© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-plut0nick Recent reviews written by member plut0nick en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_130526776964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Very strange, very pretentious, but absorbing and compelling nonetheless. The movie that put Alejandro Jodorowsky on the cult-movie map. Hordes of cripples come flooding down the mountainside in search of vengeance. A wise man of the desert is buried... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~130526776964 Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:57:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_130526776964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122284052100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - I just finished reading I.C.E.’s Rolemaster rpg system. After finishing reading the standard rules system, I also borrowed a couple of the modules (in the I.C.E. sense) -- Arms Law, and Spell Law. Note that I have only played this system once, but I read... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122284052100 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:50:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122284052100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_120258530948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Being a fan of Alan Moore’s comics and especially “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, and being subsequently let down by the mediocre big screen adaptation of the comic, I decided to watch again (after 10 years) King Solomon’s Mines. In case you are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~120258530948 Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:49:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_120258530948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116748095108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - I love RPGs and Wizards of the Coasts is doing a good job at producing some of the best RPGs out there. Not an excellent job, but a good one nonetheless. However, every time WoTC &#145updates&#146 its core rulebooks, I always feel cheated. That is how I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116748095108 Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:41:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116748095108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_118153645700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Maybe one day, we will find a graffiti on a wall stating "Ennis is God". As for today, Vertigo is for sure trying to get as much as they can out of their hottest writer, flooding us with mini-series. Rest assured, Ennis is human, as one can see by checkin... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~118153645700 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:59:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_118153645700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_118149582468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - "Awake, you know that dreams exist. Inside a dream you think the dream is reality. Inside a dream you have no knowledge of the waking world. It is the same with Vurt." -- Game Cat During the 80s, the conventional science fiction c... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~118149582468 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:36:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_118149582468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_118147419780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - A Storm of Sword’s is George R.R. Martin 3rd instalment in his critically acclaimed saga ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. In short, the book is just great. Really great. But it’s definitely not short. In fact it’s huge. However at no point in the book did I f... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~118147419780 Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:25:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_118147419780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_117652360836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Bob Clark's "DEATHDREAM" is without a doubt one of the Seventies most important and effective horror films. Taking it's basic premise from the classic tale of "The Monkey's Paw", the film combines vampirism with not only the political climate of the Seven... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~117652360836 Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:01:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_117652360836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_117204881028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - The Book of Vile Darkness is a 192 page hardback D20 RPG supplement published by Wizards of the Coast. The first thing that struck me about the Book of Vile Darkness was the art. This is partially because when you look through a book rapidly you ge... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~117204881028 Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:59:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_117204881028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_117121126020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - In 1974, director Tobe Hooper made what some consider one of the best modern horror films ever made, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," which was about a group of teens vacationing in the country who one-by-one find a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~117121126020 Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:03:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_117121126020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116863700612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Having recently seen Stuart Gordon’s Beyond Re-animator (2003), I felt obliged to review the series. Beyond Re-animator is basically the third installment, Re-animator (1985) and Bride of Re-animator (1990) being parts 1 and 2 respectively. Although Re-an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116863700612 Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:05:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116863700612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116749340292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - I just read through the White Wolf&#146s roleplaying setting/rulebook Ghoul: Fatal Addiction (hey, epinions Staff, it&#146s Ghoul, not Ghouls) and thought I'd share a few thoughts on it. Written by Ronni Radner and Ethan Skemp. There's a sneak preview of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116749340292 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:39:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116749340292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116701564548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Army of Darkness, the third film in the Evil Dead trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi (Darkman, Evil Dead 1 and 2, Spiderman, and the underrated A Simple Plan) is as close as you'll get to seeing a comic book transformed into a movie. Full of cheesy one liners... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116701564548 Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:08:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116701564548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116662439556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - George R.R. Martin is one of my favourite authors. I had only read 3 of his (huge) medieval fantasy books from the A Song of Ice and Fire series and fell in love with them. I was blessed and cursed at the same time for picking up this series. Blessed beca... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116662439556 Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:02:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116662439556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116573834884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Hokuto No Ken, also known as Fist of the North Star, has long been notorious among ANIME (Japanese animation) fans for its outrageous graphic violence, but its popularity--at least in Japan--is contingent upon other factors, as well. "Hokuto no Ken," wh... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116573834884 Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:47:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116573834884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116389088900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Stuart Gordon has been trying for years to get H.P. Lovecraft's "Shadow Over Innsmouth" filmed, first with Full Moon Pictures and then with producer Brian Yuzna. Yuzna has also been looking to reunite with Gordon after successful collaborations in the p... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116389088900 Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:40:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116389088900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116161416836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - The year is 2600 AD. Hundreds of colonised planets span the galaxy, everything from low-tech gardens of Eden, to high-tech synthetic asteroids where people have been surgically enhanced, to races where they have spent centuries altering their genetic lin... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116161416836 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:22:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116161416836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116020448900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - A Clash of Kings is the second installment to the 'Song of Ice and Fire' series. If you are new to this series then you really need to get a hold of 'A Game of Thrones' which is the first installment of the series. These books are huge. And this is the Ha... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116020448900 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:12:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116020448900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115741396612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - "Well Mr Johnson, I can frag him for ya, but it's gonna cost ya plenty of Nuyen. You see life is cheap, death is expensive" Shadowrun is a very successful role-playing game set in the not-so distant future. Shadowrun RPG was initially publi... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115741396612 Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:04:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115741396612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115738971780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - "Lifeforce" is one of those strange cases where you wonder what kind of movie this is. Of course, it's a sci-fi flick, but it has certain elements of action and horror together in one single package. Of course this is an 80s movie and by today’s standard... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115738971780 Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:02:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115738971780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115477352068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - There has been an abundance of heist movies in recent years with many of them delivering what they promise, a solid, entertaining yet ultimately forgettable ride. "The Italian Job" is no different in this respect largely because of the great set pieces a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115477352068 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:18:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115477352068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115461623428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - I assume you all know about THE EVIL DEAD, so I will be super fast with the plot and put more emphasis on Elite's excellent DVD package. The plot EVIL DEAD a cult classic horror film that ranks up to the best low budget horror films ever made... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115461623428 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:26:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115461623428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115262066308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Rumors were flying around that a fifth Phantasm was going to be made, and it would be called 'Phantasm 2000'. Yeah, it's lame I know, but it never happened. Don Coscarelli, director and creator of all 4 Phantasm movies, recently directed Bubbahotep, which... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115262066308 Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:38:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115262066308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115171233412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - This is a pretty accomplished sequel. Some people prefer it to the original - me, I think it's far less distinctive and in places noticeably clunkier, but it does a few things better. First up, it's not frightening. The first Phantasm was, but the be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115171233412 Sat, 11 Oct 2003 07:01:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115171233412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115015978628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author plut0nick - Of course you might not have heard of Bubbahotep, or even Don Coscarelli, but trust me, in a few months, everyone will be talking about him and his latest movie, starring Bruce 'Ash' Campbell. The movie Phantasm was directed in 1979 and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115015978628 Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:06:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115015978628?linkin_id=8003929