Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut) Review

Riggs and Murtaugh. Those eighties cop movies and cop buddy movies were great and few duos were better than Gibson and Glover as the odd couple pair of cops who start out hating each other, but grow into the best of friends as the series progressed.

This second Lethal Weapon was just about as good as the first with several memorable scenes and moments. They sometimes blur together now, but I believe this one had the classic surfboard scene, the incredibly hot short haired blonde, and the racist South Africans. Diplomatic immunity?

Well worth seeing and a great action film.

Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut) Overview

Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. Ant it's yours to enjoy as the duo draws a head on criminals hiding behind diplomatic immunity.

Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut) Specifications

The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

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The Home: UrbanMaster Volume 1 (DVD) Review

The Home: UrbanMaster Volume 1 (DVD) Feature

• Disaster survival information!

The Home: UrbanMaster Volume 1 (DVD) Overview

Help you and your family prepare for Earthquake and other disasters..... Join Ron and Karen Hood and become an ... Urban Master! In this DVD you will learn how to prepare your home and family for disaster. Be ready for earthquake, fire, terrorism, loss of job or other catastrophes. The information in this DVD could save your life and the lives of your loved ones and family! Learn easy and inexpensive ways to stock up your pantry. See how some dry ice can help you store grains for up to 20 years. Learn how almost all houses already have many gallons of water stored and how to access that water supply. Do you and your family have a "Family Plan" set up? Learn how to set one up and how it can save your life! Find out about the "Big Mistake". See dozens of money saving and potentially life-saving tips. Ron and Karen have filled this DVD with many practical tips and techniques that will get your home in line for disaster. Everyone who owns a home or rents needs this information!! Get this life-saving DVD for you and for everyone you care for! This DVD is the required primer for the advanced survival skills still to come in the Urban Master DVD series. Ron Hood: Ron Hood, developed his early wilderness interests as a member of the Military Intelligence Community while in the Army Security Agency (ASA). After training, Ron spent a year in the Middle East and nearly 18 months in Vietnam. Since the military Ron taught accredited classes in Wilderness Skills at two Universities for over 20 years, authored numerous articles for National magazines, published a Guidebook to the Sierra as well as appearing on many TV and Radio Programs. Ron spends much of his time learning, practicing and studying wilderness and survival skills with native populations around the world. Ron Hood: Ron Hood, B.A. M.S. Ed.D. (ABD) developed his early wilderness interests as a member of the Military Intelligence Community while in the Army Security Agency (ASA).

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The Knights Templar Review

This is a very well done documentary about the Knights Templar. If you are new to this subject and looking for a broad overview of the history of the Knights in a short period of time, this is an excellent video to watch. It contains all of the key information regarding the creation, growth and downfall of the order as well as some interesting theories about what it was that the templars found in the Temple of Solomon.
If you are a devoted student of the Knights Templar, you will find nothing new on this video. I have been studying the Templars for about a year and have already learned everything that was on this video. It is interesting to watch because I love the subject, but there was nothing new; no new theories, no new findings, no new scholars, no new stories, legends or myths.
So, if you are looking for a starting point for your exploration of the Knights Templar, this is the place to start. If you are looking to expand an already acquired knowledge of the Templars, you probably should look somewhere else.

A 3.5 but I'll bump it to 4 because of the repectful treatment of history.

THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING AS In Search of History - The Knights Templar (History Channel) (just a different cover box and title), SO DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THAT IF YOU GET THIS.

The Knights Templar Overview

Studio: Bfs Ent & Multimedia Limi Release Date: 01/08/2002 Run time: 104 minutes

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Backlash Review

Backlash Overview

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Genre: Mystery
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD

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The Usual Suspects (Special Editon) Review

Spacey has concocted a nice little mystery. It flows nicely and keeps one's interest without overtaxing one's mental abilities. It is convoluted, and has a sort of Hitchcock style surprise ending, but doesn't really require your full attention, unless you try to out-sleuth the detectives trying to untangle the convolutions

The Usual Suspects (Special Editon) Overview

A group of criminals fail on a job worth 91 million, and the police try to get the sole survivor to help them find the legendary and treacherous Keyser Soze, a sort of criminal's boogie man, who some doubt even exists.
Genre: Mystery
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD

The Usual Suspects (Special Editon) Specifications

Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamored of its own cleverness to make much sense. After all, what are we to make of a final scene that renders the entire movie obsolete? Half the fun of The Usual Suspects is the debate it provokes and the sheer pleasure of watching its dynamic cast in action, led (or should we say, misled) by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as the club-footed con man who recounts the saga of enigmatic Hungarian mobster Keyser Söze. Spacey's in a band of thieves that includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, and Benicio Del Toro, all gathered in a plot to steal a large shipment of cocaine. The story is told in flashback as a twisted plot being described by Spacey's character to an investigating detective (Chazz Palmintieri), and The Usual Suspects is enjoyable for the way it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its surprise ending. Whether that ending will enhance or extinguish the pleasure is up to each viewer to decide. Even if it ultimately makes little or no sense at all, this is a funny and fiendish thriller, guaranteed to entertain even its vocal detractors. --Jeff Shannon

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Lethal Weapon 2 [HD DVD] Review

Riggs and Murtaugh. Those eighties cop movies and cop buddy movies were great and few duos were better than Gibson and Glover as the odd couple pair of cops who start out hating each other, but grow into the best of friends as the series progressed.

This second Lethal Weapon was just about as good as the first with several memorable scenes and moments. They sometimes blur together now, but I believe this one had the classic surfboard scene, the incredibly hot short haired blonde, and the racist South Africans. Diplomatic immunity?

Well worth seeing and a great action film.

Lethal Weapon 2 [HD DVD] Overview

The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

Lethal Weapon 2 [HD DVD] Specifications

Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. And it's yours to enjoy as the duo draws a bead on criminals hiding behind diplomatic immunity.

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High Noon (Collector's Edition) Review

That's a simple western film, just before the renaissance of the genre with Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone and a few others. It is a classic of that period (1952) and in a way a turning point. A criminal was caught and sent to prison because one marshal and the population of a township did what they had to do. The criminal should have hanged but some law from Washington changed the game and he only got five years of prison. Five years later he comes back to kill those who had tried to have him hanged. The town learns about it when they see three of his associates come for the noon train, and it is confirmed by telegraph that the criminal, a certain Miller, is on the train. The city has a little more than one hour to do what they can to solve the problem. The marshal had just gotten married thirteen minutes earlier and he was to leave on his honeymoon and he was no longer the marshal and a new marshal was arriving on the following day only, slightly too late. The marshal comes back to assume the situation. He tries to get six deputies and the only he gets are a family man with two kids (he volunteers because he is convinced many more are going to come and he will step back when he finds out no one else has volunteered), then a one-eyed saloon customer who does not realize he is not fit for it, and a fourteen year old boy who is definitely too young and untrained. All the others refuse and even ask him to leave for Miller to do nothing. His newly-wed wife leaves on the noon train, or at least gets on it, though she will get off at the last minute. The judge leaves as soon as he can. The mayor asks in church the marshal to leave, while the parson refuses to commit himself (thou shalt not kill). All his friends avoid him or just plain say no. Alone he is and alone he will have to deal with the four outlaws who are trying to kill him. He will of course succeed. the details of his simple strategy and opportunistic tactics are in the film and you will have to go check them. And the film reveals how cowardly people can be and how they consider law and order is not their problem but that of the professional they pay to take care of it. That's the only really positive point that is different from the standard vision of traditional older western films. It is not blind gunfights and it is not everyone against the criminal. It shows the psychology of people in a crisis situation is very often divided and their reflex is often to hide their heads in the sand or run to cover behind the first bush they can find, senior or junior, who cares, provided it is not a burning bush.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

High Noon (Collector's Edition) Overview

A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. He takes up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: NR
Release Date: 17-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD

High Noon (Collector's Edition) Specifications

One of the greatest Westerns ever made gets the deluxe treatment on this superior disc from Republic Home Video's Silver Screen Classics line of special-edition DVDs. Written by Carl Foreman (who was later blacklisted during the anticommunist hearings of the '50s) and superbly directed by Fred Zinnemann, this 1952 classic stars Gary Cooper as just-married lawman Will Kane, who is about to retire as a small-town sheriff and begin a new life with his bride (Grace Kelly) when he learns that gunslinger Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald) is due to arrive at high noon to settle an old score. Kane seeks assistance from deputies and townsfolk, but soon realizes he'll have to stand alone in his showdown with Miller and his henchmen. Innovative for its time, the suspenseful story unfolds in approximate real time (from 10:40 a.m. to high noon in an 84-minute film), and many interpreted Foreman's drama as an allegorical reflection of apathy and passive acceptance of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaign. Political underpinnings aside, this remains a milestone of its genre (often referred to as the first "adult" Western), and Cooper is flawless in his Oscar-winning role. The first-rate DVD gives this landmark film all the respect it deserves, beginning with a digitally remastered transfer from the original film negative. Additional features include the exclusive documentary The Making of High Noon, hosted by film historian Leonard Maltin and featuring interviews with the late Lloyd Bridges (who played Cooper's rival ex-deputy), director Fred Zinnemann, and producer Stanley Kramer. Also included is the original theatrical trailer and a special chapter stop highlighting the Oscar-winning song "Do Not Forsake Me." Offered in English and dubbed French and Spanish, with English closed-captioning or Spanish and French subtitles. --Jeff Shannon

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Movies on DVD are guarded by a CSS (Content Scrambling System) encryption, security developed and used by Hollywood as a defense against movie piracy. In simple terms, CSS encrypts data on DVD with a special key can be decrypted. The key is not a secret, the developers of DVD playback software that need to read information about the software.

CSS protection used a 40-bit encryption. In simple terms, the copies can not be reproduced because the keymiss. The key is not writable on DVD-RW or DVD-R. Protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against the proliferation of illegal operators, with the goal of eliminating the threat of copying. Therefore, it seems something like a DVD copy.

However, protection proved incompetent. CSS encryption was cracked, which also produced a series of software to copy DVD to another. Apart CSS protectionMacrovision has with their form of copy protection, which can also be found on VHS cassettes can occur. However, advances like these are not always universally applicable, so that seemed to some compatibility problems.

There are several programs that can decode correctly coding CSS. One is DVD Decrypter, which not only protection but also gives you the luxury ripping some sections of the film. In addition to copyingthem on a recordable DVD.

AnyDVD is an application software that can remove the protection. Unlike DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD can rip and burn directly.

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