Dawn of the Dead (Unrated) [HD DVD]

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An absolutely STUNNING remake........2007-08-28

I really knew nothing of Dawn of the Dead 2004 until I saw the preview. No trailers, no TV spots, no hype. So I was quite surprised at how breathtaking it is, moving at a neck-breaking pace and not letting up on the gut-wrenching tension for the entire running time. The critics and majority of the audience agreed, something damn rare for a remake.

While many remakes are easy, pointless cash-ins on previous success and a quick way to mooch a few dollars off fans, DOTD 2004 is something quite different. Both Dawn of the Dead movies are great for their own reasons. And while most will judge this a remake only and do nothing but compare it with its 1978 counterpart, it's really best to watch them a two separate stories happening at the same time.

Young Nurse Ana (Sarah Polley) is living the suburban dream: perfect house, loving husband, well-manicured cul-de-sac. All that is about to change. As she drives home after a long shift dozens of clues surrounding the brewing trouble literally fall on deaf ears as Ana is too tired to notice. Overnight, her life is changed forever (as anyone's life can) when a lethal virus, that causes the dead to come back to life, spreads with alarming speed all over the world. Utterly, completely, hopelessly outnumbered, Ana flees her perfect life and hooks up with a bunch of other survivors who take refuge in a huge shopping mall.

I will not pretend that the satire of the original is something of my own discovery (as so many, many other reviewers have) and complain that it's pretty much absent in the remake because DOTD 2004 has so many other levels to it.

First of all, the zombies (the word is never mentioned in the film) can be seen as the perfect society. There is no conflict between them, no hate, no prejudice, and no grudges. They exist only to create more, as humans invariably do. The survivors barricaded in the shopping mall are rebels. They are refusing to conform and fight for their life, for their right to be different. And with this right to be different comes conflict and turmoil. The barricade between inside the mall and outside the mall is the line between the western world and the third world. Indulgent, ignorant and wasteful on one side and starving masses grabbing for whatever food they can on the other.

DOTD 2004 offers a wider range of characters (more zombie nosh!) boarded up in the mall: cop, nurse, hoodlum, survivalist old lady, pregnant woman, security guards, gay guy, arrogant playboy millionaire, pretty girl and average Joe. It could be argued that they're a far more PC assortment of characters than the original (DOTD 1978 had 2 SWAT cops and 2 reporters-the very people we rely on to protect and inform us in times of crises-chickening out of their utterly futile duties to fend for themselves) but it ends up with character arcs and a sense of sticking together to survive, despite differences, that the original didn't have.

The cast is well chosen and all act their parts brilliantly. Horror films have severely declined in recent years with most being turned into 20-something teen soap-opera trash. In DOTD 2004 you'll see a realistic group of people dealing enormous pressure with sense and reason. However, there is one particular moment in which a complete idiot character jeopardizes the security for everyone else for the dumbest and stupidest of reasons. It really bugs me that this device is in the film and it damages DOTD 2004 and prevents it from having any everlasting integrity.

There are a few references to the original (I'd hate to call them 'in-jokes' as that term would be kind of inappropriate for a film of this nature) that fans will have fun picking up on. But mostly the characters and situations featured in DOTD 2004 are completely new. The most interesting of which is the gun store owner across the street from the mall who communicates with Ving Rhames with his whiteboard and marker pen.

Writer James Gunn (Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed) unleashes an entirely new monster this time. Many people have strongly complained at the 'fast zombie' type seen in this movie and (the absolutely awful) 28 Days Later. But they are far, far, FAR more terrifying than the slow, sluggish, rigger-mortis stricken corpses in the original. They'd be on you, ripping you're throat out before you can say 'crikey!' Yes, the 'turning times' vary wildly in the movie, but it all depends on the bite and how bad it is.

I had never heard of Zack Snyder before seeing this movie, but for a debut feature he sure has impressed me. Every scene in this film is shot and lit from an identifiable point of view. This could be YOUR shopping mall in YOUR town. Not some fantasy happening far away. It's these kind of qualities that make DOTD 2004 stay with you longer than Darkness Falls or Scream 86. I'm glad that Hollywood can still make horror films as bloody and relentless as this, though there were several cuts made to the theatrical version.

This UNRATED HD DVD runs 110 minutes and features more gore, bridging scenes, more character development, more violence and the odd restored shot here and there. It really is the definitive cut of the film to have and I urge you to buy this version.

Filmed in Super-35 the HD DVD presents the film in 2.35:1 1080P widescreen with Dolby THD sound. The picture is flawless and Zack Snyder's high contrast, blown-out cinematography looks utterly perfect. A truckload of extras include Commentary by director Zack Snyder and Producer Eric Newman, The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed, Special Bulletin: We Interrupt This Program!-complete news coverage of the attacks, deleted scenes, Raising the Dead and Attack of the Living Dead featurettes and Splitting Headaches: Anatomy of Exploding Heads.

NOTE: This 'unrated' HD-DVD is NOT the Director's Cut. The DC lasts 110 minutes while this one barely makes it to 109. A few lines of dialogue are snipped here and there and the naked woman on the freeway has been 'covered up' with bloodstains. Why, I don't know.

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WOW!

Wrong Turn 2 - Dead End (Unrated)
Starring: Henry Rollins , Ken Kirzinger , Erica Leerhsen , Crystal Lowe , and Matthew Currie Holmes
Director: Joe Lynch
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000TJBN62
Release Date: 2007-10-09

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By adding the Japanese cult movie Battle Royale to Wrong Turn's cinematic puree of Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn 2 primes itself for some clever spins on the repetitive inbred-mutant-humans-hunt-and-eat-sexy-young-people genre. A pseudo-post-apocalypse Survivor-type game show brings five sexy young people (a bitchy vegan, a loudmouth skateboarder, a lesbian marine, a straight-laced jock, and a slutty...uh...apparently, she's just a slut) to the Appalachian woods, where inbred mutant humans start picking them and the TV crew off. Also along for the ride is the tough-as-nails host (Henry Rollins, Bad Boys II), who goes native and starts hunting the inbred mutant humans. Regrettably, the game plotline is soon tossed aside and the movie settles into a straightforward hunt-kill-eat scenario. But for fans of the genre, Wrong Turn 2 does a good job: The sequence of deaths is not entirely predictable and you get to see one pair of exposed breasts, two sets of exposed intestines, and literal barrels of gore. Featuring horror flick stars Erica Leerhsen (the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Crystal Lowe (Black Christmas), Texas Battle (Final Destination 3), Daniella Alonso (The Hills Have Eyes II), D-list celebrity hostess Kimberly Caldwell, and Aleksa Palladino (who once had a promising career in decent indie movies like Manny & Lo, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, and Storytelling). --Bret Fetzer

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WOW!.......2007-09-06

Ok, call me a cheat if you want but I saw a bootleg copy of this movie all ready and it's amazing! Kinda cheezy at times with the whole survivor tv show rip off but henry rollins owned that role. Some of the best gore I've seen in a while too. If you are a fan of the first, then give this one a look, you wont be dissapointed. especially seing one of the american idols bite it hard, fast and gory

Waiting... (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)

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If you LOVE Dane Cook - avoid this.
Great Film (with the exception of Ryan Reynolds)
Another underated comedy from Ryan Reynolds
WAY FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE!
this movie is hilarious

Waiting... (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds , Anna Faris , Justin Long , David Koechner , and Luis Guzmán
Director: Rob McKittrick
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ASIN: B000CPH9PM
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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The bitter, vengeful world of waiting tables gets the Clerks treatment in Waiting.... A new employee (John Francis Daley, Freaks and Geeks) gets trained at Shenanigan's, a banal theme restaurant where the bored employees play a game of flaunting their genitals. The staff includes a snarky waiter (Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder, The Amityville Horror) who lusts after the underage hostess; a waiter suffering from crippling pee-shyness (Robert Patrick Benedict, Threshold); an oracular dishwasher (Chi McBride, Roll Bounce); and a conflicted waiter named Dean (Justin Long, Dodgeball), who's just been offered a promotion to assistant manager--a job that offers more money, but threatens to trap him at Shenanigan's for the rest of his life. Waiting... is a loose shamble of a movie--the only thing resembling a story is Dean's life crisis--but that's part of its charm. It's a tricky thing to depict tedium without being tedious, but Waiting... pulls it off; some jokes smack of forced sitcom writing, but most of the humor feels genuine, as if it came from writer/director Rob McKittrick's personal experience. A future cult film. Also featuring Anna Faris (Lost in Translation), Luis Guzman (The Limey), and rabidly adored stand-up comic Dane Cook as..a cook. --Bret Fetzer

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A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food, Lions Gate Films' WAITING... stars Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Justin Long as young employees battling boredom at Shenanigan's, a generic chain restaurant. A waiter for four years since high school, Dean (Justin Long) has never questioned his job at Shenanigan's. But when he learns that Chett, a high school classmate, now has a lucrative career in electrical engineering, he's thrown into turmoil about his dead-end life. Dean's friend Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is in exactly the same boat, but he couldn't care less. More concerned with partying and getting laid, Monty is put in charge of training Mitch (John Francis Daley), a shy new employee. Over the course of one chaotic shift, Mitch gets to know the rest of Shenanigan's quirky staff: Monty's tough-talking ex-girlfriend, Serena (Anna Faris), Shenanigan's over-zealous manager, Dan (David Koechner), and head cook Raddimus (Luis Guzman), who's obsessed with a senseless staff-wide competition known only as "The Game"... Featuring crazy busboys, unsanitary kitchen antics, and lots of talk about sex, WAITING... is a hysterical, behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant industry, and an affectionate ode to those lost, and thoroughly unproductive, days of youth.

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If you LOVE Dane Cook - avoid this........2007-08-31

I LOVE DANE COOK and I'd like to keep it that way. Unfortunately I watched this movie and it kinda ruined it a little bit for me but he's redeemed himself many times over!!! Not a great flick. See Employee of the Month, Vicious Circle or Tourgasm instead!

Great Film (with the exception of Ryan Reynolds).......2007-07-16

You really have to be in the Restaurant Business to truly appreciate this film.

BTW Ryan Reynolds is a terrible actor and stinks up every movie set he walks onto.

Another underated comedy from Ryan Reynolds.......2007-06-28

This movie is to restaurant workers as Super Troopers was to cops. A very funny movie. Much love to the goat!

WAY FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE! .......2007-06-13

It is always a good feeling to watch a movie that you think is not going to be that good and getting more than you bargained for! This movie is pretty damn funny and I laughed out loud many times watching it. Not much plot,just low brow humor at it's best! The DVD has a great transfer and some funny extras.

this movie is hilarious.......2007-04-20

this is a really funny movie. although the guy from the mac commercials is a tool, but he is the lame dude in all the funny movies lately, he sucks, but the rest of the movie sucks. oh yeah and dane cook blows too, i wouldnt of known he was the cook if my brother didnt tell me. but besides those two cakes, the movie is really funny worth buying a cheap copy of on amazon fo shizzle

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Dawn of the Dead---the original, the best.

Dawn of the Dead [Blu-ray]
Starring: Ted Bank , Tony Buba , Sharon Ceccatti , Pan Chatfield , and Jim Christopher
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
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ASIN: B000UR9QIK
Release Date: 2007-10-02

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Dawn of the Dead---the original, the best........2007-09-12

This movie is awesome. I have all the other dvd releases and will definately be buying this Blu-Ray version as well. Can never have enough copies of a classic.
Can't wait to see it on my 73" WideScreen HDTV.

SWEET!

Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)

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THE WORLD IS TAKEN OVER BY ZOMBIES!!!
really great!!!
Great pre-credits sequence. Great credits. Too bad about the rest of the movie.
Could be better.
great gore, gruesomeness, and fun

Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)
Starring: Boyd Banks , Michael Barry (VII) , Ermes Blarasin , Bruce Bohne , and Lindy Booth
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ASIN: B0002ABURA
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer), some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero's film (including cameos by three of its cast members, including gore-makeup wizard Tom Savini), and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick double-feature with 28 Days Later, its de facto British counterpart. --Jeff Shannon

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THE WORLD IS TAKEN OVER BY ZOMBIES!!!.......2007-09-04

imagine that, i bet that'll give a scare. i love zombies, just about any horror flick with zombies will make my day. when this first came out, i had high expectations for it, and boy it sure didn't let me down. the first was great for being what it was, mad props. george romero is a wicked man, in a good sense. he does magic with all of his zombie movies. old and new. it's hard to do it like he does, no doubt. but this one, no doubt was up there as well. my kind of thing, the living dead, the blood, the chase, the victims, chaos everywhere! i applaude it as well. and the fact that the zombies were faster was a good idea. i mean it's creepier when they're slow, but when they're fast it's just excitement cause you don't know if they're going to get you or not. the remake was a good one i got to give it to them. the actors did a really good job, ving rhames is the man. great actor, much respect for him. the makeup was great too, overall it was very satisfying.

really great!!!.......2007-08-13

This is a really good movie. I give it 4 stars! I love horror films with zombies and what not.

Great pre-credits sequence. Great credits. Too bad about the rest of the movie........2007-08-04

It looks like they stopped bothering to storyboard after the first fifteen minutes, so after a boffo opening we get the kind of sloppily executed action sequences (spaced out with slack "character" oriented filler) that could only have come from a director of music videos. (Method: Shoot a lot of stuff and force some kind of sense on it in the editing - we're seeing a LOT of that nowadays, and there is a difference between effectively conveyed chaos, and the merely chaotic.) The characters aren't particularly engaging, and the zombie baby was ripped off from 'The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue' (a.k.a. 'Let Sleeping Corpses Lie') which is actually a somewhat more enjoyable rip-off of Romero's zombies than this rip-off, I think. Romero's vision, while considerably less slick, was more personal and more grandly apocalyptic - although not gnat-sized attention-span ready, which is okay because I don't actually care for movies that are like watching someone else play a video game. Anyway, after the terrific opening, the rest of the movie is a major let-down, and there's nothing much to look forward to until the end credits, which like the opening credits, are excellent.

I don't have any real interest in Snyder after seeing this. '300' looks awfully silly, artificial and cartoonish - but it may benefit from having a graphic novel source - which is just the sort of thing that can make a director (too lazy to plan his action scenes) look a lot better than he actually is. (See 'Sin City.') I am still undecided as to whether or not I want to bother, though, because I am getting sick of big budget movies that are too cheap to spring for actual exteriors.

DotD remake: mediocre. not a complete waste of time, but pretty close. Actually, it's a great metaphor for itself - the walking dead version of Romero's film. It moves around more quickly, but that is neither here nor there. The original material had a soul and this is just one of the legion of shambling brain dead, creatively necrotic stinkers that have been plaguing our multiplexes - things that were once movies. I'd sentence the director to repeated viewings of the films of Sam Peckinpah so he could learn how to stage effective action scenes (not to mention character building) - but I shudder to think that he might be inspired to give us his own version of 'The Wild Bunch,' so scratch that. Just shoot him in the head.

(The first 10-15 minutes or so ARE good, though.)

Could be better........2007-07-26

Let me start off this review by saying that I haven't seen the original Dawn of the Dead so if you're looking for a comparison between the original and the remake, this review isn't for you. I've seen a couple "of the Dead" movies (including the comedic version, Shaun of the Dead") and I am entertained by the movies in general. However, this particular movie has way too many flaws to simply forget.

So what's this movie about? Basically, as in most movies in the zombie genre, a woman named Sarah wakes up to find that the world has been overtaken by zombies. The rest of the movie has her, as well as a few others, finding a way to survive.

Let's go over the positives first. First, fans of zombie movies will be thrilled with the typical, yet entertaining storyline. Although some may find the plot to be unoriginal, I think the plot is one that never gets old. Furthermore, there's quite a few surprises and twists that improve the storyline. Generally, I found this movie to move along rather nicely with only a few dull moments here and there. Also, there were a couple of jokes here and there that I found amusing.

And now for the negatives. Acting-wise, this film is borderline awful. The only actor I recognize is Mekhi Phifer and even he isn't all that great in this movie. Maybe it's not the actors themselves rather than the writing that makes this film not that great. I'm assuming that the writers didn't want to take this film seriously considering the large amount of unreasonable reactions from the characters. For example, without giving too much away, I'll ask you if you were put in these characters' shoes, would you find it important to have sex knowing that zombies are directly outside the building you're having sex in (clearly this scene was thrown in to attract more people to watch the film, I found it rather pathetic), would you attempt to start a relationship with another person rather than come up with a way to survive, would you throw yourself in a crowd of zombies in order to save a dog that you just met? Rather than feeling fear and sympathy for these characters, I felt like screaming "Just kill them already!" at the TV. Or maybe this movie is NOT meant to be taken seriously. Either way, I found these flaws to be too overbearing to brush off.

Bottom line, if you're looking for a good zombie movie that'll instill a bit of fear in you, stay away from this one. It's filled with too many holes to be considered good by any means.

great gore, gruesomeness, and fun.......2007-07-23

Well, it's fun if you like end-of-the-world movies as I do. A terrific cast and taut direction help to make this by turns frightening, depressing, humorous and outrageous. The opening sequence, with the morning of first attacks and then the opening credits with the song "When the man comes around" by Johnny Cash, is one of the best things ever filmed. In fact, the soundtrack is one of the strengths of the film.
And just to let you know: zombies are much scarier when they run after you, as opposed to shuffling!

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Dawn of the Dead
Well Worth The Extra Few Dollars
best zombie movie ever
dated and pretentious. But it's a decent film

Dawn of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
Starring: Ted Bank , Tony Buba , Sharon Ceccatti , Pan Chatfield , and Jim Christopher
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ASIN: B0002IQNAG
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done, and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned blue-skinned zombie) can make you sweat. --Tom Keogh

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Something has breached the barrier between the dead and the living, and the dead are coming back to walk the earth, not to mention eat the living.

Slowly people begin to realise that is something wrong, but react too slowly, and the dead take over. Some small number of survivors try and hold out.

Dawn of the Dead.......2007-09-02

I liked this movie alot. It was entertaining. The best scene is in the parking garage.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows

Well Worth The Extra Few Dollars.......2007-07-30

Originally, I thought I might simply buy a regular copy of this film. However, I decided to purchase the ultimate edition instead and was not disappointed. Upon receiving and opening it you quickly realize you possess much more than just the different movie editions (which are great also). In addition, you have extras, trailers, and other features that make this the complete package deal.

My friends were big fans of the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. When I told them they needed to see Romero's 1978 original version they were worried the time gap might affect the movie quality. Quite the contrary, we watched it on a digital projector and they enjoyed every minute of it.

If you are a true fan of the Dead Series then this is the edition you both want and need.

best zombie movie ever.......2007-07-21

This is without a doubt the best zombie movie ever made. My major complaint has always been that they edited out some scenes from most of the DVD releases. But that problem is solved with the Ultimate Edition. It contains the directors cut, argentos version, and the extended version. Now this movie can finally be seen the way it was meant to be seen. I was really impressed with the actors in this movie. They really did a good job, and got into their characters. Day of the Dead is pretty good too (never really did like Night much) but I don't think Day deserves to be called a masterpiece. Dawn of the Dead certainly deserves to be called one of the best horror movies ever made.

dated and pretentious. But it's a decent film.......2007-07-10

I am a huge fan. I like zombie movies of all types. I like Dead Alive. I like 28 days later. I like this version of Dawn of the Dead. But I really didn't find it steller. FOr one, the film is very dated, making it hard for us to take the zombies seriously. But that's alright. I understand it is 30 years old. What I don't tolerate is Romeros social satire. It might be because everybody talks about it, but it seems about as subtle as a zombie in a strip club. We get already. Zombies want to come to the mall. Zombies are mindless. Humans are like zombies. That means... wait for it... We are a mindless consumerist culture. Wow. Thanks for the insight. In spite of this the film is interesting and well made. It just seems like Geore sacrificed the brooding, oppresive tone for a more comical one. I understand that bad stuff goes on and there is some great, shocking gore, but, overall, it just seems like people give the move a bit too much credit. I personaly prefer the remake.

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Waiting...

Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Manufacturer: Lionsgate
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ASIN: B000PMGS6S
Release Date: 2007-07-17

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Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER), Anna Farris (the SCARY MOVIE series) and Justin Long (DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters, waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be.

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Waiting... .......2007-08-26

this movie has me laughing the whole time I've seen it 5 times already, a must have for anyone who ever eats out.

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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A FAMILY TURNS ON ITSELF
UP CURTAIN-THE BEST BEGINS
Not ideal, but the best of what's out there so far on DVD
A memorable performance by Katherine Hepburn
sheer brilliance

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn , Sam Waterston , Joanna Miles , and Michael Moriarty
Director: Anthony Harvey (II)
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ASIN: B00007L4MV
Release Date: 2003-02-11

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Katharine Hepburn, one of the great American actresses, stars in this film adaptation of one of the greatest American plays, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Hepburn plays Amanda Wakefield, a faded Southern belle now living in a small urban apartment, where she suffocates her two children--her restless son Tom (a very young Sam Waterston) and her painfully shy daughter Laura (Joanna Miles)--with her incessant mixture of insistent cheer and guilt. After much prodding from Amanda, Tom finally brings home a friend from his workplace, in the hopes that he might strike up a romance with reclusive Laura. The result is one of the sweetest and most heartbreaking scenes ever written. Hepburn's steely will and sudden vulnerability make her ideal for the domineering mother, but the entire cast--including Michael Moriarty as the "gentleman caller"--is superb; Moriarty and Miles deservedly won Emmy awards for their performances. --Bret Fetzer

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After what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars," four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play, which reteamed her with director Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter). "The Glass Menagerie" portrays a mother whose preoccupation with her past as a Southern belle and her unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son ("The Killing Fields'" Sam Waterston). Michael Moriarty plays the gentleman caller whose visit offers false hope and disrupts the family's precarious balance. 1973-74 Emmy Awards - Best Supporting Actor, Michael Moriarty; Best Supporting Actress, Joanna Miles.

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A FAMILY TURNS ON ITSELF.......2007-05-26

Tennessee Williams rightfully takes his place as one of the premier playwrights in the history of the American theater. He relentlessly turned out high quality plays (and other short literary expositions) on subjects that in an earlier day before the 1950's would have not found nearly so receptive an audience. Here Williams, studying a willfully dysfunctional family, relies on a seemingly autobiographical presentation of the life of a faded Southern Belle mother and her two captive children who are fodder to her dreams of renewed grandeur and style when things `get better'. The gist of the better is a suitable husband for her distracted daughter. That those `things' do not get better drives the dramatic tension of the work, as it almost always does in a Williams play.

Williams has a magic knack for getting to the core of human relations, unpretty as they are some times. The mirror, in many cases, may be harder to take than the reality. Here the son's desire to `help' his obviously unworldly sister at the arm twisting behest of Mother by bringing a co-worker to dinner triggers a trail of events that make Sis fall further and further in the battle with reality. Someone once said that in a Williams's production no good turn ever gets rewarded. And that is the case here. While this is not the most compelling of his plays it is well worth looking at or better, reading.

UP CURTAIN-THE BEST BEGINS.......2007-05-23

KAtharine at her best. If you like Hepburn, you'll love this Live on broadway classic. An overly ambitious Mother in a quandary on ow to move a very shy daughter on the road o matrimony, (Son-In-Law wanted) in the meantime sonny boy Waterman'sets a record for chain smoking and off to the movies every night. Finally things are looking up, when Brother brings home a co-worker to dinner. Boy meets girl, Mom likes Boy, but Oops boy already spoken for. Mothers upset, Daughters upset, and Brother leaves home for the life of a Sailor. All ends well, except the Fish got away. O well what famiy doesn't have its ups and downs ?

Not ideal, but the best of what's out there so far on DVD.......2007-02-19

I have seen several versions of this play on DVD, and I would say that this is the best of what I know to be currently available, mainly because I think Katharine Hepburn is the best Amanda Wingfield. However, I wish Joanna Miles had portrayed a less robust Laura. She doesn't limp; she wears stylish shoes while dashing athletically out the door to the store; she demonstrates no more than an occasional interest in the glass animals that are supposed to be her obsession; under her subdued demeanor I felt enough personal strength from her to deny the sense of despair about her future that is supposed to hang in the air at the end of the play. Perhaps Jane Wyman's Laura should have been in this production rather than being stuck in the 1950 version, with its own lamentable ending. Perhaps this play is too dated to be believable today and they don't make helpless females any more. (TV has sent such types into therapy.) Nevertheless, this is a great late-career performance for Katharine Hepburn, and that's the best reason for owning this DVD, a good companion to "Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond." She was born to play this faded Southern belle who has no talent for sales except as the determined purveyor of a lost culture. Her physical fragility plus the trademark Hepburn patrician accent and mannerisms are simply perfect and utterly priceless (whereas Joanne Woodward in the same role is too perky and liberated). Those two veteran "Law and Order" ADAs are also very good in their roles -- Sam Waterston as Laura's restless, henpecked brother and Michael Moriarty as the cheerful and clueless Gentleman Caller.

A memorable performance by Katherine Hepburn.......2006-03-30

Each character has played the assigned role in a charming manner, bringing out the human shortcomings, grief and disappointments.

sheer brilliance.......2005-06-19

THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the theatre's great masterpieces. Originally opening on Broadway in 1944, the play established playwright Tennessee Williams as a force to be reckoned with and provided Laurette Taylor with her final great Broadway role as Amanda Wingfield (check out Rick McKay's outstanding BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE to hear Marian Seldes and others discuss their memories of Taylor).

For this 1973 television production, Katharine Hepburn, at the request of Williams himself, stepped into the hallowed role of Amanda. Hepburn gives her usual tour-de-force, especially the scene where Amanda is on the telephone attempting to sell magazine subscriptions (the scene is tragic and comic in equal measures).

The story is a memory play, told in flashback by son Tom Wingfield (played by Sam Waterston with all the brashness of youth), of his years living with his mother Amanda and lame sister Laura (Joanna Miles). Amanda's sole purpose in life is to secure happiness for her children, in particularly Laura, who spends most of her days in seclusion tending to her collection of glass animals. Amanda, in the meanwhile, finds more pleasure reliving past glories than trying to make sense of her ever-uncertain future. Tom cannot stand his mother's machinations and spends most of his time `at the movies', though when Amanda presses him to find a `gentlemen caller' for Laura, the balance of the household grows ever more precarious.

Joanna Miles simply glows as the repressed Laura. Katharine Hepburn, as mentioned above, gives Amanda a frailty and strength which is heartbreaking. Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty as the `gentlemen caller' offer well-rounded performances. There is some debate as to which character is the genuine lead role of the play. True, Amanda is the main role but the story hinges so much on the trials and agonies of the painfully-shy Laura that the play might as well belong to her. "Blow out your candles, Laura".

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Dawn of the Dead.......2007-09-02

I liked this movie alot. It was entertaining. The best scene is in the parking garage.

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Well Worth The Extra Few Dollars.......2007-07-30

best zombie movie ever.......2007-07-21

dated and pretentious. But it's a decent film.......2007-07-10

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Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
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funny.......2007-08-23

hilarious movie with lots of laughs but it makes you not want to go to a restaurant for awhile :)

I'm still waiting.......2006-07-20

Workplace comedies are something that strike a chord in us all -- most people have held less-than-glamorous tuition-paying jobs, and sometimes resented the people we have been forced to deal with politely. No tips. Annoying coworkers. Twerpy customers who just don't get it, at all.

That's the main idea of Rob McKittrick's "Waiting...", a pale imitation of Kevin Smiths' breakout film "Clerks." It could have been a delightful comedy in the vein of "Office Space," but alas, we get a pale, rather cliched comedy with a few gem-like moments.

Mitch (John Francis Daley) is starting his first day on the job at Shenanigan's, and he rapidly learns that the ropes are tangled and grubby. There's a philosophical dishwasher (Chi McBride), a smart-aleck, the nice guy with issues, a snarling dominatrix, and a sexpot waittress. And that's only the beginning...

Though Shenanigan's seems normal, there are drunken parties, crazed employees, and food seasoned with dandruff. With disdain for the customers and for each other, the employees spar, stare, and make jokes that will instantly offend gays, women and people with Down Syndrome. Can Dean (Justin Long) manage to get a decent job, or will he sink into the mire of Shenanigan's kitchen?

Anybody who has ever worked a minimum wage job like this will know that it's a gold mine for comedy. I myself have fond memories of a coworker going ballistic when a customer demanded that she spread the cream cheese for him. Unfortunately, that kind of delightful comedy isn't present. Instead, we get armpit-noise-level stuff -- bodily substances being spread on food, and so on.

Even crude films can be funny... but this one isn't. It's just moronic. McKittrick tries to spice it up with stuff like the "Penis Game" and workplace Lolitas, but it's a bit like trying to rescuscitate a week-old dead moose. Even the name of the restaurant is lame -- okay, Shenanigan's, we get it. The place has shenanigans. It's not really very funny anyway.

The characters are all cliches of the slacker worker, and they are so uniformly nasty that you really hope they rot behind those counters. It's a credit to the actors that they manage to inject any humour at all; Daley of "Freaks and Geeks" fame is the most entertaining character of all, and the only one that shows a spark of life.

The only thing that could be as bad as working at Shenanigan's is watching a gross-out comedy full of obnoxious stereotypes. You won't laugh. You'll just leave feeling bitter and queasy.

Incredible.......2006-01-12

This is an incredible movie. I saw it in theatres the day it came out. I have my phone alarm set for the minute I get out of school on Febuary 7th (when it comes out on DVD) to go get it.

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