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Independence Day

There has been no movie for a long time about which people that I asked had that many different opinions. Many consider ID4 as a absolute brilliant movie while others think it's totally bad. I for myself enjoyed the movie and think it was very good. There are many exciting special effects and also many funny scenes (especially some played by Will Smith), but there are also far to many weird things and exaggerated heroism and patriotism. All in all I think it is a movie worth looking but you shouldn't think too much about it. Just have fun!

Twister

I think Twister is a good movie in every aspect. There is an interesting and exciting story and also good looking special effects that are rather integrated into the story than only showed for 'the effect'. All in all Twister is the best movie which I watched at cinema in the last time. By the way: Lorenz Kubiak from the tv-show 'Parker Lewis' has a small role as one of the 'bad' scientists. Everytime I see him in a 'serious' role I'm somewhat amused ;).

Eraser

And again a fine action movie thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the special effects team. The story is not too bad, although the movie lives by the action, but the special effects are of supreme quality. Once again Arnie has the free choice of weapon - among which there is a portable firearm which accelerates small projectiles near to the speed of light - but his new 'client' (Vanessa Williams) has to proove that she can handle a pistol, too. Eraser is a really exciting movie from the beginning upto the showdown (of course with big explosion etc.).

Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible was supposed to be one of the movie-hits of the year and it was surely a succesful movie, but for me Mission Impossible is the biggest disappointment of the year. The most interesting part of Mission Impossible is the beginning (the mission that went wrong). The special effects were announced to be the 'best ever' but you couldn't see that. Especially the often shown stunt within the eurotunnel (where Tom Cruise is thrown on the high speed train by the explosion of a helicopter) is - in my opinion - complete foolish.

Speed

One of my absolute favourites. There are many exciting scenes, and that's not surprising, because Annie (Sandra Bullock) has to keep a bus constantly on a speed higher than 50 mph, and she's driving by bus just because she lost her driving license - she was driving too fast. Beside the good action there is also an interesting story and last but absolute not least: Sandra Bullock in one of her best roles. Speed II is on its way, release date should be somewhen in summer '97.

Apollo 13

This is for me one of the best movies ever! Around the adventurous voyage of Apollo 13 you can see fantastic pictures from space made by the computer. The FX was created by Digital Domain, which also did a good job at True Lies. Although Tom Hanks, as Jim Lovell, plays the main role, my favourite qoutation comes from Gene Kranz (Ed Harris): 'Failure is not an option!'

Stargate

Stargate is a movie that I like to see again and again. Although it was one of the first movies that made extensive use of computers the effects are even today good looking. But the effects were not used to hide a weak story - the opposite is right: Stargate tells a really fantastic story about a link between the ancient egypt and an alien which will do everything to live forever. Official Stargate Home Page

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