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Transformers....dollars in disguise!

Advantages: Supern Blu-Ray special effects
Disadvantages: Terrible acting

...new films though. Transformers #1 (2007) is also the first huge smash hit on Blu-Ray, the multi coloured robots and startlingly realistic special effects seeing huge rental and sales grosses on the new format. If you're getting a Blu-Ray player or buying one as a present this Christmas then get any of the two Transformers movies for your first play as they will look amazing on it, especially is you have the big TV. Part two is not so good but sexy ...
...the turkey. -The Cast- Shia LaBeouf ... Sam Witwicky Megan Fox ... Mikaela Banes Josh Duhamel ... Major Lennox Tyrese Gibson ... USAF Master Sergeant Epps John Turturro ... Seymour Simmons Ramon Rodriguez ... Leo Spitz Kevin Dunn ... Ron Witwicky Julie White ... Judy Witwicky Isabel Lucas ... Alice John Benjamin Hickey ... Theodore Galloway -The Plot- Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is off to college and after packing his case and mysterious lucky charm ...

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Review of Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen

In ROTF, the robots are much, much bigger.

Advantages: funny, exciting, great effects, good story, good acting, fast paced
Disadvantages: too much crude humour, slightly abrupt endings for some scenes

...was expecting a lot from Transformers 2. Knowing Bay and Spielberg, I knew that they would give us a sequel with 10 times more stunts and effects than the first one. Unfortunately, they slightly over did it. Revenge of The Fallen follows the events of the original Transformers movie about a normal teenage boy, Sam, being chosen to help the Autobots defend Earth and defeat the Deceptagons. The film starts off with a brilliant scene showing Wheelie, ...
...city. A noticeable difference between the two movies is the size of the transformers. In ROTF, the robots are much, much bigger. This is best near the end of the movie when a enormous robot is generated from other robots. Sometimes in the many fights between the two types of transformer it gets confusing to tell the difference between them as their colours blend in. This is not a major problem due to terrific autobot voice acting. So, the effects ...

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Review of Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen (DVD)

Great Action Saves this Mediocre Movie

Advantages: Some of the best action seen in a film, Brilliant Characters, Epic CGI
Disadvantages: Shoddy Acting, Plot is absurd, Too long

...with your adrenaline pumping. Transformers 2 is once again centered around Sam Witwicky and his Autobot friends saving Earth. It opens with a brilliant action scene involving a massive Decepticon Demolisher and smaller car version Decepticon Sideways. The scene takes no time in getting to the action as the Decepticons reveal themselves and, in Transformers style, start to destroy everything within a one mile radius with the gigantic demolisher tearing ...
...over. The acting in Transformers two is average at best and there is really no groundbreaking performances to be seen. Turturro gives the best performance of the film and his character is very funny and more likeable than the previous installment. Shia Labeouf gives the generic normal guy turned saviour of the world routine but the scenes where he is under the power of the allspark are very badly done. Megan Fox is also passable and is really only ...

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Review of Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

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Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)

Return To Form!

Advantages: Classy return to form, set in the future! very well done!
Disadvantages: should have been an 18 to be its best!

...is I am a big Terminator fan. I loved Terminator 1 and 2. With Terminator 3, they ruined the franchise, it was rubbish on many levels. Terminator salvation is literally the saviour of the fanchise. In the same way that Casino Royale, Batman Begins and others have saved other franchises, the same has happened here. The most thrilling thing is that Terminator Salvation is the first film set in the future. During the war against the Terminators and ...
...as you'd expect from a Terminator film. Sure, Arnie wasn't in it, but perhaps that was a good thing. You can have too much of a good thing after all. Christian Bale does a very good job of being bad-ass and insipiring at the same time. The way its set in the not too distant future, featuring current human weaponry being used against the machines in a nice touch. The picture and sound on the blu ray edition is first rate and makes the scenes with ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (Blu-ray)