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Over the Top, a review by addicted2dvd

Over the Top (1987/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Warner Home Video (United States) Director: Menahem Golan Writing: Gary Conway (Story By), David C. Engelbach (Story By), Stirling Silliphant (Screenwriter), Sylvester Stallone (Screenwriter) Length: 94 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English, French

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Stars:
Sylvester Stallone as Lincoln Hawk
Robert Loggia as Jason Cutler
Susan Blakely as Christina Hawk
Rick Zumwalt as Bob "Bull" Hurley
David Mendenhall as Michael Cutler

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers

I haven't seen this one since it came out in the mid '80s. All I remembered was the basic story line and that I liked it. Reliving it today (30 yrs later!!!) I must say I still enjoyed it... but wasn't as good as I remembered it being. I found it to be a bit predictable and found some of the characters to be a bit "over the top"... but there is definitely worse ways to waste an hour and a half.



(From Within My Lifetime: 2017 Edition on January 27th, 2017)

Raging Bull, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Raging Bull: Special Edition
Year: 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Rating: R
Length: 129 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital Surround, French: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround
Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Trailers
Featurettes
Production Notes
Closed Captioned
Booklet

Stars:
Robert De Niro
Cathy Moriarty
Joe Pesci
Frank Vincent
Nicholas Colasanto

Plot:
Martin Scorsese's masterpiece Raging Bull ranks among the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. A searing story charting the rise and fall of middleweight champion Jake La Motta (Robert DeNiro), Raging Bull is "a superior achievement of film art" (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune).

My Thoughts:
This is the first time I seen this movie... but I have always heard good things about it. I went into this one trying not to expect too much... though that is a little difficult at times with titles such as this one. And that may have effected my enjoyment of this movie. I found it an odd, but entertaining choice to make a movie made in 1980 Black & White. But that didn't take away from the movie for me. While it is a very good movie... it was a bit slow in portions... especially once he retired from the ring. And I would have liked to have seen more boxing in the movie. Instead this felt more like a story of his life outside the ring and the boxing not taking as much importance to the movie. But as I said... I did still enjoy it quite a bit and I am glad I now have it in my collection. As for the DVD release... they really did this special edition up right. This release is loaded with extras... including 3 audio commentaries.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on September 29th, 2009)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Being Human - Series One

Episode 1
The 3 housemates are discovering the difficulties of living in the human world, with vampire Mitchell struggling to repress his desire for blood, ghost Annie being confronted by another ghost from her past, and werewolf George looking for a place he can undergo his transformation in safety.






Despite this not being the original set of actors as the 'real pilot' it was clearly shown much later as the writers took great care in introducing the main characters, and how they became to be as they are. It is slickly written and produced, with a nice blend of drama, comedy and light horror. My favourite character is of course George, and keen to see how his storyline progresses. Altogether very impressed with this 'pilot' episode and the potential shown.
I will view the balance of this series very soon.
 


(From My PILOT Marathon on September 1st, 2009)