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Deep Impact, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: A meteor the size of ? in on its way to Earth and it's hitting us in 18 days months. A spacecraft built by the Americans and Russians departs to intercept it, dig a hole and blow it up with a nuke. But it fails and now two huge pieces are still on their way to Earth and they will devastate most of Earth's surface and kill billions of people.

My Opinion: Ironically this movie has - when using ten words or less - the same story as Armageddon and it came out in the very same year (1998) and yet it's totally different. They have more time to intercept the meteor, they are sending real astronauts, it's more serious about the whole topic and it shows more of the life on Earth during that time. But I have to confess, I like Armageddon more. I think this is a good movie, but due to its seriousness one has to be in the mood watch it.

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

100 Rifles, a review by Rogmeister

100 Rifles (1968)  110 minutes

Director: Tom Gries (who also co-wrote the screenplay)  Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Cast: Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy

Plot: A lawman (Brown) after a bank robber (Reynods) ends up helping a female revolutionary (Welch) in Mexico defend an Indian village against a tyrant (Lamas).

My Thoughts--This was not an outstanding western, though it did have its moments.  Raquel Welch (in one of her 3 westerns, two released in 1968 and the other 3 years later) is quite possibly the sexiest woman ever to set foot in a western.  She's sultry, fiery and looks good taking a shower (even though she is actually clothed, though briefly so, in her shower scene which is done in the movie to distract some enemy soldiers) and, of course, gets a bed scene with the lead, possibly one of the first romantic scenes on film between a black man and a white woman?  Probably not, but it's interesting.  Burt Reynolds, as a half-breed, looks a bit odd wearing a huge black sombrero, but I enjoyed him in the role.  In fact, though this is a western, I didn't see one traditional-looking cowboy hat in the entire picture though Brown's came closest.  There's lots of good-looking visuals in this movie, a requirement for a good western, as the movie takes place entirely in Mexico.  The film does drag a bit in spots and perhaps a bit more prudent editing and a slightly shorter running time might have helped there.  It does finally pick up steam in the last half-hour of the picture so I liked it overall...I just didn't love it.  My one quibble is one of the lead characters dies in the film...but we never see it happen.  That character is running along the rooftops helping fight the enemy...and the next time that person is seen, he/she is in the arms of someone...already dead.  I hated that. 

(From DCO third annual November Alphabet Marathon - discussion/review/banter thread on November 2nd, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

MADtv: Season One (1995/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United States) Length: 806 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
Relive the MADness of the first complete season of 'MADtv', dubbed by TV Guide as "the most mercilessly acute TV parody of the decade, perhaps of all time." It's wall-to-wall pop culture sendups in 19 trailblazing hours plus hilariously MAD-to-the-bone Special Bonus Features.

You'll find brilliant movie parodies, irreverent Madvertising spoofs and political smackdowns. Plus favorites like the Vancome Lady; UBS Guy; 'That's My White Mama'; the animated 'Spy Vs. Spy', Don Martin classics and 'Raging Rudolph'; and TV sendups of 'ER', 'Baywatch', 'Oprah' and 'Star Trek'. No wonder USA Today stated "No show is better than 'MADtv' at mocking TV."


MADtv
1.01 Season One

When I first saw this, I only knew three of the main cast: Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr (mainly as voice actor, but also his role in Pulp Fiction which he reprises in this episode in a parody sequence) and Nicole Sullivan. It's her which I think brought in the best performances in this episode. And also the only laughs I had.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 9th, 2012)