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2009: Lost Memories, a review by Tom

2009: Lost Memories (2001/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia e-m-s new media (Germany) Director: Lee Si-myeong Writing: Lee Si-myeong (Writer), Lee Sang-hak (Writer) Length: 136 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: German

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Stars:Plot:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course... In 1909, an assassination attempt to a Japanese governor fails - the assassin was shot by a soldier. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of the Japan Empire and Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group called Hureisenjin is formed to fight for liberty and independence. Two cops, a Japan and a Korean (who denied his heritage) are investigating the actions of this "terrorist" group. And their work lead them to an artifact of the ancient Korean religion of "Sun and Moon"

Extras:

• Scene Access

Time-travel causes the history to change where Japan was allied with the US and thus on the winning side. This made Japan a big power and it annexed Korea. Set in this alternate reality this movie tells the story about a JBI (Japanese Bureau of Investigation ) agent who gets involved in an investigation against Korean independence fighters.
This movie was okay, although I am still not quite sure if all of it made sense. Not that it was a confusing movie but I had the feeling that the time-travel didn't really quite add up.

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(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on December 9th, 2010)

Teen Wolf Too (1987), a review by addicted2dvd

Teen Wolf Too (1987/United States) MGM Home Entertainment Director: Christopher Leitch Writing: Joseph Loeb III (Original Characters By), Matthew Weisman (Original Characters By), R. Timothy Kring (Screenwriter), Joseph Loeb III (Story By), Matthew Weisman (Story By) Length: 94 min. Rating: PG Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Jason Bateman as Todd Howard
Kim Darby as Professor Brooks
John Astin as Dean Dunn
Paul Sand as Coach Finstock
James Hampton as Uncle Harold
Mark Holton as Chubby

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Closed Captioned

This is some good cheesy fun much like the first one. Though not quite as good as the first. It is really not much more then an average fun movie. Pretty much this movie is more of the same as the first one... just substituting basketball with boxing. I never been much of a Jason Bateman fan. I mean I have nothing against him... He is ok I guess... but not someone I would be seeking out other movies/shows of.




(From TV Stars in the Movies: On-Going Mega Marathon on September 5th, 2011)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Season Two (2009/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia Bandai Entertainment (United States) Director: Writing: Length: 350 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Haruhi continues her search for exciting ways to keep her world from being boring. Unfortunately, for Kyon and the rest of the SOS Brigade, they are forced to go along for the ride. On the night of the Tanabata Star Festival, Kyon is transported back in time by Mikuru Asahina to what may be the source of what led Haruhi to search for aliens, time travelers, and espers.

In the last two weeks of summer vacation, Haruhi leads the brigade on a dizzying list of summer time activities, eventually culminating in the brigade experiencing what they think is deja vu but they're actually re-living the same two weeks of summer over and over again. It's up to Kyon to figure out what's missing to get them out of their endless loop.

As fall rolls around, everyone prepares for the school arts festival, but Haruhi isn't content with their class's survey project. Instead, she hatches her own plan for the SOS Brigade to film and screen their own movie. Step behind the camera to see what went on to create the cinematic "masterpiece" that is The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00.

Extras:

• Audio CD
• Featurettes
• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access
• Textless Opening

I finally came around to buying and watching the second season of this series. I already knew all the storylines covered here from the original novels and the manga adaption. This is still a fun series and a good adaption.
They made a strange experiment here though. In the novel and the manga, the story "Endless Eight" is only a few chapters in each. But they made eight anime episodes out of it. This storyline is about a time-loop covering the same two weeks of summer vacation. The characters mostly aren't aware of this. Here in the anime each episode covers one of the loops (in total there were over 15000!). These episodes show the same thing happening with only slight variations. Though no camera angle and some of the outfits stay the same in each episode. This is a risky move which I cannot imagine another series but this immensly popular series doing it. Added to that, the second season was initially shown in Japan alternating with season one episodes. So people had to wait for two weeks to see a new episode and every time they got an episode which seemed like the one they already had seen. I had the luxury to see all episodes in a row and notice all the variations. But I am guessing if you had to wait weeks in-between episodes, they wouldn't have been that noticable. It's even more evil: in the episodes themselves the episode title is not counted. They always only read "Endless Eight".
The last five episodes cover the novel "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya". Here we get to see how the characters were shooting the movie we got to see in season one.

#	Episode	Rating
01	Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody
02	Endless Eight I
03	Endless Eight II
04	Endless Eight III
05	Endless Eight IV
06	Endless Eight V
07	Endless Eight VI
08	Endless Eight VII
09	Endless Eight VIII
10	The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya I
11	The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya II
12	The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya III
13	The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya IV
14	The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya V

(From Tom's Random Reviews on April 25th, 2011)