2 stars for nostalgia only. Nothing to celebrate here.
932852
Yeah...it's Zeppelin. And yeah it's cool to see them do the reunion thing. But that's about it.

Even though I've never been a huge fan I thought I'd give this a whirl especially given the plethora of 5 star reviews here. I even remember being "camped out" for concert tickets to see them the day that John Bonham died. Then I was more ticked off that I had just spent 3 days waiting on a sidewalk with my stoner buddies than the fact the they would be no more. But I was a kid.

Now...3 plus decades later...I still just don't get these guys. Yeah I know their music. Yeah I've tried over my life time to "get it". But no matter what...I've just never quite understood how they got to be as popular as they are. They are all...less both Bonhams...sub par musicians at best.

OK...to the point cause I'm not going to compete with the 100's of 5 stars. But if you've ever thought like me...that they've always just been mediocre at best than this is for you.

Video quality is good but the show / stage itself is quite plain and vanilla. No special light show design or anything too high tech. DTS HD audio is good and clear but just a tad too harsh on the low end. Not much use of the surrounds in the 5.1 but all in all it's bearable.

Now onto the musicianship. Jason Bonham does a competent job. He's actually the best player on the stage. Robert Plant does OK for his age though his voice isn't young anymore. John Paul Jones...eh nothing special. A low grade bass player at best. But what makes this concert 2 stars ...is that Jimmy Page's performance is just absolutely horrid! Completely ruins the show. It's shameful really. To the point that Plant refuses to do more shows with them. How they allowed this to be released and have any sort of pride as musicians is beyond me. They probably were forced by contract. I've never thought of him as a quality guitar player but this is sad really. Very sloppy, off key, overly distorted, timing off, etc etc. Seriously... you can find 12 year old kids on YouTube that are stellar guitar players in comparison. His playing is just inexcusable. There just aren't enough negative adjectives to describe just how bad he is. He should be embarrassed and apologetic. Within 30 seconds of the opening I had 3 people in my theater room look at me almost in unison and say "this sucks"!

Honestly if it wasn't the Zep "reunion" thing I'd give this whole Blu Ray ZERO stars. Watched it twice and now it will go into the dust bin of faded memories. Maybe 10 years from now I can sell it used for something.

BTW...All of Plants' solo and collaborative work ...IE band and music...are far superior in ever respect to whats here.

If you're a fan get it for the nostalgia. For that matter if you're a fan you probably already own it and are lapping it up.

I'll stick with Rush.
4764465
Redundancy is the only word that comes to mind when thinking of this game. I can honestly say this game for me is one of the most over hyped games in recent memory. This game starts out semi-decent and wears out its welcome by the 3rd match. The game was far overpriced and the DLC situation is a joke. I sold my copy, my sister did the same and both my friends did as well. Sorry but I just cant fine anything good to say here. One star goes to the soundtrack which B. Williams and Jason Graves did a great job on. Avoid if you want replay value. If redundancy and frustration is what you seek then knock yourself out.
2889346
Yeah it does nothing more than what it did 15 years ago. Even the graphics are kind of old looking. Same gameplay with same old as controls!! Man fix this crap. All you get is 3 endings which are like 3 mins long of slowness. Although the endings where kind of intense i'll give them that but no i wanted the classic endings with all the other people as well. This is the PS3 i'm sure it's capable of having 3 min long endings with all characters. and speaking of characters who the hell are 75% of these nobodies? Wow they went wrong with this game because we were really begging for a old classic from PS1 days. atlease you get TM:Black when you buy it. Other than that it should be a 29.99 at best. I eat nachos bigger than this game foo.
2807790
I'm gonna get reamed for this, but I'm sorry. The Goonies sucks.

All of you who like it need to step outside of yourselves for a moment and realize that the only reason you like it is because you watched it when you were a kid. Admitting to liking it now is admittance of the de-evolutionary powers of your brain. It's saying your mind has the cognitive capacity of an eight-year old, which is a real step down for most of you (and a step up for some).

If the nostalgia outweighs any cinematic problems, that's fine, admit you enjoy the nostalgia factors. But to say it's a good movie is like saying Rambo II or Rocky IV or Labyrinth are "quality" films. They're just... not. But they hold a nostalgia factor, so people like them. And that's alright.

All I'm saying is that The Goonies is a poorly made film and people need to come to terms with that.
4776149
OK, maybe it's actually worth two stars, but I'm just trying to do my part to add some balance/objectivity/sanity to the reviews of this third-rate fake-psych dreck.  I haven't read all the reviews here, but I bet most of them are from people who remember hearing the album in the era it was released in.  Approaching this music free of nostalgia, and in context with all the music of the time and since, it's clear this band is barely holding it together, struggling for identity between "heavy" rock that makes Iron Butterfly sound graceful by comparison, and awkward folk-rock, like "Black Roses" -- not a terrible song, but marred by a vocal by a dude who sounds like he's gargling glue.  Really, the most ham-fisted and brain-dead garage band of this era would be preferable to this, because at least bands like that knew how stoopid they were.  This music, by contrast, reeks of pretension.  These guys are only known today because they were Elektra's third rock band, after Love and the Doors, and their bassist played on the latter's sessions.  Drummer Dallas Taylor later joined CSN and, eventually, Y.  But those connections to music whose quality these hapless rockers could only dream of is no reason to subject yourself to, or waste your money on, this album.  Look elsewhere, young jedi!  Like here, for instance...<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Da-Capo/dp/B000066CQ9/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Da Capo</a>
3461105
Like "The Killer Elite" , this 70's shoot-em-up doesn't hold up.  We must have been starved for entertainment back then.  Probably what I remember is excitement of going to the movies.
1484474
Watched it with my three boys, based on everyone's amazing reviews.  I guess this could've been really cute back in the 70s but with the poor videography and dubbing and overall "old-school" feel, it just doesn't cut it with today's youth.  Doesn't have ANY of the charm of let's say "A Christmas Story," which has truly stood the test of time.  Just a waste of time and money if you ask me.
2558770
I got nostalgic for this after seeing the new film "Jackie"
It's really dated...so it wasn't as much fun as I had remembered.
465170
I was a very young kid in the 1980s, but I still remember PAC-MAN. It was one of the first video games that we owned and I believe it came included with the Sears Atari 2600 that we owned. MS. PAC-MAN was a bit more fun because it was more colorful and the mazes were a little more challenging. I also remember the 1980s PAC-MAN tv series. Therefore, I was really excited when I had the opportunity to see a promo copy of PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES: GHOST PATROL.

Sadly, like Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, G.I. Joe, and even the Looney Tunes, Pac-Man has suffered from being "updated" for the modern era. The Pac-Man outside of the original video game was a husband and father and the guardian of his village. The Pac-Man of PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES is kind of a bratty teenager; he's an orphan and the last of his kind (the yellow Pacs), but that's no excuse for brattiness. Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde, are still ghosts, but instead of trying to defeat and foil Pac-Man, they're actually friends of his from the "Netherworld". Also, in this series Pac-Man is pretty much unstoppable as he can become just about anything by eating berries from the Tree of Life.

Besides the changes in the characters, PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES also suffers in the animation department. It's not terrible animation. However, it's not all that great animation either. The animation in the episodes I watched reminded me of those inexpensive knock-offs of name brand movies (e.g. there's a movie called WINGS that has packaging extremely similar to Disney's PLANES). There's not much detail or shading involved and much of the scenes lack depth. Compared to the 1980s series (which was done by Hannah-Barbara), PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES is a big disappointment.

I can understand why some children might like PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES: it's got lots of pretty colors, most of the adults are clumsy or idiots, there's lots of silly physical humor, and there's very little storytelling or characterization involved. However, even the 1980s series was based upon a video game and was silly at times, there was some characterization, the storytelling was better, and the animation was of a much higher quality. Therefore, even if you have younger children, I'd recommend staying away from PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES and instead find a copy of the old PAC-MAN tv series instead; you'll enjoy it more and it's better entertainment for the kids, too.
4499360
Feels like a throwback to the 90s, and not in a good way.

The story is your basic beautiful intruder set-up: every-nerd male teen protagonist literally has a beautiful, amazingly talented and/or powerful girl fall from the sky. His life gets complicated. It's been done thousands of times and more deftly than this story, which was a yawner.

The art is slick and professional, but it's blandly so. Completely unmemorable. The girls are cute, particularly the nominal heroine, but not in a way that you could distinguish her from millions of other cute, maid-chic-dressed manga heroines.

Pass on this one. There's very little worthwhile here.
4715994
Back in the 90's I remember buying these things out of our school's vending machine during lunch. Surge was pretty much the life blood of students. However, the reboot is but a poor imitation of it's former glory. When I took my first sip, expecting a wave of nostalgia, I could only feel my dreams being crushed. The flavor was nothing more than a very watered down Mountain Dew, with two extra cups of sugar mixed in.
4871089
Two movies from the war years, no plot lots of stars some pretty good music just the kind of thing to have around when you have absolutely nothing better to do than waste a couple of hours nostalgically.
3196730
I love the 80's and was hoping for an experience with this film like that in 'Mama Mia,' which is fine silly feel-good bubblegum pop with a tissue-paper thin plot.  'Mama Mia' was mostly an excuse for enjoying ABBA again, because your hair's gray now and you don't care anymore that ABBA wasn't cool then and pretty much isn't cool now. I was disappointed in this film for a a number of reasons.  The young leads were fine and most enjoyable.  Catherine Zeta-Jones was tolerable as the moral-crusading former groupie of the mega popular rock star, Stacee Jaxx.  I always like Alec Baldwin and Paul Giamatti and they didn't disappoint as the club owner and the rock star's manager, respectively.  Stacee Jaxx was supposed to be, as I guess, a fusion of Axel Rose, David Lee Roth and Steve Tyler.  Tom Cruise did a fine job acting the part of the decadent decaying and brain-dead rocker.  His voice, however, wasn't there for the music.  To be fair, he sang remarkably well considering he doesn't do that for a living, and as far as I know hasn't ever done something like this.  It wasn't that the vocal delivery was bad.  The voice was just wasn't right.  He isn't a musician and being able to sing the notes doesn't make you one. He's also a highish tenor, which doesn't work with the music he was singing.  That's fine in Journey songs but not heavy metal anthems. The way I thought about his performance as Stacee Jaxx was similar to the way a lot of people who are serious musicians and singers felt about Anne Hathaway's perforance in Les Miserables: beautifully acted and sung with a lot of emotion, but didn't do justice to the music (if you really loved the music.)  Although it's not as common for rock singers to be given credit for having real musical chops, especially metal hair band rockers, the best ones really do have them and it's not an accident. Also the sight of almost-50-year-old Tom Cruise walking around very buffed out and shirtless pretty much the whole time was not as impressive at it might have been. At this point it's self-parodying in a way that I don't think it was meant to be, and made him look both dated and sad, when the emphasis was supposed to be on his being still viable as a hard-rocking sex god.  Trust me, the girls don't love Mick Jagger anymore because his looks are sexy (it's only because he's extremely rich.)  Axel Rose looks freakish since his facelift, David Lee Roth is old and balding.  Both are paunchy and plainly Past It.  Steve Tyler looks like a hairy pregnant pencil, with streaks of gray in his long thinning locks.  However, unlike the other two, he still 'has it.'  Pity Tom couldn't have emulated that quality, although I think that's what he was trying for.

Put your shirt back on, Tom, and SHUT UP.
2882598
I bought these on a nostalgic whim. My father used to love them and I remember enjoying them myself when I was a child. I hadn't seen them in years and assumed they were no longer being made so I was excited to find these and be able to relive a bit of my past memories of my father, who has passed away. Unfortunately, memory didn't live up to reality. These are....ok. They aren't horrid. They are a nice little piece of candy, but over the years, I guess this company has had to cut corners as many have and it seems they did it by lessening the amount of filling. The filling is, in my humble opinion, the best part of the candy so with it diminished, what's the point? If I wanted just plain hard candy, I could get that at grocery stores for quite a bit less cash. They also seem to be very fragile. Half the pieces I've unwrapped have been shattered in multiple pieces which is a tad annoying since it leaves one scouting the carpet for candy shards before they get stuck. All in all, these are ok, but that's it. I will enjoy the bag I got, enjoy the memories but they aren't worth buying again, both due to the price and the candy itself. Save your money and just get something from the store.
3935845
As a fan of Blonde Redhead's work for quite some time, I bought this as soon as I had money to do so. I was so excited to hear this record. I loved their old stuff, I loved Misery...even with how different it was from the old stuff. It was just so beautifully done, I didn't care. 23, on the other hand, is just plain bad. The music definitely picks up where Misery left off, but it's really boring. The vocals are equally boring. There is no intensity at all to this. Not to mention that there is no artwork really to speak of. The red wrap around banner is pretentious to say the least. Open it up and there's....nothing. No lyrics, no liner notes, nothing to really draw people to actually purchase this, as opposed to downloading it. Then again, the music doesn't really do that, either.
948177
The film, however is not back with action and satisfaction.

I used to love Alvin in The Chipmunks as a kid, now, when I saw the film installments I was mortified and wanted to cry in tears. Goofy empty gesture is all that remains in my mind when I think about the films. not a pleasant sight and if you want your kids to recall fond memories, check out the 1980's cartoon series.

Story was stripped none and was just a bunch of terrible movie ripp-offs butchering any possible enlightenment. Nothing in this film is original or even creative at all!

Cinematography is flawless minus the camera movements; lighting fits however.
1925810
Cher, in 1969, looks very 2009 here, only the 60s vintage cars and the lame styles on everyone else in this film give it away as an exploitation vehicle from the flower power era. Cher has one expression here: blank. She is very unhappy about something, her family, I guess. She's a runaway, but with street smarts, or so she thinks. There's a soundtrack here, but it's very unobtrusive, which is too bad because some more Cher tunes is just what this vintage howler needs to bring it alive.