Action & Adventure > 1978 Action & Adventure

Advantages: The great super-hero movie ever made.
Disadvantages: They never matched it with Superman II, III or IV

...and is given the tag Superman by love interest Lois Lane. However, super criminal Lex Luthor has plans to destroy all of California in a landscam deal and has discovered a way to prevent Superman stopping him. [Principal cast and crew] • Producer (Presents credit): Alexander Salkind ◦ Marlon Brando: Jor-El ◦ Gene Hackman: Lex Luthor • Director: Richard Donner ◦ Christopher Reeve: Superman / Clark Kent ◦ Ned ...
...is, without doubt, the best Superman ever, blending his invulnerable macho charisma with the almost inept and wimpish Clark Kent to brilliant and humorous effect. He IS Superman. Christopher Reeve actually looks as well as acts different while playing his alter egos and makes the entire outlandish premise just that little bit more believable. The turmoil Superman feels within is expressed neatly during the film and we see that, even if it looks ... Read review

Advantages: a good entertaining movie..
Disadvantages: can be boring for some

...**SOUNDTRACK** Convoy by C.W.McCall Lucille by Kenny Rogers Keep on the sunny side by Doc Wilson Cowboys don't get lucky all the time by Gene Watson Walk right back by Annie Murray Blanket on the ground by Billie Joe Spears Southern Nights by Glen Cambell Don't it make my brown eyes blue by Crystal Gayle I cheated on a good woman's love by Merle Haggard **IN CONCLUSION** Not a bad movie, even better if you are or ever have been a C.B. ...
...calibre and date has to offer. There are no special effects so the movie relies on acting and the ability of the cameramen to follow truckers along a vast desert. It has the usual action, comedy, a bit of drama and the usual romantic encounter. The soundtrack merges with the movie quite well and seems to give the viewer a little more entertainment. As the movie rolls on and the 'convoy' of trucks grows, snaking along the arid track towards its ... Read review

Advantages: Funny cheap horror
Disadvantages: Bad storyline, bad acting, bad effects but dont let it put you off!

The film Piranha is a horror film that for me is actually a comedy. The film starts off by two skinny dippers who break into an old abandoned military research facility where there is what they think to be a swimming pool to go skinny dipping in. They both get eaten by something under the water. Once they had went missing a Private Investigator was hired to find them. She goes to the research facility and drains the pool to find out what was lurking ...
...It was told that the piranha has been products of a gene-splicing experiment called 'Operation Razorteeth', designed to produce a mutant strain of piranha fish for deployment in the Vietnam War against the NVA. These piranha bred quickly and could survive not only in fresh water but salt water too. When they were released into the river, the film turns into a race against time to stop the piranha escaping into the seas of the world to destroy humanity. ... Read review

Advantages: CLASSIC. FULL CAST. 10/10
Disadvantages: WILD GEESE 2 WAS A MISTAKE

The Cast Richard Burton > Col Allen Faulkner Rodger Moore > Lt Shawn Fynn Richard Harris > Capt Rafer Janders Hardy Kruger > Lt Pieter coetze Stewart Granger > Sir Edward Matherson This is one hell of a great film and now its on DVD format its a "must have" in my opinon. First you have the cast, Richard Burton. Richard Harris. Rodger Moore to name a few. Second you've got load's of non stop action from start to finish. Third you have got the ...
...Afican dictator in central Africa. The Wild Geese has many twists and turns along the way which include being double crossed by Sir Edward Matherson that leaves the whole group of soliders in deep jeopardy, having to find a new way out of Africa. Rodger moore is on top form being back in his hay day (James Bond 007) so is both Richard Harris and Richard Burton who was cast to make Wild Geese II but sadly died during the start of filming in 1985. ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining
Disadvantages: Seen the plot before

I watched the first of the trilogy this week on DVD. I havn't read the book so I didn't and don't know what to expect next. The film was certainly entertaining but the plot I've seen before in many guises starting long ago in greek mythology with such films as Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses etc. More recently it reminded me of Star Wars particularly as Stephen Lee was a baddy in both who had been turned from good to the dark side in both films. ...
...I'm not so I won't. The early part of the film is a little slow going as most are but the second half is non stop action and the journey through the caves reminded me of many a computer labyrinth game and possibly the best part of this first part. I wasn't overimpressed with the lead actor but I thought the rest of the actors where very good. On the whole I'd give it 8 out of 10 for entertainment value, possibly just a little too long. I certainly ... Read review