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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.

Rating:

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

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a review by Antares

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral





Year: 1957
Film Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Western
Length: 122 Min.

Director
John Sturges (1910)

Writing
Leon Uris (1924)...Writer
George Scullin...Article "The Killer"

Producer
Joseph H. Hazen (1898)
Paul Nathan (1912)
Hal B. Wallis (1899)

Cinematographer
Charles Lang (1902)

Music
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894)...Composer

Stars
Burt Lancaster (1913) as Marshal Wyatt Earp
Kirk Douglas (1916) as Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday
Rhonda Fleming (1923) as Laura Denbow
Jo Van Fleet (1914) as Kate Fisher
John Ireland (1914) as Johnny Ringo
Lyle Bettger (1915) as Ike Clanton
Frank Faylen (1905) as Sheriff Cotton Wilson
Earl Holliman (1928) as Deputy Sheriff Charles 'Charlie' Bassett

Review
OK Corral... OK Corral
there the outlaw band make their final stand
OK Corral

You know you're in for a western treat when the opening song of the film is sung by Frankie Laine. For this second film about the Earp boys and Doc Holliday, the director is John Sturges, a director best known for his seminal western The Magnificent Seven and his epic WWII prison drama, The Great Escape. Sturges' films were known for having a fairly decent amount of action in them, and less of the psychological insights into his characters. This film is no exception. In terms of star power, this version goes for broke by having two of the biggest stars of the time play the pivotal roles of Earp & Holliday. Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp with his usual bombastic flair and Kirk Douglas delivers his lines with the strained seriousness which he had become known for. Unfortunately, you never quite can see past the fact that it's Burt & Kirk acting, yet never becoming the characters. Another weakness in the film probably stems from the fact that a good portion of the budget went to pay their salaries, and not much is left over for the supporting cast of male actors. Lyle Bettger, known only to hardcore western junkies of the time as a bit character actor who played villains, is pretty unremarkable as Ike Clanton. You do have John Ireland playing Johnny Ringo, but just as with Lancaster & Douglas, you never can see beyond the fact it's Ireland acting his usual tough guy persona.

For the first time, we get a look at Big Nose Kate, the prostitute who was Doc Holliday's companion. But Hollywood was still being dictated to by the Breen office, and Jo Van Fleet is saddle with playing her as a desperate drunk, clinging on to Holliday as he self destructs. Rhonda Fleming is given a throw away role as a beautiful gambling lady whom Wyatt falls in love with. I guess this was suppose to be based on Josie Marcus, the dancer who would one day become Mrs. Earp, but she was never a big stakes gambler.

When time came for the famous shootout, Sturges decided that a quick shootout in a cramped opening abutting the stable wasn't exciting enough, so the altercation is spread out on the outskirts of town. Doc Holliday uses a six gun instead of a shotgun, which for some unexplained reason, is used by Wyatt Earp, instead of his famed Buntline revolver, which we see him play around with in an earlier scene. Now the historical inaccuracies comes fast and furious, as the action on screen plays out. I can understand taking a little poetic license with a story to spruce up the action, but they play so fast and loose, that this whole segment could have been supplanted into Sturges' next western Last Train from Gun Hill, and you wouldn't have never known the difference.

It's a fun ride, but when all is said and done, it never rises above a B movie western from the same era.

Boot hill Boot hill
so cold so still
There they lay side by side
the killers that died
in the gunfight at ok corral
ok corral
GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL

But damn if it ain't worth it just to listen to Frankie Laine croon that song.

Review Criterion

(From Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) on September 16th, 2011)

"Stargate SG-1" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: SG-1 takes part in the ceremony where the last Ba'al clone gets his symbiont removed. The last of the System Lords is defeated. But something is happening. First Vala disappears, then Teal'c and then more and more people. Cameron, Sam and Daniel manage to get through the Stargate home but when they arrive on Earth everything has changed. The gate is somewhere in the arctic and Earth's history of the last 60 years seems to have changed. Another Ba'al clone has changed the past to win in the future.

My Opinion: The elements of this story aren't new, not even to Stargate SG-1. A time travel after which the Stargate program doesn't exist also happened in Moebius. And the way the "ripple effect" changed the future didn't make much sense either. But I still liked this movie, it was nice to see them all again (Don S. Davis in his last appearance) and I liked how Daniel tried to speak to Daniel and how they once again joined forces with the First Prime Teal'c. Also this movie didn't have any lengths, it felt like a slightly longer regular episode even though it was twice as long.

(From "Stargate SG-1" Marathon on April 25th, 2009)