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The Real World You Never Saw Hawaii

The Real World: Hawaii has revived the somewhat lackluster MTV series with its refreshingly interesting cast members and its problems that are more genuine than “Gee, you really annoy me.” This is the episode known for its alcohol, nudity, and group of kids that seem to truly like each other. The Real World You Never Saw: Hawaii takes a peek at some of the events that ended up on the cutting-room floor. You’re thinking T&A right now, aren’t you? Yes, there’s much discussion of Teck’s “big black snake” and loads of bare bodies romping about, but with the obscured film, you don’t get to see any of the privates being discussed–although there is one provocative scene in which three women strip for a photo shoot. What you do get on this video is exactly what you’d expect if you’ve seen any of the other Never Saw tapes: cameramen flops (including one who fell into the pool during a romantic moment), body noises, and lots of conversation about poop. Fans of the show won’t want to be without this one. –Jenny Brown

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5 Stars *ALMOST AS GOOD AS THE SHOW ITSELF*
The reason I liked this video is because it showed the cast when they were silly. Colin and Teck as really funny in this video and it shows a side to the cast that we didn’t get to see during the show, since all we saw was Ruthie getting trashed and everyone in the house bagging on eachother. RW New Orleans was my ultimate favorite, but this one comes in second!

1 Star Do not buy this video!
This is a very misleading video package. You will expect nudity and adult material, but it’s just a collection of stuff you could have easily seen on MTV. From now on I will consult Amazon reviews before wasting $19 on a piece of garbage like this. If anyone knows how I can get my money back from Sony, let me know!

2 Stars Major Diappointment
I don’t know what MTV thinks “uncensored” means, but it sure isn’t what my dictionary says! There are some funny and interesting behind the scenes spots, but the annoying BLEEPS over any nasty words and the mosaic over any nudity far outweighs anything positive about this tape. If anything, the footage teases with new footage but never comes through. I wasn’t expecting any porn shots, but figured I’d see or hear something “uncensored”. STAY AWAY!

1 Star (1-1/2 stars) What can I say that hasn’t already been said?
There are two things that will really say what’s wrong with this video. One is that it advertises that there is 100% never-before-seen footage, but EVERYTHING on the video was shown in the episodes they aired on TV (except maybe some of the confessionals and the outtakes). And the other thing is…well, I guess MTV has a different definition for “uncensored” than everyone else has, because everything is censored, even profanity in the dialogue. This video is false advertising. Don’t buy it.

1 Star Pointless in every way
Uncensored and Uncut? Maybe MTV has a different definition of “Uncensored” than the rest of the world. I offer up a new title, “Sad and Pathetic.”
Boring and near unwatchable. I, too, wish I could receive some kind of refund after purchasing this tape. Completely misrepresented, and not entertaining please heed my warning and don’t reward them for slapping together such a pointless and mislabelled compilation.

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National Lampoons Barely Legal

In the tradition of National Lampoon humor comes the story of Deacon, Matt and Fred who will do anything for even a glimpse of sex and spend their mornings pirating porno movies from Fred’s after school job at the video store. But when Fred is fired the well runs dry, and our heroes come up with a new plan: make their own adult film.

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5 Stars High school nostalgia
This is perhaps the greatest National Lampoon movie ever. Or, at the very least, it’s tied with VAN WILDER and the original VACATION. NL has made a few lame movies, but this one is one of the most worthwhile.

This DVD takes you back to high school, when everything about sex was veiled in mystery. Hormones were out-of-control, it took very little to put you in a frenzy and for the life of you, you couldn’t figure out what was going on.

As a catharsis to these newfound emotions (and to make a little $$ along the way), 3 high school kids go about to make their own porn movie. Their angle? Porn movies made by virgins – FOR virgins!

One would think that the logistics of making a porn movie would not be too difficult. Ironically, they have no problem finding the girl (played wonderfully by Sara Jane Potts) and equipment. The hard part is finding a suitable guy(!) and actually filming a scene without wrecking the equipment and constantly bickering about the “artistic tone.”

The result is a hilarious story. Thrown in for good fun is a veteran porn star who doesn’t like a bunch of “kids” encroaching on his turf. He bears a remote resemblance to Ron Jeremy, and some of his antics seem to suggest that Jeremy is whom they’re alluding to.

Much like VAN WILDER, this is a feel-good party movie. Sometimes, after a long work week, feel-good party movies are the best possible movie on the DVD menu!

3 Stars Quite entertaining
Gross-out comedy.

Have you seen American Pie? Of course you have, everyone has. Have you seen National Lampoon’s other stuff? Of course you have, everyone has. Have you seen Animal House? Of course–wait… wait… I caught a large portion of it on the television but I haven’t seen all of it. Well that’s okay, I got the point.

Did you like those films?

Well, whichever way you answer the above question will determine what your enjoyment of this film will be like. I myself don’t really think those films are THAT BAD, they’re just not THAT GOOD. That wonderfully politically correct way of saying that this film was pure fluff but I laughed anyway.

Well I didn’t necessarily laugh, but it was amusing. I think if it weren’t for the fact that the father figure tries to pull a Eugene Levy, the stupid high school bully is trying to be a Stifler, and sometimes the characters seem to do things that not only don’t fit with their character in the film, but don’t match anything that happens in real life, this would be a pretty good movie.

Even despite those details (which are actually minor in the way they were presented), the film does its job and does it right. The overall structure is cliched, but mostly the tone isn’t. Scenes like the porno actress having dinner with the family when the girlfriend walks in, or the fact that said girlfriend isn’t what he’s looking for in the first place, stuff like that is enough to relax and enjoy the film if you’re willing to not worry too much about wasting your time.

I would have to say that, if anything, the whole competitor storyline and all that Scarface stuff really got to me the most, considering I find the Scarface dream to be an utterly banal and hideous allusion for everyone to always make, and the competitor was just kind of stupid overall.

–PolarisDiB

2 Stars THIS WAS JUST A GIRL NEXT DOOR REMAKE….
I saw this movie a few times, it had some funny moments. Really it was just one of thoses try to remake of another movie just like The Girl Next Door. But I would not say this was the best one made, but the Girl next door was better and had a better plot that involves high buddies making a porn movie but the one guy actually gets to know the porn star and more funny stuff happens along the way in the girl next door. I thought this movie was really another stupid take on it. So What I am saying this one was ok, but there are better NL movies out there, and no one can replace the Vacation favorites….

5 Stars National Lampoon’s Barley Legal
DVD was hilarious.

DVD arrived in a very timely fashion.

DVD arrived in excellent condition.

1 Star STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
About the dumbest movie I’ve ever seen. Lame, stupid, pathetic. Could not watch it all. If you’re a pathetic nerd who will never be with a woman in his life, run out and buy this movie. Maybe you’ll relate to the pathetic losers portrayed in this film. Maybe it will bring back memories of how awkward and pathetic you were as a teenager. But for those guys who were actually successful with women, even back then… those guys who didn’t act retarded around a female… those guys who actually “had a set”… this movie will annoy you to no end. Honestly, I want to punch the wimpy characters they are portraying right in the face. However, it is a good case study on why I think teenagers suck.

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Talk to Her Hable con Ella

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Goldwyn The Man and His Movies

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5 Stars They told Sam it’s too caustic? The heck with the costs, Sam’ll make the picture anyway
Goldwyn-The Man And His Movies tells the incredible, true story of Samuel Goldwyn who worked his way out of a destitute ghetto in Poland, make his way to America, and become a self-made Hollywood mogul. The documentary takes a good look at both the good and the bad qualities of Goldwyn; and there is much archive footage here along with more recent interview clips with the people who worked closely with Sam Goldwyn.

Sam Goldwyn, born Schmuel Goldfish in Poland, walked to the western European coast and got on board a ship to America when steerage was fifteen dollars. He worked briefly in other fields; but naturally this film focuses on Sam Goldwyn’s career in Hollywood. It didn’t come easy: We learn of his arch rivalry with Louis B. Mayer and we see just how difficult it really was for Goldwyn to win an Oscar because he wound up being an independent producer. Of course, some people interviewed in this picture indicate without hesitation that Goldwyn was a “warlord” and many go on and on about his terrible temper. Nevertheless, as another reviewer notes, nobody who worked with Goldwyn seemed to regret it. Goldwyn produced pictures of very high quality; although of course we see some of his mistakes. Instead of making Goldwyn a lesser man, Goldwyn’s mistakes merely prove his humanity.

The documentary also provides us with interesting clips of some of the very best moments from many of Goldwyn’s best films. We get a few clips from Wuthering Heights; and the clips from The Best Years Of Our Lives, the only film that ever earned Goldwyn himself an Oscar, are outstanding. We learn how Goldwyn was able to come back despite failures; he was a clever albeit neurotic man who knew how to reinvent himself as time passed.

The DVD is short on extras but we do get a filmography for Goldwyn; and if you want to use it there is a scene selection feature as well.

It may seem as if I’ve given it all away but I really haven’t. You’ll see when you watch this film.

Overall, I highly recommend this documentary for film students, people who enjoy the history of how movies were made by an independent producer in the golden era of Hollywood, and people who enjoy the arts in general may well like this picture. I think Goldwyn-The Man And His Movies was very well made; and I certainly hope that they bring this back into print soon!

5 Stars A fascinating man!
Apart from all those jokes that people made about him fracturing of the English language, he was a determined and very interesting man. Like most of the old Hollywood moguls he liked things done his way, but in spite of that he developed an extraordinary talent for picking the right film to make. He did it big and gave it class and the later MGM followed his lead. I enjoyed watching this disc and I’m sure I’ll watch it many times again in the future.

4 Stars A Unique Look at a Unique Man
After watching Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, I was still really in a documentary mood, so I decided to check out Goldwyn – The Man and His Movies, another documentary about someone I was familiar with, but didn’t really know a lot about. With Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, the documentary focuses on a man really loved and respected by many people. Throughout the documentary, there are people who talk about the fact that Hank was their hero, their role model. Goldwyn – The Man and His Movies is a little different: almost everyone interviewed about Samuel Goldwyn mentioned at least once the fact they couldn’t stand working with the often abusive and caustic Goldwyn.

Loved or hated, Goldwyn was certainly a Hollywood luminary who went to amazing lengths to insure that he had the final word on what went up on the screen. Considered by most to be a phenomenal success, Goldwyn always seemed to be fighting an uphill battle against insurmountable odds. A true film genius who is known for the mantra “make less films, make better films”, Goldwyn always seemed to be at war with everything around him, while constantly doing what he could to ‘fit in’.

What I really liked about Goldwyn – The Man and His Movies was the deep sense of irony in the story of Samuel Goldwyn and how his triumphs seemed to be worse for him than his tragedies. Goldwyn – The Man and His Movies does a great job of brining together the many people touched by Samuel Goldwyn to present a unique look at one of Hollywood’s most interesting moguls.

[Geoffrey Kleinman, DVDTalk.com]

3 Stars Just fine, except for two unpardonable errors
I caught part of this program when it aired on PBS locally Sunday night, and I caught the rest last night on its second airing. On nearly all counts, it is a fine program, featuring not only clips from all of Goldwyn’s famous films (including the long unseen 1959 “Porgy and Bess”), but interviews from many departed screen stars such as Bette Davis, Dana Andrews, and Laurence Olivier, all shown, thankfully, not at the end of their careers and in failing health, but in interviews made as long as twenty years ago. The funniest clip is a display of Olivier’s towering acting skills when he imitates Goldwyn’s voice as he reacted to Olivier’s appearance during the filming of the 1939 “Wuthering Heights”, one of the screen’s greatest classics. Family members are also interviewed, giving sometimes poignant insights into Goldwyn’s relationships with people.

However, this film does feature two howling errors which could easily have been avoided by more careful research. A. Scott Berg, author of the biography on which this documentary is based, is also responsible for the script here, and is featured heavily in interviews, so it is difficult to understand how on earth he could have missed these errors, but during the “Porgy and Bess” segment, we hear the narrator baldly stating that Goldwyn had loved it ever since he had seen it onstage in 1932, and that the 1959 film won three Academy Awards. In fact, “Porgy and Bess” opened on Broadway on October 10, 1935, and the 1959 film won only one Academy Award (for Best Adaptation of Score). In addition, it actually LOST three Academy Awards– to the year’s blockbuster, “Ben-Hur”.

I watched this segment twice in two days to make sure my ears were not playing tricks on me, and sure enough, the errors were there. The “American Masters” TV series usually produces completely accurate programs, but this time someone was asleep at the wheel when it came to proofreading the script or doing the research.

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Inside the Sony HC Series Camcorders HC3 HC5 HC7 and HC9 Camcorder Training

Do you want to get the most out of your Sony HC Series camcorder? Join award-winning videographer and prolific digital media trainer, Douglas Spotted Eagle, and journey inside the Sony HC Series Camcorders.

Douglas’ thorough knowledge of video production and the HC Camcorders is combined with a straight forward training technique to help any Sony HC Camcorder owner master their camcorder.

This DVD provides in depth camcorder training for:

* HDR-HC3 Camcorder
* HDR-HC5 Camcorder
* HDR-HC7 Camcorder
* HDR-HC9 Camcorder

Chapters Include:

* Menu Options
* P-Menu
* Shooting in Low Light
* Toys and Add-Ons
* Output Options
* And Much More…

Bonus Chapter:

* HDV Primer

On this DVD, not only does Douglas give viewers a complete tour of all of the features and functions of these HC camcorders you also receive a bonus chapter: Understanding HDV. At more than two hours in length, this DVD lets you discover and harness the true power of the Sony HC-3, HC-5, HC-7, and/or HC-9 camcorders.

| Details | – | English | Color NTSC, All Regions | Total run time: 145 min | DVD-9 | 1 DVD | DVD VIDEO/ROM |

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