· Actor: Jimmy Smits | Marg Helgenberger | John Ashton | Allyce Beasley | Robert Carradine · Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Brand: Lions Gate · Creator (Role: Producer): Frank Konigsberg | (Role: Producer): Jane Scott | (Role: Producer): Jayne Bieber | (Role: Producer): Larry Sanitsky | (Role: Producer): Lawrence D. Cohen | (Role: Writer): Lawrence D. Cohen | (Role: Writer): Stephen King · Director: John Power · DVD Layers: 1 · DVD Sides: 2 · EAN: 9781573624091 · Format: Closed-captioned | Color | Dolby | DVD | Full Screen | NTSC · ISBN: 1573624098 · Label: Lions Gate · Manufacturer: Lions Gate · MPN: D6842D · Number Of Items: 1 · Picture Format: Pan & Scan · Product Group: DVD · Publisher: Lions Gate · Release Date: 1998-09-09 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 181 · Studio: Lions Gate · Theatrical Release Date: 1993-05-09 · UPC: 031398684237
» A small maine town is in jeopardy from a source of evil power not of this earth. When the town is overtaken by the force in the woods just out of town one man fights back and enters into its source for the final conclusion. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/16/2005 Starring: Jimmy Smits Marg Helgenberger Director: John PowerReally, really lame.
2009-04-19
This movie was very boring to watch, and I didn't care about any of the characters. I think I finished watching this movie just because I was too lazy to get up and take out the DVD. The special effects were really badly done--they used green light to excess, possibly just to cover up some of the worst "special effects". Lackluster story, characters with no chemistry, student-grade effects...pass on this one. Best Horror
2008-09-10
"The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King is one of the greatest movies. It will certainly give you the chills.

· Actor: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh · Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Brand: Ingram · Creator (Role: Producer): Brian Kelly | (Role: Producer): Bud Yorkin | (Role: Producer): Charles de Lauzirika | (Role: Writer): David Webb Peoples | (Role: Writer): Hampton Fancher | (Role: Writer): Philip K. Dick | (Role: Writer): Roland Kibbee · Director: Ridley Scott · DVD Layers: 1 · DVD Sides: 2 · EAN: 9780790729626 · Format: Anamorphic | Closed-captioned | Color | Director's Cut | Dolby | DVD | Full Screen | Widescreen | NTSC · ISBN: 0790729628 · Label: Warner Home Video · Manufacturer: Warner Home Video · MPN: WARD12682D · Number Of Items: 1 · Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen | Pan & Scan · Product Group: DVD · Publisher: Warner Home Video · Region Code: 1 · Release Date: 1997-03-26 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 117 · Studio: Warner Home Video · Theatrical Release Date: 1982-06-25 · UPC: 085391268222
» The year is 2019. The place is los angeles. Where dazzling miracles of high-tech design exist amid runaway urban grunge. Hard-boiled rick deckart prowls this steel and mircrochip jungle on his newest mission Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Harrison Ford Rutger Hauer Run time: 117 minutes Rating: R Director: Ridley ScottI do not agree with the director
2009-07-27
I first saw this movie on VHS in 1982 and was totally blown away with such a daring futuristic movie, for me the voice over of Harrison Ford told the underlining story, it was very important in my opinion. Without his comentary how the heck would you know about ("gutter talk a mish mash of english spanish german what have you?") Deckard explains this, other wise how could he be a blade runner and not know the city speak? In the directors cut you have no idea what the heck is going on, as friends virgin veiwers I have tested this with close friends, all prefer the original version! Need I say more Ridley? Ok the trees at the very end are a bit lame but without the commentary the film is lost on so many people in my humble opinion.Classic movie
2009-06-30
I loved the move. Just a little skip in the middle.
Wish it didn't have that.

· Actor: Joanna Cassidy | Brian Frishman | Pamela Hensley | Jeffrey Bannister | Marie Earle · Binding: DVD · Director: Bruce Kessler | Christian I. Nyby II | John Florea | Paul Krasny | Phil Bondelli · Format: NTSC · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 1 240-Robert on DVD?!
2009-07-08
I've been hoping for a long time that this show would be released on DVD. I loved it when it aired and have followed the careers of Joanna Cassidy, John Bennett Perry and Mark Harmon ever since!!!240 ROBERT on DVD
2009-04-12
I remember watching 240-ROBERT as a young boy. It was a great show. I later became a deputy sheriff. A few years later an Emergency Services Detial was created in the county I worked for. 240-ROBERT deserves a lot of the credit for that. 240-ROBERT also deserves to be on DVD.

· Actor: Dick Van Dyke | Barry Van Dyke | Victoria Rowell | Charlie Schlatter | Michael Tucci · Binding: DVD · Director: Barry Steinberg | Bruce Seth Green | Christian I. Nyby II | Christopher Hibler | Frank Thackery · Format: NTSC · Label: PARAMOUNT · Manufacturer: PARAMOUNT · Product Group: DVD · Publisher: PARAMOUNT · Region Code: 1 · Studio: PARAMOUNT

· Actor: Nick Nolte | Ed Harris | Gene Hackman | Joanna Cassidy | Alma Martínez · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Creator (Role: Cinematographer): John Alcott | (Role: Editor): Mark Conte | (Role: Producer): Anna Roth | (Role: Producer): Edward Teets | (Role: Producer): Jonathan T. Taplin | (Role: Writer): Clayton Frohman | (Role: Writer): Ron Shelton · Director: Roger Spottiswoode · EAN: 5050070008067 · Format: PAL · Number Of Discs: 1 · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 128 · Theatrical Release Date: 1983-10-21
» Under Fire is a savvy political thriller of journalists in war-torn Nicaragua circa 1979. Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton's (Bull Durham) script follows ace photojournalist Russell Price (Nick Nolte, in a key marquee performance) from the jungles of Africa to the Central American boiling point. Along with the usual band of fellow journalists, Price finds himself involved in a love triangle with Claire (Joanna Cassidy in her best role) and Alex Grazier (Gene Hackman, perfect again), who believes he's one career-making story from a lofty news anchor position. In Nicaragua, Price finds his own deadly mission: to photograph an unknown rebel leader.

Although the setup is traditional, Roger Spottiswoode's film feels as alive and vital as the best of the genre. Showing his ambiguity for the lives he shoots, Price is just as friendly with the impoverished in Africa as with an icy mercenary, Oates (Ed Harris in a role the polar opposite of his breakthrough performance in The Right Stuff the same year). On one level, Oates and Price are simply Americans doing their jobs in a foreign land. But soon Price has a change of heart. Blessed by a splendid final-act action sequence that is unforced and emotionally charged, the film is stuffed with color and energy, a good dose of which is supplied by Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated score. --Doug Thomas

Great movie, dreadful transfer
2009-08-26
This is a wonderful movie, and I strongly recommend it, but DO NOT rely on this dvd transfer to deliver everything that the film has to offer. It looks and sounds terrible. Avoid til Blu-ray arrives.EXCELENT SERVICE
2007-08-08
It is a good product and service, but it took too long for me to receive the picture. Is there any other way to get the products faster?

· Actor: Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Joanna Cassidy | Charles Fleischer | Stubby Kaye · Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 · Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) · Binding: DVD · Creator (Role: Producer): Alan Dewhurst | (Role: Producer): Don Hahn | (Role: Producer): Frank Marshall | (Role: Producer): Kathleen Kennedy | (Role: Writer): Gary K. Wolf | (Role: Writer): Jeffrey Price | (Role: Writer): Peter S. Seaman · Director: Robert Zemeckis · EAN: 5017188886802 · Format: PAL · Number Of Discs: 1 · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 104 · Theatrical Release Date: 1988-06-22
» This zany, eye-popping, knee-slapping landmark in combining animation with live-action ingeniously makes that uneasy combination itself (and the history of Hollywood) its subject. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based on classic L.A. private-eye movies (and, specifically, Chinatown), with detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) investigating a case involving adultery, blackmail, murder, and a fiendish plot to replace Los Angeles's once-famous Red Car public transportation system with the automobiles and freeways that would later make it the nation's smog capital. Of course, his sleuthing takes him back to the place he dreads: Toontown, the ghetto for cartoons that abuts Hollywood and that was the site of a tragic incident in Eddie's past. In addition to intermingling cartoon characters with live actors and locations, Roger Rabbit also brings together the greatest array of cartoon stars in the history of motion pictures, from a variety of studios (Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, Fleischer, Universal, and elsewhere): Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Droopy Dog, and more! And, of course, there's Maroon Cartoon's greatest star, Roger Rabbit (voice by Charles Fleischer), who suspects his ultracurvaceous wife, Jessica Rabbit (voice by Kathleen Turner: "I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way"), of infidelity. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact), not since the early Looney Tunes' "You Oughtta Be in Pictures" has there been anything like Roger Rabbit. --Jim EmersonGreat movie but not for kids
2009-11-02
This is not a movie for small kids! The sexual references are bound and swearing is all over.

But, I love it and if you kids are big enough it is ok. Jessica is a caricature of the "ideal woman" at least the producers thought. In any case make sure your kids know that she is not real and cannot be. I do not like the pout and I would hate to think on how hard it would be to walk like that all day!

It had break through special effects and great acting to nothing, especially Bob Hoskins. His acting made the movie. Not easy to look at nothing an make people believe you are looking at a rabbit talking to you, but Bob Hoskins did it.


Just have fun. Brilliant
2009-10-15
Modern technology may dwarf this film to a certain degree; however this pre-digital era film still stands against those of today. Especially when you consider the amount of work that went into it. The bonus features is worth the purchase alone, however Roger Rabbit is a classic in my opinion with strong characters, acting and plot. I did see it in the theatre and at a young age so my opinion is bias perhaps. I'm looking forward to seeing my niece's reaction and one day my own children's.

· Actor: Dabney Coleman | Uma Thurman | Joanna Cassidy | Crispin Glover | Suzy Amis · Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Director: John Boorman · EAN: 4020974143523 · Format: PAL · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Theatrical Release Date: 1990-02-23 Classically structured comedy
2009-03-01
Family with everything loses everything, discover themselves and their own talents. Everyone falls in love with the right person and there is a party at the end.

I saw this film at Mann's Chinese in Hollywood during it's brief original run and told everyone I knew to see it (none did). I was and am surprised that no attempt was made to market the artwork created for the film.

It is a heart warming story about a successful man being pushed about by his children, so he moves them out hoping they'll grow up (they're all adults living at home). His business has gone south as one architecturally insignificant house is declared a landmark and so it cannot be demolished and holds up a high rise project into which he has sinks all his assets, and of course the bank calls them in. So, this wealthy man finds himself broke and broken and he turns to his children for shelter. They in turn discover self reliance.

The art work for this film is stunning and unfortunately for you it's no longer available on the big screen; however, on the small screen it is still stunning. When the film came out, the best video was on Laser Disk (remember those?) and despite not having a player I bought it in that format. I eventually had a friend transfer it to DVD.

This IS a classic comedy, the characters are well defined (although there is one character with few lines, yet is very present and turns out to be the sons love of loves (I think some of her scenes may have been cut)(inexplicably). It is deftly executed, well written and structured. It is one of my favorite movies. Great Stuff!!!
2008-03-29
This is one of Uma Thurman's first films. It's a heartwarming story story of familial relationships during good times and bad. The art is one of the things that make this interesting viewing, and the cast is excellent.

· Actor: Natasha Henstridge | Ice Cube | Pam Grier | Jason Statham | Clea DuVall · Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Creator (Role: Cinematographer): Gary B. Kibbe | (Role: Writer): John Carpenter | (Role: Editor): Paul C. Warschilka | (Role: Producer): Sandy King | (Role: Writer): Larry Sulkis · Director: John Carpenter · EAN: 5050582247022 · Format: PAL · Number Of Discs: 1 · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 98 · Theatrical Release Date: 2001-08-24
» Ghosts of Mars may not be one of John Carpenter's finer efforts, but you can't knock the veteran director for staying true to his roots--it's clearly a Carpenter film, reveling in its B-movie blood lust, and fueled by the director's rock & roll rebellion as well as the sex appeal of star Natasha Henstridge. This rickety sci-fi/horror hybrid recalls Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, with various connections from throughout the director's career--for better and worse. It's the year 2176, and human colonists on Mars are controlled by a political "matronage," with women (for reasons unexplained) holding court in the capitol city of Chryse. Mars Police Force Lt. Ballard (Henstridge) has been sent to retrieve James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube), the planet's most notorious criminal, from a remote mining-colony prison. With her ill-fated crew, Ballard discovers that the colonists have nearly all been possessed by ancient Martian spirits bent on reclaiming the planet, turning them into an army of self-mutilating freaks suggesting an unholy union of Marilyn Manson and the sadomasochistic Cenobites from the Hellraiser films. None of this makes much sense, and the shaky alliance between cops and criminals is a predictable excuse for rampant battle scenes between surviving humans and the ghost-possessed maniacs. Exotic weaponry abounds (along with cheap special effects and some laughable dialogue), resulting in the gruesome dispatch of expendable costars Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Carradine, and Clea Duvall. Driven by Carpenter's synth-metal score, this violent free-for-all has a few brief highlights, but it's suspenseless and ultimately absurd. It's not much, but for loyal fans it's probably enough. --Jeff ShannonSo Bad It's Good
2009-10-15
I actually liked this movie. It is just simple ridiculous fun. Not too much to think about or analyze but
still enjoyable if you don't go into it with any expectations. As many other reviewers point out, the plot, script, acting and effects are lack luster at best, but if you know that is what they were shooting for, then you can really find a couple hours entertainment. The only disappointing part were the "ghosts" because they didn't look very alien. I guess I shouldn't have had any expectations about that though...Ghosts of Mars
2009-09-12
Complete crap, certainly not worth more than the 99 cents I paid, poor dialogue and special effects, I love John Carpenter, what happened?

· Actor: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh · Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Creator (Role: Producer): Brian Kelly | (Role: Producer): Bud Yorkin | (Role: Producer): Charles de Lauzirika | (Role: Writer): David Webb Peoples | (Role: Writer): Hampton Fancher | (Role: Writer): Philip K. Dick | (Role: Writer): Roland Kibbee · Director: Ridley Scott · EAN: 7321950129058 · Format: Anamorphic | NTSC · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 117 · Theatrical Release Date: 1982-06-25 The Original Release of this Movie is BEST!!!
2005-08-10
+++++

"EARLY in the 21ST century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution into the nexus phase-a being virtually identical to a human-known as a replicant. The nexus replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence to the genetic engineers who created them.

Replicants were used off-world as slave labor on the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a nexus combat team in an off-world colony, replicants were declared illegal on Earth-under penalty of death.

Special police squads-Blade Runner units-had orders to shoot to kill upon detection, any trespassing replicant.

This was not called execution. It was called retirement."

These are the actual printed words that begin this classic science fiction movie (based on the 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick).

The plot of this movie is simple. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a policeman or "blade runner" of Los Angeles (in the year 2019) who's after four criminal "replicants" named Roy Batty (Rutger Haur), Pris (Daryl Hannah), Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), and Leon (Brion James). Deckard accidentally develops a romance with the more sophisticated replicant Rachael (Sean Young).

Unlike "The Director's Cut" version of this movie, this original version has Deckard's voice-over narration. I found this voice-over especially emotionally appealing when the Roy Batty replicant "dies" at the end of the movie.

I think I deduced the reasons why the voice-over is so important for this movie:

(1) It allows the viewer to follow the action. (A friend of mine who watched "The Director's Cut" with me and who did not see the original release with Deckard's voice-over could not follow the story!!)
(2) It provides the human touch to counterbalance all the technological and visually stunning special effects.
(3) It adds a "retro" feel that reminded me of old-time detective movies.

The ending, unlike "The Director's Cut," was not abrupt. This ending gave a feeling of hope that Deckard and the replicant Rachael would have a future together.

All the acting in this movie is first-rate. Special mention should go to Harrison Ford who as the blade runner Rick Deckard carries the movie and to Rutger Haur as the leader of the replicants, Roy Batty. Also, Sean Young does a super job portraying the more sophisticated replicant, Rachael.

The special effects that highlight the steel-and-microchip jungle of twenty-first century L.A. and the background music by Vangelis are fantastic and exhilarating.

The only problem is that this original version of this movie is not available on DVD (as of the date of this review). This is truly unfortunate. ("The Director's Cut" is available on DVD.)

BOTTOM LINE:

With its voice-over narration, this is a magnificent and classic science fiction movie with emotional impact. It's easy to see why this movie won the L.A. Film Critics Award and three British Academy Awards.

(1982; 2 hr; fullscreen)

+++++
The tape arrived broken
2005-07-07
The tape was broken and I cannot find the sellers's name to return it

· Actor: Gene Hackman | Tommy Lee Jones | Joanna Cassidy | John Heard | Dennis Franz · Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 · Audience Rating: R (Restricted) · Binding: DVD · Creator (Role: Producer): Andrew Davis | (Role: Producer): Arne Schmidt | (Role: Producer): Beverly J. Camhe | (Role: Producer): Charles Newirth | (Role: Producer): Dennis Haggerty | (Role: Producer): James A. Dennett | (Role: Writer): John Bishop · Director: Andrew Davis · EAN: 3344429006623 · Format: Anamorphic | Full Screen | NTSC · Product Group: DVD · Region Code: 2 · Running Time (Units: minutes): 108 · Theatrical Release Date: 1989-08-25
» Gene Hackman is a career officer assigned a routine mission well beneath him: deliver a prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones) from Europe to the United States. However, the simple assignment becomes a daring cat-and-mouse game played as the last flames of the Cold War are flickering. This is the first of three films that teamed Jones with director Andrew Davis. In 1989 Jones was a wild card: an actor respected but only popping up in grade B fare. After Davis's Under Siege and The Fugitive, Jones was America's favorite gruff character actor, with an Oscar on his mantel. With a weaker script, Davis still creates the same kind of magic here. Hackman is superb as the officer, an action role similar to others that the nearly 60-year-old unexpectedly excelled at (Bat 21, Narrow Margin) during this period. Tight, tense, and with no letup in the third act, The Package is a good gem for a Saturday night flick. --Doug Thomas DVD The Package
2009-11-12
A Gene Hackman film is generally good, regardless f the plot. This film is no exception.Strannix, are you there?
2008-09-12
Why did it seem like Tommy Lee Jones was doing his 'Strannix thing" from "Under Siege" in this movie? The plot winds into predictable end that makes you say "Where have I seen this before?" The movie seemed like a ripoff of so many other political/assassination-type flicks I've seen before. Not many surprises (if any) in this movie.