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Superman, a review by DJ Doena

January, 15th


Director: Richard Donner

Marlon Brando   ...    Jor-El
Gene Hackman   ...    Lex Luthor
Christopher Reeve   ...    Superman / Clark Kent
Ned Beatty   ...    Otis
Jackie Cooper   ...    Perry White
Glenn Ford   ...    Jonathan Kent
Margot Kidder   ...    Lois Lane
Valerie Perrine   ...    Eve Teschmacher
Terence Stamp   ...    General Zod
Phyllis Thaxter   ...    Martha Kent
Susannah York   ...    Lara
Jeff East   ...    Young Clark Kent
Marc McClure   ...    Jimmy Olsen
Sarah Douglas   ...    Ursa

Synopsis: Shortly before the destruction of the planet Krypton Jor-El and his wife Lara send their infant son, Kal-El, to Earth. There he grows up as Clark Kent. He looks like one of them but he isn't one of them. Earth's yellow sun and his dense molecular structure give him powers no Human possesses. As a Human he's Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter; as a Kryptonian he's Superman, saviour of the Human race.

My Opinion: I am a bit torn about this movie. I really like the entire beginning with Jor-El and when his father dies and when he learns in the Fortress.
But when he's the reporter Clark Kent I don't really like his persona. I know that it's THE myth and that he has been portrayed this way in the comics but I've gotten too used to a much more "normal" Clark like he was portrayed by Dean Cain in Lois & Clark or Tom Welling in Smallville.
I'm also not too comfortable with the scenes Lex is in because then the movie drifts too much into a comic style. I know I shouldn't hold that against it - it's derived from a comic after all - but I've got other expectations from comic movies after watching the new X-Men and Spider-Man and especially Batman movies.
But it is still a good movie one can enjoy if one accepts its origins.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 25th, 2010)

Philadelphia Experiment II, a review by Tom

The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Lion's Gate Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Stephen Cornwell Writing: Wallace C. Bennett (Original Characters By), Don Jakoby (Original Characters By), Kim Steven Ketelsen (Story By), Kevin Rock (Story By), Kevin Rock (Screenwriter), Nick Paine (Screenwriter) Length: 98 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Stars:
Brad Johnson as David Herdeg
Marjean Holden as Jess
Gerrit Graham as Mailer/Mahler
John Christian Graas as Benjamin
Cyril O'Reilly as Decker

Plot:Extras:

• Closed Captioned
• Scene Access
• Trailers

I forgot to write up a review for this. This movie was rather boring. I only read bad things about it, but being a fan of time-travel movies I still had to check it out myself.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on June 28th, 2012)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Crusade: The Complete Series (1999/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Length: 576 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
2267 A.D. The battle is won, the war may be lost. After fending off the fierce attack of Drakh combatants, Earth faces an unseen yet even greater foe. The Drakhs have left behind a microbial biogenetic plague that will destroy all life on the planet in five years if a cure isn't found.
From Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Stracyzinski comes an exciting 13-part adventure about the race to find that cure - an urgent and hazardous quest that sends an Earthforce expedition across the reaches of space to explore technologies more advanced than Earth's. The race is on. The perils are many. And savvy, real-tomorrow issues and potential technologies underlie every episode, thanks to production input from forward-looking thinkers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The future begins-or ends-here!

Crusade
1.01 War Zone
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski (Original Characters By), J. Michael Straczynski (Writer)
Director: Janet Greek
Cast

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on April 2nd, 2011)