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Pitch Perfect, a review by addicted2dvd

Pitch Perfect (2012/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Universal Studios Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Jason Moore Writing: Kay Cannon (Screenwriter), Mickey Rapkin (Original Material By) Length: 112 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, French: DTS: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Anna Kendrick as Beca
Skylar Astin as Jesse
Ben Platt as Benji
Brittany Snow as Chloe
Anna Camp as Aubrey

Plot:
Arriving at her new college, Beca (Anna Kendrick) finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of college music competitions.

Pitch Perfect is an outrageously hilarious laugh-out-loud comedy that also stars Anna Camp (The Help), Brittany Snow (Hairspray) and Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids).

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• BD-Live
• Digital Copy

This one I enjoyed quite a bit. Though I have seen better...still above average. The main thing I didn't like here is there is a little gross-out humor. Which is a type of comedy I never liked. Without that I would have rated this one higher. But I liked the story line and liked the characters. Definitely worth the time put in to watch it.



(From July Movie Marathon: Musicals (Yes... You read right!) on July 17th, 2016)

Il Mare, a review by Tom

Il Mare (2000/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia (Korea) Director: Hyun-seung Lee Writing: Eun-Jeong Kim (Screenwriter), Ji-na Yeo (Screenwriter) Length: 96 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1, Korean: DTS 5.1 Subtitles: English, Korean

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Stars:
Jung-Jae Lee as Han Sung-hyun
Ji-hyun Jun as Kim Eun-ju
Mu-saeng Kim
Seung-Yeon Jo
Yun-jae Min

Plot:
A woman moves out of her beautiful seaside home named Il Mare. She leaves a letter in the mailbox, but somehow it is delivered back in time to Sang-hyun, the previous owner of the house. Upon receiving the letter, Sang-hyun, a gifted young architect, refuses to believe that the writer lives two years in the future. Nonetheless the two take up a written correspondence.

The woman asks Sang-hyun to recover a tape recorder which she lost in the subway station two years hence. As he arrives at the station, he sees a beautiful woman boarding the train, accidentally leaving her tape recorder behind...

Directed by Lee Hyun-seung, "A Love Story" (Il Mare) is one of the masterpieces of Korean romantic movies and is often compared to the Japanese great hit "Love Letter." The film also hit on Pusan International Film Festival in 2001.

Extras:

• Commentary
• Featurettes
• Includes OST CD + postcards Limited Edition
• Music Videos
• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access
• Trailers

Another movie the Americans had to remake because they do not like movies which they haven't done themselves
It is essentially the same movie as "The Lake House". I liked both. The only real difference is the ending. I prefer the "Lake House" ending but it could be a matter of what you have seen first. Both ending produce a time paradox but I feel that the one in the US version can be explained away whereas with the original Korean ending that is not possible.
I willl probably watch "The Lake House" again soon to refresh my memory and give a better opinion of which movie I find superior.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on January 23rd, 2008)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Year: 1999
Rating: NR
Length: 625 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo , Japanese: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English

Plot:
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old virgin and ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a hair-trigger temper. His goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Wait, what?!? GTO is the fan-favorite story of Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member whose goal is to become a teacher to make a difference. Once he's got his foot in the school door...can he squeeze his big head through it?

Watch in awe as Onizuka pummels through his teacher training only to be faced with the mammoth task of actually landing a teaching position. With unusual circumstances on his side, he just might pull it off. Using his street smarts to deal with colleagues, students, and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he has too many lessons to learn!

Extras:
Interviews
Scene Access
Trailers

This anime series is an adaption of the first 14 volumes of the manga. It follows fairly close the manga, only changing some story elements to soften it a little (AFAIK they allowed to be more crass in mangas than in animes in Japan) and extending others. Also some ideas were taken from the live-action version which came one year earlier.
It had its high and lows for me but overall the anime is good. Sometimes the animation style bothered me a little and I think they had dumbed down the character Onizuka too much on some occations. He was too gullable in some cases compared to the manga version.
Too bad that they made this anime while the manga was still running and therefore it does not cover the full manga story, but the new ending they devised is fitting (I haven't read the ending of the manga yet, so I am curious how that one will end).
I can understand that they make anime series based on mangas while the manga is still current and popular, but it is always sad that the anime is cut short or differentiate from the manga because of this.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 5th, 2008)