his strange over played walk to help Eric from his car. This all reminded me of someone, another actor but I can't for the life of me think who. As for the girl who lacks self confidence, well I wish I was as insecure. She didn't finish school as her dad died, so is back studying - feeling a little thick. As for the need of an angel..............the woman lives in a great house, has a loving family, has good health and is a little touchy that she's not working, only studying - she needs a job not celestial help.

Just wanted to settle down and enjoy a film

3

08 30, 2018

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Nightspore

Two stars because the main actors were better than the director allowed them to be. There was no clear sense of what this was supposed to convey. It's like the director became confused about what sort of movie he was making. It is episodic, which is fine, but the episodes go by without real impact, as if the photography or the general theme, or something shocking, is supposed to carry the weight of the story or character development. What story? Whose? What development? At times it veers in the direction of fantasy, then veers back into what is supposed to be realism. Most scenes are just thrown away to get on to the next. Situations are resolved with a cut. It's a mess, and the ending is ridiculous: is the director going for symbolism, realism, some message, what? I suspect that people who like this film bring more to it than they get from it. (Then again, I probably do that with Tarkovsky.) Given all the glowing reviews here, if you watch it, there is a decent chance you may like it, or not dislike it, for one reason or another---the actors if nothing else. You will just need to suspend more disbelief, or critical perception, than I thought this movie deserved.

Confused. Perfunctory. Pretentious.

08 16, 2018

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Gary W. Phelps

This DVD movie was produced in countries of Georgia and Germany. It had a twofold value. First of all the contents were proliferated with the Georgian culture and gave views of the countryside and the people of all ages. It was most enlightening to see a Dictatorship and the consequences presented by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. One of the true-to-life portrayals was how the Military carried out the draconian rule of the Dictator, but in the alternative pursued the massacre of the former Dictator's supporters and the Dictator himself?! Very well done and worth a five star rating.

The President

03 4, 2018

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GioVanni Spallanzani

beautiful movie. One of my favorite. A true gem!

One of my favorite foreign films :)

12 9, 2017

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Madelynne Morris

Makhmalbaf is at his finest and weaves a story of regret over the abuse of power in masterful yet subtle strokes.

A must-see film!

04 12, 2017

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Tommy Dooley

Set in a non existent country we meet El Presidente, or your Majesty as he likes to be called. He is a nasty, self obsessed man who has surrounded himself with the trappings of any self respecting tyrant. His children are spoilt, he out corrupts the most corrupt and most of his fawning subjects hate his twisted guts. Then the people just crack over his latest outrage and a revolution kicks off; as he has been detached from reality for so long he is unaware quite how bad things are and elects to stay to sort out the kerfuffle. His grandson a mere boy- also wants to stay with him, and grandpops relents. Soon they are on their own and having to survive by their wits. Now this is a film made in Georgian and the sub titles could have been better, but it has a momentum right from the start that just grips you and makes you want to go for the ride. The performances are excellent, the action sequences realistic and often brutal. The fi.th and detritus that we see as the plot unfolds can be quite moving too. Add to al of that a very humanist story and you get a well made, conceived and presented original piece of cinema. The fact that this is a fictional country means, that it is not penned in by the constraints of history and so is free to concentrate on the human side of the story. This also means that we avoid political dogma and just see what extremism can do to people. Well worth a punt even if you are half curious as I strongly feel you will not be disappointed.

A Great Polemic against dictators everywhere.

08 30, 2016

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Steve Ramm

This 2014 film is just being released on DVD in the US from Corinth Films. It is co-production of Georgia (former part of the Soviet Union, not the US state), France, and Germany. The language is Georgian and to make it more international the director is from Iran! As the words (in English) say at the beginning this film takes place in Some Country We learn quickly that the President is a Dictator who lives in the Palace with his daughter and son-in-law and their two young children. Within the first five minutes there is a coup and the President is overthrown. He sends his family away all except for his grandson (Im guessing he is 8 years old, though we are not told). He then must hide (along with the Grandson) to stay alive. I don't like spoilers (I point that out in all my Amazon reviews) but I haven't given away any info you won't learn in the first 5 minutes of this 115-minute film. Ill leave you to discover the rest for yourself. The film is supposed to be a satire of Dictators but I found nothing to even remotely laugh it. There is LOTS of graphic violence here. The ending will leave some satisfied and others not. Its that kind of film. It was filmed in Georgia with a huge group of extras. The two leads (the President and his grandson I cant remember the young actors name) are both excellent. How the young boy remembers that much dialogue still amazes me. The film won a lot of film festival awards including the best film at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2015. The DVD has English subtitles which are generally easy to read. It has four bonus features. Two are deleted scenes, one is the theatrical trailer and the last is a 20-minute Making of The President featurette. Usually these Making of extras feature the cast and the production team being interviewed. Not this time. This is literally footage of the director instructing his Cast and extras in major scenes. He speaks in English and has a translator to turn it in to Georgian. There are no English subtitles here so you only hear the Directors words in English. And none of the cast members are identified with captions. Its sort of interesting, but no essential. The DVD will not be released until September 27, 2016 but I was provided with an advance screening copy in exchange for an impartial and honest review. Ive reviewed two other Corinth Films in the last two weeks. While I liked this film, I did not lovbe it as I did the others. But everything cant get five stars. It is worth checking out though. I hope you found this review both informative and helpful. Steve Ramm Anything Phonographic

Georgian-French film by Iranian Director is a satire on the effects of a coup in an Baltic dictatorship

05 24, 2017

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John R. Norene

Instead of dealing with the legend in a manner to let the audience decide, the story was overlaid with a story of a modern-day charlatan, strongly implying a motive of complete deception. Whether one chooses to believe the legend or dismiss it as a clever fantasy, the choice is made difficult by this poorly made attempt to protect a very corrupt church of that time period.

Poorly done

04 13, 2017

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GJR

My review is of the technical aspects of "She...Who Would Be Pope", released by E-T Pictures (Entertainment Treasures). The menu consists of an abstract screensaver with only the title and a start icon. There are no chapters, the only way to advance the DVD is by fast forward. The box states the running time is 116 Minutes. It is actually 111 min ( 1 hr 51 min ). IMDB states the original "Pope Joan" running time as 132 min ( 2 hr 12 min ). The aspect ratio is 2.31 : 1 when played on my computer, but is displayed as 1.85 : 1 with the sides clipped off on my TV DVD player. The DVD will not play at all on my Sony portable DVD player. The contrast of the movie is too dark. In some night scenes only highlights are visible. There are occasional flecks, flashes, wavering color brightness, and oval time markers in the image. The audio is 2 channel, and there are no subtitles. There are occasional pops, ticks, and the crackle of static throughout the movie. There are no extras. The very end credits listing the restoration crew mentions " DVD interviews used by permission of John W Henderson / Henderson Film Industries", so somewhere there may be an edition of the movie with extras. In spite of the above, I found this movie very entertaining.

No Chapters, No Subtitles, No Extras

11 12, 2016

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B. Sounthonevichith

This movie is awesome and definitely worth the $90 I paid for it. I'm not going to ruin the story so if you want to find out about what it's about, there's other reviews that does a very good job on it. What makes this limited edition set worth it to me besides the awesome movie and soundtrack are the extras that comes with it. This set comes with 4 storyboard booklets and another booklet that includes drawings and what looks like interviews, in Japanese of course, I didn't really have a chance to look at it yet. It also comes with a second disc with extras, which are in Japanese without English subtitles. Great movie with great extras makes this a worthwhile purchase in my book.

Awesome

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