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The Sixth Sense, a review by Tom

Title: The Sixth Sense
Year: 1999
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 103 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: DTS 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Bruce Willis
Haley Joel Osment
Toni Collette
Olivia Williams
Trevor Morgan

Plot:
Hollwood superstar Bruce Willis (Armageddon, The Siege) brings a powerful presence to an edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller that critics are calling one of the nest movies of 1999. Dr. Malcom Crowe (Willis) is a distinguished child psychologist haunted by the painful memory of a disturbed young patient he was unable to help. So when he meets Cole Sear (Hale Joel Osment - Forrest Gump)... a frightened, confused eight-year-old with a similar condition... Dr. Crowe seeks to redeem himself by doing everthing he can. Nonetheless, Malcolm is unprepared to learn the truth of what haunts Cole: terrifying, unwanted visits from the restless inhabitants of the spirit world. With a riveting intensity you'll find thoroughly chilling and utterly unforgettable, the discovery of Cole's incredible 6th sense leads them both to mysterious and unforeseeable consequences.

Awards:

Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Director	M. Night Shyamalan
Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Film Editing	Andrew Mondshein
Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Picture	Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel (Producers)
Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Supporting Actor	Haley Joel Osment
Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Supporting Actress	Toni Collette
Academy Award	1999	Nominated	Best Writing, Original Screenplay	M. Night Shyamalan
AFI	1999	Won	100 Years... 100 Movies (2007)
AFI	1999	Won	100 Years... 100 Quotes (2005)	"Quote": I see dead people.
AFI	1999	Won	100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001)
American Cinema Editors Awards	2000	Nominated		Andrew Mondshein
American Society of Cinematographers Awards	2000	Nominated	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases	Tak Fujimoto
ASCAP Awards	2000	Won	Top Box Office Films	James Newton-Howard
BAFTA	1999	Nominated	Editing	Andrew Mondshein
BAFTA	1999	Nominated	Film	Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel
BAFTA	1999	Nominated	Original Screenplay	M. Night Shyamalan
BAFTA	1999	Nominated	The David Lean Award For Achievement In Direction	M. Night Shyamalan
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2000	Won	Favorite Actor - Newcomer (Internet Only)	Haley Joel Osment
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2000	Won	Favorite Actor - Suspense	Bruce Willis
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2000	Won	Favorite Supporting Actress - Suspense	Toni Collette
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2000	Won	Best Child Performance	Haley Joel Osment
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Picture
Casting Society of America Awards	2000	Nominated		Avy Kaufman
Cinema Audio Society Awards	2000	Nominated	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film	Reilly Steele, Michael Kirchberger, Allan Byer
Directors Guild of America	2000	Nominated	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	M. Night Shyamalan
Empire Magazine Awards	2000	Won	Best Director	M. Night Shyamalan
Golden Globe	1999	Nominated	Actor in a Supporting Role	Haley Joel Osment
Golden Globe	1999	Nominated	Screenplay	M. Night Shyamalan
Hugo Award	2000	Nominated	Dramatic Presentation
International Horror Guild Awards	1999	Nominated	Best Horror Film
MTV Movie Awards	2000	Won	Best Male Breakthrough Performance	Haley Joel Osment
MTV Movie Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Male Performance	Bruce Willis
MTV Movie Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Movie
MTV Movie Awards	2000	Nominated	Best On-screen Duo	Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Debut	Haley Joel Osment
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Screenplay, Original	M. Night Shyamalan
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2000	Won	Best Supporting Actor	Haley Joel Osment
Satellite Awards	2000	Nominated		Toni Collette
Satellite Awards	2000	Won	Best Film Editing	Andrew Mondshein
Satellite Awards	2000	Won		M. Night Shyamalan
Satellite Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Sound	Allan Byer, Michael Kirchberger
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Actor	Bruce Willis
Saturn	1999	Won	Best Horror Film
Saturn	1999	Won	Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Haley Joel Osment
Saturn	1999	Nominated	Best Screenplay	M. Night Shyamalan
Screen Actors Guild Award	1999	Nominated	Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role	Haley Joel Osment
Teen Choice Awards	2000	Won	Film - Choice Breakout Performance	Haley Joel Osment
Teen Choice Awards	2000	Won	Film - Choice Drama
Teen Choice Awards	2000	Nominated	Film - Choice Sleazebag	Trevor Morgan
Writers Guild of America Awards	2000	Nominated	Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	M. Night Shyamalan
Young Artist Awards	2000	Won		Haley Joel Osment
YoungStar Awards	2000	Won	Best Young Actor/Performance in a Motion Picture Drama	Haley Joel Osment

Extras:
Deleted Scenes
DVD-ROM Content
Featurettes
Interviews
Production Notes
Scene Access
Storyboard Comparisons
Trailers

I haven't watched this movie in ten years (I cannot believe I have been collecting DVDs for this long now). This movie is still strong. It is still this director's best work. For some reason I enjoy this movie more after I knew the twist. When I first watched it many years ago, I thought it an okay movie until the ending put a new perspective on everything and then watched it a second time. It is fun to watch this movie with that knowledge and notice things which you didn't before.
What the movie really helped is the strong performance by Haley Joel Osment. Imagine they would have had the casting director of Star Wars: Episode I and we would have gotten Jake Llyod for this role (both movies came out around the same time). Shudder!

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on March 21st, 2010)

Santa Baby, a review by addicted2dvd

Santa Baby (2006/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia | Lion's Gate Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Ron Underwood Writing: Garrett Frawley (Writer), Brian Turner (Writer) Length: 90 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: Spanish

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Stars:
Lyle Edge as Street Santa
Jenny McCarthy as Mary Class
Kandyse McClure as Donna Campbell
Tobias Mehler as Grant Foley
Michael Moriarty as T J Hamilton

Plot:
Jenny McCarthy and George Wendt star in this heartwarming comedy about Santa Claus' daughter. When Santa Claus (George Wendt) gets too sick to run the toy shop, his workaholic daughter Mary (Jenny McCarthy) leaves behind her high-powered job in the city and heads north. Will Mary's new ideas and her relentless drive for efficiency save Christmas, or will Christmas need to save her first?

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Gallery
• Closed Captioned

Ok... what did I think of this one? Jenny McCarthy... in some scenes I liked her... but yet in others it felt like she could have done better. I was surprised that I liked George Wendt as Santa. Don't get me wrong... I always liked George Wendt... he is always fun to watch... but for some reason he doesn't pop to my mind when I think of Santa. The movie was enough to keep my interest... even fun in parts. But I don't think it will become one of my favorites. I did however enjoy it enough to want to get a hold of the sequel. And yes... I can see myself watching it again. More or less an average film.



(From Christmas 2016 on December 5th, 2016)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

12. BULLETPROOF
Clark Kent, undercover cop. He poses as a police officer to find who shot Det. JOHN JONES, AKA MARTIAN MANHUNTER. Tess discovers that she is linked to Lex in a surprising way.

My Thoughts:
A good episode. I liked the whole going undercover as a cop thing. Even if it has been done before (Lois & Clark).

My Rating:

13. POWER
Can move at superspeed and snatch a bullet out of the air: That person is...LANA LANG. She uses the empowering nano-thechnology skin graft of the Prometheus Project on herself. But Clark worries that her new abilities may be too much for her.

My Thoughts:
While I did enjoy this episode... I didn't like it as much as most the others. I don't know that I like the whole super-powered Lana idea. I don't know if this is something that follows the comics or if it is a Smallville thing.

My Rating:

14. REQUIEM
A toymaker turns his creation into kryptonite-laced bombs. One detonates inside the LUTHORCORP boardroom with deadly results. Another will take down the Daily Planet building if Lana and Clark don't find it. But finding it will have consequences....

My Thoughts:
I am not sure why... but the person that plays the Toymaker looks familiar but can't place him. While I still don't care for the whole superpowered Lana idea... this is a pretty good episode. And is this the last time we see Lana? I really can't remember if she been back on the show since or not.

My Rating:

15. INFAMOUS


My Thoughts:
I found this episode to be excellent. I liked how it showed Clark what would happen if the world found out his secret. It seems normally shows like this goes one of two ways an alternate reality or time travel. In this case they decided to go with time travel and set it up back in the episode of Legion.

My Rating:

(From Smallville Marathon on January 21st, 2010)