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Whip It, a review by addicted2dvd

Watched On: 3/18/2013

Whip It (2009/United States) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: Drew Barrymore Writing: Shauna Cross (Screenwriter), Shauna Cross (Original Material By) Length: 111 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: DTS: 5.1, French: DTS: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Sarah Habel as Corbi
Shannon Eagen as Amber
Edward Austin Kelly as Pageant Coordinator
Mary Callaghan Lynch as Val
Ellen Page as Bliss Cavendar
Alia Shawkat as Pash

Plot:
Ellen Page scores huge laughs as Bliss Cavendar a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Soon Bliss discovers a way to put her lifw on the fast track...literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes "Babe Ruthless" - the hottest thing on eight wheels.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes

This is one of the ones I borrowed from the library. I mainly grabbed it because of Drew Barrymore. Not only does she have a (fairly small) part in... she is also the director. And I been a fan of hers for quite a while now. The main star here is Ellen Page. Someone that I really am not that familiar with... but I have enjoyed in the few things I have seen her in. This is a pretty good film. I enjoyed it.... but it is one that I don't see myself watching all that often. I can see myself adding this one to my collection at some point if I find a good deal on it. But now that I seen it the once... it isn't something I will be going out of my way to look for.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on March 20th, 2013)

Stargate: The Director's Cut, a review by Jon

Stargate: The Director's Cut
3 out of 5

In 1928, an ancient Egyptian artefact covered in strange symbols is excavated at the foot of the Great Pyramids. Decades later the American Government recruits the help of Egyptologist Dr Daniel Jackson (James Spader) to decode the secret of these symbols. He reveals the key to a "stargate", an intergalactic portal to the far side of the known universe. Jackson is joined by a crack military unit led by Colonel O'Neill (Kurt Russel) on a voyage of discovery.

A typical Devlin/Emmerich movie, all waffle and no substance, but also lacks the epic scale and sheer awesome audacity of their later Independence Day or Day After Tomorrow. Everything is bombastic and overdone. It could have been vastly improved by cutting out most of the cliched crap involving the natives and letting Kurt Russell be Kurt Russell instead of hamstringing his character with baggage. James Spader's good though, Mili Avital is gorgeous*, and the Ra God-squad are impressive. The whole thing bats along being inoffensively fun. It just wouldn't hurt to skip a couple of middle chapters.

This is the "Director's Cut". Not a whole lot of difference and the quality of the additional footage is frequently terrible. A half-arsed release of a half-arsed film. Shame because the story is a cracker and sets-up a great TV series. Haven't seen many myself but they seemed to learn from the mistakes. That said the canon becomes very confusing across several mediums, all of which Devlin seems to ignore, going so far as to announce a sequel in 2006 that would pick up at the end of this film and ignore everything else. Russell and Spader were to return in a planned trilogy.

Devlin, your film's shit. Leave it alone and let the telly boys have their fun because they know what they're doing and actually understand things called "plot" and "character".


*-Along with Natalie Portman, proving that Israel is thus far a seemingly untapped world of totty possibilities!

(From Jon's Random Reviews on January 29th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The Complete Animated Series (1997/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Shout! Factory (United States) Length: 300 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Plot:
The adventures of 'SAM & MAX: FREELANCE POLICE!!!' is an edgy and often irreverent, impudent, insolent, impious and silly series about a pair of likeable law enforcement types who don't take crap (oops! we mean guff) from anybody. It's about the timeless struggle between good, evil and snacktime; the weekly mishaps of a six-foot dog-Sam and a three-foot rabbity-thing (though he prefers the term 'lagomorph')-Max-who have a mirthful time trying to resolve only the weirdest criminal cases of the day. Really.

For your own good, and the good of mankind, enjoy 'SAM & MAX: FREELANCE POLICE!!!'

Based on Steve Purcell's enormously popular underground comic. Original package illustrations by Steve Purcell.


Sam & Max: Freelance Police
1.01 The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It (1997-10-04)
Writer: Steve Purcell (Created By), J. D. Smith (Writer)
Director: Steve Whitehouse
Cast: Harvey Atkin (Sam (voice)), Robert Tinkler (Max (voice)), Tracey Moore (Geek (voice))

The 1993 "Sam'n'Max: Hit the Road" PC game is one of my all-time favorite games. I played it through countless of times, just because of the characters and the humor.
This TV series has partly the charm of the game. It is worth a watch. The first episode I didn't enjoy as much as some of the others though.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 1st, 2012)