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Doom and Gloom

Advantages: Sound/Audio, Special Effects
Disadvantages: cop out from the game, not enough monsters, story, unoriginal

...Back in the early 90's Doom was at the forefront of the gaming world. With much better graphics and game play (including network play) than most other games. Players could immerse themselves in the world of a Marine fighting demon's from Hell, on Mars. Then in late 2004 we had some more of the same with Doom3, only with bigger better graphics and a more refined storyline (even if the game was a bit linear). Amongst gamers, the idea that there would ...
...story of the game (particularly Doom 3) was fairly simple. You are on a tour of duty at the UAC facilities on Mars, when they access a portal to hell and let all sorts of demons out, and you basically run around killing any demon that moves before descending into Hell to have a go at the boss himself. This was the kind of story I would have liked seen to port over to the film. Dark dingy corridors, masses of monsters and demons coming at you before ...

sjp1966 22.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Doom (DVD)

Sci-Fi Action at it's finest!

Advantages: You'll want to watch the sequel straight away and it's there in one box!
Disadvantages: Doom is fairly generic and formulaic. Still worth a watch though.

...In a nut-shell: Pitch Black - Vin Diesel as the mysterious and dangerous Riddick. A murderous fugitive stranded on a barren planet after their ship crashes with some bounty hunters and some innocent passengers. As Riddick attempts to escape his captives it soon becomes clear their are more pressing dangers on this planet. He may be a killer, but a killer with a good soul as he saves more than just himself. Chronicles of Riddick - Vin Diesel again ...
...out of luck and on the run this time he finds himself on the run from a rampaging cult called the Necromongers set on Galactic domination and Riddick is in their way! Can he survive their supernatural power, could he even be the key to human survival? The Riddick storylines are engrossing and well thought out with some cracking special effects. The characters are also very well thought out with a nice follow-on in the sequel showing us the characters ...

iandilley 16.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Pitch Black/Doom/The Chronicles of Riddick (Box Set) (DVD)

Is Spock Cesc Fabregas?

Advantages: Big screen treat
Disadvantages: Not for DVD

...player, also the case with Star Trek, and unless you have a huge TV or Blue-Ray then the modern action movie suffers in translation. Star Trek is quite simply one of those big budget movies you have to see at the cinema to get any real buzz from it, director JJ Abrahams all about movies that enjoy using the entire screen space. It's all very frustrating wandering what you can't see in the top left hand corner of your wide-screen DVD screen that the ...
...a bar hitting on female Star Fleet cadets after dropping out of Star Fleet officer school, taking a shine to sexy young communications officer Uhura (Zoë Saldana), a fist fight soon ensuing. But he's soon talked around to mend his ways and on the next shuttle up to Starfleet head quarters, Capt. Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), a friend of his father, his new mentor. The concurrent storyline is that of Nero (Eric Bana), the captain of a Romulan ...

thedevilinme 25.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Star Trek

Star Trekkin Across the Universe!

Advantages: excellent story and acting, amazing effects
Disadvantages: Uhura and Spocks relationship

...faces the task of joining Star Fleet and following in the footsteps of his father. Also at Star Fleet is a young Vulcan called Spock who is also a genius and for some reason the two have a dislike for each other. When training at Star Fleet all the cadets get tested as a lightening storm and distress signal is heard from the Vulcan planet. Kirk is not allowed to go as he is facing a trail for supposedly cheating on a test Spock created but his loyal ...
...of the original series of Star Trek, I mush preferred The Next Generation so never really found out how Kirk became the Captain at such a young age and I loved how I was able to find this out from the storyline to this film. I thought that the storyline was very well thought-out and I enjoyed finding out the backgrounds of the main characters. Chris Pine played the role of James Kirk and I have to say he did a fantastic job. He managed to show the ...

sewbizzie 18.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Star Trek (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)