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General Category / Films & TV / Re: James Marsters on Torchwood
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on: June 19, 2007, 07:58:40 AM
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Makes you feel any better, I now have a copy of KEKKO KAMEN (She's a naked anime superheroine! Hilarity UTTERLY fails to ensue!). Dodged the porn bullet for nearly four years with NEO then POW, right between the eyes.
It's the only DVD Kate has insisted stays in the envelope it arrived in. |
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General Category / Films & TV / Re: James Marsters on Torchwood
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on: June 19, 2007, 07:39:21 AM
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I actually picture a Torchwood roundtable along similar lines to a friend's experience a few years ago. He was hired to write the definitive episode guide to STAR TREK, every series, every movie and began watching it in shifts with his writing partner.
Apparently, his notes for each episode were pretty extensive and calm until halfway through Voyager series 5 where he realised he was basically alternating between FUCK and WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pretty consistently.
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General Category / Films & TV / Re: 2007 Films
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on: February 19, 2007, 10:39:17 AM
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I could count the number of decent movies last year on one hand, this year...WOW.
300 - Heroic sacrifice and Gerard Butler being deranged. So very there.
Coraline - Didn't even know this was out. Definitely looking forward to it now.
Stardust - Again, can't wait.
Beowulf - Actually interested in both versions of this, if nothing else to see how they differ.
Sin City 2 - More Clive Owen as Dwight? Yes please.
Grind House - Will either be spectacular or meh. Given that Freddy Rodriguez recently revealed that he's basically playing Antonio Banderas' DESPERARDO character fighting zombies, I'm leaning towards spectacular.
30 Days of Night - Definitely interested. I enjoyed the comic but don't have the emotional attachment to it that a lot of other people have, but I'm definitely looking forward to this.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Old school turtles! Sold.
Spider-Man 3 - Re watched Spidey 1 over the weekend and was amazed to see how quickly some of the effects have dated. That being said this has been Marvel's most consistent franchise and if Raimi can juggle the multiple villains, this should be great.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End - Keith Richards. All that needs to be said.
Fantastic Four 2 - Interestingly, the press for this has all had a real air of 'Yeah the first one was lousy, but this is great'. The teaser is phenomenal and I'm curious to see whether Galactus actually appears or if, as rumoured, he's the lead in for number three.
Transformers - Michael blows stuff up. Al is made very happy. Unless it's BAD BOYS 2.
Zodiac - I'll watch pretty much anything Fincher has put his name to and this looks phenomenal.
Sunshine - Hmmm. My boatloads of issues with 28 DAYS LATER aside (And yet, oddly, I'm looking forward to 28 WEEKS LATER) this looks promising. Interesting cast (Schwimmer and Michelle Yeoh? In the SAME film?), the visuals look amazing and whilst rumours are its a thinly veiled EVENT HORIZON remake I...actually really liked EVENT HORIZON. Oh who am I trying to kid it's a spaceship movie, I'm there with bells on.
The Number 23 - JI#'m really looking forward to this, sounds like a very interesting idea.
1408-John Cusack trapped in a demonic hotel room for at least an hour of the running time. Advanced word is phenomenal and Cusack is always good value.
The Lovely Bones - Didn't even know this was out this year, excellent:)
The Bourne Ultimatum - Like you, I thought Supremacy was two hours of chase scene looking for a plot. However, the triple layered plot here (Bourne searching for his identity, a journalist discovering the truth about Treadstone, Treadstone's successor looking for Bourne) has me interested. Plus, Paddy Considine is always good value.
American Gangster - Crowe's due another good performance, Washington's never less than good and both men do some of their best work with the Scott brothers. Definitely up for this.
The Kingdom? - The first thing I thought when I saw the trailer for this was 'Testing the water for The Losers'. Berg's a great director and this looks to push my Mission: Impossible/CSI buttons. Anything which features Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner and Chris Cooper (Who appears to be a cheerfully deranged explosives expert) as an FBI unit gets my attention.
I am Legend? - If it's half as dark as the book I'll be genuinely astonished. Regardless, this is a sure bet because at the very least, it'll be fun and if it takes some chances, has the potential to be something amazing.
The Golden Compass? - Very dubious about the re-writes, and I've sat through quite enough shitty Nicole Kidman movies thank you. That being said, Pullman is purportedly happy, the Daemons are definitely in and if they can get the Bear right, I'll be very very happy.
The Astronaut Farmer-I should, being as much of a NASA gonk as I am, be slathering at the thought of this. As it stands, I'm more than a little worried that it'll be too cutesy for its own good.
Charlie Wilson's War-Sorkin script, Hanks front of house. Sold.
Magicians-Mitchell and Webb! Stage magic! Jessica Stevenson being deranged!
Run Fatboy Run-Simon Pegg falling over a lot and running a marathon. Brilliant. |
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General Category / General Discussion / Re: TV - what's giving you square eyes?
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on: November 15, 2006, 11:00:28 AM
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Not much at the moment. I'm watching TORCHWOOD at this stage, more out of a sense of morbid curiosity than active enjoyment (Although the PJ Hammond episode was fun and notable for the things he clearly wanted nothing to do with. Like the unnecessary sex. And most of the cast.).
Aside from that I'm really enjoying Galactica Year 3 now the world's clunkiest Iraq metaphor is behind us, have some episodes of HEROES to catch up on and have been really pleasantly surprised by SUPERNATURAL year two. Not only have they completely retooled the show and placed it in a distinctly Buffy-esque universe but have also started tying up some tiny but niggling loose ends from season one (The newest episode sees the Winchester boys favourite hobby of credit card fraud bite them quite spectacularly on the ass). Have heard nothing but good things about VERONICA MARS and I suspect the season one boxed set may be on my Christmas list. |
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General Category / General Discussion / Re: Happy Halloween!
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on: November 01, 2006, 07:16:45 AM
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Today will be the day that I will give out candy as a masked mexican wrestler in business attire. Weep for me.
NACCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
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General Category / FractalMatter.com / Re: August - Transformers
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on: September 07, 2006, 09:26:43 AM
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For good TF, look no further then Beast Wars (skip Beast Machines) and Galaxy Force. Ah Rattrap. Never before has a venal, cowardly, whinging git been such a wonderful and utterly sympathetic character. A little while ago ITV ran the shockingly poor crim-baiting show RATTRAP which saw carjackers get tormented by an ink squirting/siren-blaring/automatically locking car. All it was missing was the tiny little cyber-rodent carrying out the actual busts and I would have been in heaven.  Al |
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General Category / Films & TV / Re: Cartoons
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on: September 07, 2006, 03:32:54 AM
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Big Tex Avery fan, invevitably ('Hello, my name is Wile E. Coyote, geeeeeenius'). Ren and Stimpy did horrid things to my brain as did the utterly, utterly splendid TICK which they did HUGE amounts of, as I found out when I received nineteen discs of the bloody thing a little while back. THUNDERCATS I was mildly fond of but I was more of a car/splodey kid. POLE POSITION always got a welcome in our house as did MASK and the utterly, UTTERLY wonderful CENTURIONS. The only cartoon EVER, where the main characters utterly crap out only for a dog with a missile launcher to save the day.
Al
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General Category / Films & TV / Re: Veronica Mars
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on: September 05, 2006, 10:18:54 AM
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| Definitely looking forward to this as I suspect five will pick it up for terrestrial over here. I've read some dialogue (Most notably 'Hi I'm Veronica, I attend Neptune and I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.') and it sounds absolutely my thing:) |
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General Category / Books & Comic Books / Re: Favorite Book Writers
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on: July 25, 2006, 01:53:13 PM
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| It's good but falls apart a bit at the end (Make a great one shot RPG scenario though). BRITISH SUMMERTIME is great, genuine example of an author growing and getting more comfortable with themselves on the page. |
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General Category / Books & Comic Books / Re: Favorite Book Writers
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on: July 25, 2006, 01:49:10 PM
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A bunch, in no particular order:
Ed Mcbain-When I was growing up I wanted desperately to be an Isola PD Homicide cop. Insanely detailed, bleak as all hell and some of the funniest books I've ever read, Mcbain's 87th Precinct books are essential reading for anyone who watches HOMICIDE, THE WIRE or THE SHIELD.
Mark Billingham-Battered, crumpled crime novels about a battered, crumpled DI. Tom Thorne is as pissed off as the 8th Precinct cops but just glowers a lot. These are horrible books, filled with graveyard humour and mistakes that cost people lives. Love 'em.
Paul Cornell-Cornell's DOCTOR WHO work is good, his original SF is better. SOMETHING MORE is a story about what happens after the world ends whilst BRITISH SUMMERTIME folds Judas, time travel, the evils of greed and the city of Bath into one huge story. Big science fiction with joined up ideas.
Allen Steele-When I wasn't wanting to be an Isola PD Homicide cop, I was wanting to be an astronaut. Allen Steele's books are about normal people who just happen to live and work in space. I'm increasingly aware that we may not be back on the moon this century and if this is the closest I get, it'll just about do.
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