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Summary: keep a movin -movin on
Review: i grew up with sisters. no brothers. ya so what, but they took me to all the elvis movies. (ok i still am a beatles fan) anyway his movies gave me hope and insight. follow that dream and kid galihad are two movies that my sister jill took the time out of her dating schedule to entertain me. call it what you want . i call it quality time .part of my growin up .happy time, which i chose not to forget.its a shame he got lost in the shuffle, i am trying real hard not to
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Summary: A Fluffy Piece of Saturday Matinee Fun
Review: I guess i was young teenager when I first saw this movie. There would be an Elvis movie almost every week at the local theater, 25c to get in and drinks were 10c and popcorn 5c for a small bag, and 10c for a large bag. That kind of resembles this movie. A time much easier and fonder. I guess I really liked (like) it because as a young boy I relished the thought of doing exactly what Elvis does in this movie....homesteading out in the middle of nowhere and fishing for a living! (geez , what dreams) This movie has that, with a little danger and romance thrown in. The supporting cast is good...watch for the banker...aka Floyd the barber from "Andy Griffith" Guys and Gals both should like this movie, its light hearted fun..and can take you away to that time when life was a little less stressful.
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Summary: Great movie. Lousy MGM cost cutting
Review: I have been waiting for this movie to be released since DVD was introduced. However, I am very disappointed as this new release of the film is widescreen but not anamorphic. What is MGM thinking? The answer is they are not thinking at all. They just don't care.Great movie, lously presentation by MGM.
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Summary: Elvis At His Best
Review: I have seen this movie and it is one of his best. The songs are great, as only Elvis could sing them. Anyone that loves Elvis will enjoy this one.It is comical at times too.
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Summary: Pan and Scan??!?!?!
Review: I hope this is not the trend. Pan and scan for a CinemaScope picture? It came out wide screen on laser.I certainly hope that was a typo. I won't buy it if it is P&S and neither should you. I guess I will have to transfer my laser copies to DVD.
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Summary: Who cares
Review: I saw this movie as a kid and really enjoyed it, but I must admit that much of my enjoyment was being so familar with the area of Florida it was filmed in. Nevertheless, I'm really glad to see it coming out on DVD.
Now about "who cares", I have had it with you video snobs and your righteous indignation over DVD's not letterboxed. Excuse my uncouthness, but I generally prefer the have the screen on my 54" TV filled. Yes, for the millionth time, I understand that the edges are cut off but what in the hell is so fascinating out there anyway? If you prefer the long skinny version good for you, buy it when it is available. But if it isn't, because I and the rest of the unenlightened friends of full screen significantly outnumber you letterbox snobs, complain to the people who make the DVDs, just leave us out of it. We don't care and your whinning makes us sick.
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Summary: Why not WWWWide SSSSScrean!!!!!!!!!
Review: It's 2004 and MGM is still butchering wide screen movies.
For the minority who don't like seeing the whole movie. Use the zoom feature on your DVD player and crop the movie to your heart's delight.
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Summary: Pan & Scan, R U Joking?!
Review: MGM should hide under a hole for releasing this film in Full Frame as opposed to Widescreen!!! I will NOT be buying this release! Wake up MGM!!!
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Summary: Elvis is Max Baer
Review: So, Elvis really can act. Forget the histrionics of Danny Fisher, the magnificent moodiness of Vince Everett and the agonised calm of Pacer Burton. Toby Kwimper jumps right out at you as if you were there with the Kwimper clan on that lovely sandwsept Florida glade. Who needs Ann-Margret's postulating posterior, Juliet Prowse's terpsichorian teasing or Nancy Sinatra's blonde-locked smile - a simple home-spun Ann Helm is good enough for this viewer. Oh, and by the way, just enough songs not to annoy; and nicely arranged too. Blue skies, whiter than white beaches, funny, dumb gangsters getting their just deserts, and level-headed truths spelt out to those durn' gov'ment folk, and even to a local county judge. Now, not even Jethro could accomplish all that in 110 minutes! But wait, there's more. No less than a a genuine Oscar-winning actor (Arthur O'Connell) to keep ever'thin' nice and simple. No intellectual rhapsodising or Chekhovian antics to interrupt the serenity. Just good ol' fashioned mud-larking with a bunch of folks so darn straight that the Bradys are Haught-Ashbury hipsters in comparison. No. This is one Elvis fan who likes his Elvisness lightly poached, not fried, roasted or scrambled like some of them artsy directors (you know who you are Curtiz, Thorpe, Siegel) would have done to our boy.
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Summary: A solid comedy with a message.
Review: Some of Elvis' newer initiates might be surprised to learn that one of his best movies had but five songs and was not in the Hollywood Musical mold - it's a completely different character for Elvis, a simple drifter in a family of drifters, upsetting local political hacks by homesteading on valuable, undeveloped Florida land and eventually turning it into a successful fishing area. The theme song has become a Rock and Roll Classic. The opening number, "What A Wonderful Life", is another uptempo gem featuring fortisimo Presley.
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