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The holiday season is upon us and for those of you who need to
finish up your holiday shopping, here are a list of direct to DVD movies that
many people do not know about.
| SlamDunk
A movie about a financially struggling basketball
team in the Universal Basketball League who resorts to thuggery to save
financial face. The team brings in three brothers that not great but
bring in the fans. They start taking several flagarant fouls and
ejections follow. The highlight of the movie is when a brother gets
hit in the forehead with a pop can. |
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Operation Bettman
Thirty business colleagues who earn their fortune in
lucrative international business deals involving selling Iowa corn.
They enter into horse racing by buying the most expensive horses and
hiring high priced, respected jockeys. Ignoring the need to hire
good trainers that can help them win mid-level stakes races, they find
that they win once in a while but usually it is the horses who, are well
trained even though they had less money spent on them, are winning the
races. What will happen when the colleagues start to realize what is
happening and how will this business partnership hold up? They
eventually have to move to Europe to run steeplechases and other races
going clockwise around the track. |
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Challenge THIS!!!!
A documentary looking into instant replay's effect on
sports. There are a few interesting things in the movie. A
Florida Little League baseball association is looking into using instant
replay during their games because of an onslaught of parents believing
that umpires are out to get their son or daughter's baseball team by
purposely making "absolutely horrible calls" which frequently turns some
fans into having screaming rages. Another scene looks at how NFL
coaches use that red flag in their back pocket and how effective they are
at it. |
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R@p$ody
A collection of star NBA players suddenly retire from
the league to pursue their dream career- as rap singers. The money
is supposed to be better than in the League. One states that he
can't feed his family on the meager, blue collar, eight figure salary he
makes. They totally ruin their already tarnished reputation and when all
their money runs out the League general managers refuse to sign them and
are forced to go play ball in eastern Europe to be able to subsist. |
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2B or Not 2B
The whole movie takes place in a college
football stadium in California. A band of friends who have all met
in Section 2B over the years are slowly being weeded out because of higher
ticket prices brought on by the university having to pay amateur college
players a stipend for their services. This film received funding
from the Fans for Amateur College Athletes Association of America (FACAAA),
a group which advocates that student athletes are at school to get an
education while participating in intercollegiate athletics. |
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Poker on DVD
This one is for all of you who cannot get enough of all
of these Poker shows that are airing on most all of the basic cable
channels now. For one low price, you get 12 discs that have 146
hours of nonstop, commercial free poker. |
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Long Shot
A puny, weak middle infielder knocks in a ghastly 10
runs in his rookie season. The next year, a surprisingly bigger,
stronger player comes to spring training. This year he has 150 RBI
and leads his team to the playoffs. The most memorable scene is when
he hits the scoreboard at Wrigley Field, a feat which has never been
accomplished. Suspicions arise when after four years in the major
leagues, he hits 1, 45, 60 and 77 home runs respectively. The jelly
bowl hits the floor when he actually hits a home run at Petco Park in San
Diego, where no one has ever hit a home run, but plenty have smashed
stand-up triples into the deep alleys of the field. |
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