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At the heart of any top home theater is the video monitor. Plasmas are reaching 63 inches in width but they can't compete with the physical awe that comes from a 120 inch 16:9 roll down screen beaming the best in HDTV. Martantz's VP12S3 has the sex appeal of a projector costing $12,999. Tom Garcia puts this single chip DLP through the paces with a battery of DVD and HDTV sources to see how it competes with the best projectors in its class. Click below to read more... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/equip/marantzvp12s3/index.html Click below for the equipment review archives. http://www.audiorevolution.com/equip/equipmain.shtml Revolution Home Theater Film Review I, Robot Reviewed by Bill Warren Rating: Three-and-a-Half Stars This is not, repeat not, based on Isaac Asimov's collection of short stories of the same title. The movie does use his famous "Three Laws of Robotics" and generally treats them with respect; a couple of characters come from Asimov, too, notably Dr. Susan Calvin, here played somewhat stiffly by Bridget Moynahan. Asimov fans needn't fear that his ideas have been trashed. And the movie itself is reasonably entertaining and spectacularly well produced. The script was originally titled "Hardwired" and had nothing to do with Asimov. When Alex Proyas, a long-time science fiction reader, was hired to direct, he had rewrites done that incorporated Asimov's ideas. The story is credited to Jeff Vintar (who wrote "Hardwired"); he also cowrote "Final Fantasy" and is adapting Asimov's "Foundation" books to the screen. The co-writer of the final script is Akiva Goldsman, who's had an erratic career: he wrote "A Beautiful Mind" but also "Batman Forever." 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Click below to experience excitement! http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/axiomadver.html Revolution Home Theater Featured DVD Reviews Check Out More Will Smith Summer Blockbusters... Men In Black "Men in Black" is terrific entertainment, swift and sure of itself, never stepping over the lines of straight-faced comedy into obvious farce. The premise is at once familiar and fresh, the casting is on the money, it's directed in a light, breezy style by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written with poker-faced seriousness by Ed Solomon. Even though the ending doesn't have quite the intended punch, and though we are never told very clearly just what's going on -- there's a good reason for that -- it's so entertaining that few are likely to mind. In an illuminating opening scene, we meet K (Tommy Lee Jones), a super-serious agent of the Men in Black, a secret government organization set up to protect both the 1500 or so space aliens visiting Earth at any given them, and to hide their presence from other human beings. The Men in Black provide an Immigration Service for aliens: they run a kind of Ellis Island for visitors from out there at 504 Battery Drive in New York. The Men in Black have all kinds of spiffy gadgets to help them with this, and K is the best of all the agents Click below for more... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/meninblack.shtml ID4: Independence Day "Independence Day" is all the fireworks of the 4th of July in one movie, as well as all of the patriotism, and all of the corn. Especially all of the corn. The movie, about the invasion of Earth by very well-armed aliens, borrows heavily from movies of the past, particularly "War of the Worlds" and "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers," while adopting the disaster-movie format. And why not? Those too were huge, cornball epics, stuffed to the gills with special effects; there wasn't a deep thought in any of them, but audiences had a grand time with the best. In true disaster-film format, director Roland Emmerich -- showing vast improvement over "Stargate" -- and his co-writer Dean Devlin introduce the cast of characters before getting down to what the audience came to see: aliens blowing the hell out of Earth. First, the government, embodied mostly by President Whitmore (Bill Pullman), learns that an enormous spacecraft has stopped near Earth. And has sent out a "almost three dozen" smaller -- each a mere 15 miles across -- ships that descend toward Earth, eventually taking up positions above the world's major cities. 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