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Summary: Great Show, DVD not so great
Review: As much as I love this show, the DVD needs help. It's not anamorphic so widescreen TV owners beware. Although the movie format says widescreen, the DVD format isnt a true anamorphic as we'd expect.In addition, the transfer seems old and unsaturated and grainy. I would have hope for a better picture but I guess with a non anamorph DVD what could you expect.
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Summary: I Love This Movie!
Review: This is an awesome movie! I love movies with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. They make a wonderful team! It all started with this movie. If you like this movie you will also like Runaway Bride. They are both just absolutely wonderful, romantic movies. My husband calls them girly kiss kiss movies...whatever they are they are awesome movies.
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Summary: Great for a "chick flick"
Review: I bought this for my wife and I must say, I would normally have given this kind of movie a 4, but it kept my attention for the full time and I didn't fast forwawrd once, and my wife was so happy to get it, I gave it a five.....If you have to see a chick flick, this is one of the ones that are actually fun to watch. Peace, Morley
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Summary: ZZZZZZ
Review: This movie basically put me to sleep. It seemed like it was 4 hrs. long! I was disappointed. This is the first time I've seen this movie after all these years of hearing all positive things about it. But I guess everyone's taste is different. I laughed only a couple times. And if it wasn't for the funny couple things Julia Roberts said or did I would have only given it one star.
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Summary: The "Fairy Tale" Revisited
Review: The viewer's assignment will be to put away reasoning and suspend belief for 125 minutes to enter that spinner-of-the-make-believe world of Los Angeles. Specifically seedy Hollywood streets filled with neon lights, drugs, and hookers. While at the other end of the spectrum, Beverly Hills gleams with the rich and beautiful people roaming Rodeo Drive shops for designer goodies and cavorting on polo fields to stomp down divots kicked up during the rough and tumble of the matches (galloping horses, swinging mallets and all that, you know). It will take great imagination to pretend that Julia Roberts is destined for a sleazy half life as a street walker, sleeping all day before getting up to put on her messy blonde wig and shiny, over-the-knee stiletto boots to claim her territory on the mean streets and wave at the johns. She dreams of a fairy tale "prince charming rescuing beautiful maiden and they live happily ever after" but is too busy keeping it together for herself and ditzy roommate, Kit, to have a clue about finding her dream. Enter Edward (Richard Gere): It's no stretch to make him fit his character. He is handsome, super rich, successful in business and with a carefully shielded heart that prohibits becoming close to any person because he never lived up to Dad's idea of the 'perfect son'. Pretend that he'd rather hire a hooker for a week so he can concentrate on business. Now the FUN part begins. These two meet, a proposition is made, is accepted and Edward turns Vivian loose on Rodeo with his charge card. The rest of the movie is pure magic. It's not 'real life' -- it's the movies. Enjoy it for all that it is. Since I need a touch of 'Fairy Tale' every so often it was a perfect choice to own on DVD. Favorite supporting characters are: Hector Elizondo who is perfect as Mr. Thompson the hotel manager and Elinor Donahue in a one scene wonder as a gracious, elegant saleswoman. This 10th Anniversary Edition gives the viewer 15 minutes of extra footage, seamlessly inserted to enhance the story.
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Summary: Warped fairy tale but good movie
Review: I don't know of anyone who hasn't seen this movie and I know very few who didn't like it (those few were men). This is a classic Cinderella tale gone awry with beautiful Cinderella being played by a hooker. Julia Roberts pulls off both aspects wonderfully. Richard Gere is a great choice for a costar as he really fits the bill of a suave businessman. The premise is pure, but the plot is seedy. Julia is a prostitute with big aspirations squelched somehow by society, seemingly leaving her only this foul choice to make a living. Gere is a filthy rich businessman who is out of town and needs a date for a dinner party. Oddly, he thinks a hooker is the logical choice. Yet, it works. Julia fumbles through the etiquette of a world unfamiliar which lends the humor to this romantic comedy. The chemistry between Roberts and Gere provides the romance that made this movie so very famous. A star the size of Julia Roberts is not born of a bad movie. This is a must-have.
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Summary: Not a Pretty Movie!!
Review: Essentially, what I've stated is this: the only thing that is pretty about this movie is Julia Roberts. Possibly even Richard Gere, and possibly the "beautiful people" who don't at all look like reality or even the "real world." This movie is pure Hollywood, simply put. Some have compared it to a dream, and yes, it is a dream, but lest we forget to put our brains in gear, let us remember a couple of things. The first is that Julia is portraying a prostitute/hooker/lady of the evening, or any other name you wan't to pin on her. In most cities of this nation, prostitution is illegal, and many of them find themselves in lock-up overnight if there is a sweep going on. Secondly, we are being asked to cheer for this illegal activity because she is a pretty woman. No doubt about it - she is a pretty woman. But even "pretty" prostitutes deal with the low life of society, and that includes not so pretty STD's and AIDS, and many prostitutes are carriers of these same things, as a result of also being drug addicts and/or sharing so many... partners, not to mention [prefrences] among them all. Of course, we don't see this in the movie, because it's not about real life, but let's forget this is real, right? WRONG! Lastly, we're to believe that some cool guy like this - Richard Gere and all his millions - will negotiate a contract with a hooker and then set her up (possibly plausible), and then give her the fairytale ending at the end. And all this because she violated the cardinal rule - "don't kiss the john." This is a ludicrous movie, with no concept of reality, except at the very end when the guy says "this is Hollywood." Yes, this is a Hollywood production - but don't ditch your brain when you sit down to watch it. If you want entertainment, this is it, and if you want the beautiful people, this is it, but remember, this kind of behavior results in the uglies - incarceration, and probably death.
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Summary: Cinderella Walking Down The Street
Review: Pretty Woman released in 1990 stars Julia Roberts as Vivian and Richard Gere as Edward Louis. The director Garry Marshall captures a fairy tale about a street-wise prostitute who meets her prince charming. He portrays Vivian the street-wise prostitute as a person who you can't help but fall in love. Vivian captures Edward's eye when she drives his friends borrowed car to his hotel. She shows him that there is more to her then meets the eye. They arrive at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel and go up to the penthouse. Here Vivian attempts to get Edward to face one of his fears and have him come out to the patio and look at the beautiful view. They spend the evening together and the next day Edward asks Vivian to be his companion for the week. He leaves her a wad of cash and wants her to go out and buy some clothes. She does what every woman would do go shopping on Rodeo Drive. She gets snubbed by the snobbish shopkeepers and goes back to the hotel without any clothing. The hotel manager places an important phone call and helps her out with her clothing problem. He also assists her with learning the importance of silverware. Even though Vivian may get treated like ... trash in different parts of the movie, you will not see her like this at all. Edward never once says anything to make her feel like this or gives you the impression that he even remotely thinks of her like ... trash. He sees her as a beautiful woman who just took the wrong turn on the road of life. Vivian and Edward attend many events together including the opera and an evening meal with flying oysters. Vivian will keep you on your seat with her wit and talent. This Cinderella story will make you laugh, cry, and make your heart break. You can't help but hope that love prevails in the end.
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Summary: Do you want to know , why I gave it 5 stars ?!
Review: I gave it 5 stars , because it is my mothers favorite movie ! ...
An everage Hollywood " Sinderella " story ? Yes . But no . Just another dream , when everything goes wrong in your life ... someone will come , and take you away from stupidity and unfearness ... but it never happens . You give up , and at the last moment ...
I know - this is just a dream !?...
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: This movie is the start of Julia Roberts great career. She was in movies before such as Mystic Pizza. This is a great movie because it is great watching movies back at the dawn of the 1990s and how 1980s it looked. This movie released in 1990 made over a 100 million dollars. It had a good story and Richard Gere and Julia Roberts did a fine job at acting.
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