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The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006)
You can't make this stuff up!
SPOILERS: Err.. OK well, it's all really made up, but a metal head that hops around and interfaces to different robot bodies, that helps Abraham Lincoln battle ancient alien technologies during the Civil War era? His arch-enemy is a zombie king whose fetish is to murder ASOH's man-servants? Just the simple fact that a metal head has a man-servant? And top voice talent to execute it all? Pure genius. Mike Mignola was an unknown to me up until this time, but not anymore, I am a follower and put him in league with Joss Whedon and Peter Jackson in talent and imagination.
I accidentally stumbled across the first viewing of this on Sci-Fi when I was skimming another channel in the guide to record for the upcoming week, and the title alone made me go "hmm... sounds interesting enough to DVR", so I did. I eventually got around to watching it a few weeks later and I thought WOW! I have to DVR the series! Sadly, it was shown one more time and then nothing. I'm glad they made a DVD of it, this way I can have a copy forever.
If they don't make this a full blown series then i'll have to say poppycock!
Dare mo shiranai (2004)
Good idea for a movie, but boring
I had high hopes for this movie given the rating, but IMHO it has achieved high ratings because of the idea for the movie, and not the actual execution of the movie, and generally people would feel bad for bashing a movie made about four poor kids in Japan, abandoned by their mom, and given the ending. I can only hope this film was of financial benefit to the real life children that were in this plight, so at least it was not a total waste. It was interesting to see some of the lifestyle and culture of the Japanese, but it wasn't worth the 2+ hours you spend to get that. This line was added just to get over the 10 line minimum IMDb imposes.