8 Reels of Sewage

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good, could be better, needs a "hook"
I listened to this through Amazon Prime. It's a good reading with a good Narrator for Audio-book format. The on Screen images are "weak," generally speaking and it kind of lacks a "Hook" to get your attention. This is probably best (most appropriate) for Literature, Humanities, and English Classes in grades 5 through Freshman College if it's on the reading list for your particular schook district or Professor.





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The Beach Boys: Live In Concert

Worth watching.
I can't imagine what it's like to play the same songs over and over again for decades. To still be producing music, but to know that that music will likely never be as appreciated as the stuff you wrote decades ago. But you get a sense of it watching this,

The Beach Boys are so practiced that everything is crisp and clean and technically amazing. But it's clear the joy is long gone.

Still, theres a section in the back half where they start burning through the classics, ripping out storied, legendary track after storied, legendary track, and you remember just how incredible, how layered and rich the Beach Boys music was.

While you can tell that they long ago lost the joy of playing through those same hits decade after decade, those hits have such staying power, and the performances are so crisp and clean, that even without the joy, it's still something to behold. Worth watching just for that sequence.

Blast from the past
They sound so close to what I remember as a teenager . The only differance now is I can play it as loud as I like without my father going down to the basement to pull the fuse to my outlet LOL .

Pretty Good After 50 years
Good to see them perform together with a great backing band and interesting choice of songs. Disappointed that they did not include the tribute songs ("God Only Knows" with Carl Wilson and "Forever" with Dennis Wilson).

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The Mayor

A documentary you will never forget!
I have been waiting a few years for this to come out on DVD, and it lived up to all my expectations! As a USC film school graduate, I am picky about what documentaries I like, and this one absolutely was one of the best I have ever seen. From the first couple minutes when the main character introduces himself and smiles (twice), I knew it was going to be a riot from beginning to end. But what's unique about this film is the fact that, amidst all the opportunities to laugh and have fun, there are also so many moments where you can't help but think about what it means to age. I have shared it with family, friends, and coworkers of all ages, and everyone agrees that it's a real gem in a world where entertainment is increasingly defined by cheap thrills and shallow storylines. A must-see!

Just what I was looking for
I've seen this movie twice. It makes me laugh, but more than that it is emotionally compelling. Life and death. I think it has a good mix of witty humor and life lessons. This film was revolutionary for me.

Provocative and Engaging
A very insightful documentary covering the many facets of aging. I laughed out loud several times and was equally touched and saddened at times. Very honest and unafraid, I highly recommend this documentary for the perspective it gives on life, regardless of your current age.

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Officer Down

Good,but could've been so much better
The basic premise of this story is a corrupt cop ,Stephen Dorff (Immortals, Blade)has a chance at redemption when he is shot after a pulling over a couple of suspicious looking gang bangers in a red mustang.A stranger steps in ,drives away the bangers and saves his life by calling an ambulance and then promptly disappears.This person's identity is never discovered even after David Callahan (Dorff) begs him to come forward as our alcoholic,cocaine addicted detective becomes quite the local hero.
It is now one year later and David has cleaned up his act when the stranger mysteriously appears with his dead daughter's diary.In it is information on how she payed for her tuition by stripping at a club which has more illegal goings on than you can imagine.This is where the story, really starts, as David reads the journal late at night,starts his own investigation on the side,and of course absolutely NOTHING is as it seems.
This film has a brilliant cast Stephen Lang (Avatar)as...

Convoluted
The overuse of flashbacks make this film hard to follow. I love good cop/bad cop stories but this one fell short.

from bad to worse
The movie had potential, but then became a sub par "b" flick that just got worse n worse. I've seen much better plots for Stephen D.

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Seven Psychopaths

Living and dying for the sake of Shih Tsu
Martin McDonagh, among the best known Irish directors previously won an Oscar for the short movie Six shooter A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films although he is perhaps best known for the acclaimed In Brugesalso starring Colin Farrell, a dark comedy with tragic overtones about two hitmen on the run.

I first heard of this movie last year when I saw the movie The Guard directed by his brother Michael John. A trademark of the McDonaghs is dark humor mixed with some irony and perhaps even some philosophy together with some absurdity. As I loved The Guard so much and it has the biggest domestic box office of any Irish movie ever made, I looked forward to this latest movie with more than a little anticipation.

If you're like me and like American directors who also write such as Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs...

If you liked "In Bruges", you'll love this one
Some 3-4 years ago, director Martin McDonagh teamed up with Colin Farrell in an absurd but very funny crime comedy called "In Bruges". I loved that movie (and not just because it was filmed in the Belgian city of Bruges, where I spent my high school years). Now comes another crime comedy from the same team.

"Seven Psychopaths" (2012 release; 110 min.) brings the story of Marty (played by Farrell), a struggling writer who is working on a movie script called "Seven Psychopaths". His buddy Billy (played by Sam Rockwell) is volunteering to help in any way possible. At some point Billy steals a little dog, and only later do we learn that the dog's owner is Charlie (played by Woody Harrelson), a dangerous gangster who is out for revenge. Last, but certainly not least, there is Hans (played by Christopher Walken), a buddy of Billy's. There are a bunch of smaller characters in the movie. To be honest, I had a hard time keeping track of the multitude of characters, and the fact that...

Original, hilarious, and a must-see
Being a big fan of "In Bruges," getting excited for writer, director, and now producer Martin McDonagh's latest film "Seven Psychopaths" was like second nature. "In Bruges" is begging for a revisit, but it added a lot of humor to hitmen and crime situations that usually try to be gritty or as serious as humanly possible in films before it. "In Bruges" had this uniqueness to it and "Seven Psychopaths" is even more creative and hilarious in comparison.

A struggling screenwriter named Marty (Colin Farrell) has an idea for his next screenplay; a movie entitled "Seven Psychopaths." The problem is Marty is having difficulty coming up with the actual story or the psychopaths for that matter and his alcoholism often gets the better of him. His strange best friend Billy (Sam Rockwell), who kidnaps dogs with a religious man named Hans (Christopher Walken) and returns them to get the reward, has extreme interest in helping Marty write his story. What Marty doesn't count on is Billy...

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The Man with the Iron Fists (Unrated Extended Edition)

Fun, Tarantino-esque movie, but overextends itself
The Man With the Iron Fists is a movie that was 'presented' (not produced) by Quentin Tarantino and directed by RZA. It centers on the story of a black blacksmith in China, who is trying to leave his hostile home village that's entrenched in between good ol' clan wars.

If you are seeking to be entertained, look no further. RZA blends the 'hip-hop samurai' type of music and feel -- prevalent in a lot of anime in recent years -- with the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-floating-around-style of fighting to create a high-flying (no pun intended) and adventurous parody of the genres with a Spaguetti Western flare. Needless to say, visually this movie is great in many respects.

However, beyond that, the movie suffers from more than a few noticeable stumbling points. The first being dialogue. Not only is the writing over-simplified, but the fact that some of the Chinese characters have Oriental-English accents while others speak perfectly clear English is something that...

if you love 70's kung fu movies...
fantastic movie! i saw a lot of very unique and fun kung fu ideas that could only come from a true movie fan such as the rza! there is a brass statue of a man that is in many movies as a training dummy for qi (chi) blocking attacks. in this movie there is the statue and a man with skin that can become brass at will, it links up toward the end in such a cool way i was blown away. i imagine the rza back in the 70's thinking "what if someone had to fight the qi training statue? then they would be really f*&%ed!"

i could see where he deliberately paid homage to old kung fu films with some of the camera work, hair and acting styles, this kind of thing might look odd too someone who hasn't seen older kung fu movies as some of it seems corny or stilted (which is how those old movies are, something fans love!). but even so, they would get over it every time one of the AMAZING battles started.

at first the rap music came off as out of place. this is coming from a wu tang...

good kung-fu movie reminded me of the old ones
good movie for a martial arts film. would have like to seen more fighting styles and the other clans in this movie.

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