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[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Review?
Typical , Pearth gets the movies before the NT .
Was 'PINK FLOYD " the sound track?
'Saucer full of secrets' , it the next transformer movies name ,
Max Prime told me .
So Peter we gotta keep this under our mantles . Ok ?
cool.
Review ?
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Watched Transformers - Dark of the Moon last night. My thoughts? The first Transformers movie was great, the second, ok....the third, less than ok. Hope they don't make a 4th, as it will probably be really bad

Although I am glad I watched it, as it is definitely worth watching, at least once, but, I wouldn't add it to my collection, as I wouldn't want to watch it again.

I thought some of the dialogue was terrible and it a few place it was well and truly over-acted and farcical. Furthermore the humour appeared to be too forced and in some places rather corny and just plain stupid. I liked the humour of the first Transformers the best, after that, it went downhill

However, its redeeming feature is that the special effects were friggin' awesome, in places. Some of the SFX I hadn't seen done like this before. In some respects, I think they had decided on the SFX first, and then added the story and dialogue later.

This movie had the potential to be a great movie, but because of the corny and stupid humour, I think Michael Bay seems to have missed the boat on this one.

Cheers

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

thanks ,
But mate it cant be as bad as what I watched last night ,
'battle OF los angelese'
Not, ' battle Los Angeles'
I only got it out for a look and what a waste of space!
Corny with SFX thats so amaturish .
The only saving grace was...
I also got ' Little Johnny the Movie ' and watched it after , Funny as !
Kevin Bloody Wilson is little Johnny's uncle .
Get it if you want a good laugh.
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Yes, saw the other battle of Los Angelese on the shelf and it looked rubbish. Even the new version was rubbish too Just a war movie with aliens

Gonna watch Event Horizon tonight. It's a great movie.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

MMM "Event Horizon" good movie ,, very deep.
I like it a lot and have a copy .
quote-

'I will take the Lewis and Clarke to as safe distance and launch , 'Tak Missiles' at the Event Horizon until I am sure its gone , F&(k your ship Doctor'

I think thats about right , from memory .

Bloody Kiwi actors .
Cool movie .
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Yes, EV is a deep movie. Tonight's movie is even deeper, "Knowing". If you haven't seen this one it has a great twist at the end. It is Nicholas Cage's best movie to date. Tomorrow night I am going to watch an oldie.....Quatermass, a three part BBC series with John Mills. I haven't watched in a long time. It was creepy the first time I watched it. I picked the Quatermass box set, with the earlier B&W Quatermass Experiment etc, up about a year ago, at a second hand place.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

I liked 'Knowing' as well pretty heavy duty .. A hard cross to bear ...

Have you seen Nick Cages latest?
' Driven ' ?
It got me , it aint what you think .
Its a lot on the parallell universe theme , ,, I will say no more .
I enjojed it and if you aint seen it Peter , I think you will too .
Nicholas at his 'sad coolest' , that he is good at, yea 'Driven' .

Ahh ! Quartermass , I used to live for friday nights as a kid to watch that . The TV was mine for 1 hour.
Yes 'Alan Quartermass' was his name ? I have not seen or heard that name since I was a teenager growing up in NZ , loved it!
Thanks for the memories . I loved it , as well as the 'Land of the Giants' .
Cool . SIFI .
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Brian,

Good to know that someone else knows Quatermass. It is such a great show, even if it is a bit dated.

No sci-fi tonight! We have clear skies

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Glad to hear Peter , on the Quatermass ,
I grew up with 1 older sister and 2 older brothers , them me , and 4 younger sisters so tv time was at the premium around our place back when I grew up .
B&W TV's back then ,
The only reason I got to watch it ,was because it was a after 'Corronation Street ' on friday nights and none of my brothers and sisters were around at that time , and The tv was mine , for 1 hour ,the starting of a love of SIFI . OH Yea!
Dated ? , WHAT! , My favorite movie is 'Forbidden Planet' , dont forget .
Quality SIFI never dates .
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

"Forbidden Planet" Oops I forgot.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

an Invisable T REX getting lazer beamed at the boundry of the space ship , The best SFX .
Forbidden Planet , !
Don't go there , invisable TRex's . kill ya!

Grab a copy and watch Peter . 1950';s technology .
The first Lazered T. Rex . ever filmed .,
! 1 year before 'tecnicolour'
Brian..

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You do know 'Leslie Neilson' is the captian of the space ship that has lasers and a perimeter looking out for TRex's ? Invisable ones at that .

RIP Leslie .

He died just recieintly .


Forbidden Planet was made 20 years before 'Flying High ' .
no tecnicolour ..
cool .
Favorite .
Brian.

Originally Posted by Stardrifter_WA

"Forbidden Planet" Oops I forgot.

[Stardrifter_WA]

It's sometime surprising who turns up, usually looking somewhat younger, in some of the older movies. I always take a good look at the credits

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

You are right there Peter, I do as well and its also good to find who wrote and performe the music as well.
My night is sorted , I ordered a DVD of the origonal ' Dune ' a few weeks ago and it arrived to day ,
The version with Kyle McLauchlan and Sting . Yes! .
I have a copy of this movie in NZ and have watched it many times , its gonna be a late night long movie .
But I have heard the NZ and OZ versions are differant in their cutting? Have you heard this?
I will give a review tomorrow night ,, on this .
Lights out and time to turn up the sterio.
cool.
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Good movie Dune, but a bit dated too. I would love to see a remake that is a little closer to the book. I also have the Children of Dune, which is a mini series.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Well I watched the Aussie version and Peter , its a shambles! . they have cut at least 20 miniutes from the front of the movie , the parts that explain the rest of it ! And being a complex story this just wrecks the whole thing! What a shame? some people have no idea !
Then about 1/2 way thru the section where the princess explains here family ,eg the Emporour and his dealings is all over the place ? total confusion !.
This copy does no justice to the book and I think who ever cut this needs to liik for another JOB!! .
What a shame! This does not help the SIFI gnere one bit.
Not happy , the Kiwi version is heaps better .
Oh well it looks good in my collection ?
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

You must have the normal (theatrical) edition, as I have the extended edition, which must be the same as the edition you had in NZ.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Yes I think so Mate , It's a bummer ! , A great movie otherwise .
Because I ordered the extended version , and payed for it , Thanks for the heads up Peter , it is going back on monday .
I am just about to sit down to ' Transformers Dark of the moon ' .
Pop corn nearly ready , 50 inch plasma and sterio all warmed up , I hope the storm brewing to the south does not put the power out! AGAIN! I am looking forward to this .
Brian.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Enjoy Dark of the Moon. Not a bad movie, fantastic SFX. Some of the acting and bhumour was a bit over the top.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

I did , not to be taken seriously.
I especially liked the few refrences to the old Star Trek movies .
And its sience was pretty poor , eg. the crashed transformer ship was on the dark side of the moon ? right ? but the earth !!! was in the moons sky from it ? Pretty ,,, but , POOR .
And also another magical telescope that gives a perfect image thru a closed window .. He he .
SFX made up for it .
Brian.