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Post by abisai on Aug 9, 2006 23:28:52 GMT -5
That giant squid story made me cruise the internet for movies and I saw the most frightening videos of great whites jumping fully out of the waters off of Africa to catch prey on the surface. I about crapped myself watching these mammoth things overwhelming something that looked about the size of a ragdoll in their teethy mouth. Fear has a name for me, I call it Jumping Great Whites.
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Post by Ken on Aug 10, 2006 20:47:27 GMT -5
I saw that video, isn't that amazing? I think it shocks most people because they realize that if real great white sharks can do that, then the scene where Jaws jumps onto the boat and eats Quint is possible. Then even being on the water in a boat isn't truly safe.
So I saw the show with the giant squid. There wasn't any video, just still photography, and the photos weren't really that great, but the fact that we have proof and footage of a LIVE giant squid in the wild is fascinating. They spent 30 - 40 minutes presenting background and history on the giant squid before they finally got to the pictures. Then, they actually hauled up a giant squid tentacle that got caught on the hook. The squid had to dismember it's own tentacle to escape. The tentacle kept moving around, even after severed, I guess like a chicken with it's head cut off.
All-in-all, it didn't live up to the hype, but it was interesting.
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Post by Rob G on Aug 10, 2006 22:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by Rob G on Oct 5, 2006 21:07:04 GMT -5
I caught 3 episodes of Alias last night. first i ever saw the show. This is like mission impossible type deal with Jennifer Garner switching wigs to become completely different people.
I always thought it would be dum till i learned it was made by the lost people. This show is crazy alot like lost. Theres magic relics, memory erasers, double agents, prophecies, and all kinds of madness. and Mad actors from Lost are on the show. And the action sequences are far supior to normal tv production. I will check this show out now.
Anybody know anything about this show or have Season 1 on DVD.
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Post by abisai on Oct 6, 2006 22:41:49 GMT -5
Alias represents everything that I dislike in Lost. It's too completely off the wall and cartoonish. I watched it once and it ended with something like someone ripping off Scooby's mask while jumping off a train that fell off a cliff.
Now the Office, that's my shit. I love it. Dwight Shrute cracks me the fuck up.
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Post by Ken on Oct 7, 2006 10:21:48 GMT -5
I had no idea Alias was so weird like that. I kind of likened it to USA's La Femme Nikita. I may have to check this out.
There are a lot of great new television shows this year.
Heroes A new show about people's burgeoning super-powers. The characters in the show are discovering that they have various superpowers. They are fledgeling powers at first, but the viewer gets the idea that they will become more powerful as the shows go on. There is even a supervillain that freezes people, cuts their heads open and eats their brains. Various powers include, teleportation, superhealing, telepathy, telekinesis, flying, and a truly weird female character who blacks out anytime she is threatened, only to wake up and find her attackers bludgeoned and beaten to death in various grosteque ways. Every thime she looks in a mirror, her mirror image is her, but a truly a malicious one.
Smith Starring Ray Liotta This show is about Ray Liotta's character, who is a big-time thief. They call the show "Smith" b/c supposedly, every thime the FBI has a suspect with no name or picture, they give him a codename, "Smith," kind of like calling an unknown stiff John Doe. Every show revolves around Smith and his crew stealiong something really big. This show smacks of great heist movies, especially, "Heat." There have been some scenes that have actually been lifted from heist movies. Remember in Heat, when Deniro and his crew meet in the port holding yard to identify the cops and Pacino? Smith meets with his crew in a yard similar to this. Remember in The Usual Suspects, when the crew goes to California to meet with the fence at that chinese gazebo thingy? They did that in Smith too. Its a pretty good show. Everyone on his crew is ruthless.
Shark James Woods Woods plays a high-profile defense attorney who is the ultimate best. He's obsessed with perfection and getting his clients off until the client he just got freed for spouse abuse kills his wife that night. He then switches to a prosecutor whos still obsessed with being perfect. He's got a team of lawyers who are up and coming prosecutors, who really don't know much. They are so happy to be learning under him. A good law show. Woods has his own courtroom in his basement, where he practices his openings and closings, stocked with artifacts from famous courts around the country. A lamp from Judge Ito's bench, a table from the To Kill a Mockingbird court set, etc. Pretty cool.
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Post by Rob G on Oct 7, 2006 15:07:44 GMT -5
Heroes: I watch the first EP and was not impressed. Too 90210 for me.
Smith: I watched the first 3 EPs. Preatty good. I love the ruthlessness of all the characters. Its good cause traditional hollywood depictions of thieves is romantic ones. But career criminal inhabit an underworld which must change them and robbery is act of person who is detached to one degree or another. Its good shit. However theres a whole everyone is fucking everyone else's girl in the show which i dont wanna be bothered by. All the actors are a step above TV skills though. Ray Liotta does have something i cant quite pin down. The chick whose name i cant remember is a hot little slut whose been in good in everything shes ever done. I think the show is runnning out of energy already but its got some good shit.
Shark: I missed this one. But Nick Woods is cool shit and Jeri Ryan (7of9) is HOT
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Post by Rob G on Oct 8, 2006 5:50:13 GMT -5
Alias:
Alright, I'm like 8 eps in and I gotta say. Its preatty good. My first thoughts is that Dave Buckley would hate ALOT of it. But that Ken would love almost all of it.
Heres the basic deal. At a young age she took some test which led SD6 to contact her and make her an agent. SD6 is covert sect of the CIA. Except after many years she learns that SD6 is not CIA at all. They just say that to get people.
It seems back in the cold war a number of different countires intelligence agencies merged to compete with the CIA and KGB. This was called the alliance of twelve. SD6 is an evolution of that. Their not necessary evil. They just on some different shit.
But anyhow she goes to CIA and tells them everything. Then she becomes a double agent. SD6 sends her missions and each time the CIA gives her a counter mission. Meanwhile SD6 is opposed by an X-soviet rogue intelligence group called K-Directorate. They have a really hot super agent too.
Now while all this is going on SD6 is trying to locate the artifacts of Rambaldi. Rambaldi is basically divinche. Early on they find a blue print of his for a transistor which is impossible. They also find code he wrote which is in zeros and ones. In the last episode i saw she found Rambaldi's clock and had to go to the decesant of the man who made it. The man says his ancestor only made this clock for rambaldi cause rambaldi told his fortune. Rambadli told the clock maker he would live an impossibly long life. As it turns out this clock maker is centuries old.
So this show has alot in common with Lost including the straight off the hook Sci-Fi elements.
I suppose its basically Mission Impossible meets Indiana Jones meets the Davinche Code. But I like all that shit so I'm all set here. Its not as good as Lost but it is good. The story is interesting and compelling but it made me release the genius lost.
Whats the Genius of Lost Rob?
In those first few episodes of Lost they really invested us in the characters. They offered such a widen array of charcters that you were bound to get attached to one or many of them.
One thing i did figure out watching both shows is that JJ Abrams is not the genius behind Lost. Damon Lindeloff is. Damon was one of many writers on Alias and the co-creator of Lost. Its kindof fucked off cause due to the success of Lost only JJ Abrams has reaped the benefits being able to write and direct Mission Impossible 3 and being given control of the entire Star Trek franchise for the future.
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Post by ring87 on Oct 8, 2006 6:37:52 GMT -5
I have been watch Alias on and off for a few year and I can see what Ben sees in her. It's a good show ;D
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Post by Ken on Oct 11, 2006 18:13:30 GMT -5
So after all my reviews, I read an article in the Daily News yesterday that due to poor ratings, "Smith" is being cancelled already.
That sucks. I liked that show.
Anybody check out "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?" Its made by the exact same people as "The West Wing" and has many of the same actors. It looks OK, but according to the same article mentioned above, it is also receiving low ratings and may be cancelled.
My opinion, you have to leave a show on for at least a full season in order to build a following. Give it a chance!
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Post by Rob G on Oct 11, 2006 21:39:58 GMT -5
Smith had some good shit but i really dont think they could have sustained it.
Studio 60 is preatty good. Its still preatty rough but those westwing writers (Aaron Sorkin) are genius's 30Rock is basically the same show as Studio 60 except they actually have the saturday night live poeple on there. But 30rock sucks. They wont last long.
Larry says Jericho is the bomb.
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Post by Rob G on Oct 12, 2006 7:39:18 GMT -5
Jericho: This show is cool but i will post over on larrys thread.
Alias: This show is nuts just like lost. Almost done with first season and going strong. Strangely they brought in John Locke as Agent Candle. Hmmm.
They have cool reoccuring guest stars though. Roger Moore plays the head of another intel agency.
Quentin Tarantino plays a total bad ass.
Aside from all the completely insane spy shit the bitch is also part of a devinche prophesy which states she will bring about Armageddon.
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Post by Rob G on Oct 25, 2006 1:06:49 GMT -5
I'm totally sold on Alias now. The show got way better in the second season.
The coolest shit is that theres dozens of cool super spy characters running arround doing cool super slick shit. Whats really impressive is the insane cast of reoccuring guest stars including.
Roger Moore, Quentin Tarintino, John locke, Ethan hawk, Rudger Hauer, Faye Dunaway, Christen Slater, and many others
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Post by Ken on Apr 9, 2007 7:16:34 GMT -5
So last night was the season premier of The Sopranos and unlike last years season premier (remember Tony was some half-assed salesman?) this one was much better. Without giving anything away in case you haven't seen it yet, I sincerely hope that by the last episode Tony's sister gets hit by a bus, or a truck, or an airplane lands on her, or how about a bullet to the back of that big thick head of hers? She is so annoying, and really difficult to look at.
And her husband, Bobby Baccala, does something so stupid in this episode, you wonder how Tony can really let it go.
One of the few things I really love about this show is the silly scams they make money on. Now they are going to be in bed with the Canadians, selling expired Fosamax tablets. Fosamax helps prevent hip and spine fractures, bone loss, and osteoporosis in postmenapausal women. Tough Tony Soprano selling Fosamax. This just cracks me up.
With only eight episodes to go, I really wonder where they are going to take the show. I have heard talk of leaving it wide open so they can make a full-featured, full-length movie to wrap up the show. Will thay finally make war on New York? Will Tony get whacked? Will Tony wind up in jail with the Feds breathing down his neck with a RICO case? Will Tony somehow manage to retire safely and get away? Or will the show just end as another day in the life of Tony, letting everybody know that the family will go on as normal?
I'd like to see a big climax, something to shake up The Sopranos universe, at least the war with NY that has been brewing for two seasons now. What say you?
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Post by Rob G on Apr 9, 2007 22:28:04 GMT -5
Yeah I really liked the Sopranos season opener aswell. They pulled everything together that anyone cares about. The Feds are back which has generally been forgotten for like 2 seasons. New York is back which has been dick teased to death. One thing i took away from this episode was that I would really love Carmella to give me a blow Job on my birthday.
So how does it end.
Well conventional wisdom would dictate that Tony has to die horribly. You cant live that life and have it not all catch up to you. A slight twist on this is the Godfather 3 ending. Originally Michael corleone is supposed to die at the end. But instead they changed it so that its his daughter that dies. Whats worse then dying, having your children killed. They could go this way too but that would seem so ripped at this point. The fact that Tony got an AR-10 assault rifle seems to set the stage for the Scarface shoot-out ending. But its gotta be something a little more orginal.
I'm gonna say Tonys whole family gets killed and he goes to prison forever. With a window looking out of rikers at some fucking ducks.
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