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On the Starship Andromeda

Advantages: Ver enjoyable
Disadvantages: Kevin Sorbo was hotter as Hercules

...television show was of course Andromeda and as I now have a lovefilm membership I can watch whatever I want! A couple of months ago I received the first DVD of Andromeda season 1 and I have to say that I was disappointed. It turns out that I'm not in love with Kevin Sorbo so much as Hercules. But I got over my initial disappointment (with some help from the extremely sexy Keith Hamilton Cobb) and found out that there is much more to this show than ...
...it's set in. Andromeda is set thousands of years into the future. Humans can now travel throughout space and interact with other races from other planets. Not only are there other races but there are also different types of humans, like the Nietzschean's who are homo sapiens but faster, stronger and more resistant to illness than humans due to genetic modification. Within this universe there is the System's Commonwealth, a utopian civilisation that ...

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Review of Andromeda - Season 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

Andromeda - Season 5 - Midpoint

Advantages: 4 Episodes on a two DVD set.
Disadvantages: Lack of extra and a bit expensive

...and the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant are continued as they try to re-energise the Andromeda and find their way out of the Seefra system. As with most of the DVD's in the fifth series this box set contains 4 episodes namely E10 to E13, which are seperated onto 2 DVD's. E10 - The Test. This is a bit of a wierd episode as it is told from start to finish as normal, but the character interaction is dealt with by fade in / out as the story moves ...
...will help him power the Andromeda back up. On the whole a well executed episode, apart from the distractive way that the story is told. E11 - Through The Glass, Darkly. In my opinion, the best episode on the DVD set. The story revolved around the crew of the Andromeda trying to save a refugee camp from an evil tyrant who is trying to take over Seefra 5. With the crew trying to supply the refugee's with supplies and Rhade helping to defend the ...

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Review of Andromeda - Season 5 - Vol. 3 (DVD)

Terminator Salvation- An action flick that worked for me!

Advantages: Christian bale.Nice action.Camerawork.
Disadvantages: Sort of cliche.Story is thin

Terminator Salvation is the continuation of the terminator series which gained much popularity in the 90's. Following the trend of recently succesful sequels, this one comes with a newer look at the man v/s enemy battle;the latest addition being a futuristic concept,new technology and advatnced graphics. The story doesn't need to be elaborated,its a plain man v/s machine battle,set in 2018. I am not a fan of Wham wham thank you ma'm kind of films,i ...
...if the genre has to fall under action.Blame it on the technology or the craze of futuristic concepts,the order of the day seems to be robots and machines fighting it out with humans.I guess that makes the concept very novel,saving mankind and similar attributes. The director also emphasizes on human emotion and some time is spent giving both the principal characters some emotional backdrop which works for the film.Behind all the action bonanza and ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (DVD)

Uncut, Uncensored, and Loads More Fun

Advantages: original version much deeper, plots make more sense, better voice acting than American dub
Disadvantages: original audio not the best, Region 1 only genuine release

...now re-incarnated with her fellow sailor warriors to battle against evil, and seeking her long ago lost one true love. Her name: Sailor Moon. Of course, belonging to the magical girl genre, she is and her cohorts are no ordinary warriors, but ones that each possesses special gifts. Various objects act as magical talismans to release certain powers, but supernatural powers they are none the less, though in this day and age, technology also plays a ...
...Who is Usagi? This is Sailor Moon Uncut, the original unbutchered edition of Sailor Moon, and definitely NOT the highly edited, rescripted, and dubbed Sailor Moon that saw television airplay in the UK and USA. So the Serena that English speaking fans of THAT edition know goes by her actual Japanese name. Usagi means rabbit or bunny, and actually is by far a more fitting name for she who runs in terror and crouches in tears when the time to do battle ...

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Review of Sailor Moon Season One Uncut (DVD)

I was counting down to the end

Advantages: The aircraft
Disadvantages: The acting and the story line

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN 1980 DVD 2002 THE STORY The U.S.S. Nimitz, a nuclear aircraft carrier, encounters a very strange storm in 1981 and, when the ship clears the storm, the crew eventually realise that they have somehow been catapulted back to 1941. (As you do !!) More importantly, they end up one day before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, and they are near Pearl Harbour. A fully-armed nuclear aircraft ...
...a lot of damage to the Japanese invasion force, possibly even destroy it. So, the question becomes, "Should they?" Should they tamper with history and re-write it? They are United States military servicemen, in a combat situation, and most the crew says, "Go for it!" But, what of the ramifications? That question becomes highlighted when a 1941 Japanese Zero blows up a 1941 private yacht, near the U.S.S. Nimitz, and the survivors are rescued by the ...

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Review of The Final Countdown (DVD)