This is an even-numbered Star Trek film. Go figure.

Oblivion is a Tom Cruise vehicle in which Tom Cruise plays the protagonist and all other characters exist to provide purpose to his actions. If you're happy with that then I recommend Oblivion, it's got a great aesthetic, a reasonably twisty if slightly predictable plot, lots of nice explosions and lots and lots of chases through pretty if slightly ( Read more... )

So it's a lazy Sunday afternoon. While I'm waiting for the fridge to defrost I'm watching/listening to the Andrew Marr show and browsing the internet. I find I keep pausing the hour long TV program with pictures of the people talking to watch short videos people have linked to, the latest is this:

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(talking starts at 1:50 for those who don't love ( Read more... )

( Cut for brevity )

Have just seen two filums currently showing:

Iron Man 2I'm not into comic books and thus don't much know the mythos and I didn't see the first film. Nonetheless, this is a funny, well-produced film which held my attention, captured my imagination and was pretty damn cool to watch. It also had some pretty sweet CGI. The soundtrack also rocks, but ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to the movies tonight and saw two films which I shall review behind appropriate cuts. However first I have to give two predictions for films I saw the trailers for:

Clash of the Titans will be awesome. It won't go down well judging by the reaction of the audience I was in, but lets just say that the trailer looks like it's exactly ( Read more... )

Review: Not so bad it's funny, but not so good I'd recommend it other than a decent portrayal of hard1 sci-fi and the sun as an antagonist.

1 Well... kinda... ish. Look, just ignore the things which are obviously plot points ok. And that no one in their right mind no one uses plants to recycle oxygen in outer space. It feels hard.

Why does no one believe me when I tell them that Under Siege is Steven Seagal's good film?

Following on from atreic's post:

If you were to produce a "faithful"1 version of Macbeth, who would you cast as whom?

1By which I mean done with swords and castles and the origional language and only having extra scenes in the cinema release which could be reasonable cut from a schools version

( my own musings on the matter )

And lo I saw Serenity last night. And lo I used an LJ cut like all good LJers.

( Serenity - CONTAINS SPOILERS! )