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It Didn't Take Long
Picked up my copy of the complete series at Big Lots for $6. They have a zillion of them. Complain about the Bond sets so they will turn up there too.
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NOT the 1st and 10 I rembember
This is not what I remenmber about this series, I could not even watch iot with the laughing and cuting away secens. Dont Not Buy!!!!! Wait until you know it is orignal. I bought mine a wal-Mart and I am very Disappointed....
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Better Than Nothing
HBO's first original series has finally been released on DVD, and it is somewhat worth the wait. I was a regular watcher of this show, and enjoyed it during its original run. This package is attractive, since you get all of the episodes in one package for a VERY good price. As other reviewers have stated, many of the episodes are edited, and all of them are altered. The beginning sequence for season one has been completely changed. From what I remember, in the first season, Fran Tarkenton (your scrambling announcer) introduced the main players and plot points at the beginning of the show, but on the DVD's, there are action sequences from later seasons that feature Miracle Miles Coolidge, who didn't appear until the last season. The "Victory's Won" song wasn't used in the first three seasons, I believe that the song "White Lines" was the theme song in the second and third seasons, but I could be wrong about this.
Most of the episodes are still very watchable. The first season suffers the most from the editing, taking the bite away from the raunchier bits. The show really hit its stride in seasons 2,3, and 4, dealing with some more serious issues (drug testing, steroids, players struggling with the end of their careers, and recreational use of illegal drugs). Despite some shark jumping ("Team Picture" and "The Dark Side" in season 4), these were the strongest seasons. The last two seasons mix a more serious tone with the silliness of season one, with a ridiculous ending in the championship game.
Of course, this was an entertaining series, but not great art by any stretch of the imagination. Cheesiness abounds, from the use of pirated USFL footage to the bad acting of the NFL superstars of the day. There was also not a strong emphasis on narrative continuity. In season one, the team's star running back signs a long term contract, but by season two he disappears, never to be seen again (sort of like Chuck on Happy Days). Ty Taylor (Rick Moser) is an openly gay player who is caught in bed with Diana Barrow's husband, leading to her getting the team in a divorce settlement, but in subsequent seasons he's suddenly straight. T.D. Parker (O.J. Simpson) is introduced as a superstar at the end of a great career. Supposedly, he played with the Bulls for a long time and was a teammate of many of the Bulls players, but he was never even mentioned in season one. T.D. also goes from washed-up player, to assistant coach, to General Manager in the space of about one season. The Bulls reach the championship game on three separate occasions with quarterbacks who never played college football. One of them, Tom Yinessa, disappears with no explanation. The other, Johnny Gunn, served time in prison. The team, in the space of about 2 seasons, drafts Rick Lambert (Marcus Allen) and Achilles Byron (the actors name escapes me), two superstar running backs. Lambert is a holdout in season 2. He eventually signs, but he is gone by the next season and we never see him play. Byron was supposed to be a superstar, but he is barely mentioned for the rest of the show.
Interesting notes: AC Cowlings had a recurring role as an assistant coach. Ron Shipp, who testified against O.J. in his murder trial, has a role as a cop in one of the later episodes. Micheal Toland is introduced as a troubled player with a cocaine problem in season one, and he returns as Billy Cooper in season 3, and eventually becomes a troubled player with an alcohol problem. John Kassir, who played Zagreb, beat Sinbad on Star Search.
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Misleading and Disappointing
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Second, the advertising is misleading. It is not as seen on HBO, and as mentioned in other reviews. The rep from Tango is wrong. I've just watched three edited season six episodes. I think all of season four, and all but one of season five, were unedited.
Back to the show itself. The production value is awful. In the early episodes, the stock footage doesn't match the Bulls' helmets. USFL logos are used. Stock footage showed them playing in a dome while the closeups had them outside. You could see their breath! Another goof was stock footage of a night game and closeups of a day game. HBO probably spends more money in one minute of the Sopranos than it did on this entire series.
The acting is bad. The actor who played Coach Denardo was horrible. The characters are stereotyical. Most notably were the Italian mobsters. How far Michael Gallo fell from his role as Pantangelli in Godfather II to 1st & 10.
OJ Simpson and Shannon Tweed are the best actors on the show???
There's plenty of plot holes from show-to-show and season-to-season. See the numerous QBs, TD Parker, and Zagreb.
The best part was actually OJ Simpson's character pitching a tv idea about a football player being suspected of murder or something to that effect.
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Different Stores don't sell edited versions.
Okay, I bought this at Best Buy for about $16.99 plus tax. Heck of a bargain! But the main reason I wrote this review was to respond to some ignorant posts I had read. Particulary to the one about how Walmart "edits" their DVD's. Are you crazy? Are you even thinking? Why would a low cost store take the "time" (pronounced "money") to produce their own versions of DVD's? For one thing, they sell "The Soprano's." And do you think they edit all their DVD's of the Sopranos? I don't think so.
They also sell Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Do they edit out the swear words from the main characters of that videogame? Do they even have the means to do such a thing? I don't even think most of their employees (including their Corporate office) has much more than a High School degree!
I bought the Beastie Boy's CD "No Sleep 'til Brookly" and no lyrics were edited. In fact, when I asked, the clerk told me they would only sell the edited version, so as you can see, even their store employees don't know what the hell they're talking about!
I really can't believe how ignorant you sound claiming that some store, on their own accord, edits and sells a DVD set? You are very ignorant, and quite inept at understanding production and marketing costs!
Walmart "editing" their products is a dumb "Suburban legend" that only very ignorant country folk believe. Stop spreading rumors, and use your brain before posting such tripe! The world will be better off. Thank you.
Stick with Amazon and other fine retailers! And if you feel like buying from Walmart, do so, but stop making incorrect assumptions about their products.
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