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-- Studio
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What are the Beach Club Villas (BCV)?
The Beach Club Villas are the 4th Disney Vacation Club resort to be built at Walt Disney World. The 205 unit resort was announced in May 2000 and opened to guests on July 1, 2002. They are located next to the Beach Club on six acres of land.
The five-story Beach Club Villas were designed by architect Robert Stern reflecting the whimsical architecture of oceanfront homes built in the early 20th century in Cape May, N.J.
The resort consists of studio, one and two bedroom villas. All units feature either a garden or pool view. The resort have pastel colors and wooden porches.
The Villas share many of the facilities of the already established Beach Club resort including the valet, bell services, front desk and lobby concierge services.
A statue of Ariel greets guests as you walk across the Courtyard.
The Drawing Room is a wonderful sitting room right off the lobby featuring photographs.
The Breezeway is located between the Disney Vacation Club Kiosk and the Dunes Cove Pool. It features a vaulted ceiling and library shelves. It's a wonderful place to sit and relax and showcases photographs, prints, oil paintings and seaside artifacts.
The Solarium is off the Beach Club Lobby and offers a comfortable waiting area before check-in or your Disney cruise. It's also a nice place to bring snacks from the Beach Club Marketplace to sit and relax.
What's the difference between the Beach Club Villas and the Beach Club?
Disney's Beach Club Villas are a timeshare resort that belongs to the Disney Vacation Club and are considered a "Home Away From Home" resort. Disney's Beach Club (BC) is a Disney hotel in the "Deluxe Resort" category.
Can I rent rooms in the Beach Club Villas or do I have to be a member of Disney's Vacation Club (DVC)?
As with all the Disney Vacation Club resorts on property, anyone can rent rooms or suites at the Beach Club Villas, subject to availability. You do NOT have to be a member of the DVC.
Where are the Beach Club Villas located?
What are the different room options?
The Studio Villas come with one queen-size bed and a double sleeper sofa. Four adults plus one child under age three in a crib can be accommodated. There is a wet bar with under-counter refrigerator, microwave oven and coffeemaker, ceiling fan, color cable television, and private balcony (or porch if you are on the first floor).
The One-Bedroom Villas have a master suite, living room, fully equipped kitchen, and private porch or balcony. Accommodates four adults plus one child under age three in a crib. The Master suite has a king-size bed and private bath with a whirlpool tub. There is a Fully equipped kitchen, ceiling fans in living room and bedroom, stack-style washer and dryer, color cable television with DVD player in living room and color television in each bedroom, queen-size sleeper sofa in living room and a private balcony or porch. One sink is located next to the whirlpool tub. The 2nd sink is located in the room with the shower. The toilet is also in this room, but has a door which can be closed. The Master closet has a small safe for valuables.
The Two-Bedroom Villas provide an additional bedroom with a private bath, one queen-size bed, and a double sleeper sofa. The 2 Bedroom villas accommodate eight adults plus one child under age three in a crib. The Master suite has a king-size bed and private bath with a whirlpool tub. There is a Fully equipped kitchen, ceiling fans in living room and each bedroom, stack-style washer and dryer, color cable television with DVD player in living room and color television in each bedroom, queen-size sleeper sofa in living room and a private balcony or porch. Some of the Two-Bedroom Villas are dedicated (entities unto themselves) and some are "lockouts" meaning a one-bedroom and a studio are combined for a two-bedroom.
Walt Disney World Resort made complimentary Wi-Fi service available in all of its hotels as of March 2012. See our Internet Access page for details.
Where do I check in?
You check in at the Front Desk in the lobby of the Beach Club.
I hear that there are no more room key cards at Disney resort hotels. How do I get into my room?
Walt Disney World has converted their room keys and admission tickets from plastic cards to MagicBands, flexible plastic wristbands, resembling a watch or bracelet, that use Radio Frequency (RF) technology. Your MagicBand is linked to your My Disney Experience (MDE) account and acts as your Disney resort room key. Simply touch the Mickey symbol on your MagicBand to the RFID reader near your room door to gain entry. Read about using MagicBands for park admission, FastPass+ and more.
What are the room prices?
The Beach Club Villas are a Disney Vacation Club Resort. While DVC Members can book with points, you can also rent the villas for "cash" . These are regular rate prices and do not include the Florida Sales Tax nor the county resort tax.
Walt Disney World Resort rates vary by season (there are nine seasons now), and also by day of the week. The holiday season is the most expensive time of the year. It runs from mid-December to early January as well as during Easter Week.
The rates for a:
-- Deluxe Studio range from $441 - $573 (Holidays up to $692)
-- 1 Bedroom Villa range from $598 - $809 (Holidays up to $908)
-- 2 Bedroom Villa Room range from $897 - $1,424 (Holidays up to $1,565)
Is there a fee to park at the Beach Club Villas?
Disney Vacation Club Members - will not be charged for standard overnight self-parking when staying at a DVC Deluxe Villa, regardless of whether they use vacation points or another form of payment. Members also will not be charged to park when using vacation points to stay at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel.
Click HERE for current pricing and other parking-related information.
What time is Check-In/Check-out?
Online Check-in is available 10 days prior to your stay. Look for the special Online Check-in line at the resort's front desk.
Check-in time is 4:00pm. Upon arrival head to the front desk at the Beach Club. Rooms are generally not available until 4pm. Early check-in allows you to leave luggage with luggage assistance, get your Magic Bands (if you don't already have them) and head off to the parks or relax around the resort. You will be given a phone number to call periodically to see if your room is ready. When you call in, answer a few questions. You will then be given your room number and your Magic Band will open your door! OR -- Text alerts are also available, just provide a cell phone number to the front desk cast member.
Check-out time is 11am. Express Check-out is available to all guests paying with a credit card, arrange for this service at check-in. A detailed hotel bill is delivered to your door by 7am. If the bill is correct you simply leave. Your Magic Band serves as a Disney souvenir. Late Check-out of noon can be requested without additional cost (very limited availability). If you need Late Check-out, request it at Check-In and as soon as possible the morning of check out (the number of eligible rooms are limited).
Resort Airline Check-In Service at your Disney resort is only available if you are flying domestically (includes Puerto Rico) on specific airlines It is a complimentary (free) service and allows you to check your luggage.
How do
I Get to Epcot?
One of the best reasons for staying at the Beach Club Villas is that you are just a short walk from Epcot! You can exit the lobby (lake side) and head left. You're about 5-10 minutes along the river stream to the International Gateway. As you approach the turnstiles, you'll see the tram area which was originally used to transport guests to the BC/YC and the S/D until the Boardwalk construction began. When you enter the gates, you are in the World Showcase, France is over to your right and the United Kingdom is in front to the left.
There is also a boat that provides service for the Boardwalk and the BC/YC and Swan and Dolphin ...however this loop could take up to 20 minutes and often the walk is much quicker. Epcot boats are on the left side of the dock when facing the water (you don't need to remember that - there are signs.)
If Epcot's World Showcase doesn't open as early as Future World does and I can only enter Epcot through World Showcase, how do I get to Future World?
The turnstiles at the International Gateway are open for Epcot resort guests. Once inside the park gates, turn left to walk to Future World. The closed area of World Showcase is roped off and there is a Cast Member there to guide you if you have questions. This is also a great time to photograph the United Kingdom and Canada pavilions since there is very little traffic.
You may also travel to Epcot via water craft. On the lake side of the YC/BC/V is the transportation boat dock. Here you can board the boat that will take you to the Disney's Hollywood Studios as well as Epcot. Note that this boat makes additional stops for guests at the Boardwalk resort and Swan and Dolphin.
How do I get Everywhere Else?
Magic Kingdom - Exiting the Beach Club front lobby (parking lot side), turn left to go to the Bus Depot. You can take a bus directly to the Magic Kingdom from here. The bus also stops at the Yacht Club and Boardwalk Resorts.
If you are already in Epcot, you can go to the monorail by exiting through Future World and take the monorail to TTC. From there you can go to the Magic Kingdom or any of the hotels. If you are coming from the Magic Kingdom, you can take the monorail to Epcot, walk through Future World into World Showcase (on the right or Canada side) and proceed to the BC/YC.
Animal Kingdom - There is bus service from BCV to AK. The AK bus *does* stop at the Swan and Dolphin, in addition to YC, BC/V, and BW. Don't be surprised if you bus to/from the Animal Kingdom also makes a stop at the Blizzard Beach water park.
Disney Springs and Typhoon Lagoon Water Park- Go to the Bus Depot for transportation. The same bus that goes to Disney Springs may very well take you to Typhoon Lagoon. Some trips were non stop and some went via DD. There is a separate bus for Blizzard Beach. Buses also travel to the Yacht Club and Boardwalk.
Disney's Hollywood Studios - On the Waterside of the YC/BC/V is the transportation boat dock. Here you can board the boat that will take you to Disney's Hollywood Studios as well as Epcot. Note that this boat makes additional stops for guests at the Boardwalk resort and Swan and Dolphin. You can also walk to Disney's Hollywood Studios via the walkway behind the Boardwalk Villas.
Note that the hotel bus service route include stops at the Boardwalk and Yacht Club and then Beach Club. Some Bus runs include stops at the Swan and Dolphin others do not. The water routes include one stop for the Yacht and Beach Club Marina, the Boardwalk, and the Swan and Dolphin.
Can I watch IllumiNations or Fireworks from the BCV?
A few of the BCV rooms on the fifth floor face Epcot's World Showcase. These rooms do have an obstructive view of IllumiNations (only the high fireworks).
You can sit on the Beach and see the high Fireworks from IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth. With the addition of the bridge to the Boardwalk, there is another good viewing area for the IllumiNations Reflections of Earth Fireworks. You can also see the fireworks from Disney's Hollywood Studios. Walk over the to Boardwalk and stand near the BoardWalk Fries vendor cart and you can see the fireworks from MK too!
Another option is to rent a Pontoon Boat for an Illuminations Cruise . This does cost $$$.
What are the restaurants like?
The BC resort area has quite a variety of restaurants to fit your dining needs:
Beaches and Cream is a '50s-type shop serving burgers, hot dogs, soups, grilled cheese, and of course ice cream. It is small and noisy but fun. There is also "To Go" line and most menu items can be carried out. There are a few small tables and chairs outside Beaches and Cream you can also sit at. Don't be surprised to encounter waits for a seat inside. You will be given a pager. Do check, though, because seating is sometimes available at the counter.
The Cape May Cafe hosts a daily character breakfast buffet (7:30 - 11:00) featuring Beachy Goofy and his friends. In the evening, the Cafe hosts a Sea Lovers buffet known as the Clam Bake! No characters are at dinner.
Beach Club Marketplace - Offers light quick service foods, grab and go items as well as homemade gelato!
There is also a lounge, Martha's Vineyard. Martha's is open evenings only.
Hurricane Hanna's Waterside Bar and Grill - is a poolside full service bar which also serves food (burgers, hot-dogs, etc.).
Room Service is available for Beach Club Villa guests.
Less than a two-minute walk away is the Yachtsman Steakhouse at the Yacht Club. The Ale & Compass Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Yacht Club also has the Crew's Cup Lounge where you can get alcoholic beverages and light snacks. Within walking distance are the Dolphin/Swan, Boardwalk and all the Epcot restaurants.
What are Rapid Fill Mugs?
The Rapid Fill beverage program allows Disney Resort guests to buy (or receive as part of the Disney Dining Plan) a resort mug that can be refilled for a certain period of time as designated at time of purchase. These mugs are enhanced by an RFID bar code that enables the mug to deactivate when the designated time is complete.
What is the pool like?
The Beach Club Villas have their own quiet pool called Dunes Cove, complete with a heated spa and a pool building with lockers and restrooms. The quiet pool has it's own supply of towels but no lifeguard. You also have access to Stormalong Bay, a three-acre mini water park featuring a "ship-wreck" water slide, hot tubs, and whirlpools.
Is Stormalong
Bay as great as everyone says?
It sure is! Where else can you bask in the warm sun in such beautiful surroundings and still have SAND in the bottom of the pool. Take a look at our Stormalong Bay Photos.
There are actually several sections to the pool; the BC and YC sections are separate and different so be sure to try both. There is a deep circular area with jets that push you like a river current around the pool. There is also the larger area where the the water slide empties out. The water slide is not to be missed but sometimes the line gets long. In addition, the *sinking sand* area delights both kids and adults. There are several 'hot tubs' located in secluded locations around Stormalong Bay . A separate wading pool area (yes with sand) is located near the ShipWreck water slide entrance for small children and includes a kids water slide. StormAlong Bay is over 3 acres large.
During 1997, a white fence was built to surround the StormAlong Bay complex. This was done due to the large amount of non-resort guests that were using the pool. Access to the Pool area is now extremely limited; one entrance is just outside Martha's Vineyard; one entrance at the Yacht Club ; and one entrance near Hurricane Hanna's. To visit Hurricane Hanna's you must carry your resort ID with you in order to return to the pool area. Each person in the party does not need their ID to enter (if you all enter together) but keep in mind you need the ID if you exit and reenter the Pool area! You do get stamped upon entering.
There is a beach shack which rents tubes and noodles, suntan lotion, film and you can get your towels here (towels are free, the other items are not).
For those on your first or last day at the Beach Club Villas, there is a restroom next to Beaches and Creams where you can change into bathing suits. You just have to make sure that you have already been given your your Resort ID at the front desk.
While the quiet pool is open 24 hours/day, StormAlong Bay has seasonal hours.
types of recreational options do I have?
Be sure to request the Recreational Activities flyer. There may be activities like Water Volleyball, Campfire Sing-along, or Movie Under the Stars.
Marina: boat rentals for enjoyment of the waterways; bicycles
and recreation equipment for rent; tennis court, volleyball, and croquet.
Please note: Bayside Marina is located on Crescent Lake in front of
Disney's Yacht Club Resort, just a short walk from Disney's Beach
Club Villas.
Ship Shape Health Club: a state-of-the-art fitness facility with equipment for complete circuit and free-weight training. Beach Club resort guests (age 14 and older) can use the fitness center at no additional charge for the duration of their stay. A parent or legal guardian must accompany children under 17. In addition, Disney Vacation Club members will be allowed to use the fitness center at any Disney Vacation Club resort, as long as they are staying at a Walt Disney World resort. Guests of other Disney resorts may do so for $12 per day, based on availability. The purchase of a spa treatment includes use of the adjacent fitness center for the day of treatment.
Jogging - Jogging route maps are available from Guest Services or the Ship Shape Health Club.
Volleyball - a sand court is located on the Beach Club water side of the complex. Equipment use is complimentary for BC/V & YC guests and may be obtained at the StormAlong Bay Towel Window.
Lafferty Place Arcade - is located next to the Beaches and Cream Soda Shop.
Courts - 2 lit, hard surface courts are available complimentary
to BC/YC guests. The courts are on the Beach Club side
and are open from 7am to 10pm daily. Complimentary equipment rental
for BC/V & YC guests are available at the StormAlong
Bay Towel Window.
What type
of child care options are available?
See the Child Care FAQ for up-to-date information on child care options available.
is the gift shop like?
The Beach Club Marketplace is off the main Beach Club lobby next to the elevators. Here you will find Logo merchandise for the Disney Vacation Club, Beach Club and WDW as well as swimwear and resort wear (not cheap!), books, sundries, suncare, candy, some snacks and same day film processing. The Yacht Club also has the Fittings and Fairings Clothes and Notions store located off its main lobby. If you still can't find what you are looking for check the Swan and Dolphin and Boardwalk stores.
Is there
someplace to get a hair cut?
Yes, Periwig's is located next to Ship Shape Health Club between the Yacht and Beach Clubs . It is open Monday through Saturday from 9-6 and Sundays from 10-6.
What other
things might I want to know?
While you can relax on the beach of Crescent Lake, you are not allowed to swim in it.
On the water side of the BCV on the public walkway, you may find a portable espresso and frozen drink bar as well as tattoos and hair braiding booths.
Ask about the Scavenger Hunt (Disney Trivia) at Guest Services.
The Bayside Marina near the Yacht Club also offers a special Albatross Treasure Cruise for children ages 4-10. Click HERE for more details.
If you can fit it into your schedule, do take the monorail Epcot - TTC loop so that you can see the sites...(especially at night, the lights are really pretty.)
The Beach Club Marketplace has an "Artist of the Day" program for kids. They get to color a Disney drawing and it just may be selected for the Artist of the Day Bulletin Board.
How do
I get to the Beach Club Villas?
Take I-4 to Exit 67. Follow signs to Epcot Resorts/Disney's Hollywood Studios. Turn right at the 5th traffic signal (Epcot Resorts Blvd) and Disney's Beach Club will be about 1 mile on the right. Due to construction at the WDW resort, directions may change. Be sure to follow road signs.
The Beach Club Villas are located at 1800 Epcot Resorts Blvd. Lake Buena Vista, FLA 32830. Main number is 407-934-8000 and the Fax - 407-934-3850.


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Here it is, Pachter's big unit sales prediction for the Wii U! Plus, will we ever see a new PlayStation Eye?
Haha, even Pachter has changed his tone..lol. He said they will sell out of every unit they make. He estimated 3.6 million they were able to produce.
He is right for once on one thing though: Wii U will sell out!! :P
Why does he get paid? seriously??
I have seen fortune cookies out do him.
... What? He completely changed what he said last time, the numbers keep going up! lol This guy is so full of it, why do I even bother? I'll be picking mine up tomorrow!

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he is secretly a comic actor playing the president in a critically-acclaimed satirical British television show about middle-management culture right now we are losing the future, to THE POLITICO, and this was sort of a "half-time speech."
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"That was a tough speech to sit through and try to stomach. His theme last night was 'WTF'—'Winning the Future.' I thought, okay, that acronym is spot on. There were a lot of WTF moments throughout that speech,"
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Efficacy data for a reservoir intervaginal ring (IVR) using slow release tenofovir disoproxil fumerate (TDF), developed to deliver a daily dose of 2.4 mg/day over 28 days, was presented at CROI 2013 by James Smith from the CDC Atlanta, in an oral presentation and a poster.1,2
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LONDON (AP) — An escalation in tensions in the Ukrainian region of Crimea rocked European markets Thursday before a calm open on Wall Street helped ease the nerves.
Investors became concerned that the crisis in Ukraine was taking a more dangerous turn following reports that pro-Russia gunmen seized control of local government buildings in Crimea. Russia, meanwhile, scrambled fighter jets to patrol its border and reportedly gave shelter to Ukraine's fugitive president.
Over the past couple of weeks, investors had monitored developments in Ukraine with a degree of nonchalance. Now they are worrying that Russia may be drawn in. Geopolitical concerns tend to prompt investors to search out the sanctuary of safe haven assets such as gold and the dollar in place of stocks.
"Uncertainty in Ukraine has put traders on high alert," said David Madden, market analyst at IG.
That was particularly evident in Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, was down 10 percent at 11 per U.S. dollar, having earlier touched a record low of 11.25. In Russia, the RTS stock index was down 2 percent.
Elsewhere in Europe, Germany's DAX closed down 0.8 percent at 9,588.33 while the CAC-40 in France ended flat at 4,396.39. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares managed to eke out a gain, closing 0.2 percent higher at 6,810.27.
Europe's main indexes had been trading far lower earlier in the session before a solid start on Wall Street in the wake of upbeat earnings from the likes of J.C. Penney and Best Buy contained the selling. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.3 percent at 16,247 while the S&P 500 index rose 0.2 percent to 1,850.
Market confidence improved after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen suggested U.S. interest rates will remain low well after the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 percent and that the central bank is not on a preset course in withdrawing its stimulus.
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Worries about the situation in Ukraine kept gold supported through the day and it an ounce of the metal was trading 0.4 percent higher at $1,333.30. Elsewhere, the euro recovered to trade 0.2 percent higher at $1.3717.
Earlier in Asia, shares were mixed with most of the news reports over Crimea coming after the close.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1.7 percent to 22,828.18 and Seoul's Kospi added 0.4 percent to 1,978.43. Markets in Southeast Asia were also mostly higher and China's Shanghai Composite added 0.3 percent to 2,047.35. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index edged 0.3 percent lower to 14,923.11.


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|Tuesday, 21 September 1999
This spring brought to theatres a genre-reinventing, good-grief-never-saw-that-before science-fiction blockbuster, 'The Matrix.' It has now reached DVD with more than the usual complement of bells and whistles, making it all the tastier.
Dark adventure in cyberspace has been around for awhile now -- on bookshelves, it's a field unto itself, with William Gibson as the acknowledged king of the genre. However, previous efforts to dramatize such material (everything from 'Tron' to 'Johnny Mnemonic' to the recent 'The 13th Floor') have dropped the ball one way or another. Part of the problem has been giving the stories urgency -- how do you get a life-or-death situation out of something that's only happening inside a computer program -- and another part has been lame characterizations and motivations.
Enter the Wachowski brothers, Andy & Larry, writers and directors of 'The Matrix,' their second film. Their first film, the low-budget thriller 'Bound,' proved that the Wachowskis have a handle on human idiosyncracies, intricate plotting and black humor. All of these come into play in 'The Matrix,' providing a touchstone for viewers to care about what's happening beyond the considerable visual dazzle. The Wachowskis have also licked the virtual reality conundrum by giving the computer universe consistent, coherent rules and a clear, scary link to the flesh-and-blood realm. Their mythos is a cornucopia of conceptual nerviness, supported by groundbreaking special effects and stunt work.
While most DVD viewers of 'The Matrix' may already be familiar with its central plot twist, we won't give it away here. Suffice to say the story follows computer programmer Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), who moonlights as a hacker with the nomme de web Neo. Neo is simultaneously recruited by two mysterious groups. One is led by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), a charismatic, enigmatic messiah type. The others are the Agents, whose chief rep is Smith (Hugo Weaving). Neo is fascinated by Morpheus, but he hasn't got a clue what he's in for when he agrees to let the other man show him "the truth." Suffice to say, computers have managed to mess things up a lot more than anyone has guessed.
Much of the charm of 'The Matrix' comes from its "wouldn't this be cool?" factor. The movie mischievously proposes that it might be a positive thing to be able to simply pop in a diskette into one's head to improve knowledge and coordination. (A highlight in Chapter 14 involves Neo instantaneously assimilating martial arts skills.) The film also has some wonderfully weird, creepy transformations and thrilling accelerated fight sequences, as well as a weapons-acquiring sequence that compares favorably with similar classic segments in films of the past. The Wachowskis also know that the best way to get the audience to care about the characters is by proving to us that the characters care about each other, which they do in a manner that is concise but dramatically compelling.
The look of 'The Matrix' alternates between subtle sterility, 'Blade Runner' murky urban grunge and Rene Magritte surrealism. Horror imagery is used sparingly but powerfully, with a couple of real eye-openers in Chapters 6, 7 and 9. The sound effects are terrific throughout (though some of the dialogue is arguably a bit low in the mix). Aural standouts are major firefights in Chapters 23-24 and 29-30, which are realistic, loud and intense enough to knock an unwary viewer over backwards.
The DVD is rich with supplemental material. The menu comes up before the film does, with Morpheus' intriguing greeting, "Welcome to the real world." If no selection is made immediately, a mini-trailer, with major stunts and effects from the film, unspools while decisions are made. First-time 'Matrix' watchers are advised to watch the film through once before playing with the DVD's many toys. This reviewer's personal favorite is the "White Rabbit" version. This requires going into Special Features, clicking on the "Dream World" icon, then clicking on "continue," until reaching the "White Rabbit" option. Superficially, this is the same as what you get as the upfront "Play Movie," except that a little white rabbit pops up from time to time (inevitably in major effects sequences) in the lower-right-hand corner of the screen. A click on the bunny will bring up a mini-documentary -- some of which last up to five minutes -- on the sequence at hand. These are excitingly scored and edited, but there is no narration -- we're expected to figure out things for ourselves. The DVD then automatically returns to the exact moment where it departed the film.
The white rabbit first appears in Chapter 1, treating us to a how-to session on the heroine's literally flying leaps. Chapter 10 demonstrates that what looks like a gooey, disgusting process in the story was pretty gross on set as well. Chapter 15 has some nifty martial arts sparring involving both the leads and a stunt team (one of whom goes through his paces wearing a neck brace). Chapter 24 captures a wonderful between-takes moment with the two directors and Fishburne, who jokes, "I'm tired. What've you got that's easier?"
Other features are a more conventional but still entertaining "making of" documentary originally aired on HBO, two separate commentary tracks (one with actress Moss, the editor and the special-effects supervisor, one with the composer) and a separate mini-documentary on the effects.
For those who have DVD-ROM capability, there is still more material, including the film's screenplay, storyboards, seven separate articles and weblinks. One mild word of caution: according to an article in the Oct. 6, 1999 issue of Daily Variety, certain DVD players are having problems with the disk, either failing to run the film at all, refusing to play the special features, or playing chapters more than once. Evidently, these sorts of difficulties at present sometimes accompany DVDs that are also DVD-ROMs. The article says that most manufacturers will provide upgrades and that help and advice is available from the PCfriendly.com website. The only glitch I experienced playing 'The Matrix' on my Philips Magnavox was in Chapter 33 on the "white rabbit" track. When the disk returned from the chapter's mini-documentary and began running the film again, it stammered several times between two shots before smoothly resuming normal play.
'The Matrix' has great kinetic kick, characters we like, a mythos that bends our minds and enough odd, fascinating riffs to virtually (pun intended) require multiple viewings -- even before the glorious raft of DVD accessories come into play.


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Yeah, this article really does suite this season. Nicely done and thank you ever so much for inspirational thoughts!
While reading the article, I was listening to a song by one friend of mine form Latvia and noticed that they overlap each other. Check it out, maybe you`ll also find some inspiration in it – http://krismusic.bandcamp.com/track/act-of-random-kindness
I do absolutely agree that these are those little things that make the difference. Cheer someone up, help somebody when you see they need it, put a piece of your heart into each and every thing that you do – it`s not as hard as you might think, but it is truly rewarding! :)


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The 2012 Muppet Madness Tournament - FINAL ROUND
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- Mary ArlineSaturday, March 31, 2012 at 12:47:00 PM CDT
Walter is wonderful and I won't begrudge him if he wins, but I'm voting for Kermit and here's why:ReplyDelete
Walter represents us, the Muppet fans. Kermit represents Jim Henson. Without Jim Henson, there would be no Muppets. So I'm voting for Kermit as a small way to say "thank you" to Jim Henson.Replies
- Mary ArlineSaturday, March 31, 2012 at 12:58:00 PM CDT
By the way, Ryan, I don't mean to be the English Major from Hell who goes around correcting everybody, but if you say you don't condone people voting for Kermit, that means you don't approve of people voting for Kermit. That isn't really what you meant, is it? I hope not.Delete
Thanks for that catch, Mary! I meant "condemn" not "condone." Thanks for pointing it out.Delete
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"The English Major from Hell" coming soon to cinemas near you, directed by Quentin Tarantino.Delete
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Release: 1972
Country: Great Britain
Director: Alan Gibson
Screenplay: Don Houghton
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles, Marsha Hunt, Caroline Munro, Janet Key
And so we enter the dire straights of Hammer Films in the final throes of a long, drawn-out death much like those experienced by Dracula himself. As has been detailed elsewhere and will be summarized here, by the 1970s, England's Hammer Studios — the studio that pretty much defined and dominated the horror market through the 50s and 60s — had fallen on hard times. The old guard had largely retired or died, and the new blood was flailing about, desperately trying to find the direction that would right the once mighty production house. The problem was that everyone felt like they needed to update their image, but no one actually knew how. In retrospect, though they may have seemed painfully antiquated at the time of their release, many of Hammer's releases during the 70s were quite good and often experimental (by Hammer standards, anyway). Unfortunately, even Hammer's good films in the 1970s simply weren't in step with contemporary trends in horror films. No one wanted to see a gothic horror anymore, not in this new era of slasher movies and stuff where devil worshipers listlessly chant about Satan and then hassle Warren Oates and Hot Lips Houlihan.
Hammer tried to launch several new properties that were variations on their old themes, and several of these showed considerable promise. Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter was a spectacular horror-adventure film that mixed classic Hammer atmosphere with a more playful, swashbuckling tone. Although Twins of Evil is best remembered for the prominent assets of its two Playboy Playmate co-stars, underneath the cheesecake nudity is another very good film. Vampire Circus was one of Hammer's most experimental films, integrating a hallucinogenic, dreamlike state into Hammer's formerly all-business approach. But these films either didn't perform well at the box office, or studio executives didn't have any faith in them. In the end, Hammer decided to return to the same-old, same-old, and audiences got new Dracula, Frankenstein, and mummy movies. With each of these, Hammer tried something at least a little different. The mummy movie, 1971's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, was adapted from a Bram Stoker novel and deals with a mummy's curse but contains no actual mummies. 1974's Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell was roundly lambasted for its ridiculous monster make-up (a hairy caveman design featuring a face mask where the lips don't move when the actor talks), but if one can get past that, it's an exceptionally well thought-out final entry for the series, completing Baron Frankenstein's journey from slightly cold man of science on the verge of a miraculous breakthrough to completely disconnected butcher engaged in pointless, crude retreads of his old experiments.
And then there was Dracula. Hammer's Dracula series started the new decade out with a promising entry, 1970's Taste the Blood of Dracula. The original idea behind that movie had been to, as with Brides of Dracula so many years before, make movie in which Dracula is an ever-present force and invoked name but not an actual on-screen character. Distributors balked at the idea of a Dracula-free Dracula movie, especially when there was no name star onto which they could hook their wagon as an alternate. Brides may not have featured Christopher Lee as Dracula, but at least it had Peter Cushing reprising his role as Van Helsing. Taste the Blood, on the other hand, revolves around young Ralph Bates, an actor Hammer had hopes of turning into their next big thing, though it never really happened. And so Hammer somehow convinced Christopher Lee to sign on yet again for one absolutely final appearance as the count. The result is a great entry in the Dracula series, and sensing that there was still some gas left in the tank, Hammer decided to give it another go. Scars of Dracula is a pretty bad movie, a major step backward after a good movie, showcasing Hammer filmmaking at its most profit driven, but it also stands out as the only film where Dracula is a major character, with lots of screentime and lines. It was enough to do the trick at the box office, and so to the well once again — but this time, Dracula was gonna get funky!
In 1970, American International Pictures — a studio that built a franchise of horror films based loosely on the writing of Edgar Allen Poe by copying Hammer's gothic horror films — released a movie called Count Yorga, Vampire. It was an attempt by AIP to transfer the feel of their gothic Poe films into a modern setting, and a vampire — given its longevity provided it can stay away from Peter Cushing — was the perfect creature for the experiment. You could still deck his pad out in all sorts of frilly Victorian hoo ha, but you had a reasonable explanation for why he was still hanging around in 1970, listening to his old Edison Cylindrical Phonograph device and complaining about how modern music was crappy and modern fashion was ridiculous. Count Yorga also had the good sense to poke subtle fun at the idea of this out-of-touch Victorian character dropped wholesale and unchanged into what was then modern time, as if the intervening hundred years or so hadn't caused the vampire to change in the slightest. Yorga, no doubt with some help from Hammer's early 70s vampire output, sparked a bit of a vampire revival that really came to a boil in 1972. Marvel Comics released their outlandishly ridiculous but imminently enjoyable Tomb of Dracula comic book, in which modern-day descendants of Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Dracula himself team up to battle a revived Count who would explain his entire life history every time he got a word bubble to himself. Only Doctor Strange showcased the potential to ramble on and spew as much purple prose. The comic book was a whirlwind of bell bottoms, tweed blazers, and jumpers, not to mention vampire hunter Blade's bizarre combo of lab goggles, a raincoat, and some swashbuckler boots. When they updated him for the movies, it's a shame they didn't keep the original outfit. And if Dracula's flowery long-windedness, punctuated as it often was by the phrase, "Foolish humans!" and "I, Dracula…" was a little much to swallow, wait until you get a load of Blade running around calling the count a "jive turkey" and "baby."
In the same year, AIP released Blacula, a blaxploitation twist on the Count Yorga theme which, despite the jokey title, turned out to be a very good and thoughtful film that managed to deliver vampire thrills and make comments on race relations, ghettos, and drug abuse without it coming across as overly heavy-handed. Plus the character of Mamuwalde (Blacula, to you) was an exceptionally complex villain/hero inhabited by a great actor in William Marshall. Once again, a movie got to play with the idea of a Victorian era character revived in the modern era — with plenty of light jokes about fashion. Lucky for the vampires, the early 70s were such a jumbled mish-mash of outrageous fashion trends that even a guy running around in a waistcoat and opera cape didn't really stand out, though he could often be mistaken for a pimp. In a classic example of "student becomes the master" flip-flopping, Hammer looked to AIP for inspiration and released their own "vampire in modern times" movie in 1972. The idea was hatched that Hammer, too, should make a modern day vampire tale, one that would easily lend itself to integrating modern settings with classic the Hammer gothic trappings. And since Hammer already had Count Dracula hanging around in the shadows, he was the most obvious choice. Of course, there remained one problem: Christopher Lee was absolutely, positively, entirely unwilling to do another Dracula movie for Hammer, not when he was having so much fun making high quality films for Jess Franco, like Eugenie… the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion, all those Fu Manchu films, and…oh hey! What do you know! Jess Franco's Dracula. I doubt anyone at Hammer was actually worried that they wouldn't be able to get Lee to reprise his role as Dracula. After all, he announced after every single Dracula movie that he'd never make another one. And a couple years later, there he was again, donning the cape and red contact lenses for another go round which, upon completion of principal photography, he would complain about.
So whatever the case, after swearing he'd never do another one, Christopher Lee was coaxed back into the series, perhaps because of the promise that, for the first time since 1958's Horror of Dracula, he and Cushing would be teamed up as Dracula and Van Helsing. The pre-credit opening sees us joining the finale of a film that was never made, but looks like it was pretty good. Dracula (Lee) and Van Helsing (Cushing) are locked in mortal combat atop a carriage that is careening out of control across London's Hyde Park. Remember that Cushing and Lee hadn't been paired together as Van Helsing and Dracula since the very first film back in the late 1950s, so seeing them together again should have been a big deal, at least bigger than a pre-credit sequence that feels like, "We now join our regularly scheduled vampire fight already in progress." But we'll let that slide, because it really is a fantastic opening, and one that can fool you into thinking Hammer's Dracula is back with a vengeance. After both Dracula and Van Helsing keel over dead, a mysterious third man rides up and scoops some of Dracula's ashes into a little glass vial and takes Drac's signet ring. Then, at Van Helsing's funeral, the guy dumps some of Dracula's ashes into a little hole in some far-off corner of the graveyard, and plunges the stake that killed Dracula into the ground. The combination of seeing Van Helsing and Dracula together again after so many years and the high-energy action of the scene is really fun, and like I said, perhaps they should have just made that movie instead. Given that Taste the Blood of Dracula sees the Count transported for the first time to London, a movie in which Van Helsing and the ace bloodsucker tangle with one another one last time on Hammer's home turf would have been a movie to get excited about.
And I guess technically, that is what Dracula A.D. 1972 is, in a weird, convoluted way. After Van Helsing dispatches Dracula and keels over dead himself, we get the funky Dracula A.D. 1972 theme song by Michael Vickers. And here is where Hammer lost a good many of the remaining traditionalists that were hobbling on their walkers out to the theaters to see Hammer productions. Up until this point, every Hammer Dracula theme song had been written by James Bernard, the man who defined the Hammer score the same way Hammer itself defined the gothic horror film. Bernard's scores were bombastic and powerful. But with Dracula A.D. 1972, Hammer was trying to create an amalgamation of their past glory with something new. With Lee and Cushing serving as the links to the past, Bernard's theme writing services were not tapped. Instead, Michael Vickers turns in an attempt to blend classic Hammer horror music with a more modern film theme sound, something more along the lines of Lalo Schifren or Roy Budd. The dramatic shift from the thoroughly old-fashioned Hammer opening to this theme song full of horns and wah-wah guitars jarred many people, though they are lucky I didn't make the movie because I would have accompanied this completely bad-ass theme song with shots of Christopher Lee wearing a black flared-leg suit and platform shoes (and his cape, of course) high steppin' down the street with a magic cane, using it to turn fat women thin and bring dead people back to life in front of grieving relatives. That's right, people. You should be thankful Hammer's movie is what it is, because if I had my way, it would have been…well, it would have been Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law, but with Dracula. Which just makes me think that we really should have had a movie where Dracula is revived, hisses out his token line, "Who dares disturb the sanctity of Castle Dracula?" only to have Rudy Ray Moore step in with a Thompson machine gun and say, "Dolemite, mother fucker!"
After our funky theme song, the action jumps a hundred years to the groovy, mod setting of London in the swingin' sixties. Except, you know, it's 1972 and all. A bunch of groovy young mop tops are skulking about London, holding "freak outs" and the most tame "horribly out of control" parties I've ever seen — and I've been to some really tame parties. Leading this merry band of pranksters is one Johnny Alucard, trotting out the Alucard "puzzle" for the millionth time. We get it! Who, by this time, doesn't get the Alucard thing? Imagine if Frankenstein had tried that instead of just cleverly calling himself Dr. Frank or Dr. Stein whilst incognito. Actually, I guess Nietsneknarf isn't any worse than many actual German words. Johnny happens to be the owner of Dracula's ring and some of his ashes, passed on we assume from his nefarious ancestor from the beginning of the film. And one of his friends happens to be the grand-daughter of the latest Dr. Van Helsing. And if you think they're all going to end up in an abandoned churchyard summoning up Dracula, then you don't really earn yourself a prize. Actually, Johnny Alucard is less a reincarnation of Dracula than he is a cheap knock-off of Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. In fact, many of the sets and situations in this movie feel cribbed from Kubrick's film, which is only fitting I suppose, considering the outfits Malcom McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange.
Johnny (Christopher Neame) convinces the gang that what would really be fun would be to hold a black mass. Having nothing better to do, the gang agrees, in some cases reluctantly so. It is at this point we learn that one of the groovy gang is Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham), great grand-daughter of Lawrence Van Helsing, slayer of Dracula, and current grand-daughter of Professor Van Helsing — played by Peter Cushing, because in movies no one thinks it's weird when you look 100% identical to one of your distant relatives. Genetics tells me that I should look less and less like my relatives the further removed from them I get, but in movies, people are always the spitting image of some great grandfather or third aunt or whatever, and no one ever thinks that is weird. Hell, the mummy built his entire career of resurrections on randomly stumbling across women who looked exactly like their ancestor from thousands of years ago. No surprises when Johnny summons up Dracula during their black mass ritual — which takes place in a desanctified church that happens to be the same place Lawrence Van Helsing and Dracula were buried. You'd think that, given that the current Professor Van Helsing has a portrait of his grandfather in his study, collected all the man's books, and remains himself an expert on the occult, that he would know where his idol and close relative was buried. But whatever. All that's important is Dracula is back and he's going to…well, he's going to hang around the church and send Johnny out to kidnap Jessica Van Helsing, because Dracula knows how to hold a grudge. Meanwhile, as members of the gang disappear — including Caroline Munro (Captain Kronos, Starcrash) and Marsha Hunt (you may recall her hairy werewolf boobs from Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf, also starring Dracula) — the police become increasingly convinced by Van Helsing's tendency to blame the murders on a vampire.
There are a few things people tend to harp on when criticizing this film. The first, most obvious, and dumbest argument is that the film is dated. I think I may have said before that "it looks dated" is one of my most hated complaints about any movie. It's cheap, ignorant, and shallow, and it has no merit as an observation. That a film is a reflection of the time in which it was made hardly strikes me as anything inherently negative, and I detest whenever someone trots out that hoary old cliche and expects us to have any respect for their opinion. Oh, so Dracula A.D. 1972 contains slang and crazy fashion. Big deal. I look at those things as assets more than as detriments. So if your complaint is that the movie is dated looking, well we may still be friends, but I'm certainly going to regard your opinion on any film from here on out with a tremendous degree of suspicion. The second most common complaint is that Dracula is hardly in the movie at all, and when he is, he does nothing. I can understand this complaint a little bit more. Bt honestly, if at this point in the series you are mad that Dracula isn't on screen and doesn't do very much when he is, then you haven't watched any of the previous films in the series, except perhaps Scars of Dracula, which is the only film where he has anything approaching substantial screentime or more than two lines. Not to say that it isn't disappointing. One can't help but want scenes of Dracula cutting lose in modern London, even if those scenes don't involve him dancing down the street with a magic cane. It would have been nice if he did a little something more than stand around in the desanctified church. Dracula's confinement to the church is representative of Hammer's difficulty with updating their image. They want to figure out a way to enter the modern era, but in the end they imprison their title character in a Victorian set and don't ever figure out exactly how to bring him out.
Previous Dacula films have always relied on the rest of the cast, with Dracula looming in the background as everyone's motivating factor. Unfortunately for Dracula AD 1972, it's a pretty weak supporting cast, comprised primarily of inexperienced young actors who aren't bad but don't really contribute much that is memorable. They spend most of their time either sitting around being bored, or sitting around talking about how they are concerned, then most of them head off to a party and are never heard from again. Stephanie Beacham as Jessica Van Helsing obviously has a more substantial role, but only if you consider substantial to be screaming, then being put into a trance. As the menacing Johnny Alucard, Christopher Neame is all right — equal parts spooky and pathetic — but he's basically playing Malcom McDowell, as I said. Dracula AD 1972 is more or less a remake of Taste the Blood of Dracula, complete with the bored circle dabbling in the black arts, the mysterious outsider spurring them on and summoning Dracula, the vial of Dracula remains, the kidnapped woman, and so on. But Ralph Bates was a much more charismatic actor, and Taste the Blood of Dracula had a much more compelling cast of older character actors to propel it forward in between scenes of Dracula showing that he can count to three. Dracula AD 1972 lacks that, and although the young cast is perfectly acceptable, the characters they inhabit just aren't interesting. Plus the jackass who wears the monk's cowl around the whole time was intensely annoying and yet escaped death. Shame on you, Dracula! Shame on you for not killing the odious comic relief.
As the current Van Helsing, it's great to see Peter Cushing back in action. Naturally he goes at the role with absolute conviction. Unfortunately, the character is written as Van Helsing Lite, and most of his scenes are pretty dull. He spends a lot of time tracking down clues to the one thing he already knows. Everyone knows where Dracula's base of operation is, and yet Van Helsing spends half the movie trying to track down clues to the location of Dracula's hide-out, which he already knows! And once again, he decides to go fight Dracula at night, instead of swinging by and staking the bloodsucker when Dracula is asleep in his coffin. Why oh why are vampire hunters always waiting until dark to go fight vampires? I guess a movie where vampire hunters swing by during the day, stake Dracula, then head down to the pub to celebrate wouldn't be as long, but it'd be a nice change of pace. Other than that, Cushing is always Cushing. He comes in and does his job well.
The final common criticism of this movie, then, is that it's not very good, and I guess that's a fair assessment. The script needed more work. You can tell the hip young lingo was written by old men who didn't really know what they were doing. The plot is a bit of a letdown, especially considering that it's the first time Van Helsing and Dracula have been on screen together since the first movie. And despite all that, I really quite like Dracula AD 1972. I like the young cast. I like the awkward attempt at being hip. I like the outlandish counter-culture fashions. I like the attempts at freak-out cinematography. I think the movie is fun regardless of its faults, though I recognize that I may be in the minority here. By no means is this the film to save Hammer, and by no means is it as good as the film it rips off, Taste the Blood of Dracula. But it's not an entirely bad effort and has much to recommend in it, at least for me.
Screenwriter Don Houghton didn't have a terribly deep resume at this point in his career, his primary credit at the time of this movie being a stint as a writer for Doctor Who. And in fact, he had very little in the way of a career after Dracula AD 1972. He went on to write The Satanic Rites of Dracula, and two of Hammer's co-productions with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studio — the crummy Shatter and the pretty good if sloppily written Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, in which Peter Cushing reprised his Van Helsing character one more time, this time on a trip to China to stop Dracula from raising an undead army. Despite the appearance of Dracula in the movie, Christopher Lee did not sign on, possibly because he was too busy making the James Bond film Man with the Golden Gun. But even if he wasn't in the Hammer-Shaw team-up, Dracula AD 1972 was still not the last time Lee would bare his fangs. Once again, the movie managed to be just profitable enough for Hammer to hazard one final stake in the count's heart.


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aw, i am glad you're doing well too.navarre wrote:I'm glad to hear you're doing fine, leahroselover.leahroselover wrote:Its true when my Edward left me I went into my own breakdown, where I just needed attention. I just needed to be told I was special and beautiful. Then my mother talked to me about love and suddenly it hit me. The things I was doing was not just going to hurt me, but my family in the long run (I won't get into details about the actions). He left me on June 17, 2006. In August of 2006 I made myself move on.
Belle went on for months and months.
and like navarre said, glad to have a twilight guy (senorgimp) around here
there's this amazing quote by neil giaman
have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
pretty accurate with bella, eh?
now that i think of it. I feel bad about criticizing bella - i just don't understand her extreme dependency on someone to live. Like the world will end if they die or something....