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Thunderball, a review by Dragonfire

The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action sequences! Sean Connery brings his characteristic style, humor and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.

My Thoughts

Overall, I liked Thunderball.  The plot was interesting, though certain things didn't work as well.  Emilio was a decent villain, though not as sinister as some of the others.  I did notice things that ended up being used in a twisted version in the Austin Powers movies.  James continued to hit on basically every woman he came into contact with.  Domino was the main female character and she didn't seem as interesting to me as some of the other women have been.  I did think the big fight scene underwater was interesting, though it did run on a bit too long.  I did enjoy the movie, though it isn't my favorite Bond movie.  It is done very well though.  For my review I posted at Epinions I rounded up to 5 stars since I couldn't give it 4 1/2 there. 

My copy has all sorts of interesting extras that included things on the making of the movie that I thought were very entertaining.

I did post a review on Epinions if anyone wants to take a look.

Thunderball

 

(From James Bond Marathon on February 23rd, 2009)

Children of the Corn (2009), a review by addicted2dvd

Children of the Corn (2009/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Anchor Bay Entertainment (United States) Director: Donald P. Borchers Writing: Stephen King (1947) (Story By) Length: 92 min. Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD: 5.1 Subtitles: None

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Stars:
Robert Gerdisch as Preacher Boy
Jordan Schmidt as Bloody Knife Boy
David Anders as Burt
Kandyse McClure as Vicky
Remington Jennings as Joseph / Ahaz

Plot:
From Donald P. Borchers comes the resurrection of the most unholy shocker of all: It's 1975 and a young married couple - Vietnam vet Burt (David Anders of "Alias" and "Heroes") and preacher's daughter Vicki (Kandyse McClure of "Battlestar Galactica") - are driving cross-country straight into the heartland of Hell. Here in Gatlin, Nebraska, the town's bloodthirsty children - led by the boy preacher Isaac and his teen enforcer Malachai - have slaughtered all adults by command of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Now two new Outlanders have arrived...and The Time Of Sacrifice is at hand. Preston Bailey (The Crazies and "Dexter") and Daniel Newman co-star in this brutal and chilling re-imagining of Stephen King's infamous tale, featuring graphic footage not seen in the television broadcast.



Extras:

• None

I found this to be an interesting and enjoyable remake. It is one that was done by the SyFy Channel. So it is a TV Movie... though as they have done with other of their films this has extra scenes giving us a little more gore as well as a little nudity in the blu-ray release. In this one Preston Bailey plays Issac. If you are a Dexter fan that name may sound familiar... he played Cody... Rita's son.

They changed enough in this one to make it worth watching without it feeling too rehashed... but left enough of it the same to show homage to the original. I was sorry to see that in this one we didin't see the kids taken over the town like in the original. In this one when the couple arrives the town has already been taken over... actually showed that it was taken over quite a while before.

Over-all this film is worth the time put in to watch it. While I would say I prefer the orginal... I can see myself watching this one again as well.



(From Monday Monster Mini-thon on April 6th, 2015)

[Rerun Marathon] Spaced, a review by Tom

9/10

A great episode. Only the battle robot plot I found a little silly.

(From [Rerun Marathon] Spaced on December 17th, 2007)