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The Pacific (HBO Miniseries) HBO Home Video The Pacific is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWIIs Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U S Marines - Robert Leckie John Basilone and Eugene Sledge The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal through the impenetrable rain firests of Cape Gloucester across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima through the killing fields of Okinawa to the triumphant yet uneasy return home after V-J Day The viewer will be immersed in combat through the intimate perspective of this diverse relatable group of men pushed to the limit in battle both physically and psychologically against a relentless enemy unlike any encountered before Saving Private Ryan (Sapphire Series) [Blu-ray] Paramount Dreamworks Video Steven Spielberg directed this powerful realistic re-creation of WWIIs D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy and a flashback then joins Capt John Miller Tom Hanks and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6 1944 approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire This mass slaughter of American soldiers is depicted in a compelling unforgettable 24-minute sequence Millers men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete pillbox On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name Ryan stenciled on his backpack Army Chief of Staff Gen George C Marshall Harve Presnell learning that three Ryan brothers from the same family have all been killed in a single week requests that the surviving brother Pvt James Ryan Matt Damon be located and brought back to the United States Capt Miller gets the assignment and he chooses a translator Cpl Upham Jeremy Davis skilled in language but not in combat to join his squad of right-hand man Sgt Horvath Tom Sizemore plus privates Mellish Adam Goldberg Medic Wade Giovanni Ribisi cynical Reiben Edward Burns from Brooklyn Italian-American Caparzo Vin Diesel and religious Southerner Jackson Barry Pepper an ace sharpshooter who calls on the Lord while taking aim Having previously experienced action in Italy and North Africa the close-knit squad sets out through areas still thick with Nazis After they lose one man in a skirmish at a bombed village some in the group begin to question the logic of losing more lives to save a single soldier The films historical consultant is Stephen E Ambrose and the incident is based on a true occurance in Ambroses 1994 bestseller D-Day June 6 1944 When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent his first home movie was a backyard war film When he toured Europe with em Duel / em in his 20s he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach That image became the opening scene of em Saving Private Ryan / em his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever With 1998 production standards Spielberg has been able to create a stunning unparalleled view of war as hell We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller a soldiers soldier who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action Its a public relations move for the Army but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes If that is so this movie gives stereotypes a good name Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben Barry Pepper as the religious sniper Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic and Jeremy Davies who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielbergs Oscar-winning em Schindlers List / em but its more kinetic Spielberg and his ace technicians the film won five Oscars editing Michael Kahn cinematography Janusz Kaminski sound sound effects and directing deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut The violence is extreme but never gratuitous The final battle a dizzying display of gusto empathy and chaos leads to a profound repose em Saving Private Ryan / em touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today Its the film Spielberg was destined to make em --Doug Thomas / em Dear John Sony Sony A soldier on leave meets and falls in love with a college student but when they are separated because of his service their relationship is tested by Dear John brings together a totally believable and charming cast--the lovely Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum--with a tried-and-true romantic plot that will have a new generation of movie fans and lovers reaching for their hankies Director Lasse Hallstr m The Cider House Rules Whats Eating Gilbert Grape My Life as a Dog again proves his deft handling of young actors portraying feelings and emotions far beyond their years His direction along with the stellar performances of the cast will have Dear John lingering in the memory long after viewing Tatum plays a soldier home on leave the John of the title when he meets Savannah Seyfried a college student The two may not have been looking for love but love finds them anyway Then the September 11 attacks happen and John is torn between love for Savannah and duty to country Because this is an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel there will be drama and heartbreak and Dear John doesnt tread lightly in this emotional battlefield But theres a delicacy in the performances especially Seyfrieds which transcends the almost-cookie-cutter character outlines given to the actors Also worthy of mention are supporting cast members Richard Jenkins as Johns quiet autistic dad and Henry Thomas as Tim a single dad who goes to nearly impossible lengths to avoid breaking the heart of his son See Dear John with an open heart and know that it will be deeply touched -- A T Hurley r r r span class h1 Stills from Dear John Click for larger image / / span r border 0 cellpadding 4 width 100 cellspacing 4 align center valign top mg border 0 align left src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ sony/ APlusDetailPages/ DearJohn/ Dear John 1 S jpg r / mg border 0 align left src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ sony/ APlusDetailPages/ DearJohn/ Dear John 2 S jpg r / mg border 0 align left src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ sony/ APlusDetailPages/ DearJohn/ Dear John 3 S jpg r / align center valign top mg border 0 align left src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ dvd/ sony/ Red Cliff International Version - Part I & Part II [Blu-ray] Magnolia Pictures Magnolia Home Entertainment RED CLIFF is the epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A D battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty A power-hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao seeks permission from the Han Dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way Liu Bei and Sun Quan Vastly outnumbered by Cao Caos brutal fast-approaching army the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign - unrivaled in history - that changes the face of China forever Director John Woos Red Cliff boasts some mighty impressive numbers It took four screenwriters to adapt the 800 000-word source material a 14th-century Chinese novel called Romance of the Three Kingdoms There are also three editors two directors of photography hundreds of horses and a combined cast and crew numbering in the thousands making it reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in China There are quite a few minutes too as it has a running time of 2 hours 28 minutes Thats only about half the length of the cut released in Asia a fact that has led some critics to dismiss the American release as merely a bowdlerized version of the real deal That may be but this depiction of the titular battle that took place in AD 208 and is credited with changing the entire face of China is still an epic and magnificent piece of entertainment The principal characters include Cao Cao Zhang Fengyi a power-hungry general and self-appointed prime minister who convinces the weak-willed emperor that two rebellious leaders in the south Liu Bei You Yong and Sun Quan Chang Chen must be stopped Cao Caos antagonists also include the brilliant strategist Zhuge Liang Takeshi Kaneshiro and the heroic warrior Zhou Yu Tony Leung whose wife Chiling Lin is a legendary beauty Cao Cao has a huge advantage in manpower not to mention an impressive fleet of warships But he is arrogant while his opponents are not merely humble and brave but clever Cao Caos diabolical plan to send the contagious bodies of soldiers who have died from typhoid fever to the Southlanders camp works temporarily but the latter counter with ingenious strategies of their own like using fog wind and fire to destroy Cao Caos ships All of this is depicted in the most spectacular battle scenes since the Lord of the Rings trilogy with a steady supply of gorgeous shots and indelible images Woo whose previous films range from the terrific Hard Boiled and The Killer to the lamentable Ben Affleck thriller Paycheck is in his element here and Red Cliff is a treat --Sam Graham The Pacific (HBO Miniseries) [Blu-ray] HBO HBO Home Video The Pacific is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWIIs Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U S Marines - Robert Leckie John Basilone and Eugene Sledge The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal through the impenetrable rain firests of Cape Gloucester across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima through the killing fields of Okinawa to the triumphant yet uneasy return home after V-J Day The viewer will be immersed in combat through the intimate perspective of this diverse relatable group of men pushed to the limit in battle both physically and psychologically against a relentless enemy unlike any encountered before The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray] 20th Century Fox Wildly romantic daringly exciting Michael Manns film of James Fenimore Coopers novel created a new babe magnet out of Daniel Day-Lewis he of the heaving pecs and flowing mane As Hawkeye he plays an American settler raised by the Mohicans who is forced to serve as a guide for British adventurism in upstate New York But the British have been outflanked by the French and their Indian allies then British honor is betrayed when a band of renegades assaults them during their retreat Mann captures the viciousness of this eras hand-to-hand combat in startling battle scenes But he also invests the film with heartfelt romance as the feelings swell between Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe The ending is a stunner a long nearly wordless sequence of battle and loss Strong performances all around particularly by Russell Means as Chingachgook and Wes Studi as the evil Magua --Marshall Fine Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition) (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux / Hearts of Darkness) [Blu-ray] Lionsgate Francis Ford Coppolas timeless classic comes to Blu-ray for the first time r r This 3-Disc Deluxe Edition includes Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Now Redux in stunning new transfers supervised by Francis Ford Coppola - and presented for the first time in their original 2 35 1 theatrical aspect ratios Also included is the feature-length making-of documentary Hearts of Darkness presented in a new 1080p HD transfer r r Additional features include a 48-page collectible booklet with never-before-seen archives from the set over 9 hours of bonus features plus a storyboard gallery image galleries marketing archives and an original script excerpt from John Milius featuring hand-written notes from Coppola In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made It began as a John Milius screenplay transposing Joseph Conrads classic story Heart of Darkness into the horrors of the Vietnam War following a battle-weary Captain Willard Martin Sheen on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz Marlon Brando who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales One measure of the films awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences images and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore Robert Duvall who speaks lovingly of the smell of napalm in the morning Like Herzogs Aguirre The Wrath of God this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging phoenix-like in triumph Coppolas obsession effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness directed by Coppolas wife Eleanor informs every scene and every frame and the result is a film for the ages --Jeff Shannon The Bridge on the River Kwai [Blu-ray] Sony Pictures Spectacularly produced and the winner of seven Academy Awards 1957 including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor Alec Guinness The Bridge on the River Kwai continues to be one of the most memorable cinematic experiences of all time Now for the first time on Blu-ray following an extensive all-new 4K digital restoration from the original negative with newly restored 5 1 audio experience director David Leans masterpiece as you never have before r Director David Leans masterful 1957 realization of Pierre Boulles novel remains a benchmark for war films and a deeply absorbing movie by any standard--like most of Leans canon The Bridge on the River Kwai achieves a richness in theme narrative and characterization that transcends genre r r The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia where the remorseless Colonel Saito Sessue Hayakawa has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge His clash of wills with a British prisoner the charismatic Colonel Nicholson Alec Guinness escalates into a duel of honor Nicholson defying his captors demands to win concessions for his troops How the two officers reach a compromise and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge provides the storys thematic spine the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project led by a British major Jack Hawkins and guided by an American escapee William Holden supplies the storys suspense and forward momentum r r Shot on location in Sri Lanka Kwai moves with a careful even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesnt pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes Instead he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances Hayakawas cruel camp commander is gradually revealed as a victim of his own sense of honor Holdens callow opportunist proves heroic without softening his nihilistic edge and Guinness who won a Best Actor Oscar one of the productions seven wins disappears as only he can into Nicholsons brittle duty-driven delusional psychosis His final glimpse of self-knowledge remains an astonishing moment--story character and image coalescing with explosive impact r r Like Leans Lawrence of Arabia The Bridge on the River Kwai has been beautifully restored and released in a highly recommended widescreen version that preserves its original aspect ratio --Sam Sutherland span class h1 Stills from The Bridge on the River Kwai click for larger image / / span r border 0 cellpadding 4 width 100 cellspacing 4 align center valign top mg Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) Warner Brothers Warner Home Video Period romance War epic Family saga Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance Star acting aglow with charisma and passion Moviemaking craft at its height These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a higher-resolution image from Restored Picture Elements than ever before possible David O Selznick s monumental production of Margaret Mitchell s Pulitzer Prize-winning book can now enthrall new generations of home viewers with a majestic vibrance that befits one of Hollywood s greatest achievements David O Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold and in some respects he fell far short of the goal While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic the second is ramshackle and arbitrary But theres no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction color sound cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic As for Clark Gable were talking one of the most vital masculine performances ever committed to film --Tom Keogh Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition) NEW Line Home Video Turner Home Ent Depicts the famous Civil War battle which was the turning point of the war Three days in the summer of 1863 at a place called Gettysburg Although it received a theatrical release this four-hour depiction of the bloody Civil War battle was shot as a made-for-television film But no taint of cheapness or shortcuts should stick to this magnificent picture well except maybe for those phony-looking mustaches Based on Michael Shaaras book The Killer Angels this film takes a refreshingly slow thorough approach to the intricacies of battle In ordinary circumstances those intricacies might seem of importance only to fans of military strategy or Civil War enthusiasts yet in Gettysburg they come across as the very stuff of life death and unexpected heroism If the film has a problem its that it climaxes too early the first long segment detailing the struggle of a civilian soldier Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Jeff Daniels to hold his ground against long odds is an enthralling piece of moviemaking Daniels in a heartbreaking performance does his best film work Other cast members include Tom Berenger Sam Elliott and Martin Sheen as Robert E Lee Richard Jordan in his final role gives a powerhouse performance as Confederate general Lewis A Armistead Oh and you can also try to spot Ted Turner whose company produced the film as a Confederate soldier Writer-director Ronald F Maxwell seems inspired by the gravity of the battle long as it is every moment of Gettysburg is informed by a nobility of purpose --Robert Horton