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X-Men: The Last Stand, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: X-Men: The Last Stand
Year: 2006
Director: Brett Ratner
Rating: PG-13
Length: 104 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround EX, English: DTS ES (Discrete), French: Dolby Digital Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine
Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe/Storm
Ian McKellen as Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto
Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier
Famke Janssen as Jean Grey/Phoenix

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
No technical complaints on this release... both the audio and video look/sound great. The menus are nicely put together and there is a nice collection of extras.Being a fan of the first 2 movies... I couldn't wait to watch this one when it arrived. I had heard that the 3rd movie wasn't as good as the first two... but I must say... I enjoyed every minute of it. There was a couple surprises for me in it. Naturally you meet a couple more X-Men and other new mutants as well. X-Men: The Last Stand is definitely worth checking out... especially if you enjoyed the first 2 movies.



Reviewed: Oct. 7, 2006

(From What Movies I Been Watching on January 31st, 2010)

Rocky Balboa, a review by addicted2dvd

Rocky Balboa (2006/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Sylvester Stallone Writing: Sylvester Stallone (Original Characters By), Sylvester Stallone (Writer) Length: 102 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: DTS: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
Burt Young as Paulie
Antonio Tarver as Mason "The Line" Dixon
Geraldine Hughes as Marie
Milo Ventimiglia as Robert Jr.
Tony Burton as Duke

Plot:
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ ROCKY BALBOA (Sylvester Stallone), reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon (Antonio Tarver) retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son (Milo Ventimiglia, TV's "Heroes") and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. With the odds stacked firmly against him, Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history, a hard-hitting, action-packed battle of the ages!

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Closed Captioned

Brother and I just finished off this one... which of course finishes of the Rocky franchise. While I don't think it was as good as the previous film... it is one I enjoyed every moment of. Even though I hated what they did with the Adrian character, I do understand the reason behind it. Though it is still a little aggravating to see 3 of my favorite characters go... yet a character like Paulie is there till the very end. Just like all the previous movies... I definitely recommend seeing this one. And if you haven't seen the Rocky films in year like I haven't you should definitely revisit the franchise! They are all well worth watching!



(From What Movies I Been Watching on February 13th, 2013)

Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison, a review by Tom

08. Glare

- The detectives and L watch subway survaillence footage of Raye Penber's death.
- Light and Ryuk discuss one of the death note rules
- Watari and L receive a call and learn of Naomi's going missing. L concludes that she must have been onto Kira. And as she was Raye Penber's fiance, they are going to focus on the people Raye investigated. Among these was Light Yagami's family.
- They decide to put camera's and wiretabs in the Yagami house.
- Light notices that someone has entered his room and suspect that cameras were installed. Light tells Ryuk about this after they have left the house. He also tells him about all the tricks he has implemented to see if someone has entered his room. Only one of those has been discovered and resetted by the ones who entered his room. Light gets Ryuk to check for the positions of the cameras.
- Light looks at porn magazines in his room, so that the detectives think he checks for entry to his room because of these. L doesn't fall for this
- Yagami family has dinner and watches TV. L sends fake news report to check the reaction of Light. Light doesn't fall for it
- With a trick, Light can watch the news report without L knowing he has access to a TV. Light writes down names of criminals currently being reported
- L learns about the death of those criminals and survaillence is stopped

Manga: Episode is covered in chapters 16 and 17

Movies: Essentially the same but with some changes. Light only uses one trick to check access to his room and it wasn't noticed. Therefore the trick with the porn magazines is not needed. Also the survaillence takes about a week until Light can move suspicion away from him, instead of only one day. This is good for the character development of Light's father (the lead detective) in my opinion.

(From Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison on June 28th, 2009)