In the not too distance future-2045-the world has become a giant snowball thanks to mankind’s nasty global warming habits and his attempts to put an end to global warming. We find our heroes in Colony 7, where once four hundred people lived, but now a good deal less are muddling through. Filmed in an old NORAD base, the sets looked pretty good and while the CGI was not great for the exterior shots, it wasn’t all that bad either. The acting was good, for the most part. I like seeing Bill Paxton and Lawrence Fishburne in movies and as for…
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Kiss The Dead
Laurell K. Hamilton has banged out 21 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. The fact that her name is ten times larger than Anita’s is proof that the writer has become more important than the story. While this a good thing for the publisher and the author, it’s not always a good thing for the reader. The first half of Kiss The Dead really got my hopes up. We find Anita Blake acting as a US Marshall, chasing down bad guys, talking business with her Cop buddies. She even mentions in passing that she sometimes works as a Reanimator. There’s a…
In Time
In the Future, people never age past 25, all cars were designed in the early 1970s, and time has replaced dollars as currency. In Time is a familiar story, a poor guy from the bad part of Time and a rich girl from the good part of Time, go on a Robin Hood style crime spreed to help the poor and the disenfranchised. Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake and the rest of the cast is young and good looking and always a minute or so away from dying. It seems that everyone could be an immortal, but where you put…
Falling Skies
I’ll watch just about any science fiction that doesn’t feature giant robots that turn into cars. Falling Skies from TNT and Steven Spielberg is the story of Earth after the fall of humankind to an alien invasion. The aliens are called Skidders and most closely resemble one of the twisted toys from the original Toy Story. They have an upper body with a head and two arms, but then have a lower body composed of several legs. We learn that the key to killing them is to disable as many legs as possible. Falling Skies is basically a post apocalyptic…
X-Men First Class-Damn that Was Good
You just gotta love a movie that opens with our hero as a small boy in a Nazi death camp. Of course, Erik is not really the hero, but then, he’s not exactly the great villain either. At about the same time, we find Charles at home at stately Wayne Manor, well, stately Xavier Manor. Little Charles meets little Raven and they are happy to find that they are not alone in being ‘special.’ And so starts X-Men First Class. We jump forward to 1962 where most of the action…
I Am Number Four
Shown in Theater Number 4, cute, huh? The story of a group of aliens being hunted by another group of aliens all of whom have supernatural powers and are hiding in plain sight here on Earth-while blowing up everything they run across and showing up on YouTube. It’s a pretty standard issue story and a movie only made possible by super cheap CGI. Like all setup movies, I Am Number Four is crammed full of dull and boring backstory about our super hunk alien and the nasty fish people who want to kill him. Only it’s backstory that doesn’t really…
This,That, and The Other Thing
There was an episode of Gilligan’s Island where Gilligan became a dictator following the advice of an evil man. He thought he was doing good work, as he loved his people and promised them-This, That, and The Other Thing. His people, of course, hated him. Hitler is the poster child for Dictators, a nasty fellow surrounded by a group of people who would do anything he said-and anyone who didn’t would be killed. This is why most dictators don’t care if the people love them or hate them-the people just come with the scenery, as some pop star said. You…
Salt-Missing The Cold War
So what to do when you have a bang up cold war story, but the good old USSR has been dead for lo these many years? Well, you just add one part Manchurian Candidate, one part Bourne Identity, and one part The Boys From Brazil. Viola! Salt is a nice spy story where the USSR wants to rise from the ashes and a sleeper agent has been waiting thirty years to strike, and by the way-that sleeper agent is not only super human but a hottie as well. Make no mistake, Salt is just a Star Vehicle for Angelina Jolie. …