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David Blaine - Fearless

David Blaine - Fearless

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Frightening, Amazing, and Hilarious at the same time.
Review: This will entertain you for hours on end. And now that its on DVD, you can watch him do his tricks frame by frame and try to figure out how he does it. For example: He asks a random guy on the street to think of a card. About 15 seconds later, "4 diamond", says David. The man replies, "bull----!" as he shakes his head in disbelief.

This crazy son of a gun has also tried killing himself several times. Burying himself alive, freezing himself, and standing on a 100 foot pillar for 35 hours straight. No food, No sleep, and No safety nets.
Makes you wonder how he does these things, eh?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All about the people
Review: What's really so great about this video are the reactions. Sure, there is a good amount of entertainment to be had by watching Blaine's performances and tricks, but I was much more mesmerized by watching the people he engaged and how their reactions would differ depending on their particular cultural background. You might see the cover of "David Blaine - Fearless" in a video store and think "cheesy" but don't judge this video by it's cover. Underneath the magic there's a bit of a social commentary. And I think it's that we feel a human connectedness when we share in our amazement. I put this one up there with "Hands on a Hardbody." Blaine is not only talented as hell, he is a very strange man and watching him blowing the minds of everyday "common" folk is absolutely priceless.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE GREATEST MAGIC TRICKS EVER!!!!!
Review: When I first seen heard about this movie I thought, oh okay another one of those cheap magic movies again. But when I seen it I couldn't get my jaw off the floor! I was all in awww! Nothing but amazement in this movie. I've seen it over 20 times! You gotta watch it! Now, I'm just in LOVE with DAVID BLAINE!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Magic At A Bargain
Review: You may have caught some of "street magician" David Blaine's act on his TV specials that had limited runs. Not too worry; "David Blaine: Fearless" gathers them all up, and throws them all onto one DVD, and then some. You can generally find this DVD priced the same as "discount" DVDs, so you won't be paying the normal $20 plus that DVDs command.

Blaine's amazing tricks are super-cool but wouldn't have held their own displayed merely in a Vegas showroom; it's the who and where that makes this DVD special. Blaine often performs his tricks up close and with plenty of audience participation, to an extremely diverse set of people. He bites a quarter in half and spits it back to make it whole in front of some LA street thugs. He performs his famous levitation at the Dallas Cowboys training camp, sending Deion Sanders running, his wits barely intact. He pulls various "pick a card" tricks on a pair of grandmothers sitting on a bench, despite their initial declaration that they're not into magic tricks. A bunch of soccer girls at a rest stop scream with glee when makes a name appear out of ash.

Blaine even ventures into a remote South American jungle, where an tribe that has been mostly isolated from civilization serves as the challenge; the only way he can communicate with them is magic, but will "pick a card" mean anything to them or impress a culture with no concept of quarters, Aces or Spades? Blaine adapts and amazes them by squeezing drinkable amounts of water from random places or making a ball multiply within a closed fist. He does this again with other journeys to foreign areas.

Many of Blaine's tricks are true head-scratchers that will leave even the most cynical viewer amused. I've already described a significant amount of his simpler tricks, so I'll leave the rest for the DVD to show, including an act that is more endurance than magic: fighting hypothermia and mental breakdowns as he remains encased in an ice prison on a busy sidewalk for a couple of days.

He has a different sort of charisma; he's so laid back but you still get the sense that he truly treats magic as an art, not as an attempt to hoodwink you; but at the same time he isn't so overly serious that you can associate with him.

This is a great DVD to have; magic is an all-genre, all-gender thing. You can pop "Fearless" in anytime at any setting, be it a small gathering, a big party, or in your portable DVD player while waiting for your flight at the airport. There's very little filler material, which is a good thing; they've packed in as much material as they can.

A must-buy for anyone.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: David Blaine is the best
Review: You will be constantly impressed with this master "street magician." Everything is extremeley authentic looking and it will keep you guessing at how in the world did he perform those tricks just anywhere.


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