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Evangelion: 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone, a review by dfmorgan

Evangelion: 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone

Year: 2007
Director: Hideaki Anno
Cast:
Overview: THE REBUILD OF THE GROUNDBREAKING GIANT ROBOT ANIME!

The year is 2015, and half of the Earth's population is dead, victims of the disaster called Second Impact! Answering a summons from his enigmatic father, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari arrives in the rebuilt city of Tokyo-3 just as a gigantic creature known as an Angel attacks! Forced into the cockpit of a giant bio-mechanical construct known as an Evangelion, Shinji must defend the city from the rampaging Angel or die trying!

Rebuilt from the ground up by creator Hideaki Anno, this is the definitive Evangelion for a new generation! Featuring a radically new storyline, completely new animation, additional CG plus never-before seen extended footage

Watched: 30th Apr 2010
My Thoughts: The first of four films that rebuild the 1995/6 Evangelion TV series. I have watched the series and the two supplemental films, Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, and generally enjoyed them. This rebuild is of the first six episodes of the original series. The six episodes would have been 150mins running time and this has been condensed into 100mins and to some degrees this is apparent:-
a) The Angel attacks come thick and fast.
b) The depth of character that the series could build has had to be lost.

The new imagery does look good on the blu-ray and the sound, although I only have a downmixed DD5.1 rather than TrueHD 6.1, is excellent with plenty of effects being positioned all over the place, especially in the battle and NERV Control Room sequences.

My Rating: An enjoyable 3

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on April 30th, 2010)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It, a review by addicted2dvd

Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Mel Brooks, the unhinged movie parodist whose 'Blazing Saddles' sent us Westward ho-ho-ho and whose 'Young Frankenstein' electrified with mad-scientist nuts and jolts, now stokes the Bram Stoker vein with the comedy transfusion: 'Dracula Dead and Loving It'. Leslie Nielsen plays the title role, and what's not to love?

His Count is a pratfalling evil prince of a guy who believes in long relationships. Brooks portrays vampire hunter Van Helsing who won't give a bloodsucker an even break. Stakes, garlic, mirrors and more - they're all part of vampire lore. And along with top supporting players Steven Weber, Peter MacNicol and Harvey Korman, they're all part of Brooks' tricks and shticks assuring that from dusk to dawn, the hilarity's on.

My Thoughts:
This one I watched next because my daughter, Brittany wanted to watch one with me... but at the same time she was in the mood for a comedy.... so she picked this one. I always liked this movie... always thought it was funny... but then of course that may be because I do like Leslie Nielson and Mel Brooks.  Yes.. this is a very stupid style in the same tradition as Airplane... but at times these movies are just fun to watch... to sit back and just enjoy without having to put to much thought into the movie. The DVD release is a decent one... nice picture... good sound... but only a couple of extras... a Commentary Track and the Theatrical Trailer.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Vampires on September 8th, 2007)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Star Trek: Voyager
3.02 Flashback
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Grace Lee Whitney (Commander Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts (Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane), Boris Krutonog (Helmsman Lojur), Michael Ansara (Kang), George Takei (Captain Sulu)

Voyager's episode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek. It cannot hold a candle to DS9's.
It is nice to have a crossover to classic Trek by revisiting Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. But I don't like the story about the Flashback surrounding it. They used the fact that Tim Russ played a character on Sulu's ship in Star Trek VI. Too bad that it wasn't Tuvok but a human character.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on November 28th, 2011)