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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a review by DJ Doena

The last time I watched such an awful movie in the theatre, was Beowulf. And even then I didn't have that many facepalms as this time.

Basically everything was abysmal: The script itself, the dialogues and sometimes even the special effects. What does it say about a movie when a TV production like Xena: Warrior Princess does a better job at portraying a giant speaking to a normal-sized person? Not once did they manage to get the line of sight right, the giants always spoke to the shoulder or someone (who wasn't there) behind the actual person.

The dialogues! "I go into Hades!" - "Do you know where it is?" - "Uh, you are right, I totally did not think about that!"
"Your father built this house for you." (non-dialogue: "Until an hour ago it was never planned for you to ever come here but the viewer certainly won't notice that...").
"The stench of your stepfather hid your own scent from the Gods."
*shudder*

And don't get me started about this entire training camp and the Capture-the-Flag game...

When they were in Vegas they ate some Lotus blossoms which had a narcotic affect on them - I believe that is the only thing that would get me through this movie a second time. That or loads of alcohol.

Even the end credits joke was predictable and incredibly lame.


The dubbing was equally bad but I honestly don't think it made the movie worse than it already is.

(From Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief on February 23rd, 2010)

Bin-Jip, a review by Tom

Bin-Jip (2004/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia AL!VE, Pandora Film (Germany) Director: Kim Ki-duk Writing: Kim Ki-duk (Writer) Length: 88 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Korean: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: German

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Stars:
Seung-yeon Lee as Sun-hwa
Hee Jae as Tae-suk
Hyuk-ho Kwon as Min-gyu
Jin-mo Ju as Inspector Cho
Jeong-ho Choi as Jailor

Plot:
Mysterious drifter Tae-suk enters other people's lives as easily as he breaks into their unoccupied homes. Instead of stealing their riches, he repays his hosts' unknowing hospitality by fixing broken items, cleaning up even doing their laundry. But when he sneaks into a sprawling mansion, he discovers a beautiful, lonely wife named Sun-hwa, trapped in a loveless marriage. Without saying a word, the pair begin an erotic game of cat-and-mouse, until her abusive husband returns home, unleashing a shocking burst of violence. Tae-suk defends Sun-hwa with the aid of her husband's golf club. The lovers run away together finding domestic bliss inhabiting strangers' homes. Later, when Tae-suk is framed for a murder, even prison walls can't keep them apart for good.

Awards:
Nominated:

European Film Awards (2004)

European Film Academy Non-European Film - Prix Screen International

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• Interviews
• Scene Access
• Trailers

This movies lives without almost no dialogue. As a matter of fact the two main characters never talk throughout the whole movie. Even though there is no dialogue, the romance builds up quite nicely. There was not a dull minute at all.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 2nd, 2011)

"Due South" marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Chicago Holiday - Part 2

I agree that they did a good job wrapping up this story. I had to laugh at Ray getting stuck in the garbage chute.... but felt it was a little to obvious he would come un-stuck at just the right time. Over-all it was a really fun two-part episode.

Rating: 

(From "Due South" marathon on July 6th, 2009)