Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack


Product Details

  • Published on: 2008-07-08
  • Released on: 2008-07-08
  • Running time: 0 seconds


Customer Reviews

Mamma Mia5
Saw this movie afew days ago and haven't been able to get the music out of my head. I'll be buying the DVD when come out and the music as well.
Great Movie.

Megan

Not the best.3
When I saw the stage musical I bought the Special Edition Original Cast recording. That CD had 27 tracks. This one has 17. The overture/entrance for both act 1 & 2 was dropped from the movie. The 3 finale/encore songs was in the movie but not on this CD. In addition Chiquita and I Do was not on the CD. Our Last Summer replaced Thank You For The Music in the movie. Thank You For The Music was used during the credits in the film and is the bonus song. If you wait 15-20 seconds after the last song I Have A Dream this will magically appear. So patience grasshopper and leave your CD player alone.

What I missed most from this CD was the spoken parts within the songs was missing. Especially when Sophie was asking her prospective dads questions during Gimmie and the dads realizing why they were there and offering to walk her down the aisle during Voulez-Vous. The presence of select lines in the musical play CD make me relive the play again; the lack of them makes this CD feel like just another version of ABBA.

With one exception the singing of the cast was at least adequate. Better than the singing in the Original Cast recording.
Meryl Streep was a standout. As effective as Celine Dion during The Winner Takes It All. Yet during Slipping Through My Fingers was very soft as she reminisce about her daughter. Very nice changing her singing style to match the mood of the song.
With one exception Amanda Seyfried also did a good job.
Julie Walters & Christine Baransky are rather brassy but does a good job.
One of the problems I had with the musical Original Cast recording was the similar almost monotonous sound. The different styles on this CD makes things much more interesting.
Now the problem songs.
During Our Last Summer Pierce Brosnan only has 2 lines and was not bad enough to ruin the song. The rest of the time he was singing chorus where Coiln Firth shines. Unfortunately while the song was a soft reminiscing pierce Amanda Seyfried sang full out and broke the mood.
SOS needed saving from Bond, James Bond. Pierce sang the 1st stanza. Not particularly good but I can grin and bear it. Until Meryl Streep sang the 2nd part. It was night and day. Ouch!
Knowing Me Knowing You was replaced by the (easier to sing?) When All Is Said And And Done. The producers should have just cut both and let it be. I hate fumbling for the Next Song Button.





Lost in Translation?2
The positive reviews for this soundtrack and movie are stunning to me. Did we all watch and hear the same movie/soundtrack? Never having seen the broadway musical, could something have been lost in translation from the stage to the big screen? I am a huge ABBA fan and I found the movie adaptation and the singing frightfully painful. It was horrendous actually. The cast butchered just about every ABBA song they sang. The only song that was done well was Thank You for the Music sung by Amanda Seyfried which was part of the end credits. Just about every cast member in the screen version of Mama Mia I liked, but how these people thought they could sing is totally beyond me! All the cast did was jump up and down and yell. ABBA never did that. I left the theatre with a headache and I'm not a musical novice, either.


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Friday, July 25, 2008

Jumper


Product Details

  • Released on: 2008-07-24
  • Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Running time: 89 minutes










Customer Reviews

Good movie with lots of excitement4
I know some people did not like Jumper. However, I thought it was a very good movie with lots of great special effects. It also looks very, very good in Blu Ray!

Watch the trailer2
This movie is following a disturbing trend in modern movies. Basically, they put everything in the trailer and there's 90 minutes of **** in the movie. I expected much more than I got. Wait for this on cable and save your money.





Exciting Special Effects, But No Real Thrill For Me3
Jumper is about a guy name David played by Hayden Christensen that can teleport almost anyplace on earth. He found out he had this ability really by accident, and he thinks for a while he is the only person that can teleport. David eventually starts living the good life, simply by taking what's not his and traveling the world by using his supernatural powers. The villian played by Samuel L. Jackson arrives mixing up his perfect world, and the character David soon realizes he is not the only jumper in the world. And so the story goes on with David trying to save his girlfriend played by Rachel Bilson and to get away from Samuel L. Jackson's character.

I don't really have a character in this story that I truly liked. But as for the movie as a whole, I thought it was fast paced, full of special effects, and looks like it would be a lot of fun to teleport (but not into water). In the end, I lost track with all the jumping into different places and all, but it ended with somewhat of a happy ending. So, I didn't really didn't question what happened. Samuel L. Jackson's character did not win. Hayden Christensen's character got the girl, but still lost out on someone he really wanted in his life.

I thought the movie was okay. I was a bit disappointed overall, but I thought the special effects were exciting.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Magic Tour Highlights


Product Details

  • Released on: 2008-07-15
  • Running time: 0 seconds


Customer Reviews

Good Song Selection4
Good song selection from Magic Tour. Especially like the full band version of "Ghost of Tom Joad" which I think is much better than the regular album version. I don't like the download format though. Would prefer a professional CD and/or vinyl release with color inserts, lyrics, etc. Very unpersonal these downloads. Bass tones are lacking too. Would like to see Bruce and the E Street Band just put out an all covers CD ala Metallica as their covers are often better than the original artist version. Again would like professional CD/LP even if cost was higher.

Powerful and poignant4
Let's get the obvious out of the way right off the bat: Magic Tour Highlights, the new Springsteen digital EP to benefit The Danny Federici Melanoma Fund, is not actually the Magic tour's highlights. (Depending on which shows you've attended, you can probably name five or six actual highlights off the top of your head.) But these are a terrific sampling of some of the tour's best guest spots, and one truly moving moment among old friends.

The two non-Springsteen compositions are the lightweights of this collection, which is not to say that they're not welcome additions to anyone's collection of official releases. Alejandro Escovedo's "Always a Friend" has a great Band/Petty vibe and makes you want to hear more of what this guy's about, if you don't already know. And "Turn, Turn, Turn" sounds, well, like "Turn, Turn, Turn." It's a nice tribute to Roger McGuin, and Bruce puts on his best high-register twang for the occasion.

But it's the other two cuts that make the package. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" with Tom Morello is just chilling, easily the best version of the song on record. Morello's gruff vocals are an effective counterpoint's to Springsteen's -- he comes off like his angrier younger brother. But that guitar work ... How he makes those sounds come out of that guitar I have no idea, but frankly, it's freaking me out.

As for "Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," is it the best live version the band has recorded? Maybe not, but it's certainly the most poignant. Given what's transpired since, Danny Federici's accordion sounds more wistful and mournful than it possibly could have that night in Indianapolis.





A fitting sendoff5
A wonderful album that brings new life to two old favorites, and brings two songs new to Springsteen albums.

Tom Morello does an excellent job balancing out vocals on Ghost, and his edgy solo contrasts well with Springsteen's normal style.

Danny really plays his heart out for Sandy -- the accordion has never sung so sweetly or been filled with so much emotion. Bruce brings a joy and sorrow to the song that really shows you how hurt he is at losing a friend, but how glad he is to be able to send him off on stage, with the music they wrote and lived.

Turn! Turn! Turn! sounds like pure Byrds with a little E Street on top. Not a complaint if your as big a Byrds fan as I am.

Friend really brings a lot of energy to the album, and helps kick it off with a bang. And of course, having a 'new song' (even a cover) on a Springsteen album is always a plus!

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Batman - Gotham Knight








Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #21 in Movie
  • Released on: 2008-07-09
  • Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Running time: 76 minutes






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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

This Is Me


Product Details

  • Published on: 2008-06-17
  • Released on: 2008-06-17
  • Running time: 189 seconds








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Monday, July 7, 2008

Rambo



Product Details

  • Released on: 2008-07-02
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Running time: 92 minutes





Customer Reviews

"STALONE RAMBO THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S SET" Exept no imitations5
THis is the box set you should get if you like rambo. It's got a 4 Rambo movies with Comintairy on all of then, with Stallone doing comintairy on "Frist Blood", and "RAMBO". The newly releast Rambo movie. There are deleated seans on all of the movies, and a didgitel copy of "RAMBO", and a 6th disk with interviews with the writer of the novil "First Blood", and the directer of "First Blood". Puss interviews with vietnam Vets. A must have for any Rambo fan. Do not exept any imitations.

outstanding product4
I am a true fan of Sylvester Stallone and these movies did not disappoint. The added features were an outstanding addition to the great movie making. Viewing them was like reliving the excitement of the first time seen.

Great package not for the hard of hearing3
I really like this collectors set, the dvds come in a metal box that has some really nice graphics. The extra features are also quite good and the quality of the movies is also very good. The reason I give it 3 stars is that the first 3 movies have no subtitle options I live with someone that has hearing problems and well with no subtitles we have to crank up the volume a bit so we can both enjoy the movies.



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Friday, July 4, 2008

Burnin' Up


Product Details

  • Published on: 2008-06-24
  • Released on: 2008-06-24
  • Running time: 174 seconds





Customer Reviews

This Song is Definitely "Burnin' Up"5
I love the Jonas Brothers' new sound. "Burnin' Up" is a great debut single for the brothers new album, A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

Who cares if it sounds like Maroon 5's "Make's Me Wonder," either you love the song, or not.

All this "burnin' up" "makes me wonder"...3
I am a fan of the Jonas Brothers, and while I do like this song, as I listened to it, I wondered...why does this sound so strangely familiar? I felt like I'd heard it before.

And then, it hit me.

Seems the Jo Bros have taken a few lessons out of the Maroon 5 school of rock. The young musicians newest song has a very Maroon-esque style to it, like the new beat and most noticeable of all is how the Jo Bros have taken to using a new vocal sound, getting higher at certain points that give a very obvious nod to the talented Adam Levine's trademark sound.

I do give the boys kudos for choosing such a great band to emulate, but I also must express my disappointment in how far they went. They sound almost too similar. Listen to both songs at these points ("Makes Me Wonder" at 0:46 -and- "Burnin' Up" at 0:26), which are the choruses of both songs, and you'll see what I mean.

Tip of the hat or copycat? You decide.

Awesome5
This song is unbelieveable!!! in a good way!!! It is very up-beat and one of the only words i can describe it as is WOW!!!

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

10,000 B.C.



10,000 B.C.Rated pg-13

From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, the pre-historic epic 10,000 B.C. unveils a new day of adventure, a time when mammoths shake the earth and mystical spirits shape human fates. 10,000 BC is an eye-filling tale of the first hero, young hunter D’Leh who sets out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved and fulfill his prophetic destiny. He faces an awesome saber-toothed tiger, crosses uncharted realms, forms an army, and uncovers an advanced but corrupt Lost Civilization. There, he leads a fight for liberation – and becomes the champion of the time when legend began.

Product Details

  • Released on: 2008-06-24
  • Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Running time: 109 minutes






Customer Reviews

imagination4
I loved this movie even with it's historical errors. some times you just have to let your imagination go and enjoy the story. it's all about love and courage and a mans desire for freedom
also i liked the suggestion of an advanced culture (atlantis)in this prehistoric setting

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