It’s the year 2019, and four “replicants,” beings created to appear and act human, are at large. The authorities call in Blade Runner (Replicant bounty hunter) Rick Decard to find and kill them.
Like the Riddley Scott directed Alien, this takes a good while to get going. It is still worth a watch though, for it’s spectacular, (for it’s time) special effects and action towards the end of the film.
Marty McFly’s friend Doc Browne has modified a DeLorean car to act as a time machine, and a run-in with some Lybian Terrorists sees Marty escape by travelling to 1955.
Back in the days before those pesky European Union suits blocked you from buying DVDs from Hong Cong at more reasonable prices, I was able to get this for half the price HMV were charging for it.
Part one of the Back to the Future trilogy, it was a much anticipated movie when it came out, and the first film I ever saw at the cinema. It’s “leave your brain in the hall” sort of stuff. an entertaining film.
In an effort to prevent bad things happening in 2015, Marty and the Doc end up screwing with 1985
The Doc came back at the end of the first Back to the Future film to tell marty that he had to go with him to the future. The second of the three movies sees Michael J Fox play four characters.
It is just as good as the first, although one has to have seen the first to get some of the jokes in the second. It’s the same “leave your brain in the hall” stuff as before, with some futuristic scenes from 2015 included for good measure.
Back to the Future Part II on IMDB
Trapped in 1955 Marty has to retrieve the DeLorean time machine struck by lightning at the end of Part II after it was sent back to 1885. But he now has to go back to the Old West to save the Doc.
The last of the trilogy sees our heroes in the 1885 Hill Valley where they have to avoid a gun toting Mad Dog Tannon in order to get back to the present. It is funny enough, and ties up nicely the whole Back To The Future story. As with the previous instalment, one would have to have seen the previous films before getting into this one properly.
Watch out for a cameo from ZZ Top in this one also
A collection of nine animated features relating to the Matrix series of movies.
Japanese anime is not my thing, could never get into it.
Saw the second part of the short called “The Second Renaissance” on television once and wished to know what this whole Animatrix thing was about. So I bought this.
It is for the Matrix fans. Whilst I enjoyed the original films, and indeed have them, the only shorts in this I could watch were the two “Second Renaissance” films and “Beyond.”
It is the present and an exploration team travel to the Antartic to examine what they believe is the first ever pyramid, buried deep in the ice. But they are in for a few surprises when they get there.
A film that manages to be a sequel and a prequel all at once. A sequel to the Predator films and a sequel to the Alien series.
It’s OK, not much to write home about. Without giving too much away, it sort of ties together the universes of both series of films, revealing the relationship between both alien races.
Not one I would watch very often.
Two hundred years after Ripley killed herself in the last Alien film, a group of military scientists create a clone of her in an effort to obtain some alien specimens. But things don’t go according to plan.
After the disappointment that was the last film, this is a marked improvement, with faster action, and some great special effects. One of my favorites is the scene with an alien swimming underwater.
The special edition of the movie also has an alternative starting sequence and ending. aparantly, the film scene in the cinema was the directors cut.
Theescape pod seen at the end of Aliens crash lands on an isolated prison planet, and Ripley is the only survivor, the only human survivor that is.
In a word, Alien 3 was boring, not completely boring though, it had it’s short periods of suspence, seperated by long periods of slowness.
Our heroine Ripley has been in cryo-sleep for 57 years and the planet she fought aliens in the last film is now being colinzed. But contact with the colonists has been lost.
There is an expectation when it comes to sequels that the second one is never as good as the first. Not the case with Aliens. It is just as good as the first. Better looking technology, more guns, and more importantly, more aliens.
This is the second of the Alien Quatrilogy box set, and the second of five Alien related films which are in my collection.
It is not one I would watch often being so long, although when I do it would be the 2 hours and 37 minutes directors cut I would go for.
Whilst returning home to Earth, the crew of the Nostromo are awoken from their stasis by the ship’s computer to investigate an unidentified signal on a strange planet.
The alien quatrilogy was one of those you would see in the shops with the tripple digit price tag on it, and you would say to yourself, I wouldn’t mind having that. Whether it be because of some sort of insanity or something, I managed to get the nine disc box from HMV for €30 last year. I would have probably bought them individually eventually, but it seemed like a chance not to be ignored.
I wouldn’t have been a big fan of Alien when I was younger, due, probably to how long it was. But when you watch it you realise that it picks up fairly quickly. Some films have a tendancy to take forever to get going.
Considering it was made in 1979, the effects are not bad either. They hold up almost 30 years later.
Anyway, four more Alien related films to go…
Man has invented the ultimate machine, a machine that can love. And in a future where one needs a licence to have children, what better way to test a new “toy” by trying it out on a couple who have endured a trauma involving their real life son.
Stanley Kubrick laid the groundwork for this film, but he died before shooting began. It was then taken over by Stephen Speilberg, who dedicated the film to Kubrick.
David is an artificial life form or “mecha” who has the ability to love. But when his “Mommy” is re-united with her real son, who taunts and teases him, he is dumped in the wilderness to fend for himself.
The story follows David’s quest to become a real-life boy, so that “Mommy” will love him as much as her real son.
It is not a boring film, but it is fairly slow paced. It is one you have to be in the mood for. The special effects are convincing though, particularly the scene in the woods with the delapidated mechas scouring for discarded spare parts.
W atch out also for the William Butler Yeats references in the film.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
The Stolen Child -WB Yeats
A US nuclear submarine sinks to the bottom of the ocean, and the military recruit a civilian oil company to do a search-and-rescue mission. It will take too long for the military to execute the mission themselves as there is a hurricane on the way.
I must have been thirteen or fourteen when I first seen this, and when I saw it on DVD I had to have it again, firstly because I love sci-fi, and second, for nostalgia value.
It’s a pretty long film, but then, James Cameron is not really known for short movies.
The visual effects in my opinion still hold up today, and there the story keeps you awake as it’s cast are faced with one crisis after another.
I have watched this film several times since I bought it, and I know I will watch it many more times.
