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2001: A Space Odyssey review

Advantages: Fascinating, thought-provoking, fantastic use of music
Disadvantages: None

2001: A Space Odyssey is a sci-fi film made in 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. One of the recurring themes in this film is evolution. The first 30 mins or so have no dialogue at all, and focus on a very distant point in our past, when a group of herbivore apes are attacked, and one is killed, by a leopard. They are also driven from their water hole by another tribe, so they sleep in a rock crater overnight. ...
...monolith has appeared in front of them. They are very curious as to what this is, and one of them touches it. Not long after, this particular ape remembers the monolith and realises he can use a bone as a weapon to defend himself. So they go back and kill the tribe that took over their water hole and, jubilant, the aforementioned ape throws his bone in the air. This leads to one of the best cuts I've ever seen, when we see the bone flying through ...

Walter_Kovacs 06.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 2001 - A Space Odyssey (DVD)

My favourite movie

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...I'm a fan of Star Wars since I've watched this movie when I was about 4 years old (I'm 28). I remembered when I was to the cinema with my mum. In fact I only remembered some scenes, but there is something very impact, a strange breath, a powerfol voice that I've remembered for all my life...Darth vader, the dark lord of the Sith. A new Hope, was the fist movie of 3 that The director ann produccer George Lucas started to make since 1979. It was ...
...to notice, that in Spain, Star was is more popular like in the rest of the world. Characters and cast Luke Skywalker (mark hamill) is a farmer who lives in Tatooine, a external planet in th galaxy far to the rest. He wants to live adventures like his friends and one day, together his uncle Owen, buy 2 robots. C3PO (Anthony Daniels) is a protocol robot that serve its owner to translate different lenguages of the galaxy. R2D2 ...

corus_spain 02.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Star Wars - Episode 4 - A New Hope (Limited Edition) (DVD)

"Fly Me to the Moon"

Advantages: Old fashioned 'B' movie
Disadvantages: Very Dated

Destination Moon. At the time of its pending release this film was massively promoted claiming to portray accurately but with the twist of adventure how man will get to the Moon and stay there. Unfortunately the public didn’t want the science all they wanted was the adventure and on that point the film falls into the dreaded ‘B’ movie genre. The film follows Charles Cargraves, a kind of Howard Hughes of his day, as he struggles ...
...only financially that is and Destination Moon is good to go. I will not give you the rest of the movie lest to say there are the usual explosions, double crosses, a love interest and not so good special effects. Well it was 1950. The science in the film is awfully dated and quite quirky and innocent looking. The plot is fairly decent but the dialogue at times is awful and corny. It was I believe nominated for an ‘Oscar’ for its special effects, ...

Maximus-Qualitus 10.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Destination Moon (DVD)

The Third Doctor

Advantages: A new Doctor
Disadvantages: Lack of action with the Tardis

Its always exciting in Doctor Who when a new actor takes over the lead of the show. So seeing Jon Pertwee in his first story really was a pivotal point in Doctor Who history. The previous Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton, had seen ratings fall over his tenure as The Doctor and this meant that a vital overhaul was required. Troughton felt that his time was coming to an end and time to hand over to another person. This gave the producers a real ...
...called The War Games, Pertwee's Doctor has been exiled on Earth as punishment, in fact Pertwee's first scene as The Doctor has him literally collapsing out of the Tardis in woodland, only to be found and taken to hospital suffering the after effects of a forced regeneration. At the same time a series of meteors land nearby which give UNIT a reason to investigate these strange landings. As the investigations continue the trail of discovery leads to ...

Timbo3107 11.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who - Spearhead From Space (DVD)

The Ark In Space

Advantages: Tom Baker as The Doctor
Disadvantages: None

...was the military group The Doctor sometimes worked with during the period of the show's production). The plot has The Doctor, Sarah and Harry materialise in the TARDIS on a space station orbiting the Earth in the future, where they find the last remaining members of the human race and have to fight an alien life form, known as the Wirrn. This is a scary story with an effective and terrifying monster, which is particularly interesting considering ...
...11th January 2008. ------------------------------------------------ DOCTOR WHO - THE ARK IN SPACE (1975) Starring Tom Baker as The Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan Written by Robert Holmes (from an idea by John Lucarotti, although he was not credited on screen) Produced by Philip Hinchcliffe Directed by Rodney Bennett ------------------------------------------------ ...

phurren2006 17.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who - The Ark In Space (DVD)