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Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff is the type of girl that beats to her own drummer, and doesn't really care what others may think of her. She learns that she's pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker. Juno and Paulie like each other, but don't consider themselves to be exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend let alone be ready to be a family complete with child. Although she would rather not be pregnant, Juno is fairly pragmatic about her situation. Although there, Paulie really leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides that she will have an abortion, but that's something that she ultimately cannot go through with. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. But first she has to tell her father, Mac, and stepmother, Bren, that she is pregnant. Although they would have preferred if Juno was on hard drugs or expelled from school, Mac and Bren too are pragmatic about Juno's situation. The next step is to find prospective parents for the yet unborn child. In the Pennysaver ad section, Juno finds Mark and Vanessa Loring, a yuppie couple living in the suburbs. Juno likes the Lorings, and in some respects has found who looks to be a kindred spirit in Mark, with whom she shares a love of grunge music and horror films. Vanessa is a little more uptight and is the one in the relationship seemingly most eager to have a baby. On her own choosing, Juno enters into a closed rather than open adoption contract with the Lorings - meaning she will have no contact with the baby after she gives it up. During the second and third trimesters of Juno's pregnancy which she treats with care but detachment, Juno's relationships with her family, with Paulie, and with the Lorings develop, the latter whose on the surface perfect life masks some hidden problems. Written by Huggo

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE JUNO FROM DVDTALK.

"It's probably just a food baby," says 16-year-old Juno's best friend Leah when Juno says she's pregnant. "Did you have a big lunch?"

No, there was no big lunch. Juno is pregnant for realsies, and "Juno" is one of the year's snappiest, snarkiest, most quotable comedies. Diablo Cody, a former stripper who's now a writer, penned the screenplay, and she populated it with hip characters who speak not in the manner of real people but in the manner of self-aware movie characters. And yet, just as Joss Whedon accomplished with his TV series (notably "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly"), "Juno's" people can pepper their language with stylized slang and still come off as believable, human characters.

Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is the kind of Middle American high schooler who's too interesting to be popular and too savvy to care. She listens to cool '70s bands and watches obscure foreign horror films, palling around with her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) in her off hours. She also has a platonic guy friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). They became slightly more than platonic on a recent night -- boredom was a factor -- and now Juno's oven has a bun in it. Bleeker's bun.

Her first instinct is to "take care of it" ("I'm just calling to procure a hasty abortion," she says when she phones the clinic), but she thinks better of it and chooses the adoption route instead. She tells Leah they should give the baby to "a woman with a bum ovary, or a couple of nice lesbos."

Instead, they find the Lorings, a generically nice couple who live in a generically nice home in a generically nice subdivision. Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) badly wants a baby; her husband Mark (Jason Bateman) seems to be going along with it, though it's clear to us he has reservations. They meet with Juno and her father (J.K. Simmons) and offer to pay all her medical expenses. The arrangements are made. Everyone is happy.

Vanessa, a little nervous and uptight, reacts to the outspoken, seemingly carefree Juno the way a normal person would: Is this girl for real? Mark, on the other hand, "gets" Juno. Though he's in his mid to late 30s, Mark in a state of arrested development, playing his guitar, collecting comic books, and watching cheesy movies -- in other words, behaving just like Juno. Who is 16. The brilliant irony of the film is that Mark is trying too hard to be cool ... which is exactly what some people will accuse the film itself of doing.

The talent involved in "Juno" is enviable. It's director Jason Reitman's second film, after the dark satire "Thank You for Smoking," and he's only improving with age. He favors understatement and deadpan wit, but he's not afraid to let a little emotion come through when it's needed. Furthermore, while I'd never heard of Diablo Cody before -- I'm not up on my strippers-turned-writers -- her exceedingly well-written screenplay here should secure her a place in Hollywood for as long as she can crank out funny characters and literate dialogue.

J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney are more than just parental buffoons as Juno's folks, while Bateman and Garner have the plastic smiles of bland suburban affluence down pat. Michael Cera's gift for stammery teenage awkwardness has been documented numerous times already, most recently in "Superbad," and it's nice to see that it's not getting old yet. The kid can still wring more laughs out of not knowing what to say than almost anyone.

The outstanding writing and direction aside, "Juno" might have failed if it didn't have a capable actress in the lead role. Ellen Page is most recognizable for playing Kitty Pryde (the one who can walk through walls) in "X-Men: The Last Stand," though certain audiences will remember her performance in the disturbing thriller "Hard Candy," where she played a girl who turns the tables on a would-be pedophile. Barely out of her teens, Page has shown remarkable common sense and discernment in choosing her projects. "Juno" lets her show off her comedic chops and razor-sharp timing, all in the service of a character whose effortless charm is her most endearing trait.

There's a delicate line between "likably quirky" and "trying too hard to be quirky." I think "Juno" steps on the wrong side a couple times (the pop-culture reference Juno makes when her water breaks is a bit of a reach), but not enough to diminish the pleasure I take in the film overall. It's an absolute delight.

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The President of the United States is on a journey home after making a speech in Moscow. But on the journey, Russian hi-jakers take over the plane, disguising themselves as newspaper reporters. They want the President to ring Moscow and release General Redek. But they think that the President has escaped in the pod. But the president is really still on board air force One attempting to regain control of the plane and to rescue his wife and daughter. Written by Dilen Foster

The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA's new "Zero-tolerance" policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President's official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. The terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise... Written by Afterburner {aburner@erols.com}

Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a steadfast U.S. President who has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. Now, Russian neo-nationalists have hijacked Air Force One and the President is faced with a nearly impossible decison: give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter. Written by Robert Lynch {docrlynch@yahoo.com}

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HERE IS THE SUMMARY FOR THE MOVIE IT ONE OF A FEW MOVIES AVAILABLE

A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would come back to Derry to do battle again. Written by Murray Chapman {muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au}

A group of adults take a blast from the past. They remember when they were nerds in school, hanging out, victim of bullies. But nothing out of the question compares with one big bully of Evil unspeakable. the bully is a monster in a clowns suit. He is deadly, can be any were anyone, at any time. with supernatural powers. They call him "IT". Written by sam

In the quiet town of Derry, Maine, Seven freinds, Bill, Eddie, Mike, Bev, Stan, Richie and Ben (the losers club) have all been seeing and hearing strange things. Most of which revolve around a Clown called pennywise in which they all admit being real, the kids eventually discover that the leader of the club, Bill's little brother fell victim to this evil. The group sets out to stop the force and put it to rest once and for all. 30 years after defeating IT, Mike Hanlon, the only Member who remained in derry, is suspecting that IT has returned and is forced to call back all of the Losers club, due to a promise they all made to return if its evil shall ever resurface. Uncovering new powers, clues and evil the club reunites as adults and come face to face with the evil that has haunted and fed on derry for the last centuries. Written by Yas

Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, "It" wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like "It" doesn't happen. Ironically they know about "It", but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat "It" as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that "It" has come back, he reunites what's left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and "It" is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat "It" and cure Derry of "The Derry Disease". Written by Geoffrey A. Middleton {gamidd01@morehead-st.edu}

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR A FEW OF STEPHEN KINGS FILMS THAT ARE AVAILABLE
The movie

An extremely popular as well as a prolific writer, Stephen King may well turn out to be the Charles Dickens of the 20th and 21st centuries: telling gripping stories designed to chill and thrill the reader, while capturing with remarkable accuracy the day-to-day lives, worries, obsessions, fears, and hopes of the small-town New Englanders who are so often the protagonists of his works. With King's focus on storytelling, it's no surprise that much of his work has been translated to the screen; like King's body of written work, these film adaptations span the spectrum from brilliant to merely entertaining to occasionally clunky. The Stephen King Collector's Set offers four films ranging from outstanding to good: Misery, The Dark Half, Carrie, and Needful Things.

Misery

Misery is that exceptional creature: an outstanding novel that ends up as an equally outstanding film. Misery has to stand as one of King's best novels, possibly even his very best. The combination of intense psychological pressure, nail-biting physical terror, and fascinating glimpses into the writer's mind make Misery pack quite a punch... especially since it's one of King's leaner novels. The film version doesn't try to stick word-for-word with the novel, instead choosing the wiser path: being faithful to the larger experience of the book while making changes where necessary to make the on-screen experience as gripping as the reading experience.

The co-stars of Misery are key to the film's success: Kathy Bates, as the demented Annie, and James Caan, as the writer she dotes on, both bring considerable depth to their roles. Bates deservedly won an Academy Award for her performance in this film, and Caan is no slouch either; between the two of them, the tension in Misery is palpable throughout, and scene after scene is held at a nail-bitingly high pitch. This isn't a fluffy piece of entertainment that will be quickly forgotten... Misery will stick with you.

Carrie

Carrie, presented here as the 25th Anniversary Special Edition, is a stylishly crafted and entertaining movie. As befits the title character, Carrie herself is a memorable figure, grippingly portrayed by Sissy Spacek: she's both sympathetic and occasionally repellent, helpless yet powerful, and we see in her both the potential for beauty and for destruction.

Given the film's fairly straightforward narrative, I was pleasantly surprised and impressed by the cinematography and directing choices throughout the film. Brian De Palma brings a stylish and visually interesting approach to the film, using a variety of methods to present a subjective point of view at various times in the film, especially during the climactic prom scene. But he never overdoes it, using his "tricks," like one split-screen sequence that shows the chaos in the gym from different angles, sparingly so that we're always kept engaged and never become jaded.

At 98 minutes, Carrie is a tightly paced movie as well, and it's all to the good. We see enough to understand Carrie as the underdog in "high school hell" (which isn't overstated; Carrie's abilities may be exceptional, but her social environment is distressingly commonplace), and to be touched by the potential for her to open up and go beyond the cruel psychological limits placed on her by her fanatical mother. And from there, the tragedy ticks forward step by step to the climax; we don't need to know any more about Carrie's background than what we guess from her confrontations with her mother.

The Dark Half

The Dark Half, like Misery, is another story that puts a writer on center stage: this time a writer named Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) finds that when he figuratively "kills off" his alter ego, a pseudonym that he used to write gruesome pulp novels, he ends up having to face a literal, and very dangerous, embodiment of his own divided creative self.

The Dark Half is perhaps most interesting in the way it expresses some of King's own uncertainties and fears about his writing process. King wrote a number of novels under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman" at the same time that he was also publishing under his own name; eventually the two alter egos were reunited and Bachman was revealed as really being King, but it brings up some interesting ideas about the nature of the writing process.

All in all, The Dark Half is a reasonably entertaining film, one that is memorable more from particular scenes (such as those involving the sparrows that feature highly in the story) rather than from the overall story.

Needful Things

Needful Things takes on a challenging task: adapting one of King's longer novels. At 736 pages in my copy, it's quite a doorstop... and much of the novel's space is spent building up the characters, slowly revealing their weaknesses, showing how those weaknesses are exploited, and building up to a devastating finale. The film version does a creditable job in condensing the story's essential elements down far enough to fit into a two-hour film while still telling an entertaining story. The cast of characters is fairly large, with a number of important secondary figures along with Alan (Ed Harris) and Polly (Bonnie Bedelia), but the film does an excellent job of introducing them and handling them throughout the film, so there's never any confusion about who is who.

One element that stands out as absolutely perfect in Needful Things, however, is Max Von Sidow as "Leland Gaunt." I won't spoil the film by revealing anything about the character, but suffice it to say that Von Sidow's portrayal of Gaunt as an urbane, distinguished gentleman... with a bit of an evil gleam in his eye... is spot-on.

The one point that rankled with me about Needful Things is the film's conclusion, which is substantially different from that of the book. The novel has a truly apocalyptic conclusion and an overall darker tone in which each of the town's residents must battle his or her inner demon alone; the few individual victories are made more profound by the backdrop of devastation. On the other hand, the film does a Hollywood-style revision to create a positive, even uplifting finale, complete with inspirational speeches that convince others to see the error of their ways. That's not to say that the body count in the film version of Needful Things is low; it's still a dark vision of evil in a small town, but the very unnecessary revision of the story in the film saps it of some of its potential power.

The DVD

The four DVDs in this set are packaged in individual keepcases, exactly as they are packaged when sold separately, inside an attractive paper slipcase.

Video

Misery's transfer is widescreen, at its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, but unfortunately it is not anamorphically enhanced. The transfer is adequate, but far from great, with heavy edge enhancement and some noise appearing in the image. I also noticed what appeared to be some compression artifacts, not surprising given that the widescreen image is forced to share the disc with a pan-and-scan version on the flip side.

Carrie is presented in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and is anamorphically enhanced. The image quality is quite good, certainly above average for a film from the 1970s. Colors are natural and clean, and edge enhancement is moderate. Detail is quite good in close-up and medium-distance shots; long-distance images are softer and lacking in some detail, but on the whole it looks fine. The print is fairly free of noise, the only fault here is the appearance of a few large print flaws here and there.

The Dark Half, distressingly, is presented only in a pan-and-scan transfer that butchers the original widescreen aspect ratio of the film. This renders the transfer completely unacceptable in my book. But in addition to that, the transfer isn't even particularly good. Heavy edge enhancement renders the image less clear, and the picture has a slightly reddish tone to it overall.

Needful Things offers an anamorphic widescreen image that is presented at the film's original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. It's a decent transfer, with natural-looking colors, good contrast, and a print that's free of flaws. A moderate amount of noise and edge enhancement keep it from being as good as it could be.

Audio

Misery and The Dark Half both offer a Dolby 2.0 soundtrack that's satisfactory for the requirements of the film.

Carrie's DVD offers a choice of a remastered Dolby 5.1 and the original mono soundtracks. There's not lot to say for the 5.1 track, which puts a little bit of surround action to the sides a couple of times during the movie, but otherwise doesn't do anything to justify the additional channels. On the whole, the sound is flat and a bit muffled throughout the film, making some of the dialogue a bit hard to hear. It's adequate but that's about it.

Needful Things has a Dolby 2.0 soundtrack, and it gets the job done adequately. The sound is generally clear, though at times some of the dialogue is a bit muffled; there's also more variation than necessary between the quieter dialogue scenes and the louder non-dialogue scenes.

Extras

Carrie is the undeniable star of the "special features" category. This 25th Anniversary Edition has two substantial documentaries: "Acting Carrie," running 43 minutes, and "Visualizing Carrie," at 40 minutes. Between these two featurettes, we get an informative view of the making of the movie from the perspective of both the cast and crew. A six-minute featurette on "Carrie: The Musical" explains how the film led to a musical Broadway show, and in the remaining special features, we get a photo gallery, a trailer, and a text section on "Stephen King and the Evolution of Carrie."

Misery, The Dark Half, and Needful Things each have a trailer for their respective films. Carrie, Misery, and The Dark Half also have insert booklets with some information on the making of the film.

Final thoughts

The star ratings for this set aren't particularly meaningful in this case, as the four different movies offer four different viewing experiences. Misery is by far the best of the films, with Carrie coming in second; Needful Things and The Dark Half are entertaining but not exceptional. In terms of transfer quality, Carrie and Needful Things come out best with anamorphic widescreen transfers that are of generally good quality; Misery is widescreen but not anamorphic; and The Dark Half is unfortunately only presented in pan-and-scan format. On the whole I'll give a "recommended" for this set, but especially given the reasonable retail prices of the individual films, viewers may consider picking up Misery (which would certainly get a "highly recommended") and Carrie separately, renting Needful Things, and skipping The Dark Half due to its transfer.

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John defends Cameron against a damning accusation by Derek, putting him and Derek at odds, while Sarah finds herself in a business transaction with a mysterious business man. Meanwhile, Cromartie closes in on John and Agent Ellison discovers a nemesis at the agency.

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John defends Cameron against a damning accusation by Derek, putting him and Derek at odds, while Sarah finds herself in a business transaction with a mysterious business man. Meanwhile, Cromartie closes in on John and Agent Ellison discovers a nemesis at the agency.


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The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her. Written by anonymous

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE WITLESS PROTECTION FROM DVDTALK

"Witless Protection" is disgusting, racist, clueless, sexist, charmless, unfunny, infantile, mean-spirited, amateurish, and insulting. In other words, it stars Larry The Cable Guy.

Boobish Mississippi police officer Larry Stalder (Larry The Cable Guy) hopes one day to join the ranks of the F.B.I. and leave his small town behind. When Madeline (Ivana Milicevic) sneaks into town with a group of her witness protection agents (led by Yaphet Kotto), Larry mistakes the bodyguard as villains and steals her away to safety. Made aware of his mistake, Larry is forced to follow through with the original plan and bring the star witness to Chicago for an important trial. Now on the run, Larry and Madeline fight criminal masterminds (Peter Stormare), rogue agents (Eric Roberts), and Larry's lack of personal hygiene to stay alive.

I'm all for silly comedies, but these Larry The Cable Guy movies aren't just harmless giggles anymore. These are seriously diseased, bottom-feeding motion pictures constructed to reduce intelligence and further this bizarre obsession certain communities of Americans have to proudly display their unwashed idiocy, as though it was a golden badge of honor. Call it the "Blue Collaring" of the country. It's not just enjoying redneck jokes anymore; it's a disturbing transformation that cannot be reversed.

"Witless Protection" is the worst Cable Guy movie to date, and that's saying something after "Health Inspector" and "Delta Farce." Larry is Ernest P. Worrel for the illiterate; he's a comic with a just one surface to his act and he beats on it like a drum, making the same jokes and same facial gestures for 90 unholy minutes. Pretty much every scene in "Protection" involves Larry farting, vomiting, eating rancid meat, making people smell his feet, parading around his bulbous belly, and cracking some bizarre non sequitur joke that fails to make even a lick of sense ("purple is the upside of beef, gawl-dangit!"). His co-stars have it a little better: either they're questionable eye candy (sex kitten Jenny McCarthy plays Larry's girlfriend, yet is clad in a Halloween fright wig), or lighting their farts on fire. At least they don't have putrid feet, right? Such progress.

Writer/director Charles Robert Carner presides over this debacle like a demented child, encouraging the numerous fecal jokes, atrocious Casio-thin score by Eric Allaman, unprofessional cinematography (it is too much to ask for focus or the absence of boom microphones in the frame?), and pens a screenplay that includes a handful of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" references and pokes fun at classical music. I can't believe this film actually made it all the way to production. For the record, Carner is 51 years old.

My friends, this movie is far worse than it looks. Here's further evidence of the horrors within: there's a "Benny Hill" undercranked sequence, Joe Mantegna cameos, and Larry asks a traditionally dressed Middle-Eastern character why he's "wearing a diaper on his head."

I'm no culture cop, but these Larry The Cable Guy movies represent a new low for American comedy. It's one thing to be sleeveless and make fun of "liberals," but "Witless Protection" lashes out in a million reckless ways; every scene hits a new low. This motion picture isn't fun, it's punishment.

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Adam Harris, a semi-lame senior, is head over heels in love with Cara. Unfortunately she is the most popular girl in school. On the one day of the year that he could actually have a chance, senior skip day, he screws it all up by accidentaly slipping the location of the party to his principle. But have no fear, in a last resort effort he moves the party to his house and all seems to be well. Or is it...


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Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE SEMI-PRO FROM DVDTALK


"Semi-Pro" is Will Ferrell's most cluttered film to date, and coming off the lackluster figure skating opus "Blades of Glory," that's saying something. This is an amusing picture with a kaleidoscopic comedy viewpoint, but it's terribly disjointed and frighteningly bipolar. A few more movies like this, and Ferrell could find himself trapped in a creative black hole that might lead to a future of miserable boat show appearances.

Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) is a disco superstar, master promoter, and owner of the Flint, Michigan Tropics, a struggling ABA basketball team eager to make 1976 their year for success. Finding out only the top four teams in the league will be considered for an upcoming merger with the NBA, Jackie recruits aging superstar Monix (Woody Harrelson) to join the team and help with the season. Under pressure to win games and fill the seats, Jackie goes to outrageous lengths to keep his team alive when it seems everyone couldn't care less about the future of the ABA.

Listen, Will Ferrell could be funny in his sleep, but his recent output of feature films has reeked of desperation, eroding his once pungent buoyancy. "Semi-Pro" is such an erratic production, tap-dancing all over the place in search of chuckles, and soft chortles are pretty much all you get from Scot Armstrong's screenplay. There are few belly-laughs to be mined from the material, and that is a crime.

Longtime comedy producer Kent Alterman makes his directorial debut with "Semi-Pro" and his inexperience is about as subtle as a supernova. Imagine "Anchorman" and "Tin Cup" colliding on a playground of ABA jokes and you'd have something approaching the tone of "Semi-Pro." The film is an untamed hodgepodge of improvisational moments from Ferrell and his gang of comics (Andy Richter, Will Arnett, David Koechner, and Rob Corddry also appear) who wander around trying to pinpoint the laugh, but never quite do. All Alterman can do is turn his camera on, praying the footage will cut together. I hate to break it to this guy, but "Semi-Pro" is barely a movie.

Laughs come from the mouth of Ferrell, who, as his did in "Blades," takes off on his own spaceship of thought and tangents. Watching Jackie freak out over the continual failure of his team is entertaining footage, and it's often enough to help digest the picture. However, when Ferrell goes for the wilder ideas, such as Jackie and his friends engaging in a little gunplay during a poker game, the film deflates right in front of your eyes. When Will Ferrell has to fight like a demon to make a scene funny, then you know the script is garbage.

Further proof of this comes with the character of Monix, who has been branded the "heart" of the feature. Harrelson is amiable enough, but what little momentum there is in "Semi-Pro" is killed by trying to infuse this funhouse with a soul. Either you have Jackie wrestling a grizzly bear or Monix making googly eyes with an old flame (a wasted Maura Tierney). Trying to blend both in the same picture leaves the film a tennis match of tones that starts to strain the neck the more Alterman refuses to scale it back.

"Semi-Pro" has some fine moments, but there's nothing here that catches fire. Pointing out 70's staples like Pong and fondue are smile-worthy, but forced. The ABA miracle moments, such as the discovery of the alley oop, also get the blood pumping, but there's little kinetic energy behind it. Perhaps Ferrell should stick to directors who understand his silly DNA, instead of placing his future in the hands of the Kent Altermans of the world, who don't have the experience or the courage to pick a tone and charge full steam ahead.

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TOSHIBA GIVING UP END OF HD-DVD

TOSHIBA IS QUITTING THE FORMAT WAR END OF HD-DVD

HERE IS THE PRESS RELEASE FROM TOSHIBA ON THE DEATH OF HD-DVD:

Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content

TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.

"We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop," said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality."

Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.

Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.

This decision will not impact on Toshiba's commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.

Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.

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The high-definition format war is officially over. Toshiba Corp. Feb. 19 announced it will discontinue developing, manufacturing and marketing HD DVD players and recorders.

The announcement ends a two-year-long battle with Blu-ray Disc to succeed DVD, and was welcome news to both retailers and industry analysts. Also, former HD DVD stalwart Universal Studios announced it would begin releasing its titles on Blu-ray. Fellow HD DVD backers Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks were expected to follow suit.

“We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called ‘next-generation format war’ and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,” said Atsutoshi Nishida, president and CEO of Toshiba. “While we are disappointed for the company and, more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass-market opportunity for high-definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.”

He added that Toshiba has no plans at this time to adopt Blu-ray.

Toshiba will stop shipments of HD DVD players and recorders by March, and will stop production of HD DVD drives for computers as well. The company added it would continue to provide product support and services for current HD DVD owners.

“Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation, and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP,” stated a press release.

“Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.”

How HD DVD died

Michael Pachter, media analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles, said HD DVD’s demise was inevitable since Toshiba couldn’t compete with Sony on sales volume. Sony included Blu-ray playback on the PlayStation 3 game console, which has sold more than 3 million units in the United States alone, according to research firm The NPD Group. Toshiba revealed during its announcement that only 1.03 million HD DVD players, including the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, had been sold worldwide.

Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group, said a combination of things killed the HD DVD format. “I think there were a number of suspects, but you can’t quite pin down one murderer,” he said.

First at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Warner Bros. stunned the home entertainment world by announcing it would exclusively back Blu-ray, leaving HD DVD with Paramount Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment as the only major studios supporting the format. Hardware sales data the week after Warner’s announcement showed 93% of high-def players sold were Blu-ray, according to The NPD Group.

Toshiba responded by significantly lowering its player prices, and Microsoft dropped the price of its Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on by $50 earlier this month. Toshiba also bought a 30-second Super Bowl ad for a reported $2.7 million. But apparently the moves were ineffective in boosting sales or digging into Blu-ray’s lead.

Nielsen VideoScan data has consistently shown Blu-ray software outselling HD DVD by a 3-to-1 margin or better, and earlier this month both Wal-Mart and Netflix announced they would only carry Blu-ray product, and Best Buy announced it would give preference to Blu-ray.

“Wal-Mart’s decision certainly was impossible to bounce back from,” Rubin said.

On Feb. 14, industry sources told Home Media Magazine that Toshiba was about to call it quits, due to the rapid loss of support for the format and the piling financial losses the company was incurring on its standalone players.

Reaction

Retailers expressed relief following Toshiba’s decision.

Noah Herschman, director of audio and video for Amazon.com, said that while HD DVD players were among the retailer’s best sellers during the holidays, its death will make things easier on customers.

“We believe both of them were viable high-def formats for people with HDTVs,” he said. “Now that there is one format, we hope consumers embrace that.”

However, he added, the price points for Blu-ray players are too high for some consumers, and there has been less supply than of HD DVD. He said Amazon.com will continue to carry HD DVD until “they’re no longer made,” and will be marketing its lowest-priced HD DVD player in stock, the HD-A3 ($109), as an “upconverting DVD player.”

“We still have a lot of customers who have purchased HD DVD players, and we want to accommodate them,” Herschman said.

Best Buy spokesman Brian Lucas said the retailer’s decision on when to stop selling HD DVD products would be dictated by consumer demand, however “at a certain point we’ll start pulling them from shelves.”

“From the beginning we thought the format war was not good for anyone, not good for any retailer,” he said. “But (one high-def format) is great for consumers.”

Bo Andersen, president of the Entertainment Merchants Association, the nonprofit international home entertainment trade association, said Blu-ray’s victory is a relief for everyone in the industry.

“Now that consumer confusion concerning dueling formats has ended, it is time for suppliers and retailers to redouble their efforts to bring home the message that Blu-ray Discs deliver the finest viewing experience for the world’s best entertainment,” he said. “The marketplace has spoken. It is time that consumers hear the message … We believe there is pent up demand for high-definition optical discs in thousands of applications.”

What’s next?

At least one of the two studios exclusive to HD DVD is already gearing up to join the other team.

“While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

“The path for widespread adoption of the next-generation platform has finally become clear. Universal will continue its aggressive efforts to broaden awareness for high-def’s unparalleled offerings in interactivity and connectivity, at an increasingly affordable price. The emergence of a single, high-definition format is cause for consumers, as well as the entire entertainment industry, to celebrate.”

Paramount and DreamWorks Animation, which went HD DVD exclusive in August, had not made any announcement regarding its plans. Both Universal and Paramount have titles announced for HD DVD in the coming months. It’s unknown what the status for those releases is. A Warner Home Video spokeswoman said the company had no comment regarding its plans at this time. Warner had planned on ending its HD DVD releases in May, and has several titles announced.

Analysts said the industry could expect an uptick in consumer adoption of high-def now, but warned that just because Blu-ray has won the battle, it hasn’t won over everyone’s living room.

“This certainly clears an obstacle for Blu-ray,” Rubin said. “The format will become more appealing to consumers, and the economies of scale kicks in and player prices should go down. But the technology is still sandwiched between consumer satisfaction with DVD on one side, and the growing number of digital distribution options on the other.”

Rob Enderle, media analyst with The Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., said players are too expensive and need to drop below $200 for wider consumer adoption. In addition, current standalone Blu-ray players will soon be obsolete and can’t be updated to play all the features on some Blu-ray Discs. HD DVD had fewer compatibility obstacles, as all players required the same specifications from day one.

“The current technology was rushed to market incomplete and is different than the typical technology update cycle,” Enderle said. “It seems like most of the Blu-ray and HD DVD supporters on the content and technology sides have moved to downloads as the next big thing suggesting that this fight took too long and may have missed a market which is in the process of moving on.”

Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Patcher said to expect Blu-ray player sales from 20,000 to 30,000 units over the next several months, and that retailers like Best Buy would aggressively cross sell the PS3 in order to up-sell consumers video games in addition to movies.

“They will not focus on entry-level $200 Blu-ray players,” Pachter said.

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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. Written by Orange

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I can swallow many preposterous ideas in a romantic comedy, but "Definitely, Maybe" contains a whopper that stands head and shoulders above them all. You're telling me that the script dreams up a main character who attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992, and he has no idea who Nirvana is? The screenwriter clearly wasn't doing his homework.

On the eve of his divorce, Will Hayes (an immensely likable Ryan Reynolds) is trying to sort out what went wrong in his love life. When Will's daughter (Abigail Breslin) requests the story of how her parents met, the frightened father instead makes the tale a game, where he takes the three relationships of his adulthood (a trifecta of feminine perfection with Isla Fisher, Rachael Weisz, and Elizabeth Banks) and mixes them up to confuse the child. While explaining the tangents of his broken heart, Will inadvertently stumbles upon rather painful memories, which compel him to reconsider his bad decisions and missed romantic opportunities.

After being chained to the theater seat watching swill like "27 Dresses," "Maybe" feels like a cool breeze; an intelligent but gracefully sappy romantic comedy that understands relentless formula is not the cornerstone of charm, investing in multifaceted characterization and a sympathetic tone. Perhaps this is due to filmmaker Adam Brooks, who is not a barcoded Hollywood drone, but an idiosyncratic filmmaker ("The Invisible Circus") who's been making some scratch in recent years writing such enjoyable mainstream fare as "Wimbledon" and the "Bridget Jones" sequel.

Brooks is committed to these characters; he doesn't view them as meet-cute speed bumps, but people with the tartness of big screen romantic archetypes and the heaviness of real-world longing. "Maybe" is a rom-com in the loosest of definitions, preferring to use Will as an exploration of heartbreaking missed opportunities and emotional maturation. He's not a just a stick figure waiting to chase the girl, and that little tweak of intent makes all the difference in the world between putting the audience to sleep and challenging them to embrace characters who are fallible.

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When the world is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors head to an underground military bunker in a last ditch effort to stay alive.

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A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.

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A sandy romantic adventure unable to find its way out of first gear, "Fool's Gold" can't help but feel like one of the larger disappointments found in this new year of filmgoing. I mean, how often does a seafaring actioner come along, and then the guy hired to direct it is Andy Tennant?

Finn (Matthew McConaughey) is an absent-minded treasure hunter scouring the Caribbean for Spanish gold and jewels left behind 300 years ago. After sinking his ship, getting in over his head with rapper/crime lord Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), and newly divorced from his exasperated wife, Tess (Kate Hudson), Finn talks an elderly millionaire (Donald Sutherland) and his dim daughter (Alexis Dziena) into funding another go at the fortune. Now, with a rival hunter (Ray Winstone) on their tail, Tess and Finn plunge into the deep water to unearth their treasure, finding danger every step of the way.

Sliced from the belly of "Romancing the Stone," "Fool's Gold" doesn't quite have the vision or the scripted mischief to rise above mediocre misadventures. It's a bland motion picture, but what could anyone expect when handing excitement and peppered banter to the man who gave the world "Hitch," "Sweet Home Alabama," and the Olsen Twins' "It Takes Two." Tennant doesn't have the muscles for this level of play, staging lethargic chase sequences and failing to locate a heartbeat of tension throughout the entire film. "Gold" is game to bust out of the box and distribute some merriment, but Tennant doesn't know how to maneuver the picture properly.

While the action calcifies to "Baywatch" displays of beach bravery, the comedy isn't too far behind. Why "Gold" isn't sharper and funnier is beyond me, since both McConaughey and Hudson are quite good in their roles, sharing agreeable chemistry along with vivid displays of tanned flesh that will surely make the film a popular Valentine's Day rental for years to come. The script relies on stupidity for the laughs, and that level of writing tends to dry out quickly, leaving the actors all keyed up for big punchlines, only to be left hanging awkwardly in mid-sentence. Dziena deserves special credit for sinking her teeth into the nubile twit role, but even she loses her voice near the end when the script has nothing more to offer her.

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HERE IS AN ARTICLE THAT STATES THE WAR IS ALMOST OVER WALMART WENT BLU.

Things have gone from bad to worse for HD DVD in the space of one week.

Wal-Mart Stores announced on Friday morning that it, too, has chosen a side in the battle for high-definition video supremacy: by June, it will stock only Blu-ray Disc players.

A buyer in Wal-Mart's video division wrote this morning on her Wal-Mart Checkout blog that the retail giant had made the decision following Netflix and Best Buy's high-profile announcements that they will exclusively stock Blu-ray products.

Wrote Susan Chronister of Wal-Mart: "By June, Wal-Mart will only be carrying Blu-ray movies and hardware machines and, of course, standard-def movies, DVD players, and up-convert players."

"So," she continues, not mincing words, "if you bought the HD (DVD) player like me, I'd retire it to the bedroom, kid's playroom, or give it to your parents to play their John Wayne standard-def movies, and make space for a (Blu-Ray Disc) player."

That might be the best option at this point, as the dominoes keep falling in Blu-ray's favor. While Netflix and Best Buy were pretty damning evidence that the end was near, now it's glaringly obvious: it's over for HD DVD.

Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that consumers will automatically start buying Blu-ray players. As mentioned many times before here, prices will have to continue to fall on both Blu-ray players and packaged media for there to be any sort of mainstream adoption of the format.

There are rumors that Toshiba might soon be declaring defeat: The Hollywood Reporter has sources telling it that Toshiba, the main backer of HD DVD, might drop its allegiance with the format in the next few weeks.

Toshiba denies it, but stay tuned. There's likely much more to come in this drama.

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OK, I get it now: Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are agents of Satan himself, and their recruitment video is "Meet the Spartans," the latest in their own private franchise of head-slappingly awful parody product.

You'd think after "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" I would've flown to Los Angeles and violently snatched the camera away from these guys myself, but hey, I got busy. I'm sorry. In my vigilante absence, these amateur filmmakers somehow conned a profit-hungry 20th Century Fox (a studio this close to greenlighting "Ass: The Movie") into bankrolling another satiric jaunt; this time an elongated riff on last year's blockbuster, "300."

As if "300" wasn't already a parody of itself.

As witnessed in the prior efforts from goofballs Seltzer and Friedberg, the "jokes" tend to punch out in a thousand different directions; most of the targets being the latest, fattest big screen hits, but also whatever happens to be cooking in the immediate pop culture stew. "Spartans" is no different, lampooning "Casino Royale," "Happy Feet," "Transformers," "Ghost Rider," and "Spider-Man 3," while making room for Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan gags (absent panties, of course). There's also considerable television game show ribbing with "Deal or No Deal," "Dancing with the Stars," and several "American Idol" stings.

It's worth mentioning for the third year in a row that Friedberg and Seltzer are nitwits with no discernable filmmaking aptitude to speak of. Their movies are grotesque menageries of monotonous moronic mumbling; it's cinema for the pea-brained who find Larry the Cable Guy too "challenging." The filmmakers obviously know this, but they insist on aiming as low as they can: pointing out every single reference like total clods and dodging genuine wit as though they owed it money. "Spartans" is a new low even for these diseased buffoons, piling on the excrement and genital humor while turning sections of the picture into literal commercials, for the likes of Subway, Dentyne, Budweiser and Gatorade. They're not even trying to hide it, folks: this feature film has commercials in it.

The main thrust of "Spartans" is the "300" parody, and the depth of cleverness can be summed up easily: gay, gay, and more gay. While the visual extremity is another facet of "300" that "Spartans" likes to poke with a stick, the feature is made up almost entirely of variations on the homosexual subtext of Zack Snyder's original film. Here, the Spartans prance around, greet each other with kisses, and boogie to "I Will Survive." "Spartans" really clings tight to the gay panic material, to a point where franchise regular Carmen Electra (as the Spartan queen) has found herself with a major role in this picture, perhaps as a way to offer comfort to the pre-teens who can't stomach the trite homophobic humor.

It's a sad day when Carmen Electra, slithering around the movie with next to nothing on, can't even brighten up a solitary moment of this repugnant film.

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Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.

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A graduate of the Sundance Film Festival class of 2007, "How She Move" arrives in theaters dragging behind a slew of urban dance productions. However, "Move" has heart, respect, and some incredible acting newcomers, making it late to the party, but ending up the best feet-first creation yet.

Finding her pathway to medical school obstructed by financial difficulties, a smothering mother, and trouble with her peers, Raya (Rutina Wesley) struggles to live life her way. When the world of step-dancing comes calling with offers of cash prizes and social acceptance, Raya jumps at the chance to join the local underdog group. Finding herself emotionally drawn to the squad's captain (Dwain Murphy), Raya risks losing the way to her goals, only to find these aspirations might not be what she wants for herself after all.

Imagine "Stomp the Yard" with a budget of $1.25, a higher IQ, and some visual restraint, and there's "How She Move." Perhaps it's unfair to match the two movies together, since both features were created under such different circumstances, yet both offer the audience a chance to watch step-dancing at its most theatrical; a quality that makes the pictures interchangeable at times.

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Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Bangkok, where he spends his time salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him. A group of Christian human rights missionaries, led by Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller, approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma. For over fifty years, Burma has been like a war zone. The Karen people of the region, who consist of peasants and farmers, have endured brutally oppressive rule from the murderous Burmese military and have been struggling for survival every single day. This is the time when medical assistance and general support from the Christian missionaries is needed most. After some consideration, and due to insistence from his mentor, former military man Ed Baumgartner, Rambo accepts the offer and takes Michael, Sarah, and the rest of the missionaries up the river. When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they are ambushed by the sadistic Major Pa Tee Tint and a slew of Burmese army men. A portion of the villagers and missionaries are tortured and viciously murdered, while Tint and his men hold the remainder captive. News soon reaches the minister in charge of the mission and with the help of Ed Baumgartner he employs Rambo to lead a rescue effort. With five young and highly diverse mercenaries at his disposal, Rambo has to travel back up the river and liberate the survivors from the clutches of Major Tint in what may be one of his deadliest missions ever Written by stallonezone.com

The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers. Written by aintitcool.com

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What began as a franchise of high adventure and bottomless sympathy, before promptly tumbling into a feral cartoon, has found its rightful home here: utter maniacal chaos. "Rambo" marks the return of Sylvester Stallone's Vietnam vet hero, a full 20 years after the release of "Rambo III." It seems that during this considerable downtime, Stallone has reassessed his work as John Rambo and his iconic screen history, and is comfortable raging again in this ruthless exclamation point on a surreal series of films.

Living in Burma as a boatman, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) spends his time quietly reflecting on his life, desperate to evade his demons. When a pack of Christian missionaries (including Julie Benz, "Dexter") comes to Rambo looking for passage into the heart of the Burmese civil war, he reluctantly accepts, but is wary of such dangerous terrain. Returning home alone, Rambo learns that the missionaries were captured by the vicious Burmese military, leaving him in a position to turn his back or assume his psychologically tattered solider mentality and launch into battle once again.

The truth is, "Rambo" is not a return to the sensitivity of 1982's "First Blood" in the same fashion "Rocky Balboa" healed old wounds. Nor is the film a superficial action breeze like the two previous blockbuster sequels. This time Stallone is hungry to prove a point, and he unleashes a torrent of violence in a manner that's just plain berserk. This is a detail that cannot be stressed enough: "Rambo" is a monumentally vicious film.

Stallone (who directs and co-scripted) is angling for the heart of darkness here, exhibiting the devastating Burmese civil war on very realistic terms, eager to stun the viewer with depictions of SLORC army atrocities including beheadings, rape, dismemberments, and further barbaric customs that keep the rest of the volatile country in place. "Rambo" doesn't recoil from any of it, displaying a gruesome rain of death and unspeakable acts of violation. Stallone is creating a bleak perspective here about the Burmese conflict, perhaps distancing himself from the mindless body count thrills of the two earlier films by edging toward authenticity. "Rambo" might seem over the top to some, but it puts the viewer in the middle of pure hell, making vivid points about the futility of peace and war. Here, fighting fire with fire is exhilarating, but there's an unavoidable price to pay.

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CNET.COM SAYS YOU SHOULD SELL YOUR HD-DVD PLAYER NOW

CNET.COM SAYS SELL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE IS AN ARTICLE FROM CNET.COM THAT SAYS YOU SHOULD SELL YOUR HD-DVD PLAYER WHILE YOU CAN GET A GOOD PRICE FOR IT:

As you might imagine, after Warner's abrupt announcement in early January that it was going Blu-ray exclusive to help end the next-gen DVD format war, we've gotten a steady stream of HD DVD-buyers' remorse e-mails from readers, wondering what their next move should be. Here's a sample:

Dear David,

Over the holiday break I decided to take the plunge and make a decision in the HD format war. I decided on HD DVD primarily because of the cheaper price on the players and the deals on HD DVDs. I have no real preference either way between HD DVD and Blu-ray, so price and a large stash of Best Buy gift cards swung my vote. Unfortunately, not more then a week after I had purchased my player (which I am very pleased with, by the way) Warner and New Line drop their bomb and pull out of the HD DVD camp. My question now is what should I do with my HD DVD player and the 15 or so movies I ended up with after the holidays? Do I try and return everything, get my money back, and spend it on a Blu-ray player or a PS3; or should I hang on to HD DVD a little longer and see what happens? Also, if I should go Blu-ray, should I buy a PS3 or wait for a good standalone player to come down in price?

In need of advice,
Andrew

Well, Andrew, let me start by offering you my condolences. There are many of us in the same position, including a few CNET editors (I am the ambivalent owner of the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360). Every format war has its casualties, and while we've recommended all along that the smart bet was to sit on the sidelines until things got sorted out, we knew that each side would attract its fair share of early adopters willing, as you say, "to take the plunge"--and in some cases, plunge twice and buy both formats. But now that you feel like a sucker for choosing HD DVD, let's consider your options. Pardon the stock-market analogies, but they somehow seem apropos.

Option No. 1: Hold
The Web is a rather sensationalist place these days, so it would be easy to assume from the headlines surrounding the Warner announcement that that HD DVD was dead (plenty of people didn't know there was a war on, let alone the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but that's another story). However, at the present, Toshiba hasn't surrendered, stores are still selling HD DVD players and discs, and more are on the way. (I recently received an e-mail from Universal's PR team saying Universal is shipping American Gangster on February 11 as planned.) Call it a last-ditch effort, but on January 13, Toshiba, as part of its "new marketing strategy for mass-market adoption," announced price drops on all of its HD DVD players.

You bought an HD DVD player. Now what?

But let's face facts. Unless something radically changes in the next few weeks or months--and it would have to be an almost unimaginable sea change, like Microsoft buying a couple of movie studios and forcing them to go HD DVD-exclusive--you're sitting on a depreciating investment. When Warner stops publishing its HD DVD titles in May, 70 percent of the studios will be aligned with Blu-ray, and it seems only a matter of time before the remaining HD DVD studios--Paramount and Universal--opt out of their exclusivity deals and jump ship. Under the new studio lineup, HD DVD simply isn't economically viable and the negative headlines have already taken their toll on HD DVD sales, with NPD data revealing that Blu-ray has grabbed 92.53 percent of hardware sales in the high-def disc player market from January 5 to January 12, just days after the Warner announcement.

Sure, you can hang onto your HD DVD player and movies with the rather faint hope that Warner might decide to change its mind (there is a petition going around, pleading with Warner to do just that) and that Paramount and Universal won't jump ship. It's not the end of the world, after all. If you bought in the fall of 2007, it's likely that your player didn't cost a ton of money. And you can watch the HD DVD library you've built until your player conks out and eventually replace it with a Blu-ray player or just jump to downloads--including some in high-def--with Apple TV, Vudu, the Xbox 360, or the upcoming Netflix box. (Sony probably has something in the works with the PS3 as well.)

But just say "dying format" a few times. Now say it again. How does that make you feel? A little empty, huh?

Option No. 2: Buy
OK, if I'm essentially saying you're foolish for hanging onto a rapidly falling stock, a terminal short, if you will, what would becoming a buyer of said stock make you? Marginally crazy, but there are those out there who see opportunity in misfortune and can't resist buying something on the cheap--especially if you're a fan of the format and just can't let go. (As anybody who follows this column knows, I've been accused of being a Blu-ray backer, but I maintain I have no allegiance to either side and would gladly part ways with Blu-ray if it were to be vanquished.)

As for the hardware, it's hard to make a case for buying an HD DVD player for more than $100, with the possible exception of the high-end Toshiba HD-XA2, which unfortunately still costs at least $600 ($300 refurbished) but makes a terrific upconverting DVD player. I'm using an upconverting DVD player as a benchmark because that's pretty much what you'll be left with if HD DVD goes away. Entry-level HD DVD models such as Toshiba's HD-A2 and HD-A3 are good upconverters for the price but don't offer some of the features, such as DivX playback, that even some of the more basic upconverting players offer.

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