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The Dark Knight, a review by Jon

The Dark Knight
5 out of 5

This film deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it and more. An overhyped movie that lives up to the hype with an ambitious character driven story that goes against comic book movie formula. It's a clever, layered story that gets to the heart of several characters, using The Joker as a centre-point. A straight comic adaptation would rank amongst the best Batman stories, and that never happens; for instance X-Men 2 was fantastic, but the story wouldn't hold up against the originals. Nor would either of the Spider-Man films (what do you mean there were three? I meant "good" Spider-Man films). This could because it's so well balanced amongst the key characters.

If I have a gripe it's that

Heath Ledger's Joker is as good as you have heard and probably better. The role will be remembered for years, but the best roles are a part of a film, not the focus, and it's a tribute the quality of this story that he doesn't take it over. The rest of the cast held their own and the story is pretty equally shared, revolving around The Joker's anarchy, not unlike Seven. That isn't a lazy comparision.
Actually, The Joker is a good enough villain to have worked in a traditional thriller, but then we'd have to do without Christian Bale's Batman. It's still his film and hopefully, his trilogy. There aren't many good part 3s, but Christopher Nolan could pull it off.

One of the very best comic adaptations, cutting straight to the motivation of each well played character, with a solid story to back them up.

 

(From The Dark Knight on July 27th, 2008)

Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyeur, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyuer
Movie Count: 68
TV Ep Count: 32
Other  Count: 2
Time Started: 3pm
Plot:
The Mirror returns as Billy Drago, Monique Parent and David Naughton are trapped in a triangle of erotic splendor, forbidden desire and supernatural murder. Elizabeth Baldwin co-stars in this sensuous chiller that takes the series to new heights of horror.

My Thoughts:
Another one I never seen before. After the second one I was hoping this series wouldn't get any worse. But unfortunately it has. One thing I did like about this movie is a look of one of the earlier roles for Billy Drago... I have become somewhat of a fan of his every since I saw him reoccur on Charmed as the Demon of Fear. The only other thing this movie could possibly have going for it is the fact that almost every other scene has a nude woman in it... this thing could almost be softcore porn. I would almost be willing to say more softcore porn then horror.



(From My Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2008 on October 19th, 2008)

Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon, a review by Tom

18. Five by Five (2000-04-25)
Writer: Jim Kouf (Writer)
Director: James A. Contner
Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Julie Benz (Darla), Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald), Thomas Burr (Lee Mercer), Tyler Christopher (Bret Folger), Stephanie Romanov (Lilah Morgan), Eliza Dushku (Faith), Rainbow Borden (Gangbanger), Francis Fallon (Dick), Adrienne Janic (Attractive Girl), Rodrick Fox (Assistant DA), Thor Edgell (Romanian Man), Jennifer Slimko (Romanian Woman)

It's always fun to see Faith again. I always liked this episode. Only this time I found, that her turn to Angel at the end was coming to suddenly.

Rating:

(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on July 11th, 2009)