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Disappearance of Flight 412, a review by addicted2dvd

Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974/) IMDb |Wikipedia | Miracle Pictures (United States) Director: Jud Taylor Writing: George Simpson (Writer), Neal R. Burger (Writer) Length: 72 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: DTS: 5.1 Subtitles:

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Stars:
Glenn Ford as Colonel Pete Moore
Bradford Dillman as Major Mike Dunning
David Soul as Captain Roy Bishop
Robert F. Lyons as Captain Cliff Riggs
Guy Stockwell as Lt. Colonel Trottman

Plot:
Colonel Pete Moore is commander of the Whiney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical problems aboard it's aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on flight 412. Shortly into the test, two jet fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. Investigations begin, leading to the possibility of a UFO intervention.

Extras:

• Scene Access

I had some hope for a decent movie when I pulled this one out... as it had a couple decent actors in it. But unfortunately they really had nothing to work with here. It is a story line that had potential.. but they just ruin what interesting story line they had with unwanted and unneeded narration. Most the time basically telling us what we already know by watching the picture on the screen. The writing was off for this film... it felt like we were watching a '50s Sci-Fi film made in the mid '70s! This film is only about 70 minutes... and I had a hard time making it through it. First I was fighting off falling asleep. Then I found myself more interested in looking at facebook on my phone then I was the TV screen. Don't bother with this one!



(From Within My Lifetime: 2016 Edition on September 28th, 2016)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, a review by Dragonfire

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

I went to see this on opening day.  I've already seen it a second time.  I really enjoyed the movie and think it is one of the stronger movies in the series.  The adaptation is better, though there are still a few explanations that are missing.  I do wonder how some things are going to work in the last movie since they haven't been set up properly.

This is the seventh movie in a planned eight movie series.  This one definitely builds on things that happened in the previous movies, so people really should see the previous movies first.  People who have read the books but not seen the first movies could still follow what is going on in this one I think.  Read the books..see the first movies..then see this movie.

A lot happens over the course of the movie.  I don't think it would have worked right as a shorter movie.  I definitely think it was a good idea to split the final book into two movies.  There is just too much in the final book to squish it into one movie and do the story justice.  Action does turn up in some scenes, though I wouldn't call this one action packed.  That doesn't bother me, though I have seen and heard some reviews from people - who haven't read the books - who felt that nothing happened in the movie. Several things are dealt with in the movie.  Magic stuff is in the movie again, though at times, it does seem that some of the magic stuff has been removed.  There are no talking and movie pictures shown in this one.  Hogwarts isn't shown and really isn't even heard about.  In the book, a few things about it are at least mentioned. 

The characters have grown a lot over the course of the series, and that continues in this movie.  They face new challenges while trying to find the horcruxes.  Ron really goes through a lot, and Rupert Grint gets a bit more to do than he has in previous movies.  Ron is more than just comic relief which is nice.  I'm so glad that the cast has stayed the same for all the movies.  Some characters are only briefly seen or are missing, though some of them should be around a bit more in the final movie.  Doby is finally back and he looks wonderful.

Overall, I really enjoyed this one.  I'll be seeing the final movie in the theater as well, though I do wonder how a few things will be dealt with.

I did get a longer review posted on Epinions.  The review doesn't have any spoilers.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1


(From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on December 3rd, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

(1989/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia VIZ Media (United States) Length: 450 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
It's not easy being teenaged martial artist Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial-artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists upon bringing you to the cursed training ground known as Jusenkyo, where falling into one of the many springs there turns you into whoever - or whatever - drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this little accident.

From now on, a splash of cold water will turn your father into a giant panda, while you, well, you turn into a re-haired (and problematically well-built) female version of yourself. Hoy water will reverse the effect, but only until the next time. What's a half-guy, half-girl to do?



1.01 Here's Ranma
Writer: Rumiko Takahashi (Original Material By), Yoshio Urasawa (Screenwriter)
Director: Tsutomu Shibayama
Cast: English Voice Cast), Sarah Strange (Ranma Saotome (boy-type) (voice)), Brigetta Dau (Ranma Saotome (girl-type) (voice)), David Kaye (Soun Tendo (voice)), Robert O. Smith (Genma Saotome (voice)), Ian James Corlett (Dr. Tofu Ono/Jusenkyo Guide (voice)), Ted Cole (Tatewaki Kuno (voice)), Miriam Sirois (Akane Tendo (voice)), Willow Johnson (Kasumi Tendo (voice)), Angela Costain (Nabiki Tendo (voice)), Japanese Voice Cast), Kappei Yamaguchi (Ranma Saotome (boy-type) (voice)), Megumi Hayashibara (Ranma Saotome (girl-type) (voice)), Noriko Hidaka (Akane Tendo (voice)), Minami Takayama (Nabiki Tendo (voice)), Kikuko Inoue (Kasumi Tendo (voice)), Kenichi Ogata (Genma Saotome (voice)), Ryunosuke Obayashi (Soun Tendo (voice)), Hirotaka Suzuoki (Tatewaki Kuno (voice)), Yuji Mitsuya (Dr. Tofu Ono (voice)), Koichi Yamadera (Jusenkyo Guide (voice))

This is a good first episode. So far I only have seen the first season of this series, even though I also own the second one. It is a fun series, but I never had the urge to continue. I own and have read the complete manga though (all 38 volumes). I had bought them cheap on eBay a few years ago. I had enjoyed reading it.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 24th, 2012)