A frightening fantasy film about a horrible, lawless, far off land called Mexico.

What? It’s real. Oy vey!

It’s movies like this that will guilt me into giving up my seat to every tired looking immigrant I see on the subway.

It really holds up.

And is incredibly offensive to women, Dwarfs, woodland animals. . .you name it!

No new ideas. The holodeck is not a new idea. Nor is downloaded, post-human immortality. And the CGI looks pretty shoddy.

I hope the series improves on the pilot DVD.

In the build-up to 2012 I could no longer live with myself knowing I’d never seen Deep Impact.

It isn’t bad – well, yeah, I guess it is a little bad – but it gets points for trying.

The problem, and I believe filmmakers (other than Emmerich) are starting to realize this, is that the cast of a thousand formula can never be taken seriously. Deep Impact tries to be serious, and works up until the Astronauts show up. Then it is a total mess. Kerry Douglas Dye would never allow a screenplay so messy to leave his apartment.

Everyone loves this movie but me.

Imagine The Big Sleep but ten times more confusing but one tenth as charming.

Plot, plot, plot gets shoved in your face – then everything gets explained, but then re-explained for real. The end.

And no Humphrey Bogart. In fact, no characters at all to really care about – just a racing, baffling plot. Okay, a cute dog.

Maybe when the American producers remake it (as is supposedly happening) they’ll whip it into some shape. As it stands, it is confusing, fast and French enough to trick people into thinking it is art. In fact, it makes no sense.

Even by the standards of bad, cast of a thousand stars disaster pics this is a joke.

Odd is that Neame made so many great films – even a descent cast of a thousand stars disaster pic! (Juggernaut.)

Well, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Sean Connery, Karl Malden and others face a big rock. Then they all swim in chocolate milk. The Swarm kicks its ass.

The early shorts are great for a historical perspective but, alas, they are a bit of a bore.

Things don’t get cookin’ til 1989’s Knick Knack (the one with the SnoGlobe.)

Even though I’ve never seen Cars, I found myself greatly enjoying the Cars-short Mater and the Ghost Light, but that may have just been because it was 1 AM and I was getting giddy.

Taken and (see above) For The Birds kick a whole lot of ass, too.

Look forward to Vol II – the cloud short from Up is pretty fantastic.

In 2007 I named this my number 1 film – over Sunshine, There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

I’m not 100% I would make that statement again, but I still think it is one hell of a picture.

It is beautiful, it is complex, the performances are fantastic and the dialogue hums. It definitely looses something on DVD, even if you have a super HD television.

There are rumblings out there of this becoming the cult success it deserves – in a few more years, I imagine, it will be recognized as a masterpiece.

Far be it from me to look a gift horse in the mouth, but even the most dedicated BSG fans will have to admit this is an altogether unnecessary coda to a show that is, we must face facts, done done done.

Ostensibly an opportunity to see the whole series from “another point of view,” but, really, that isn’t the case. Blame that on the fact that the show was well written enough to begin with.

A hodge-podge of classic clips and new material – this is 100% for fans only and will be completely baffling to someone coming to it fresh.

I enjoyed it, I agree, but if I paid for this I’d feel a little used. It’s like buying a new greatest hits CD for one new track.