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Blade, a review by Tom

Blade (1998/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia BMG Video, Universum Film (Germany) Director: Stephen Norrington Writing: Marv Wolfman (Original Characters By), Gene Colan (Original Characters By), David S. Goyer (Writer) Length: 115 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, German

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Stars:
Wesley Snipes as Blade
Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost
Kris Kristofferson as Whistler
N'Bushe Wright as Karen
Donal Logue as Quinn

Plot:
In a world where vampires walk the earth, Blade has a goal. His goal is to rid the world of all vampire evil. When Blade witnesses a vampire bite Dr. Karen Jenson, he fights away the beast and takes Jenson back to his hideout. Here, alongside Abraham Whistler, Blade attempts to help heal Jenson. The vampire Quinn who was attacked by Blade, reports back to his master Deacon Frost, who is planning a huge surprise for the human population.

Awards:
Won:

ASCAP Awards (1999)		Top Box Office Films (Mark Isham)
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1999)		Favorite Actor - Horror (Wesley Snipes)
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1999)		Favorite Villian (Stephen Dorff)
MTV Movie Awards (1999)		Best Villain (Stephen Dorff)

Nominated:

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1999)		Favorite Supporting Actor -Horror (Kris Kristofferson)
MTV Movie Awards (1999)		Best Fight Sequence (Wesley Snipes, the Vampires)
Saturn (1998)		Best Horror Film
Saturn (1998)		Best Makeup (Greg Cannon, Perry Germain)

Extras:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

A fun movie, but it has its lengths. It was the first proper Marvel superhero movie and started the trend of superhero movies which still lasts on.

Rating:

(From Tom's Horror Marathon 2012 on October 3rd, 2012)

Appaloosa, a review by Rich

Appaloosa



When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.

Felt like a break from my Oscar marathon and popped in this Western, a buy I had made simply because of Ed Harris being involved as Director and lead actor.
It had all the right ingredients in a currently unpopular genre with filmmakers, but it is not destined to be a classic Western. The storyline is very convincing, and with a very original final act was a satisfying finale. The actual 'two good guys defend a hapless town' premis is rather predictable, but the solid acting and sub-plots move you past this. Zellweger shines in her role as the flirty lady, and Mortensen from Lord of the Rings a surprising plus as '8-gauge' Everett Hitch.
However there are a few things that pull the film down, the direction is rather haphazard and blocky, Ed Harris was a bit too old to be a convincing hard man, the film is unnecessarily long, and Timothy Spall trying to cover his brummie accent and fashion an 'Old West' American accent was laughable, why would they cast him in this??
Overall an okay film, but I wouldn't recommend you break your neck to see it.
 



(From Riches Random Reviews on February 9th, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: South Park: Season Twelve
Year: 2008
Director:
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 310 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: German: Dolby Digital Stereo, English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Dutch, English, German

Plot:
All fourteen uncensored episodes from South Park's twelfth season are now available in this exclusive three-disc set. In this colection, South Park follows the new president-elect from is acceptance speech to his first official duty as Commander in Chief. The boys keep busy helping a pop princess who's down on her luck, negotiating a truce for striking Canadians, and preventing giant rodents from destroying the world. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park!


Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Scene Access

I always felt that South Park got better and better with each season. But this season is a bit of a let-down. Seems like they are running out of steam a little bit.
My favorites in this season are the episode were Wendy challenges Cartman to a fight and he tries to get out of it, and the two-parter "Pandemic", which is a great Cloverfield parody with giant guinea pigs attacking. I think they did a great job with the hand-held camera "footage".
The episode "Elementary School Musical" makes me a little bit curious to watch the "High School Musical" movies, to see if they are really that bad

#	Episode	Rating
01	Tonsil Trouble
02	Britney's New Look
03	Major Boobage
04	Canada On Strike
05	Eek, a Penis!
06	Over Logging
07	Super Fun Time
08	The China Problem
09	Breast Cancer Show Ever
10	Pandemic
11	Pandemic 2: The Startling
12	About Last Night...
13	Elementary School Musical
14	The Ungroundable

(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 4th, 2010)