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Love Me Tender, a review by GSyren
(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on March 21st, 2015) GTO: The Movie, a review by Tom![]() Title: GTO: The Movie ![]() Year: 1999 Director: Masayuki Suzuki Rating: NR Length: 108 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital Stereo, English: Dolby Digital Stereo Subtitles: English Stars: Takashi Sorimachi Norika Fujiwara Rena Tanaka Hideyuki Kasahara Masao Imafuku Plot: Great Teacher Onizuka has taken the anime and manga market by storm, and now he's taking on his first live action move. GTO is an ex-biker punk who's taken on the formidable job of teaching high school. Lucky for him, street smarts and martial arts are just what the job needs. Like a cross between a thug and a walking, talking after school special, GTO will go to any length to help his kids. However, his career might be in jeopardy when he's mistaken for a serial thief! This is the first of GTO's live action franchises. Follow him as he makes scholastic life an adventure! Extras: Featurettes Scene Access Trailers My Thoughts: After the success of the live-action TV series, a theatrical movie was made. Except for Onizuka none of the other characters from the TV series appear. As a matter of fact: Except for two little allusions, you wouldn't even know that this follows after the TV series (the back cover even claims, that the movie came first, which is not true. It's only marketing because this movie is the only live-action GTO which is available as an English language version). This movie is very much stand-alone. This is probably a big reason, why this movie doesn't work so well. It's sad that they are not building upon what was happening in the TV show. Instead we got a complete new school/town, where Onizuka is substituting. The other teachers do not have a very big role, but what you see of them, they seem like cheap rip-offs of the teachers from the TV series. And whereas the TV series had a lot of different students with different problems, in which Onizuka coud meddle, this movie focuses on two students. One girl, which very much reminds of Miyabi of the TV series. And a boy which reminds of Noboru of the TV show. Also the love interest of Onizuka from the TV series does not appear. Instead we have a new female character, which is a reporter out on scoop on Onizuka. From her looks and her character, she is a rip-off of the love interest from the TV show. Except for a few laughs and some interesting choices in editing, I highly recommend the TV show over this movie. Rating: ![]() (From Tom's Random Reviews on March 29th, 2009) Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by TomEnterprise Season 1.26 Shockwave Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), Rick Berman (Created By), Brannon Braga (Created By), Rick Berman (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer) Director: Allan Kroeker Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), John Fleck (Silik), Matt Winston (Daniels), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), James Horan (Humanoid Figure), Stephanie Erb (Receptionist), David Lewis Hays (Tactical Crewman) The continuation of the temporal cold war storyline used as a season cliffhanger. A good episode. Rating: ![]() (From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on March 5th, 2013) |