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Independence Day, a review by DJ Doena

It wasn't planned as such, but in the last few weeks I have watched quite a number of Science-Fiction movies and a good part of them were "Doomsday" movies, so I might as well write a few words about them. Most of these movies are very, very US-patriotic but when you can accept that and when you can ignore the scientific "inaccuracies" you can have a lot of fun with them.



Will Smith   ...    Captain Steven Hiller
Bill Pullman   ...    President Thomas J. Whitmore
Jeff Goldblum   ...    David Levinson
Mary McDonnell   ...    First Lady Marilyn Whitmore
Judd Hirsch   ...    Julius Levinson
Robert Loggia   ...    General William Grey
Randy Quaid   ...    Russell Casse
Margaret Colin   ...    Constance Spano
Vivica A. Fox   ...    Jasmine Dubrow
Adam Baldwin   ...    Major Mitchell
Brent Spiner   ...    Dr. Brackish Okun

Synopsis: July, 2nd. Some aliens come in a huge ship. They place their UFOs all over the world and blow everything apart. July, 3rd. We try to strike back and fail miserably. July, 4th. We give them a cold and blow them apart.

My Opinion: Great movie. Love it. It's so cheesy that falls out of the bottom of the scale and comes back from the top of it. The characters are so overdrawn that you can't take them seriously and that saves the movie. Imagine you would have to look at this movie with a serious eye. The president that fights in the final battle, the drunken pilot that saves the day, the scientist that writes a computer virus for an alien computer and Will Smith in the middle of it.

(From The "What I watch when I don't watch TV shows" thread on December 14th, 2008)

We Need to Talk About Kevin, a review by Antares

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) 56/100 - I really couldn't wait for this film to end. A few times, I mentioned to my wife, that it seemed like the work of a first time director who was desperately trying to impress by using everything learned in film school. OK, I get it, the red metaphor denotes her inability to wash the horror of her son's actions away. Also, it seemed like many scenes could have been cut back once a point was made, but for some reason, tended to linger on for what seemed an eternity. Tilda Swinton was great as were the three actors who played Kevin throughout his growth, but the story lets these performances go to waste as the scenario was just a bit to convenient for the director to manipulate. You mean that no teacher at school could see the bipolar swings in this kid's emotions as a forewarning of bad things to come? The mother, when her husband or doctors didn't believe her stories, couldn't find a way to videotape the child without his knowledge so that she'd have some proof to back up her concerns? My wife read the book and she was also very disappointed in this.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on October 12th, 2013)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

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Gilmore Girls: Season One (2000/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (Germany) Length: 874 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English, German, Other, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Romanian

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Gilmore Girls
Season 1.01 Pilot
Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino (Created By), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Writer)
Director: Leslie Linka Glatter
Cast: Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore), Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore), Melissa McCarthy (Sookie St. James), Keiko Agena (Lane Kim), Yanic Truesdale (Michel Gerard), Scott Patterson (Luke Danes), Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore), Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore), Liz Torres (Miss Patty), Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester), Alex Borstein (Drella), Emily Kuroda (Mrs. Kim), Jill Brennan (Mrs. Traister), Cesar Lopapa (Salvador), Marcy Goldman (Woman), Barna Moricz (Joey), Nikki Slater (Girl #1), Heather Shrake (Girl #2), Amy Correa (Girl #3), Jacqueline Smith (Girl #4)

This was a total blind buy. I bought the complete series. Luckily, I enjoyed the first episode. I am already through half the first season and still enjoying it.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on August 21st, 2013)