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The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning: Unrated
Year: 2007
Director: Robert Berlinger
Rating: Unrated
Length: 95 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English, French

Stars:
Gary Cole
Rufus Dorsey
Jonathan Bennett
Randy Wayne
Joe Gieb
Challen Cates

Plot:
You never forget the first time! Meet teenagers Bo and Luke Duke (Jonathan Bennett and Randy Wayne), high-spirited troublemakers, new to Hazzard County, paroled to the care of the moonshine-making Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson). Blowhard Boss Hogg (Christopher McDonald) is already fleecing the citizenry to line his pockets but crosses the line when he sets out to steal the Duke farm. As the feudin', fussin', and fast-trackin' fun revs up, cousin Daisy (April Scott) transforms from country girl to Hazzard hottie and a vehicular legend - the General Lee - is born, along with the boys' skills for outrunning Hogg and his deputies. You're at the starting line of the Duke saga. Let the comedy, spills and thrills pile up at lightning-fast speed!

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Featurettes
Music Videos
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
I grew up watching the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. The series holds a special place in my heart. When the first movie made from the series came out I was glad I got to watch it before buying it because I felt it was an insult to the series. I especially hated that they didn't have the confederate flag on the roof of the General Lee. Thankfully in this prequel movies they fixed that problem. But the movie still didn't live up to the series. I did enjoy this one better then their first attempt. But more for the General Lee flying around the back woods country then the story itself. I did definitely enjoy April Scott in the role of the always hot Daisy Duke. And I liked watching her start out as a cute but frumpy conservative country bumpkin just out of a religious school and seeing her transform into the very sexy Daisy Duke every fan of the series knows and loves. So this movie does have a certain something about it that I like. But the story should have been a lot better.



(From The Movies From Within My Lifetime on May 21st, 2011)

The Vampire Conspiracy, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Vampire Conspiracy
Year: 2003
Director: Marc Morgenstern
Rating: NR
Length: 90 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles:

Stars:
Sarah Boes
Adrian M. Pryce
Ron Mazor
Christiane Garcia
John Lopes

Plot:
Five strangers are abducted by a megalomaniacal vampire and put into a deadly maze of wits and endurance. Should they make it through alive, they receive this vampire entire fortune. Should they fail, they become his victims and are placed back into the game, this time as a succubus to hunt the next round of victims.

Extras:
Scene Access

My Thoughts:
This is another movie out of the 50 movie boxset Mortuary of Madness. And for me... this is another winner. It kinda reminds me of one of my favorites... Cube. Sure this movie is very low budget... but it don't hurt it much at all. I would say the acting is pretty good... though not great. If a lot of bad language bothers you for whatever reason this one may bug you a bit. As it seems like they throw in some bad language after every other word. The ending is a bit on the confusing side... but overall I enjoyed this one quite a bit. There is now a few movies in this set that I enjoyed... so I can definitely say I didn't waste $15 on this set!



(From Addicted2DVD's November Alphabet Marathon on November 6th, 2009)

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

6. The Tower Is Tall But The Fall Is Short
The weight of their mission takes a toll on the Connors when they infiltrate the office of a family therapist who also has ties to ZeiraCorp.

My comments:
Great episode here, where the Connors and Weavers path cross, without them noticing each other.

The Connor's story is trying to understand the meaning of one of those names they found on a wall (am I supposed to know who wrote them there? because I don't). As usual the question is whether their target needs protection or must be taken out. They visit Dr. Sherman (Dorian Heapwood, who is a pleasure to watch) pretending to need his services as family consultant. Well, obviously it turns out that not much pretending is required as there are strong issues between Sarah and John. Interestingly they get to resolve one of those issues (is that flashback something from season 1 or is it made up for the purpose of this episode?) by proxy of the doctor without ever confronting each other. This is the strongest part of the episode, with lots of small excellent dialog and acting bits.

The second plot deals with (New) Weaver learning to fake being affectionate to the child she "adopted" so that the child doesn't feel alienated by its own mother. Some references to T-2 can be found here. I am beginning to warm up to Weaver's story line, hoping it will continue to go down the same path, which previously felt overly gratuitous to me. The child actress playing the daughter Savannah gets to shine here a little bit.

A third, smaller, thread deals with Derek meeting his old flame from the future and getting involved with her. I was suspicious of her right away and we are presented some evidence to be just that towards the end. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

I hope Ellison's thread pays of sufficiently later, because the way they slowly build up the story with him better don't lead to him simply getting killed of or other stupid stuff like that. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his bits immensely, I just hope it goes somewhere.



Can anyone tell me what the title of this episode refers to?

(From Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The Complete Second Season marathon on February 3rd, 2010)