Reviews
Great Performances: The Great American Songbook (2003)
Awesome DVD
I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed this DVD. What a WONDERFUL tribute to our musical heritage.
I also watched Band of Brothers this week. Can it get any better than these two DVDs? Holy cow.
Uptown Girls (2003)
I enjoyed it
I just had an Uncle's day out with four of my nieces. After lunch we saw this movie. Much to my chagrin this is the movie the girls picked. Wow -- I was pleasantly surprised. It had a few rough areas that others have commented on but overall an enjoyable movie.
Yikes -- have I really said this?
Armageddon (1998)
This is the best movie ever??
I can't believe that this movie made over 200 million dollars. I also can't believe that some reviewers say that this is the 'best movie ever'.
This movie was so bad that it made me look outside the Hollywood mainstream for entertainment -- I switched over to independent films and haven't looked back. Thank you Michael Bay!!
Midway (1976)
Darn good war movie
I really don't understand why so many people 'dis' this movie. Read Walter Lord's INCREDIBLE VICTORY and Gordon Prange's MIRACLE AT MIDWAY -- it's pretty close to the truth. The purists could take any movie apart. The war movie that deserves the 'stinkeroo' award has got to be U-571. We have a generation of kids thinking that the US Navy got the first enigma machine. It's a shame that that movie was ever made. Other war movies that people love like Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen -- now those are true movies. Or how about The Guns of Navarone -- a great movie but a fairy tale. Plus it has one of the worst acted scenes in all of movie history (Anthony Quinn's act at Gestapo hdqs). The romance scene was lame and this seems to bother most reviewers. But don't you think that Hollywood was making a social/political comment? This is a great movie and it's a shame that it has been received so badly. When I think of bad movies Armageddon and Battlefield Earth come to ind -- how can you say that Midway compares to them?? Another plus -- you can check out your stereo system. Great sonics!!