The Sixth Sense (a J!-ENT DVD Review)
October 1, 2002 by Dennis Amith · Leave a Comment
MOVIE COMPANY: Hollywood Pictures and SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT
CAST: Starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collete, Olivia Williams and more.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
RATING: Rated PG-13.
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0155267
TYPE OF MOVIE: Thriller, drama and horror
Bruce Willis plays as the character, Malcolm Crowe who happens to be an award winning psychologist. One night, a patient of his decides to visit him and the patient said that Crowe has failed him. Then comes an encounter which later leads Malcolm to help a new patient named Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment).
Cole is a very bright young child but also very scared. Is he suffering from a mental disorder? What secrets does this young child have. Malcolm vows that he will help this child and not fail. How will Malcolm help Cole and what is it that Cole sees everyday that other people can’t?
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, Collector’s Edition, Anamorphic
• Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s)
• Making-Of Documentary
• Deleted Scenes and Extended Ending
• Storyboard to Film Comparisons
• Interview with director M. Night Shyamalan
• Music and Sound design
• Widescreen anamorphic format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): M. Night Shyamalan’s first movie. In the special features section, when you continue to the next page, you will see a book. Click on the book and you will be greeted by M. Night Shyamalan who shows a clip from his first horror movie.
DVD REVIEW:
I’m not easily swayed by people who recommend me to watch a movie in a theater. Why? Because movie theaters fail me with screaming kids, pagers and cel phones going off, people talking and more. That’s why I love watching my movies on DVD. Sometimes I don’t mind waiting a few months after the release to watch them. The same goes for the movie “The Sixth Sense”.
The problem with people who haven’t seen this movie is the ending has been discussed on radio, on television and on magazines. You can try to shield yourself from learning the surprise ending but unfortunately everyone has heard what happens right? If you haven’t, then have some fun and watch this movie right away.
The acting is very well done and one thing I can’t stand are child actors. Haley Joel Osment though. Whoah! This boy can act! Bruce Willis also does a great job! Excellent performances from the two.
The movie was very good. It’s not as scary as my sister who saw the movie twice told me but the movie is very good. The extras also enhanced this movie for me. Well, because there is many extras and also the director was very involved with each extra. May it be the deleted scenes or some part of the movie, you can tell they had the pleasure of releasing the DVD version. The only thing that would definitely be awesome is commentary by the director but he has done so much for this movie, you can’t have it all.
The video and sound is very well done. The colors are nice and bright and the movie can get eerie at times. I’m used to hearing my system loud but for those who aren’t, some sections of the movie were scaring the people I was watching the movie with. Ahh, the beauty of digital surround sound.
I can’t find nothing wrong with this DVD (aside from sticking the trailers, so you have to watch them all or fast forward). This DVD is highly recommended and oh, btw…don’t watch the extras until AFTER you watch the movie. This movie is absolutely brilliant!
THE MOVIE: A+
THE DVD EXTRAS: A+
THE DVD OVERALL: A+
ARMAGEDDON – THE CRITERION COLLECTION #40 (a J!-ENT DVD Review)
April 23, 1999 by Dennis Amith · Leave a Comment
TITLE: ARMAGEDDON – THE CRITERION COLLECTION #40
CAST: Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David and Steve Buscemi
DIRECTED BY: Michael Bay
PRODUCED BY: Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd and Michael Bay
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi and Thriller
DURATION: 153 minutes
Bruce Willis and an all-star cast of roughneck oil drillers blast off on a mission to save the planet in Michael Day’s doomsday space epic.
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Criterion Collection, Widescreen, Dolby, Director’s Cut
• Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s)
• Michael Bay’s gag reel
• Deleted scenes, compiled by Michael Bay
• Storyboards and production design drawings
• Analysis of the special effects by visual effects supervisors Richard Hoover, Pat McClung and Hoyt Yeatman
• Music video “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith, plus interviews with the band
• Widescreen letterbox format
• Number of discs: 2
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None at this time
I’m so glad that a Criterion edition of “ARMAGEDDON” was released. The story of a huge asteroid about to collide with Earth and a group of oil drillers and NASA to prevent that from happening, what more can you ask for right?
Well, all I can say is that if you do have one choice for this movie, the Criterion Collection is the way to go.
Yes, both movies have outstanding video and the digital 5.1 is used a lot in this movie. But that’s where the comparisons end because the regular version of the DVD has no extras. The Criterion Collection version is loaded with extras. I mean fully loaded and each segment in the special features are quite long. One of my favorites happens to be the gag reel.
Also, the movie contains trailers. Oh, no…not the typical 1-3 trailers that DVD’s have, this one has many trailers. I’m not sure how many trailers I counted for the 20-second or 10-second segment. This DVD is loaded with them.
Then another cool thing about the DVD extras are how certain special effects were made.
So, yes, the Criterion Collection cost about $10 more but it is probably one of the best Criterion edition DVD’s out there. This version of Armageddon is highly recommended!
THE MOVIE: A-
THE DVD EXTRAS: A+
THE DVD OVERALL: A
