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Mr.Brooks, a review by Eric

Mr.Brooks



Blind buys can often be disapointing so it's actually very exciting when you end up with great movies.  Mr. Brooks is a very good suspense/thriller, I enjoyed every minute of it.  It's insanely brilliant.




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(From Eric's DVD watching. on April 13th, 2008)

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Full Screen Collection
Year: 2004
Director: Brad Silberling
Rating: PG
Length: 108 Min.
Video: Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Jim Carrey
Liam Aiken
Emily Browning
SunnyKara Hoffman
Shelby Hoffman

Plot:
Dear Viewer,

If you enjoy movies filled with singing rabbits, exploding spaceships, or cheerleaders, you are holding the wrong DVD entirely.

This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means " a thrilling misadventure involing three ingenious orphans and a villainous actor named Count Olaf (Carey) who wants their enormous fortune." It includes a suspicious fire, delious pasta, Jim Carey, poorly behaved leaches, an incredibly deadly viper, Meryl Streep, and the voices of an imposter named Jude Law. The only things that could make such a spectacle more upsetting are special features, such as commentary by me or outtakes involving nervous laughter.

I am bound to continue my research into the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, but you are free to seek lighter fare, like blue cheese fondue.

With all do respect,
Lemony Snicket

Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Bonus Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
This is a movie Brittany came home with a couple years ago. She got it out of the Walmart Bargain Bin. The first thing I noticed is that she got the Full Screen version. And here I thought I taught her better then that!

I found this movie to be more weird then entertaining. The only few chuckles that I did get from it was from the subtitles of what the baby was saying/thinking. But for the most part I just found it a little hard to sit through without falling asleep sitting up in my chair. I am afraid this is just not my type of movie. But Brittany wanted me to watch it with her... so I did. Though it is not something I see myself watching again.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on July 21st, 2010)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by Achim

2. Automatic for the PeopleMy opinion:
After the first episode opened with a bang the second pulls back a bit and goes in to explore some emotional issues. On the one hand there is mistrust, which obviously is a problematic thing for our little group. Then there is John's desire to be "normal", not having to have the burden of being the hope for humankind's future, which in turn causes conflict with Sarah. Sarah also has to deal with her knowledge of her future death by cancer, or does she...? All this is surrounded by a "problem of the week", which eventually provides some action towards the end.

Quite a solid episode which does some good character progression. Somehow I found Summer Glau's performance a little bit phoned in in this one

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on January 26th, 2010)