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Yeah. I have TMP on DVD and a rare version on VHS with a few extra minutes on it. I'm currently making my way though TOS and watching it with my mom. We watched City on the Edge of forever last. I pointed out Kirk and Spock were in Mayberry. :))
@Murdock The nacell is a good example of doing maybe too much, though loved the sequence when they emerged from the Enterprise saucer and the path to V'ger started materialising and Vulcan also looked fantastic. The probe approaching the Enterprise looks great too, any extra shots of the Enterprise are always good B-)
Edge of Darkness (2010) My first non-Bond Martin Campbell movie. And I must say I am very disappointed. While Campbell masterfully directed GE and CR, 'Darkness' was quite boring. The directing, editing and cinematography made John Glen's 007 outings look like they were directed by Spielberg. Mel Gibson was good, however, but the film itself put me to sleep.
My problem wasn't that it was too much, my Problem with the nacelle was it looked like they slapped in a low-rez photo in the background. It just looked distracting. Maybe if they darkened it up a bit.
Agree was one of the uneccessary added effects for sure, does not add anything.
Well, the first twenty minutes. OMFG was it crap. I *NEVER* turn a movie off without watching the whole thing, so this is a first. Piss on my legends, why dontcha? I tolerated a lot for the first one, but this is just so full of tossed-in nonsense by committee that I couldn't deal. Yes, it was LOOKING good, it was nicely edited & the FX were okay, but JHC (Jesus H. Christ) could they NOT go where a man has gone before, and NOT as badly or manipulatively??? :((
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I need to go back and do a full Star Trek retrospective. I did one for TMP last year but didn't continue. What did you think of the USS Vengeance?
The Vengeance was just a big, nasty Enterprise E.
As I thought/suspected another sub par Denszel Washington actioner.
It took them 8 years to release this sequel nobody wanted. But hey, if it works for Freddy, Michael and Jason, why not for the corn kids? Well, for starters because the first COTC had hardly been worth our time. Also, it's not exactly a slasher series with a well-established killer. He Who Walks Behind The Rows had previously been revealed only through a terrible computer effect. But who knows, perhaps the sequel does it better...
Afraid not. The Gatlin kids are now put in the custody of people who are absolutely not repulsed by the thought of these kids slaughtering their parents. Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Well this new batch seems to think they deserve a second chance after Isaac and Malachai had failed to humour HWWBTR. And so we get a few sort of funny sort of scary deaths in the film. But since those deaths are simply not enough, we add extra layers of redundant story. Let's see, we have a wise Native American who explains the whole corn mystery from carvings in a rock. (Because according to filmmakers everywhere, that's what all Native Americans can do.) We also blame a chemical factory for polluting the harvests, a plot point that goes nowhere since it's been established before that HWWBTR is actually real. And we have a father and son that aren't on speaking terms because that sounds kind of fresh and new in 1992.
If COTC barely made it, this one fails tremendously. About 5 minutes in, you just know this thing is going to eat your time without giving something back. Boring, silly and poorly acted; that's my final judgement.
Children Of The Corn (1984): 2.5/5
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992): 1.5/5
Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
Cleanskin (2012)
Get the Gringo (2012)
The Grey (2011)
Some remarks: Both Matrix sequels were good but the ending of 'Revolutions' was a bit complicated, didn't understand everything :(
Rocky Balboa was great, really loved it. Cleanskin was very good, Sean Bean was a badass and I liked that it wasn't a flat-out action movie. 'Iron Fists' was ridiculous, bad acting all round and the special effects were laughable, but the actors, specially Russel Crowe, seemed to have the time of his life filming this, so it was a fun movie nonetheless. The Grey was great, so was Get the Gringo. Only 'Lone Ranger' was just ok, some fun parts but some pretty bad pacing problems.
I would say that this is one of those rare instances that the remake greatly improves upon the original.
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
After two pretty awful films, one tends to lose faith in a property that never really had much chance of being spectacularly good. This third instalment, however, is a beacon of light for me.
Eli and Joshua are taken to the big city - well, sort of - where they get immersed in da hood - well, sort of. But while Joshua learns to adapt fairly quickly, Eli spends most of his time behind an abandoned warehouse where he grows corn. What else do you do when in the city, right? He also manages to get many kids in school under the spell of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Will the forces of evil be stopped in time?
Granted, this still isn't class A material. But the acting has improved over the last one - Eli in particular is a charmingly evil kid - and the setting is far more intriguing too this time. There are actually things happening that will turn out important later in the film, unlike in part II where not much amounted to something. Even the effects have grown somewhat more ambitious. The characters make sense, as do their conflicts, and are fairly interesting to follow around. And certain moments count as actual horror, which is something I couldn't experience much of either in the previous two films.
I don't wish to overrate this film. Even if I called it the Citizen Kane of the Corn films, that would mean almost nothing. But as far as entertainment value is concerned, yes, we have something here all right.
By the way, a certain Charlize Theron makes her début in this film but blink and you'll miss her. ;-)
Children Of The Corn (1995): Urban Harvest 4/5
Children Of The Corn (1984): 2.5/5
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992): 1.5/5
Connery's Bond disavowed & left to rot. What a great film IMHO.
Things seem to be slightly improving. Dimension Films is now in charge which after the success of Scream means there's at least some quality control. This fourth film once again ignores most of what’s come before. We see Naomi Watts, a few years before Mulholland Drive and The Ring. Former horror queen Karen Black is in this one too. The cinematography climbs a few levels higher compared to the previous Corn films and the music, though generic, adds a certain frightening mood to the whole thing.
Despite those things, however, the story lacks cohesion and in fact gets pretty muddled towards the end. Things stop making sense after a while so either you go with the still somewhat creepy mood or you abandon this film entirely. Coasting on the goodwill from part III and being kind of impressed by the photography – considering it’s a corn film – I guess I went with it till the end.
Not a great addition to the corn films but at least a little bit better and slightly more rewarding than the first and second film.
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) 4/5
Children Of The Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) 3/5
Children Of The Corn (1984): 2.5/5
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992): 1.5/5
Inkheart is a nice modern fairytale with as subject books and their readers. Original and fun.
A Most Wanted Man - I was surprised by how mixed the movie audience was. From elderly to kids. The film was alright. It was well made and has an interesting topic.
Cosmopolis (2012) One weird, sick movie. Not the best Cronenberg film but it was ok aswell. But I felt dirty at the end of the film.
Crank: High Voltage (2009) Completly crazy, sick, twisted movie, but it was so entertaining. But you need to switch your mind of completly :))
The Frozen Ground (2013) One of the better Nic Cage movies he made recently. Cage was good, Cusack was excellent. Really liked the Alaska setting.
42 (2013) Great film. Interesting story, good acting, specially by Harrison Ford. The 2 hours went by really fast.
"Overcompenwhat?"
Berenger is sorely missed, even if we do have the return of Richard Miller (Billy Zane; and I swear Zane's mustache is lop-sided), it still can't cover up the blandness of Chad Michael Collins (who is like a bargain Sam Worthington). Miller scores the best kill (I had to rewind and see it again), and there's a nice play on the series mantra of "One shot, one kill", otherwise there isn't much else to mention, even as an action/thriller.
1. Sniper (1993)
2. Sniper 2 (2002)
3. Sniper 3 (2004)
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4. Sniper: Reloaded (2010)
Sorry for the late reply.
Hmm, I'm not too sure but I suppose its the sort of similar to the aggressive style of taken and a bit of Bourne.
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The second picture is absolutely not complete. It includes the bare-bones movies and no Producer's Cut of Halloween 6.
I went straight back to the store and exchanged it.
Anyway, I went ahead and watched them all (except Resurrection. Maybe I'll get around to it sometime). They all look great on Blu Ray and I'm so happy with the purchase! It looks so goon on the shelf too. My only disappointment is the fact that Rob Zombie's Halloween is the Director's Cut and, at least to my knowledge, there is no option to see the theatrical version. This is one of those rare instances where I much prefer the theatrical version. The deal breaker comes from Michael's escape from the asylum. In the theatrical version, Michael takes advantage of the fact that he's being moved to another location and kills the guards as soon as he's uncuffed. However in the Director's Cut, two guards rape a catatonic female patient in Michael's room(!!!) and Michael kills them and gets out through the door they left open. It's stupid for one thing, and pretty uncomfortable too. There are two totally different endings too, but I don't mind that as much as the escape. Oh well, I still have it in DVD :D
For the purposes of this thread, I watched Rob Zombie's Halloween II for the first time since it was first released in 2009 (the only other time I've seen it). It still sucks, I'm afraid. It was a bit of a chore to finish in fact. I hope they have something good in mind for Halloween III. Hopefully it'll be a case of Quantum of Solace/ Skyfall-- they are taking their time to make it good.
The Producers Cut of Halloween 6 rocks. No more squinting to see what's going on with the bootleg VHS! I was never really a fan of the whole 'Thorn' plotline, but at least this Producer's Cut gives us some closure
Other than seeing Christopher Lee back in a hammer film (though in all to small of a part) from the revived studio, I didn't come away all that impressed.
31 Days Of Horror:
Day 1: The Resident (2011)