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The Tuxedo, a review by addicted2dvd

The Tuxedo
International action-comedy star Jackie Chan is tailor-made for 'The Tuxedo', a roller coaster ride full of laughs and outrageous stunts. Jimmy Tong (Chan) is an ordinary cabbie-turned-chauffeur who slips into a 2 billion-dollar, super-spy suit and inadvertently becomes a dashing secret agent. Fit for trouble, this deluxe tux unwittingly thrusts Chan and his dazzling partner Jennifer Love Hewitt into a dangerous world of international espionage. Slip into 'The Tuxedo' for non-stop fun and action.

My Thoughts:
Yesterday I watched this past Friday's episode of Ghost Whisperer. That put me in the mood to watch one of Jennifer Love Hewitt's movies... but at the same time I wanted to watch something I haven't watched in a long time. So I got looking at what I had with her in it... and spotted this movie. I have not seen this movie in years... and only watched it the one time before when I first bought it. So I figured it was time to watch it again. I know of many people that did not like this movie... but I found it to be fun. Nothing more then that... but definitely fun. I always enjoyed Jackie Chan's style of martial arts and comedy.  Obviously this is not a movie to be taken seriously... or be thought provoking. It is what it is... just good entertainment. And I think if you look at it that way you will enjoy this movie.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon 1/18 - 1/20 on January 20th, 2008)

Sixteen Candles, a review by addicted2dvd

Sixteen Candles
Samantha's life is going downhill fast. The fifteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign exchange student named Long Duc Dong, and we have the makings of a hilarious journey into young womanhood.


My Thoughts:
I found this available on On-Demand and felt I must watch it for the marathon. Surprisingly this is the first time I ever seen this film. Being a film from the '80s... a time when I watched films like crazy. I found I enjoyed this one quite a bit. It definitely has a lot of fun scenes in it. I think I will have to try to add this one to my collection!
 
My Rating:


Goal: 44
Watched: 8
Left: 36

(From May Marathon: Happy Birthday to Me! on May 11th, 2013)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Dollhouse

1/ Ghost (apparently there was an unaired pilot prior to this)
Echo is one of the "Actives" in the elite and illegal Dollhouse. Through different personality downloads, she plays the role of a lovestruck girl on a romantic weekend, and then a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator.
Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard is struggling with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse. The chase has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career, and it doesn't seem that he'll stop until he uncovers the truth.



FROM JOSS WHEDON, CREATIVE MASTERMIND BEHIND Buffy the Vampire Slayer  and Angel, comes the provocative Dollhouse, a sexy, suspenseful thriller starring the stunningly talented Eliza Dushku.
As an "Active," the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal undergroound organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings.  Actives receivve persoonality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything - the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin.  Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Activve who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down - forever.

As has been mentioned several times before, this series began very slowly and picked up around the 5th episode.
The first episode is quite confusing to follow and understand exactly what is going on, who is who, are the dolls victims or volunteers, what is what, why the Dollhouse, are they good or bad?? The idea of wiping a 'persons' mind and imprinting a new one, whether that be an assassin, lover, fighter etc, is quite novel and shows promise.
It is eye candy gone mad with a host of bronzed beauties to appeal to both sexes, but the majority unfortunately on first showing appearing rather lightweight in the acting skills. Adele DeWitt looks like she has secured a great role, and I am interested to see how this develops through the series.
Certainly a pilot that could put you off a series as it was just too confusing, but with the knowledge of how this improves and where it leads to I will be watching the remainder of series 1 very soon.
 


(From My PILOT Marathon on September 14th, 2009)