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Pretty Woman, a review by DJ Doena

January, 8th


Director: Garry Marshall

Richard Gere    ...    Edward Lewis
Julia Roberts   ...    Vivian Ward
Jason Alexander   ...    Philip Stuckey
Alex Hyde-White   ...    David Morse
Hector Elizondo   ...    Barney Thompson

Synopsis: He's a successful business man. He buys companies, fillets them and sells the pieces at a profit. She hasn't even finished high school and works now as a hooker on Hollywood Boulevard. Their lives cross paths because he can't drive stick. But it's just a business arrangement. She's his companion for one week and that's it. As if life was that easy...

My Opinion: Hollywood fairy tale at its best. Julia Roberts was only 22 when she made this and she looked gorgeous in it, especially in the cocktail dress. But my favourite character in this movie is the hotel manager Mr. Thompson. The way he treats her and verbally sails around the cliffs and when he helps her - it's really great, particularly because he has no reason to help her.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 24th, 2010)

Hannibal Rising, a review by addicted2dvd

Hannibal Rising
In 'Red Dragon' we learned who he was. In 'The Silence of the Lambs', we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the saga of Hannibal Lecter - the one that answers the most elusive question of all - why? Written by Thomas Harris, the best-selling author of the Hannibal book series, this "fascinating and terrifying journey into the making of a monster" (Pete Hammond, 'Maxim') reveals for the first time the metamorphosis of a brilliant medical student into "Hannibal the Cannibal." Good Morning America's Joel Siegel says, "if you can keep your eyes open, you're going to get scared."

My Thoughts:
I admit that I went into this one with fairly high expectations... as I really loved all the other Hannibal movies.  But I did have concerns about this one... it is a fairly long movie at 2 hours... and I never heard of this Gaspard Ulliel that plays Hannibal. And lets face it... he had some pretty big shoes to fill. I did find it to move a little on the slow side... which I normally do not like as I can easily dose off on a movie in such cases. But in this case I believe the slow pace works for the movie. As for Gaspard Ulliel... I thought he did a pretty good job at showing us a young Hannibal Lecter. So over all... I really enjoyed this... despite my concerns.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVD Collection on April 6th, 2008)

The Good Old Days TV Thread, a review by addicted2dvd

My Thoughts:
This is my favorite episode of this series that I have seen so far. Even though I have not even made my way through the second disc of this set yet... this is at least my 3rd time watching this particular episode. It stars a young Drew Barrymore who was only about 12 or 13 years old when she made this episode. In this episode her parents and her neighbors won't believe she is really hearing a woman screaming for help... thinking it is her imagination since she spends all her time reading horror comics (Tales from the Crypt). As I said... I haven't gotten too far into this set yet (only watched 14 out of 65 episodes so far)... but so far... I must say this is my favorite episode!

My Rating:

(From The Good Old Days TV Thread on February 18th, 2010)