Best Reality: Mount in Alaska, American Pickers, Hollywood Treasures
Best Special Effects: Falling Skies
Falling Skies had special effects that were almost as good some movies.
Best New Reality: Mount in Alaska
As we said earlier Mount in Alaska is one of the best shows on TV.
Funniest: Top Gear U.K.
Top Gear U.K. does it again with hilarious episodes.
Most Disappointing: Warehouse 13
Warehouse 13's season wasn't terrible but with the addition of a queer(gay) character ,who was fountently killed off at the end of the season, and writing that wasn't as good as earlier seasons Warehouse 13 was disappointing this past season.
Most Improved: Top Gear U.S.
Top Gear U.S. is not as good as it's U.K. counterpart but it was munch improved from last season.
Funniest Animated: Batman: The Brave and The Bold
When you think of Batman you don't think it as being funny but this show sure is.
The Fall season has began for most show so we are giving awards for all of the shows that the show's season has ended.
Best Animated: Star Wars The Clone Wars
This is including the winter season. The Clone Wars does it again with the amazing Nightsisters and Ghosts of Mortis trilogies. With a new darker tone and great new look The Clone Wars was amazing.
Runner Up: Avengers: Heroes!
Best Fiction: Doctor Who
Doctor Who blows away the competition with its incredible plot twists and comedy that makes for one of the best shows ever.
Runner Up: Alphas.
Best Educational: Mythbusters
Although Mythbusters' recent season has a little disappointing compared to the previous seasons but it still had plenty of myths and explosions.
Best Reality Competition: Survivor
With the additionof Redemption Island and entertaining new people like "Special Agent Phillip Sheppard" made you of the best season yet.
Runner Up: Top Shots
Best New Fiction: Alphas
Alphas season didn't start off very good but the last 3/4 of the season were great.
Runner Up: Falling Skies.
Don't forget to check back tomarrow for part 2 of the Television Awards.
If you have seen the movie please give it any score from 1 to 10.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Suspense
Release date: June 11, 1993 (1993-06-11)
Running Time: June 11, 1993 (1993-06-11)
MMPA rating: PG-13
The Good: Revolutionary CGI(Computer-generated imagery) for the dinosaurs that still hold up well today, The animatronics used for the close ups of dinosaurs look real, Excellent John Williams soundtrack,
The Bad:
Plot: Eccentric billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), CEO of InGen, has recently created Jurassic Park: a theme park populated with dinosaurs cloned from the DNA extracted from insects preserved in prehistoric amber. The park is located on Isla Nublar, a fictional island off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.
After a park worker is fatally attacked by a dinosaur, Hammond's investors, represented by their lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), demand that experts visit the park and verify that it is safe. Gennaro invites Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), a mathematician, while Hammond invites paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern). They are joined on the island by Hammond's two grandchildren—Tim (Joseph Mazzello) and Lex Murphy (Ariana Richards). Hammond asks Malcolm, Grant, and Sattler what their thoughts are about having recreated dinosaur species. The three of them engage in an intense philosophical debate about the ethics of having cloned extinct dinosaurs with Gennaro being the only one to express optimism. The group sets off to explore the park while Hammond observes his guests along with Head Technician Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) and his game warden, Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck).
The head computer programmer, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), is secretly in the employ of one of InGen's corporate rivals, and has been paid to steal fertilized dinosaur embryos. During his theft, Nedry deactivates the park's security system, allowing him access to the embryo storage. The rest of the group, who have been stranded in the park due to the system shutdown, are attacked by the Tyrannosaurus, which kills Gennaro. Grant and the children are able to escape.
Meanwhile, a fleeing Nedry crashes his jeep. He decides to use a winch on the front of his jeep to tie it to a tree that will bring him to the road to help him reach the dock. As he's tying the winch around the tree, He encounters a dilophosaurus which kills him.
Ellie and Muldoon try to find Alan and the children, but to no avail. Then they find Ian under the demolished bathroom. As they try to look for the children deep inside the jungle, Ian realizes the Tyrannosaurus is near. He orders Ellie and Muldoon to flee, with the Tyrannosaurus chasing after them. The three of them are able to escape in their jeep.
Meanwhile, Alan and the children climb up a high tree to avoid the Tyrannosaurus, and in a distance from the tree, they can see a family of "Brachiosaurus".
Back at the Visitor's center, being unable to decipher Nedry's code to reactivate the security fences, the group decides to take the drastic measure of rebooting the entire park's computer and electrical network. Arnold refuses at first by worrying that the park's network might not come back on at all, But Hammond pressures him by saying that people are dying. Arnold, along with Ellie, Hammond, Muldoon and Malcolm, shut down the park's grid and retreat to the emergency bunker, from where Arnold heads to the maintenance bunker to reboot the system. When he doesn't return, Ellie and Muldoon decides to head for the bunker. Watch the movie to see what happens next.
Plot: 7.9/10- The plot is original and moves along at a good pace.
Action: 7.8/10- Jurassic Park does not have munch fighting which is fine but it does have a lot of chasing and suspense.
Acting: 7.9/10- There weren't any stand out exceptional performances but the cast as solid.
Special effects: 10/10- For its time the effects were amazing and they still hold up well today,
Soundtrack: 9.0/10- John Williams does it again.
Comedy: 6.8/10- Jurassic Park is not a comedy but it did have some humorous moments.
Overall: 8.0/10- Overall Jurassic Park is very good movie and one of the most visually stunning movies for its time.
Closing comments: If you like sci-fi or adventure movies you need to check out Jurassic Park.
Recommended for: Sci-Fi movie fans, Adventure movie fans,
The Good: Lots of shooting action, Redefines the western genre, Excellent acting, Combines the western and adventure genre for great effect, Not your typical western, Just the right amount of humor but it is not a comedy, Has a cast of very interesting characters, One of the best movies of alltime,
The Bad:
Plot: Josey Wales, a peaceful Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the brutal murder of his wife and son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawkers — Senator James H. Lane's Redlegs from Kansas.
Wales joins a group of pro-Confederate Missouri guerrillas. led by William T. Anderson. At the conclusion of the war, Captain Fletcher persuades the guerrillas to surrender, saying they have been granted amnesty. Josey Wales, still holding a grudge, refuses to surrender. As a result, he survives the massacre of the men by Captain Terrill's Redlegs, who've now joined the Union Army.
Wales intervenes and guns down several Redlegs with a Gatling gun. Senator Lane puts up a $5,000 bounty on Wales. Wales begins a life on the run from Union militia and bounty hunters while still seeking vengeance and a chance for a new beginning in Texas. Along the way, he unwillingly accumulates a diverse group of traveling companions despite all indications that he would rather be left alone. His companions include a wily old Cherokee named Lone Watie, a young Navajo woman, and an elderly Yankee woman from Kansas and her granddaughter rescued from a band of Comancheros.
Plot: 9.6/10- The Outlaw Josey Wales has a plot that is very original and has a pace.
Action: 9.3/10- There is a lots of shoot'em action in between adventure.
Acting: 9.6/10- Clint Eastwood is excellent and is suported by a strong cast.
Special effects:N/A
Soundtrack: 7.5/10- It wasn't great but it worked for the movie.
Comedy: 9.5/10- The Outlaw Josey Wales is not a comedy but it was plenty of humor especially by Lone Watie.
Overall: Overall The Outlaw Josey Wales is an amazing movie that is not just the best wersten of alltime but one of the best movies of alltime.
Closing comments: The Outlaw Josey Wales redefines the western genre with new elements that make it new and fresh.
Recommended for: Action movie fans, Western movie fans, Adventure movie fans,
If you have seen the movie please give it any score from 1 to 10.
Cad Bane's chick at Pandas, Lightsabers and Cameras, oh my!! requested that we review old movies so here is the review for The Sting I don't know if a movie from the 70s is an old movie or not.
Disclaimer: We said before than we do not like movie with without action but we do like Mystery movie so we are not bias in a negative way.
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Release date: December 25, 1973 (1973-12-25)
Running Time: 129 minutes
MMPA rating: PG
The Good: Always keeps you guessing, Great acting, It did NOT have a slow plot, Excellent use of 1920's silent movie editing gave it a nice retro feel(it is not a silent movie), Shocking ending
The Bad:
Plot: Johnny Hooker (Redford), a grifter from Depression-era Joliet, Illinois, along with accomplices Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) and Joe Erie (Jack Kehoe) steal $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting mark. Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, who can teach him the art of the "big con."
Unfortunately the mark was a numbers racket courier for crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Corrupt Joliet police Lieutenant William Snyder (Charles Durning) confronts Hooker, demanding a cut and revealing Lonnegan's involvement. Hooker pays Snyder in counterfeit bills. Lonnegan's men murder Luther and Hooker flees to Chicago.
Gondorff (Paul Newman), a once-great con-man now down on his luck, is initially reluctant to take on the dangerous Lonnegan. Eventually he decides to resurrect an elaborate and supposedly obsolete scam known as "the wire." A large number of con artists are recruited to simulate a betting parlor.
Gondorff's girlfriend (Eileen Brennan) steals Lonnegan's wallet aboard the opulent 20th Century Limited enroute from New York City. Gondorff, posing as boorish Chicago bookie "Shaw", buys his way into Lonnegan's private high-stakes poker game on the train with the latter's own money. He taunts, goads and out-cheats Lonnegan, winning $15,000. Hooker, posing as Shaw's disgruntled employee "Kelly", is sent to collect the winnings (which Lonnegan, lacking his wallet, was of course unable to pay).
"Kelly" pretends to seek the overthrow of his boss, Shaw, convincing Lonnegan that he has a partner in the Chicago Western Union office named Les Harmon, and that he can use this connection to win large sums of money in Shaw's off-track betting (OTB) establishment by past-posting. Harmon is actually one of the lead con artists, going by the name Kid Twist. He and J.J. Singleton, another con man, successfully "borrow" an actual Western Union office for a very brief time, to help dupe Lonnegan.
Plot: 9.0/10- Right when you think you got the movie figured out something surprising happens.
Action: N/A- Other than a few chase scene not munch else.
Acting: 8.7/10- Robert Redford and Paul Newman gave great performances and the rest of the cast was good.
Special effects: N/A
Soundtrack: 7.8/10- The soundtrack is mostly 1920s piano music which fit the setting of the movie perfectly.
Comedy: N/A
Overall: 8.4/10- The Sting is an excellent mystery crime movie that we highly reconmend.
Closing comments: The Sting is an entertaining movie that always keeps you guessing.
Recommended for: Crime movie fans, Mystery movie fans,
