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Prom Dress Shop - Braveheart (Special Collector's Edition)
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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
Directed By: Mel Gibson
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361313948
Format: AC-3
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Running Time: 177
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-05-24
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Summary: Special edition video much improved over original
Comment: I had heard that the video quality on the special edition version was better than the original DVD release. On my plasma screen, the original appeared washed out in many scenes, as if the video was too compressed to handle the source material. In fact, the original is one of the worst DVD's I own in terms of video quality. Fortunately, the special edition version exhibits none of those issues, at least not nearly to the same degree. This fabulous movie seems to have finally gotten the DVD treatment it deserves.
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Summary: educational viewpoint
Comment: As a high-school teacher for history and English foundations, I must utilize movies as a visual aide supplement to help them connect with the characters, setting, dialogue... I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
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Summary: An Epic for Sure
Comment: One has only to read the most helpful reviews at this point to know all about the films details that all come together to make this film work as well as It did. Cinematography, SUPPORTING ACTORS, Score, Etc.
And will go down as one of the all time greats and have comparisons to "Dances with Wolves" having the star as producer and Director. My thoughts are to make it a 3 hour epic they spent too much time In the first hour developing the story when they could have cut that part of the story In half leaving us with the same amount of Information and just as much connection to our hero. Also the fact Mel Is playing a guy much younger but does a pretty good job at convincing us by movies end. Bloody, and yet done with a realism. (This Is how brutal war was)
And after quoting how he didn't want to become a Martyr though Mel actually had them put him on a Cross for his "Time of Pain"!
There Is betrayal on many levels, everything a movie need to be an epic
And even with It's flaws you have to hand It to Mel for bringing all these talented people together to make one of the best Epics of the Decade. And the Important thing Is to anyone who has not seen this yet Is It has a Great Political story to It. It's by far NOT violence for violence sake. It makes you think about just whom our Government would ally with and for what reasons.
And are we all just commoners today? This film won 5 Academy Awards for a reason. I just happen to think some of those reasons were political.
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Summary: Very pleased with my purchase
Comment: I ordered a copy of this movie from a reseller and I am very happy with the purhcase.
As for the movie, you don't need my review...This movie is great both historically and aesethically.
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
Comment: Below you will find a desription of the movie. This is my favorite movie of all time.
William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce. Braveheart is the partly historical, partly mythological, story of William Wallace, a Scottish common man who fights for his country's freedom from English rule around the end of the 13th century. The movie begins in the small town of Elderslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, Malcolm and elder brother John. William's father and brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and John then go to a battle between the English and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a English guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Stirling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realizes that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom. In 14th Century Scotland, William Wallace leads his people in a rebellion against the tyranny of the English King, who has given English nobility the 'Prima Nocta'.. a right to take all new brides for the first night. The Scots are none too pleased with the brutal English invaders, but they lack leadership to fight back. Wallace creates a legend of himself, with his courageous defence of his people and attacks on the English.
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Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks, King of England (Patrick McGoohan), has captured Scotland's throne and threatens the freedom of all Scottish people, as tyrannical policies instituted by the English plague the Scots. Initially, Wallace is content to stand by the wayside, yearning for the simple life of building a home and raising a family. However, when the woman he loves (Catherine McCormack) suffers a cruel fate at the hands of English soldiers, Wallace takes a stand against the new rule. With his fierce patriotism and determination, he gathers an amateur but passionately rebellious army. Although this makeshift force may be outnumbered by the English troops, their desperation and love for their land surpass any military maneuvers, as evidenced in the film's breathtaking battle sequences.
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