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The Original is not always Best!

Advantages: some good acting
Disadvantages: poor adn wooden acting, best effects, dated, comical zombies

...by telling me it was the original ‘I am Legend’, which is a film I enjoyed, was based on. After hearing this I did decided to give it a go but oh boy what a disaster in more ways than one! This is a FILM ONLY review Robert Neville is the last man alive after a biological warfare has killed the rest of the population. Robert was in the process of making a vaccine for the disease which has turned a few of the humans in zombie and as a result he has ...
...vaccine to try and turn the zombies back to humans and his nights are spent trying to keep himself alive. He is under attack from the zombie leader Matthias who wants the last un pure man killed. Robert is out ‘shopping’ in a department store when he gets a massive shock, he meets another human woman but as she runs away he is unable to find out how she survived and if at all she is still human. Will Robert be able to find this woman and stay out ...

sewbizzie 19.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Omega Man (DVD)

Keep your clothes WITH YOU at all times

Advantages: One of the best ever sci-fi scripts
Disadvantages: Don't look at the ape masks at the back of the scenes!

I think that I was very affected by films as a child. For many of my early years I had a recurring nightmare of being chased through a corn field by marauding gorillas....it was horrible. I can now recognise that this was all due to watching this amazing film at such an early age. Considering this film was made in 1968 it was very well made indeed and stands the test of time well. Ok...so some of the ape masks (particularly in the background) are ...
...sequence of this great film I really loved. I really enjoy space craft of any kind and the ship they have travelled in is reminiscent of the late and great concorde...all pointy and fast looking. What I love more about this film than anything is the number of times Charlton Heston tries to escape, but he is always caught...learn your lesson! The scenes, just prior to the famous words said in the net are great. I don't know how I would feel running ...

excelsior81 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Planet Of The Apes (DVD)

Not a sunday roast but Soylent green!

Advantages: Very gripping throughout.
Disadvantages: Slightley boring

...it for days after. Soylent Green is a new food Suppliment in the poor future, and it is a improvement on the recent Soylent colours. It is in High demand, and The character 'thorn' played by Chartan Heston discovers the manafacturing process of it. It makes you think how the world would be in the future. i like the fact that although it was made in the 70s and its set in the year 2022- thats quite far unlike the film space 1999! ...

toop 21.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Soylent Green (DVD)

Making History

Advantages: A really great family movie
Disadvantages: None

...match up to the original Planet Of The Apes (1967), it handled social topics, cultural and religious issues, as well as creating the largest special effects spectacular the world had ever seen. Now in its 40th year Planet Of The Apes still manages to provide a stir of controversy while still looking clean and crisp; and most importantly despite the massive improvements in special effects make up, Planet Of The Apes still offers convincing looking ...
...des singes translated Monkey Planet; Planet Of The apes caused its makers many sleepless nights in the making. Initially they could not find anyone who wanted to get involved in the movie. But the casting of Hollywood legend Charlton Heston in his most energetic role as astronaut Taylor soon swung the winds of change into the film-makers direction. Suddenly everyone wanted a hand, in what was going to prove to be the most difficult movie to make ...

sghawken 11.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Planet Of The Apes (35th Anniversary Edition) (Wide Screen) (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, ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)