Reviews

I was really interested in this as my grandfather was taken from the camp in Thorn (Torun) Stalag XXA camp D. Sadly he died when i was still a child but my father has told me about it and many of the stories the survivors talk about in this programme match what i was told of my grandfathers experience. 300.000 POW's where marched from the East for months with no food so they ate whatever they could get hold pf even eating grass to try and stop the hunger. My grandfathers march ended in another POW camp and the Germans ran away one night and the Russians arrived, said 'Your free' and left. As he was walking out a Hitler youth 'officer' ran up to him with pistol drawn saying he was not going anywhere. He left and the German child did not. The story of what happened needs to be seen by more people as it is not commonly known unless you are a military historian or have a personal connection.

After enjoying the first film i was really happy to hear they were making this but it was a mistake. You can tell by half way through that the writers did not even care any more,they had nowhere to go so put in any stupid thing that they could. The script does not know what the hell it is and they end up with the old standard of shoehorning in as many stars as they can at the end to try and keep people interested but it does not work. If this film is ON somewhere you are then watch it but do not bother getting it to watch as you may end up like me wondering half way through if you should turn it off and do something interesting.

I know the film has been out for ages but i saw it on television last night. The basic story is a teacher who hates Christmas due to him losing the love of his life at Christmas time being picked to do the school nativity play in a school that he himself says is full of useless kids. Enter Mr Poppy the teachers assistant who is almost a kid himself in the way he thinks and acts,he has no thought to what may happen such as asking the kids if they want to see a baby being born. Finally add in the 'old friend' from the teachers drama days who is his rival. This film is a mixture of types, you have the lost love,the fool who does everything wrong but it works out and the underdogs who come good. All in all i saw see this film for a real 'feelgood' time.

This show is not as bad as some people think. The idea of characters from a computer game appearing in reality is not a new idea but they have created a decent story on how it happened (sort of). This show has a guild who play together who turn out to be a nerd,bad boy and jock showing that many different types of people play these games which makes a change from it only being the nerdy kids. People have said that the weapons look stupid but they are supposed to look like the ones from the game so i do not know what they expected. This first episode (pilot film) sets up the story well has some lines that game players will recognise and has enough action to keep young kids spellbound. All in all i enjoyed the show and hope it does continue as there is such a wealth of online material they could use (i wonder how long it would be before Chuck Norris is mentioned lol).

This is a great fantasy film and unlike most that are released went back to the 'old school' of fantasy films. Many these days are clearly made for TV films but the values on this are far beyond the average. Since 'Lord of the rings' the film makers have seen that there is a place for these type of film. The only down side was the creature makeup let it down some as it was clearly basic masks with no 'hero' character with better makeup.

Now for the good parts,The locations were amazing to look at and a lot of work had gone into the buildings (should have aged the thatch though)the fight scenes are all you could want,up close and in the large fights you see the chaos of mêlée fighting between armies. I had no problems with any of the acting even though some people have knocked the dialogue its a d&d type of film and its what you would expect (thankfully its not full of thee's and thou's). At about 2 hours it has the time to tell the story well but do not expect any big surprises if you are a fan of this type of film as it ticks all the box's that you would expect. Great for a DVD night in with a group of friends.

I don't know what is going on but i think the joss fan-club has hit this review page hard.You must remember that this film came from a TV show that failed,failed big time and would never have even been a show if it had not been written by Joss.I do not understand the gushing praise this film is getting i give it the 4 for the CGI but its nothing more than we expect from films now.OK we learn WHY it was so important that River was caught and we learn the alliance are not nice people (we found that out in the show) but nothing new!At least they seemed to move away from the "western in space" that was the TV show and thank god they did not have the stomach churning theme tune from the series (ok tacked the music on to the end credits). It was nice that they had all the people from the series in it but there had not been any real growth (ok was only 6 months from the end of the series but the doctor would have changed more) and we did not learn any more about them apart from River. They seemed to rip off anything they could from other sci-fi films and if you can watch the escape from the town without thinking of a certain pod race you must have missed a star wars film (even the same engine noise!!!!)There is 1 thing joss is good at and that was the Buffy universe he should have just made the Angel film that people keep talking about instead of this second rate sci-fi!

The reason i give this film a 6/10 is that as a stand alone film (acting locations etc) but the fact that it was called King Arthur i take as a insult all there is that has anything to do with King Arthur is the names.According to celtic history he was alive AFTER the romans had left Britain so he could not have been a roman officer.There were still romans/romano-British at the time so there would have still been roman influence in the way people lived as there were many good things that the romans brought.The equipment was not from that time period (crossbows for example) and some of the things they showed were just laughable,the 800 yard shot into a tree to kill someone(who could see a man hidden in heavy cover at 800 yards to begin with).If you want something that follows the legends of arthur then get excaliber which in my mind is a far better made film anyway and i hope that people who watch this take it for what it is,the world according to Hollywood and not a representation of a legend of about 1500 years ago.Maybe the next film will have Abe Lincoln as a drunken homosexual but i guess they do not mind changing the history of other countries or (as in u572???) change history so that America win s every wars and does everything of note in the world(the UK captured the first Enigma device not the Americans).

I remember watching this when i was a child and still enjoy it as much now as i did then,the breakdown of morals were shown very quickly with the main character trying to save a girl from being raped and it made me think what would happen if there was no more law and order and the sighted could do whatever they wished.OK the triffids are very 1980's (but that is when it was made so what do you expect) But if they made a remake now it would be all CGI and no story (war of the worlds being a major case).All in all i would have to say get it (not the rubbish film but the bbc version) settle down on a Sunday afternoon and go back in time to when a programme had to keep you hooked by the story line and not the special effects and maybe make you worried about your garden at night lol.

Knightrider!!! A part of my life!!! growing up in the late 70's early 80's i saw Knightrider and"it was good" lol but the game sucks big time! OK it does not look too bad but they could have done so much more,they could have had sections out of the car(gta like) or had a section where you have to chase a man on foot through buildings (making u use turbo boost and ski modes) but it seemed to be the same thing again and again.In addition to the other post here,i have played the sequel and it does not look (check out the headlight positions) or sound like KITT in the slightest and once again its race/destroy/puzzle then boss and of course you have to fight Goliath and KARR again. All in all spend the money on the DVD's and re-live the show.

I grew up watching this show along with streethawk,airwolf and blue thunder (notice a pattern lol) so when it came out on DVD i just had to get it and to my surprise i enjoy it just as much (ok i look for the man behind the drivers seat now which can be seen so easily sometimes) and my son who is slightly younger than i was loves the show. OK the production values were not great but people have to remember that the show was made over 20 years ago and we now expect so much more (imagine what they could have done with the CGI we have now!)but for a little piece of your childhood its well worth getting.Oh and if you see this after the first post in this thread the reason Micheal "devoted his life to fighting crime" was that wilton knight had said he saw a lot of himself in Micheal and Micheal promised him!Also the fact that he bonded with kitt. If you want a laugh watch the programme "the night the cylons landed" from the original battlestar galactica and keep a ear out for the clown(remember it was on about the same time and i had such a shock lol).

OK this film was created as a pilot but that does not give it an excuse!!! OK as a bit of sci-fi it was not that bad if you pay no attention to the B5 series. The major problem i had with this was the ships,anyone who has seen the series would know that the WHITESTAR's were the ultimate ship so why did the rangers not have them? They were created for the alliance and the rangers were the special ops of the alliance! It was nice to see G'Kar back at his best. I think the film would have a better reception if they had gone ahead with the show and people would look back with a better understanding but thats TV for you.

Now for a bit of intelligent thought! If you want to make a new B5 series or film you have the perfect opening in the first shadow war,even if you want to be lame stick in a time warp (whoops they did that) and have some B5 regular turn up (maybe delenn as that would be cool with sinclair). But all in all this film was a bit of an insult to the B5 name that for once showed the American TV exec's that people will watch a programme with a story arc and do not need the throw away things such as (ready for the grinding of teeth) star trek next generation (DS9 was better).