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Winds of the Wasteland, a review by addicted2dvd

Winds of the Wasteland
John Blair and his partner Larry purchase a run-down stagecoach line and enter a race with competing stage operator Cal Drake for the rights to a government mail-delivery contract. But Drake is dishonest and uses his villainous flunky Smoky to attempt John's and Larry's defeat, by any means necessary

My Thoughts:
This is one of the movies I got in the 20 Greatest Westerns: Heroes & Bandits boxset that I found in the Walmart Bargain Bin recently. When I bought the set I knew not to expect very good movies despite the name of the boxset... and I also knew not to expect much quality wise. But I figured 20 movies for $5... what the hell... why not. So needless to say I was a little worried when I popped this one into the player.  Now I can't say it will be so with all the movies in this set... but in the case of Winds of the Wasteland the quality, while not good, really wasn't too bad. Sure it could have been a hell of a lot better... but it is definitely watchable. And OMG... John Wayne was young in this movie! This has to be the earliest of his movies I have ever seen. This movie was released in 1936.

I really enjoyed this story. It was interesting.... everything moved along quickly... and they also had some comedic relief in the form of an older guy played by Lew Kelly. Between some of the things he said and done... he had me literally laughing out loud a few times. I especially liked how while riding in the back of the stage coach that was being shot at he took the cushion off the seat and hide behind it as if it would stop a bullet. Then I also liked at the end of the movie where he had himself a pet skunk on a leash. This movie had a lot of Western action and comedic situations all rolled up in a movie that only lasted 56 minutes! This movie alone made it worth it to me to get this cheap low-budget boxset.  Only thing that would have made it better is if the quality was even a little better. I would give the movie itself 4 stars... but the lower then desired quality will knock it down to to 3 and a half.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Western Round-Up on July 11th, 2009)

Just Go With It, a review by Tom

Just Go With It (2011/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United Kingdom) Director: Dennis Dugan Writing: Allan Loeb (Screenwriter), Timothy Dowling (Screenwriter), I.A.L. Diamond (Original Material By), Abe Burrows (Original Material By), Barillet and Gredy (Original Material By) Length: 117 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 5.1, Catalonian: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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Stars:
Adam Sandler as Danny
Jennifer Aniston as Katherine
Nicole Kidman as Devlin Adams
Nick Swardson as Eddie
Brooklyn Decker as Palmer

Plot:
Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) meets the girl of his dreams (Brooklyn Decker) but has to enlist his loyal assistant Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to rpetend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine;s kids become involved, and everyone heads off to Hawaii for a ridiculous, out-of-control weekend that tests the limits of how far we'll go for love.

Awards:
Nominated:

MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Comedic Performance (Adam Sandler)
MTV Movie Awards (2011)		Best Female Performance (Jennifer Aniston)

Extras:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes
• Scene Access

A nice rom-com with Adam Sandler, luckily without cross-out humor. Nothing special and of course highly predictable. I can recommend it to fans of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston. They work very well together.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 29th, 2011)

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

18. Vatman (3/13/94)
Superman discovers there's a powerful new villain in town: Superman! Lex Luthor develops a Superman clone with all his powers and just one goal: destroy the real Man of Steel.

My Thoughts:
This is a fun episode... but there was something about the way that Dean Cain played being child-like that I didn't much care for. I did like the storyline itself though.



(From Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Marathon on July 20th, 2009)