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	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [HD DVD]
	"Missed it by THAT much..."	2009-09-01
This is another very good movie that could have been great. Visually inventive, well-written, and mostly well-acted. It does require your full attention because it plays out of sequence. The credits don't even start for ten minutes or so after the movie has started. Despite the flaws it's one of my favorite movies. The movie involves a near-future where memories can be erased. Jim Carrey's character finds out the hard way his girlfriend (Winslet) has erased him from her memory. He then goes to have the procedure done to forget her. In the process of forgetting her, he decides the memories are worth the pain of losing her, and he tries to foil the process. Again, nearly all of the actors are excellent in this movie: Mark Ruffalo, Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, and Kirsten Dunst. I've always found Elijah Wood annoying, but since that's the essence of his character, he was well-cast this time. The weak link: Jim Carrey. Carrey's a brilliant comic actor, but he hasn't got the chops for drama. Even as he plays a sad sack who defines flattened affect, he misses.
	Gattaca
	"Great film with one weak link"	2009-09-01
While a number of years old, Gattaca keeps becoming more timely as our biotechnology continues to advance. The movie depicts a near-future where the genetically engineered are a privileged class and those born "naturally" are second-class citizens. Hawke's character has serious heart defects but desperately wants to go to space, a trip that will likely kill him. The "defective" characters are portrayed as far more motivated than the genetically engineered (for example Jude Law, whose identity Hawke's character assumes). The obvious moral is that eugenics isn't the answer, but more along the lines of the Hell's Angels slogan "the will to win is more important than the skill to win." The music, set designs, and nearly all the actors are excellent. The weak link: the always greasy, one-dimensional Ethan Hawke. This is a pity, because he's always appeared genetically deficient to me; this is the role he was born to play. I have to wonder how much better this film could have been with a worthwhile actor in the lead. Oh, and why must astronauts go into space in business suits? Can't we evolve past neckties?
	Gattaca
	"Great film with one weak link"	2009-09-01
While a number of years old, Gattaca keeps becoming more timely as our biotechnology continues to advance. The movie depicts a near-future where the genetically engineered are a privileged class and those born "naturally" are second-class citizens. Hawke's character has serious heart defects but desperately wants to go to space, a trip that will likely kill him. The "defective" characters are portrayed as far more motivated than the genetically engineered (for example Jude Law, whose identity Hawke's character assumes). The obvious moral is that eugenics isn't the answer, but more along the lines of the Hell's Angels slogan "the will to win is more important than the skill to win." The music, set designs, and nearly all the actors are excellent. The weak link: the always greasy, one-dimensional Ethan Hawke. This is a pity, because he's always appeared genetically deficient to me; this is the role he was born to play. I have to wonder how much better this film could have been with a worthwhile actor in the lead. Oh, and why must astronauts go into space in business suits? Can't we evolve past neckties?
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	"Missed it by THAT much..."	2009-09-01
This is another very good movie that could have been great. Visually inventive, well-written, and mostly well-acted. It does require your full attention because it plays out of sequence. The credits don't even start for ten minutes or so after the movie has started. Despite the flaws it's one of my favorite movies. The movie involves a near-future where memories can be erased. Jim Carrey's character finds out the hard way his girlfriend (Winslet) has erased him from her memory. He then goes to have the procedure done to forget her. In the process of forgetting her, he decides the memories are worth the pain of losing her, and he tries to foil the process. Again, nearly all of the actors are excellent in this movie: Mark Ruffalo, Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, and Kirsten Dunst. I've always found Elijah Wood annoying, but since that's the essence of his character, he was well-cast this time. The weak link: Jim Carrey. Carrey's a brilliant comic actor, but he hasn't got the chops for drama. Even as he plays a sad sack who defines flattened affect, he misses.
	Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Full Screen Edition)
	"Missed it by THAT much..."	2009-09-01
This is another very good movie that could have been great. Visually inventive, well-written, and mostly well-acted. It does require your full attention because it plays out of sequence. The credits don't even start for ten minutes or so after the movie has started. Despite the flaws it's one of my favorite movies. The movie involves a near-future where memories can be erased. Jim Carrey's character finds out the hard way his girlfriend (Winslet) has erased him from her memory. He then goes to have the procedure done to forget her. In the process of forgetting her, he decides the memories are worth the pain of losing her, and he tries to foil the process. Again, nearly all of the actors are excellent in this movie: Mark Ruffalo, Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, and Kirsten Dunst. I've always found Elijah Wood annoying, but since that's the essence of his character, he was well-cast this time. The weak link: Jim Carrey. Carrey's a brilliant comic actor, but he hasn't got the chops for drama. Even as he plays a sad sack who defines flattened affect, he misses.
	Gattaca (Superbit Collection)
	"Great film with one weak link"	2009-09-01
While a number of years old, Gattaca keeps becoming more timely as our biotechnology continues to advance. The movie depicts a near-future where the genetically engineered are a privileged class and those born "naturally" are second-class citizens. Hawke's character has serious heart defects but desperately wants to go to space, a trip that will likely kill him. The "defective" characters are portrayed as far more motivated than the genetically engineered (for example Jude Law, whose identity Hawke's character assumes). The obvious moral is that eugenics isn't the answer, but more along the lines of the Hell's Angels slogan "the will to win is more important than the skill to win." The music, set designs, and nearly all the actors are excellent. The weak link: the always greasy, one-dimensional Ethan Hawke. This is a pity, because he's always appeared genetically deficient to me; this is the role he was born to play. I have to wonder how much better this film could have been with a worthwhile actor in the lead. Oh, and why must astronauts go into space in business suits? Can't we evolve past neckties?
	Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
	"Missed it by THAT much..."	2009-09-01
This is another very good movie that could have been great. Visually inventive, well-written, and mostly well-acted. It does require your full attention because it plays out of sequence. The credits don't even start for ten minutes or so after the movie has started. Despite the flaws it's one of my favorite movies. The movie involves a near-future where memories can be erased. Jim Carrey's character finds out the hard way his girlfriend (Winslet) has erased him from her memory. He then goes to have the procedure done to forget her. In the process of forgetting her, he decides the memories are worth the pain of losing her, and he tries to foil the process. Again, nearly all of the actors are excellent in this movie: Mark Ruffalo, Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, and Kirsten Dunst. I've always found Elijah Wood annoying, but since that's the essence of his character, he was well-cast this time. The weak link: Jim Carrey. Carrey's a brilliant comic actor, but he hasn't got the chops for drama. Even as he plays a sad sack who defines flattened affect, he misses.
	Gattaca
	"Great film with one weak link"	2009-09-01
While a number of years old, Gattaca keeps becoming more timely as our biotechnology continues to advance. The movie depicts a near-future where the genetically engineered are a privileged class and those born "naturally" are second-class citizens. Hawke's character has serious heart defects but desperately wants to go to space, a trip that will likely kill him. The "defective" characters are portrayed as far more motivated than the genetically engineered (for example Jude Law, whose identity Hawke's character assumes). The obvious moral is that eugenics isn't the answer, but more along the lines of the Hell's Angels slogan "the will to win is more important than the skill to win." The music, set designs, and nearly all the actors are excellent. The weak link: the always greasy, one-dimensional Ethan Hawke. This is a pity, because he's always appeared genetically deficient to me; this is the role he was born to play. I have to wonder how much better this film could have been with a worthwhile actor in the lead. Oh, and why must astronauts go into space in business suits? Can't we evolve past neckties?
	Firefly - The Complete Series
	"One of the best DVD sets going"	2007-09-04
This series combines "soft" sci-fi, action, heroism, moral ambiguity, snappy dialogue, Libertarianism, comedy, and a treasure trove of quotable lines into one of the best shows ever aired. The cast--largely unknown to most audiences except for Ron Glass of Barney Miller and character actor Adam Baldwin--is uniformly outstanding. (Other Fox alumni have supporting roles as well--look for The Shield's Benito Martinez in one episode.) There isn't a clunker among any of these episodes, and that's saying something. What's bittersweet is the series only had 13 episodes, of which 9 were aired, and even then out of Whedon's intended sequence. The show never found its intended audience--me included. I'm ashamed to say I never saw it during its run. I dismissed it as a genre-bending space western, which was all its ads communicated. Were it not for Claire Wolfe's review of the series for Backwoods Home, I'd never have given it another thought. If any one of the facets listed in the first paragraph is of interest, you owe it to yourself to at least rent the set. You'll be hard-pressed not to want to own it once you're finished.
	Ron White - Tater Salad: AKA Busted In Des Moines
	"Disappointing"	2005-04-20
For those who've seen the Blue Collar movies, heard "Drunk In Public," or seen "They Call Me Tater Salad," there's little new here. It is interesting to see how White's delivery and on-stage persona have developed since 1990 (he admits both to smoking pot and some level of homophobia, both of which he now disavows), when this set was recorded. However, this CD points up how little material White actually has. While the bits have clearly been polished with time and experience, White seems to have done very little writing during the length of his career. As a fan of White's I find this sad, given his level of talent.