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Armageddon, a review by addicted2dvd

Armageddon
From the blockbuster-making team who produced and directed 'The Rock' comes the biggest movie of 1998 - 'Armageddon'! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis ('Die Hard'), Academy Award winners Ben Affleck ('Good Will Hunting') and Billy Bob Thornton ('Sling Blade'), Liv Tyler ('Inventing the Abbots'), Steve Buscemi ('Con Air') and Will Patton ('Inventing the Abbots'), 'Armageddon' is a meteor storm of action-adventure moviemaking that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to breathe!

When NASA's executive director, Dan Truman (Thornton), realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make 'Armageddon' an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow.

My Thoughts:
Ok I figured this one takes place in space there about half the movie so I would include it. This is a movie I have always enjoyed. I have heard a couple things online about this movie... about half the people seem to hate it. Or as I have been reading a lot lately is that people are enjoying it although it is awful heavy on US patriotism.  And even though I never really thought about it before I can see their point about the patriotism. Lets face it... this is a movie you can't take too seriously. I mean this is little more then a leave your brain checked at the door pop-corn movie. You have some real characters in this movie. In my opinion it is just fun to watch... no more and no less.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Outer Space on December 26th, 2008)

Little Shop of Horrors, a review by Tom

Little Shop of Horrors (1986/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (Germany) Director: Frank Oz Writing: Howard Ashman (Original Material By), Howard Ashman (Screenwriter), Charles Griffith (Original Material By) Length: 90 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 1, Music Only: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: Croatian, English, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Slovenian, Turkish

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Stars:
Levi Stubbs as The Voice of "Audrey II" (voice)
Rick Moranis as Seymour Krelborn
Ellen Greene as Audrey
Vincent Gardenia as Mushnik
Steve Martin as Orin Scrivello, D.D.S.

Plot:
A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Awards:
Won:

Saturn (1986)

Best Music (Alan Menken)

Nominated:

Academy Award (1986)		Best Music, Song (Alan Menken (Music), Howard Ashman (Lyrics))
Academy Award (1986)		Best Visual Effects (Lyle Conway, Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge)
AFI (1986)		100 Years... 100 Songs (2004) (Somewhere That's Green)
BAFTA (1987)		Achievement In Special Effects (Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge, Lyle Conway, Richard Conway)
Casting Society of America Awards (1987)
Golden Globe (1986)		Original Score (Miles Goodman)
Golden Globe (1986)		Picture - Musical or Comedy (David Geffen)
Hugo Award (1987)		Dramatic Presentation
Writers Guild of America Awards (1987)		Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Howard Ashman)

Extras:

• Commentary
• Featurettes
• Outtakes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

A great movie. The puppetry of "Audrey II" is amazing. And some amazing supporting cast. Like Steve Martin as the sadistic dentist and Bill Murray as his patient.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 21st, 2012)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Elfen Lied (2004/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia (United States) Length: 325 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Plot:
In Elfen Lied innocence and evil collide in some very dark places. As the rooms in kohta's rented house fill with runaways and killer mutants - danger mounts outside. Whether it's from a renegade soldier or a mutant assassin - one wrong move could mean the difference between life and death!


Erufen Rito
1.01 Begegnung: Kaiko (2004-07-25)
Writer: Lynn Okamoto (Writer), Takawo Yoshioka (Screenwriter)
Director:
Cast: English Vocal Cast), Kira Vincent-Davis (Lucy/Nyu (voice)), Adam Conlon (Kohta (voice)), Nancy Novotny (Yuka (voice)), Jay Hickman (Kurama (voice)), Jason Douglas (Bandoh (voice)), Shelley Calene-Black (Shirakawa (voice)), Monica Rial (Kanae (voice)), George Manley (SAT Captain (voice)), Tiffany Grant (Kisaragi (voice)), Chris Ayres (Sharpshooter (voice)), Xero Reynolds (Man (voice)), Kelly Manison (Secretary (voice)), Christine Auten (Child Kohta (voice)), Marty Fleck (Narrator (voice)), Christine Auten (Additional Voice (voice)), Kelly Manison (Additional Voice (voice)), Brandon Peters (Additional Voice (voice)), Xero Reynolds (Additional Voice (voice)), John Swasey (Additional Voice (voice)), Kira Vincent-Davis (Additional Voice (voice)), Japanese Vocal Cast), Sanae Kobayashi (Nyu/Lucy (voice)), Chihiro Suzuki (Kohta (voice)), Mamiko Noto (Yuka (voice)), Osama Hosoi (Kurama (voice)), Johji Nakata (Bandoh (voice)), Hitomi Nabatame (Shirakawa/Child Kohta (voice)), Maria Yamamoto (Kisaragi/Kanae (voice)), Hajime Iijima (Sniper (voice)), Masakazu Kohara (SAT Captain (voice)), Naoki Kinoshita (Man (voice)), Yuhki Hata (Guard (voice)), Aska Tanii (Secretary (voice))

An anime series with a German title. Even the episode titles are in German. The first few minutes of the first episode are one of the most bloody scenes I ever saw in an animated series.
In my opinion this series is a must-see for any anime fan.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on April 10th, 2011)