Epinions Recent Reviews for danwood

Just a Machine, After All

Sat, 18 May 2002 13:57:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Let me write to the point.

If I were H. G. Wells, I would revolve around my tomb a thousand times while someone was trying to create a story about time travel just like this, over my own work, apparently without thinking on the impact of a set of...

Alone he will have to face the difference

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:00:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - In a beautiful, exotic, strange culture, two New York cops have to find their way to recover their dignity.

After arresting a Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) hitman, two NYPD detectives (Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia, the first accused of being a...

We all have to walk this mile

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:50:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - One way or another, we are all on death row, just for the simple fact that we are living, since the surest thing in life is death. So, Stephen King wrote a very well metaphor for a reflection on people's motivations in life, and what may come from our...

Genoism: taking discrimination to its full expression

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:34:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Imagine a world in which every gene you have has to be carefully planned – otherwise you will be considered a castaway, someone who would have only a marginal place in society.

If you were someone born from the love of your mother and father...

You gotta be a spirit, not a ghost

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:54:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - "You gotta be a spirit, not a ghost."

These are the last remarks of an old beggar to the cameras, at the end of "Bulworth."

Warren Beaty plays Senator Jay Bulworth, who is willing to commit suicide, and decides...

A "Distant" Enemy

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:39:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Probably one of the best Sci-fi movies ever, this Walt Disney Studios film, featuring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gousset Jr. is a mark in the study of a relationship between two completely different cultures in its development.

First, a brief...

Sharing Paradise

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 05:26:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Who was Ned Devine? I mean, besides the fact that he was this almost completely lucky bastard that won something like seven million pounds at the National Lottery?

Well, this is for you to find out watching this movie, but I can tell you this...

The Hunt for a Good Movie

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:10:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - I would like to put here a better comment for this movie, but here it goes. I do like Science Fiction and I like movies with special effects, like every Sci-fi fan. But this is not going to be easy for "Battlefield Earth." The director and the...

Art Imitates Life

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:18:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Some people have the poetic ability of transforming facts of life into rich experiences which can be used as those kind of lessons that can make one be grateful just for the simple fact of being alive.

Roberto Benigni surely exposed that...

You Don’t Control Your Life: Rejoice!

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:42:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Watching this movie, you will have to face the following: you don’t really have control of your life, sorry. What you can effectively have control over is your attitude towards life.

Let me take this more well examined: you can easily have...

Fastened to the Soul

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:49:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - This movie made a very good impression on me. Inevitably there will be comments linking this movie to the success of Sixth Sense, so let me say, before anything, that if you loved the Sixth Sense you will surely like this one.

Other point to...

The Supreme Being in Love

Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:14:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Once again we have a fantasy world on stage; science fiction, ultimately, is a fantasy on where we will be in the future. Science fiction is, on the other hand, heavily dependent on our creativity. Much more, I might add, than any picture which deals...

Rescuing the Indian Soul in America

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:41:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Today most of us have heard about how much the western white men devastated American Indians. That happened not only by the hands of Englishmen, but by the hands of many western colonizers who put his/her feet on America’s soil: in South America, mostly...

Another (Simple) Metaphor for the Shadow

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:21:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Do you like scary movies? What do you believe?

Some horror movies are tougher to face, since they tend to mess up with our beliefs. That is the case of Stigmata, in which Gabriel Byrne worked too - with a slight detail: in that movie, he was...

A New Cinderella

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:59:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Today I woke up with this movie in my cable TV, and took a look at it. Shirley MacLaine was there, so it could be nice.

Ricky Lake, going after a dream in New York, just finds out that she is pregnant from an idiot and she has no place to go...

Professor Jung Teaching

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 00:19:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - If you want to take a look at what was Carl Gustav Jung`s behavior when teaching, you might as well want to read this seminar notes book. It was not directly written by Jung himself, but it is a thorough compilation of his students - some of them...

C. G. Jung by Himself (or what should be)

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:05:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Carl Gustav Jung, the great psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of the Analytical Psychology, reveals some internal details about himself in this book.

This book was intended to be an autobiographical work of Jung, in which engaged Aniella...

Coping with Neurosis

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:05:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - As it was his habit, Alfred Hitchcock made this one of his numerous masterpieces based on a story which involved a high degree of psychological terror.

You know, suspense, as you are used to see in movies, is the kind of terror which as a deep...

An Oscar to 007

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:50:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Thunderball, the fourth movie from Ian Fleming’s 007 original series, also the fourth movie in which Sean Connery starred as James Bond, has several points which will appeal to someone who likes Bond movies.

First, it is the only Bond movie...

Byrne Burns Belief

Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:52:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - Stigmata, starring Gabriel Byrne and Patricia Arquette, gives a lesson on how hard can be the search for a lost faith.

In this movie, the wounds of Christ are found in somebody who is not a priest, not a father, not someone from the Church,...

Not the Same as the Book

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:15:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - If you read the book and then you see the movie, you will get a few disappointments when watching "Dune." First of all, David Lynch did not follow Frank Herbert's ending in the book. I won't tell what is the difference, because I would like you...

Plans Within Plans

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:48:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - That's a phrase that is repeated several times when you take a look at Frank Herbert's saga, which starts with "Dune" and tells the evolution of a galactic empire from its turning point - of a major crisis in the "fuel" that moves the...

The First Step to a Tragic Destiny

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:43:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - If twenty years ago you went to some theatre near you to watch the fabulous special effects of the white and dark sides of the force fighting each other, well, then watching this movie is an obligation.

George Lucas is in good shape. His...

The Impossible Has Been Accomplished

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:38:58 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - I never thought that what was achieved by years of success from a very good TV series would someday be destroyed in just a sequel from a previously good action movie. When I watched "Mission: Impossible," I felt destroying Mr. Phelps good guy...

Living Other People's Lives

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:27:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danwood - How would you consider being adopted by a major television company right from the moment of you conception? Would you like to live in a perfectly controlled world? Would you give your freedom, your wishes and your love in exchange for that?

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