Stardust

Great, beautiful, and excellent acting. Some very funny bits, but they didn't overshadow the adventure, great sets, and good dialogue. Good acting, even if I'd thought some characters oddly cast before I saw it, they did a great job, no-one sucked. Fun with a sweet ending. Co-produced by Gaiman, it had an authenticity to it that another adaption would have lacked. a 9.

The Last Mimzy / MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES, by Lewis Padgett

Went and saw the movie Sunday with some friends and so I searched out the story to see how close it was. They changed it quite a bit really, but it was a pretty good movie, sort of ET-ish, but it's a bit slow for a kids movie.
They happied up the ending of course, added some environmentalist aspects, and changed the mathematical aspect to a mental/psychic ability. The story is heavily psyhonalitical, and poses questions about children and learning. If you learnt non-Euclidean geometry, would you see the world differently than those whose minds have been conditioned to Euclid? In the movie they change it to mental capacity and sidestep the aspect of learning making the mind different. The character of the children was actually fairly similar, older brother with an annoying sister whom he loves and helps even when she's a bother, they aged them slightly in the movie, but it would have been difficult to really get a 2-year-old to act as the sister. The movie also gave away the AIW connection early, (of course the title implies a connection), but it was fun to see. The movie intro and outro were a bit overdone, and I could have done without the intro at least, or much less of one.

300

Bloody Awesome!, emphasis on the Bloody. Blood-splatteringly great. Yay, Goat-headed Sitar player! Great action, some hokey bits, but nothing large or long lasting. a 7. Great violent fun and what acting there was, was well done. Kelly Craig - Oracle girl - yowza.

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) - 20061101. the greatest zombie sex comedy. the most surreal zombie movie of all time - I'm sure. In great the company of comedy horror, like Army of Darkness and Shaun of the Dead, it's doesn't have the jokes per minute, but it also has sexy surrealism. Falchi is hot, delamorte is intriguing and very Italian. The production is amazing for such a low budget seeming film. The camera work is great, there are some shots that are so amazing it almost takes away from the story, the moon in the pool, the broken wings bracketing delamorte, the ending! is one of my favorites, def a surprize. the beginning is great nonchalant zombie killing, sets the tone perfectly. a 9.

Laser Mission Force

Laser Mission Force - Brandon Lee. DVD. 20060710. some ok fight scenes, nothing special tho, some gawd-awful dialog, definitely B-movie grade action, direction, plot, and effects. Where it was set.. maybe Africa? by way of Russian Cuba? confusing setting, but it was actually shot in a desert somewhere and that bit looks good. Poor Brandon was saddled with some truly horrible dialogue, the chick side-kick (Debi A. Monahan), was ok. And although her greatest assets were definitely the 2 in front, at least her dialogue was better. The bumbling enemy pair who eventually help them were actually amusing. The evil bad-guy who just won't die was rather amusing after awhile too, how many times to they have to kill him before he'll stay dead? a 3. Not really worth seeing. There are only 3 reason to see this movie it is Brandon Lee's 1st, has Ernest Borgnine, and Debi A. Monahan trying desperately not to fall out of her dress (and unfortunately succeeding). On the other hand - you can get it for $1 so it was actually worth the price, but not a penny more.