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BookPrices.net - Reboot 4: Battle Comes Home
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $44.99
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Manufacturer: Adv Films
Starring: Kathleen Barr, Michael Benyaer, Gary Chalk, Tony Jay, Sharon Alexander
Directed By: Owen Hurley
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0702727070334
Format: Animated
Label: Adv Films
Manufacturer: Adv Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Adv Films
Release Date: 2001-03-13
Running Time: 90
Studio: Adv Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-09-10
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Summary: Huh?
Comment: I'm going to add to this later.
But boy did the Amazon Reviewer get a wrong number.
in the contect of teh time of production Mainframe Entertainment was pushing the envelope.
"long strethces of filler" He's reviewing the Twinkie he's getting a sugar rush from - and is paying more attentionto the twinkie.
Criticizing the voice of one of the characters "sounds like George Sanders as Shere Kahn in Disney's The Jungle Book" - I'm sorry if this film frightened you as a child - complain to Disney.
"while Bob struggles to save the cybercity, only to vanish inexplicably" Been a while since I watched it - but since it was pivotal - Bob was ejected by Megabyte through the Web Creature Portal out of Mainframe. Turn off your earPod while watching a DVD you intend to review.
"Reboot inadvertently showcases the limits of the technology" - in retrospect through our 2008 eyes [when I am writing this]. In 2 years I will feel I was too kind bury our reviewer under more of my trash. I will then use the latest slang-tech to crush his misconceived perceptions futher.
"The motion-capture technique gives the characters an unsettling weightless look, which robs their fights and gymnastics flips of any power." Yeah I have to agree with that. Give me Drew Barrymore from the Charlies Angel movie, or Britney without underwear. [I wonder if I'll regret typing this in 2010]
"motion capture is still inferior to limited drawn animation"
AHA! the problem revealed - well I think a traditional photo with "grains" of 1/10,000 of a milligram is finer than a pixel - and guess what it is - why bother with HD - well a photo has more detail than most of us can preceive since our eyes are being destroyed by Laptop and LCD screens. He's a purist - it is what it is. I bet he likes B&W animation better than Color and Film better than Video.
"I yam what I yam" Popeye [B&W Animated Film Sailor]
"grotesque imagery, and ethnic stereotypes are inappropriate for children under 10." This is the wrong PC for a PC animated Sci-Fi Cartoon series.
Go back to writing instruction manuals for Wooden Ice Cream Spoons.
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Summary: Its just not worth it
Comment: Is it just me or do the DVDs seem a little more then just ridiculously expensive? I mean I payed 34$ for season 3 part 2 and I think that that was over priced for a used DVD with only four episodes on it but now I'm looking at some of the other DVDs and there going for like 175$ now I can maybe see that if it was a box set with all the seasons included but its only another four episode DVD. I just think these prices are criminal. there is no was in hell that a single DVD with four episodes on it is worth 175$
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Summary: The Best Show ever
Comment: ReBoot was one of the best shows ever created. I'm furious to find that amazon gave it such a poor review. I am going to right to amazon and insist that they right a better review for this show. It is by far one of the best story lines I've ever seen.
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Summary: very disapointing
Comment: While I'm a great fan of reboot, my second favorite show growing up (transformers was my first), this is outrageous, to charge this sort of price for four or five episodes, and they didn't even release season 1 or 2, I would gladly pay the price there asking if it was the full season, but this isn't worth it.
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Summary: ReBoot: Groundbreaking and Classic
Comment: I'm more than a little amused by the Amazon review for this disk. Apparently, Mr. Solomon has never watched any of the earlier seasons of ReBoot, and is therefore completely baffled by already introduced concepts of the show. While this isn't surprising, it's ludicrous for him to be doing the reviews, at least without doing some research first. Naturally, the third season of any series that includes arcing storylines is going to seem at least a little bit inexplicable to the begining viewer.
Literary critiques aside, volume four of the third season of ReBoot is perhaps the best set of episodes in the series. It begins with "Megaframe", where the series finally returns to our home base of Mainframe, and ends with (what else?) "End Prog", resolving the main conflicts of the season 3 storyline. A great many poignant and funny moments are packed into these four episodes, and the ending is one that still gives me chills every time I watch it. This DVD may be discontinued, but do whatever it takes to see it! Better yet, send letters to ADV, Anchor Bay, and/or MFE themselves asking for a complete box set of the first three seasons. Currently, no distribution company owns the rights to the DVD distribution, so any company could buy them. Let them know we'll buy them if they come!
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Editorial Reviews:
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The third season of this computer-animated series stumbles to a conclusion in these last four episodes. Despite the numerous writing credits, each episode juxtaposes long stretches of filler, where nothing really happens, with periods of frenzied but difficult-to-follow action. In "Showdown" archvillain Megabyte, who sounds like George Sanders as Shere Kahn in Disney's The Jungle Book, prepares to escape in a reddish sphere after a duel with Enzo. Mouse does something on a keyboard that causes tentacles to sprout from the sphere and destroy Megabyte. What she does and how she does it is never explained, and her preemptive strike prevents Enzo from destroying the villain, as a hero should. Simulations of Megabyte pop up in the next episode, while Bob struggles to save the cybercity, only to vanish inexplicably. The first all-computer-animated television series, Reboot inadvertently showcases the limits of the technology. The motion-capture technique gives the characters an unsettling weightless look, which robs their fights and gymnastics flips of any power. The elaborate surface patterns, brightly colored special effects, and three-dimensional camera moves can't disguise the fact that motion capture is still inferior to limited drawn animation. Rated "suitable for all ages," but violence (including suggestions of torture), grotesque imagery, and ethnic stereotypes are inappropriate for children under 10. The show played in an edited form on the Cartoon Network. --Charles Solomon
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