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Advantages: An awesome epic
Disadvantages: can be a little dull

Since first entering the Dune universe I hav read every book available to date, watched both mini-series and played every game I could get my hands on... It still doesn't compare to the actual awe I feltwatching this film properly for the first time. Ok, it doesn't stick that closely to the original story (unlike the later adaptation by the sci-fi channel) and the earlier DVD edition had an odd green tone but this is IT, the reason I am now obsesive ...
...like one of the new LOTR inspired epics, a little stodgy and tough to get into, kind of like the books, if you don't have patience and you don't like this kind of thing don't watch it. If you do then it is a deffinate must, its as memorable as any film I've seen (after the first viewing I had already memorised the opening speech) and more memorable than most. Although the storyline wavers from the books it is still engrossing. Unfortunately the ... Read review

Advantages: Great value boxset of a sensational movie
Disadvantages: the versions are very similar.

...this category it's the new Blade Runner: Final Cut box set, the most beautiful and feature packed box set that I have ever seen. With a sale price of between £17.99 to £24.99, which ever end of that price bracket you purchase the box set at it's worth your money. Blade Runner was first released in 1982, it was both a success and a failure. It failed to achieve the desired audience that the movie needed to be a box office success, but the movie generated ...
...that its 25 years old. Blade Runner has been re-released four times in the UK alone, the first two in its original form, in 1992 to celebrate the films 10th anniversary the film was re-released in an all new Directors Cut. Then 25 years after it was first released after 7 years of hard work by Ridley Scott the movies director Blade Runner: The Final Cut hit cinemas across the world. With new scenes, extensive reworking of special effects, and remastering ... Read review

Advantages: Epic Sci-Fi spectacular
Disadvantages: Poorly received, some naff special effects

...transform Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune into a movie. This grandiose movie looks as epic as Star Wars, but has something dirtier, menacing and almost sadomasochistic about it. Set in the year 10991 Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (Jose Ferrer) feels threatened; one of his servant races (Atreides) is developing a power that can cripple simply by vocal ability. Choosing not to trust House Atreides he sends them to the planet Arrakis to mine for a rare ...
...first thing you notice about Dune is the way it looks, there is something very Russian about its design, not just in its uniform but in its impressive structures and settings. The House Atreides are the most traditionally dressed of all the races you encounter during the movie their uniforms all black, with coloured lapels and sashes to register their importance amongst their legion of soldiers; varying levels of the Atreides also have some very ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent SPFX, Great narrative, Good Cast
Disadvantages: none

...Distributed by- Universal Pictures Wanted released in the cinema just over a week ago is one of the best films i have seen for a long time. The film was based on the comic book ministeries 'Wanted' by Mark Millar and is all about injustice and tranfromation. I am not really a fan of Timur Bekmanbetov's work. The Russian director did not do well in the series of 'Night Watch' and 'Day watch', but directing a American blockbuster he seemes to be able ...
...audience is kept interested throughout. Wanted has everything a action movie needed, free running, parkar as well as car chases and gun fights. Info Timur shot the film Wanted in Chicargo and many of the chase scences including one with a helicopter were shot on Wacker Drive along the Chicargo river. I think filming the film here gives it a high standard quality. Wanted was seen as a low budget film but after adaptating scenes it raked in the most ... Read review

Advantages: FX, acting and visual style
Disadvantages: Limited, nothing special

...has a 15 rating. Cloverfield is an entertaining hour and a half that is worth watching, but don't expect too much. The FX are outstanding, the acting is very good, but there are limitations on the film through the way it is filmed. Expect a sway all the way through the film, as you would if someone was holding a video camera anyway, but definitely give it a go. After all, if you don't, you'll spend a lifetime wondering what the hype was about and ... Read review