Thomas Guiry

DOG Adventures Collection #1: Lassie (Updated 90s Version); Bingo; Milo and Otis (3pk)
$45.97
These are 3 wonderful movies of dogs and their owners, other animals, and their adventures. Lassie is a new updated version made in 1994. Lassie, a collie, lives in the Virginia countryside with the Turner family. He still is the loyal affectionate dog as always. He protects Matt, the boy in the Turner family and saves his life. Milo & Otis is about a pug-nosed pup and the kitten he befriends and their journey. They explore the barnyard where they live full of animals and they wander off into the country side to meet up with all sorts of wild critters. Bingo is a fun loving pup who runs away from the circus and meets up with a boy who quickly becomes his much needed friend. 3 movies kids and adults with love.

U-571 (Collector's Edition)
$9.99
A DeLaurentiis production, Jonathan Mostow's U-571 (2000) is a World War II adventure featuring submarines operating in the Atlantic in 1942. With plenty of tension, and some unexpected developments, the story is a bit more involved and exciting than the average underwater mission.

German sub U-571 has been crippled in battle, and another U-boat is on the way to try and repair the craft. The American Navy's plan is to immediately dispatch sub S-33, get to U-571 first, and attempt to capture the sub's enigma cipher machine. With U-boats inflicting huge losses on the supply ships to Britain, and the Allies being unable to break the German codes, securing an enigma could be a decisive development.

Mathew McConaughey is Lt. Andrew Tyler, executive officer on sub S-33, who due to lack of support from his commanding officer Lt. Commander Dahlgren (Bill Paxton), has just been denied command of his own vessel. Aboard for the mission are Intelligence officer Major Coonan (David Keith) and Lt. Hirsh (Jake Weber), who have a plan to recover the device. Initially luck is with the Americans as they get to the crippled sub first, and take control of her. But the German rescue U-boat is not far behind, and sends sub S-33 to the bottom with a torpedo shot. Tyler and a small group of sailors still aboard the U-571, scramble to get the crippled U-boat underway, and somehow manage to sink the other U-boat. With the enigma machine miraculously still aboard, the Americans begin limping toward England, facing an uncertain future.

The film has been criticized because the British, and not the Americans actually first recovered an enigma machine from a German sub. Fair enough, but listening to his commentary track, director/writer Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown), appears to have a good general knowledge of WWII movies, and has done some research on submarine warfare in particular. While the British were first, Americans did procure an Enigma machine later. Few war films put realism before being entertaining, and Mostow explains much of the thinking behind what happens in the film. U-571 is well-acted, and does not go over the top with panicking sailors.

A big fan of sub films, Mostow makes sure to include a number of the more popular submarine related clich���s, stretching believability in a typically Hollywood fashion. Since the sub is crippled, we are spared the out of control crash dive down to crush depth, where water leaks in through the hull, and bolts pop out, where the crew's eyes are glued to the depth gage, listening to someone announce the depths lower and lower. We do however get to see U-571 take out a destroyer's communications with a deck gun, rush dive and cross underneath a ship, run silent in near darkness, survive exploding depth charges, release debris and a human body to simulate being hit, take cannon fire, restore the ability to fire at the last second, and launch their last remaining torpedo, which strikes home, sending the enemy destroyer down, in rather dated looking CGI flames.

For pretty well done reality based fiction, this seafaring action/adventure is recommended.

Mystic River
$2.99
hi ! ! :D how are you?!?
i haven't watched Mystic River yet... but i have my copy and am about to... (i will soon come back with a review)
i just find it funny how many negative reviews (there's good ones too!!) complain about how negative/repulsive etc. the movie is (like people were expecting some sunny tap dance musical or something with rainbows and smiley-face sparklies shooting out of every corner and orifice ... and/or funnier yet, they are appalled at how this movie didn't drastically change their lives on some sort of geo-spiritual epiphany level...
wow... what were they expecting. lol. it's a movie. lol. :D it's kind of like entertainment sometimes... lol.
(i suppose that some movies are made just for raking in money ... or who knows maybe some are even meant to drastically alter peoples lives on a geo-spiritual epiphany level ! :D lol. i own a couple of those. lol :D but who knows)
if you really want to change your life that bad maybe you could go to church :D lol
watch cartoons or something :D until recently they were pretty cheery/upbeat/colorful :D
(until the whole ren and stimpy thing kicked in)
there must be some documentaries out there about different branches of hindu islam judeo something or other religion-ism that could possibly alter your spiritual/mental paridigm... if you wanted to do that...
heck... for me the Home Alone movies changed me and my way of life forever :D and i'm not sure they were even supposed to, i just like them very much :D
myself i know when i watch a movie that it might be realistically negative occasionally...
or even disturbing. depending usually on the warnings on the back of the dvd case :D
i just think this makes for funny reading :D
at any rate... i will be back soon with my review of Mystic River ! :D

U-571 [Blu-ray]
$29.98
A DeLaurentiis production, Jonathan Mostow's U-571 (2000) is a World War II adventure featuring submarines operating in the Atlantic in 1942. With plenty of tension, and some unexpected developments, the story is a bit more involved and exciting than the average underwater mission.

German sub U-571 has been crippled in battle, and another U-boat is on the way to try and repair the craft. The American Navy's plan is to immediately dispatch sub S-33, get to U-571 first, and attempt to capture the sub's enigma cipher machine. With U-boats inflicting huge losses on the supply ships to Britain, and the Allies being unable to break the German codes, securing an enigma could be a decisive development.

Mathew McConaughey is Lt. Andrew Tyler, executive officer on sub S-33, who due to lack of support from his commanding officer Lt. Commander Dahlgren (Bill Paxton), has just been denied command of his own vessel. Aboard for the mission are Intelligence officer Major Coonan (David Keith) and Lt. Hirsh (Jake Weber), who have a plan to recover the device. Initially luck is with the Americans as they get to the crippled sub first, and take control of her. But the German rescue U-boat is not far behind, and sends sub S-33 to the bottom with a torpedo shot. Tyler and a small group of sailors still aboard the U-571, scramble to get the crippled U-boat underway, and somehow manage to sink the other U-boat. With the enigma machine miraculously still aboard, the Americans begin limping toward England, facing an uncertain future.

The film has been criticized because the British, and not the Americans actually first recovered an enigma machine from a German sub. Fair enough, but listening to his commentary track, director/writer Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown), appears to have a good general knowledge of WWII movies, and has done some research on submarine warfare in particular. While the British were first, Americans did procure an Enigma machine later. Few war films put realism before being entertaining, and Mostow explains much of the thinking behind what happens in the film. U-571 is well-acted, and does not go over the top with panicking sailors.

A big fan of sub films, Mostow makes sure to include a number of the more popular submarine related clich���s, stretching believability in a typically Hollywood fashion. Since the sub is crippled, we are spared the out of control crash dive down to crush depth, where water leaks in through the hull, and bolts pop out, where the crew's eyes are glued to the depth gage, listening to someone announce the depths lower and lower. We do however get to see U-571 take out a destroyer's communications with a deck gun, rush dive and cross underneath a ship, run silent in near darkness, survive exploding depth charges, release debris and a human body to simulate being hit, take cannon fire, restore the ability to fire at the last second, and launch their last remaining torpedo, which strikes home, sending the enemy destroyer down, in rather dated looking CGI flames.

For pretty well done reality based fiction, this seafaring action/adventure is recommended.