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Flight 93 (2006)
Nice but another A&E shaky production
Honestly I think the acting was pretty forced in some scenes. Admitedly I did not see the whole movie as I came in late and was busy at the time. It was fairly good though, as far as A&E movies go. Drama, emotion, fear, hope, pretty much the full gambit. My Dad literally cheered when they rammed the cockpit door. It reminded me honestly, of the hatchet job that A&E did on the movie they made based on the life of John Denver. They found the GOONIEST guy, made him stick out like a sore thumb, couldn't act, couldn't sing, and the actors around him also had such exaggerated emotions. ANYWAY, getting back to the movie. I would recommend this movie for those seeking a tale of heroism. A fight for survival that ended up in sacrificing a number of innocent lives to save thousands more. For that I give it a 7, several points deducted for some of the exaggerated acting. But that is just my opinion. Read other comments and see the movie, make your own opinions.
As one commenter suggested I checked out the google video. 1hr and 21 minutes long. Other than that he had nothing to contribute to the movie other than it was 100% a lie. The video he referenced any idiot can tell is a far-left demagoguery that highlights CERTAIN aspects and not others that could prove 9/11, this movie makes it out to be a government plot, cover-up, and that there were no "terrorists" from Al Qaeda and that those people in all 4 flights were killed to cover up dirty paperwork and other anti-American propaganda. IMDb doesn't even have an entry for this BS-tripe. It looks at things that sound scientific and plausible enough, however if you listen closely and observe it's clear they're leaving out key pieces both in conditions as well as taking sentences from interviews and articles out of context. As well as making loads of assumptions, such as that as the towers collapsed juts of smoke blowing out windows were more bombs. Not even touching the fact that the air in the collapsing floors above was being filled and would be pushing the fire and smoke to the lower floors and the pressure from that could blow out some of the windows causing these and indeed make a sound similar to an explosion.
At 81 minutes long it's a large file to load. If you want a laugh, or see how desperate some jaded college group is to blame the Bush administration for fabricating 100% of 9/11, go for it. You couldn't set something like this up in the few months that he was in office by the time of the attacks, especially not with all the hell he was putting up with with the couple of obstructionistic democrats stalling his establishment of his cabinet(that every president sets up), along with locating G, W and B keys for all of the keyboards in the White House offices, remember that Clinton's staff broke all of those keys out of the keyboards. I wonder how much replacing them cost the taxpayers? Besides, how would a president who looks like a chimp come up with something like that? (I voted for him so I can make that jest.:P) Besides, wasn't it the Dem's saying how utterly stupid he was for all those years? Another point that the BUsh administration couldn't have plotted this.
I could poke more holes into that fraud, but look up the comment and be the judge. You can tell the commenter is a Bush-hater. Frankly I 'm getting sick of both parties.
I'm looking forward to seeing UNITED 93, the big-screen movie version that was signed off on by ALL the families who lost loved ones on Flight 93. From what I've seen and heard of it so far, it may very well get a higher rating than this. Version of the story did.
REMEMBER!!!! If you see United 93 the first weekend it's out, part of your ticket price will go for the memorial for the passengers and crew who gave their lives to protect the Capital. They deserve it IMHO, for doing what they could.
Mega Man (1994)
A classic cartoon based on the hit game series.
Ok, unlike some of the game purists who have left negative comments I'm going the other way and I'm glad to see that some people spoke of some of the good points of the show. Mega Man was a fun and entertaining cartoon. Sure it pulled away from the game quite a bit, but why not? It's a cartoon and I think it would've been pretty boring to have Mega fighting through setups like the game levels just to scrap a boss bot that went through predictable patterns.
People complain about Protoman being a villain? Why is Mega's brother a villain? they cry. But in the Mega Man 3 VG, unless you read a game guide, you wouldn't know Proto is a good guy as you have to fight him in several stages to continue. I like that the cartoon creators used this aspect of Proto for the cartoon. Can you imagine how lop-sided thing would've been if Protoman had been a good guy the whole time?
It'd be so boring! Wily's bots wouldn't last a minute against Mega and Proto. And it's not like people who've watched the series don't know it since Proto and Mega have teamed up. Mega can already total any of Wily's bots, so having Proto on Wily's side brings a balance of power that was needed.
As for Bots with muscles. It's a cartoon people, who really cares? Does anyone complain about the new Batman movies with his muscle-molded suit? I think not. Besides, who's to say that the titanium skin of those bots with muscles weren't simply molded to look like they had muscles?
Roll, ok so Mega's little sis wants to help him out instead of just being a house cleaning robot. I'm surprised she hasn't had an active role in any of the Mega Man games yet. I mean where you can actually play as her. I think it could draw in some more female players. Again, I can't understand why people gripe about it. It's not like she gets any super weapons or anything. She just tweaked some of her housecleaning attachments to be like 10x more powerful than usual. If you think about it for a minute I'm sure you'll see the other aspects of having Roll very much involved in the series too.
Funny, with all the things people've complained about, I'm surprised they didn't mention Rush, or how he has more transformations in the cartoon than in any of the games, including some very strange ones. It seems that they'd have jumped all over it they way they've jumped over all the other things that weren't like the games. But, this wasn't the game and you have to give the cartoonists some artistic license so they have the freedom to make a good show.
I liked the animation, it was almost always pretty seamless, and there were plenty of plots that were pretty way out there. Like the Curse of the Lion people, or the teleport pods that switched Mega Man and Snake Man's bodies, or the Incredible Shrinking Mega Man. All not very likely, but still they made for some interesting stories. And when all's said and done, interesting and entertaining stories are key to keeping a series alive. The art and animation were also crisp and clean as well as being well drawn so as to be pleasing to the eye. Which for any animation is key, in some cases even moreso as the quality of the stories is bound to change from episode to episode, but the art in this series was really quite constant. It was really refreshing to watch it while there were such an abundance of low quality cartoons on at the time.
My only real complaint about the series was that the opening theme, while it looked good, I would've liked to hear a little more than, "Super fighting robot... Mega Man!", though the last line helped. "Fighting, to save.... the world!(insert echo)"
This series obviously had some fan appeal since it lasted for so many episodes. Some series like the Legend of Zelda never made it past the initial 13, and The Raccoons only made through about 3 or 4 eps before they were canceled.
I'd rate this series an 9 out of 10. Sure it could've been better, but in my opinion it was far and away from being worse.