No, but I saw "Clockstoppers". Pretty awful.

Just finished season 1 of Falling Skies; and aside from one really weird slip up in episode 4 where everything went all "God is great, and if we love god, he will save us" for a bit, and then that never came back up, it's really frickin awesome.

They do some really nice stuff with full scale puppets for the aliens, and by the end of the season the effects were actual pretty nicely well done. Noah Wyle is just purely awesome throughout and Colin Cunningham is completely badass. And aside from a couple of the younger characters and a few dayplayers the rest of the acting is pretty solid too (Although the level of acting in major kid characters is really astonishing, makes a nice change from...some...of the kids we've been getting lately cough*walkingdead*cough)

Definitely recommended. Can't wait for season 2 this year!

Going through my cabinet that is filled with DVDs, I came across Pet Sematary Two, which Trey had worked on.

Haven't seen it in a long time. Watched it again and, umm... it was amusing.

Not movie talk but Game of Thrones talk. Well, George RR Martin talk. He is doing a live chat on the Empire Magazine website on Monday 23rd at 1PM (BST). Sorry for all the non-UK folk who may be interested. I know the time difference is a bugger.

I get nothing from this 'plug', just thought people may be interested-http://www.empireonline.com/chat/

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Hmmmmm....yes, that may be a fucker. He's in the writer's room of the show, so I doubt he'd spoil anything but some dickhead asking questions may spoil something.

A science fiction movie with giant robots and no sound in space?

I love this movie.

Last edited by Xtroid (2012-04-23 17:19:59)

I really can't wait to see that film

I enjoyed it a great deal.

Haha, Twister...

Holy shit! I honestly thought I was the only one around these parts that doesn't like Twister.

The trailers helped to sell that movie a lot. At the time, the effects were insanely amazing. That was the first time you'd ever seen that sort of effect happening at that scale, and it looked really convincing in the trailers. Actually, some of the shots still look pretty good.

But the initial teaser was what made people want to see that movie. It's basically just the opening sequence of the film with sequences where you just hear the sound while the title cards tell you how awesome the people who made the movie are. Then it ends on a pretty bad-ass shot of a tractor smashing into the ground and flying at the camera... which I don't think was actually in the movie...

But the opening sequence is shot like a fucking horror movie where if you open the door, the bad guy will kill you all. The killer just happens to be a tornado.

Personally I was underwhelmed by the movie in the theater, tho it was fun to watch and there are some pretty funny / intense moments. The intense moments are entirely unrealistic and goofy, really, but they're intense and fun when you're 15. Unfortunately, they sold that movie to me as though it was going to be about the science of tornadoes and people tracking them and trying to save people during a bad outbreak or something. It is about that, but in a really unrealistic way where the tornado is like a sentient villain almost and it almost turns into some kind of revenge picture at the end.

"This storm killed my ex-colleague and destroyed my friend's house! I have to go after it!"

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm gonna study it. I'm gonna study the fuck out of it!"

And then it dies at the end after they've studied it to death and seen it's soul or whatever they were doing in the cone there. But yeah, it was the combination of the effects plus the way the initial teaser sold it like some kind of weather-related horror / thriller / drama and not like the semi-cheesy action comedy it turned out to be.

Please. However I am interested to see how Frakenweenie turns out. We had the trailer in front of Avengers, looks like it could be good....ish.