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Spider-Man 2, a review by Tom

Title: Spider-Man 2
Year: 2004
Director: Sam Raimi
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 122 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital Surround, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Commentary, English, German, Trivia, Turkish

Stars:
Tobey Maguire
Kirsten Dunst
James Franco
Alfred Molina
Rosemary Harris

Plot:
Two years have passed, and the mild-mannered Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) faces new challenges as he struggles to balance his life as the elusive superhero Spider-Man. Tormented by his secrets, Peter is in danger of losing all those that he holds dear. His love for MJ (Kirsten Dunst) becomes stronger and his friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death. These relationships are now in danger of unravelling when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius, (Alfred Molina) who has been reincarnated as the multi-tentacled 'Doc Ock.'

Awards:

Academy Award	2004	Nominated	Best Sound Editing	Paul Ottosson
Academy Award	2004	Nominated	Best Sound Mixing	Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Joseph Geisinger
Academy Award	2004	Won	Best Visual Effects	John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, John Frazier
AFI	2003	Nominated	100 Years... 100 Cheers (2006)
American Film Institute Awards	2004	Won	Movie of the Year
BAFTA	2004	Nominated	Achievement In Special Visual Effects	John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony La Molinara, John Frazier
BAFTA	2004	Nominated	Sound	Paul Ottosson
BMI Film & TV Music Awards	2005	Won	BMI Film Music Award	Danny Elfman
Cinema Audio Society Awards	2005	Nominated	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures	Joseph Geisinger, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush
Empire Magazine Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Actor	Tobey Maguire
Empire Magazine Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Actress	Kirsten Dunst
Empire Magazine Awards	2005	Won	Best Director	Sam Raimi
Empire Magazine Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Film
Hugo Award	2005	Nominated	Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
MTV Movie Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Action Sequence
MTV Movie Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Movie
MTV Movie Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Video Game Based on a Movie
MTV Movie Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Villain	Alfred Molina
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated		Alfred Molina
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Cinematography	Bill Pope, Anette Haellmigk
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Film Editing	Bob Murawski
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Original Score	Danny Elfman
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Sound (Editing & Mixing)	Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Joseph Geisinger, Paul Ottosson, Susan Dudeck
Satellite Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Visual Effects	John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, John Frazier
Saturn	2004	Won	Best Actor	Tobey Maguire
Saturn	2004	Won	Best Director	Sam Raimi
Saturn	2004	Won	Best Fantasy Film
Saturn	2004	Nominated	Best Music	Danny Elfman
Saturn	2004	Won	Best Special Effects	John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara, John Frazier
Saturn	2004	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor	Alfred Molina
Saturn	2004	Won	Best Writing	Alvin Sargent
Taurus Award	2005	Won	Best Overall Stunt by a Man	Chris Daniels, Michael Hugghins
Taurus Award	2005	Nominated	Best Specialty Stunt	Tim Storms, Garrett Warren, Susie Park, Patricia M. Peters, Norb Phillips, Lisa Hoyle, Kevin L. Jackson, Clay Donahue Fontenot
Taurus Award	2005	Nominated	Best Work with a Vehicle	Tad Griffith, Richard Burden, Scott Rogers, Darrin Prescott, Mark Norby
Teen Choice Awards	2005	Nominated	Choice Movie Bad Guy	Alfred Molina
Teen Choice Awards	2004	Won	Choice Movie of the Summer
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Single Visual Effect of the Year	John Dykstra, Lydia Bottegoni, Dan Abrams, John Monos (For the clock tower)
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Won	Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture	Colin Drobnis, Greg Derochie, Blaine Kennison, Ken Lam (For the train sequence)
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Won	Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Act on Motion Picture	Dan Abrams, David Emery, Andrew Nawrot, John Hart (For the NYC street, night)
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Won	Outstanding Performance by an Actor or Actress in a Visual Effects Film	Alfred Molina
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Nominated	Outstanding Special Effects in Service to Visual Effects in a Motion Picture	John Frazier, James D. Schwalm, James Nagle, David Amborn
Visual Effects Society Awards	2005	Nominated	Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture	John Dykstra, Lydia Bottegoni, Anthony LaMolinara, Scott Stokdyk
World Stunt Awards	2005	Won	Best Overall Stunt by a Man	Chris Daniels, Michael Hugghins
World Stunt Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Specialty Stunt	Tim Storms, Garrett Warren, Susie Park, Patricia M. Peters, Norb Phillips, Lisa Hoyle, Kevin L. Jackson, Clay Donahue Fontenot
World Stunt Awards	2005	Nominated	Best Work with a Vehicle	Tad Griffith, Richard Burden, Scott Rogers, Darrin Prescott, Mark Norby

Extras:
Commentary
DVD-ROM Content
Featurettes
Multi Angle
Music Videos
Outtakes
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailers

One of the best superhero movies. I enjoy it even better than the first one. Also the CGI Spidey is much more convincing in this movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 2nd, 2010)

After Sundown, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:After Sundown
Year: 2005
Director: Christopher Abram
Rating: R
Length: 88 Min.
Video: Widescreen :1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Susana Gibb
Reece Rios
Natali Jones
Michael W. Brown
J. Christopher

Plot:
The Wild West is about to rise again in this horrifying and gory tale of the walking undead. When a strange body is exhumed from a forgotten graveyard, a vampire from the Old West is re awakened, and she's had a long time to be hungry. Now, it's up to the unfortunate souls who found her to send the creature back to Hell before their town is overrun by bloodthirsty evil.

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


Cowboys and vampires!

It was a good idea, and their hearts were in it but this is about as amateur as you can get. I'd hardly call this a movie... more like a high school visual arts project, and I've seen better of those. I find it absolutely miraculous that a studio and distribution company, let alone Lionsgate, would actually put their name to this fiasco.

Avoid at all costs.

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on July 7th, 2010)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Enterprise

Writer: Mike Sussman (Writer)
Director: Roxann Dawson
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Tess Lina (Karyn Archer), David Andrews (Lorian), Tom Schanley (Greer), Steve Truitt (Crewman #1)

A nice episode, although nothing really new. The premise is a mix between Voyager's "Deadlock" and DS9's "Children of Time". A second version of the Enterprise appears, which had been thrown back in time over a hundred years and was now helmed by the descendants of the crew.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on October 17th, 2013)