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Ghost Rider, a review by addicted2dvd

Ghost Rider: Widescreen Edition (2007/United States) IMDb |Trailer |Wikipedia | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Mark Steven Johnson Writing: Mark Steven Johnson (Writer) Length: 110 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Horror Violence and Disturbing Images Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: DTS: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze
Matt Long as Young Johnny Blaze
Raquel Alessi as Young Roxanne Simpson
Brett Cullen as Barton Blaze
Peter Fonda as Mephistopheles
Donal Logue as Mack

Plot:
Johnny Blaze (Nicholas Cage) was only a teenage stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil(Peter Fonda). Years later, Johnny is a world-renowned daredevil by day, but at night, he becomes the Ghost Rider of Marvel Comics legend. The devil's bounty hunter, he is charged with finding evil souls on earth and bringing them to hell. But when a twist of fate brings Johnny's long-lost love (Eva Mendes) back into his life, Johnny relizes he just might have a second chance at happiness--if he can beat the devil and win back his soul. To do so he'll have to defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the devil's nemesis and wayward son, whose plot to take over his father's realm will bring hell on earth -- unless Ghost Rider can stop him.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Closed Captioned

I felt like watching the sequel... but before doing so I wanted to re-watch the original film as it has been a good 3 or 4 years since I seen it last and really didn't remember too much about it. Only really remembered that I enjoyed it. Sure... this movie wasn't perfect... but what it was... it was a whole lot of fun and it looked awesome! And I think that is what I liked the most about this movie. While I did like the story... the effects were just great and a whole lot of fun to watch. It is funny... when it comes to Nicholas Cage... I either like him in something or I just hate him. I don't know why. When I first heard he was doing this I thought well there goes any chance of this movie being any good. But I was really wrong... I found I liked him a lot in this role. I also really enjoyed Sam Elliot in his role.




(From What Movies I Been Watching on August 24th, 2012)

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, a review by Tom

Title: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
Year: 2003
Director: Phil Tippett
Rating: 18
Length: 92 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital TrueHD, French: Dolby Digital TrueHD, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Commentary, English, French, Hindi

Stars:
Billy Brown
Richard Burgi
Kelly Carlson
Cy Carter
Tim Conlin

Plot:Jurassic Park), one of the greatest visual effects wizards in movie history, makes his directorial debut.

Awards:

Saturn

2004

Won

Best DVD Release

Extras:
BD-Live
Commentary
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

This is your average bodysnatcher movie. Not my favorite kind of movie. Also the direction and acting is below average. Special effects are okay for a direct-to-DVD movie. But I really was bothered by the action scenes outside the building. They had only a few small covers where the soldier hide behind and are managing to keep thousands of bugs at bay while having idle conversations. This is just poor direction.
The story is very unoriginal, but if you like bodysnatcher movies, this one is watchable.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 31st, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Star Trek: The Original Series: Season One (1966/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Paramount Home Entertainment (Germany) Length: 1170 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 1, Italian: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

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Star Trek
1.03 Where No Man Has Gone Before
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Gary Lockwood (Lt. Comdr. Gary Mitchell), Sally Kellerman (Dr.Elizabeth Dehner), George Takei (Sulu), James Doohan (Scott), Lloyd Haynes (Alden), Andrea Dromm (Yeoman Smith), Paul Carr (Lt. Lee Kelso), Paul Fix (Doctor Piper)

Instead of watching the (at the time) unaired pilot with a different crew, or watching the first episode ever aired, I decided to watch the episode which is the second pilot after the crew has been recast with the now familiar crew. Even though this episode is the third episode aired.
This episode has the crew still wearing the uniforms from the first pilot instead of the familiar gold, red and blue uniforms. Also McCoy is still missing. Instead we got another doctor.
I enjoyed this episode. It already shows the potential of the series.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 24th, 2012)