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The Fast and the Furious, a review by addicted2dvd

The Fast and the Furious (2001/United States, Germany) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Rob Cohen Writing: Gary Scott Thompson (Screenwriter), Erik Bergquist (Screenwriter), David Ayer (Screenwriter), Gary Scott Thompson (Story By), Ken Li (Original Material By) Length: 107 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, French: DTS: 5.1, Spanish: DTS: 5.1, Japanese: DTS: 5.1, Portuguese: DTS: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

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Stars:
Paul Walker (1973) as Brian O'Conner
Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto
Michelle Rodriguez as Letty
Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
Rick Yune as Johnny Tran

Plot:
Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) must decide where his loyalties really lie when he befriends Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary

Why didn't I watch this one sooner. This film was a lot of fun. The entire cast did a great job. A lot of cool action with lots of cool cars driving fast. What more cold a guy ask for? What else can I say... this film is just a fun way to waste a couple hours. Recommended.




(From 4K Marathon on March 24th, 2023)

Yes Man, a review by Tom

Title: Yes Man
Year: 2008
Director: Peyton Reed
Rating: 12
Length: 104 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.40
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital TrueHD, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital Surround, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Stars:
Jim Carrey
Zooey Deschanel
Bradley Cooper
John Michael Higgins
Rhys Darby

Plot:
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything. Take a bungee plunge? Yes. Learn Korean? Yes. Grab the first flight to anywhere? Yes. Win your dream girl? Yes. Crack up fans with a feel-good, laugh-loaded comedy? Yes! Jim Carrey plays Carl in a YESCapade about opening up to life's possiblities - especially when those possibilities include romance with an intriguing, free-spirited musician (Zooey Deschanel). From the director of The Break-Up comes an invitation to discover the comedy power of YES.

Extras:
Featurettes
Music Videos
Outtakes
Scene Access

I enjoyed this movie. If you like Jim Carrey, I think this movie is well worth checking out. Strange that Terrence Stamp seems to pop up in a lot of movies I watched recently. Before is role as the voice of Jor-El on Smallville I only knew him as General Zod. I never saw him in anything else in-between, I think. At least not consciously.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 22nd, 2009)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

The Vampire Diaries: Season One (2009/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United Kingdom) Length: 889 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Dutch, English, Swedish

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Plot:
Dark, brooding, pulsing with bloodlust and transcendent with romance, The Vampire Diaries - which started as a series of must-read novels by L.J. Smith - has become a must-watch television hit. Season One offers unforgettable characters, living and undead. They are vampire brothers Stefan and Damon, one good and one evil; Elena, a double for the beauty both brothers loved some 150 years earlier; plus Jeremy, Bonnie, Matt and more denizens of Mystic Falls, VA. All are caught up in a spellbinding web of secrets, passion and terror.

Extras:

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes

"Dawson's Creek" goes vampire. This is about the basic premise. It even is created by the same guy. At first glance, it looks like a Twilight TV series (although I have seen Twilight, I only can go on my impression on it). But it is based on a 1991 trilogy of books (pre-dating Twilight). But it was obviously made to cash in on Twilight's success.
Overall I enjoyed this series. Even though you do not really feel this series is something special, you cannot help to continue watching it.
This season's cliffhanger makes me want to continue with season 2. Although I am unhappy with a character's death in the finale
There is something which really bothers me, which doesn't really have to do with this series. Recently Microsoft pushes their product placement. That on itself doesn't bother me. Apple has done it for years. I first noticed in when I recently watched the ninth season of Smallville, where instead of seeing Apple logos on all notebooks we suddenly see Windows logos and the Watchtower computer all running with a fresh install of Windows 7. Then I saw Room in Rome, where they really pushed Microsoft Bing and a Google Earth like application. And in this series, all the characters are using the search engine Bing. So far so good. But one scene did go too far and pulled me out of the series. One character proclaimed, that she "binged" it, with the camera closing in the Bing website, so that you knew what the hell she was talking about. It was quite obvious that they are trying to bring this verb into the vocabularly of the viewers to compete with the success of "to google".

#	Episode	Rating
01	Pilot
02	The Night of the Comet
03	Friday Night Bites
04	Family Ties
05	You're Undead to Me
06	Lost Girls
07	Haunted
08	162 Candles
09	History Repeating
10	The Turning Point
11	Bloodlines
12	Unpleasantville
13	Children of the Damned
14	Fool Me Once
15	A Few Good Men
16	There Goes the Neighborhood
17	Let the Right One In
18	Under Control
19	Miss Mystic Falls
20	Blood Brothers
21	Isobel
22	Founder's Day

(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 13th, 2011)