Visions Of Nature - American Desert DVD

Advantages: fairly interesting lone scenes
Disadvantages: long...long...long

...Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Cristopher Noth As a screenwriter or director, there’s little you can do with a man on a desert island. Unless a shark slithers up the beach to eat him, a nuclear bomb drops on his head or he discovers God (or possibly all three at once), you’re stuck with him learning to break open coconuts, spear fish with twigs and experience something akin to religious ecstasy when he learns how to create fire. And Tom Hanks does all of those, many many times. (One of the few highlights has Tom removing a bad tooth with an ice-skate.) Hanks plays a FedEx systems engineer who trots the globe to teach uncomprehending non-Americans how to set up what is effectively a post office, and on one of his zealous missions his plane opts to plunge into the sea. Cue desert island which Tom escapes four years later... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing bushcraft survival tips
Disadvantages: Price

...In the second season of bushcraft survivel Ray Mears go to America, Sweden and explores the beautiful landscapes and animals. He displayes some amazing bushcraft skills on and of water, shows you some things you need to know to survive, e.g. start a fire with sticks. He also journey's into the past of American, learning how the people survived. In Sweden he learns how the local people used to make skis, extracts pine tar from trees and goes out into the snowy desert. Season two is one of the best survival documentaries ever made not only teaching you how to survive but also showing the people who had to endevour these hostile lands. With the DVD comes 60 minutes of extra footage on things like how to light a fire and sharpening an axe. In short this is a must have DVD if you love nature.... Read review

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Advantages: Twisted, anarchic, darkly hilarious...
Disadvantages: Incomprehensible if you're not in on the joke.

...-throb to drug addled weirdo, while Del Toro bloats out as the maniac attorney. There are a few cameos to be spotted (Cameron Diaz pops up) but it's mainly our two boys creating chaos. The nature of the movie is very episodic - the blast across the desert to Vegas; gate crashing Debbie Reynolds; intimidating a waitress in a grotty diner - and if you're not in the right groove, you're not going to feel at home here. Gilliam successfully turns Vegas into a warped netherworld of neon, lizards and nightmarish visions, although doesn't seem to trust his creation to stand alone. He counters this by having Depp read virtually the whole book as a slurring voice over, but unless you're familiar with the source material, this might not help much! However, despite all the booze and guns and drugs and vomitting, the book's essential poignancy remains. Here... Read review

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