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Spider, The Trilogy... Light-hearted fun

Advantages: Kid friendly, easy top watch, likable hero
Disadvantages: 20 minutes of the third film are BAD. Not very scary.

This series is less dark than many of the other comic book movies. The sort of thing you don't even hesitate to let your kids watch. My 8 year old sister loves these movies. The first film shows the making of spiderman, with the Green Goblin as his main enemy. It follows the comic books pretty closely and Kirsten Dunst is a lovely MJ. Maguire is good as spiderman because he's not got the cool factor, which suits the character. The biggest difference ...
...second film has Dr Octopus as the villain, leading to a lot of nice stunts using those mechanical arms to climb buildings and so forth. The third film has a 20 minute period in the middle with 'evil spider man' that is just wrong, appalling and should be deleted. You need to be cool to pull that off, cool butch and manly, Maguire bless him, isn't. Good otherwise though. I like the villain the most out of the three and the method for killing him was ...

surveysista1988 10.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Spider-Man Trilogy (Blu-ray) (Box Set)

More like Cycle of The Rings, it feels as long!

Advantages: Yet more great special effects
Disadvantages: far too long & dull

To describe the plot in a nutshell this is the movie that separates the original group who started out with the ring, the meeting of The Ents (the last of a species of intelligent trees), defending Rohan and moving Frodo and the ring further towards Morder. We meet Elves, more bad things and nasty wizards as well as learning more about Gollum and a giant spider. The 1st 20 minutes of this film is huge tracts of flashbacks to the first movie in order ...
...I'm honest. Generally again, the pacing in this film is too much. It just lasts far too long. It's a bit annoying that Frodo & Sam go to a place in this film where they don't actually go in the book. If the director thought it was a good idea to adapt a book then why not stick to the story of the book? They stick to book one and they stick to book three but they start inventing things for book two? Who died and made him Tolkien? Of the 3 films this ...

atytyut2434 09.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers (DVD)

The Matrix

Advantages: it will change your life
Disadvantages: aren't any.

...red pill and Neo enters the wonderland. The effects are great. I like this movie very much. And most of my friends also like it. it is about christianism, saving people, fighting the evil forces. humanity is in slavery and only The One can help them. The movie ends with Neo flying and somekind of rock music. The war with the machines, an actual idea. The best character is Morpheus, i think, because he is so faithfull, and trully belives in Neo. and ...

zagureanu 31.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Matrix (DVD)

The Matrix Reloaded: Dissapointing

Advantages: Good music, Some interesting new characters
Disadvantages: Plot too complex, Emotional detachment from characters, Too much vague philosophy

As a big fan of the original I was greatly looking forward to this, however it didn't live up to the hype. My main issue was the story, I could practically hear the plot straining to be deep and profound but this falls flat on its face. The plot, which is entangled in vague philosophy ("Not how, but why"), is unnecessarily confusing and I eventually found myself wondering, does this plot make sense or is it simply that I just don't care? I actually ...
...add some new interesting characters, the twins spring to mind - however there is very little focus on them in anything other than action sequences. The enigmatic Merovingian I also found very intriguing and they did rightfully focus on him. As a quick sidenote, I didn't give a flying fig about the relationship between Trinity and Neo. I put this down largely to the fact the script didn't flesh out the characters enough as well as their rather cold ...

SmilingBuddha 27.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Matrix Reloaded (DVD)

Who Do You Want To Kill?

Advantages: Excellently directed
Disadvantages: Slow at times, very brutal

...then vows that she will kill Bill… Kill Bill is a film that you’ll either love or you’ll hate simply because this movie is so extreme and outrageous. I better just say for the record that I’m by no means a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s work, I find most of his films to be too fragmented and outlandish as they’re either way too slow that they’ll send you to sleep or they move at such a frantic pace that it’s hard to keep up. Kill Bill showcases both ...
...stands out for me concerning Kill Bill is the sheer pace and franticness of it all, right from the opening sequence we witness the brutal ‘murder’ of The Bride which then leads straight onto an excellently choreographed fight between The Bride and the first of the Deadly Four, Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), who in reality is the last in this volume to die. This is one of my favourite parts of the movie as it shows what a sharp sense of humour Quentin ...

Great_reviewer07 04.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kill Bill Vol.1 (DVD)