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The Bombmaker (2001)
Excellent TV Drama, well acted, very suspensefull
WOW! I am primarily a film and american TV fan, I use my TV for things like Friends, Fraiser, Star Trek, Buffy, Dark Angel, and as such it is INCREDIBLEY rare that I EVER watch any British productions, but as it happened I was bored one Sunday night, and had seen the promo for "The Bombmaker" and it seamed like a decent little two-parter, so I sat down and watched it.
HELL IT WAS GOOD!
Story wise, it build up amazingly, the script was well planned out, well written. The acting was amazing especially from Kirwin, characters were given the necassary depth to grow and evolve over the two parts.
Not to say it was perfect, for one, the score was terrible, just a jangle of incidental music with an overly agressive drum beat. The ending was also rushed, while events with in the two parts led up to an amazing dramatic showdown where Andrea turns the situation on the terrorists, but its then ruined by the all too easy "cops rush in" which was a terrible way to end the show as it all went to plan and was well just to easy.
All of that being said, the sheer style and grace of the series is fabulous, if you get the chance to check it out on DVD or in re-runs make sure you DO NOT MISS IT!
Chasing Amy (1997)
WOW! Can you say any more?
I went into this movie with high expectations and a real palpable sense of merriment. I loved Dogma and Clerks and in one way or another both had changed me, either my outlook on life or in Dogma's case had forced me to totally re-evaluate my entire believe structure, I'm sure that you can appreciate how much of a rarity that is today.
So I went into Chasing Amy looking to A) Be entertained and laugh my socks off and B) Watch a movie that was going to challenge what I know and make me think, make me contemplate on the highest levels what I'd just seen, and yes a movie that I suspected was gonna change my views on whatever it's message was going to be.
BOY I REALLY UNDERESTIMATED THAT
You know those moments at the end of a movie where you have to just sit in your chair as the credits roll and contemplate what your just saw? Even if the nice theatre cleaner is BEGGING you to move? Well this movie for me was a collection of those moments. I was watching on TV which meant that I couldn't exactly have paused it but I very much wanted to...even neeeded to it's sheer intensity is astounding and yet never looses the pace.
The characters presented are great, fully fleshed out and you grow to love them. Affleck and Adams share an onscreen chemistry that is beyond words and the performances are utterly astounding. One of the greatest things about this movie is the acting.
The usual Kevin Smith homor is of course there and every gag is well set up and works.
However where this movie shines, where it's heart lies is in the interpersonal relationships between its three leads. No matter what your prejiduces are towards homosexuals you'll find it hard to still have them at the end of this movie. From Alyssa's confused bisexuality/lesbiansm to Bankly's repressed feelings you can't help but be pulled into the sheer and PURE EMOTIONS that these characters share.
It's not the perfect movie, ok well maybe it is it ranks above Dogma for me and hits in at my number two fave movie of all time (1st is X-men by the way) if you haven't seen this then you haven't lived. It's a must. Go to your video store and rent it, go BUY THE DAMN THING you'll wanna watch it again and again I can promise you.
Alanis Morrisette? Nah KEVIN SMITH IS GOD!!!
Chicken Run (2000)
Nick Park is god!
Nick Park is god. This is most definitely one of the best 10 films I have ever seen. The use of stop-motion claymation was great and fitted with the story, and in no way made the movie seem stilted.
The story, was amazing, managing to parody and homage to almost every prison flick around (They even got a few Star Trek references in too!) yet still having the originality and humor as to not be too dark.
The characters where very well designed, Ginger and Rocky's romance was foreseen but still enjoyable. The chicken gags where brilliant.
The direction of this movie by both Peter Lloyd and Nick was fabulous, considering that they had a two year shooting schedule with each directing capturing around 4 seconds of animation a day...it makes you wonder how they did it.
There was one little disappointment...there was no walk on by Parks (and Aardman's) most famous clay duo, Wallace and Gromit...even a reference would have been a nice little nod, but still the movie was great and thankfully not too short, while Toy Story was also the first of its kind (for pure CG animation) I felt at just over an hour it felt too short, thankfully Chicken Run came in at just the right length even considering its the first claymation movie to be made.
The best movie of the summer? Oh yeah...it rocks.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Voyager: Rules all.
Space: The Final Frontier...beyond it in fact. Beyond all that we know, Ferengi, Klignons, Romulans and the Federation. A lone ship, USS Voyager is thrown 75,000 light years to the far reaches of the the delta quadrant.
Voyaer started out with a good premise, and got better, evolving to the level that we know it as today. It takes us back the genesis of Trek: We're alone exploring the frontier. But with Voyager the new slant is "we shouldn't be here".
The regular actors are great and episodes that shine out are "One Small Step" "Living Witness" and the time travel two parter "Futures End" starring Ed Begley jr.
This show is amazing, the fifth season was a little weak evoking a high fan response, but the situation at Paramount's Hart Building (Home of Voyager's writing team) has been rectified and we can surely expect a wonderfull seventh season, after the smashing Unimatrix Zero.
Rent the tapes from your video store, buy them, whatever it takes do not miss this exciting, Action packed series.