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I finally got my mitts on the new camcorder, and it looks pretty good. They do three versions, all identical except for the colour. They do Silver, Wine and Blue. QVC didn’t have the Blue so I went for the Wine as a change from the bog-standard Silver that everything seems to be at the moment.

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There’s two things I really dislike about getting American Imported DVD’s, the silly double clips they have on so many of their DVD cases, and those stupid security seal stickers they have over every edge, but underneath the cellophane.

Am I the only one who thinks that’s a bit of overkill?

But that’s kind of off the point… Stardust

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I had high hopes for this film, I enjoyed the first one, but it could have been so much better. I’d seen a few clips on the trailers for the second one, and it looked far more interesting.

After re-reading the review of the first one (can you believe it’s a year already?) I was left with similar feelings of disappointment with this one too.

As with the original, it’s not that there was anything particularly wrong with it, it just didn’t really seem to pull together, and it could have been so much better had they put a bit more effort in to making it.

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As mentioned yesterday, I have a weakness for a good musical, so I had high hopes for this film. It’s been a long time since there’s been any new musicals made as a movie, and this one has supposedly given a whole new generation the urge to learn to sing and dance and perform.

I have to say though, as much as I was looking forward to it, I ended up being pretty disappointed. It’s not that it was awful, because it actually wasn’t, it just wasn’t all that good either…
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This was one of those “what the heck” purchases. I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the first two films, both being the usual all action, no plot kind of thing… Although admittedly the second was more enjoyable than the first (although the long hair did not work!)

Fortunately he’s back to his clean-cut, short hair for this third instalment, which suited the character much better in my opinion.

Still, the first two had kind of put me off the whole thing, and I wasn’t planning on buying this third one, but it was a slow week for DVD releases, and I was both bored and desperate, so “What the heck…” and I bought it.

Strangely I’m glad I did.
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I sat and watched this last night (after it finally arrived) and overall, it was a total disappointment.

That surprised me, since I’d heard good things about it, and a lot of people saying it was the best of the three X-Men movies, but in a lot of ways I’d say it was actually the weakest.

First off, it was only 99 minutes long, the first was 100 and the second was 128, so it was actually the shortest of the three. Plus there was the number of characters, killed, maimed or otherwise incapacitated during the course of the film, leaving the audience left wondering how on earth they’re going to bring them back for any further films.

They did get some things right though…
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I always have mixed feelings about the recent flurry of comic book adaptations that Hollywood has been releasing. On the one hand, I look forward to seeing favourite comic heroes coming to life on the big screen (or in my case on the TV in the corner :-p). But on the other hand, there is always that worry (which I feel is justified) that Hollywood will do something to screw it up, either by changing key historical facts and events or with poor casting, as they have done in so many of the comic conversion films.

Because of this (and the fact that I didn’t expect anyone to be able to even come close to Michelle Pfeiffer’s portrayal of Catwoman) I wasn’t expecting much from the new Catwoman film.
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I had high hopes for this film, since I had enjoyed Bourne Identity so much. Unfortunately it was quite a let down!

Whilst the first film was predominantly an action film, there were enough plot twists and surprises to give it an edge of mystery.

I wouldn’t say I didn’t enjoy Bourne Supremacy, because I did. There was just nothing special about it. It felt rather formulaic.
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I was looking forward to seeing this film, especially after having recently seen Welcome to the Jungle. The film sounded quite promising, was in action film, it featured The Rock, and it was based on a true story.

As usual, The Rock was brilliant, but that was about all that had going for it. The action was passe,the film they’ve been based on a true story, but at a guess I’d say someone took creative license to the extreme!

The one thing, in an action film featuring The Rock, he generally expect more than one explosion in the whole film!
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Wow!

I’m almost speechless! (Note I said almost!)

I think this has to be one of the best movies I’ve seen in quite some time in terms of plot.

It’s always nice to watch a film and not know what’s going to happen before it’s even happened, and even when you do suspect that something might be going on, you’re still not entirely sure and when it does, it’s still a surprise.
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