Rebooting Underworld?

FFS

Personally, I can't decide which was worse; Evolution or Rise of the Lycans, but I'd be inclined to say Rise of the Lycans. At least evolution stuck to what was covered in the first film, the whole Corvinus thing. The events of RotL contradict Lucian's account of the start of the war in Underworld, which in my opinion ruined it.

Right now I'm watching The big gundown, staring Lee van Cleef and Tomas Millian. Yesterday I watched Il grande silenzio, I'm in a mood to watch wild-west movies lately.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

Love that film

Just finished watching Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses. Like the first one, it was a lot of fun. Danny Trejo is pure awesome as ever. There was even an Expendables reference, which was perfect.

I am almost done with China Beach, with just a few episodes left of the final season. It has been really good. But it started losing steam in the later half of Season Three. In Season Four they started jumping around with prequel and postquel episodes. On one hand they added more to the characters, showing is their first days in China Beach, and their last, and especially their lives after Vietnam. But on the other I find the jumping around through time to be disjointing.

The post-Vietnam episodes also bring a feeling of anti-climax. With any war story, there is a sense that the war is something you have to endure, and then afterward you get to go home, and the rest of life is going to be a breeze in comparison. Of course that was/is not the case for many veterans. Season Four really shows this. But speaking purely from a writing point of view, it is like there is no Act 3, no resolution to the story. So it just starts to feel like much of the Fourth Season is sitting and spinning, and going nowhere.

I also started a couple of other shows from Netflix. Rizzoli and Isles has been a lot of fun. Right from the first episode I was loving it. I especially like Moura Isles, for all of her bizarre science geekness. She and Rizolli make an great duo.

I have also been watching Body Of Proof, mainly because it has Dana Delany. This one took a while more for me to warm up to. But once they finally got into the protagonist's strained relationship with her daughter, and we stared seeing more of her and the other character's personal lives, I was hooked as well.

Been watching far too much tele of late...Again...

We finished Magnum ages ago...And McWife pretty much instantly started on the re-runs of Blue Bloods for her Selleck fix...I have not joined her in this as of yet...

Erm...

We're subscripted to this Amazon Prime Video thingy...So at the moment we're going through some BBC America thing called Copper...It's like Ripper Street, but set in New York...It's alright...I'm getting less into is as we go through it...But it's only got 23 episodes in all, so I'll likely stick it to the end...

Doctor Who Wednesdays has now reached the first of the Donna Noble series...

Erm...

Rewatching The Mighty Boosh and Red Dwarf from the start...

Tried to watch Stargate SG-1 on the Amazon thing...Started well but stalled again this morning...*Sigh*...Will try again soon...

Can't remember the rest...But that's another story... ...

We liked the first series of Body Of Proof btw...But the second went so far downhill that we completely avoided the third...But, that's just us... ...

We almost started Rizzoli and Isles ourselves, but it turned up while we were watching FAR too much...So it never got us...

I am watching Captain America: Winter Soldier. First time on blu-ray. Being able to pause and really look at things is nice. I figured out where the Shield Triskelion was. I recognized the Watergate Hotel across the street. So I brought it up on Google Earth. Shield is right across the Potomac from it, between two bridges. It is on Theodore Roosevelt Island. It takes up the entire island in fact, which looks to be all parkland (Not a D.C. resident, so I only know what I see from the satellite).

It is very neat how the filmmakers did that. They found an empty space right in the middle of a major city, and used it to put their headquarters in, without having to change anything around it. Very resourceful!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 13 2014, 10:14 PM

Just watched Rush...A film by Ron Howard that tells the story of the Formula One rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda...

It's not exactly true to life, but it's damned good entertainment... ...

Amazingly exciting film...Very well done...

Loved it...

Waiting for The Girl to get home so we can watch Doctor Who, and The Boy just left. We have a pact to watch it together.

No more plans on Saturday nights! What are they thinking?! Argh, teenagers!!

I actually don't watch very many movies anymore. I guess PC games have spoiled me to favor interacting with a story instead of simply watching it.

Anyway, I was captive on a big touring bus that I used to get to/from the Grand Canyon. On the several hour trip home yesterday, the bus showed a movie. One I'd never heard of (mind you, there are countless movies I've never heard of). Anyway, up comes the name Harrison Ford. Then the name Daniel Craig. Okay, I'm familiar with them and the opening stuff is set out in the desert southwest so maybe this won't be bad. At that point, before the movie did, Mrs Acadian informed me that the movie was called Cowboys and Aliens.

Well, I rather enjoyed it. Preposterous, anachronistic, tongue in cheek and quiet entertaining actually. It reminded me of another movie called A Knight's Tale (Jousting to Queens Reich music). Quite the hoot.

I just started watching the 2014 Godzilla. This is my first time on blu-ray. The opening credits are a blast to step through frame by frame, so you can read the parts before they get blocked out. Some of it is just nonesene, but some of it is funny. For example, for one frame you see this:

The 'scientist' and occult author Richard T Jones has claimed unique knowledge of the creature's odd mating with CJ Adams.

Then they block out all but Richard T Jones and CJ Adams.

Another starts out as "Are these creatures real, or just men in rubber suits?" Then it all gets blacked out a frame later.


Just noticed another cute easter egg.

26:52 in, when they are back at the old family home in the quarantine zone. The camera moves in on an aquarium filled with gunk. A piece of tape on it reads "Ford's Moth" RA follows right afterward in different lettering, part of something else that was covered up by the tape.


Finished watching it. It was ok. Still not as good as the original though (not the Hollywood butchery with Raymond Burr, but the real, Japanese original Gojira).

My main gripe is the lack of giant monsters fighting one another. When I go to see a giant monster movie, I expect to see giant monsters, in giant battles. But every time a brawl starts between Godzilla and one of the baddies, or just with the giant bad guys, the movies cuts away to a feed on a tv screen of it for a few seconds, and then cuts away from that. In Hawaii, in Vegas, etc... I don't really care about some ugly guy who almost gets killed by big monsters over and over again, or his wife, who is apparently only there to prove that he's heterosexual, or his son, who is only there to prove his virility.

I feel sorry for Ken Watanabe. He's arguably the best actor in the movie (props to David Stratharain, he's an excellent actor as well), but he has nothing to do except stand around with his mouth gaping in shock and awe, and occasionally mutter "Gojira!" Why even bother hiring an actor of his caliber, if you are not going do anything with him?

Still, it does eventually have some giant monster action at the end. The new atomic breath was very cool. And Gojira is still the coolest giant monster around (though I do think some pilates might help, or at lest some yoga. Sorry G, but packing off a few tons would probably be good for your heart). I did especially like the acknowledgment of Godzilla being the savior of the city at the end. I think the President ought to give him a medal. Or at least make him an honorary Navy S.E.A.L.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 17 2014, 02:41 AM

Umm, yeah, I have been considering looking that one up and watching it. Just because of

HARRISON FORD!!

DANIEL CRAIG!!

IN THE SAME MOVIE!! OMG!! OMG!!

*faints*

It's a damned good film...I really enjoyed it...Don't take it seriously and you'll be fine... ...

I don't know who watches cartoons here, but I think the old cartoons were always the best ones. Getting in touch with my childhood . . . heh.

I feel old . . .

I never intended to take that one seriously. After all, I'm a HUGE fan of The Good, the Bad and the Weird! Now that's a movie to be thoroughly enjoyed without overthinking anything. The production values are outstanding, location shots are stunning, and the characters over the top. Plot? Who cares?


Love those Merrie Melodies! And I love the old Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 30's and 40's as well. That first one I remember all too well!

So who's older?

We watched Bachelorette and it brought up a lot of bad memories from high school.

"Blended" with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore is much better.

We went to see the musical, Wicked, the other night...As in, the prequel to Wizard of Oz...It was absolutely amazing!!...The two leads were spectacular (you will believe the Wicked Witch of The West is hot... ...); the songs were amazing; the staging and lighting was so wonderfully done...

We all absolutely loved it...Much better than The Lion King which we saw earlier in the year...(Which by no means less than pretty good and enjoyable and all that...But not...Great...Y'know?...)...


Oh, and saw Capaldi's first Doctor Who foray the other morning...And Karen Gillan's actually...The Pompeii one...Fantastic episode...I'd quite forgotten how good that one was...

Dear Gods Catherine Tate is gorgeous...*Sighs*... ...


What?... ...

Watched Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters last night.

Bloody awesome film

Blacklist on Netflix.

Just wow. Haven't watched a show this intriguing in a long time. Every episode so far has been excellent.

Reddington is a very depthful character and the show does a good job of slowly peeling back the layers to keep you guessing about him.

That one is in my dvd queue, if I can ever get to it!

I just cannot get over how James Spader looks though. The last time I saw him, he was that bushy haired fella in Stargate. What happened!