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The Beast & the Beauty, a review by Tom

The Beast & the Beauty (2005/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia (Taiwan) Director: GaeByok Lee Writing: JoYoon Hwang (Screenwriter), Tony Han (Screenwriter) Length: 102 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Korean: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: Chinese, English

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Stars:
SeungBum Ryoo as DongGun Goo
MinA Shin as Hae-Ju Jang
KangWoo Kim as JuneHa Tak
KilKang An as DoSik Choi
YoungSook Lee as JaeJu's Mother

Extras:

• Photo Gallery
• Scene Access

A nice romantic comedy. A guy who isn't the best looking guy learns, that his blind girlfriend will get her eyesight back. Ashamed by his appearance, and because he described himself as handsome to her, he is hiding from her now. Added to that an old handsome school friend of his has entered the girlfriends life.
South Korea seems to be a nice source to get some charming romantic comedies. I have watched and enjoyed a few so far. I even ordered a few more recently.

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(From Tom's Random Reviews on October 9th, 2010)

Snow White, a review by Tom

Snow White (2001/Canada) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Director: Caroline Thompson Writing: The Brothers Grimm (Original Material By), The Brothers Grimm (Original Material By), Caroline Thompson (Screenwriter), Julie Hickson (Screenwriter) Length: 91 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles:

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Stars:
Miranda Richardson as Elspeth
Tom Irwin as John
Vera Farmiga as Josephine
Kristin Kreuk as Snow White
Clancy Brown as The Granter of Wishes

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers
• Featurettes
• Production Notes

An okay movie with some nice ideas, but overall rather boring. I think this movie was made before Kristin Kreuk was cast in Smallville. Strange that she seems to be cast in roles which typically doesn't fit her look. Lana Lang was supposed to be a redhead. I didn't mind the change though. And Snow White is supposed to have very white skin. They had to use a lot of make-up here to achieve this effect. Her hair is the perfect fit for the role though.
Fun was the casting of Vincent Schiavelli as one of the dwarfs. He sticks out like a sore thumb, which of course was the joke.

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(From Tom's Cinderella/Snow White/Sleeping Beauty Movie Marathon on December 15th, 2012)

"Stargate SG-1" Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

I have bought the first nine seasons of Stargate SG-1And it does look nice. I will chip the first nine seasons on eBay.



Synopsis: The defence of the Supergate ended in a slaughter of the defenders. The four Ori ships had no problems with breaking through. Aboard one of these ships Vala has just given birth to her daughter. But she is growing very fast and she is supposed to become the leader of all Ori troops in this galaxy.

My Opinion: The more often I encounter the story it the less interesting it gets: chosen childs. Offhand I can recall: Gabrielle's daughter Hope (Xena: Warrior Princess), Xena's daughter Eve/Livia (Xena: Warrior Princess) and of course Angel's son Connor (Angel). If we add movies, we can also add Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Star Wars).
I was also a bit disappointed that Bra'tac has learned very few since he first encountered G_1 over eight years ago. Back then he also wanted to prepare for death after they had successfully sabotaged Apophis's ship.

Synopsis: SG-1 visits one of the planets where they hope to find Merlin's weapon. But there isn't a single living being, not even animals. But the inhabitants of the village seem to have died peacefully in their beds.
In the meantime Vala has to undergo a psychiatric examination before she can join the Stargate program.

My Opinion: This episode was literally soporific.

Synopsis: Daniel hopes to find more information about the location of the weapon in Atlantis. And Carter has developed a plan to render the Supergate useless with the help of a black hole in the Pegasus galaxy.

My Opinion: This episode I liked again. McKay was great and the way Daniel and Vala blew the cover of the Ancient "Morgan le Fay" was also good. While there are significant difference the Ancients and the Ori strongly reminded me of the Vorlons and the Shadows (Babylon 5) in this episode. All four are far superior to the normal Humans and within their universe they have a mutual exclusive point of view on how to interact with the Humans. Although the Ancients are the only ones of the four that don't intervene at all (with the usual exceptions to that rule).
The "phone bill" of this episode could be interesting. Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy calls the SGC who in turn call Teal'c at the Supergate and he relays the message through the open wormhole to the Odyssey in the Pegasus galaxy.

Synopsis: The allegedly real Ba'al comes to Earth and offers his help to find the weapon. But for this, SG-1 would have to kill all his clones who have uprisen against him. But every clone insits on being the real Ba'al and soon the SGC is swarmed with Ba'als.

My Opinion: Oh Sam, come on! Have you learned nothing from the RepliCarter disaster? I am annoyed that this highly intelligent woman falls for such plans. Yes, granted, she was in a hostage situation but how many lives will it cost when Ba'al is successful?

(From "Stargate SG-1" Marathon on May 2nd, 2008)