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I love Redford movie in general but I was skeptical about this one. I didn't go to the cinema. I bought the DVD instead. It's not a tirade against the so called "war on terror". It's not spectacular and it's not simple. It's a patriotic attempt to tell someone, who want to ear, wake up, take your responsibility instead of just flowing like a drop of water in the river. It's the world, not only US who is slowly fading into obscurity and into stupidity. And this movie is Redford attempt to take his own responsibility, as a filmmaker. And I think it's remarkable. I loved it. And in retrospective, when the end titles were rolling I was just thinking that the movie is well done, well written, well acted, and felt grateful they made it.

I am one of those who didn't really like Matrix, I found it a little amusing, but I thought and still believe it's largely overrated. From the Matrix series I got a really bad personal opinion about Wachowski bros. I have to say that after seeing V for Vendetta I found myself thrilled by the delicious pleasure of having a personal belief show untrue. I was wrong, this guys are good at writing, very very good.

I love V for Vendetta, is one of my favorite movies from recent years, and I give it a 10 out of 10 without doubts. The screenplay is simply extremely good. And the overall movies, mixing contemporary references, superheros fantasies, politics, emotions, ideals, special effects, and everything, is simply a really well made movie.

It's true that it's criticism is always straight forward, and it's also true it often rely on simple icons, and powerful but not such complex and sophisticated dialogs. Nevertheless it's never rough, nor fancy, and never stupid or vulgar. I am pretty sure Orwell would have not liked it, he used to be more sharp and less blatant...

But this movie does have his style and beautiful lyric.

This is a movie you will like whatever you are looking for. And more said, this is a movie which show you can portrait a comic character, you can talk about politics, you can entertain... In an intelligent and useful way...

You just have to know how to do it. And those guys knows it, they proved it.

If you like the book you will not like the movie.

It's an adaptation aimed only to catch young teenagers who likes Pearl Harbour or Armageddonn, who doesn't have the maturity or brain to understand anything more complex that the average Hollywood bullshit.

If film-making is in the hands of people who think they are making art when they are really just making stains. Like someone taking pictures of his girlfriend nude and thinking he is an art photographer.

What it's painful is to see a book which is considered rightly or wrongly, a masterpiece, just used as toilet paper, but from the author of Pirates of the Caribbean, what should someone expect?

I love books, I would like to see more respect for good books.

Dealing with violence and vengeance Seven and Fight Club are in my opinion much more interesting, not even comparable to this movie.

Why the need to make it a flashback movie like Memento? Only because the story itself is poor. The only thing the story really has, are two of the worst, more disgusting, scenes in the story of film-making.

I didn't particularly appreciate the acting, nor I considered it particularly bad. I didn't find the directing original, nor too bad.

I choose to do not see that movie for a long time, because I don't want to feel bad for violence scenes when they are pointless.

After seeing the movie (actually the uncut version with the rape scene full of the face kicking of Mrs Belluucci face) I asked myself why to watch it, and if sustaining the pain of those two scenes have any sense and if there's any point at all in seeing it.

I don't know. What I do know is that you can look at the first 35 minutes, watching the two disgusting violent scenes and skip the rest, since there's nothing else in that movie.

And about those 35 minutes, is it valuable? I don't know. I am not sure it is. But it's up to you. About how you do feel looking at them, and what thought will come to your mind looking at them and reminding them... Since you will find yourself thinking about them over and over for days.

If that expression of violence is valuable to you or not depends on you.

What I do know is that I would not recommend watching that to anyone young.

This is the first and best Cimino movies ever. Yes The Deer Hunter is also a beautiful and complex movie too, but I do think in this first effort everything is not only just perfect but also genuine. I love the title song by Paul Williams which is just a different way of telling the story of John "Thunderbolt" Doherty story, notice how the young Lightfoot act like a sort of guide through the movie. The final scene where the song plays in the background and Doherty is driving and fading away, reminding everyone of truth of the lyrics. Every background and every location is just so genuine, it does make the spectator slide into the story and believe everything which happens. The actors are extremely good, Eastwood of course show his usual two expressions, but they do fit the role, George Kennedy is very good, but above everyone is Bridges, I love is performance, I think he is just a great actor, and he have been since the beginning, and he is at his best here. Watching movies today, I think about Cimino filmography and wonder why, after such debut and the following The Deer Hunter, he was unable to maintain the expectation of everyone of us. But doesn't bother me, he gave as two masterpieces, what else could we ask from a Director? A final comment about how this movie rate compared to today movies, I do think it does show the poverty of today production in terms of good stories, good acting, and nonexistence of any effort to go deeper. Especially if you compare it to any movie portraying criminals, robbery, and so on, produced today, they are so superficial.

It was excellent, for a boy was representing the word adventure at his best. The locations where just beautiful, and for me living in the Italian countryside, even if filmed in Belgium, very familiar. The blond girl was the love of every teenager watching the show. What was surprisingly was that the boys sound so vivid, so genuine, they did really stuck with your imagination.

There was mystery, adventure, and the boys where venturing alone, without any teaching adult, discovering their ability, building a pack, a team, facing adversity, and proudly seeking a treasure... I saw it just one time when I was 10 and I still remember it vividly.

The DVD is finally out and I ordered it today!

I really don't like being vulgar, so forgive me for being so. But I do think the best way to explain who this movie is for is just to tell you this movie is pure excrement, so if you like excrement, it's for you, if you don't like it, it's not for you.

The only good thing about that movie, is getting the chance to look at the gorgeous Halle Berry, there's nothing else.

I really had to force myself to see the first half, then I couldn't resist, and I stopped, was really too much and I was going to feel sick.

Also, if you love action movies, you hate anything which is deep, and you just seek a movie which is like a roller-coaster, I am not completely sure, but I guess you won't like it either. Even if you just want explosions, chases, and so on... This is such a stupid movie you won't probably like it either...

Usually in American movies you can see car explode. Here, in the final scene of the movie, you can see a shark explode, that's a big step forward in American film-making, isn't it?

Renny Harlin does is honest job as a director with the only talent of being able to make a stupid American action movie which can still make some money, probably because he come from Finland, I know they still have some brain up there in the cold.

LL Cool J is the only really good think about that movie, he is funny; he is a smart guy, isn't it?

Samuel L. Jackson is smart too, getting some free money just to show is face uselessly.

And finally Thomas Jane perfectly fit the role of the macho man: "I have big balls."

That's all, you can really miss that one, believe me.

I have been a big fan of Star Trek all my life. I watched episodes of the old series again and again, as a kid, as teenager, and as an adult. Always with pleasure, and interest, for a show which had something to teach to kids, teenagers, and adults.

When The New Generation come, being such a big fan of the old Star Trek, I didn't like it, but after few episodes of The Next Generation I started to just love it; because Picard and the whole TNG was the perfect expression of a will to entertain audience of all ages with imaginative stories, presenting a positive future, with a profound liberal and open mind.

The world of Star Trek is full of hurdles, but you learn, watching the show, that being an adult, trying hard to make the right thing, trying to know yourself, your limits, your passions, your goods and evils... Being open minded, sensible and adventurous, the world and its hurdles is a marvelous place to venture into.

I do think TNG was what the creative and fertile mind of Gene Roddenberry had always wanted for the universe he had imagined. And the series which followed where attempts to explore this world, and its possibilities. Of course not every episodes or every single year of TNG, Voyager or Deep Space 9 was perfect. But Star Trek in its various forms, have always been something I would relay on, for the education of my children's if I had any.

I liked a lot of things in Start Trek Enterprise, and loved few, I watched every episode I saw with sincere interest, and I was really entertained by few.

But I regret to say I had soon the feeling the original spirit of Star Trek which lived over again with more power in the new series, was in danger. Maybe it was really the attitude of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, as many fans say, or the lost of the mentor Roddenberry, who at the time of TNG used to write manuals for the many writers, producers and actors of the series, to help them understand and feel the spirit of Star Trek; maybe it's just the obscure times we live, a whole nation scared by terrorism which feel at war with part of the world and treated by the rest of it.

I don't know, but I know during the course of Enterprise, at a certain point, the spirit of Gene Roddenberry was lost, and maybe the producers and writers of Enterprise were not the only ones to loose it in the nation and its shows. But I am grew up with his stories, that's why I know the goods will always win, and there will be a next Star Trek show, sooner or later, which will relieve us from then dark vision of our bad days and will bring us back the never-ending spirit of Mr. Roddenberry.

I do sincerely thanks the cast, and all the people behind the stage, who contributed to give us Star Trek Enterprise and all the Star Trek saga, and I do hope to see all of them back at work to give us another great Star Trek show very very soon.

I watched regularly the original Battlestar Galactica and I liked it when I was a teen, but it was not one of my favorites. Nevertheless I didn't like the idea of a remake, in general I don't like the idea of remake at all, it's typical of Hollywood to be willing to film something again, to adapt it to current taste, or moral. But why do you have to do it? Would be like re-writing Moby Dick every 20 years to adapt it to changes of the readers. It's ridiculous, be imaginative and film something new.

So, I watched the first episode of this new Battlestar Galattica with more than prejudice, I was pretty sure I would have not liked it. I actually watched the making of, before to watch the very first episode, and I listen to the producer Ronald Moore and I didn't like him either, I thought he was phony.

That's why while I was watching the first two episodes (the pilot), I found myself with mouth open thinking... Gawd... He just know how to write. He really does.

It's not without flaws, of course, as life is... But Ronald Moore just really know his job; this new Battlestar Galactica is terrific. The stories are so well written, few of the actors are unbelievable. Edward James Olmos is gorgeous. And all the cast is extremely good.

Let me just spend a word for Starbuck, maybe Katee Sackhoff is a kid, but she's obviously talented, and she just fit the role like a glove.

The casting is terrific, the stories are... The acting is...

You will just forgive what you will not like, because, overall, this is a terrific show.