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The Hills Have Eyes 2, a review by addicted2dvd

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
The loudest screams may be your own when you experience this Unrated Edition of The Hills Have Eyes 2 with gruesome added footage not shown in theaters - plus spine-tingling special features, including graphic featurettes and a killer alternate ending!

With even more blood, guts and gore than its shocking predecessor, this chilling sequel picks up two years after the ill-fated Carter family was attacked by cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert. Now a group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against the same blood-thirsty freaks. But this time, the mutant patriarch isn't looking for a quick bite - he needs female breeders to continue his family line!

My Thoughts:
After I watched and enjoyed the first one recently I wanted to check out the second one. I had one friend telling me how much she enjoyed the second one... possibly even more then the first one. Then I had another friend telling me basically that the second one sucked. What am I to do? Especially when I find a couple of the unrated version on sale cheap at Walmart. So I grabbed it.... and figured I will take a chance and decide for myself. Obvious solution. Right after purchasing it I go online and found the trailer for it. (Yes I bought it before even seeing the trailer!) The first thought that comes to me is that I like that this time it involves the military this time. And that did make the movie more interesting to me. But even with that this movie still isn't quite as good as the first one. I definitely enjoyed it... and glad I added it to my collection. I think (at least for me) where this one went wrong is having the majority of the movie inside the dark mines. I did like that the group was National Guards trainees.... but I didn't care for the Lieutenant who was in charge of the trainees. He just wasn't believable as the bad-ass he was trying to make himself off to be. Over-all I would call this one a good movie... but definitely not great.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 5/01 - 5/03 on May 3rd, 2009)

Se7en, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Se7en
Year: 1995
Director: David Fincher
Rating: R
Length: 127 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround EX, English: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
Morgan Freeman as Somerset
Andy Walker as Dead Man at 1st Crime Scene
Daniel Zacapa as Detective Taylor at First Murder
Brad Pitt as Mills
Gwyneth Paltrow as Tracy

Plot:
From director David Fincher (Fight Club) comes the psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of "John Doe," a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins.

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gallery
Production Notes
Multi-angle
DVD-ROM Content
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
This is only the second time I ever watched this movie. not sure why I waited so many years to watch this one again. It is a right good movie. I enjoyed it. I really liked Morgan Freeman in the movie... though I never been much of a fan of Brad Pitt. So that could be part of the reason why I haven't watched it in so long. Beyond that... it is a good story. The DVD release is very good... with lots of extras. It is definitely a movie/release I would recommend.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Anything Goes on February 27th, 2010)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

CSI: NY: The Complete First Season

Blink
The team finds three young women, all of whom appear to have been brutalized in the same way. With a possible serial killer on hand, the only witness they have is the one of the three who survived, but she can only communicate through blinking. Photographs found at one of the crime scenes lead the team to a couple that had sponsored one of the victims, the boyfriend who claims he hasn't spoken to her in weeks, and the owner of one of the buildings a photo was taken from.



The third edition of the "CSI" franchise sets up shop in the Big Apple, where taciturn Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera (Melina Kanakaredes), lead a crime-solving team. Like his counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, Taylor knows that people may lie, but the evidence rarely does.

A vast improvement over the CSI Miami 1st episode, this felt slicker, and the major improvement was a convincing lead actor in Gary Sinise backed up by some good support cast.
The downside is what I found in the other pilot, the solving of the case was just too easy, quick use of lasers to re-fingerprint, and the killer confesses up with no pressure at all, in a Hollywood version of "it's a fair cop guv, you got me banged to rights". In fact I'd go as far as saying based on the 2 pilots of CSI viewed that the suspense and mystery is akin to a scooby doo cartoon. Neither have I warmed to the cast as I did with shows such as NCIS.
But as this is such a popular show with so many people, I am sure that it must develop and the characters become more interesting, so i will definately give the whole series a try in the near future.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 27th, 2009)