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Cary Elwes
 Robin Hood - Men in Tights $14.98 Fun for the whole family, wonderful actors with perfect timing, something for everybody. Mel Brooks did it again. (And Carey Elwes is easy on the eyes!)  Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Criterion Collection LaserDisc $4.99 Coppola's Dracula is a brilliant homage to the wonders of cinema and this updated version is the Citizen Kane of all vampire films.  Comic Book Villains $9.98 This movie was originally available in a VHS format. The DVD was released in 2002. The following quote (not mine) basically sums up what the movie is about: "Told from the point of view from Archie, a comic book collector, this is the story of a rivalry between two comic book shop owners. One does it for the love of comics, while the other shop, run by a husband-and-wife team are in it strictly for the money. The situation brews to a head when a sneak collector, Conan discovers a large collection of perfectly-preserved classic comics, leading the two shops to vie to acquire them, along with a "villain" who hopes to steal them first." - Ryan McIntosh A line from the movie: "After all that had happened, life and the living of it seemed too fleeting to waste in one place or on arguing whether Superman was stronger than the Hulk." - Archie Unfortuantely, what ruins this movie is profanity, and references to comics outside the sphere of DC and Marvel. The sad truth is the amount of comic books that were written to defile boys, because they promoted sexual immorality. Some comic books were, and are, written by sodomites, for sodomites. This is especially true, to day, in 2009. Trying to find comic books that are safe for male children is very very difficult now. It was easy in the 70s and 80s, but not now. Comic BOOK...In grade school, maybe grade 6, I told a girl I liked to read comic books, and she said that they were bad for me. But I told her, no, they encourage literacy. For example, I pointed out to her that the vocabulary found in Marvel was more sophisticated than the vocabulary found in DC Comics. Sometimes, I had to use a dictionary. Comic books helped me learn to read, and write well...Illiteracy is some thing I think male children have to learn to fight for, because the world would rather that only a minority of males learn to read and write...Princeton. Prison. Harvard. Her Ward. Yale. Jail. Where would you like to go? "They're drones, Mr. Mulder. They have no need for language". - Jeremiah Smith, X-Files. An analogy might be drawn between what has happened in the comic book sphere to what is shown on television now, compared to what was shown in the past: Immorality is being promoted, by encouraging others to choose the lessor of two evils. And then the choice is given again, and again, while the two evils keep getting progressively worse...You must always filter: Refuse the evil, and choose the good...The comma suggests a pause, whereas this word 'and' suggests simultaneity. Always filter so that you do not ingest poison. Desire holiness, within, for it is a "fallen world" without. Desire only good things, "the best of the best". That said, I find this movie to be highly derivative of Director Akira Kurosawa's work, 'Yojimbo'.. And also, Clint Eastwood's 'A Fistful of Dollars', which was also based on 'Yojimbo'. |
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