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Forbidden Planet , a review by Tom

Forbidden Planet (1956/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Warner Home Video (United Kingdom) Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox Writing: Cyril Hume (Screenwriter), Irving Block (Original Material By), Allen Adler (Original Material By) Length: 98 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 1, German: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles: English, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish

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Stars:
Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Morbius
Anne Francis as Altaira Morbius
Leslie Nielsen as Commander Adams
Warren Stevens as Lt. "Doc" Ostrow
Jack Kelly as Lt. Farman

Plot:
Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

Awards:
Nominated:

Academy Award (1956)		Best Special Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller)
AFI (1956)		100 Years... 25 Scores (2005) ("Composers: Bebe Barron, Louis Barron)

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• The Invisible Boy Film & The Thin Man Episode Robot Client
• Trailers

This is the first time that I saw this sci-fi classic. It is also the first time that I have seen a pre-"Airplane!" movie starring Leslie Nielsen. The only non-comedic role I knew him as was as a murderer on Columbo.
This movie holds up well. Story-wise and from a technical stand-point. The special effects probably were ground-breaking for its time.
It reminded me a little of the classic Star Trek series. Especially the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage". I wonder if the platforms they were standing on when going out of hyperspace was the inspiration of the transporter platforms in Star Trek. When they stood on those my first thought was, that they were going to beam and Star Trek didn't invent it after all.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on July 31st, 2011)

Poison Ivy: The Secret Society, a review by addicted2dvd

Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2007/Canada) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | New Line Home Entertainment Director: Jason Hreno Writing: Liz Maverick (Writer), Peter Sullivan (Writer), Michael Worth (Writer) Length: 95 min. Rating: NR Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Miriam McDonald as Daisy
Shawna Waldron as Azalea
Ryan Kennedy as Blake
Crystal Lowe as Isabel
Andrea Whitburn as Magenta
Greg Evigan as Andrew

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Closed Captioned

Ok I admit it... curiosity got the best of me... I just had to finish this franchise. Going into this one I wasn't expecting too much as they been going downhill with each sequel and this one is a TV Movie. But I must admit... I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I actually enjoyed every minute of it. It was much better then the previous one. I would say I would put it right up there with part 2. The storyline grabbed me in the opening scene... and easily kept my attention through-out. Sure there was a bit of a slow part here and there... but it really wasn't enough to take away from the film all that much. I have read a number of bad reviews for this one... but I just don't see it. I thought... while sure it could have been better... it was definitely worth the time put in to watch it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on July 4th, 2013)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU
Year: 2003
Length: 300 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Japanese: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: English

Plot:
This is a hilarious spin-off series to "Full Metal Panic". FMP is based on a series of novels which tell the main story and a collection of comedic short stories. The first anime series "Full Metal Panic" is a mixture of the first few novels and some of the short stories. The series "Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU" solely uses the fun short stories as its source. No mecha action in this series. But a lot of fun nonetheless! As a time-filler I just wanted to show my brother and a friend one or two episodes, but we ended up watching all 12 episodes in one go until 2 in the morning 
Both of them never have seen an episode of either FMP or FUMOFFU. That tells me, that one can enjoy this spin-off without having seen the original FMP.

Rating: 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c1bAVLCL50o

(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 24th, 2008)