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Classic Arnie

Advantages: fully entertaining
Disadvantages: not long enough

...me and my friends from the first time we saw it. Arnie couldn't have played the Terminator any better than he did, and the movie is full of classic arnie quotes,there is pleny fo violence and action to keep you going. Ok maybe the effects aren't as good as some some of the more modern sci-fi movies out today but its got a gritty and dark feel to it that really improves the story. this was a great starting movie for the terminator series of movies,it ...

mooney1978 23.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Terminator (Definitive Edition) (DVD)

A Rock N Roll Fable

Advantages: Great alternative musical
Disadvantages: Enjoys only limited audiences

...seeing the VHS video of Streets Of Fire in my local video library some 23 years ago, the cover I always remember gave off an entirely different image of what the movie was about. For those of you old enough to remember The Exterminator movies it paid a similar nod to that genre, and certainly shared the same feel. Having waited a further 3 years to see the movie as it was always one of those movies I considered renting but never actually did, I finally ...
...menace depicted in the cover; Streets Of Fire is actually a musical, and a bloody good one. In a future world that echoes the past Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is like the Kylie Minogue of today, a sexy singing sensation and an asprirational figure to all. Not everyone is a fan however, or maybe they are too much of a fan, when one night Ellen is kidnapped while performing live on stage by a Raven Shaddock, the leader of a gang known as the bombers. From ...

sghawken 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Streets Of Fire (DVD)

A real JEWEL of a double pack (groan...)

Advantages: Two great films in one bargain pack
Disadvantages: Not necessarily for younger children

Film reviews first: Romancing the Stone -------------------------- In Romancing the Stone, Kathleen Turner plays Joan Wilder, an author of trashy (but hugely successful) romance novels. Her life is turned upside down, however, when her sister is kidnapped while in Columbia, and she sets off to rescue her. The thing is, just before leaving England, she receives a map that her sister sent her… When in Columbia she meets rugged adventurer Jack T. ...
...with terrific performances the cast, Romancing the Stone is a really pleasing film. Of the performances, the three that stand out are, not particularly surprisingly, the lead pair's. Douglas is energetic physically and laconic verbally to give his character just the right balance of loveable rogue and someone you wouldn't trust to take care of your least favourite child (or maybe you would, depending just how much you don't like them). Apparently ...

CaptainDisaster 16.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Romancing The Stone / The Jewel Of The Nile (Double Pack) (DVD)

First time posting

Advantages: gr8 dvd for ppl that like fighting
Disadvantages: not the best film out

i dont really no what to put here so im just guna put a load of rubish in most probably, sorry ppl who are reading this. this is a gr8 dvd i lke the film but in parts it did get boring and you would exepect better specially if ya go to the cinema and watch it as you have to watch it or waste ya money on it, the film wasn't to bad when it got into the action parts and i liked it alot but it werent really worth watching in my eyes as there where to ...

shanemandley 02.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Conan The Destroyer (Collector's Edition) (+Cards) (DVD)

Romance Novelist get a bit of romance herself!

Advantages: good story and acting, nice scenery,some funny bits
Disadvantages: Dated now, predictable ending

It is quite strange how we came to watch this film as we watched a music video on a TV show quite some time ago and I was socked to see Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas singing and dancing along in it only to be told by hubby that this is the film which it was from. Since then I have been looking out fir the film as hubby was shocked that I had never see it. To my surprise it was on one of the older movie channel ion sky recently so we recorded it ...
...I have said this film was on the TV so it is a FILM ONLY review. Joan Wilder is a romance novelist and she wishes that she could have some excitement n her life just like some of the characters which she writes about. Thing take a turn for her when she gets a phone call from her sister who is living in Colombia and has been kidnapped as her now dead husband found an old treasure map and the kidnappers are after it. Joan soon discovers that she was ...

sewbizzie 27.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Romancing The Stone (DVD)