Beegee

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Wing Commander
(1999)

Waste of an opportunity
Wing commander the game was always a favourite amongst PC gamers. The movie had a perfect source material. However, it failed. The Kilrathi in WC3 look ten times as good as this oversized rats with goaties. Save your money for Episode one. That'll be worth it

Privateer 2: The Darkening
(1996)

a good-looking fun space trader
privateer 2 is a dang good game, and definitely a worthy addition to any wing commander or space sim fan's collection. However, it is a bit too easy, and sometimes the dogfights can get a little boring.

Then again, after you have finished the main game you can continue playing on as long as you like. There are some fine actors involved and although some of the video is quite long and annoying, there are some great effects.

It isn't another wing commander game, but it is nonetheless fun and similar in many ways. So if you see it on the discount shelf of your local video game shop, snap it up and you should be pleasantly surprised.

Full Body Massage
(1995)

The title basically explains the reason you'd watch this
Mimi Rogers has spectacular breasts. That's the only reason you'd watch this. It really is rather pointless. However, if you have some sort of obsession for female assets of huge proportions, watch it by all means.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
(1991)

Only for kids
When I was 8, this movie seemed great. I haven't seen it since then but in hindsight, it seems stupid. Probably better than the first, but I still don't like it anymore and it's so much like the first it's practically a remake.

The Phantom
(1996)

Tragically bad
Don't see this movie....it was horrible!!! No one should have to put themselves through this, Honestly, it was that bad. My dog became suicidal after seeing this movie. Took us hours to talk it down off the roof. Performances-horrible; Direction-non existent; Production values-nil; Music-highly strung cat. SHOCKING!

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
(1985)

Shameless attempt to cash in on star wars
Why bother? Return of the Jedi was a great movie but the worst thing about it was the Ewoks. So why in God's name would anyone want to make a whole movie about them? The Star Wars trilogy ruled the earth and the new one looks

incredible, but a movie about ewoks is a shockingly bad idea.

The funniest parts of Return of the Jedi were parts with ewoks getting hurt (even toasted) so this is just a waste of time.

Psycho II
(1983)

One of the best sequels known to man
When I went to my local video store a year and half ago, I noticed that there were no less than four "psycho" movies there. Having seen the original, I figured that they would all be cash-ins. Two weeks ago I finally hired psycho 2 in to finally prove my point to myself. I was wrong. This movie has everything a sequel to psycho could need. A great plot (probably better than the first one's), excellent direction, and great acting. Perkins is so much better here than in the original psycho that one can't help thinking it's a shame that he passed away. There are heaps of reasons to see this movie, and very few not to if you're a suspense fan. If you liked the original you'll love this, and even if you didn't you'll still love it.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)

It's damn good!
This movie's taken a fair old bashing for the 'would be' critics that plague the internet movie database, and in general most internet movie review sites. What you seem unable to understand is that this movie wasn't made to raise any debate or anything...it was made to enjoy..and enjoy it most people did. Who else but Speilberg could create such classic scenes as the raptor tracks appearing in the long grass behind the humans, or the glass cracking under Julianne Moore? Jurassic park was made to show the immorality of genetic breeding and cloning as well as showing of ILM's dominance in the special effects world. But while it achieved this, it was lacking in the action department. Cue the lost world. This movie is meant to be up on action and suspense and down on the moral lectures. And when you look at its competition (i.e. Godzilla) it's probably the best in its field. Sure it may be a little violent for kids, and in the theatre I was in when I first saw it, most were covering their eyes and gasping for breath, but at the end, those who were over 4 foot tall and not in a state of shock gave the movie a round of applause for the simple reason that they wanted a holiday flick which would entertain, and the lost world would have been among the best for the job.

If you think you can get out there and create a better movie, then go to film school, and I'm sure you'll see the kind of pressure Mr.Speilberg was under to make this movie. Yet he still came out with a top rate crowd pleaser while maintaining a message and making box office history. I'm not sure about a third one, but this was definitely a worthy sequel.

Blues Brothers 2000
(1998)

One hell of a movie!
I went into this movie with a great dead of skepticism. After all, the original was one of the greatest movies ever and trying to recreate that atmosphere, let alone top it, would be all but impossible. However, within the first five minutes I knew that I'd been worrying about nothing.

I can understand why some people wouldn't like it, whether they are fans of the original or not, and I think they could have done a better job with some parts of the movie (especially the ending) but it was fast paced, fitfully funny, and most importantly, had great music. There is no way that anyone can deny that this movie pulls together the greatest ensemble of super-star musicians ever seen on film. With such legends as B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, and Lou Rawls you can't go wrong. ESPECIALLY when they're in the same band!! Then you have Eretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett to contend with elsewhere in the movie. And that's not to say the Blues Brothers band do a bad job themselves. With a hilariously literal version of Ghost Riders In the Sky and other greats scattered throughout, there's no way that this film can be faulted for its music.

Nor for that matter can it be faulted for its stunts, with one pile-up containing the most cars wrecked in a single scene in cinematic history and a classic crash involving a car full of members of the russian mafia, a jar of carpet tacs (or as Elwood amusing corrected, "dry wall nails"), a burning strip club, and 50m of a dark Chicago street. Scenes like these only go to prove that Director John Landis has lost none of the excellence he showed in the first blues brothers movie.

If you want mega budget demolitions scenes, a dramatic soundtrack, and award winning Oscar nominated acting, then rent titanic. But if you want great R&B music, impossible stunts, and a whole load of great laughs (aided in no small way by the deadpan acting talents of Dan Ackroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton and newcomer J.Evan Bonifant), then you can't do too much better than Blues Brothers 2000

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