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The Green Hornet, a review by addicted2dvd

The Green Hornet (2011/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Michel Gondry Writing: Seth Rogen (Writer), Evan Goldberg (Writer), George W. Trendle (Original Material By) Length: 119 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Sequences of Violent Action, Language, Sensuality and Drug Content Video: Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, French: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Portuguese: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Hindi, Spanish

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Stars:
Seth Rogen as Britt Reid/The Green Hornet
Jay Chou as Kato
Cameron Diaz as Lenore Case
Tom Wilkinson as James Reid
Christoph Waltz as Chudnofsky
David Harbour as Scanlon

Plot:
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a slacker by day, party animal by night... until he finds a serious career that's seriously cool: crime-fighting action hero. As the Green Hornet, he teams up with gadget wiz and martial arts master Kato (Jay Chou) to take down LA's underworld. Also starring Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• BD-Live
• "The Green Hornet Cutting Room"
• movieIQ

This is a film  been wanting to check out since I first found out it was being made. But this is the first time I got the chance to see it. I never watched the original series this film is based on... or read any comics (was there Green Hornet Comics?)... so I know very little of the mythology of The Green Hornet. But that could work for the better since I have nothing to compare it with I have a better chance of enjoying it... right? After watching it I found there was things I liked and things I didn't like. I thought for the most part it had some great action. And I liked Cameron Diaz as Britt's secretary. As well as thought Kato was just plain cool. As for what I didn't care for.... I didn't like when about to fight the red outline zeroing in on the weapons and people. I felt this took away from my enjoyment some. Then I also thought that most the comedy they tried really didn't work for me either. But over-all I really enjoyed this one... glad I finally got the chance to watch it.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: The Blu-ray Experience on July 28th, 2013)

Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian, a review by Rich

Title: Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian

Runtime:105
Certificate:PG
Year:2009
Genres:Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Plot:My Review:
Despite the lack of any perceivable plot, the inclusion of superb special effects, imagination and comedy made this a fairly enjoyable viewing. There is decidedly more action than the original, and the inclusion of Amy Adams (Amelia Earhart) parading around in tight jodhpurs was lip smackingly good.
Great cast that obviously enjoyed the making of this movie, and some nice touches and techniques to amuse many.
Good quality family entertainment, and a rarity seeing a sequel that is better than the first film.


(From December Marathons - DISCUSSION AND REVIEW THREAD on December 3rd, 2009)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

15. Desert Cantos
The Connors investigate the company town connected to the destroyed factory and find something startling. Weaver searches for a survivor of the explosion.

My comments:
The fist half of the show had me bored to tears; too much funeral, too little plot. Around mid-point however the story picks up pace (Cameron finds that the girl John's been talking to is lying, Sarah finds an "evil underground lair"). At the end our party of four realizes that Skynet is way ahead of what they could have possibly imagined, leaving me the viewer quite amazed about that as well. I'll agree with Matthias' review that there is a (relatively) a lot of plot covered and some questions answered, but all that got ultimately in the way of the character development (in an unhealthily unbalanced fashion, I mean).

There is however two lovely bits in there regarding Weaver. The first one when she is having a conversation with Ellison and she gets a little upset because he uncovers her lack of sensibility on the anniversary of "her husband's" death (since it shows her she is is not maintaining a good cover). The even better one is when she interacts with "her daughter", trying to bond and creating an emotional connection. This is something she obviously lacks ability and is therefore an important issue to her. I found the exchange regarding her daughter sitting on her lap a very nice touch!


(because boring us for half of the show)

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on February 21st, 2010)