Hotmail
|
|
|
|
|
All reviews by user Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Their bestPosted: 3/16/2005A review of Collective Soul by Anonymous Thanks to this album, Collective Soul stayed way far away from the one hit wonder list of the 90s (Shine), with songs like Gel, Where the River Flows, and the hit that kept them off that list, December. That is the best song on the album and also the one that defined their career.
This is the first CS album I bought, so I went back and got the Hints, Allegations... album - the one with Shine, and it was not even half the quality of this one; the songs tapered off around the third song. Hence I didn't buy another CS album until their greatest hits album. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Season TwoPosted: 2/4/2005A review of Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 02 by Shu226 The one episode that makes this season is the Good Girls show, where Frank and Marie spill the beans, much to Robert's dismay, that Amy is preferred over Debra and that Marie was not a good girl like Amy and the parents had to get married when Marie was pregnant with Robert.
Now, we need to get Season Seven on DVD, the 2002-03 season, where Robert and Amy finally get married, and several of the best shows in its run were on that year: Who's Next?, where everybody picks replacement spouses, and any show with Amy's religious family is excellent before the wedding. Also, Marie gets glasses is a great one, too. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Best Action/Comedy in the 80sPosted: 11/28/2003A review of Beverly Hills Cop by Shu226 From start to finish, Eddie Murphy keeps you laughing out of your chair with his wise cracks blended with his F*** words as a brash, maverick Detroit detective all the way to California. The involuntary truck ride with the illegal cigs around Detroit kicks it all off to the tune of Neutron Dance and the ever-classic banana in the tailpipe are some of the scenes that make the film memorable. Enter Taggart and Rosewood, who aid Axel in finding his friend's killer, along with old friend Jenny, who is an employee of the man who ordered said killing. Some 20 years later, I watch this on regular TV and I find myself filling in the filthy words, which were heard on demand throughout the film yet kept the film from being offensive; the storyline and the many funny scenes helped that. They don't make movies today like they did in the 1980s, that's for sure. Was this review helpful? Sign In 6 out of 8 users found this helpful 15 Years of ExcellencePosted: 11/12/2003A review of In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003 [Limited Edition] by Shu226 It is evident after listening to this album, REM's music has been taken to the next level since signing with Warner Brothers in 1988. However, and sadly, MTV, VH1, and radio has blown these guys off (within 2 weeks of a song being new) since 1996 beginning with EBow the Letter, with the exception, perhaps, of The Great Beyond. <br>The album begins with Man on the Moon, the all-time best REM song, followed by The Great Beyond, and their new song, Bad Day, and these set the tone for the rest of the album. The irony is that the Out of Time and Monster albums are supported with only one song each (Losing my Religion and What's the Frequency Kenneth), but that is all right, even they were both good albums; thus missing the presence of such songs as Bang and Blame, Strange Currencies, Radio Song, Texarkana, and Drive (from Automatic),to name some. With this top notch collection of songs, it is good that Shiny Happy People is not on here, even though it made the top 10. For people like me who lost track of the group around 1997, it is good to see songs from Up and Reveal to let us know what was missed over the past seven years due to lack of exposure from the music media. Was this review helpful? Sign In 9 out of 13 users found this helpful Look, if you had one shot...Posted: 11/12/2003A review of Poodle Hat by Shu226 Weird Al's spoof of Lose Yourself, Couch Potato is the best and gets you into the music. Making reference from the Osbournes to Anna Nicole to Muppets and even the line I gotta know who J.lo is marrying this week is top of the line parody writing. Trash Day - Hot in Herre is good, although the female voice kind of ($@&s here, and a Complicated Song, I even like it, as I hated Avril Lavigne's version, talking about being constipated from pizza to marrying his cousin and moving to Alabama and losing his head on a roller coaster. Ebay rips I want it that Way by the BSB boy band and it is a riot, sounds like the theme song for your normal pack rat. However, I'm not much for the Al originals, but the song Bob is hilarious because it sounds like a typical Bob Dylan song, with lyrics which make absolutely no sense broken up with harmonica solos. In fact, Al does a good job impersonating his voice, too. You know 2002 was a good year in hip hop when there were actually two good songs from that genre and they were both parodied by Al. It's definitely worth buying. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 2 users found this helpful  BoringPosted: 11/12/2003A review of Face Value by Shu226 There are only two good songs on this album. They are In the Air Tonight and I Missed Again, which is the best one. The others are too moody or jazzy and, most of all, they have no rhythm. They divert your attention away. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Serious stuffPosted: 11/12/2003A review of ...But Seriously by Shu226 While not quite as good as No Jacket Required, this album should qualify as second best in his career. The best work is I Wish It Would Rain Down with Eric Clapton's guitar. Colours is like two songs in one, kind of like a Paul McCartney/Wings song in the 70s; it begins moody, and then his Phoenix Horns turn it into an uptempo song. But Seriously is more moody than Jacket, as there are more ballads, like Do You Remember, especially toward the end of the album. Another Day in Paradise counts as one, too, but it depicts a serious story. The album title seems to describe the direction of the album, but nowhere as dull as Face Value. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 2 users found this helpful Good comebackPosted: 11/16/2003A review of All That You Can't Leave Behind by Shu226 Beautiful Day can go down in U2 history as the song that brought these guys back to respectability. It is the best on the album. Definitely their best stuff since Joshua Tree. Kite is a great unreleased song. A good back to basics collection after years of techno and other stuff, like crap in 1993-Numb, Lemon, etc. and 1997-Pop: Discotheque, Staring at the Sun. 2000 stopped the bleeding for U2 and should get them reconsidered for a R&R Hall of Fame ballot around 2005. Was this review helpful? Sign In 5 out of 5 users found this helpful In time - a new levelPosted: 11/16/2003A review of Out Of Time by Shu226 When this album was released, I became a fan of REM with the classic Losing My Religion. This was the song that reminded us that REM will not be going away anytime soon. So I borrowed a friend's Out of Time album and listened to it a few times and instantly liked it, so I got my own copy. Texarkana is a good one, too, as is Radio Song with rapper KRS One. However, this was the greatest album at that time from them, as Automatic For the People made this a second-class album, especially with two songs: Shiny Happy People and Me in Honey with the help of B52's Kate Pierson, as years down the road these are weak tracks. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Action from start to finishPosted: 6/5/2003A review of The Fugitive by Shu226 Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford), convicted of killing his wife Helen, on his way to be executed in Southern Illinois, has a lucky bus accident and escapes to a hospital. Enter Sam Gerard (Jones), who literally steals the show with his flip one-liners throughout the film: My my my...what a mess; We got a gopher; Richard, do you wanna get shot?!; S.o.b. our boy came home, etc. Gerard hounds Kimble ruthlessly all the way back home to Chicago. The scenes that stand out are the start of the chase, the tunnel standoff, the encounter at the hotel. Richard finds a one-armed man killed Helen and breaks into his apartment to find more dirt and encounters him on the el-train en route to confront the mastermind of the murder, his best friend Dr. Charles Nichols. A clever man, Richard eludes Sam and his lawmen by hiding out in child molester apt. and posing as an Hispanic janitor doing medical work. Clearly the best action movie of the 1990s, as excellent acting portrayals by Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Was this review helpful? Sign In 2 out of 2 users found this helpful Skipping school was never easierPosted: 6/8/2003A review of Ferris Bueller's Day Off by Shu226 If you need to take a day off school and possibly get away with it, take notes from Ferris. He takes a day off, dogs best bud Cameron Frye into joining him and girlfriend Sloane Peterson, using the dead grandma excuse. They use Cam's dad's 1961 Ferrari, which his dad likes more than his family. However, Ferris' sister Jeannie doesn't buy it, and his principal Ed Rooney chases him like a hungry hound dog; Bueller is one absence away from repeating his senior year, so Rooney would like to have that happen. Meanwhile, the trio joyrides all over Chicago in the priceless car, eating at expensive restaurants, seeing priceless art, attending Cubs games, and the finisher: Ferris sings 2 classic 60s songs in a parade in front of thousands. Later, Cameron wrecks the Ferrari and is slowly gaining self esteem. Then Ferris is almost exposed by Rooney, but his sister bails him out, of all people. The lesson in this movie, as Ferris puts it: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful A wild goose chase all over L.A.Posted: 6/9/2003A review of Midnight Madness by Shu226 Eccentric college student Leon spends a year planning a scavenger hunt, carefully planning every detail, from each location, including the finish line, to the five team captains. Counselor Adam (yellow), fat, rich boy Harold (blue), nerdy debate guy Wesley (white), sorority girl Donna (red), and beer drinking football player Lavitas (green) are the captains. Needless to say, many rivalries exist, like Harold's jealousy of Adam, debate team vs. football jocks, sorority girls vs. Lavitas, etc. The locations the teams go to range from an observatory to a piano museum to the arcade to an airport, and the finish line at a hotel. The film didn't just consist of comedic rivalries and attempted interference amongst the teams, but Adam's struggle to bond with brother Scott, played by a then 19-year old Michael J. Fox. Scott finally gets Adam's respect and the rest is history. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful A Chevy Chase Classic!Posted: 5/31/2003A review of National Lampoon's Vacation by Shu226 From beginning to finish, the ever-bumbling Clark W. Griswold has one mishap after another, beginning with being roped into buying a family truckster from a shady dealer(Eugene Levy of American Pie fame) and continuing to the end. The moment the car goes into gear, this all continues, like the St. Louis car stripping, a car chase with Christie Brinkley in a Ferrari, the leap off an unfinished road in Arizona, and more. And in between, the family meets Cousin Eddie at his Kansas home, a beer drinking lovable loser and is forced to take the crotchety Aunt Edna to Phoenix, and she dies before getting there, so they dump her in her son's back yard. What is riotous, is Clark's outburst: You're all f****d up in the head...Ten hours from the f*****g fun park...whistling Zippedee doodah out of your a**holes!! Then follows the skinny dip with Ferrari girl; and the park is closed, and John Candy, the buck-toothed security guard is forced at gunpoint to give the family their fun. Simply put, anything that can go wrong on a trip did. And everything. But only Chevy Chase can make that entertaining. Randy Quaid (Eddie) makes the sequels (Xmas, Vegas) watchable with his part; he steals the show in Xmas Vac. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Merry F'ing Xmas!Posted: 6/8/2003A review of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation by Shu226 First, here is how the four Vacation movies rank from best to worst: Vacation, Xmas, Vegas and European (not very watchable). However, Cousin Eddie steals the show from the bumbling Clark, motoring into town in a rusty old RV that he and his family live in, where Clark puts Christmas lights on every inch of his roof and lights up the entire neighborhood. All the while drawing the ire of snobby neighbors (Julia Louis Dreyfus, wife), and can't get the respect of Ellen's parents (Doris Roberts, mother, two famous guest stars of the future). Moments that will have you laughing out of your chair include Eddie emptying his RV toilet into the city sewer and Uncle Lewis, with the personality of an electrocuted porcupine, later throws the match into the sewer and blows it up. And his wife Bethany, whose brain was left behind in WWII or something, shows up, too. Clark has dreams of getting a pool, but are shattered when his money hungry boss eliminates bonuses, so Eddie kidnaps him and has to face Clark, but all ends well and the cops destroy the house to arrest Griswold (as if Snots, Ed's dog, didn't destroy it already chasing a squirrel). A movie carried by the dynamic duo of Clark and Eddie. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1 out of 1 users found this helpful MTV's best progam hits the big screenPosted: 6/9/2003A review of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America by Shu226 The best show on MTV that isn't music videos, Beavis and Butthead, hit the theaters. The lovable duo who is obsessed with TV goes out to find their TV after burglars steal it. So they end up going from Texas to Las Vegas to Washington DC to get it back. Turns out their senile, hot tempered neighbor Tom Anderson (it wouldn't have been a movie without him in it) is following that same path with his wife and camper, where Tom accuses the boys of wacking off. B&B encounter a drunk guy(Bruce Willis) who offers them big money to do his wife Dallas (Demi Moore); that is kill her, not have sex like they hope, and they are in the middle of a smuggling ring involving a deadly explosive. Enter the FBI, led by Robert Stack, who will stop at nothing to nail all of them. When everyone gets to DC, the crooked couple go to jail, the cops get the unit back inadvertently by B&B's help and Anderson is suspected of taking it after Beavis is caught doing some act in the camper (you know what it is). MTV should put this back on, as the Osbournes are the best thing to happen to MTV since these guys - crap like the Real World, Road Rules, etc. should be taken off and have these two programs and videos the rest of the time, just like the old days. Was this review helpful? Sign In |
||
