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Wrong Turn, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Wrong Turn
Movie Count: 47
TV Ep Count: 16
Time Started: 3pm
Plot:
An indescribable nightmare begins when a group of young friends is stranded on an isolated road deep in the Appalachian hills of West Virginia, with no hope of rescue. Desperate and fearing for their lives, the horror surges as they find themselves relentlessly pursued by a force of evil beyond their imagination! Featuring a hip ensemble of up-and-coming young stars, including 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer's' Eliza Dushku, this blood-curdling epic is a shock-a-minute horror rush that will leave you screaming for more!

My Thoughts:
There really is nothing all that original here... group of friends... lost in the backwoods... being terrorized by some crazy redneck family. Seen it all 100s of times. But even so... there is something about this movie I just really like. Maybe it is because I am a fan of Eliza Dushku... I don't know... seems to be more then just that. anyway in my opinion this is a good horror flick... above average. I know it sounds like many other out there... but give it a shot.

(From Month-Long Horror/Halloween Marathon on October 16th, 2007)

Duplicity, a review by Dragonfire

I have liked many of the movies that Julia Roberts has been in.  I've also liked Clive Owen in several of his movies, so I decided to go see Duplicity when it came out.

Ray and Claire are former rival spies who now work for rival private companies.  Then Ray discovers that Claire is actually a mole at the other company working for the same company he is.  Their goal is to steal the idea for a hot new product before it is made public and patented.

I did enjoy Duplicity overall, though it was nothing like what I expected.  The previews made it look like it would more of a fun romantic thriller with a decent amount of comedy.  It wasn't.  There really isn't anything thrilling about what is going on, there is very little romance, and very little comedy.  The only mystery is tied to what the new product is.  Once it is shared what the product is, it makes sense that companies would want to be the first to get the product to stores.  There is a tiny bit of suspense in one or two scenes later in the movie and that is it.  The pace ended up being a lot slower than I expected which was disappointing.  The movie just wasn't as entertaining as I had hoped it would be given the cast.

Duplicity jumps around in time a lot, showing one event, jumping forward five years, jumping back several years, back to the present, and then back in time again.  This went on throughout the movie and will likely annoy some viewers.  Every time the movie jumped, it said when and where the scene was set, so it wasn't that hard to follow, but with the way the story was told, some things don't make any sense for a very long time, if at all. 

Clive and Julia were fine in their parts.  They did have a few entertaining scenes together.  There just weren't enough of those types of scenes.  Most of the other cast members, like Paul Giamatti, were wasted in their roles since they had so little to do.

This one is ok, but not that great.  Fans of the cast might find something to like, but many will be bugged by the way the story is told. 
This one is probably somewhere between  and  .  I felt like it was barely a 3 star movie for the rating at Epinions when I did my review there.

Duplicity

(From Duplicity on April 30th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Blackadder 2 (1984/United Kingdom) IMDb | Wikipedia BBC Worldwide (United Kingdom) Length: 175 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English

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Plot:
The Historic Second Series

England 1558-1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back with a big head and small beard in search of grace and favour from stark raving mad Queen Bess. Accompanied by a small rabble of be-ruffed riff-raff - bottom-breath Baldrick and pea-brained Percy - the serpentine Lord Blackadder lower the whole tone of England's Golden Age.

Black Adder
2.01 Bells
Writer: Richard Curtis (Writer), Ben Elton (Writer)
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Cast: Rowan Atkinson (Edmund Blackadder), Tim McInnerny (Lord Percy), Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Miranda Richardson (Queen Elizabeth I), Stephen Fry (Lord Melchett), Patsy Byrne (Nursie), Gabrielle Glaister (Kate), Rik Mayall (Flashheart), John Grillo (Dr. Leech), Edward Jewesbury (Kate's Father), Barbara Miller (Wisewoman), Sadie Shimmin (Young Crone)

At hasn't been that long ago that I have watched this episode, so I am just writing up a review now. With the second series, Blackadder got really great. I just love Queenie. And Blackadder is now really a fun character.
I also really like this first episode. Blackadder falling for "Bob" has some really great scenes.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on March 29th, 2011)