Hudson Movie Reviews

The DVD image is full-screen and nothing to write home about. There are no extras.

So, I guess this one is for people who love Ash, couldn't watch "Twister" because of some dislike for Helen Hunt, or just buy anything with a special effect. Now when will "Atomic Twister" get released?

The DVD image is full-screen and nothing to write home about. There are no extras.

So, I guess this one is for people who love Ash, couldn't watch "Twister" because of some dislike for Helen Hunt, or just buy anything with a special effect. Now when will "Atomic Twister" get released?

from the top with the Natasha dfljdfjs
all the way to Janne campbell...
I mean, were these women ever taught how to act,
at all? I suggest not putting your money down for this
movie or even wasting time watching it...
It is as boring as looking at your foot.

The visuals were created by a drifting magnification over high-tech still images- like scanning Landsat posters with binoculars from across a room. This presentation technique is intriguing but becomes a little unnerving at length, like viewing abstract art. The let's-figure-out-what-we're-looking-at feeling intrudes for me.

However, allowances for the fact that there is a particular intent with this unique presentation. And it IS amazing to see the beauty of the planet beyond the scale of recognizable surface detail.

On DVD playback, a nice little feature of hitting the menu button anytime for a description and stats on any particular view helps somewhat. I wonder if more could have been done with familiar imagery here to dimensionalize the whole experience.

On DVD ROM playback some interactability and the above info continually onscreen, but with the images unfortunately also shrunk way down to accomodate.

Higher resolution versions of each image are also available to users that have DVD-ROM drives, but it is important to note that all DVD-Video player users have access to the same images that DVD-ROM users do, and at the highest level of quality possible on a DVD player.

Thanks

Ralph LaBarge
Producer, Planet Earth: Series

Episode 4 is by far the best episode. It focuses on Kosei, the second in command, and reveals him as an accidental playboy, besieged by interested women. The next episode reveals the origins of Meifon's work upon the death of her grandfather. The last on this disc ventures into the mysterious past that's slowly being revealed about Meifon. The big improvement here is Kosei, who becomes a likeable character and elevates the show. That said, it's hard to really recommend Angel Links. It isn't notably bad in any way (although the English dub actress for Meifon was poorly cast), but it isn't especially good. I'm buying it because it is getting better and I like the genre.

One last content note: although nothing is really shown, on this one disc Meifon takes two showers on-screen for no apparent purpose. So beware if this offends you.

The battles, the high emotional situations made me cry and sit at the edge of my seat until the end. The final moment of the series is terribly sad yet true. Meifon tells an old lady that if she could be reborn, she would be reborn as a cat. Then, we see her lying naked under the covers under her bed as the clock reads midnight. An angel feather lands on her as she smiles in her "sleep". This "sleep" can be translated as two things: Either her one month was up and she's dead or she's alive. Personally, I think the writers were trying to make her death emotional while keeping the fans thinking about the possibilites of what happened to her.

Even if you haven't seen Angel Links (I've only bought volume 1 and 4) the emotion content and action is WELL worth the buy. If you want a good cry (if you're the sensitive type :p ) and some good action, this DVD is well worth it. Bravo to a beautiful ending to a poor start.

Rock Hudson stars as the doctor who finds an injured dog on the road and takes it home to nurse back to health. The doctor has been working on advanced growth formulae, however, and is able to regenerate (or clone) the dog within a matter of weeks. He is thrilled with his success and decides to make the giant leap to cloning a human. Not only does this intrigue the viewer, but introduces an eerie and suspenseful feeling about what is going to happen, especially when his "cloned" dog has an encounter with a small white dog (you'll have to see the movie to find out what happens here).

His "cloned" human is a girl named Victoria, nicely played by Barbara Carrera. Within days she is a beautiful, fully-grown adult with the remarkable ability to learn quickly and retain knowledge. She becomes very close to the doctor and helps him with his research. Then, near the end of the movie, something goes terribly wrong. It shows how an experiment can take a turn for the worse and is a warning to the limits of human testing. You will definitely have to watch the end of the movie to understand what I mean.

Embryo is successful as both a drama and pseudo-science movie. It was merely by chance that I watched it on T.V., but I'm glad I did because it was well worth it. The acting by Hudson and Carrera is well done, but I think the story idea itself makes this movie good. I recommend this movie to anyone who has an open mind to science and the future.

The movie has pretty good special effects, the alien is done very well. The F117's also look pretty sharp, except for the fact that F117's aren't used for dogfighting. There are also some pretty nice explosions to go along with the alien.

Overall though, the movie fails to live up to expectations. You leave thinking you just watched a cheap ripoff of the Predator or Independence Day. However, all is not wasted as Olivier Gruner has some pretty nice fighting scenes which aren't bad at all. The movie could have been so much more with the actors that were employed. If you pick-up the DVD version, don't expect to see anything but some Bloopers after the credits roll