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Resident Evil: Degeneration, a review by addicted2dvd

Resident Evil: Degeneration
The first ever CGI Resident Evil full length feature film based on Capcom's multi-million dollar game/film franchise! A zombie attack brings chaos to Harvardville Airport. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield - former special forces members during the Raccoon City tragedy 7 years ago - battle a rogue warrior who is seeking revenge against WilPharma and the bio-weapons industry after his family was killed in Raccoon City. The deadly G-Virus is unleashed and a new mutated monster goes on the attack.

My Thoughts:
OK... I thought it may be a good time for a bit of a change of pace. A move from Superheroes to Animated Horror. I bought this DVD purely out of curiosity. Not really knowing what to expect or if I would enjoy it. Even though I found it to be an interesting release... and have some great animation. I found the movie itself to be a bit on the slow side... but it did have some cool scenes. I am not sorry I got it... but at the same time it is not one I will watch too often.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 1/9 - 1/11 on January 9th, 2009)

Severance, a review by Boomstick98

Severance (2006)  

Plot: When a weapons multinational Palisade Defence reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge.

My O: This is my second time watching this film and I enjoyed it a much the second time as I did the first. There are some very funny moments in this film and some really good gore effects. Nothing original about a group of people stuck out in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of crazed killers, but this one does it well with a comic flair.

(From Boomstick's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 2nd, 2009)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Son Goku is the strongest fighter on Earth and pretty much anywhere. Still there are new enemies on a regular basis that threaten to destroy entire planets and Son Goku and his friends fight to prevent this. At first it's the Saiyans, then the Cyborgs, then Cell and in the end the demon Buu. Son Goku has also the help of the Dragon Balls - when all seven are put together, the eternal dragon Shenron will appear and grant wishes that can even resurrect the dead.

What happened before?
Son Goku has been fighting all his life, even in his childhood. He's competed three times in the Great Tournament and has won the last one. He's also defeated the Red Ribbon Army and the evil Piccolo Daimao.

"The New Threat"
A space capsule has landed on Earth and from it emerges the warrior Raditz and he's looking for his long-lost brother, Kakarrot. Humans have no chance when they stand in his way and even Piccolo fears him when they meet each other. Who is he and who is this "Kakarrot"?

My Opinion
I love the mangas this series is based upon. I've got all 42 volumes on my shelf and I read them from time to time. Back when I was in college we started to watch the original Dragon Ball series on a regular basis whenever possible. It was a group event. When I bought the books it happened that we sat in the back row of a boring lecture and we would read them in a row - five people with ascending volume numbers and when finished the books would shift.
It also happened to be the first manga series in Germany where the original reading order was kept and when you read it on the train people would give you strange looks because you read a book from back to front...
But I always liked the earlier stories better. The volumes 1-16 are represented by the Dragon Ball series and the volumes 17-42 by Dragon Ball Z and the latter one became too repetitive. For example: A normal Human had a power level of 5. Piccolo had 322. When Son Goku fought against Frieza the latter one had a power level of 4 million! After that the power levels were dropped again because it became ridiculous. After all, Son Goku still had to beat the Cyborgs, Cell and Buu.
The earlier stories were more humorous and had more fantasy elements in it. And I definitively prefer the manga over the anime because in the series they dragged out the fights to eternity.



(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 24th, 2009)