Film: Jurassic Park III (2001)

DVD: Anamorphic


"So... what do we do?"
"We search for your son... in the direction that they're going."
"Excellent, excellent..."

Review: This is an great sequel, much better than the contrived 2nd movie. It has a logical and fast paced storyline with fully developed characters. I wasn't surprised that it was so well-written when I saw that two of the writers were the same ones who wrote "Election" and "Sideways". Sam Neill's return as Dr. Alan Grant is very welcome. He gives off the vibe of a middle-aged Indiana Jones in this film. Very fun!

"I read both of your books. I liked the first one more... Before you were on the island. You liked dinosaurs back then."
"Back then they hadn't tried to eat me yet."

"What are you doing? Those things are after us because of those!"
"Those things know we have the eggs. If I drop them in the river, they'll still be after us."
"What if they catch us with them?"
"What if they catch us without them?"

4 out of 5 Stars

Film: The Lost World - Jurassic Park (1997)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Don't worry. I'm not making the same mistakes again."
"No, you're making... You're making all new ones."

Review: This is a weak sequel to a great film. I think it's problem is the storyline is filled with supposedly intelligent characters who consistently make the wrong decision at every opportunity. It prevents emotional involvement in their journey as a viewer. The returning character, Ian Malcom, has nothing to do but react to others actions and say, "Don't do that!" or yell, "Run!" I think alot of the action scenes lacked the suspense of the first film. It's fun watching a T. Rex running around downtown San Diego though.

"This is... This is magnificent."
"Oh, yeah. Ooh, ahh! That's how it always starts. But then later, there's running and then... screaming."

"There's a dinosaur in our backyard."

3 out of 5 Stars

TV: Deadwood - 1st Season (2004)

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Film: Salvador (1986)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"They kill people here, Boyle!"
"Do you believe everything you read in the papers?"
"Yeah I do!"
"Come on man, you're gonna love it here."

Review: This is a classic James Woods role. A photojournalist who is pathetic loser when trying to live a regular life in the USA, but is at his best in a war zone. This is a great film by Oliver Stone about America's involvement in El Salvador's civil war during the Cold War.

"I thought you were dead."
"Dead? Why, do I look that bad?"
"Yes."

"You know I'm often asked by people like yourself to examine my conscience and every now and then I do examine it."
"And what do you find there, Jack?"
"That whatever mistakes we make down here, the alternative would be ten times worse!"

4 out of 5 Stars

Film: Black Snake Moan (2007)

DVD: Enhanced 16:9


"It's already noon, Rae. Do you think those shorts should still be on?"
"Well if they weren't, you could kiss my rebel coochie, faggot."

Review: This is Samuel L. Jackson's best role in a while. Christina Ricci is very good as the troubled woman he attempts to cure after finding her beaten up and abandoned on the side of road near his farm. His unusual methods turn out to be just what she needs.

"Get this goddamn chain off me!"
"Look, girl, you been running wild on me! Between them fits and fever dreams you having, I been chasing you all over this place at night."
"Well, I'm woke now. You can take this off."
"No... You ain't right yet."

"Just go in there and talk to her. Please... And I fixing steaks for supper. I expect you to stay."
"You expect me to sit down and eat with that woman chained up the way she is?"
"R.L., you watch yourself in there. That girl be on your dick like stank on shit."

4 1/2 out of 5 Stars

TV: Duckman - 1st & 2nd Seasons (1994)

DVD: 3 Discs


"What the HELL are you starin' at?!!"

Review: This show has not held up for me. I was never a big fan of it's animation style, but I thought it was really well written and had a cutting edge sense of humor. I looked forward to watching it every week on the USA Network. Now I just feel bored when I watch it after all these years. I think recent shows like Family Guy have just made it feel quaint.

"Welcome back to K-Bash on the far right of your dial. If you're on your way to Busty Bikini Babe Fest, and who isn't, be careful of traffic tie ups off Route 115. Apparently, there's a group of lesbians protesting by the gate. That's right, we're calling a full flannel shirt and work boot alert."

"I know over two hundred ways to kill a man."
"You could glue an open jar of rats to his face. Then blowtorch the other side of the jar, so the rats have to eat their way out threw his face."
"Two hundred and one."

"Look, I didn't need Bacon-Breath here to save me, okay. I could have handled those pantywaists. I was just waiting for the right moment to wind up the old hay maker and start dropping the bombs."

"Did I ever tell you my dad's last words to me?"
"Careful son, I don't think the safety's on."
"Before that!!!"

"I can't believe they shared their girlfriends with us, Corny. I just spent the night with the sexiest, most insatiable, voluptuous, adventurous, least-inhibited woman I've ever met. If she didn't suddenly get a headache... woo hoo! There's no telling what wild and tawdry escapades we might have experienced. How was your night?"
"Like yours... minus the headache."

"I knew something was wrong when you didn't show up for work today, Duckman."
"I don't show up for work a lot of days."
"True, but you always call in with some lame and pathetically inadequate excuse that I pretend to believe so as not to unbalance the age old fragile employer-employee relationship."

"You know kids, once I solve this case your Pop will probably be the most important detective ever on this show. What do you think about that, Corny? You're working for the biggest American Dick ever."

"I won't lie to you, old friend. I'm selfishly and greedily cutting you out of the action because I want the girls to myself. Well, got to go get my basket weaved."
"When I snap, I'll kill him first."

"I hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism, Duckman, but those kids will be better off with a pack of rabid baboons than with you."
"We proved that wasn't true, Bernice! Even if Ajax does still get a Valentine from the dominant female every year."

"I'll be back, Duckman. You'll see. I'll be a recurring villain every fifth or sixth episode after people get tired of King Chicken. I'm better looking, more intelligent, have a higher TVQ."

3 out of 5 Stars