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Man of Steel, a review by Tom

Man of Steel (2013/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia [tom]stars_30_6.png[/tom] Warner Home Video (Germany) Director: Zack Snyder Writing: David S. Goyer (Screenwriter), David S. Goyer (Story By), Christopher Nolan (Story By), Jerry Siegel (Original Characters By), Joe Shuster (Original Characters By) Length: 143 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Bulgarian, English, German, Other, Lithuanian, Russian, Hungarian, Estonian, Latvian, Romanian, Turkish

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Stars:
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Kal-El
Amy Adams as Lois Lane
Michael Shannon as General Zod
Diane Lane as Martha Kent
Russell Crowe as Jor-El

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Featurettes
• Bonus Trailers
• Digital Copy

This movie is a mixed bag for me. I liked some parts, but on the other hand, it was too much of a CGI action fest.
When I had seen it for the first time, I was also a little disappointed, because I had very high expectations.
On the positive side, I think Henry Cavill did a very good job as Superman. His looks also reminded me very much of Tom Welling, who played Clark Kent in Smallville. I am curious about the sequel.

(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 25th, 2013)

Zatoichi on the Road, a review by Antares

Zatoichi on the Road (1963) 78/100 - One could say a playful homage to Kurosawa's Yojimbo, while another could say a money grabbing rip-off. But one must definitely say that this is the most action packed film of the series so far. Zatoichi is definitely in bad ass mode for this outing.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 29th, 2014)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon, a review by goodguy

2x02 Automatic for the People
Synopsis: See Achim's post.
My Rating:

I liked the episode much better this time around. Part of it probably is simply being in the right or wrong mood, part of it is knowing how certain things will play out.

For example, I wasn't too keen about the introduction of Riley in this episode, because there already was a mystery girl in S1 and nothing came out of it. Now, I could appreciate her more and really liked the scenes between John and her. BTW, I noticed that the story outline concerning Riley is almost literally spilled out by someone else:

The entire plot of the dying guy busting in to deliver a message from the future, and the subsequent infiltration of the power plant made me roll my eyes so much, I missed the finer points of the episode. And than they ended the episode with a shot of our heroes staring at bloody (!) messages on a wall, outlining the future missions of the week. That really threw me off.

I still think the entire thing is somewhat ridiculous and the vague biblical allusion barely saves it. But it doesn't bother me so much any longer. And the supposedly suspenseful scenes of Sarah sneaking around in the power plant still drag, but in reality that's only a small part of the episode and I'm now actually thankful that they don't bore me with too much details about how they managed to get in.

As Achim rightly noted, the episode is much more about the character issues than the action, although some of these issues are a bit murky at this point, especially when it comes to John.

I can't agree about Glau phoning it in, though. Obviously something is different with Cameron, and she conveys that quite well. I especially liked her final scene with Sarah, the repeated (and perfectly reasonable) "I don't know" to Sarah questions culminating in the "Am I?" punch line.


(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on January 29th, 2010)