The Edge 1997 by AverageMansReviews

The Edge 1997 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning/Disclaimer: there are flashing effects/colourful effects/animal cruelty/animal feeding/self-harm/medical. Disclaimer; I will not be discussing anything to do with the tragic incident on one of Baldwin's latest upcoming film Rust. But I just want to say RIP Halyna Hutchins [1979-2021] and I hope Joel Souza recovery is going well from this incident. Now just to highlight again I am just respectful and wishing well here and nothing more.

Storyline/Characters [Character developments]/Performances: these three components combined in this film; the storyline is firstly good; but slowly more in-depth now; it takes this unforeseen and tragic accident; this plane crash [Amphibian plane] for this secret and the truth to come out between Charles Morse/Hopkins [a very wealthy business man; he is extremely intelligent in a book smarts and practical way, but having said that while he is aware of his weaknesses as he referenced to one at some point in this film, but for here and now he doesn't have the mindset or capabilities of fantasy like imagining unicorns, but as I have already illustrated he has the practical imagination down, so useful things absolutely but anything else not this thing and finally is a husband to Mickey Morse/Macpherson.]

Green/Baldwin [a fashion model photographer which is working with Mickey Morse/Macpherson on this photo shoot, he has been working with Mickey for long enough for this trio to be all friends. But he does come across as someone you would be a fool to completely trust him with anything.] Mickey Morse/Macpherson [fashion model and wife to Charles Morse/Hopkins] The pacing of this project is generally speaking progressive, don't get me wrong in the opening section up to the plane crash it moves, but it does need a kick up its posterior and after the plane crash it is a very good thing that this project has this lead partnership or up to a certain point lead a lead trio including Steve/Perrineau [he works for Green/Baldwin on the fashion photography side of things.] But regardless of it trio or pair it needs them to keep this film on track and moving at a good pace and excellent on-screen chemistry; you know always moving, but from an overview perspective the cast performances are good.

Action/Art: these two components combined here; where we have this plane crash and everybody is rapidly is thinking underwater, so we have Green/Baldwin escaping Charles Morse/Hopkins rescuing Steve/Perrineau and unfortunately the pilot which may or may not have been conscious at this point not making it out [Amphibian Pilot/Musser;] this is good.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; the scenery from beginning to end of this film is eye-catching, if there are any fans of Hopkins or Baldwin or both out there in Internet land take a look at this film at least once, Now as it relates to this film sadly RIP Bart the Bear as The Bear [1977-2001] trained by Doug Seus; he puts into an excellent performance and RIP for anyone else that has sadly died connected to this film and just to finish this review off; this film has 3 Nominations for one example 20/20 Awards 2018; Felix; Best Picture.

The Good, the Bart, and the Loki 2021 by AverageMansReviews

 The Good, the Bart, and the Loki 2021 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there are flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/environment

Storyline/Art/Comedy/Characters [Character developments]/Action/Performances: all of these components combined at some point or points; all this project goes on for less than five minutes I will give you a rough outline and something to keep in mind when or if you choose to watch this project. The storyline is good for what it is and the pacing of this project is for the ending section deliberately disjointed, Loki/voice by Hiddleston gets banished to Earth more specifically Springfield for crimes against Asgard again. Now here is something for you to keep in mind when viewing this project it has these ending credits mixed with still pictures of these Simpsons characters will as MCU characters; so I will just pick one after credits scene, But I should point out none of these after credit scenes do not link, But I digress; the one right at the end after Bart Simpson spray-paint in yellow plus symbol Simpsons; which means I am speculating here but there must have been some people watching this out there in Internet land thinking this was the genuine end of this project and consequently may be have no idea what I am going to be discussing, but it is generally they are.

Now Loki is being sentenced Ravonna Renslayer/voice by Lewis; where this is an excerpt she says: "Making us sit through numerous mid-credits scenes, hoping they advance the story!"Speculation again/guess I am leaning towards she is making reference to Marvel's Loki 2021 Series 1, full disclosure as I haven't seen it yet all so I could be completely wrong and yes I get The Simpsons mocking this live-action TV program, by them rotating between these after credit scenes with still pictures, but this is not the only time in this project that The Simpsons point something like this out - I'm not going to tell you where it is; but look for the sign and this is what I'm referring to. Now we move on to the still pictures for one example Barney Gumbel as Iron Man; basically not exactly treating the armour as it should be treated as he has just put it on the washing line to drip dry, whilst in his underwear, socks and sandals and not forgetting a duff beer as well [before someone points it out yes I am aware we have Homer Simpson in one still scene pick up Mjollnir; Thor's hammer and yes I had to look this up I can never remember this name;] the performances are as always good and easy to settle down with.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good; I get what they were doing with the mocking still pictures and after credits scenes, but it comes with a heavy price as they make this project deliberately disjointed [I can say "deliberately" because they intended to make that mocking reference.]

 

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Background information: in a nutshell the N.W.O sends a strong message to [The New Four Horsemen's the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion "The Nature Boy" Rick Flair and then we have the commentary team talking about what has just happened in the last match/match slot and wrapping up this pay-per-view.

Match/Stipulations: New World Order's ["Mr. Hollywood" Hulk Hogan] vs. The Dungeon of Doom's [the WCW World Heavyweight Champion The Giant with The Legendary Mouth of the South Jimmy Hart:] Singles Match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 6/10

Match Storyline: 6/10

Crowd Participation: 10/10

On Commentary: "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 10/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 6/10

Recommend Watch: 6/10

Match Total: 44/60 - this match is good.

Comments: as the attribute marks would suggest this match/match slot is solidly good, but generally speaking it had a lot of assistance in one way or another, if you have been around wrestling long enough you have seen this match outlay used where it needs everything to sink into place for it to work at minimum properly; so here is a quick checklist of what I mean; willing and vocal crowd participation; check, commentary team providing a golden standard of commentary with passion; check and Hogan providing pantomime Heel tactics about pulling hair and general Heelness; check in fact to somewhat speed this up it takes everyone involved in this match/match slot/ending of this pay-per-view to pull this off; check. Because if or when you come to watch the pay-per-view or specifically this match/match slot; you will get to see and experience where generally speaking this Match Total is right. But for an example if the crowd were not so willing to participate this match/match slot could have really fallen on its face. I mean even as this match is it does feel a bit slow in places, it's almost like they were trying to hide up the fact that Hogan at this point was 43 years old and The Giant was 24 and as he is in name would suggest a giant of a man, so they went with a match outlay which is solid.

On a quick side note; the subtitles are wrong again in short when Heenan makes reference to this attendance figure of 93,000 the subtitles to say 90,000 and just to cover my back I didn't take for any of discrepancies, it is just this one stuck out like a sore thumb for me, because of the figures/numbers. Now just to finish up we have two Ring-announcers David Penzer and only for this main event match Michael Buffer.

Basic Result: your New WCW Heavyweight Champion New World Order's ["Mr. Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, The Outsiders Kevin Nash & Scott Hall.]

This pay-per-view receives: 9/10, this pay-per-view is excellent; I mean all of these matches on this pay-per-view are positive, so I had to give a bonus mark for that. But this pay-per-view is in its entirety is enjoyable, There is one massive blooper which will not affect your viewing pleasure, but it is still a massive blooper nonetheless. Now briefly on the poster for this pay-per-view we have Hulk Hogan yellow-and-red Babyface and not  the N.W.O. "Mr. Hollywood" Hulk Hogan black-and-white Heel.

The highest ranking match on this card based on attributes: The Ultimate Dragon [with Sonny Onoo] vs. the WCW World Cruiserweight Champion Rey Misterio, Jr.: Singles Match for the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship with 60/60.

The lowest ranking match on this card based on attributes: "The Iceman" Dean Malenko vs. The New Four Horsemen's ["The Crippler" Chris Benoit with Woman & Miss Elizabeth:] Singles Match with 38/60.

 

 

 

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 8/Part 8/Conclusion by AverageMansReviews

Match/Stipulations: New World Order's ["Mr. Hollywood" Hulk Hogan] vs. The Dungeon of Doom's [the WCW World Heavyweight Champion The Giant with The Legendary Mouth of the South Jimmy Hart:] Singles Match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 6/10

Match Storyline: 6/10

Crowd Participation: 10/10

On Commentary: "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 10/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 6/10

Recommend Watch: 6/10

Match Total: 44/60 - this match is good.

Comments: as the attribute marks would suggest this match/match slot is solidly good, but generally speaking it had a lot of assistance in one way or another, if you want to know more please head over to the Spoiler Alarm Version.

This pay-per-view receives: 9/10, this pay-per-view is excellent; I mean all of these matches on this pay-per-view are positive, so I had to give a bonus mark for that. But this pay-per-view is in its entirety is enjoyable.

The highest ranking match on this card based on attributes: The Ultimate Dragon [with Sonny Onoo] vs. the WCW World Cruiserweight Champion Rey Misterio, Jr.: Singles Match for the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship with 60/60.

The lowest ranking match on this card based on attributes: "The Iceman" Dean Malenko vs. The New Four Horsemen's ["The Crippler" Chris Benoit with Woman & Miss Elizabeth:] Singles Match with 38/60.

 

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 7/Part 7 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 7/Part 7 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Background information: in a nutshell we have the commentary team over more scenes of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally discussing it and Schiavone advertising the next WCW pay-per-view which would be WCW: Fall Brawl 1996 with this WCW Title Match appearing on the screen and going down into the bottom left.

Match/Stipulation: New World Order's [The Outsiders Kevin Nash & Scott Hall] vs. "The Franchise" Sting & "The Total Package" Lex Luger: Tag Team Match

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 7/10

Match Storyline: 7/10

Crowd Participation: 7/10

On Commentary: "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 8/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 7/10

Recommend Watch: 7/10

Match Total: 43/60 - this match is good.

Comments: as I have already said this match is good, it does what it is designed to do which is put on a solidly good match and generally speaking in one way or another asks this question who is in the N.W.O? Just for here and now in this case Here is a selection of things said; Dream: "I think we'll somebody we haven't seen has bigger plan it might be right in our mist and I don't know who it is." Heenan: " Wait, wait, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, what do you mean, someone from maybe we don't know about? Dream: " Yeah that's I am saying. somebody in our mist in the sea of heads."  Schiavone:"Alright" Heenan: "Wow." [Sometime later] Schiavone: "If they're gonna hold true to form here. There are going to be no rules, no boundaries and there is going to be some interference somewhere, so keep your eyes peeled guys." [Full disclosure about all of these dialogue exchanges used here if you put the subtitles on the words that they are saying do not match with the words in the subtitles, it's like someone has put on predictive text but for the subtitles instead, so yes I am dyslexic but I have ears like a bat so I have just tried to piece these dialogue exchanges or dialogue ever as best as I can, sometimes the dialogue and the subtitles are not matched in speed as well or it is what it is and just to cover my back these are just some of what was said from the commentary table.

So our suspects here are Heenan [as he keeps dropping potential allegiances to the N.W.O,  like for an example cheers on Nash at one point, but apologises to his commentary partners.] Or potentially the Referee [Nick Patrick] for a suspicious quick count, after taking seemingly an accidental Hall's boot [heel as Lugar is setting him up for his torture rack] in his face which begins this sequence of events to the conclusion of this match, an accidental chop-block to Luger by Patrick, followed by a quick pin-fall all whilst having visual issues, all I can say is; kayfabe is alive and well here.

Basic Result: I know I have very much indicated who picks up the W. here but I have to do the admin here; New World Order's [The Outsiders Kevin Nash & Scott Hall] pick up the Win here.

 

 

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 7/Part 7 by AverageMansReviews

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW: Hog Wild 10/08/1996 Match 7/Part 7 by AverageMansReviews

Match/Stipulation: New World Order's [The Outsiders Kevin Nash & Scott Hall] vs. "The Franchise" Sting & "The Total Package" Lex Luger: Tag Team Match

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 7/10

Match Storyline: 7/10

Crowd Participation: 7/10

On Commentary: "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan 8/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 7/10

Recommend Watch: 7/10

Match Total: 43/60 - this match is good.

Comments: as I have already said this match is good; there is as much as I can say here, but if you want to know more please head over to the Spoiler Alarm Version.

Dune 1984 by AverageMansReviews

Dune 1984 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there are flashing effects/colourful effects/burning/medical/animal cruelty/shooting/stabbing/childbirth/feeding.

Storyline/Characters [Character developments]/Performances/Action/Art: these components combined in one way or another in this project; the viewers are welcomed into this project by Princess Irulan/Madsen on-screen to begin with this background/storyteller and continues with the storyteller throughout this film but just voice. But I will give you an ballpark of the storyline; Good guys House Atreides [Paul Atreides lead character/MacLachlan] and the others vs. the Bad guys [Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV/Ferrer] and others and involving this like gold dust stuff known as "Spies" basically whomever has control over the substance controls the universe. In short if you want a strongly based science-fiction film somewhere between Star Wars [the original golden trilogy between 1977-1983] and Flash Gordon 1980 you will find this project in the middle. The pacing is always something the moving to bring its other components in and out of this project on a rotation system, so it just has to keep things consistently moving and rotating things in and out, but having said that this project does get to leggy towards the end as it does feel like "When is this film going to end?" It does run out of steam a bit just about pulling into the station of the ending credits.

There is consistently in a monologue being used in this film [so if you like it; you are going to like it, but if you don't like in a monologue; it will probably get on your nerves;] for me it is what it is; I don't mind it.

Characters [character developments] and the performances; are a good they have a model and they stick to their models.

Now moving on to the action and art; for one example I will have to choose Paul Atreides/MacLachlan vs. Halleck/Stewart sparring with intent to harm as in Halleck/Stewart goes in with the intent to harm. I have just chosen this sequence because it is always good to see Patrick Stewart in action, but more specifically they have these force-field which can be activated I think they are on their wrists [once again I think how they work is they can slow down anything that breaks through them so it gives you the time to potentially but not always as you will see in this film to get out of the way or back off] and the other reason I have chosen this sequence is because when these protective force fields are in effect these individuals look like something out of MineCraft the videogame not the colour system but the actual squareness or rectangleness of these force-fields.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; but like I have already referenced if you are going to watch this film, you are going to have to be really, really into your science-fiction, because not only is it heavy on its dialogue exchanges it has lots of science-fiction visual content as well. Now on a little bit of research; this film does feel like it could have done with a sequel and of course I say this after this research it could have done with a sequel, based on the grounds of it comes from a series of novels by Frank Herbert [first novel; Dune 1965] and still going on to this very day by his Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The final thing is this project has Won 2 Awards; Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1985; Saturn Award; Best Costumes; Bob Ringwood and in the interest of fairness and balance I should point out this project also won The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1984; Stinker Award; Worst Picture; Raffaella De Laurentiis.] Nominations 5; just for two examples; Academy Awards, USA 1985; Oscar; Best Sound Bill Varney Steve, Maslow, Kevin O'Connell and Nelson Stoll and Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1985; Saturn Award; Best Science Fiction Film.