DVD: Archieve Reviews Vol. 1.1: M. Night Edition

The Sixth Sense

Undoubtedly the #1 Thriller All-Time

'The Plot' Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis (Armageddon, The Siege) brings a powerful presence to an edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller that critics are calling one of the years best movies! When Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), a distinguished child psychologist, meets Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment- Forrest Gump)... a frightened, confused eight-year-old... Dr. Crowe is completely unprepared to learn the truth of what haunts young Cole. With a Riveting intensity you'll find thoroughly chilling and utterly unforgettable, the discovery of Cole's incredible 6th sense leads them both to mysterious and unforeseeable consequence!

Wow, I don't know how many times I watched this DVD this movie is excellent, there is no other film I was so excited about and wanting more after the end credits than The Sixth Sense.From beginning to end this film will not let you stop watching it till its over. Boy, does this film have some great actors Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment have great chemistry in this film. M. Night Shyamalan does a great Directing job with this one he has one of the greatest minds in all of the Thriller genre. This film will fit in all groups of people if you like Romance you'll like this, if you like Suspense you'll it this film, it has a great range for everyone so that everyone will like this film.
On the DVD it has a great showing of the making of the film, from the making through the casting, the music and scoring even up in till the marketing. It also includes a Conversation with M. Night Shyamalan. This DVD also has some great short of M. Night Shyamalan's First Horror Film when he did when he was a child.
This is one of the Best Thrillers of all-time.
Overall This is a Buy.

• Storyboard to Film Comparison
• The Cast
• Music and Sound Design
• Reaching the Audience
• Rules and Clues
• Deleted Scenes
• A Conversation with M. Night Shyamalan
• Publicity
• Filmmakers' and Cast Bios

Language: English, French
Subtitles: English
Widescreen 1.85:1
Approx. 107 minutes

The Unbreakable


M. Night Shyamalan does it once again.

'The Plot' Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star in the mind-shattering, suspense-filled thriller that stays with you long after the end of this riveting supernatural Film. After David (Bruce Willis) emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor - and without a single scratch on him - he meets a mysterious stranger (Samuel L. Jackson). An unsettling stranger who believes comic book hero's walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever.

This film is a great suspenseful thriller that will have you keep think about this movie even after its over. M. Night Shyamalan the Director of what in my mind is the best Thriller of All-Time The "Sixth Sense." He brings this great story about a man who walks this earth with a strange power but doesn't know it. I really like comic book movies and in my opinion this is one of the best ones out right now. This contains a great sense of realisation, meaning that Bruce Willis character, David Dunn, is just like a regular human being just like any of us. The Same thing as in the Sixth Sense, which is that some scenes in this film will have you in shock and awe.
The DVD its really the same thing. The Content on this DVD is incredible. the Behind-The Scenes section is a good one as of the one in the Sixth Sense. The Deleted Scenes is above all my favorite section on the DVD, there is this one scenes where it will make you laugh, pretty much if you already seen the movie.
Overall this is a Must Buy.

• Fully Produced Additional Scenes Not Seen In Theaters Introduced By M. Night Shyamalan.
• Behind-The-Scenes Featurette Featuring Bruce Willis.
• Comic Books And Superheroes-Exclusive Feature With Samuel L. Jackson.
• The Train Station Sequence: Multi-Angled Feature
• An Excerpt From An Early Film Of M. Night Shyamalan.
• 2 Collectible Alex Ross Illustrations

Language: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, Spanish
2.35:1 Widescreen
Approx. 107 minutes

Signs

M. Night Shyamalan's first Alien film.

'The Plot' From M. Night Shyamalan, the writer/director of the Sixth Sense an Unbreakable, comes the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. One morning they wake up to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard.
Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extraterrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch the news as crop circles are soon found all over the world.
Signs is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the possibility the world is being invaded.

I like most of M. Night Shyamalan's movies I think he does a great job at directing and writing his movies, with no exception with this one. Signs is something that I really enjoyed. I thought that the story-line was greatly put together really nicely. Mel Gibson does a great job, there's really no big surprise there he always does a nice job. The Visuals are great too. There's this one scene this really got my hairs standing on my neck with is this one time we see a home video of a birthday party. This film is just simply amazing.
The DVD is great in the Making-Of part of the DVD simply because it shows all the sets that M. Night Shyamalan took in creating Signs, which is very nice too watch. The Deleted Scenes are nice too. Overall this DVD is well worth its price.
This is a Buy.

• Deleted Scenes
• M. Night's First Alien Film.
• M. Night shyamalan takes you on a journey of film making in an exclusive, six part documentary exploring signs from the birth of of the idea, to writing the script, to building the sets, to realizing the creature and other effects, to the scoring and innovative marketing of the film.
• Storyboards: Multi-Angles Features.

Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
1.85:1 Widescreen
Approx. 106 minutes

The Village

M. Night Shyamalan always can make a great movie with a great twist.

'The Plot' M. Night Shyamalan (Signs, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense), the director who brought you the world's greatest thrillers on DVD, now creates his most thought-provoking triumph yet... breaking international records and dazzling audiences around the globe! The Village is a smart, edge-of-your-seat chiller crawling with terrifying surprises and frightening twist and turns. An isolated, tight-kint community lives in mortal fear of an oppressive evil inhabiting the forbidden forest just beyond their tiny village. So Frightening that no one ventures into the woods... until one village dares to face the unknown. With unforgettable performances from Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Adrien Brody and newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard, this powerful motion picture is one of Hollywood's best psychological thrillers and ranks with the best of Hitchcock!

The beginning of this film it very, very slow and to watch this film will most likely make you want to turn this film off. The talking in this film can really start you off on a bad foot because the talking is from the 18th century, which is were this takes place... The actors and actresses in this film are amazing they brought some of the best, Sigourney Weaver and Adrien Brody being a couple of them. One person I'm really surprised in was Bryce Dallas Howard who was in her first major film that she was the lead character. The Direction was great, done in my opinion was done by one of the best Directors of our time, M. Night Shyamalan, who has made the greatest thrillers of all time.
In the DVD, it's pretty much the same as all of the other M. Night Shyamalan's DVDs it mostly contains, A thoroughly in-depth making of the film, Deleted Scenes. It also contains the Dairy of Bryce Dallas Howard. The DVD also includes like also in all of M. Night's films is a small scene from his childhood movies. Which all these features make a great DVD so this is a great one to get.
This is a Buy.

• Deleted Scenes- Introduced by M. Night Shyamalan
• Deconstructing of the Village
• Bryce's Diary
• M. Night's Home Movie
• Production Photo Gallery

Language: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Widescreen 1.85:1
Approx. 108 minutes

DVD: Flightplan

Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster. While I was watching Flight plan this film reminded me of an old Hitchcock thriller.

The film Flightplan is about a mom, Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) who is flying from Berlin to America on a new double deck jumbo Jet with her young daughter played by Marlene Lawston who is new to the big screen. While 40,000 feet up in the air something as happened Kyle as lost her daughter, and the flight crew as no recognition of the daughter ever been on board.

With so many twists and turns this film takes you through you would will think your on a roller-coaster. I always love a film that really make you think and then second guess your self, which this film does nicely. Which makes this a great film that puts you on the edge of your seats trying to figure out what has been going on through the sort, sort of catching up on the facts you know and trying to put the puzzle together.

What is a great plus for this film is the remarkable cast it as come great talent of actors ranging from Sean Bean who as been in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Peter Sarsgaard who I thought did an amazing job on his role in Shattered Glass, their is also Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan. That right their shows that this film is packed with incredible talent. The one who i thought did the best in Flightplan I must say it had to have been Peter Sarsgaard he played Carson who was a air marshal who is just trying to calm Jodie Foster's character and stop scaring tall the passengers, and of course Sean Bean and Jodie Foster gives great performance.

The feel of the film is really gives a great sense of claustrophobia which really makes the suspense feel real as clues show themselves. Plus you can't make it feel larger than it is because of the whole movie is base in a plane so its very limited to what you can do. Which leads to the plane, the sets were amazingly done everything in the film looks real and authentic which can give a good vibe to the film.

Overall this film has a great deal of suspense that we rarely see in the theaters these days in the world of cinema. With all the twists and turns you will really enjoy this film and feel like your a part of the story as you watch it. So I recommend this film that you should See.

DVD

Specs.

Flightplan is present in both Full Screen and Widescreen Formats. I picked to to the Widescreen edition of Flightplan, and it comes in 2.35:1 Widescreen enhanced for 16x9 Televisions. with French, Spanish and English both 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS Surround Sound. Their are French, English, and Spanish subtitles to the DVD also. The film runs around 98 minutes, and is digitally remastered. The Special Features Include:

• The "In-Flight Making of Flightplan" Featurette.
• "Cabin Pressure: Designing the Aalto E-474" featurette.
• Filmmaker Commentary.
• A Couple of Easter Eggs.

The DVD aspect of the film, Flightplan was some what good. Its nothing that should make you go out and buy the DVD right away. In the DVD there is several section to the Making Of featurette, from Pre-Production all the way to Post Production with the Special Effects. Each one is about five minutes long. The Designing feature to me was really interesting. I liked how for the film they went to the roots of the great special effects of film making, miniatures. That to me was the best part of the DVD.

Overall the DVD aspect isn't anything like I said to go out and buy for. That's the negative about thriller and suspense film on DVD that once you watch it once its really not fun on any of the other times after the first showing, so the real thing that your buying on DVD is one showing of the film, and about four different types of features. So if you to you how you interpret the film, but for me i have to say that this DVD is only a rent.

DVD: Art School Confidential

After watching Art School Confidential, I took a very long time just trying to compute what the hell was happening in this movie. I really makes you think.

This is a comedy/ satire, about a young man who comes to a Art School and as a desire to become the best artist in the 20th Century. As he is there, he meets the girl he's been waiting for, he quickly falls in love with, but their is another one who he will be competing against. Unknowing what was happening before his arrival to the school our main character Jerome (Max Minghella), he learns that several murders have been taken place on the campus and the murder was still on the loose. As Jerome tries to find his art "Style" he begins to loose control. Also into the mix the movie also brings a sort of murder mystery to the story which is much different from the murder mysteries they have out now. The murder aspect of the film is about the school Jerome's at their is a strangler that has been terrorizing students.

The story aspect of this film is one that really hasn't been like the ones shown in quite a while. The movie's storyline is good, I loved it. I thought it did a good job at round out the characters and making at lease one of them you can relate to. Another great thing for this movie is that its packed with great actors. There are John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Joel Moore, Anjelica Huston, and Ethan Suplee who is in the great TV show My Name is Earl. The Two principle Actor I thought did a fantastic job in the film Sophia Myles who plays the love interest, Audrey Baumgarten, who I remember fort her role in Underworld one and two as Erika, which I really liked her character in those movies, and the other actor Max Minghella who to me is very new, I think I've seen him in only a couple of films, but I liked him in Art School Confidential I thought he played a great job. I liked the transition through out the film. Also the Director Terry Zwigoff, I thought did a great job, I also liked his other film Crumb which is based on the cartoonist Robert Crumb and that is a great film.

Overall they film as a good feel to it it paces itself very well, the story is a good enjoyable film, the movie as a great set of actors, and the direction is good. So overall this is one of the films that you must see. I recommend to everyone that this movie, Art School Confidential is a Must See and I hope most will like it.

DVD

Specs.

Art School Confidential comes in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, with English, Spanish, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, and French Dolby Digital audio tracks. With English, French Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese Subtitles. This is Master in High Definition, and is 102 minutes in length. The Special Features are:

• Making Of Art School Confidential.
• Sundance Featurette.
• Deleted Scenes.
• Additional Scene: Testimonials
• Bloopers and Alternate Takes.
• Previews

The Features are good for a film being a low budget project, most other low budget film sometimes never even have any type of Special Features on the DVD. So that's one big plus for the DVD, I liked the Bloopers and Additional Takes but the one that really jumped out at me was the Previews. Now I mostly just ignore the Previews because they are just the previews you see at the beginning of the DVD, but There were about three pages of great films that they recommend which I really enjoyed.

The DVD of Art School Confidential is a great buy for anyone, the DVD contains come great extras, and straight forward, the movie is awesome. So you really can't go wrong with buying this DVD. The DVD is a Must Buy in my book.

DVD: Archive Reviews Vol. 1.0

Elektra: Directors Cut.

What can a Director's Cut do?

'The Plot' More eye-popping action, added visual effects and a rocking sound remix for the ultimate home theater experience make this unrated Director's Cut of Elektra a must own Collector's Edition DVD! Packed with hours of in-depth extras, this 2-disc set includes an all-new audio commentary track, production and mythology documentaries, deleted/extended scenes and much more.

Superstar Jennifer Garner proves that looks can kill as the sexiest action hero ever to burst from the pages of Marvel Comics. Restored to life after sustaining mortal wounds in Daredevil, Elektra (Jennifer Garner) now lives only for death as the worlds most lethal assassin. But her latest assignment will force her to make a fateful decision in the ultimate battle between good and evil!

This Director's Cut does work, and it works great. There are some new parts put into the film, which I really liked, mostly the line in one of the parts goes, "Hey, dickhead. I bet 100 bucks that you die before Elektra." It was really great. There's some scenes that you can tell they alter but they look OK. I really can't see were the "Rocking Sound Remix." Overall I like what Rob Bowman did with this Directors Cut, but I wish there was some sort of choice we could have got to put the Deleted Scenes or the Altered/Extended Scenes into the film instead of watching them only on the second disc.

The DVD is also great. I wish they would have added some of these extra content into the regular version, and it would have been three times better. The extras in this Director's Cut are amazing I really thought the "Relentless: The Making of Elektra Part I" Production Documentary was great, I really enjoyed that one the most. Also for the true Elektra Fans they have a Documentary withe The Creator of the Elektra comics, Frank Millerwhich is the Elektra: Incarnations" Mythology. They even have the one Deleted scene that I was Really looking forward too, which was the "Go Game" with Stick and the Leader of the Hand. This just shows that the Directors know a lot more than the studio and their powers of altering. Overall This is a Must Buy.

The DVD comes in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, with English and French subtitles. Elektra Directors Cut is 99 minutes. Special Features Include:

• Full-Length Commentary by Director Rob Bowman and Editor Kevin Scott.
• Original Theatrical Teaser and Trailer.
• "Relentless: The Making of Elektra Part I" Production Documentary
• "Relentless: The Making of Elektra Part II" Post-production Documentary
• Multi-Angle Dailies
• Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary with Rob Bowman
• Alternate/ Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary With Rob Bowman.
• "Elektra: Incarnations" Mythology Documentary
• "Elektra in Greek Mythology" Documentary.
• Still Photos Galleries
• Storyboard Galleries
  

The Jacket

A Outstanding Thriller.

'The Plot' Jack Starks knows little about who he is. Nor does he know why he's bound in a straitjacket and subjected to bizarre psychiatric treatments. But even more stunning fate awaits this amnesia-stricken Gulf War veteran: the treatments thrust in into the year 2007- where Jack learns that he died in 1993.

Impressive film making talents join forces for The Jacket, a mind- and genre-bender of a psychological thriller produced by Peter Guber, George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) plays Starks, the time traveler running out of time. And Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh bring additional star wattage to eerie events that reach beyond time, beyond fantasy, beyond life itself.

Thou I must say in the beginning of the this movie it gets very, very slow but boy does it make up for it towards the end. This is the best Thrillers I've seen in a long time, they way they put it together it could be very confusing, but if you stick with it till they end you won't be disappointed. I must say they have some of the great actor and actress to play their parts, they were great. From Academy Award Winner Adrein Brody, and another great role from Keria Knightley. I also really liked how they transitioned the Jacket into the story-line, I thought that worked out very well. Overall I think Adrein had another in my opinion an Oscar performance.

The DVD however, it does not content in my opinion a worthy set of Special Content the DVD contains two features, yes two, but they two features are combined of different features. As of the Deleted Scenes are combined with the Director and the Screenwriter talking about the film. Overall they Features really don't lead up to the greatness of the Feature Film but I guess it could do. This is a Buy.

This DVD of The Jacket as English, French, Dubbed in Quebec audio with English, French, Spanish (Film Only) Subtitles and runs around 103 minutes. The Special Features are:

• The Jacket: Project History and Deleted Scenes
• The Look of the Jacket: Special Effects Featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
  

Leon: The Professional

One of my favorite actors in is this one and he does a great job.

'The Plot' Jean Reno (Crimson Rivers), stars with Gary Oldman (Batman Begins) and Natalie Portman (Star Wars Episodes I-III). When a Psychotic Federal Agent (Gary Oldman) wipes out her entire family, twelve-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is taken in by her neighbor, Leon (Jean Reno), a quiet man whose only interest are his houseplants, movie musicals and killing people. Leon is a professional assassin, a gentle soul who happens to be the best hit man in the business. When the revenge obsessed little girl insists on becoming his protegee, Leon reluctantly agrees and begins teaching her the tricks of his trades. But when Mathilda's rash attempt to murder the Fed ends up in her capture, it's up to Leon to try to rescue the girl before it's too late.

The is a great film.I really liked it. Right off from the beginning this film draws you in. Also, in the first couple ten minutes you can find out all what this movie is all about. Jean Reno is one of my favorite actors and he is great in this movie. In her first film Natalie Portman is excellent. Now this I think has the best "Bad Guy" ever to be in the films, just the way he actor is so great. This film also has some great comedy scenes that moves the film along. There is a sort of awkward thing in this film, and it the love relationship between Leon and Mathilda, which is weird because of the total age difference.

On the DVD, since its a deluxe edition it has two disc and on the second one it as pretty long Documentaries. These are some great features too. Which make this film a good buy.
Overall this a Must Buy.

Leon: the Professional as English With 5.1 Surround Sound, also English DTS,The Subtitles are English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and runs around 133 minutes, Special Features include:

• 10 year Retrospective
• Jean Reno: The Road to Leon
• Natalie Portman: Starting Young
• Fast Track
• Bonus Previews

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.

DVD: Scrubs Season 4 (TV)

Scrubs, which has been running since the early 2000s, 2001. The TV show really became a hit instantly. With qurikly, random humor this as to be one of the best show that is still airing on the television.

Season 4 is one of my favorite seasons that as some of the best Episodes ever in the database of Scrubs Episodes.

Season Four also as to be one of the best Seasons out their with guest stars such as Matthew Perry, Tom Cavanagh, Molly Shannon and many many more.. In this Year were the crew of Sacred Heart becomes to becoming residents and Elliot makes a move that will shock her friends.

The Cast of Scrubs have some of the greatest group that anyone will see in a very long time. Such as Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes , Neil Flynn, Christa Miller who plays Dr. Cox's ex-Wife, and my personal Favorite Sam Lloyd who plays Ted. Alone that List of the main cast of the scrubs, is I must say the best on Television. The main actor where Zach Braff who is becoming now a big movie or director/ writer. Sarah Chalke who is a great actress and Donald Faison, Ken Jenkins, Judy Reyes and Neil Flynn. John C. McGinley was in the greatest movie about the Office day, Office Space. Christa Miller played in another great television show The Drew Carey Show.

The stories a greatly written and the actors and actresses do a great job Acting in the show. Overall if you've never seen the show I strongly recommend that you sit down Buy all the Seasons that are out and watch this one I guaranteed you will enjoy the Show.

DVD

Specs.

Scrubs Season Four, includes an Aspect Ratio of 1.33:1 with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The Season is Digitally Remaster, and is 542 minutes long. The Special Features include :

• Will you Ever Be My Mentor? - Explore J.D's Never-Ending quest For Dr. Cox's Approval.
• The Sweethearts of Sacred Heart - An Inside Look At The Loves And Flirtations of Sacred Heart's Women.
• The Weapons Chest - Spend Some Time With The Shows Talented "Second Squad" Of Actors.
• Who's That Man? - Discover The Secrets Of The Mysterious Janitor.
• Donald Keeps Talking - An Extended Sit-Down Interview With Actor Donald Faison.
• Audio Commentary.
• Deleted Scenes.

The Scrubs Series as some of the best DVD Extras that I've ever seen. This DVD is no exception. The extras take you behind the scenes and go behind and see the Woman of Sacred Heart and some of the main issues that the characters run through during this season of Scrubs.

The extra features that the DVD has on this season set are just fun to watch. Much like the show the humor is found in the Extra Features. This DVD, if you are a Scrubs fan then of course you have to buy this, but if you just love comedy then you have to get this DVD in your collection.

DVD: Thank you for Smoking

Thank you for Smoking is a story about Nick Naylor who is played by Aaron Eckhart who is the Chief's Spokesman for BIG Tobacco. 'spins' for the cigarettes companies.

Thank you for Smoking as an All Star cast from Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello,Cameron Bright,Adam Brody,Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, David Koechner, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons and Robert Duvall. What an fantastic line up of an all star cast.

The movie is a satire based on the Cigarette company and those who are fighting to stop the Cigarette companies. It really shows and make you sort of cheering for the main character Nick Naylor and cigarettes. The dialogue in Thank you for Smoking is great its smart, intelligent and quite funny.

One of my favorite characters in Thank you for Smoking is Bobby Jay Bliss who is played by the hilarious David Koechner, who is one of the funniest guys in Hollywood today, he's been in Anchorman: A Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In Thank you for Smoking he played one of the M.O.D. standing for Merchants of Death, who are Cigarette promoter, Alcohol, and Guns promoter. David Koechner plays the Gun promoter, who promotes guns to the youth. He was hilarious in this film. Every scenes he was in he did great.

The story is really smart it was first a book by the author, Christopher Buckley, which I must say I haven't read so I can't compare the Novel and the feature film. Overall I loved this film and I strongly recommend everything that this is a must See.

DVD

Specs.

Thank you for Smoking comes in both Fullscreen and 2.40:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, with English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound and Spanish Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Their are English, Spanish and French Subtitles. The film is 91 minutes long and in color. The DVD includes these features:

• Directer and Cast Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• The Charlie Rose Show Interview with Jason Reitman, Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Buckley and David O. Sacks.
• Making of Featurette.
• America Living in Spin.
• Production photos
• Trailers

The DVD includes some great additions to a DVD the best in my opinion was the Charlie Rose Show with Interviews from the Directer, Producer, Main actor Aaron Eckhart and the writer of the original book Thank for smoking Christopher Buckley. They talked about the beginning of the film production to the marketing which was very fun too watch.

The DVD and the movie is a great buy. I think anyone who loves movies this is the one to buy, it has a great all star cast and a great a well written story. Another great is the Extra features, everything is great I strongly recommend this DVD as a buy.

DVD: X-Men the Last Stand Regular and (CE)

X-men: The Last Stand or in other terms X-men 3. One of the biggest hits ever to open on memorial day weekend with a box office amount of 107 million dollars, one of the largest amount made ever on that weekend.

The X-men series is the most know comic book, ever in the industry as well as one of Marvel, The Comic book company, biggest sells. Which was created by the famed comic writer Stan Lee.

In the beginning of the X-men comic series the main characters were: Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, The Beast, Angel and Iceman. Their one main enemy was Magneto.

The difference between the beginning of the X-men trilogy it started with the main characters as Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Professor X, and the newest additions were Wolverine aka Logan, and Rouge and there enemy being Magneto, and his brotherhood of evil mutants: who are Toad, Sabertooth and Mystique.

Most of the character are very true to their comic book background, with a couple of quirks of the directors or writers own stories being put in there. Which are good if you aren't a fan of the comics because you'll won't be wonder why they didn't do this or that. I'm a big fan of the comic so I wanted to see much more of a background showing the hatred between both Sabertooth and Wolverine. Another thing was I would have loved to see the original characters. like Beast who we later get in the films.

On to the Second film, X-men 2, or X2: X-men United. Which is a strong change from the first one of where their comes another faction in to fight this battle against mutants. Human. Coming into the show is a anti-mutant lover called William Stryder who is played by Brain Coxs. The story is were the time as come Were the X-men and the Brotherhood must become United and fight this war against humans and try to save Professor X.

For what is supposedly be the last X-men Story of the Whole team together, they have added some fan favorites to the mix, like Hank McCoy, The Beast, who is played by Kelsey Grammer and Ben Foster who plays Warren Worthington III, aka Angel that are new to part of the X-men. For the Brotherhood we had Vinnie Jones who plays Cain Marko, Aka. the Juggernaut, Dania Ramirez who plays the leader of the underground mutants in the comics Callisto. Also there were also many more new characters like Kitty Pryde, played by Ellen Page, who was in the last two movies who was played by a different person and not have that big of lines in the film.

The basic story for the Last Stand is about. The X-men and the Brotherhood are not allies anymore they have destroyed Stryder and now they follow there own path, The humans on the other hand have now found a way to suppress the X-gene, which is named the 'Cure'. Where mutants can get rid of their power for good.... All this leads to the side being drawn, Those who stand with Magneto and his men want to destroy the cure and have the mutant race be the superior ones, or you can side with the X-men and help the humans defend the cure and help them attack Magneto and his thugs for the Ultimate showdown on Alcatraz.

The basis of the story-line and the 'cure' comes straight from the comic strip. Overall the acting in the Last Stand I thought was quick good, as always Sir Ian McKellen he's been the best Magneto I could ever ask for. Same with Hugh Jackman's character Logan aka Wolverine. The new characters that are add to this trilogy the best one as to be Kelsey Grammer who plays the Beast, Kelsey had hit the character Beast right on the head he is the perfect Beast.

Another big thing that really disappointed some of the fan who love the X-men they/we saw the change of a new directing coming into the film. Brett Ranter come in right after Brian Singer who left off to do Superman Returns, He turned on us Marvel fan... just joking. Brett Ranter was not the first directer that they first had but I can't remember who the first guy was. He on the other hand was the one who got Vinnie Jones signed on to the picture. Overall I thought Brett Ranter did a great job with the time given to shoot.

The Special Effects in this film was great there is this very big land mark of Special Effects that will most likely know will be the moving Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco. Ever the Effects on all the Phoenix's Scenes where amazing all the way down to the fur on Kelsey Gammer.

If there is one film you see this summer this is the one you should see. Its a must see, it as a large all-star cast with great Acton, outstanding visual action, and a great storyline. This one in the Trilogy is the best yet.

DVD

Specs. (DVD Regular)

X-men the Last Stand in presented in both Fullframe and 2.40:1 Widescreen. The audio has 6.1 DTS ES and 5.1 Dolby EX, with Spanish and French 5.1 Surround Sound. The DVD also as Spanish and English Subtitles. X-men The Last Stand is 104 minutes long, and in color. The Special Features include:

• Full length Audio Commentary by director Brent Ratner and Screenwriters Simon Kinberg & Zak Penn.
• Producers commentary by Avi Arad, Lauren Shulder Donner and Ralph Winter.
• 10 Deleted Scenes also 3 Alternate endings with optional Commentary
• The World of Marvel.
• Trailers.

Specs. (Collectors Edition)

X-men the Last Stand Collectors Edition in presented in both 2.40:1 Widescreen. The audio has 6.1 DTS ES and 5.1 Dolby EX, with Spanish and French 5.1 Surround Sound. The DVD also as Spanish and English Subtitles. X-men The Last Stand is 104 minutes long, and in color. The Special Features include:

• A Set of deluxe trading cards X-men Collecting Cards. featuring your favorite X-men villains and heroes.
• Comic book reprint of the first Giant Size comic from 1975.
• Full length Audio Commentary by director Brent Ratner and Screenwriters Simon Kinberg & Zak Penn.
• Producers commentary by Avi Arad, Lauren Shulder Donner and Ralph Winter.
• 10 Deleted Scenes also 3 Alternate endings with optional Commentary.
• The World of Marvel.
• Trailers

The X-men The Last Stand regular and Collectors Edition, the big differences between the two is that the Collectors Edition comes with some collecting cards and a reprint of the 1975 Giant Size comic. That's the difference the Movie comes just like you would buy the regular DVD yourself. On the other hand I do know their is a Target Exclusive where you can get the Collectors Edition in a Tin metal casing for collecting. I loved everything in this DVD, this is everything you could ask for. They do have, which they don't advertise on the back of the DVD is that it includes two sneak peeks at upcoming film, A Night at A Museum, and a very big favorite A scene from the Simpson's movie.

From my opinion I think this film is a buy and a must for any DVD collector or film fan. Though The one thing I hate is that their is a Special version of X-men the Last Stand which Brett Ranter is currently working on, So you could just rent or still buy these DVD and just rent this new version that's coming out later or you can pass on these and just get the special version later when it comes out.