Cloverfield is much more than a monster movie, Godzilla style. It's what you might see if you if you picked up a video camera that someone was holding throughout the events that took place.

I really enjoyed this movie, even though I found one major flaw in it. There is no way in hell that the monster could have lived after being the target of missiles and bombs. That ammo is designed to go through steel and I'd don't think any living creature has a hide that strong.

The monster wasn't the scariest part of the movie. He was just lumbering around, destroying things, and eating random people on the fly. The scariest part were the critters falling off its body. I don't know what the critters were doing to the people, but it didn't look like they were playing. Thankfully, we didn't see anyone getting chomped on.

If you want realism in a horror flick, I highly recommend you watch Cloverfield.

It stars Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel and Odette Yustman. Here's a 5-minute clip from the movie:

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The "runt" stole the show in Chicken Little. I laughed so hard at some of the routines, I cant believe this didn't get better ratings. I'm not telling any more than "the sky is falling". You have to watch it to enjoy it as much as I did.

Chicken Little stars the voices of Zach Braff, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Patrick Stewart, and many others. Here are a couple of teasers/trailers. Have fun!

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While I enjoyed the action and some of the craziness of The 6th Day, I couldn't get my head wrapped around the basic premise. Oh, I enjoyed watching it as I enjoy watching most of "Ahnold's" films, but the underlying theme of cloning doesn't make sense to me. The writers made the assumption that copying memories and DNA, and putting them in "blanks" that are ready to be altered, is enough. The story assumes that humans don't have immortal souls at all. It crossed some religious boundaries that didn't need to be crossed. I think it could have been written in a way where that wouldn't have been an issue at all.

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Why anyone would compare "The Prestige" to The Illusionist for anything other than the illusions is beyond me. Unlike the love story of the latter, this film is the story of two up and coming magicians whose rivalry becomes deadly. In my opinion, and based on their own individual merits, they're both excellent films.

An interesting inclusion to the film were some inventions by Nikola Tesla, who was made out to be an even madder scientist than told by history.

"The Prestige" stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and others. Here's the trailer:

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I've seen a lot of movies with dragons in them and I like most of them. This one was great and a lot of fun. "George and the Dragon" is a delightful, comedic action adventure about a knight who unwittingly becomes involved in the rescue of a princess who was kidnapped by a dragon. His efforts are assisted and then hindered by a rival knight who has his eye on the kingdom. To say any more would give the entire story away, so I'll stop right there.

"George and the Dragon" stars James Purefoy, Piper Peraldo, Patrick Swayze and Michael Clarke Duncan. There's even a short appearance by Val Kilmer. I recommend it as a family feature. Here's a trailer:

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After Alien and before Terminator, True Lies and Titanic, James Cameron and directed "The Abyss", an underwater sci-fi/action/adventure. Ed Harris is superb as Virgil "Bud" Brigman, the head of an underwater drilling platform. If you've never seen this, I don't want to give it away. It has a disaster, suspense and aliens as part of the film. What more could a nerd like me want out of a movie?

"The Abyss" stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn and a bunch of other people I never heard of. Here's a trailer:

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Released to theaters in 1981, it took until 2006 to see "Looker" released on DVD. I saw the movie when it was originally released, but I must have slept through most of it because the only thing I remembered was the "looker gun".

Looker, starring Albert Finney (of too many movies to name), Susan Dey (Partridge Family, L.A. Law, others), James Coburn (way too many movies) and more, this is the story of an evil pre-modern computer research company. A plastic surgeon becomes suspicious when his clients start dying weeks after he fixes their features to exacting specifications. The research company, using an advanced optical gun, hypnotizes the victims and causes them to have accidents that look like suicides. Once they discover the plastic surgeon (Finney) is on to them, they try to take him out of the picture. It all backfires and the hero gets the girl in another classic story from Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Sphere, Coma, Westworld, The Andromeda Strain, others). I couldn't find a trailer, but I did find other clips. Here's a clipped scene followed by a deleted scene:

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One of the movies I watched on DVD with my son back in April, The Fifth Element is a fun-filled, action-packed, futuristic adventure that has never failed to please me no matter how many times I've watched it. Sure, some of the acting is over the top, but it was meant to be that way.

The Fifth Element stars Bruce Willis (of too many movies to name), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, Ultraviolet, others), Chris Tucker (Rush Hour, Jackie Brown), and more, it's a romp that has a retired military (and I empathize) cab driver involved with the "supreme" being in a race against time to stop the evil that's approaching Earth. Here's a trailer:

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How time flies! I watched "Real Genius" before my youngest son was even born and he's 21 years-old now. I watched again, with him, last night.

This is a comedy that's fun to watch, no matter how many times I watch it. It features some early performances from some well-known actors. I'm talking about Val Kilmer and William Atherton, among others.

Val Kilmer as a college genius on par with Einstein is hilarious. It's too bad that his future films put him in much more serious roles. He's definitely an excellent actor, as good as the Hollywood "A" list could ever be.

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