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Jumper , a review by Tom

Jumper (2008/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United Kingdom) Director: Doug Liman Writing: Steven Gould (Original Material By), David S. Goyer (Screenwriter), Jim Uhls (Screenwriter), Simon Kinberg (Screenwriter) Length: 88 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian: DTS 5.1, Spanish: DTS 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Commentary, Danish, English, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

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Stars:
Hayden Christensen as David Rice
Jamie Bell as Griffin
Rachel Bilson as Millie
Diane Lane as Mary Rice
Samuel L. Jackson as Roland

Plot:
From the director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith comes Jumper - a high-powered shot of adrenaline that stretches the very limits of imagination. David Rice (Hayden Christiansen) is a young man who knows no boundaries - a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to any place on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David's extraordinary gift may be his only hope of survival! With an all star cast including Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Rachel Bilson (The O.C.) and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) Jumper is the action hit of the year.

Awards:
Won:

ASCAP Awards (2009)		Top Box Office Films (John Powell)
Teen Choice Awards (2008)		Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure (Rachel Bilson)

Nominated:

MTV Movie Awards (2008)		Best Fight (Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell)
Saturn (2008)		Best Music (John Powell)
Saturn (2008)		Best Science Fiction Film
Teen Choice Awards (2008)		Choice Movie Villian (Samual L. Jackson)

Extras:

• Commentary
• D-Box
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Graphic Novel
• Picture-in-picture
• Scene Access

I didn't expect much because of the negative reviews it got, but I still was curious because of the premise. And I am glad that I took the chance. I really liked the movie. I thought it was executed well. And I saw that a sequel is planned. I am glad, because the story hinted at much potential for a sequel.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 6th, 2011)

Krrish, a review by Tom

Title: Krrish
Year: 2006
Director: Rakesh Roshan
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 168 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Rekha
Hrithik Roshan
Priyanka Chopra
Sharat Saxena
Puneet Issar

Awards:

Filmfare Awards	2007	Won	Best Action Award	Tony Ching Siu-tung, Shyam Kaushal
Filmfare Awards	2007	Nominated	Best Actor Award	Hrithik Roshan
Filmfare Awards	2007	Won	Best Background Score Award	Salim-Sulaiman
Filmfare Awards	2007	Nominated	Best Director Award	Rakesh Roshan
Filmfare Awards	2007	Nominated	Best Movie Award
Filmfare Awards	2007	Won	Best Special Effects Award
Filmfare Awards	2007	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress Award	Rekha
Filmfare Awards	2007	Nominated	Best Villain Award	Naseeruddin Shah
IIFA Awards	2007	Won	Best Actor	Hrithik Roshan

Extras:
Music Videos
Scene Access
Trailers

My first Bollywood movie. I have bought it, after I came across it when looking for superhero movies I haven't seen yet. Clocking in three hours, it could have been much shorter with the same story. But I feel that seems to be the Bollywood charm to move the story along a little slower. I didn't mind. I also didn't mind the typical song-and-dance interludes, for which Bollywood is famous for. Though I enjoyed it, I won't jump on the Bollywood band wagon just yet, but I will get myself the movie to which this is the sequel to.
This is the first time I watched a movie in Hindi. I knew, that English is spoken very much in India. But I still found it strange, how they constantly switched between English and Hindi. Often even during a sentence.

Here the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0wzwujpkFg

For fans for fun superhero movies, I can recommend checking this out. Tthough the first hour borders on strange. Too much "puppy eyeing" his love interest. But when he got to the big city (Singapure), it is more like superhero movie like you would expect. Pete would have to fast forward in four scenes though
I would say, about 10-15 minutes out of 170 minutes are song and dance.

Here an example of one of the dance songs. They are used to further the love story. I expected to cringe at them, but for some reason I had a smile on my face during those

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ngr05mH50

The star of this movie played two characters: The hero and the hero's father in flashbacks. He did a good job in playing two different characters. The father is the main protagonist of the first movie, and after seeing him here, I got interested to check out the first movie.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 1st, 2009)

"Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009), a review by DJ Doena

                   


Synopsis: Many years ago the Humans in the Twelve Colonies of Kobol build themselves advanced machines that would work for them. But these machines developed and one day they began a war against their masters.
40 years has it been since the war has ended and the Cylons disappeared. Now they are back and they want the total annihilation of mankind. They have hacked into colonial defences and disabled it. The attack comes swift and deadly. Only a handful of ships under the lead of the Battlestar Galactica survives this holocaust. Now they want to find the mystical thirteenth colony of Kobol: Earth.

My Opinion: When I heard that there would be a new Battlestar Galactica series, I was excited. This series is nothing like the old one except for the basic story. Some of the characters have changed gender and/or skin colour, their names have become call signs and Adama is no longer the lone leader of the fleet. He's now a military commander who was about to retire. The role of the civilian leader was taken by President Laura Roslin who is a counterpoise to Adama. Also, the characters aren't so upright anymore: Lee "Apollo" Adama dislikes his father because of what happened to his brother, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace hits "superior assholes" once in a while, Colonel Tigh is a drunk, Baltar is the egocentric scientist who inadvertently let the Cylons into the defence mainframe and Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is a Cylon sleeper agent. Ah yes: And some Cylons look like Humans now. Of these 12 human models we know 4 so far.
What I like about this mini-series and the following series was that they didn't overdo the Sci-Fi elements. When they use FX it looks great but they decided to don't make everything futuristic. The interior and the normal stuff looks pretty much normal. No fancy laser pistols, no communicators, no spacy music instruments.

(From "Battlestar Galactica" Marathon (1978-2009) on April 25th, 2009)