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.