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Flakes, a review by Tom

Title: Flakes
Year: 2007
Director: Michael Lehmann
Rating: NR
Length: 81 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Aaron Stanford
Zooey Deschanel
Christopher Lloyd

Plot:
Miss Katz (Zooey Deschanel) desperately wants her boyfriend to ditch his dead-end job at Flakes--a bohemian cereal shop. So when an eager young businessman opens a rip-off version of this beloved neighborhood hang, Miss Katz joins the competition to bury Flakes. Stand-offs, sit-ins, pranks and clever revenge will result in victory for one half of the feisty couple, but it may just leave their relationship all soggy!

Extras:
Deleted Scenes
Trailers

Another movie I am disappointed in. I bought it, because I am a fan of Zooey Deschanel and Christopher Lloyd. The movie feels like a Clerks ripoff without the witty dialog. Christopher Lloyd plays essentially his Taxi character.
Next I will have to watch a movie I know I like from my unwatched pile before I loose interest in this marathon

Rating:

(From Two-Weeks Movie Marathon: Unwatched Movies on August 16th, 2008)

Twilight, a review by addicted2dvd

Twilight (2008/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Summit Entertainment Director: Catherine Hardwicke Writing: Melissa Rosenberg (Screenwriter), Stephenie Meyer (Original Material By) Length: 122 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Some Violence and a Scene of Sensuality Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Music Videos

This is a film that was given to me back when it originally came out... was a birthday present. I have watched it before.... but didn't think much of it. Since part 2 was recently given to me I decided to give this one another chance and remind myself of what happened before watching part 2. After watching it this time I will say it is a watchable film. Really nothing more then average. I can accept the whole teen-angst thing... I can also handle the whole romance thing. But being the huge vampire fan... I can't handle is their take on the vampire lore. While I can appreciate that there is a lot of versions of the vampire myth... this one more then stretches it to it's limits. There is certain aspects of vampires that shouldn't be messed with. I have mixed feelings on the whole baseball game during the thunderstorm... part of me found it to be entertaining... but another part of me just found it to be silly. At least the end of the baseball game brought in a little of a horror aspect into the film. This storyline is what really kept my interest. Makes the film bearable for me.



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

Blood Ties Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1.-2.Blood Prince Parts 1 & 2
Part 1
When ex-cop turned private investigator, Vicki Nelson, happens upon the scene of a terrifying murder, she's hired by the victim's girlfriend to prove that her boyfriend was killed by a vampire. As Vicki pursues the investigation further, she crosses paths with someone else investigating the case fir his own reasons.

Part 2
Vicki finds that her most dangerous mission might be to sort out her romantic feelings for her ex-partner on the force, Mike Celluci, and for her new partner, the dashing vampire, Henry Fitzroy.

My Thoughts:
This is a show I bought blind this past month for my horror marathon. This is the first chance I got to watch any of it. I enjoyed the 2 part pilot... I am just trying to decide how much. It definitely could be better... but at the same time it is a pretty good introduction to the characters. I have a feeling it will grow on me more as I watch the episodes.

My Rating:

(From Blood Ties Marathon on December 21st, 2009)