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Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a review by addicted2dvdTitle: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Year: 1978 Director: Philip Kaufman Rating: PG Length: 116 Min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround, French: Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Stars: Donald Sutherland as Matthew Bennell Brooke Adams as Elizabeth Driscoll Jeff Goldblum as Jack Bellicec Veronica Cartwright as Nancy Bellicec Leonard Nimoy as Dr. David Kibner Plot: When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extra-terrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their Earthly admirers: to slowly clone their bodies - and then dispose of the originals! "A first-rate suspense thriller" ('Newsday'), this sci-fi adventure is a chilling" (Leonard Maltin), "dazzling" ('The New York Times') and "stunning" ('Cosmopolitan') thrill ride that will send your pulse rate soaring! From a brilliant screenplay by W. D. Richter, filmmaker Philip Kaufman directs an all-star cast that includes Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy. With its mesmerizing style and awe-inspiring special effects, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' is "a classic of the genre" ('New York Post') - a terrifying tale that "literally chills the blood" ('The Hollywood Reporter')! Extras: Scene Access Audio Commentary Trailers Closed Captioned My Thoughts: This is the first time in years I have seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It really was like watching this movie for the first time again. I never seen the original from the 50's.... but I have seen both remakes (this one & Body Snatchers) If you never seen this movie I would say it is definitely worth checking out. It is a pretty good movie... though it is a little on the slow side. With all said and done I would Recommend it. My Rating: Out of a Possible 5 Reviewed: May 20, 2006 (From What Movies I Been Watching on January 31st, 2010) Bedazzled, a review by TomTitle: Bedazzled Year: 2000 Director: Harold Ramis Rating: FSK-12 Length: 89 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo Subtitles: Commentary, English, German Stars: Brendan Fraser Elizabeth Hurley Frances O'Connor Miriam Shor Miriam Shor Extras: Commentary Deleted Scenes Featurettes Photo Gallery Scene Access Trailers My Thoughts: A fun comedy. I think Elizabeth Hurley is great as the sexy devil!I am interested how the original movie of which this is a remake of is, so I have ordered it from Amazon marketplace now. Rating: (From Tom's Random Reviews on January 8th, 2009) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ DoenaDisc 5 Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night Synopsis: It's the birthday of Kira's mother who died during the occupation when Nerys was 3 years old. But then Dukat contacts her from an unknown location and claims to have known her mother and that they even were lovers. That unnerves Kira so much that she uses the Orb of Time to look into events that happened nearly 30 years ago. And there she finds a Kira Meru she didn't expect.My Opinion: It must be hard to have an idealistic image of someone that gets not only crumbled to ashes but turns into an perverted inversion of that image. She was a collaborator and I believe that's the one thing Nerys can't forgive. Unfortunately they will never pick up on that topic again, it was a "one gig only" kinda thing. Inquisition Synopsis: A security breach has happened, someone transmitted secret information from the station to the Dominion. Deputy Director Sloan from Starfleet Security investigates all of the senior staff. Soon his prime supsect becomes Bashir who has quite an impresive number of "coincidences" in his history.My Opinion: Ah, Sloan and "Section 31" (the Federation's secret intelligence service). Finally. It was interesting to see how Sloan tried to trick Bashir into admitting that he was a collaborator and how Bashir dismissed it out of hand despite the presented "evidence" and even after "Weyoun" "rescued" him. In the Pale Moonlight Synopsis: The war gets worse with every week. Even Betazed has fallen to the Dominion's advance. Sisko and Starfleet devlop a plan to convince the Romulans to join the war. But for this they need Garak and Garak has his won ways in doing things and these ways are most certainly not in accordance with the self-perception of the Federation.My Opinion: This was certainly one of most interesting episodes of the entire show because everything was so morally ambiguous. Garak hit the spot as he explained to Sisko why Sisko came to him. "The first victim of war is the truth." This sentences matches perfectly to this episode. And I really liked how hard it was for Sisko to bend the truth so much. But there was nothing to be gained by telling the truth after Garak had killed the Romulan. To every critic of this episode out there: Yes, this episode had nothing to do with Roddenberry's vision of a Federation full of perfect people who will do always the right thing bud sadly there will always be a "necessary evil". His Way Synopsis: Bashir has brought a new holosuite program to the station: Vic Fontaine. Vic is more than your run-of-the-mill program, for starters he's aware of being a program and he has basic computer access - he can end his own program, can communicate with people outside the holodeck. And he's a ballroom singer.My Opinion: I said I have no interest in Odo's love life but I still liked this episode a lot because it was so lovely how Vic played the "matchmaker" (I have a weaknes for romance movies you know). And Vic has a nice singing voice, too. Vic Fontaine is a homage to Frank Sinatra and was played by James Darren (T.J. Hooker) who's a good friend of Frank Sinatra jr. and he will re-appear in that role from now on. (From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on February 22nd, 2009) |