|
Seabiscuit | 
 enlarge | Studio: Mca (Universal)
Category: Video
List Price: CDN$ 11.95
Buy Used: CDN$ 0.01
You Save: CDN$ 11.94 (100%)
Used (6) from CDN$ 0.01
Rating:  204 reviews
Sales Rank: 787
Format: Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0783284195
UPC: 096896142733
EAN: 9780783284194
Theatrical Release Date: July 25, 2003
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Save a tree, buy from Green Earth Books. Ships from USA; Allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery. All books guaranteed. Read -> Recycle -> Reuse
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 199 more reviews...
 Seabiscuit's a loser July 16, 2004
C. S. Overfield (santa monica)
This movie is stunningly awful. Hollywood took an exciting and terse book and poured five cans of sugar over it. Each component of the film, barring the acting, is terrible. Randy Newman cartoonishly narrates the movie with a ridiculous "period" score and yet, out of nowhere, a track from Moby's over-sampled PLAY appears. The completely misguided voice-over narrative attempts to give the film some historical legitimacy and extra weight. All it does is add gravity to and repeatedly stall the momentum of what should have been a balls out movie. This movie lacks every quality that the horse, as described in the book, had. Its cinematography is grossly opulent, the screenplay is stuffed with self-importance, and the film moves at a snail's pace. One hour into the film and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. Gary Ross, creator of the equally maudlin and hit-you-in-the-face-with-a-message Pleasantville, keeps the unnecessary history of the three principle characters at the expense of, incredibly, some of the horse races. Worst of all are the horse-racing segments themselves. The races are strangely uninvolving, and knowing that in most shots Tobey Maguire isn't actually on the horse detaches the viewer from the experience. By the end, I started skipping chapters of the DVD and found that doing so made ZERO DIFFERENCE except for the pleasure of knowing I'd kept twenty minutes of my life from being trapped on the back of this lame Seabiscuit. Someone should bar Tobey Maguire and Gary Ross from coming within one hundred feet of each other, because the results of their meetings are excruciating for American movie goers.
 GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 13, 2004
amanda (New York City, NY, U.S.A)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
BEST MOVIE EVER!!! EVERYONE HAS TO SEE IT!!!
 A Conversation With Senor Droll, God of Saltines. July 9, 2004
Cosmic Juan
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Senor Droll, may I ask you if it was the begining and the end of imagination, at the same time? Exactly how many declarative sentences are required to effectively preface a movie? Do you make exceptions for movies about Seabiscuit? Ah.... I didn't think so... so what would you rate this movie? What? only... two and a half stars? What about the John Cleese cameo, doesn't that count for something? Why not? I've heard he's very tall... OH, aren't YOU Senor grumpypants...we'll see if I ever listen to you again... ah, and toby mcguire ruins jeff bridges too? jesus! will it never end?!?!?!!?!? More Tacky Sentimental Crup? Try Try Try Harder, Again, Again? AGAIN?!?! well gosh, does nothing fail to bore you? I suppose so.
 Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) July 8, 2004
B. Viberg (New York, NY United States)
Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Jeff Bridges is an ok movie. But it is about a horse...and that is not what I consider exciting. I hate riding horses so I guess that was not my kind of movie.
Epic sports history July 7, 2004
This film has many of the qualities of an epic: exceptional production values & cast that place it in the same class as "Braveheart" or "Gangs Of New York". I see no reason why it would not be appropriate for kids, either. Like "Cold Mountain", another epic, I feel this movie is meant to be enjoyed without too much analysis. I particularly enjoyed Jeff Bridges' performance, having just watched him in a very different role in "Masked and Anonymous" in which he plays a Woodstock-era reporter. His promotional tours on behalf of a Sea Biscuit-War Admiral matchup are effective. Toby McGuire is also quite good as the troubled,hard-luck jockey, blind in one eye, who spends his off hours spinning foreign tall tales with his jockey friends; so is the humorous radio reporter and also real-life jockey Gary Stevens. The movie's first hour is filled with quite a bit of Depression-era history which adds to the bravura of the film, as do the later Mexican segments. It is perhaps historically inaccurate to portray Seabiscuit as an underdog, however, he was equal in size, I have read somewhere, to War Admiral. The movie, however, emphasizes that the trainer takes hard luck cases like Seabiscuit, who was lazy, and turns them into winners. Imdb.com has pointed out the numerous anachronisms in the film; they claim,for example, that a statue of Seabiscuit is clearly visible in the Santa Anita Raceway segments, and that the starting gates used in most of the races are historically inaccurate ; I doubt this would be much concern to the average viewer. One possible trouble with these Hollywood epics this and the others mentioned above is that they are pure escapism, that in all likelihood the eras portrayed in these movies were not so glamorous as they are portrayed, except perhaps for a select few. You can perhaps excuse Nicole Kidman's glamourous portrayal in "Cold Mountain" because her character was from a big city--Charleston.No matter how you cut it, despite humble beginnings and even despite the tragic loss of a son, a successful racehorse owner's life is a privileged one.
|
|
|
USA Site | UK Site | Canadian Site | French
Site | German Site
Books and Novels , DVD's - Classics and Latest Releases , Music CD's - Top artists and back Catalogue , Software - PC and Mac , VHS - Disney, Thriller, and Classic's , PC and Video Games - Xbox, PS2 Nintendo and more Amazon, Amazon.com, Books, Online Shopping,
Book Store,Music, CDs, DVDs, reduced,
low price, Videos, Electronics, Video Games, Pc, MP3, sale, best
buy, clearance, discount, Amazon discounter, cut price, close out,
canada's number one mall, discount mall,
software,PC and Video Games - Xbox, PS2
Nintendo and more,DVD's - Classics and
Latest Releases,VHS - Disney, Thriller,
and Classic's, Music CD's - Top artists and back Catalogue Rock,
Pop, R&B, Soundtracks, more... allneedsandwants.com
Website Designed By LatestSol
| |
