The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

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ALADDIN 2 & 3 were released in the 90s. They're pretty old and were extensions of the highly successful spinoff series (they also have their own names: RETURN OF JAFAR and KING OF THIEVES). but it's really hard not to notice the whoring with TWO cindarella sequels. I mean...hello! "happily ever after"! LITTLE MERMAID 2 and SNOW WHITE 2 particularly gale me too...for the same reasons, I guess. at least bambi & lion king and fox & hound have that whole "circle of life" metaphor going for it.

[maxpayne2409]

were they? i just started seeing them being posted a lot on newsgroups recently so presumed they were new, but yeah little mermaid 2: back to the sea!, clearly fulfilling her wish of having legs and marrying the prince wasn't good enough for her, maybe he cheated on her with a slut so she wants to go back to sebastian and his big pincers lol

Whats next? Aristocats 5: sleazy lowlife cat kisses n tells to tabloids

[Jynks]

Yea Disney have been making those sequales for as long as i can remebre.. i think it is part of there marketing conspet... after the film is out and the toys are sold and the books and wat not they releae cheep strait to dvd movies... to grab more cash.

[maxpayne2409]

anyone else grabbed the dvdscr of Day of the Dead 2008? gonna watch it later i think

Anyway finally got round to finishing sliders season 4 and 5

Watching a documentary from history channel called Nostradamus - 500 years later

oh also been watching series 1 of Waiting For God (early 90s britcom) it's funnier then i remember, nothing too great but better then i remember

[dinky]

TERMINATOR series. latest ep was yesterday. it was good. at first I was annoyed that they did yet-another-allusion to T2. but then I was like, "wait. reese is from the original."

I did like this ep pretty much all the way though. I don't quite get the high school stuff. maybe like it was thrown in there just to get another demograph for selling commercials. but that's my only complaint, and it wasn't a major one.

[maxpayne2409]

finally getting round to watching Day of The Dead 2008, a mate watched it earlier and he said something that made it sound even worse then i am expecting it to be.... zombies can drive.... oh dear

it pops up with the messages "this belongs to etc" but it only lasts about 10 seconds before it disappears again

[Jynks]

rease is also in the extended cut as a dream sequence for the chick b4 she breaks out of the nit house.

Why dose T@ references worry you? I mean it is Terminator.. set after the events of T2,

Juts watched a crappy tv show from the us called Samatha Who... has theat girl from married with children.. applegate. So far i have watched 3 eps and had one decent laugh.

[maxpayne2409]

i was gonna watch samantha who because christina applegate gives me a fucking bone, but i couldnt be bothered after all that, by the way day of the dead 2008 is shitter then you could ever imagine possible

oh btw guess why Bub (now called Bud) doesn't eat people... coz his alive self was a vegitarian, oh god i swear i will never ever see a worse film in my life EVER, i would actually have to rank this as a worse movie then anything billy crystal has ever starred in and i fucking billy crystal

[dinky]

rease is also in the extended cut as a dream sequence for the chick b4 she breaks out of the nit house.

yes. I watched that about a month ago when I was looking for a specific scene to cut from the DC. I'm going to not count it since it wasn't in theatrical and really is just hokey shite that deserved to be cut.

Why dose T@ references worry you? I mean it is Terminator.. set after the events of T2,

i want the series to stand on its own merits. it has a solid frame that can pretty much produce an infinite series of plots that allow it to be its own series. constantly returning to the two movies (a) ruins the flow of the series in its own right and (b) serves as a constant reminder that you are watching an inferior product, a pale imitation of something else. in other words, it's needlessly parasitic. (and I wanted to say "parasitic")

and c'mmon, the uses of enrique and the wife of the black cyberdyne guy was just fecking pathetic. I thought the stuff with reese was actually decent cuz it leads to the EMT (you know, something original to the series).

[dinky]

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES. pretty good movie. nothing ground breaking. but pretty good. I would compare it favorably with LEMONY SNICKETT'S, but you also have to keep in mind that I didn't think LS's SoUE was "the bee's knees" either. anyway, SPIDERWICK isn't nearly as gothic, but it does have a similar...iunno...burtonesque sense of irony about itself. not as strong as Burton movies or LEMONY SNICKETT's, but on that side of the scale as opposed to the shiny, "disney-fied" stuff you get in GOLDEN COMPASS or HARRY POTTER. I guess you could think of it as a darker PETER PAN sort of fantasy.

it could have been better in a few obvious ways: 1) why must freddie highmore play twin brothers? what is this? the patty duke show? 2) the goblins were numerous and stupid. they looked like giant frogs. 90% of the magical creatures in the movie are the same plethora of giant frogs. 3) related to 2: the movie basically begins by stating that there are far more "good" faeries in the world than bad ones, and you see some really cool drawings of some of them in the book, but in the movie, 95% of the magical creatures you see are the supposed minority ("bad guys"), and you meet very few individualized "good guys" - none of which look as elfish as the drawings. The good: a fast moving story that's relatively serious/mature, and lots of good acting/voice work. casting was great except for the twining thing.

[maxpayne2409]

i thought the spiderwick thingy looked kinda childish tbh

Watched Sci-Fighters last night, it's pretty bad when the best part of a film is Roddy Pipers acting, though there were quite a few lady breasts on display

[dinky]

i thought the spiderwick thingy looked kinda childish tbh

as is everything I compared it to.

it's more "adult friendly" than most. nothing special though. could be a really good movie if not handicapped by a PG rating and the desire to make a fairy tale that is both Grimm's AND Disney at the same time.

that's where cartoons have a distinct advantage over life action fare, imo. like ALADDIN would never be watchable for most of the 2-10 crowd if it were live action. as it is, it scared my niece (only 3).

[maxpayne2409]

yeah animation is cool

[dinky]

DRAGONS: FIRE & ICE (2004) last night/this morning. one of those movies based on a toy line (mega blocks). picked up the dvd for $5. honestly, I enjoyed it. it reminded me a little of BEAST WARS. I found out afterward that it was a canadian production (like BW) and one of the writers was Bob Forward (BW). it could have been a neat little limited series too...like one season of BW. but as it is, it skips quite a lot to pack everything into 72 mins. and I can only guess that it was a tv pilot that never succeeded or a made-for-tv movie up in canada because there are obvious commercial breaks scattered throughout and it's a 2004 movie in 4:3.

just got back from JUMPER. it wasn't good. it wasn't disgustingly bad or anything. but it did make me sad that this is what's become of doug liman. he had a good eye that freshened-up a stale genre with BOURNE IDENTITY, but I should have seen this coming after the entertaining but forgettable MR. AND MRS. SMITH. JUMPER is as forgettable as the Smiths, but without the charisma or, for that matter, interesting plot conceit. action sequences are letdowns as well. I guess I'd call JUMPER adept shlock? iunno. it was kind of cool that the two opposing forces threw down in the ruins of the coliseum in rome.

[maxpayne2409]

watched lastest smallville today, seems i missed the previous ep (siren) not sure how but i did, anyway it was ok i guess.

Also watched the pilot for the new Knight Rider series

It wasn't as bad as i was expecting actually

Basic premise for it is

Spoiler:

A scientist who created the original Knight Industries Two Thousand has made another, this time Knight Industries Three Thousand (and also a pretty nifty looking Mustang), and people come to kill him, and then go after his daughter to unlock his research on the hdds, anyway the new K.I.T.T. goes to rescue daughter, and then to find Mike Trauser (who its later revealed is the son of Michael Knight, cue guest appearance at the end by David Hasselhoff), anyway everything is fine and sorted at the end, and michael knights son takes over as the driver of K.I.T.T. as the scientist guy from earlier restarts the Knight Foundation, oh and the Lorry that holds K.I.T.T etc is now a huge plane

All in all not bad to be honest, it's also still directed etc by original series creator Glen A. Larson

[dinky]

latest TERMINATOR. it was decent. I didn't care for the narrative structure, but the material itself was good. so decent overall.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Post Impact last night, it was ok, gemma taylor got her more then ample tits out, but dean cain was also in it which was a shame

[dinky]

had to google that one.

[maxpayne2409]

i'm guessing you mean Gemma Taylor, not Dean Cain

she used to be in crappy teen soap Hollyoaks

[dinky]

well...Post Impact was what I originally meant. but I'd be lying if I said I didn't look into JOANNA Taylor. at least that's the only cast member that seemed to fit. didn't list gemma as a nick either. that some kinda english slang? (imdb also, not google; just wasn't sure "imdb'd" has become properly verbalized yet)