Catwoman

Starring: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone Dvd Release: 17th January, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English, German Dubbed In: German

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Catwoman is a movie directed by Pitof & released by Warner Brothers in 2004. Patience is a shy woman who works for a cosmetics company. Her boss kills her because she is stealing her work. After being murdered, she wakes up as Catwoman, a warrior with the force of a cat, that prowls the night in search of justice. The whip that Halle Berry used was digitally inserted into the film; unlike Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Catwoman in Batman Returns, Halle Berry never learned to use it. The movie was adapted by John D Brancato, Michael Ferris & John Rogers, from a story by Theresa Rebeck, Brancato & Ferris. The film was heavily criticized by fans of the Catwoman comic book character for departing from the basics of the character, with bad word of mouth starting to spread a full year before the film was released. The film also sparked debate among comic book fans over the casting of a black actress to play a character identified as caucasian for decades. This debate subsided when it was learned that Berry would not be playing Selina Kyle, the real Catwoman.

I wanted to like this. I really did. My wife bought it for me as a treat, & we sat down to watch it together. Well, I can safely say that it is extremely unlikely that our DVD player will ever house it again.

The bar on superhero movies has been raised very high these days, notably by the Spiderman franchise & Batman Begins. Spiderman in particular shows what you can achieve with CGI.

Alas, Catwoman fails to even reach the bar, let alone raise it further. The CGI is truly awful, & in some cases even laughable. The script, well, let's not even go there.

I gave it one star, because you can't give it none, so let's just say that the star is because I'm a man, & Halle Berry's costume is probably the best thing in the film .

Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was named after Halles Department Store, a local landmark. Although she is generally considered African American, she is biracial, with a white English -born mother, Judith Ann Hawkins & a black American father, Jerome Berry. Berrys parents divorced when she was four years old & she was subsequently raised by her mother, a psychiatric-ward nurse. She has an older sister, Heidi. Berry was a popular student at her high school & was a cheerleader, honor society member, editor of the school newspaper, class president & prom queen. She subsequently attended Cuyahoga Community College. Before becoming an actress, she entered several beauty contests including Miss Ohio USA, Miss Teen All American, Miss USA & Miss World. Her talents as an actress have often been overshadowed by her physical beauty. In the late 1980s, she went to Chicago to pursue a modeling career as well as acting. One of her first acting projects was a television series for local cable by Gordon Lake Productions called Chicago Force. Posters Of Halle Berry

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Sharon Stone, is an American actress, model & producer. Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1975, she won the Miss Pennsylvania beauty pageant. She made her film debut in Woody Allen s Stardust Memories & had a speaking part a year later in the horror movie Deadly Blessing. She married Michael Greenburg in 1984, a marriage which lasted just 3 years. In the 1980s she played many parts in B-movies such as King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain & the Lost City of Gold. Her appearance in Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her her first wide exposure. She subsequently posed nude for Playboy at the age of 32. Her role in the sexually-charged Basic Instinct brought her to greater notoriety & the film became a popular cult movie. In that year, she was rated by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine chose her as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Posters Of Sharon Stone

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