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Twilight Zone: The Movie, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Twilight Zone: The Movie Year: 1983 Director: Prologue & Segment 1: John Landis, Segment 2: Steven Spielberg, Segment 3: Joe Dante, Segment 4: George Miller Rating: PG Length: 101 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: Chinese, English, Portuguese

Stars:
Dan Aykroyd
Albert Brooks
Vic Morrow
Doug McGrath

Plot:
1959. Friday nights. We time-traveled. Witnessed surprising twists. Entertained aliens. Experienced fear. And first journeyed to The Twilight Zone of Rod Serling's memorable TV series. And guided by four imaginative moviemakers, we traveled there again in 1983. Directors John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller fashion stories based on or inspired by classic episodes. Landis weaves the tale of a bigot who gets a walloping dose of his own hatred. Spielberg takes over with a fable of senior citizens offered a magical rejuvenation. Dante serves up a terror trip with a child who uses his cartoon-inspired powers to enslave his family. Then fright goes aloft with Miller's finale about a neurotic passenger who sees a monster on the jetliner's wing. Or does he?

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers

My Thoughts:
This is one of my old favorites. One of the first anthology horrors I ever seen. I always loved how this movie started. The prologue is a lot of fun. But I never cared much for the actual first segment of the movie. The one with the bigot finding out what it is like to be like the people he hates so much. It is a good idea for a story... and I wouldn't go so far to say it is a bad segment. It just seemed to not keep my attention as well as the rest of the movie.

The second story is more of a fun story. Where with the help of a new resident the people in the retirement home become young again while playing outside one night. And they need to decide if they want to stay young or be old once again.  Not the greatest story either... but I enjoyed it more then the first one.

In the third segment I enjoyed quite a bit. We meet a boy that can do anything he can imagine. Of course this is from a famous episode of the series. I am still not that familiar with the series and think that all the segments are from episodes of the series. But I must admit I like the way the episode was done more then the segment in this movie. As the movie made it too cartoon-ish.

The final segment is my favorite one in the movie. A man afraid of flying is up in a plane where he sees a gremlin out on the wing tearing up the plane. It is this segment that really made this movie for me. It pushes the movie to the next rating level for me personally.




Count:
Movie Count: 12
TV Ep. Count: 6
Other Count: 0
Time Started: 11:30am

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2010 on October 4th, 2010)

I Am Number Four, a review by Tom

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I Am Number Four (2011/United States/India) IMDb | Wikipedia Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: D.J. Caruso Writing: Alfred Gough (Screenwriter), Miles Millar (Screenwriter), Marti Noxon (Screenwriter), Pittacus Lore (Original Material By) Length: 110 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German: DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1, French: DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1 Subtitles: Danish, English, French, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic

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Stars:
Alex Pettyfer as John
Timothy Olyphant as Henri
Teresa Palmer as Number 6
Dianna Agron as Sarah
Callan McAuliffe as Sam

Plot:
Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes
• Bonus Trailers

I became curious about this movie when I saw Dianna Agron on the cover. I didn't hear about it before. I enjoyed this movie. The screenplay is by the creators of Smallville (and a writer/producer of Buffy), and this movie had very much a Smallville kind of vibe to it.
Seems this is based on a series of books. But sadly the movie didn't fair too well and it looks like there will be no sequel. Which is a shame. I would have liked to see more of it.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on December 22nd, 2012)

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Cordelia is invited to a fraternity party by senior college students and she accepts of course. Buffy is invited, too, but refuses until Cordelia convinces her. Since it seems to be a demon-free time, she agrees. Only a bracelet with small amounts of blood on it hints to new trouble in town.

My Opinion: I knew it all along! All rich people are in league with the Devil! Or a demon in this case. I liked this episode because it showed that Humans can be as evil as demons and that the former have no problem dealing with or using the latter to achieve their goals. And Buffy's bad luck streak with guys continues, although the pattern will emerge only later (nice guy who turns into a monster/asshole once he has what he wanted).

Synopsis: Halloween is coming up and that means Vampires will stay at home. Unfortunately Snyder isn't a Vampire and he makes Buffy, Willow and Xander "volunteers" to escort children around the blocks on Halloween. But something is wrong with the costumes: Everybody seem to turn into what they are wearing: soldier, vamp (not -ire!) ghost, 18th century lady and a whole lot of monsters. Spike is delighted! And the Slayer faints.

My Opinion: I love this episode. The introduction of Ethan Rayne as an old friend of Giles's/Ripper's was a great idea and I love the episodes he's in, because there will always be some weird side effect and Giles will behave unusually. I also liked that Xander was allowed to be the protector of the ladies and I loved how Buffy had no idea what who and what she was. My favourite line was when Willow said (in regard to Buffy): "Couldn't she dress up like Xena?".
I noticed though that there was an uninvited Vampire in Buffy's house. But they never explained how exactly this magic works and since Joyce seemed to be out of town and Buffy wasn't really Buffy, maybe the house was deemed "deserted" and thus unprotected.

Synopsis: An old friend of Buffy's, Ford, has moved to Sunnydale and she's excited about it. They went to school together for seven years and as it turns out he's found out that she's the Slayer. Neither Xander nor Angel are very thrilled about this development, but Buffy loves spending time with him and catching up on old stories. There's one catch though: Ford has joined a cult that reveres Vampires, calling them "the lonely ones". They have no idea about the true nature of these creatures and their knowledge is bade upon old Dracula movies. And they want to become Vampires themselves.

My Opinion: He committed suicide because he was afraid of death. But he deserved what he got. I would have understood it if he had made that choice only for himself even though he didn't really understand the consequences. But to sacrifice all these naive teenagers and even Buffy to get his wish granted, was over the line. But it was also one of the rare occurrences where Buffy has to dust a Vampire that she and we knew as Humans (e.g. Jesse in Welcome to the Hellmouth / The Harvest [OK, that was Xander]) and/or that she knew before he became a Vampire (Conversations with Dead People).

Synopsis: A man tries to get to Giles but gets killed by a female demon in school grounds. When the police informs him of that he can identify the man as an old friend of his. From there on Giles behaves unGilesish and he has to learn that more friends of his have died recently. As it turns out, Giles wasn't always the virtuous librarian. Many years ago a group including the dead people, him and Ethan Rayne have summoned a demon and now he's killing them all.

My Opinion: After Halloween this was the second time we see a glimpse of Giles's darker side and especially his past. In just two episodes they managed to break his facade and to make him into just an imperfect human being as everyone else. I also liked how Willow established herself as "third-in-command" when Giles and Buffy were gone. She's already developed a lot since the pilot. But it doesn't appear to be fully serious yet, more like giving orders with a .

(From "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Marathon on April 18th, 2009)