Out this week we have seven DVDs to feature:  Dollhouse: Season One, Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Knight Rider, Green Lantern: First Flight, Dragonball: Evolution, Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5.

• Dollhouse: Season One:  This is a great show, Joss Whedon does it again.  It received mixed view based on the first few episodes which are not the best but that is due to Fox forcing rewrites and re-shoots on Joss' vision.  The fans have lovingly come to refer to those episodes as Fox's Dollhouse and the rest of the show as Joss' Dollhouse.  After about episode five this show really opens up and develops.  This set includes the original pilot episode plus the episode Epitaph One. A must own!
  
  
  
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• Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead: a special episode of David Tennant Doctor Who when the Doctor and his fellow passengers are mysteriously transported through a wormhole to a planet inhabited by an endangered anthropomorphic species.  It's on the top of my Netflix que if not an owner unseen.

• Torchwood: Children of Earth: I love this series, this is a five episode mini-series picking up for season three of Torchwood.  It's on the top of my Netflix que if not an owner unseen.

• Knight Rider: This was a light, fun show with fast changing cars and action.  It started with some promise of having substance with gay characters and interesting subplots it just unfortunately suffered from too much studio tampering and test audience death and lost it's substance.  Watch it here on Hulu.


• Green Lantern: First Flight: another DC Comics animated project bringing us the Hal Jordan Green Lantern.  It's on the top of my Net Flix que and almost an owner unwatched because of how good the past animated DC projects are.

• Dragonball: Evolution:  a fun Dragonball movie, a lot of reviews trashed this movie but they missed the point and that is Dragonball is a niche film and made for fans of Dragonball.  If your not sure about the Dragonball series then it should be a renter, for fans an owner.
  
  
  
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• Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5:  The conclusion of season four and the Battlestar Galactica show.  I really liked how this show grew into it's own and tackled some interesting topics.  I wished it had been bolder with some of the social and philosophical topics addressed.  My issue with this product is it's an overpriced 1/2 of a season set.
  
  
  
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Review of:  Dragonball: Evolution

Overall Rating: 8

Dragon Ball: Evolution is not a great movie, it is not even a good movie but it does do one thing well which is the most important requirement of a movie… it is a really fun movie.  This is a niche movie and thus will not appeal to movie goers beyond those in the niche market.  For those fans Dragonball: Evolution rocks and I highly recommend watching it in the theaters.

Are you the type of person who will love this movie?  If you like silly fun martial arts movies then you will love this movie.  If you liked: Bullet Proof Monk, the Mortal Combat movies, speed racer, or the Shaw Brothers films then you will love this movie.  If not then this is not a movie for you.

Dragonball: Evolution captures the spirit and feel of Dragonball so brilliantly that we even had a debate whether it would cause some dissent amongst the Dragon Ball Z fans because of the subtle differences between the series.

If you pass the niche test and are debating whether to watch this movie in the theaters or just to rent it I recommend seeing it in the theater.  This is one of those movies that really takes advantage of the theater experience giving more depth to the adventure through the rumble boxes and seeing the fights larger than life.

Although the pace is brilliant and they kept the story fun the story is fluff.  This movie lacks any deeper meaning or thought educing moments.  This is not a requirement for every movie since some times it’s just good to sit back and be entertained but beyond the light message of “believe in yourself” and some enemies can not be overcome with force.

For more on Dragonball: Evolution read Theater or Renter: April 2009 here

Likes

1. Good Dragonball film


2. Shen Long looks awesome


3. It has a really good pace


4. They did a great job capturing the characters, Yamcha’s voice, their interactions, master Muten Roshi was even the perverted old man.


5. The action sequences were fun and funny


6. Piccolo was not as much of a power ranger villain as the promotions made him out to be, in context his outfit looked good.


7. The capsule car rocked


8. magic looked good


9. Oozaru looked good


10. i like that they didn’t dwell on the grandfather Gohan’s death yet used him as an inspirational force and motivator for Goku


11. I like how he overcame the Oozaru


12. I liked how they handle the romantic parts of the film with the focus on love and relationship and not sex and pornography

Dislikes / Concerns

1. This is not a mass appeal movie


2. Shen Long was too small


3. the animated hair looked fake


4. This movie is just fluff, there is really nothing deeper to it.

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Theater or Renter: April includes Three SF movies Alien Trespass, Dragonball: Evolution, Mutant Chronicles.  Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?

 

Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?

 

Alien Trespass

 

Watch The Trailer here:

 

 

Release Date:  APRIL 3rd  [limited]

 

Listed as:  Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

 

Studio: Roadside Attractions

 

Director: R.W. Goodwin

 

Produced by: R.W. Goodwin, James Swift

 

Written by: Stephen P. Fisher

 

Stars: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Jody Thompson, Dan Lauria

 

The Plot / Story: Based on 1950s sci-fi B movies.  The story begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. An alien spaceship as a fiery ball hurtles toward earth and crash-lands on a butte in the desert.  A tall, metallic alien named Urp emerges from the craft unharmed, alarmed to discover that the monstrous Ghota, who was also on board, has escaped. The menacing one-eyed creature's unquenchable appetite could mean the end of civilization as we know it. Urp is the only one who knows how to stop the hideous extra-terrestrial, but to do so he has to take over the body of Dr. Lewis and enlist the aid of Tammy, the only human in town willing to believe and trust in his mission. Urp and Tammy must hunt down the Ghota and neutralize it before it consumes all the local inhabitants and uses the human fuel to multiply and conquer the world.  (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

 

For more:  Alien Trespass opens on April 3rd

 

Dragonball: Evolution

 

Watch The Trailer here:

 

 

Release Date:  APRIL 10th

 

Listed as:  Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

 

Studio: 20th Century Fox

 

Director: James Wong

 

Produced by: Stephen Chow, James Wong

 

Written by: Screenplay: James Wong, Ben Ramsey, Manga: Akira Toriyama

 

Stars: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Joon Park, Eriko Tamura, Randall Duk Kim, Texas Battle, Ernie Hudson, Chow Yun-Fat

 

The Plot / Story: After his grandfather's death, Goku goes on a journey to find Master Roshi and gather the seven mystical Dragon Balls before the evil Lord Piccolo can. Along his way, he meets Bulma and Yamcha who both join him to help him with his mission. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

 

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Mutant Chronicles

 

Watch The Trailer here:

 

 

Release Date: APRIL 24th [limited]

 

Listed as:  Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

 

Studio: Independent

 

Director: Simon Hunter

 

Produced by: Edward R. Pressman, Tim Dennison

 

Written by: Philip Eisner, Stuart Hazeldine

 

Stars: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Benno Fürmann, Sean Pertwee, John Malkovich, Anna Walton, Luis Echegaray, Tom Wu, Steve Toussaint, Pras Michel, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Curtis Walker

 

The Plot / Story: An independent sci-fi action film.  The story is set in the year 2707.  The world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, where nearly everything is powered by steam, and mankind has exhausted Earth’s natural resources. The protagonists must battle against mutant creatures accidentally unleashed upon the planet.  (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

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• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Character Posters (via /Film)


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• Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are (dashPunk)


• Marvel to enlist screenwriters to help develop new superhero films (via SCI FI Wire)

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• Planet of the Dead press release (via Planet Gallifrey)


• Legend of the Seeker - Your Guardian Angel (dashPunk)


• Richard and Kahlan: I’d Give Up Forever… (dashPunk)

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IMDB presented their top 25 searched for films of 2008.  They wanted to go for a ranking that was not based on box-office performance or critical assessments.  I was pleasantly surprised to see how many speculative fiction movies were on the list.

1. The Dark Knight (2008)


2. Twilight (2008)


3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)


4. TR2N (2011) Tron 2, I still don’t really care for the name


5. The Expendables (2010)


6. Iron Man (2008)


7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)


8. No Country for Old Men (2007)


9. Juno (2007)


10. Transformers (2007)


11. The Incredible Hulk (2008)


12. There Will Be Blood (2007)


13. Sex and the City (2008)


14. Into the Wild (2007)


15. Superbad (2008)


16. Cloverfield (2008)


17. Terminator Salvation (2009)


18. Wanted (2008)


19. Dragonball (2009)


20. Quantum of Solace (2008)


21. The Departed (2006)


22. Star Trek (2009) This is J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek


23. The Godfather (1972)


24. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)


25. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

SF moves took up 60% of the chart with only 1/3 of those movies being ones that have not been released yet.

I find these search reports to be fascinating like a snap shot of what is on peoples minds and what they are curious about.

(via IMDB)

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• Roadrunner United - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr [live] (P:S HQ)


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I am trying to resist the growing cheese factor of Dragonball Evolution, but the more I see, the more I feel it is going to be the B movie of the year.  People will probably hate it, but it looks like an interesting B movie.

These new posters are only adding to these feelings.

(via Film-O-flia)

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• Terminator Salvation Trailer #2 (P:S HQ)


• Five new Harry Potter previews for The Half-Blood Prince (dashPunk)


• Dragonball Evolution Trailer and Thoughts (dashPunk)


• Majel Barrett-Roddenberry in Star Trek (via /Film)


• First Look: The Cast of The Last Airbender (via /Film)

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