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Rocky, a review by addicted2dvd

Rocky (1976/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Director: John G. Avildsen Writing: Sylvester Stallone (Original Material By) Length: 119 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: DTS: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky
Talia Shire as Adrian
Burt Young as Paulie
Carl Weathers as Apollo
Burgess Meredith as Mickey
Thayer David as Jergens

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Closed Captioned

I just finished watching this one with my brother. It has been many years since I saw this movie. I actually forgot how much I enjoyed it! Sure there was some slow scenes in it... but even they kept me interested in the story. My mind didn't drift at all during the film. If there was anything I would have liked to have seen differently it is how the film ended. While I understand why it ended the way it did... and even enjoyed the way it ended.... I think I would have preferred it to end the opposite way. But if it did... it would have changed the entire second movie. We enjoyed watching this one so much this morning that as soon as it was over... my brother and I popped in the second film in the series. I highly recommend it!



(From What Movies I Been Watching on February 11th, 2013)

Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!, a review by dfmorgan

Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!

Year: 2007
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Cast: Eriko Sato, Aimi Satsukawa, Masatoshi Nagase, Hiromi Nagasaku
Overview: Funuke... is the story of a countryside family struggle. The movie begins with both parents dying in a car accident. The elder sister (Eriko Sato) comes back home from Tokyo because they are no longer able to send her money for acting school. The other two members of the family are the little sister (Aimi Satsukawa), an asthma-stricken aspiring manga writer and older brother (Masatoshi Nagase), who abuses his wife (Hiromi Nagasaku). Now that the frustrated elder sister has come back (and eager to leave again), tension within the family hits an all-time-high. Every member of the family has a dark secret and they lead to one event after another...

Watched: 11th Apr 2010
My Thoughts: A dark comedy it has been called, yes it is most definitely dark and there are some giggles to be had so I suppose dark comedy must be the best description but there wasn't a lot of laughs. A dysfunctional family is reunited because of the death of the parents but they have not reunited in grief. This film follows them as they try for retribution for events in the past and also to some degree try to resolve these issues.

The director showed flashback sequences by using a darker colour palette as opposed to the generally bright imagery for current day events.

There were plenty of trailers for Third Window Films releases but no other extras and this film was presented in non-anamorphic widescreen 

My Rating: A strange but oddly enjoyable 3

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on April 11th, 2010)

Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season, a review by addicted2dvd

Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season (2007/United States)

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Stars:
Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian
Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid
Donald Faison as Dr. Chris Turk
Neil Flynn as Janitor
Ken Jenkins as Dr. Bob Kelso
John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox
Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa

Extras:

• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interviews
• Outtakes/Bloopers

This morning I watched all eleven episodes of this season of Scrubs. Unfortunately this is a very short season. But it is from 2007... which was the year of the writer's strike. So I guess that is pretty understandable. While the series may not be as good as it was in the first few seasons... I still enjoy it very much. Still never fails to give me a chuckle or two.




(From Addicted2dvd's Random TV Series Watched on July 13th, 2011)