This show is not bad at all - apart from the title. But in England it's called "Evolution: The Animated Series", which isn't so bad. It follows the adventures of our three heroes from the movie, except their characters have been changed quite a bit. If you liked the Men In Black animated series, you'll probably like this..
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Goodfellas
(1990)
Fantastic Film
28 April 2002
Warning: Spoilers
*BIG SPOILERS AHEAD*
This film is an epic and a classic. It is sad, occasionally funny, and always captivating. Every single character is brilliantly acted, and the viewer feels something whenever one of them is killed. At one point, the psychotic Tommy shoots a young kid called Spider in the foot for being to slow with their drinks. Some days later, Spider stands up for himself and tells Tommy to ''go f**k himself''. Tommy's friends treat this as a joke and congratulate Spider. The atmosphere is very jokey, until Tommy shoots the young man dead. This was one of the saddest moments in the film. One of the most brilliant moments is when Tommy, thinking that he is about to get made, walks into a room and realises that he is about to get killed in revenge for someone he brutally murdered earlier in the film. All the usually foul mouthed Tommy says in the brief period between realising and getting killed is ''oh, no''. Another brilliant part of the film is how Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro in an excellent performance) turns gradually from a likeable character into a man who kills almost all of his 'friends'. Another sad scene is when the police find various bodies, killed by Jimmy after the heist, while Eric Clapton's 'Layla' plays in the background. Drugs are eventually Henry's downfall, leading the police to him. Henry rats on his friends Paulie and Jimmy, for whom we don't feel nearly as sorry as we would have if he had ratted on them at the beginning of the movie. He is put in the FBI Witness Relocation Program, and so ends one of the best films in recent years, as Henry, a scared man, goes out in the morning in his nightgown to collect the paper, haunted by a vision of the dead Tommy shooting him. AMAZING FILM.
This film is an epic and a classic. It is sad, occasionally funny, and always captivating. Every single character is brilliantly acted, and the viewer feels something whenever one of them is killed. At one point, the psychotic Tommy shoots a young kid called Spider in the foot for being to slow with their drinks. Some days later, Spider stands up for himself and tells Tommy to ''go f**k himself''. Tommy's friends treat this as a joke and congratulate Spider. The atmosphere is very jokey, until Tommy shoots the young man dead. This was one of the saddest moments in the film. One of the most brilliant moments is when Tommy, thinking that he is about to get made, walks into a room and realises that he is about to get killed in revenge for someone he brutally murdered earlier in the film. All the usually foul mouthed Tommy says in the brief period between realising and getting killed is ''oh, no''. Another brilliant part of the film is how Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro in an excellent performance) turns gradually from a likeable character into a man who kills almost all of his 'friends'. Another sad scene is when the police find various bodies, killed by Jimmy after the heist, while Eric Clapton's 'Layla' plays in the background. Drugs are eventually Henry's downfall, leading the police to him. Henry rats on his friends Paulie and Jimmy, for whom we don't feel nearly as sorry as we would have if he had ratted on them at the beginning of the movie. He is put in the FBI Witness Relocation Program, and so ends one of the best films in recent years, as Henry, a scared man, goes out in the morning in his nightgown to collect the paper, haunted by a vision of the dead Tommy shooting him. AMAZING FILM.
Ebbie
(1995 TV Movie)
Heart-warming Christmas drama
20 December 2001
I have seen a 'classic' film version of A Christmas Carol, set in Dickensian times and starring Patrick Stewart and Richard E. Grant. I have also seen a funny children's version, starring Michael Caine and Jim Henson's excellent Muppets. 'Ebbie' is the first modernised version I have seen. It is always interesting to watch modernised versions of classic tales, even if they are not always good. The thing I wasn't sure about was the decision to make nearly all the main characters female, not a feminist thing as the IMDB tells me it was written by two men. It is interesting to see Scrooge as a woman, this was a good decision. It was also necessary to make Scrooge's nephew into a niece, to make her more similar to her beloved sister, even using the same actress (budget problems? - the spirits are also played by other characters from the film). But I wondered if it was pointless to have Roberta Cratchett, a single parent, as well as most of the spirits being female. Brilliant acting from Susan Lucci, an excellent actress whose only other notable role seems to be on the soap 'All My Children'. Look out for Wendy Crewson from 'Air Force One' as Roberta.
The Odd Couple II
(1998)
BRILLIANT
9 August 2001
I saw this movie on an aeroplane. While all the other passengers were asleep, I was laughing my head off at the comic antics of Jack Lemmon RIP and Walter Matthau RIP. It's so sad that these two will never work together again. I hadn't seen The Odd Couple when I first saw this, but I still found it hilarious, especially the scenes with the very slow car and in the diner. More slapstick than the first film, but still lots of great one liners, some of which can be seen in the IMDB Quotes section. The Odd Couple isn't as laugh-out-loud funny as this, but it has many more great lines.
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