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Death Spa, a review by addicted2dvd

Death Spa: Unrated (1989/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Gorgon Video, MPI Home Video (United States) Director: Michael Fischa Writing: James Bartruff (Writer), Mitch Paradise (Writer) Length: 87 min. Video: Widescreen 1.77:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English

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Stars:
William Bumiller as Michael
Brenda Bakke as Laura
Merritt Butrick as David
Robert Lipton as Tom
Alexa Hamilton as Priscilla

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Feature Trailers
• Featurettes

While this one has it's moments... for the most part I had a hard time keeping my attention on it. Most the acting was sub-par. Some decent graphics but most were pretty bad. Over-all I have seen worse but this one is below average.



(From Within My Lifetime: 2017 Edition on March 11th, 2017)

The Conversation, a review by Antares

The Conversation (1974) 68/100 - Nothing drives me more crazy than when a director plays the audience for a bunch of suckers, and that's exactly what Francis Ford Coppola does with The Conversation. The film starts out rather dry, but still intriguing as we are given insight into the covert world of surveillance and eavesdropping. It is here where the film really shines. But halfway through, it kind of loses steam and only comes back to life at the very end. Now I can forgive a film that lags a bit if the payoff makes up for it. But the payoff here is a bit of manipulation by Coppola that defies the laws of science. This is just a cheap way to trick the audience, and a lazy way to show that you really didn't have much of a story in the first place, so you had to resort to this kind of cheap carny trick. The minute it happened I felt as if I had just been duped by a crooked Three Card Monty dealer. I thought about giving this a much lower rating, but the first hour is rather good and of course, the sound in this film is excellent. But when all is said and done, this film for me, is not worthy of the lofty position it is given by many in the film world.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on August 16th, 2012)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: The bajoran spiritual leader - Kai Opaka - visits DS9 for the first time and Sisko grants her her wish and takes her through the wormhole. On the other side they pick up a signal but when they reach the point of origin the runabout Yangtzee Kiang is attacked and crash-lands on a moon. Kai Opaka dies during the crash but miraculously revives. But they aren't alone on the moon. There are two waring factions  and Sisko and the others get caught in the middle.

My Opinion: Although it was only the second appearance of Kai Opaka I hated to see her leave the show because I know who will succeed her. Apart from that the story wasn't very good. First of all the premise was wrong: So they can't die because they get resurrected - but what about beheading? That's pretty final, isn't it? And if they've really fought for countless years without getting anything out of it, at some point they simply have to get tired of it.

Synopsis: Dr. Bashir is being called to a bajoran village where the population fears to be dead soon. O'Brien is ordered to accompany him. But when they arrive they find only a dying old man and the rest of the village seems to be fine. But that old man is the only person who can fight back the Dal'Rok and he appoints O'Brien as his successor.

My Opinion: The begin of a beautiful friendship (even though they don't know it yet). Still a rather uninteresting episode.

Synopsis: A moon in the bajoran system has to be evacuated due to core drillings but one farmer is unwilling to leave his house. Major Kira Nerys tries to convince him to leave before he will be forcefully removed. Meanwhile Jake and Nog found the "Noh-Jay Consortium" and try to sell 5000 packs of mistakenly ordered cardassian Yamok sauce.

My Opinion: This was a great episode on both story lines. Brian Keith played a great Mullibok and the scenes with him and Kira were really good. I believe this was the first time that we learn that "Nerys" is actually Kira's given name. Although her full name was known and she is addressed as "Major Kira" even former resistance companions called her "Kira", not "Nerys". It was also funny to see Nog and Jake trying to make money out of the sauce and the stuff they've exchanged it for.

Synopsis: Dax discovers that something strange is going on in the Denorios belt (where the wormhole is located). And suddenly fantasies become reality and manifest themselves. Sisko's visited by a famous baseball player, Rumpelstiltskin appears in the bedroom of Chief O'Brien's daughter and a very submissive Jadzia hits on Dr. Bashir. But that's not the worst. And there's a sub-spatial rift in the belt and it's widening and threatens to destroy the station.

My Opinion: Another average episode. The second Dax was funny but overall it was nothing special.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on September 21st, 2008)