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Imagine Me & You, a review by dfmorgan

Imagine Me & You

Part of

Imagine Me & You / My Summer of Love

Year: 2005
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: Piper Perabo, Lena Headley, Matthew Goode
OverviewWatched: 4th. Dec 2010
My Thoughts: A fairly standard Rom/Com with a twist. Standard in that boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy meets girl again and gets girl this time but the twist here is that it's girl meets girl etc. I quite enjoyed it and thought that the female cast came over extremely well.

My Rating: Overall a 3 from me

Dave

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on December 5th, 2010)

Iron Man, a review by Tom

Title: Iron Man
Year: 2008
Director: Jon Favreau
Rating: 12
Length: 126 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.40
Audio: English: Dolby Digital TrueHD, Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Robert Downey Jr.
Terrence Howard
Jeff Bridges
Gwyneth Paltrow
Leslie Bibb

Plot:
Lift off with high-speed, high-flying action in this Ultimate 2-disc Edition that takes you inside the suit of Marvel's invincible Super Hero for the ultimate Iron Man experience!

After surviving an unexpected attack in enemy territory, jet-setting industrialist Tony Stark builds a high-tech suit of armour and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Straight from the pages of the legendary comic book is a hero who is built - not born - to be unlike any other!

Extras:
BD-Live
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailers

Another cool superhero movie. Before I have first seen this movie, I only ever heard that there is a superhero called Iron Man, but I had never read any comics or seen any animation series with him. But I enjoyed this movie a lot. My only gripe at first was his imprisonment, where he build his first suit and in all the three months he was there, the captors never noticed that he was not working on their rockets but on something else. But after watching it, I read some stuff on Wikipedia about Iron Man, and it seems they stayed true to the comic's origin story, so I won't hold it against the movie.
Robert Downey Jr. plays the part of Tony Stark very well. I mainly knew him from his leading part of the romantic comedy "Only You" before this.
Also Jeff Bridges was hardly recognizable. He looks so much different than his other role I know him from: The Dude. But I recognized his voice instantly, when I have first seen this movie (I didn't know then, who exactly was in this movie. I didn't research beforehand. I only knew of Robert Downey Jr.).
Can't wait for the sequel!

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 3rd, 2009)

Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison, a review by Tom

01. Rebirth

Light, a very bright, but bored, High School student finds a notebook, which promises that for each name written in this notebook will kill that person.
Ryuk, the death god who has dropped this notebook on earth to have some fun, is also introduced. Only Light can see him, because only people, who have touched the Death Note can see and hear him.

Rules introduced in this episode:
- the person written into the death note dies after 40 seconds of a heart attack if no cause of death is written down
- if a cause of death is written down, you have another 6 minutes and 40 seconds to specify the circumstances
- you have to know the face of the person whose name is written down
- touching a death god's death note will enable you to see and hear him

Manga:
This episode covers chapter 1 of the manga. Generally in the manga, Light is very collected. In the anime he is very hot-headed, even in his inner monologues.
In the manga, the order of the scenes is this:
- Ryuk decides to drop the book in the human world
- Light finds it
- jump five days ahead and Ryuk introduces himself to Light and is surprised how many people Light has already killed
- Light tells about his first try-outs of using the book and coming to the realization, that it's the real thing
- he tells Ryuk of this plans of using the notebook to get rid of all evil in the world

In the anime, these happenings are told linear. We see him finding the book, trying it out and then the visit of Ryuk. As far as I remember, this observation in difference can be made a lot. In the manga, we often see Light doing something and then after it is finished, we get to see his preparations. In the anime we first get to see his preparations and then the pay-off.

Movies:
In the movies, Light does not start off as a high school student, but is already a law student, who gets frustrated with the Japanese law system. This is when he finds the notebook. His first tests with the notebook and his first encounter with Ryuk are similar to the manga/anime.


(From Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison on January 30th, 2009)