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All reviews by user Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  unusual, wonderful episodePosted: 7/7/2004A review of Star Trek: Balance of Terror by Anonymous As much as "The Changeling" was an indirect influence on STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE, "Balance of Terror" is a series episode that contained some of the best elements of space battles, and certainly seems an early inspiration for STAR TREK II - THE WRATH OF KHAN. This episode is essentially a chess match between Kirk and a Romulan vessel, commanded by Mark Leonard, (who plays the Romulan commander), matching wits and nerve with Kirk and his crew. There is a tone of a battleship vs. a submarine. The emotional thread running through this episode is Kirk's realization that so much of what he says and does, or doesn't do, can affect the lives of his crew. Sadly, one couple aboard, who are married at the onset of the episode, are victims of the engagement and Kirk remarks to the widow, "You both have to know there was a reason", perhaps addressing his own emotional conflict. Along with "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Mirror/Mirror", "Balance of Terror" is among the elite episodes from the original classic series. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful best of the original STAR TREK seriesPosted: 7/7/2004A review of Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever by Anonymous Despite the whining and complaining that sci-fi author Harlan Ellison has done regarding his own magnificent script that, in Ellison's eyes, was ruined by STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry,"The City on the Edge of Forever" is and always shall remain the best STAR TREK television adventure ever. This episode is remembered even by non-STAR TREK fans because of it's universal emotional appeal: After travelling to the past, Captain Kirk falls in love with a woman whose death will set things straight for events to happen in the future. It is an agonizing decision he must make, with the viewer wondering aloud, "If I were Kirk, what would I do??" The Kirk-Spock chemistry really shines in this episode, and the unusual line to close out the episode, "let's get the hell out of here", captured the right emotional tone for the conclusion. A wonderful t.v. classic! Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful greatest made-movie of all timePosted: 6/18/2004A review of Lawrence of Arabia by Anonymous What David lean was able to capture on film in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA has always amazed me. I saw LAWRENCE at the Cine Capri in Phoenix during an engagement in the late 80's and it remains the single greatest viewing experience of my life. Other films have been made that are more entertaining but NONE have been BETTER MADE, in my opinion, that this remarkable picture. For Peter O'Toole not to win an Academy Award for best actor is absolutely ridiculous. The film won best picture of the year, and the success of the movie, outside of Lean's vision, hinges entirely on the performance of T.E. Lawrence. The equal would be Vivien Leigh not winning for GONE WITH THE WIND. Looking at the film some 40 years after it's release, the picture has lost NONE of it's appeal. A film to EXPERIENCE as much as watch, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA remains the film epic. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful It doesn't get any better than this....Posted: 6/18/2004A review of Casablanca by Anonymous Bogart in a trench coat, smoke filled rooms, black and white photography, love triangle, excellent dialogue and the happiest "accident" of a movie in the history of American Cinema. These are just some of the elements that make CASABLANCA the finest example of everything that I love about movies. The American Film Institute of America has the film listed in the top 5 of the greatest films ever made and for good reason. A timeless classic that I hope generation after generation will discover again and again and again..... Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  shockingly badAfter seeing DAREDEVIL, I wonder why Ben Affleck or Kevin Smith would agree to be in a film as poorly written as this was? Except for Colin Ferrell as Bullseye, who actually is realllly good in a small part, there is nothing in this CG infested waste-of-time that inspires anything other that yawns. And what has happened to the career of Michael Clarke Duncan?? After his amazing, subtle performance in THE GREEN MILE (which nailed him an OSCAR nomination), he mugs for the camera in the same way the Dom Deluise did in the CANNONBALL RUN movies. And what a waste to have sexy, beautiful Jennifer Garner as a kung-fu babie doll in a shockingly boring role. I understand that Kevin Smith had written an original draft to BATMAN. Maybe he should have dusted it off and submitted it as a possible DAREDEVIL script instead of this lame experience that we got. And as far as Ben Affleck goes, he must have been blinded (just like his character) by the beauty of Jennifer Garner or the millions of dollars he was paid to realize the waste of everyone's time this script presented him. Maybe Matt Damon did write GOOD WILL HUNTING after all and was being blackmailed by Ben Affleck to put his name on the screen with him....hmmmm...... Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful can't believe I paid money for thisI saw this film on it's first release in 3-D, at a time when I was 15 years old. I credit this film with being the first movie made that I was AWARE was bad. To rank this film in any way with the Spielberg classic or even the okay-for-a-sequel follow up is an insult to the first two films. A total waste of time, with only Dennis Quaid and Lea Thompson walking away from it unscathed. Quaid had THE RIGHT STUFF coming soon and Thompson would be cast shortly for BACK TO THE FUTURE. Bess Armstrong and Louis Gossett Jr were both in decline, and their A-list careers grounded to a hault after this mess. How Universal Studios had the courage to green light this project is beyond me; it is amazing to me that films like this always seem to get made while recent classics such as MEMENTO have to beg the studios into submission. <br>JAWS 3-D (for 'D'umb) is a complete waste of everyones time and should be useful only for educating the young on just how bad Cinema can be. <br><br> Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  an okay night at the moviesPosted: 6/17/2004A review of The Terminal by Anonymous I anxiously awaited the third pairing of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and was able to catch this movie last night on a sneak preview. The end result: The movie is...okay. Great performances from Tom Hanks and Stanley Tucci (Tucci has NEVER been better) and a phoned in performance from Catherine Zeta-Jones as Hank's love interest. A strong, funny, interesting first and second act gives way to an over sentimental Capra-esque conclusion. I think audiences will delight in some wonderful humor from Tom Hanks and an interesting supporting cast that inhabits the airport terminal with him, but for those of us who struggled with the emotional tone of films like "The Majestic", this vehicle only supports the theory that only Frank Capra could do Frank Capra well. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful not bad as sequels goANY sequel to a movie such as 1975's JAWS, which qualified as the first blockbuster to hit the 100 million dollar mark and created the notion of the summer blockbuster is going to be inferior. Suprisingly, JAWS 2 does stand as a solid sequel to the original classic. Roy Scheider returns as a paranoid Chief Martin Brody, as does Lorraine Gary as Brody's understanding wife. Like JAWS, JAWS 2 builds its suspense by keeping the shark hidden for the majority of the film until it shows up to wreck havoc in the third act of the film. This may have been because of the problems with the mechanical shark, as Roy Scheider points out in the making of JAWS: "On JAWS 2 the problems with the shark were worse!" Director Jeannot Sczwarc, who would go onto make the romance classic SOMEWHERE IN TIME, obviously isn't Steven Spielberg, and he never tries to be, bringing his own creative stamp to the project.<br>At one point Szwarc mounts a saddle on the shark, allowing the camera to be placed in at interesting point of view shot. JAWS 2 does suffer from some suffer with some of it's characters; most of which are obnoxious, goofey teenagers who do little more than make for an interesting body count. And, let's face it, after the mounting tension Spielberg creates in JAWS, all JAWS 2 ends up doing is re-creating the same thing only with not as much interest. 2 more ridiculously bad JAWS films would follow this okay-for-a-movie-sequel, but all they follow ups ended up doing was prove that one movie sequel managed to dodge a bullet, or a shark attack, but anything beyond JAWS 2 was a waste of time. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful The best comic book moviePosted: 6/18/2004A review of Superman: The Movie by Anonymous Director Richard Donner had the perfect word for his team when making this movie: verisimilitude. It is a word that means "realism". Donner knew that in order to make the film work, the audience would have to believe that what they were watching was real. And that is exactly what he and his talented team delivered. The picture had the tag line of "You will believe a man can fly" and even though the effects are a little dated by today's standards, the tag line still holds up today throughout the movie. Christopher Reeve was born to play Superman and Clark Kent, and gives the DEFINITIVE comic book hero performance. Today we are being fed endless doses of computer-generated effects in such films as DAREDEVIL and SPIDERMAN, which certainly have their own appeal, but for me SUPERMAN will always be the one film that set the standard for how to bring a comic book story to life on the big screen. I did believe that a man can fly....and I still do.<br> Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful maybe the worst movie ever madePosted: 6/18/2004A review of Jaws: The Revenge by Anonymous Absolutely awful. Awful. How anyone involved in this mess could have the guts to have the american public pay money to see it is unbelievable. I hope they paid Michael Caine a lot of money because, believe it or not, he missed the Oscars (and he won one that year) for this. To sum up star Lorraine Gary's feelings: <br>"I'll tell you Jaws 4 was....A MISTAKE!" Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-10 of 10 Per Page |
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