Science Movie Reviews

Probably to weird to understand, but then again, you never understood ANYTHING. Cosmic toxic stew anthology of several short tales from the nasty corner of a cinematic dumpster. Character-driven, takes parts from sci-fi, sexual mind benders, 80's teen movies, spy thrillers, bad horror movies, disgusting snuff flicks, urban decay intropsections, heavy metal videos, porn, and the bastard child of David Lynch does John Watters fluffed by Fellini and Troma. Comes with the soundtrack also. Includes the Doormouse (Addict Records) "Skelechairs" video which is a cinematic delight in its own right and deserves the price alone.

This movie has quite possibly become my favorite horror film of all time. The acting was quite superb, the plot was twisted, and it scared the bejezus out of me. I especially like the part where the former nun takes off her cloth and throws it in the flame(talk about getting rid of a bad habit). Also a great part of the movie was the daemon, it was so realistic, I felt like I was going to descend to hell. If you are into serious horror, then pick this up. If you are a wittle cwybaby who can't stand scawy stuff, then go get a cotton candy mohawk and pick up a Barney video

A great collection of scary classics:

A BUCKET OF BLOOD stars Dick Miller who plays a nobody who gains fame among the beatniks. His realistic sculptures are made by covering dead bodies with clay. Watch out---you may just jump out of your own skin!!!

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS stars Jack Nicholson as a skid row flower shop owner facing a dilemma with a demanding carnivorous plant. Don't get too close to the screen---it might gobble you up!!!

THE TERROR stars Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson. Nicholson plays an officer in Napoleon's army who pursues a mysterious woman. The woman becomes the pawn of a old witch bent of driving a baron to suicide. Creepy atmosphere in a castle with a crypt.

THE WASP WOMAN stars Janet Starlin, the vain, youth-obsessed owner of a cosmetics firm who turns into a man-killing wasp-woman.

The dramatic story of intelligence officer Jesse Marcel's controversial quest to determine if a UFO actually crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947, and whether or not the government engaged in a massive cover up.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I would not even bother renting it. For (very little) you can own this spectacular documentary that will keep you guessing at what really happened in Roswell. It's a must see film.

This video is great for anyone who is just baffled by astronomy. The Standard Deviants really have provided the viewers with great mnemonics and visual devices. These just make learning so much fun!

The poster who said that Stargate moved from Sci-Fi to Fox is incorrect. Stargate SG-1 was on Showtime for the first 5 seasons. Year-old reruns play in syndication, which is a different local channel in each city (including Fox in some places, but can also be found on CBS, UPN, etc.) Seasons 6 through 8 are on the Sci-Fi Channel, which took over first-run rights from Showtime. I'm not sure why we should "be grateful" to get episodes on DVD two years after the UK... but I'm buying season 5 anyway, because Stargate SG-1 is the best show on television!

Be glad to have this season on DVD. This is the year SG-1 moved off of Sci-Fi over to Fox. When Sci-Fi started running the SG-1 reruns earlier this year it took some good work to get season 5 back on Sci-Fi. And now we have it on DVD. Thanks to all who worked hard to make sure ALL the SG-1 seasons will be on DVD.

Wow! This Stargate Season really got to me. There are very few series that can risk so many changes (especially in one season) and keep the track of things without disappointments.

This season sees the departure of a mayor character, the death (final death... mmm, 99.9% sure...) of the mayor big baddie of previous seasons, the annihilation of a powerful ally, politics and shades of grey, the rising of the new big bad nemesis of the series (in a very intelligent way), a lot of character development, conclusions to several story arcs of the past, interesting revelations and more...

Perhaps what I most like about this season are the grate scripts (Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie were awesome that year). After the grate cliff-hanger of Season 4, "Enemies" came to be one of the best season premieres I have ever had the pleasure to watch.

The directing style improved greatly (more visual language, more depth in the approach and very good storytelling). Episodes like "The Tomb" (grate suspense), "Threshold" (one of Tealc's best), "Between Two Fires", the awesome, huge and perhaps best two parter of the series "Summit" and "Last Stand", and the amazing Season Finalie "Revelations" (script, directing, acting... everything at its best) which was the first season finalie of the series with no cliff-hanger, make of this season one of Sci-Fi and Television's best.

I loved Anna-Louise Plowman (Osiris) in "Revelations", the introduction of Anubis, the way the System Lords were finally approached as a group, and the intelligent twists the season gave to the series.

Four hip short films with a twist,the best of which is "Room Service",in which real life rock icon John Taylor plays Jimmy Blitz,a caricature of the seediest hotel trashing guitar heroes.

He pits his wits against the hotel maid in a totally wild performance,destroying her efforts to restore the place to sanity every morning-after-the-night-before.

In a typical Strange Frequency ending,he gets his just desserts in the end.

The other three short films are about rock and pop also,and all of them will get you thinking,make you laugh and entertain you like no other.

This is a Wacky, scary, funny ... , tripped out, never seen this kinda ... before movie experience... itz a good thing I seen this two movies together as a double bill, otherwise I wouldn't have known for sure that it was intended to be so off the wall.
But I'm guessin' this ain't no accidental ... . And these people mean to throw us a curve ball.

Five Stars for me! Super Value.

Christina Fulton is Hotter than Hell and had me on the floor laughing.

And the Guy in Lucinda's Spell has my respect. And that is saying something!

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"Terminator 2 - Judgement Day" really pushed the envolope of special effects and CGI. In 1991 when it first came out it was a huge deal. People hadn't seen effects like that so realisticly inserted into films. The story is almost secondary, but it is still strong. Arnold Schwarzenegger is another cyborg sent to the past to protect John Connor as a teenager. The enemy this time is the T-1000, a superior model terminator played by Robert Patrick (eventually with the 'X-Files'). Patrick dose a pretty good job as the creep Terminator. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, who has now somewhat lost touch with sanity. Her dooms day prophacy is true and no one believes her (except the audience). She is however, neurotic, paranoid, and maybe dangorous to herself and her son John Connor. Arnold is pretty good as the Terminator, and some of his scenes tring to immatate humans is funny. The drawback is Edward Furlong's John Connor. He is a whinny, foul mouth little brat, far from the hero of the human race we are supposed to believe him to be. He was hard to take. But this is still an excellent movie, great chases (loved the sewer drain race), funny dialog (sometimes) and some hope for the future that isn't as bleak as part 1. The extras in the DVD are worth it, especially the deleted and alternate scenes.

Sequels are a large and largely ironic part of director James Cameron's film career. There are those of us who remember one of his earliest films, "Piranha Part Two: The Spawning," which was a sequel of sorts (same type of fish, but not the same fish), and he made two of the most successful sequels of all time in "Aliens" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." I was going to say that the irony extends to the fact Carmeron directed the most successful film of all time in "Titanic," for which a sequel cannot be made, except "Ghosts of the Abyss" is out there in Omni-Max Theaters across the land and tends to subtract from the point.

Unlike Francis Ford Coppola who still had half of the origianl novel to work with, or George Lucas who was working on a trilogy (or Peter Jackson who is doing both), Cameron was faced with trying to build upon a pair of fairly success first features. After transforming the "haunted house" movie "Alien" into a military movie with "Aliens," Cameron starts with an equally significant change in the premise for "Terminator 2," turning the T-101 from the villain into the hero. When you are dealing with a machine it is just a question of reprogramming it accordingly. Consequently, Cameron is basically able to repeat the entire opening of the original movie (two naked guys come from the future, one is good and one is bad) and then pivot the entire film on the basis of that one little change.

Now, you do not want to think about time paradoxes too closely because they tend to fly apart once logic or the laws of physics are invoked, but since the original T-800 failed to kill Sarah Connor the machines of the future and their overlord Skynet, send back a T-1000 (Robert Patrick) to kill John Connor (Edward Furlong). Sending back a dozen Terminators of pretty much any model number would probably work better, but the idea here is qualitative improvements rather than quantitative (i.e., this is not "The Matrix Reloaded" with its infinite versions of Mr. Smith). John is saved by another T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and proceeds to rescue his mother (a buffed up Linda Hamilton) from the crazy house, with the T-1000 in close pursuit.

The final significant difference between this film and the original is that Cameron and his co-writer William Wisher have Sarah Connor taking the offensive. While the T-1000 is hunting mother and son, she is going to do her own manipulation of the time line by taking out Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson (Joe Morton), the scientist whose creative fingerprints end up being all over Skynet's creation. Dyson is helped by having a couple of significant bits and pieces from the T-800 of the original film (which is where we get right into a "Planet of the Apes" time loop, so let's just not go there). For me, Dyson is the most interesting character in the story, and a clear break from science fiction film stereotypes in a whole lot of ways.

It is easy to get taken away with the special effects in "Terminator 2" because of the quantum leap that films took from the water tentacle in Cameron's "The Abyss" to the liquid metal of the T-1000, but the human dimension of the dysfunctional Connor family dealing with their particular fate in terms of future events. The Terminator is now the father figure for John Connor, but the boy has a few lessons of his own to impart to his personal Terminator. Of course, the "Judgment Day" sub-title is something of a misnomer give not only what happens in this film but in the 2003 finale to the trilogy, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," but this 1991 film (and all its myriad variations available on DVD) is a textbook example of how you can intelligently go about putting together a sequel in this genre that will make a lot of money and not insult fans of the original.

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Arnie is a good guy this time and he's back to save Jon and Sarah connor. this is a great sequel to T1 so go watch it!

Here's the plot.
A bunch of speical effects strung together and the way to make up for it was, "It's too complicated and in-depth!" I'm not buying it.
It was a total waste of time. I'm just glad I didn't pay money for it. I rented it from the libary.

It seems to a a film which actually occur, which made it even more exciting. As a woman I don't care or this genre, but I was meserized.

Without all of the sequels...subplots...etc this movie would be great. that is to say it could easily be a stand alone and the best movie that this decade has produced (last decade? watever) I was so enthused with this movie that i made my own web page about it. be amazed and go here : http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=1719175