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Land of the Lost (1974)
It really was a good show, ya know.
Do keep in mind that for the vast majority of those posting here, we are looking at the series through adult eyes, yet the show was never intended for adults. This show was extremely well written for what it was, and for it's intended audience.
If you look at the show today as an adult, accepting the fact that the show was created for kids only, you would then see just how incredibly well-written it was. My favorite episode? I have two. The first is the one where they find the bones and uniform of a soldier from either the Civil War or the Revolutionary War (I can't remember which), and then the one where an alternate Marshall Will and Holly are found sticking out of a wall in a cave. See? For a Saturday morning kid's show, it was incredible. It wasn't the West Wing, but it never was intended to be that, either.
The Soldier (1982)
Consider the times
I saw it when it first came out, and I think I was a sophomore in high school. Carter and his "maliase" (pardon the spelling) were out, Reagan and his pro-America anti-evil empire were in. The Soviets were considered a real threat. Perhaps like today's Bin Laden with a few thousand nukes pointed at us.
Yes, the acting tended to be stiff, and there were some things that happened in the movie that didn't make too much sense. You know what? It was not a documentary. Tangerine Dream did an excellent job with the score, the opening scene was great, good action sequences that were of course pro-American, and it had a patriotic ending. It was a good movie for it's time. Back in 1982, it was considered very cool to be very patriotic, and this movie fit the time.
The Ring (2002)
Questions...
Saw the movie on satellite the other night, and I thought it was pretty good. I realize that the movie is supposed to leave the viewer with some questions, as not everything (it seems) is clearly explained. A couple of questions, if I may?
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OK, first question - why didn't the kid and mom (?) die? They both watched the movie, and the mom watched the movie before the guy did - yet the guy died.
Second question - why, after burning the original tape, did the mom decide that the surviving copy had to kept?
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Just what I expected
This movie is not for the hard-core fans of either the Alien or Predator series'. If you are wanting a movie that shows a lot of character development and back-story on both of the species, look elsewhere. If you take the Alien or Predator series' too seriously, then again you need to look elsewhere.
If you simply like the Aliens and the Predators, but your life doesn't revolve around them, then this is a good movie. I liked it, and I make no apologies. I kept rooting for Aliens, saying (out loud), "Get 'em Alien... get 'em". This is what I used to say to my Dalmation when she would get a gopher or something, and I was cracking myself up. The people around me joined in, rooting for their favorite species. It was a lot of NON-SERIOUS fun. It was good way to get out of the heat wave, be entertained, and not have to run my own A/C.
28 Days Later... (2002)
Comments and answers
If you like gory, gruesome, mindless slasher flicks, then this movie is not for you. SPOILER ALERT: it has been asked why were there dead bodies in the pews of the church. Well, we know that the main character's parents committed suicide to avoid becomming infected. Thus, one can assume that many people chose suicide instead of becomming infected, and chose to do so in churches. Another question was asked, why didn't the infected attack each other. Simple. The virus is a primate virus that mutated into a human virus. Since the infected are very much alive, and are infected with a mutated primate virus, they were most likely able "sense" who is infected and who is not. Observations: the infected are not dead, they are not zombies, they are just as alive as you and me. They are just infected with a virus that causes the person to be in a constant, violent, out-of-control, murderous rage. While I had a few issues with the movie, I liked it.