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Mondo Cane 2, a review by Jimmy

Title : Mondo Cane 2 (1964)

Overview
Two years after their international smash MONDO CANE became the most controversial documentary of its time, Directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi again ignited a firestorm of outrage and acclaim as they travelled the globe to film an all-new exploration of primitives, penitents and perversions in a world gone mad.

My Impression
This second part isn't as good as the original one for many reasons. The footage use for it is the one that was not good enough for the first, the footage is almost all about the occidental world, some of them is clearly staged and the ensemble is an image patching without a logic narrative. Not that it is bad, but this film is a weak follow up to the original. By exemple a musical number where 6 peoples are slap on stage while a pianist plays is clearly fake or, the most iconical image of the film, a monk who imolate himself on fire for protesting is fake too (the event is real, but it was not filmed for this movie as reveal by the director in the documentary who is included in the boxset). I like some scene like the photoshoot for the pulp fiction novel cover or the shooting target practice by the Mexican police or, my favourite, a park at London (I think) where all kind of crazy peoples make nonsense speech and nobody seems interested (does this place exist really? Look like a good place to get a free laugh).
 
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(From Shockumentary/Mondo Week Marathon on February 4th, 2009)

Go, a review by Tom

Title: Go
Year: 1999
Director: Doug Liman
Rating: FSK-16
Length: 98 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , German: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Katie Holmes
Sarah Polley
Jay Mohr
Timothy Olyphant
William Fichtner

Extras:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Music Videos
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailers

I enjoy this movie every time I watch it. Nicely executed story which is told from different point of views. To be precise, it shows the story of different sets of characters and how they intertwine. Similar to Pulp Fiction.

This movie is one I constantly have to think of because of two reasons:
1) Everytime I watch a Columbia Pictures movie, I expect their logo at the beginning to be interrupted the same way as in this movie. It just stuck in my mind for some reason.
2) When I was on the search for a new user name a few year ago, I just had recently watched this movie and the name Todd Gaines just stuck in my head. I replaced "Todd" with my similar sounding real first name and "TomGaines" was born
You may remember one of my old avatars, which is a screenshot from this movie of the character Todd Gaines



Maybe I should switch back to it some day.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on November 14th, 2008)

Smallville Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

13. Recruit
In an effort to recruit Clark for their football team, Met U sends their star player Geoff to show Clark the "perks" of attending Met U. However, after one of Met U's players dies under mysterious circumstances and Lois is arrested for his murder, Clark discovers that Geoff has super powers and is using them to paralyze anyone who gets in his way - including Lois.

My Thoughts:
This was a good episode... though nothing special about it. I think that this episode was made just for a reason for Clark to quit football.

14. Krypto
While driving, Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm to heal. Clark realizes this is no ordinary dog after the pup lifts up a car to retrieve a ball.

My Thoughts:
Decent episode... nothing to special about it... I think this episode was no more then a nod Superboy's pet dog from Krypton. Even though they really changed it up for this series big time.

15. Sacred
After learning that Jason and Lex are in China searching for one of the mysterious kryptonian crystals, Clark and Lana follow in the hopes of finding it first.

My Thoughts:
This is one of the mythology episodes. Not a great one... but it was good. For the second time... Lana gets possessed by the witch in this episode.

16. Lucy
Lois' younger sister, Lucy, with whom Lois doesn't get along, comes to town and charms everyone she meets.

My Thoughts:
This is just another basic good episode. Aside from meeting Lois' sister there is nothing really special here. The first time I saw this episode I was thinking if she comes back it would be a new love interest for Clark... what with the way they flirted... but at this point I doubt we ever see her again. I did like her... so I would like to see an update to her storyline before the series ends.

(From Smallville Marathon on August 10th, 2007)