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Ultraviolet (1998)
6 hours of pure joy
A friend recommended the series to me. He said it was (sort of) a symbiosis between the X-files and a good sci-fi horror movie. Never being a fan of the X-files I decided not to see it. Luckily my girlfriend thought otherwise. She came home one day saying she bought the mini-series, so we watched it together
and watched
and watched, for 6 highly entertaining hours.
Ultraviolet offers a unique perspective on the vampire genre. It's creative and new, but still offering some of the traditional vampire characteristics (no reflection in a mirror, eternal life, the leeching of blood).
I especially liked the fact that the evil was so convincing. Of course Code 5 is bad, I knew that, but gradually I started to sympathise with the point of view of the leeches. The fact that the good guys all had some serious character flaws made the series all the more interesting.
Spider-Man (2002)
Far better than expected.
Spider-man, a movie I had to see. I was a bit sceptical however about the quality of the special effects. They did not look good in the few previews I'd seen. Having seen the film I can only say that it was funny, witty and entertaining. It was better than expected, and a lot better than other films in the genre, like batman and X-men.
If you expect the plot to follow the comic books page by page you will probably feel a bit cheated. They used quite a few short cuts to make it easier for the "know nothing about spider-man" viewer.
Resident Evil (2002)
From brilliant to mediocre.
It started of like a rocket, moved along brilliantly for about 45 minutes, and then slided back into mediocrity.
I had seen previews of the movie and I had a hard time convincing myself to visit the theatre when it was finally released. Fair is fair, I have to admit that I left the movies with a reasonably good feeling. The first part of the film was catching and it was well on its way to become my all time favourite horror movie. Then it sort of went over the top. In trying to keep the attention of the audience they stretched the zombie action for to long and the climax with the mutated monster was greatly over-done. The last part of the movie and the average acting performances of the main characters will probably keep me from buying the DVD.
I would have liked a bit more suspense and imaginative horror. However the die hard horror fan will probably have a very very good time.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
They came from out of space to steal our soul
They came from out of space to steal our soul. Quality performances by Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter make this story uncannily real. A sci-fi thriller as scary as only black and white movies can be.
I looked under my bed for weeks.