Showing posts with label Christopher Walken. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

DVD: Balls Of Fury

When Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) loses his cool and his father to the game of ping pong, he never wants to play another match for the rest of his life. A couple of years later, he is approach by a CIA agent (George Lopez) who wants his help to infiltrate Fengs organization, while the only way in is through is to get into an invitation that only goes to the best ping pong players. While Randy has been out of the game hes been rusty so they go to someone who can help him come back to the game of ping pong he is Master Wong. There Randy meets Maggie Wong (Maggie Q). As Randy gets better he's accepted into the tournament. There he meet the one man who beat him those year before where he lost at the games, Karl Wolfschtagg (who is played by writer Thomas Lennon). We also meet Feng who is played by a funny Christopher Walken.

When I first saw Ball Of Fury in the movie theater, I would have to have had one of my worst experiences of my life. First the movie's projection only was way to big for the screen and it took them about a half an hour to fix it and when they did it still overlapped. The sound was horrible. And to top it all off there were two people who were very obnoxious, during the whole thing. But back to the review, sorry for that rant.

Aside from that i enjoyed for the most part of the movie, the whole cast I thought where good in their own right, and very funny was Feng (Christopher Walken) who has the Ping Pong games at his hide out, he has this small nosies and face he makes which is great. I have always been a fan of the Comedy Central series Reno 911!, and Balls of Fury were made by the same people and they do a great job and I really enjoyed the movie for what it was. While I do like this movie I can't recommend this movie because I know this will only appeal to a select view, As much I want people to see this I would say skip and just wait for DVD.

DVD

Balls Of Fury is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with English 5.1 Dolby Digital. Along with English, Spanish and French subtitles. The features are as followed:
  • Deleted Scenes.
  • Alternate Ending.
  • Balls Out: The Making of Balls Of Fury.
  • Under the Balls: The Life of a Ball Wranger.

As watching Balls Of Fury in the comfort of my my good o' room I have to say I enjoyed Ball of Fury a lot more than I didn't last time when I saw it at the theaters. One thing that I really like was the "Making of" feature it made me look at the film from a new perspective, that Balls Of Fury is really a kung fu movie without fight scenes and they are are exchanged with ping pong matches. One issue I had with this DVD was that their was no Commentary, something I really like on DVDs. Rather disappointed with the DVD but not the movie, I really liked this one. I would say this is a Rent.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

DVD: Click

Click, What would you do if you had a remote control where you can either Fast forward, Rewind, pause, or Skip parts of your life? Would you abuse it?

Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale and Christopher Walken Star in this Comedy smash hit. This film as some of the best actors and actresses of our time, Adam Sandler who is a comedy genius to the movie industry, Kate Beckinsale who is the star of the Vampire/Werewolves films Underworld and Underworld: Evolution. Finally one of the greatest actors of all time Christopher Walken who as been in some of the greatest films and knows who to act. The film also has the second set of other great actors like David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, Sean Astin and Jennifer Coolidge. Not to forget get the great voice of James Earl Jones. A great set of actors. The film also as some actors that are always in films with Adam Sandler's films like Rob Schneider.

The story of the film is original, a workaholic Michael (Adam Sandler) who as no time for his wife and kids, When he meets the warehouse worker Morty (Christopher Walken) were he gets the one thing that can change his life. A universal remote that can control every aspect of his life. After the fun is over the remote starts to take over his live where he skips past the quality time with the family.

The story of 'Click' is great I thought it was very original and a great film to just sit down watch and enjoy I thought it was a great film that can make you laugh. Some thing that any comedy or Adam Sandler fan would enjoy. All the actors actors do a great job, Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale do an OK job at acting their are some great comedy parts that Adam Sandler brings in. For me I thought Morty, Christopher Walkens, character really stole the film i liked his expressions in the film, mostly during when he was showing Adam Sandlers character about the remotes uses he was quite funny.

Another thing I was quite happy about was that aside from the main comedy their is a small part of emotion in it which was quite good, with a great thanks to the Score also.

If you loved Big daddy, Mr. Deeds, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore or any other Adam Sandler film you should go see this and I think you will like it. Now if you don't mind Adam Sandler films, then I think you might like this one because it was quite funny and its not like a lot of the films out today.

DVD

Specs.

Click is presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound in both English and French audio, also with English and French Subtitles. The film is Mastered in High Definition and in shown in color and is 107 minutes. The Special Features of this DVD include:

  • Deleted Scenes.
  • Fine Cookin' Featurette - Additional "Fat Suit" Footage.
  • Make Me Old and Fat Featurette- Behind the Scenes of the Make Up Effects.
  • FX of Click - a Look at the Special Effects.
  • Cast and Crew Commentary.
  • Design My Universe, Cars of the Future, Humping Dogs, Directors Take Featurettes.
  • Previews

The DVD of Click is action packed with Extra Special Features with a great amount of Featurettes I think there's around Seven different Featurettes which is really rare with DVD lately.



The Extras which are a great addition to the film is a must own DVD for any type of DVD or movie fan. If you love comedy you'll love Click.