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The Twilight Zone: Six Degrees of Freedom
(2019)
Episode 6, Season 1

Worst episode so far
This was definately the worst episode of the series so far. 54 minutes of overly long, nonsensical boredom. You wait for something to happen, and it never does. The characters are uninteresting, and the plot never goes anywhere. The 'twist' at the end is not even worth mentioning.

This reboot of The Twilight Zone was ranging from mediocre to plain bad so far, but this episode hits a new low even for them. Just skip it.

Kopps
(2003)

this movie rocks!
I just saw this movie in cinema yesterday and I cannot say anything else. Not seeing the director's previous film "Jalla!Jalla!" I first saw this Swedish filmmaking style. The movie is really humorous with a good plot and great characters.

The four cops are great characters. The best is Benny who believes that he is a "Die Hard" style supercop who kills masked terrorists and avoid their bullets "Matrix"-style. But there are several good moments and an original atmosphere in this film.

I just cannot say more. Entertaining movie with great special effects for a comedy.

I ragazzi della via Pál
(2003)

unworthy spoof of a real classic
This film is good only by the concepts of acting, directing, sets and photography. But the story and the entire picture is unworthy to the original classic which it was loosely "based on". It maybe enjoyable for Italians who aren't read the original Ferenc Molnar novel, but for Hungarian whom read in in childhood and enjoyed it for decades it is really a disappointment.

First, they changed the age of the main characters, but the question is that how the hell can 11-12 year old characters make the same adventures, actions, etc. as 14-15 year old kids (originally portraid in the novel)? Second they made some very big mistakes which are really the forges even history. Feri Ács wearing a Beatles-style haircut in 1905? Divorce in a family like Nemecsek's? Ridiculous! Third, the characters are really not like themselves in the original story. The kids, like Csónakos (who was a tall and humorous kid in the novel) or Ács (who was enemy to the Pál Street Boys, but totally a loyal young man) are two-dimensional cliche characters. They even made an adventurer from Janó, the keeper of the ground!

The film is like a spoof of the original classic, it isn't even have got the same storyline somewhere! I don't say anything for the crew, but this isn't a fair thing for Italians to go to Hungary and ruin a classic, generation's favorite book into this. Gave it another title, another characters, but as "Pal Street Boys" it is simply not fair.

If you want to enjoy the real classic of adventure, loyalty and beautiful story, go and see the original, 1966 Hungarian-English film version of it. But for this "piece of art": watch it if you really want a disappointment from good filmmakers.

Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
(2002)

not really a top cartoon
Well, I always was a big fan of Rowan and the original live-action show and I was happy to see the character again in animated form. And the animation was made in the same city as me... :))

The animation and the voices / characters are really good, but the only problem is that the animated show bears a very small resemblance to the live-action one. Mr. Bean is rather a "positive" character and gets himself into rather "exciting" adventures as in the original character.

It is exactly the counterpoint of the "Star Trek" animated series. Which is GREAT!!! While they could made the Enterprise crew as real and resembling to their live-action characters and kept the original "intelligent" plots for the show, only just shortening it, Bean is really so childish as animated.

Well, that's my opinion and the show is great fun, especially for kids, who don't laugh much on the original show. Yeah, and three-times hooray for Rowan Atkinson!!! One of my favourite British...

Queen: Greatest Video Hits 1
(2002)

Good, but not perfect
I this DVD is not bad, but there are a few mistakes:

1. The "widescreen" format is really annoying, as they cropped off quarter of the images. In such videos like in "Bohemian Rhapsody" it is really irritating. Because it was originally shot for normal 4:3 TVs at that time, I don't understand why it is better to show it like this. (It is the same "crime" when they crop down the half of the images of widescreen films for VHS.)

2. The DTS sound is not bad, but why there isn't Dolby Digital? Well, that is an unanswered question.

3. I think they promised something about "Bohemian Rhapsody alternate edit" in the Special Features (you know the version with the flames in it), but somehow they left it out of the final version.

4. The "Behind the Rhapsody" feature is also a deception. The documentary in which Brian shows us the original recording of the song is quite good, but in the "Making the Rhapsody" feature we watch the video over again with Roger's commentary about every half-minutes. The "Really the Best Song" option you can see only a few minutes of interviews with B. and R. but nothing else.

Although the DVD is a good one, it worth to buy it. The videos are all in perfect state. And it is a very good chance to see videos you cannot see anywhere in the last 20-30 years (like the original Killer Queen video, the uncensored Bicycle Race, and the extra videos (Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, etc.)). Also it is good for seeing about Queen itself which was UK's greatest band for 20 magical years.

P.S. GVH2. is better than this one, better videos and special features, but why no "Innuendo" videos on it?!

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