Brief Encounter DVD

Advantages: Great dialogue, cinematography and acting
Disadvantages: Can be too quaint to be taken seriously by modern audiences.

...is equally valid really, but Brief Encounter’s method just feels more sophisticated and respectful to the audience, somehow, although in reality it’s hugely manipulative. The narrative also runs in a massively interesting fashion. We don’t understand exactly what’s happening between this curiously intense couple on the opening scene, and that’s because we’ve arrive halfway through. All the smouldering glances and clipped lines are gradually explained ...
...she’s an adulterous tramp. Brief Encounter, for all its occasional quaintness, is a deeply engaging character study as well as a doomed romance. It pokes gentle fun at middle-class obsessions with decorum and discretion, while celebrating the very British habit of articulating the most powerful and passionate emotions through mundane comments about train timetables and the weather. Much more than just another footnote classic in cinema history. ... Read review

Advantages: A limited appeal for enthusiasts of electric trains, and Sophia Loren
Disadvantages: The list would be too long.

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Advantages: It's a classic
Disadvantages: None

...Aliens is one of the greatest sequels of all time. My feelings on the film are in much greater detail are available in my review of the movie itself. However this review is based more on the content of the DVD and its features. This is a single disc special edition version. Brief Story Outline 57 years after her first encounter with the alien infested planet ( LV-426 ) Ripley returns with a force of marines to investigate a colony now located there. It soon becomes apparent the alien menance is more than they bargined for. This movie is largely regarded as one of the few example were a sequel is worthy of its predeccessor. Somehow Cameron was able to make a great horror movie into a great action movie whilst holding onto the feel of the original. Its a remarkable feat indeed given the impact of "Alien." The movies cast is equally... Read review

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