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Diebuster: The Movie, a review by dfmorgan

Diebuster: The Movie

Year: 2006
Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Cast:
Overview: In a future where the Space Monsters resume their invasion of the Sol System, the abilities of young men and women known as the Topless, and their Buster Machines, are mankind's final line of defense! One day, runaway girl Nono sets out for the capital to become a space pilot, and meets the fighter ace Lal'C...neither realizing that the future of humanity rests on the both of them!
Presented for the first time in full HD, the theatrical release version of the long-awaited GUNBUSTER sequel OVA (aka GUNBUSTER 2) from the director of FLCL is the second half of a diptych that started with GUNBUSTER The Movie!

Watched: 1st Mar 2010
My Thoughts: Like Gunbuster: The Movie this film is an abridgement of the original 6 episode series Diebuster (aka Gunbuster 2). This is the first time I've seen this, in either form. The setting for this film is within the time-frame covered by Gunbuster. An excellent film which has made me place an order for the original 6 episode series as well as going for the R1 remastered Gunbuster series.

My Rating: 

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on March 1st, 2010)

The Departed, a review by Tom

Title: The Departed
Year: 2006
Director: Martin Scorsese
Rating: R
Length: 151 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , French: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matt Damon
Jack Nicholson
Mark Wahlberg
Martin Sheen

Plot:
Rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It's his job to win Costello's trust and help his detective handlers (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen) bring Costello down. Meanwhile, SIU officer Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) has everyone's trust. No one suspects he's Costello's mole.

How these covert lives cross, double-cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the widely acclaimed 'The Departed'. Martin Scorcese directs, guiding a cost for the ages in a visceral tale of crime and consequences. This is searing, can't-look-away filmmaking: like staring into the eyes of a con - or a cop - with a gun.

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Scene Access
Trailers

Another one of those cases, that a film is hyped and has won a lot of awards, but me I was not so impressed with it.
Sure it is well made, it has a superb cast and some scenes which I liked, but overall it was not all that great. Definetely not a must-see from my point of view.

Rating:

(From Two-Weeks Movie Marathon: Unwatched Movies on August 25th, 2008)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Rozen Maiden: Complete Series (2004/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia Geneon (United States) Length: 300 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
This is the story of one young boy who couldn't get along with his classmates and decided to drop out and never return...

This is the story of an exquisite doll who wished to one day become a normal human girl...

This is the story of one young boy and an exquisite doll and their adventures as they strive to help each other in overcoming their fears and the very real dangers of the Alice Game.

However, in order to do that, they must overcome their distrust of each other.


Rozen Maiden

Writer: Jukki Hanada (Screenwriter)
Director: Kou Matsuo
Cast: Original Japanese Cast), Miyuki Sawashiro (Shinku (voice)), Asami Sanada (Jun Sakurada (voice)), Noriko Rikimaru (Nori Sakurada (voice)), Sakura Nogawa (Hinaichigo (voice)), Rie Tanaka (Suigintou (voice)), Natsuko Kuwatani (Suiseseki (voice)), Masayo Kurata (Tomoe Kashiwaba (voice)), Kyousei Tsukui (Detective Kun-Kun (voice)), Kayo Deguchi (Female Friend (voice)), Kahori Tanaka (Female Friend (voice)), Kunihiro Kawamoto (Deliveryman (voice)), Ryoukichi Takahashi (Deliveryman (voice)), Shinsuke Fukui (Deliveryman (voice)), Kousuke Kobayashi (Deliveryman (voice)), Yuu Sugita (Tomoe's Mother (voice)), Ken Yamaguchi (Madam Pearl (voice)), Daiki Nakamura (Seal (voice)), Yoko Honda (Assistant (voice)), Mayako Nigo (Mrs. Rabbit (voice)), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Male Student (voice)), Takayuki Hayakawa (Male Student (voice)), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Flower (voice)), Takayuki Hayakawa (Flower (voice)), Tatsuma Watanabe (Flower (voice)), English Voice Cast), Mela Lee (Shinku (voice)), Mona Marshall (Jun Sakurada (voice)), Minx Lee (Nori Sakurada (voice)), Mia Bradly (Suigintou (voice)), Reba West (Suiseiseki (voice)), Dorothy Fahn (Tomoe Kashiwaba (voice)), David Keifer (Detective Kun-Kun (voice)), Cristina Vee (Female Friend (voice)), Sam Carr (Tomoe's Mother (voice)), Vic Mignogna (Madam Pearl (voice)), Dave Mallow (Seal (voice))

I can see the potential of this series. And I would have thought that I would enjoy it more. But it just didn't really click for me. There is a follow-up series to this, but I never bothered checking it out.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 26th, 2012)