Not a bad movie. Story is very good, classical island lost in time type. Group of adventurers travel to the lost uncharted island to take a photos of live prehistoric animals, and there mutiny and megalomania take place and everything goes to ruin. Effects are good and drawn backgrounds are beautifull, but I cannot swallow those dinosaurs though, they are dull and sloppy, very slow, that's not how dinosaurs should act like. No matter it's an old movie, effects are not problem but visualization of dinosaur behavior. Last battle is good though, kinda ripped of King Kong, but nice.
All in all solid movie to watch, not in top of my list of good dinosaur movies
Dragon Head is post apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki.This was very weird Japanese movie. The major theme in the books is fear. As the woman in the ruined
village said, a balance needs to be found between feeling fear and
giving into it. Another theme is mystery. It is never stated exactly what happened.
The characters guess that a meteor hit Mount Fuji, but it seems that the
researcher had something to do with it—perhaps by assassinating the
Japanese government, or by use of the nuclear weapons. It is also not
stated what condition the rest of the world is in—we learn that some of
them have unavailable governments, but they seem to still have a working
military. We do not learn any more than the characters. Plot evolves around boy and girl who have awakened on train that was trapped in tunnel, and they realize that something is gone very wrong with the world. Whole Japan is covered in ashes, and everything is in post apocalyptic state, ruins and crazy people all around. They say it's the Earth magnetic field that is causing humans to go mad and be more violent and aggressive. And we have giant volcano that erupts every once in a while and rains down fireballs from the sky, so I guess something is gone wrong with Earth's core. So we follow journey of those two teenagers on their way trying to find safe harbor and remains of human civilization. Human survivors find food storages deep underground in cases of catastrophes like that, but that food is genetically changed. Persons who eat it, became drugged and lose all their feelings, just became puppets, that was also very strange part of the movie, as I said it's not clearly stated why such food is developed, is it government's doing or what. Acting is very good, music is also very good. Movie remind me little on ''lord of the flies'' but with Japanese touch. Effects are also on high level and awesome. Some scenes are little shockful and too violent, but that's just that dose of weirdness that we find in Japanese movies. All in all, very nice movie, sometimes it's slow paced, and it has some weird dialogues, and it's two hours long (I love long movies). I recommend you watch it if you like Asian cinema. You could have fun two hours.
rating: 7/10
This is movie from the hands of great Russian fantasy maker Aleksandr Ptushko, it is one of his more realistic films. It's based on Alexander Grin's 1923 adventure novel of the same name. It is happening in the late 19th century, and it is beautiful story of true love and adventure. The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day. Arthur Grey is a nobleman's son who breaks away from his cruel father to pursue a life at sea, and eventually becomes the captain of a merchant vessel. Having set to port at Assol's village, he spies the young maiden sleeping in the forest and falls in love. After inquiring in the village he learns of Assol's dream and sets about to make it come true. This movie has a beautiful surroundings, I cannot resist such great nature landscapes and old Russian villages. Whole movie has this fairytale feeling in it. If you're into fantasy, and like those magical movies of old, be sure to give this one a watch, it's really awesome piece of Russian fantasy filmography.
I got a large collection of old Russian Fantasy Movies, I'm great fan of those old magical movies, so I'll be doing some series of reviews on those, every time when I see one of those I'll post a review, so stay tuned! Those movies are really beautiful and worth watching, especially if you're into fantasy.
Witcher series have started with books written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. First witcher story was written back in 1990, game adaptation was released in 2007, and as I hear was not so smooth and had various glitches and bugs. I myself never played original release, I'm now playing Enhanced Edition, where whole game is redesigned, characters, enemies, NPCs, everything is redone and they also added 200 new animations. This edition was released in 2008, due to many complaints from gamers, on long loading times, and tons of problems while playing the game. Also original witcher was censured in USA, because game holds strong adult language, and every time Geralt has sex, you receive sex card which was too ''adult'' for their standards, so cards are redrawn for more softer taste, and also Dryads (protectors of nature) are whole naked, and they redesigned it so their hair covers most of their body. Now let's say something about Enhanced Edition itself. This game looks beautiful, graphic are awesome, colorful and magical, it uses Bioware engine, but I find this game so much more atmospheric and epic than Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins, which was released sometime later. I really like fantasy games, but I need something to captivate me to hold me to the gameplay and the game itself. It is usually a great story and gameplay, and graphic and atmosphere, this game has it all, It has some of the most beautiful environments I saw in the later new generation games, I saw trailer and gameplay from Witcher 2, it looks even more beautiful, haven't played it yet, will do sometime later. This captivating atmosphere made me wanna play and see what's next, and also story is great, and develops based on your decisions that you do, during your gameplay, it's a common stuff in modern RPG's and even other type of modern games, so you can play with one decision and play game again with new decisions and story would develop a little different, your allies and enemies will be different, and it will all lead to conclusion which is always the same I think just with different stuff going on before that. It's an RPG with heavy accent on story and talking and quest solving, not so much on combat and battles, you develop skills and magic and alchemy and everything, but there are massive dialogues and tons of quests to keep you entertained for a very long time. Whole game consists of 5 chapters, prologue and epilogue. It is very political influenced so you will take part in many schemes and scams and stuff like that. It reminds me heavily on Gothic game series which I also like very much, it has similar touch, many characters, quests and talking. Game itself is not so hard to finish, I played on normal difficulty, the real difference is usage of alchemy and potion making, on easy you don't need those skills to finish the game, which I find not so challenging, and on normal difficulty usage of alchemy is your choice, you can finish without it, but it is much easier to finish with the help of it, and on hard difficulty alchemy is necessary to finish the game because battles are much more tougher. I finished the game not so long ago, and now I'm playing additional story missions, which deepen the story around some characters. I will not talk about story, because it's big and complex and I don't wanna make spoilers or something. I'm leaving you to dive into rich and captivating world of Witcher games, and see everything for yourself. For me, I can say that I'm really proud to have this game in my collection, it's really one of the best games I've ever played. It is must have for any fan of Adult Fantasy RPGs.
This game is not so old, it's from 2010, so it appears on PC and Xbox 360, like its predecessor its first person coop shooter, and it's very entertaining. Great pandemic has spread all over the world, and turns people into zombies. Military has created safe zones all over the America, in attempt to rescue as many civilians as possible, and that's where you step in. Directly into shoes of one of the survivors and together with your friends you try to blast your way through tons of zombies, monsters and witches (yes witches). There are many scenarios available for you to play, and together those scenarios create linear storyline, telling us how those survivors are trying to escape. You can play alone, with computer controlled buddies, which is not so fun, because they are programmed and mostly follow you and are very boring companions. Best solution is to play with your friends coop, or online, that's where fun starts. Hours and hours of entertainment, shooting, burning, detonating, smacking zombies. Weapon arsenal is colorful one, from standard, machine guns, pistols, and bombs, to really not so common, like guitars (yeah smack that zombie's ass with a guitar), crowbars, katana blades etc. Also if you got your ass kicked, your buddies can revive you, even bring you back from the dead with a defibrillator, heal you and everything, so having good team of people when playing online is nice. Because sometimes when I play some people are running around, not caring to cooperate or whatever is needed to do on certain level, and that sucks and ruins a game-play. Speaking of game-play, it is very smooth and nice done, even when there are hordes of zombies around you game still runs nice and smooth, graphics are beautiful and atmosphere is awesome. Landscapes vary from buildings, streets, cities, to forests, fields, mountain, almost every cool surrounding is here. Everything is nicely animated, zombies look cool, not cheap, and there are many variations of them, from workers to clowns. Also these zombies run like hell, they are not slow, as we got used in Resident Evil series for example, but it's ok, because story-wise it's different virus. This is second game in the series, but you only need this one if you're planing on buying this game, because here included are also all campaigns from Left 4 Dead first game, so you have two games for the price of one, so you got many levels to blast through. What I don't like in this game? Well I don't have any particular objection, the only one would be that on higher difficulties game is really difficult, I mean that how it's supposed to be, but sometimes it's impossible, and you have repeat certain part many times, but if you have good players on your team, that's also problem that can be solved.
In conclusion if you're fan of FPS-s and horror games, and zombies, be sure to check this game out, because I find it very entertaining and innovative, you're going to have great fun, especially playing coop with real people.
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