Nick_Denife

Okay, let's get the good out of the way first: kudos to Carl Meritt, his crew, his actors, and everyone else who wasted their time making this excrement at seeing it through to completion. Making a feature length movie is a very hard thing to do, but Meritt & company were up to the task.

Making a GOOD feature length movie, however, proved to be beyond their reach. This is one of those "I just got a new camera! Let's make a movie!" - type movies. I just don't get why people with limited budgets insist on making films with a scope way beyond what they can afford. Firing guns and setting off explosives does not make a movie good.

Don't waste your time with this one. Just go to You Tube and watch the trailer if you want to make up your own mind.

Addendum: This is to Cody Perkins from Sandusky. My name is Nick D'Amico from Cleveland, and I sat through ABE'S TOMB from beginning to end. I'm wondering two things right now: if you actually saw this project, how in the name of all that is right and good in this world recommend it to other people? If I'd bought this film on your recommendation, I'd track you down after watching it and make YOU give me my money back. As it is, I saw a copy a friend had purchased and lost no money, but something even more irreplaceable - 90 minutes of my life.

I'm not going to run the movie down again - I said all I have to say about it in the space above - so now I'm going to ask you just what in the hell your "Cinema Wasteland" story had to do with the way you felt about the movie. Do you seriously believe that anyone who reads it will see it as anything other than an attack on someone who didn't like the movie, that they won't realize you're shilling for Carl Merritt (probably in the hope of landing a part in "Abe's Tomb 2")? That you make a completely unwarranted attack on someone who actually makes a living working in film and knows what he's talking about? I find it hard to believe that you could talk to this "drunk young punk" for as long as you did and not remember his name but remember the names he dropped while criticizing the movie you bought. In my judgment you fatally compromised whatever good things you said about "Abe's Tomb" with this long-winded attack on someone you never even met. You are nothing but a shill for a lousy movie, Cody, an everyone knows it.

The guy has burned whatever credit he had with me when he put his name on that abortion known as WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO. Tonight, since I was at an absolute loss to find ANYTHING I wanted to watch on satellite, I took a gamble and tuned to the Sci-Fi channel (universally known as home to the the absolute worst films ever made) and watched STAN LEE'S LIGHTSPEED, figuring it would be good for a laugh, if nothing else. Well, it WAS good for a laugh - for about five minutes. Then it just got worse and worse until I was finally ready to pull my eyes out and throw them at the TV. My GAWD, how can a man with Stan Lee's reputation put his name on this pile of excrement and still look at himself in the mirror? The legions of comic book geeks out there consider Stan Lee a god, and while I agree he's come up with many unforgettable superheroes, he's clearly way past his prime. Not being a comic book geek myself, I don't deify Lee like so many others, but when your name is supposed to be a guarantee of quality and you put it on a piece of crap like this, your spitting in the faces of your fans, the people who made you what you are today. I don't care how much money they offered Lee. He sold his integrity and sold out his fans when he put his name on this junk.

"The Ghost Squad"? How the hell these guys got that name is beyond me, since they can't get anywhere undetected and they get killed at an alarming rate. It looks as if total incompetence is the only qualification for admission to his squad.

The bad guy, "The Python" or whatever he calls himself, is the most ridiculous villain I've ever seen. As I'm writing this, he's screaming something about never hurting anyone, how they took his Annie or something, "They made me do this, why did you do this to me???" and the only thing I'm feeling as I watch it is a sense of sickness at the fact that this thing ever got a green light to be made.

And Lightspeed... there's really nothing I can add to the other posts here about him. The character is idiotic, the way he got his suit is moronic, his powers are laughable, the FX used in the movie suck, the acting is horrendous, the deluge is stupid, the script and story are rotten... there just are not enough bad things to say about this movie. It sucked from beginning to end, and Stan Lee should be ashamed of himself.

I have to shake my head when I read the comments of people that don't care for this show. It's obviously not about the nuts-and-bolts building of a house, and as far as Ty "never picking up a hammer" - for God's sake, they can't show the entire seven days of building the house, and if they did, who'd want to watch it?! Reality shows, by their nature, are cruel freak shows, highlighting the worst of human behavior, like disloyalty and back-stabbing motivated by greed (SURVIVOR comes to mind), gross-out stunts (FEAR FACTOR, anyone?), extolling the idea that physical beauty is the answer to all your problems (THE SWAN), or exploiting a near-psychotic desire to appear on TV no matter what the cost to yourself or your family (Jerry Springer and his ilk). Extreme Makeover Home Edition instead highlights the best in human behavior - compassion, a sincere desire to help someone in need, and the "pay it forward" idea that helping another human being will lead to that person helping another, and on and on. I don't enjoy being shown that people can be selfish, hateful morons that will eat a pig rectum or back-stab a friend for money or exposure, but I DO enjoy being reminded that there are people in the world willing to help others down their luck and do it in ways that change the recipient's lives.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a wonderful, entertaining, inspiring show, cast to perfection with funny, entertaining people who do their jobs with exquisite taste and imagination. May it run forever!

As good as any of the Pixar movies, and that is very, very good. This film is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, incredibly entertaining, and, like the other Pixar features, loaded to the gills with in-jokes. I can't wait for this movie to come out on DVD! The artists at Pixar just get better with every movie they make. All of the characters are infused with so much personality you forget you're watching an animated film, just like all of Pixar's films. I haven't read the other reviews, but did anyone else notice that the costume designer Edna is based on Edith Head?

By the way, tfrizzell should have mentioned the spoiler in his review.

I happened to catch this on local TV back in the early 80's (it was broadcast irregularly, so it was a painful experience not being able to see all of it) and loved it, so you can imagine my joy when it was released on VHS in the dark days before that godsend known as DVD. Unfortunately, it was on the shelves for about a month before disappearing, but I got to see the entire run and have never forgotten it. This doc was such an education to me (the only exposure to silent film I had prior to this wonderful, brilliant documentary was a series of shorts called "Who's The Funny Man?" on Captain Penny back in the sixties, which was narrated by an actor named as Cliff Norton, I believe) - until I saw this, I thought of silent movies exactly the way James Mason described them as being thought of in the opening of the first episode, not knowing the artistry that went into their creation or the talent behind and in front of the cameras.

To sum up, this is, and I'll say it a thousand times, the most entertaining, informative, amazing documentary about the unfortunately ignored silent era you will ever see. Absolutely stunning.

I saw this show at Cleveland Stadium before they tore it down and put up the monkeyhouse they call Jacob's Field. I had seats WAAAY back in the stands, and, although they would be considered bad seats at any other concert, those seats are the only place to see a Floyd concert from. One of the things I really appreciate Pink Floyd for is the fact that they know if they give a concert, there are going to be several thousand people attending it, and only a handful of them will be able to really SEE them perform - for everyone else, it'll be a bunch of doll-sized (or smaller) images doing something that looks like playing instruments. Because of this, a Pink Floyd concert is a show in the true sense of the word - the lights, the movies shown on the round screen, the surround sound set-up, everything - is designed to be experienced from a distance. I enjoyed the show live and enjoyed it even more in this excellent video.

One of the great things about this concert is the inclusion of outside musicians. Pink Floyd does amazing things in the studio - lots of layering and overdubs that give their records a rich, unmistakable sound, and the fact that they go to the added expense and trouble of hiring other musicians and back-up singers to fill the sound out instead of relying on pre-recorded tapes is something I appreciate. When I go to a concert, I want to hear what I heard on the record re-created live, not a "Gee, that was close, but where is the such-and-such" live version.

This video is flawless - no cutaways to "psychedelic" footage of amoebas or such during solos, no "Hey, look at the neat effects we can do" - type transitions. The director used his multiple cameras very well, employing skycams, cranes, and handheld cameras perfectly and editing what he ended up with beautifully. He and his crew capture the essence of a Pink Floyd show expertly, employing dissolves, black and white footage, angles and camera movement with real care and deference to the music and the show itself. One of the hallmarks of a good concert film is not seeing the cameras or operators in the background, and you'd have to look very hard in this one to spot any. This video is about the music and the show, not about the style of the direction, and that's how it should be.

The audio is good for what it is - Hi-Fi VHS stereo - and was great before the advent of DVD and DTS and Dolby Digital, but now, like everyone else, I'm spoiled. I WANT THIS MOVIE ON DVD! NOW!!! I have no idea what the holdup on this is. The company that owns it HAS to know that there are millions of Pink Floyd fans that would snap this up the second it's released.

First of all, this movie is NOT meant to be taken seriously. It's almost a remake/sequel to the Herchell Gordon Lewis "classic" BLOOD FEAST, but unlike BLOOD FEAST, this movie is intentionally funny.

It starts with an announcement on the radio of a homicidal maniac on the loose, just like BLOOD FEAST, but instead of a shapely blonde about to get killed, we're introduced to Little Georgie and Mikey Tutman who are left to their own devices while mom goes out to get cigarettes. They're playing Diner when the aforementioned maniac bursts through the door with a meat cleaver. They scream, "UNCLE ANWAR!" and run up and hug him. Before he goes outside and dies in a hail of police bullets, he entrusts the two boys with resurrecting "Shitar" (pronounced SHEE-tar), an Egyptian blood goddess or something (it's been a good number of years since I saw this, so you'll forgive any memory lapses).

What I remember most about this movie is the outrageous violence, the hysterically over-the-top humor (for an excellent example of both, watch for the scene where the club doorman gets thrown into the street by Georgie), and the fact that it was directed by a woman, Jackie Kong. The reason that surprised me was because of the aforementioned amount of gore (the shot where the gravedigger's eyes pop out after being hit in the back of the head with a shovel is a portent of things to come - it's ridiculous, but also hilarious because of its outrageousness and perfectly sets you up for what's to come) and the incredibly gratuitous nudity.

This movie is a parody of a gore film and should be viewed with that in mind.