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The Karate Kid: Part III, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Karate Kid: Part III
Year: 1989
Director: John G. Avildsen
Rating: PG
Length: 112 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Portuguese: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai

Stars:
Ralph Macchio as Daniel
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita as Miyagi
Robyn Lively as Jessica
Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry
Martin Kove as Kreese

Plot:
When Miyagi (Pat Morita) refuses to help him prepare for an upcoming tournament, an angry Daniel (Ralph Macchio) finds a new mentor, unaware that a revenge-obsessed old enemy is setting him up.

Extras:
Scene Access
Bonus Trailers
Production Notes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
First a little rant. When I first ordered this set I read about how Disc 3 is a double sided disc with The Karate Kid III and The Next Karate Kid... which I am fine with. But I went on to read that the 3rd disc was mis-labeled... so Part 3's label actually said The Next Karate Kid and The Next Karate Kid was labeled Karate Kid II. Well I thought this set was released back in February of '05... surely they fixed this problem since then. But to my surprise... no! The set I received still has the misprinted labels. Which kind of sucks... but is easy enough to handle. I just find it odd that they didn't get this corrected after 5 years of it being released.

I also read where a lot of people said this is where the franchise starts going downhill. And from what I have read a lot of people stopped collecting after the first two movies. While I agree it does go downhill a bit here. I still find this to be an entertaining movie. Though I do hate seeing Daniel and Mr. Miyagi on the outs. The main reason I had a problem with this is that when Daniel signed the entrance form it was because he had no choice. It seems like that would have been enough any other time. but this time he waited toll he found out that the entire thing was a set up by Kreese and his friend. I got to say... Daniel just does not have any luck with the ladies. In part one he falls for Ali which we later find out she falls for someone else and we never see her again. Then he finds... I forget her name... the girl in Okinawa and we later find out she joined a dance group in Tokyo. And now in this one we have Jessica who it is let known early in the movie that she has a boyfriend and they can only be friends. And she don't even stay to see him fight in the tournament. But over all it is still a good movie that I enjoyed watching.



(From The Karate Kid Marathon on April 6th, 2010)

Bride of Re-Animator, a review by Jimmy

Title: Bride of Re-Animator (1989)

Genre: Horror
Director: Brian Yuzna
Rating: R
Length: 1h39
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Jeffrey Combs
Bruce Abbott
Claude Earl Jones
Fabiana Udenio
David Gale

Plot:
It's been eight months since the Miskatonic Massacre stained the halls with blood - and Dr. West and Dr. Cain's experiments have taken a bizarre turn. Now they have gone beyond re-animating the dead...into the realm of creating new life. The legs of a hooker, and the womb of a virgin are joined to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlriend - and the bride is unleashed upon her maite in a climax of sensual borror.

More often than not a movie sequel isn't as good as the original and what we have here is no exception. The story isn't really interesting and, more often than not, doesn't make sense. Some interesting idea appear but are never developped (by exemple the police investigation about the event of the first film), in fact it felt improvised (hard to believe that 3 persons were involved in the writing). The comedy side is not there anymore and the mood is dark and depressing, even Herbert West is played as a caricature (sure he is a mad scientist in the original but not an over the top unidimensional character). Didn't help also that Fabiana Udenio (remember the exchange student in Summer School?) play more or less the Barbara Crampton role in that film since she isn't a good actress.

Really poor sequel and an awfull sourced from tape DVD release thanks to Artisan Home Entertainment. At least Pionner released the film using the correct screen ratio with a commentary wich I'm sure was more entertaining than the film was.


 
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(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 3rd, 2013)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

To Heart: Complete Collection (1999/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia Right Stuf (United States) Length: 325 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
For as long as Akari can remember, she and Hiroyuki have always been friends. But with time, everything changes, and her feelings have turned into something more. As a new semester of high school begins, will the two childhood friends come closer together or drift further apart? Join Hiroyuki, Akari and all their friends - the bubbly Shiho, the quiet Serika, the lovely Kotone, and more - in this heartwarming tale of love, relationships and friendship!


ToHeart
Season 1.01 A Brand New Morning 01.04.1999
Writer: AQUAPLUS (Original Material By), Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Screenwriter)
Director: Naohito Takahashi
Cast: Ayako Kawasumi (Akari Kamigishi), Kazuya Ichijo (Hiroyuki Fujita), Chieko Higuchi (Shiho Nagaoka), Soichiro Hoshi (Masashi Sato), Rumi Kasahara (Lemmy Miyauchi), Aya Hisakawa (Tomoko Hoshina), Miwa Yanagihara (Matsumoto), Akiko Kimura (Okada), Mie Sonozaki (Yoshii), Shinpo Chiba (Teacher), Takanobu Arai (Student), Harunori Miyata (Student), Yui Horie (Student), Eriko Fujimaki (Student), , Rich McNanna (Hiroyuki Fujita), Angora Deb (Akari Kamigishi), Zoe Fries (Shiho Nagaoka), Wayne Grayson (Masashi Sato), Lisa Ortiz (Tomoko Hoshina), Karen Thompson (Lemmy Miyauchi), Joe DiGiorgi (Teacher), Amy Kincaid (Yoshii), Michele Knotz (Matsumoto), Anna Morrow (Okada), Sam Regal (Additional Voices), Liam O'Brien (Additional Voices), Bill Rogers (Additional Voices), Sarah Quill (Additional Voices), Michele Knotz (Additional Voices)

Not much happing in this series but a nice watch anyway. It's a slice-of-life kind of story about a group of Japanese high school students.

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on November 12th, 2012)