I liked it ... If you watch the pilot and first season of L&O SVU, which is also a spin off show, it was very poor. But the producers identified what (and who) worked and what didn't and by the second season fixed it and most people would now say that the show is better than the original. It's always the case with spin off shows, they are very difficult to get off the ground because people can't let go of the original and are reluctant to accept and get comfortable with new characters in the world, created by the "mother ship". Even in the original show new characters are hard to integrate when they are the replacement of a former character when Rachel Nichols came in to fill A.J Cook's position she wasn't greeted with open arms by the shows fan base even though she is a great actress and plays her role very well. But after one episode of CM:SB I would say there is room for improvement but on the whole, if you can forget about Hotch, Reid and the rest of th BAU and try to view it as just another drama series then you'll enjoy it a lot more.
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Masters of the Universe
(1987)
Now, i'm not total movie buff. But i know what i likes, and i likes this.
9 May 2009
The first time I saw this movie I was 10 years old. I was a huge fan of the cartoon and I had a few of the action figures. I can't remember the amount of times He-Man and Skeletor went head to head on my bedroom floor and in my back yard. Of course they were also teamed up with Optimus Prime and Megatron (but for some reason they always banded together to destroy my sisters doll house. lol, never mind). As a kid this movie was everything I wanted it to be . OK, I might have bin a bit disappointed that some of my favourite characters hadn't made the cut, but once I got into the movie I soon forgot all that, as I remember.
When I was DVD shopping recently I came across it and got it for nostalgia sake. After not seeing it for a long time me and the family sat down to have a watch. Now my kids, being 6 and 9. Have never even heard of He-Man and my wife wasn't a huge fan as a kid.
Now I will admit that, when watching it this time I wasn't as impressed as I was as a kid. I noticed a lot of the sort of impossibilities that annoy me even in a Si-Fi, fantasy film like this. For example, when He-Man and his group arrive at the music store before Evil-Lyn and her group. Even though Evil-Lyn left the same starting point first and was flying. (you might call it nit picking but that sort of stuff upsets me)
But I realised that all that really didn't matter when noticed that both my kids were really into it. I remembered that it is a kids movie after all; and as such isn't bound by the same laws as movies targeted at a more mature audience. All things considered i think the storyline, plot and acting were all good enough, and all added up to exactly what the film was intended to be, a great family movie.
I think Frank Langella gave a very good performance as skeletor. I never realised, and couldn't believe it was him under all that make-up. I watched 'Superman Returns' not long after that. In which he plays the newspaper editor. Watching the two performances back to back is really quite daunting.
When I was DVD shopping recently I came across it and got it for nostalgia sake. After not seeing it for a long time me and the family sat down to have a watch. Now my kids, being 6 and 9. Have never even heard of He-Man and my wife wasn't a huge fan as a kid.
Now I will admit that, when watching it this time I wasn't as impressed as I was as a kid. I noticed a lot of the sort of impossibilities that annoy me even in a Si-Fi, fantasy film like this. For example, when He-Man and his group arrive at the music store before Evil-Lyn and her group. Even though Evil-Lyn left the same starting point first and was flying. (you might call it nit picking but that sort of stuff upsets me)
But I realised that all that really didn't matter when noticed that both my kids were really into it. I remembered that it is a kids movie after all; and as such isn't bound by the same laws as movies targeted at a more mature audience. All things considered i think the storyline, plot and acting were all good enough, and all added up to exactly what the film was intended to be, a great family movie.
I think Frank Langella gave a very good performance as skeletor. I never realised, and couldn't believe it was him under all that make-up. I watched 'Superman Returns' not long after that. In which he plays the newspaper editor. Watching the two performances back to back is really quite daunting.
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