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Full Eclipse
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Total reviews: 12
Average rating: 3.0 of 5
Good Idea, poor execution.... 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.
What can I say? I love werewolf movies. But this one bites. (No pun intended). Max Dire (more wolf pun names), is a down-on-his-luck police detective. With a series of tragic events threatening to overwhelm him, Max gets involved with a therapy group whose leader is a werewolf (the Howling anyone?)At first intrigued by the group, Max soon learns that these officers mean business - they're injecting werewolf blood to fight crime.
Okay, if you're like me, you might think the plot of this movie sounds cool. Werewolves as 'good guys?' A horror/police action movie? Well, I think again. The movie has some decent special effects, but THAT'S ALL. The script is poorly handled, the dialog amateurish, and the acting like cardboard. If you want a good 'werewolf movie' see dog soldiers. Much better.
Editorial Review:
Max dire is invited to join an elite police force. Empowered by a secret serum they attain the power of werewolves and fight crime with a vengeance. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Mario Van Peebles Patsy Kensit Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Anthony Hickox
Todd McFarlane's Spawn - The Ultimate Collection (Animated Series)
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Total reviews: 58
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn
Adult, stylish, and more than a little mean, this full-length animated tale has one very strong thing going for it--it knows how to milk "cool." The animation is superior to anything recently devoted to a superhero...or super-antihero, in this case. Al Simmons was a government assassin before he was burned to death and sent to hell (plot summary's starting out nicely, isn't it?). After making a particularly bad deal with the devil--to lead Satan's dark armies in exchange for seeing his wife again--Spawn is let loose upon the world. He immediately whacks three mob hit men, making his presence known and getting himself into all sorts of trouble. Spawn is also visited by the Clown, an obese, disgusting Beatrice, guiding our third-degree-burned Dante through this hellish, topside world. There are other nasty characters, but in this first segment a very gratuitous inclusion of a child murderer goes too far for even this mature fare. Spawn isn't fun; there's very little joy in any of this. But the point isn't fun--it's brutal, adult-comic style. And there's plenty of it. --Keith SimantonTodd McFarlane's Spawn 2
From the mind of comic-book maestro Todd McFarlane comes the second season of episodes of the animated Spawn. Highly stylized animation and provocative story lines make Spawn a sophisticated cartoon sometimes more appropriate for older audiences. Murder victim Al Simmons has returned from hell to earth as a "hellspawn," a soldier for the army of darkness sent to collect more souls for hell. In these episodes, Spawn meets the man who assassinated him and becomes suspicious of the organization that ordered him killed. Jason Wynn, the leader of the group, plans to sell weapons of mass destruction stolen from the military. Spawn's former wife, Wanda, has since remarried Terry Fitzgerald, with whom Spawn must reconcile. Terry is hot on the trail of the missing arms, and Wynn and his assassins, including the highly trained Merrick, set out to kill Terry, Wanda, and their daughter, Cyan. Spawn foils the plot while realizing the hard truth that Wanda has a new life. --Shannon GeeSpawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
The third chapter of this compelling HBO miniseries answers a number of questions--namely, who is the omnipotent old man who hides in the shadows and why is the mysterious Asian reporter (Jade) investigating the alley murders? Spawn has reached a crossroads, and he must choose between the forces of darkness and light. But it's not clear-cut: Al (Spawn) must deliberate over the seemingly minor differences that separate heaven and hell in his world. As a former assassin for the NSA, he "opened the eyes of hell" with his iniquitous deeds of depravity; therefore, his journey to hell was preordained. But this particular section of the series intriguingly asks, What if you had no choice, and killing was not just the only way out of a squeeze but was also your fate? Intellectual stuff, indeed. But as with the rest of the series, a profound metaphysical puzzle is brought to the fore without justifying it with an answer. It's frustrating, but also keeps you firmly planted in your chair, pondering conundrum after conundrum. --Jeremy Storey
Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Animated Series)
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Total reviews: 36
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
alright kid, here's the deal. Get this thing however you can 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful.
So what about your parents, this thing is full of blood and breaking limbs and all kinds of good stuff. I had to find out the hard way that the CARTOON version is the one to watch. There is a bit of language and it does HAVE SOME VERY EVIL CHILD MOLESTATION SCENES, but it is not very long and your parents could always like tape it and cut those parts out and I would say you could watch it if you aer like 12 or older. You are gonna find out abotu this stuff one day, why not now? It is one hell of a cartoon kid. Batman: the animated series is my favorite show ever, so you should probably go with that till you get older, but go to best buy and BUY this. It is cheap dude, don't tell them I told you any of this, late.
Editorial Review:
He was once a man now hes a hellspawn battling the forces of evil on earth and in himself. One of the comic book industrys most popular and intriguing characters spawn explodes on the screen in a maelstrom of animated imagery with action romance and high-level espionage. Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 09/26/2006 Run time: 147 minutes Rating: Ur
Blind Side
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Total reviews: 9
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
A sly thriller 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Rutger Hauer is at his best when he plays mysterious, menacing parts, such as the character of John Ryder in the brilliant thriller, The Hitcher. His role is more subtle this time, but his character, Jake Shell, is a master at casting a web of entrapment for his victims to fly into.
Returning from their factory in Mexico, Lynn Kaine, played by the sultry Rebecca DeMornay, and husband Doug Kaine (Ron Silver) collide with a pedestrian just south of the U.S. border. It turns out this pedestrian is a Mexican policeman, who doesn't survive the collision. Lynn, who is pregnant, was driving at the time of the incident. Fearing his wife's incarceration, Doug takes the wheel and flees the scene of the collision. They make it back to the U.S. after some tense moments at a Mexican drug check-point.
Riddled with guilt, the Kaines ponder whether to report the accident. To heighten their paranoia, Jake Shell appears at their home a couple of days later, stating he's just come up from Mexico and is looking for a job at their store. But Jake is looking for a lot more than a job. He hints at his awareness of the accident in Mexico, and begins a psychological game of intimidation. Shell encroaches on every aspect of their lives, even taking up residence at their home, against their wishes.
The plot is well written and keeps Shell one step ahead of the Kaines' steps to get rid of him. Shell knows how to push all the right buttons. So, how does it end? You'll have to find out for yourself.
Best moment: The scene where Shell confronts and outsmarts the Kaines' attorney.
Funniest moment: Shell busting through the doors, wearing six-guns and looking like a fat, stoned cowboy. Also, his electrifying break-dancing at the jaccuzi. A good laugh!
Annoying moment: They kept calling the Ford Explorer a "Jeep".
DVD is fairly stripped of extras, so don't expect much, other than the film.
Editorial Review:
The lives of a young couple are thrown into chaos when a stranger arrives and begins taking everything they have from them. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Rutger Hauer Rebecca Demornay Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R Director: Geoff Murphy
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3 - The Ultimate Battle (Animated Series)
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Total reviews: 28
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
just average 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful.
I give this one an average rating. Why? I hate it when they add asian characters but forget to do the research on their background to make it 'accurate'? I'm japanese, so it's quite obvious that there was HUGE HUGE errors in Jade's character. For one thing Khan is a character out of China. Jade is using Samuri swords from feudal Japan. Completely opposite sides of the wars and cultures during that time period. It's like what us Japanese say about the zen gardens and zen furniture. "I don't remember ever seen that in Japan. Oh wait, it's American".
The Jade character being an mercenary is way to cheezy. The fight between evil and good was ok, but to add a mask of Khan, the chinese Triads, and a samurai warrior from china was way outside of what this could have been.
If you ever watch the makings of animated counter-parts from Japan, you'll realize that the first thing they do is make sure that the character designs and parts of the towns, allies are always based on realism. Ghost in the Shell, they actually flew to Guam (outside Japan) just to practice shooting guns, to see how they work, shoot, see sparks, and do damage. The realism team brought this back and added it to the film.
Spawn 3? Really really blew the factoid on this one. Jade is so way off in regards to her culture country background, and the outfit just doesn't look accurate either. I was really dissapointed by the characters.
However I did like the blond mercenary whom was so well animated and would've passed a character from the Street Fighter II animated film.
Buy Spawn I, but forget about III.
Editorial Review:
A terrifying whirlwind is sucking the earth dry dragging all caught in its spiral down to the very depths of hell. Todd McFarlane's SPAWN at last stands alone torn between heaven and hell. From Hell the evil forces that control his destiny beckon. And from Heaven bounty hunters whose soul mission is the destruction of hellspawn have been sent to destroy him. Beautiful seductive deadly. No man can resist them. No hellspawn can survive them.Running Time: 156 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 150 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright 1999 Warner Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: UPC: 026359158926
Tales from the Crypt - The Robert Zemeckis Collection
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Total reviews: 4
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
Tales from the Crypt is no Sopranos, but in its day it was HBO's most popular original series. Based on the EC Horror comics of the 1940s and 1950s, these short shock-and-suspense stories with twist (and often twisted) endings weren't exclusively horror tales, but they consistently mined, in a comic sort of way, the dark side of human nature. The three episodes directed by series coproducer Robert Zemeckis are among the most memorable. In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Christmas Eve and terrorizes a middle-class home where murder has already made a holiday appearance: a homicidal wife plunges a fireplace poker into her husband's skull. (It was also adapted in the 1972 British anthology movie Tales from the Crypt). Kirk Douglas stars as a blood-and-thunder World War I general who discovers his son is a coward in the grim "Yellow," the most dramatically acute of the trio. Digital magic morphs Humphrey Bogart into "You, Murderer," a high-concept, rather gimmicky tale of murder, double crosses, and poetic justice as seen through a dead man's eyes. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Bogie's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman) and John Lithgow costar as plotting lovers. Zemeckis has a great deal of fun with the first and last films, giving them a flamboyant comic book exaggeration, but the underplayed irony of "Yellow" makes it one of the darkest, most affecting stories in the series' run. --Sean Axmaker
Todd McFarlane - The Devil You Know
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Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
The Devil You Don't 1 out of 5 stars.
12 of 18 people found this review helpful.
Todd McFarlane began his multimillion dollar empire as co-founder of Image Comics on the premise that creators needed the rights to their creations and stories. This "docu-ganda" would have you believe that he stuck to that philosophy, and is somehow a super-hero; a god among mortals.
Not so much. McFarlane swindled so many creators out of their work that he's undergone lawsuit after lawsuit (and lost his share of them as well, forfeiting partial rights to some of his characters and being ordered to pay damages to writers like Neil Gaiman). He claims work that isn't his, "never gives you any credit," according to employee Steve Niles, and helped turn comics from a contemplative, interesting medium into a widescreen bloodbath.
Sheer, untainted hubris is the driving force behind the McFarlane phenomenon, and don't let anyone (especially not his stooges behind the camera) tell you different.
Editorial Review:
A legend to his legions of fans, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane is the most successful comic book artist in history. Over the past decade, this shrewd and enigmatic entrepreneur has grown his business into a multi-million dollar entertainment empire encompa
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2 (Uncut Collector's Edition) (Animated Series)
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Total reviews: 21
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
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From the mind of comic-book maestro Todd MacFarlane comes the second season of episodes of the animated Spawn. Highly stylized animation and provocative story lines make Spawn a sophisticated cartoon sometimes more appropriate for older audiences. Murder victim Al Simmons has returned from hell to earth as a "hellspawn," a soldier for the army of darkness sent to collect more souls for hell. The injustice of his death and his former life as a dedicated husband throws a wrench into hell's plan--Spawn remembers his human life and fights the inclination to do evil. Still, he is vengeful and he walks the line between killing for justice and just plain killing.In these episodes, Spawn meets the man who assassinated him and becomes suspect of the organization that ordered him killed. Jason Wynn, the leader of the group, has plans to sell weapons of mass destruction stolen from the military. Spawn's former wife Wanda has since remarried Terry Fitzgerald, with whom Spawn must reconcile. Terry is hot on the trail of the missing arms, and Wynn and his assassins, including the highly trained Merrick, set out to kill Terry, Wanda, and their daughter Cyan. Spawn foils the plot while realizing the hard truth that Wanda has a new life. Spawn 2 is the slick and darkly realized animated adaptation of the popular comic book of the same name. It features the voice talents of Keith David (Spawn), who appeared in Dead Presidents, Denise Poirier (Merrick), and John Rafter Lee (Wynn), who also is the voice of Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild in the popular animated series Aeon Flux. --Shannon Gee
Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
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Total reviews: 39
Average rating: 3.0 of 5
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Private eye Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine (Erika Eleniak) to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire (Angie Everhart) and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current (Chris Sarandon, wonderfully insincere and smarmy). Not for the squeamish or the easily offended (but you knew that from the title), Bordello of Blood is pulp horror as it should be--funny, fast, and full of gore. How many movies do you know where naked vampire hookers devour the still-beating hearts of their adolescent clients, or where the hero saves the day with a Super Soaker? Dennis Miller is at his wisecracking best as the oddest private eye since Elliot Gould played Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye. Angie Everhart devours her role with relish (yum!). And former Playboy Playmate Erika Eleniak seems to be enjoying the joke that in a movie filled with half-naked women, she's the only one who keeps her clothes on. --Geof Miller
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