So, I know from talking to a lot of people that I wasn't the only one who felt that Heroes really had taken a wrong turn this season. It's only season 2, guys, come on! Well, it seems like there has been far too many episodes lately that instead of focusing on 4-5 storylines that connect, have focused on what seems like 8-10 different stories, some which relate to one another, some that seem just thrown in to add new characters to the dwindling lineup to replace the murdered cast members. I was really getting down about how the episodes were turning out. I felt like their writers went on strike long before any talks of writers striking even began. My friend April, who was really into the show, even decided to stop watching and I had to make a plea and justify why watching Heroes was still going to be worth it, or at the least, tolerable.
Well, I feel like they really turned a corner this week, on what was supposed to be the first of the final 3 episodes this year. Things really seemed to fall back into place. The stories became more interesting. The stories didn't change back and forth so spastically that I felt like each episode was the first time I'd seen Heroes. They just brought the feeling back. I felt like I was on the edge of my seat for a lot of it and excited to see what was in store after the commercial break! It was really fantastic to get that feeling back! I hope that the final two episodes are going to hold up to this higher standard than a lot of the beginning of this second season! They need it to keep people watching for the third! I'll still watch, but just because I'm hooked deep.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
I just hope that this really accomplishes what I wanted. To illustrate the true meaning of Thanksgiving!Resident Evil: Extinction
Ok, another late review and for another action/horror movie I didn't care for...
I don't think this was anywhere near as bad as Saw 4. Let me just get that out of the way right now. Now, this had a lot of potential and thus far, I'd loved the prior movies. I was really excited about this one to come out! It had all the buzz it needed and deserved, but I feel like it kind of fell flat after that.
The plot isn't something that's going to be too in-depth. It's a Resident Evil movie. Its storyline loosely follows the Resident Evil video games that first appeared on Sony's Playstation game system. I had 3 issues that I really felt just didn't work in the movie.
1. The scene with the crows: If you've got like a million crows flying just overhead and threatening to tear you to ribbons, are you really going to take the time to sit and fire a handgun into the massive cloud of crows swarming around? It's like seeing a tidal wave coming towards you and taking a teacup and starting to scoop the water up. You run! You don't stop and shoot 2 birds while their 5,304,394 brothers and sisters get ready to attack.
2. The scene where zombies start piling out of the 30-foot container. Ok, granted they are zombies and you can probably smash 'em in pretty tight and not care too much about their complaining, but come on... What was it?!?! Was it the storage container version of a circus clown car??? SO many kept coming out of the container there was no way more could be inside. Yet they kept coming. If there were some sort of dimensional portal in the container, I could suspend my beliefs and accept it. IF they mentioned it. Now when they just keep coming, it's a little tougher without explanation.
3. The "big finale" of a fight was really the most anticlimactic part of all. It just wasn't much of a challenge. I thought it was a pretty cool fight scene, granted, but it felt nothing like the end of the movie. I was really in a state of disbelief when the credits started rolling! I knew that couldn't have been the end of the movie. It didn't even feel close to finished. The ending was so lackluster I couldn't believe it! I really felt like that final fight scene was just working into another situation where they'd really have their go at it. No such luck.
Kind of a disappointment, but there was some cool action in it, for what action there was. Not really up to par with the prior RE movies.
I don't think this was anywhere near as bad as Saw 4. Let me just get that out of the way right now. Now, this had a lot of potential and thus far, I'd loved the prior movies. I was really excited about this one to come out! It had all the buzz it needed and deserved, but I feel like it kind of fell flat after that.
The plot isn't something that's going to be too in-depth. It's a Resident Evil movie. Its storyline loosely follows the Resident Evil video games that first appeared on Sony's Playstation game system. I had 3 issues that I really felt just didn't work in the movie.
1. The scene with the crows: If you've got like a million crows flying just overhead and threatening to tear you to ribbons, are you really going to take the time to sit and fire a handgun into the massive cloud of crows swarming around? It's like seeing a tidal wave coming towards you and taking a teacup and starting to scoop the water up. You run! You don't stop and shoot 2 birds while their 5,304,394 brothers and sisters get ready to attack.
2. The scene where zombies start piling out of the 30-foot container. Ok, granted they are zombies and you can probably smash 'em in pretty tight and not care too much about their complaining, but come on... What was it?!?! Was it the storage container version of a circus clown car??? SO many kept coming out of the container there was no way more could be inside. Yet they kept coming. If there were some sort of dimensional portal in the container, I could suspend my beliefs and accept it. IF they mentioned it. Now when they just keep coming, it's a little tougher without explanation.
3. The "big finale" of a fight was really the most anticlimactic part of all. It just wasn't much of a challenge. I thought it was a pretty cool fight scene, granted, but it felt nothing like the end of the movie. I was really in a state of disbelief when the credits started rolling! I knew that couldn't have been the end of the movie. It didn't even feel close to finished. The ending was so lackluster I couldn't believe it! I really felt like that final fight scene was just working into another situation where they'd really have their go at it. No such luck.
Kind of a disappointment, but there was some cool action in it, for what action there was. Not really up to par with the prior RE movies.
Saw IV
This is a late blog about this film. For one thing, I just was unable to write a new blog for quite some time. For a second thing, it was just a terrible movie. I can't believe it's made it this far! I was just shocked that the movie seemed to be so lame. I did go with a bunch of people who had seen all of the other 3 and were quite big fans. They all talked about how this one really tied things together a lot and how it answered a lot of things from the prior movies. It answered my questions about the worst movie of the year.
Don't get me wrong... I know it's a slasher/horror flick, but it just didn't seem up to par for what it was. There was maybe one scene that made me almost jump. The suspense really wasn't there and it seemed to just try to gross you out and shock you. It succeeded with a couple people I was there with. It succeeded in making me a little bit angrier inside...
Don't get me wrong... I know it's a slasher/horror flick, but it just didn't seem up to par for what it was. There was maybe one scene that made me almost jump. The suspense really wasn't there and it seemed to just try to gross you out and shock you. It succeeded with a couple people I was there with. It succeeded in making me a little bit angrier inside...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Heroes: The Powers That Be...
Well, it's that exciting time of year when the new season starts for television and new episodes finally start coming on after a long hiatus. It's two episodes into the second season of Heroes, one of the biggest new hit shows of last season for NBC. It seems like there's a lot more in store for us this season!
At the conclusion of season one, Nathan and Peter Petrelli flew into the sky moments before Peter was due to explode taking half of Manhattan with him. Was Sylar finished? What's the plight of the cheerleader now? What is Hiro doing hundreds of years in the past? There's a lot to wrap up for season two. With so many characters, you'd think it was hard to follow the storyline(s), but it's a pretty seamless transition from one character to the next, once you get into the show.
So, for the start of season two, the previews have already showed Sylar in the picture. Nathan is alive and in New York and has fallen from politician to drunk, remorseful over the plight of his brother. Peter is alive, too, although it's hard to know yet if Nathan knows this. He is discovered somewhere around Ireland in a storage container with no idea who he is or the powers he holds. The cheerleader, Claire, and her family are in a new neighborhood somewhere in California (I think) and she's starting a new school and her father is starting a new job dealing with paper. They are working on laying low. Hiro is in the past, in Japan, and faced with the idea that his childhood hero is actually a white guy and seemingly not the hero he thought (although not if Hiro can do anything about it). There's a couple of new characters already, Maya and her twin brother, somewhere near the Mexican border. Her power is hard to understand so far. She starts to look like a weeping Virgin Mary statue with blood tears, then apparently all the people who look at her suffer death. Apparently, her brother is immune to this and can even bring back the people killed by her or something like that. They're on the run for America to find a doctor to cure her. There's more stories going on at the same time in the same timeline and sure to be more.
This season has seemed to start off great! I'm not so into Hiro's story, right now, but I'm still interested and he's a fascinating and loveable character. Hiro's father, back in the present, has been killed in front of Hiro's best friend Ando. The mind-reading cop and Mohinder are together and taking care of the young girl who can find others who have "powers". Mohinder is quietly working with Claire's father and has rescued the Haitian from a possible fatal virus in Haiti. There's still a lot more characters waiting for their season two appearances and if you watch the show, it won't seem nearly as segmented and disconnected as I've made it seem. There's a lot in store!
At the conclusion of season one, Nathan and Peter Petrelli flew into the sky moments before Peter was due to explode taking half of Manhattan with him. Was Sylar finished? What's the plight of the cheerleader now? What is Hiro doing hundreds of years in the past? There's a lot to wrap up for season two. With so many characters, you'd think it was hard to follow the storyline(s), but it's a pretty seamless transition from one character to the next, once you get into the show.
So, for the start of season two, the previews have already showed Sylar in the picture. Nathan is alive and in New York and has fallen from politician to drunk, remorseful over the plight of his brother. Peter is alive, too, although it's hard to know yet if Nathan knows this. He is discovered somewhere around Ireland in a storage container with no idea who he is or the powers he holds. The cheerleader, Claire, and her family are in a new neighborhood somewhere in California (I think) and she's starting a new school and her father is starting a new job dealing with paper. They are working on laying low. Hiro is in the past, in Japan, and faced with the idea that his childhood hero is actually a white guy and seemingly not the hero he thought (although not if Hiro can do anything about it). There's a couple of new characters already, Maya and her twin brother, somewhere near the Mexican border. Her power is hard to understand so far. She starts to look like a weeping Virgin Mary statue with blood tears, then apparently all the people who look at her suffer death. Apparently, her brother is immune to this and can even bring back the people killed by her or something like that. They're on the run for America to find a doctor to cure her. There's more stories going on at the same time in the same timeline and sure to be more.
This season has seemed to start off great! I'm not so into Hiro's story, right now, but I'm still interested and he's a fascinating and loveable character. Hiro's father, back in the present, has been killed in front of Hiro's best friend Ando. The mind-reading cop and Mohinder are together and taking care of the young girl who can find others who have "powers". Mohinder is quietly working with Claire's father and has rescued the Haitian from a possible fatal virus in Haiti. There's still a lot more characters waiting for their season two appearances and if you watch the show, it won't seem nearly as segmented and disconnected as I've made it seem. There's a lot in store!
Flight of the Conchords is coming back for seconds!
After a long hiatus away from the computer, I at least have a bit of good news, at least regarding the Flight of the Conchords. They were signed for a second season with HBO so expect this comedic musical duo to be back again for more! The first season was full of many of their hilarious songs as well as some new ones that I'd never heard. I'm very excited to see what's in store for this pair in season two!
Friday, July 20, 2007
Transformers
Anticipation for this film was building up so much in so many of us who grew up with Optimus, Soundwave, and all the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons that built our youth. It was such an exciting thing to hear, that this movie was even being made! Well, I've got to say that Michael Bay delivers a visually stunning fast-paced film that lived up to the legacy! He really delivers, right down to the transforming which actually seems almost plausible as you watch it somehow happening right before your eyes! Seeing the old heroes and villians "live" on the big screen was also a real treat!
One problem I felt this movie had, though, was it just seemed a little to "heavy" on people. I went to this movie and I was so pumped up about seeing the Transformers transforming and doing their thing. It felt like forever until we actually got to see some of them and see them doing something. There was just so much with all of the human characters that felt a little bit unnecessary, considering how impressive the Transformers look, even if they're just standing around. Don't get me wrong, though, as the Transformers definitely make their presence known on screen and there was never any doubt that Bay would deliver some amazing on-screen battles for us, but it just felt like we had to wait around until things finally got moving. Once the movie picks up, things really start to flow and it really draws you into the movie more.
The only other problem I had, which was a very minute issue, was that the movie surely seems like a commercial for GM. The cars were definitely nice and I'm sure many people will not have necessarily noticed, but I couldn't help but see that it was one after another GM auto rolling on-screen. Of the GM cars, though, that new Camaro, which I'm hoping will be the talked-about rebound of the Camaro, is a beautiful piece of machinery.
The big positive is definitely the graphical art that is on-screen. The Transformers look so real and transforming isn't a matter of some obvious CGI work, but a more organic-looking sort of show that is really impressive. The story is good enough, albeit a bit corny at times, to keep you there anticipating the next big action scene, that is surely right around the corner.
This is one film I'd definitely recommend to every person who remembers Transformers from back in the day and for those that don't, the storyline and the human aspect in the film is enough to keep you in the movie. I guess I'd imagine that's a big part of that aspect of the movie, is for those that weren't already pumped up by just hearing, "Transformers".
One problem I felt this movie had, though, was it just seemed a little to "heavy" on people. I went to this movie and I was so pumped up about seeing the Transformers transforming and doing their thing. It felt like forever until we actually got to see some of them and see them doing something. There was just so much with all of the human characters that felt a little bit unnecessary, considering how impressive the Transformers look, even if they're just standing around. Don't get me wrong, though, as the Transformers definitely make their presence known on screen and there was never any doubt that Bay would deliver some amazing on-screen battles for us, but it just felt like we had to wait around until things finally got moving. Once the movie picks up, things really start to flow and it really draws you into the movie more.
The only other problem I had, which was a very minute issue, was that the movie surely seems like a commercial for GM. The cars were definitely nice and I'm sure many people will not have necessarily noticed, but I couldn't help but see that it was one after another GM auto rolling on-screen. Of the GM cars, though, that new Camaro, which I'm hoping will be the talked-about rebound of the Camaro, is a beautiful piece of machinery.
The big positive is definitely the graphical art that is on-screen. The Transformers look so real and transforming isn't a matter of some obvious CGI work, but a more organic-looking sort of show that is really impressive. The story is good enough, albeit a bit corny at times, to keep you there anticipating the next big action scene, that is surely right around the corner.
This is one film I'd definitely recommend to every person who remembers Transformers from back in the day and for those that don't, the storyline and the human aspect in the film is enough to keep you in the movie. I guess I'd imagine that's a big part of that aspect of the movie, is for those that weren't already pumped up by just hearing, "Transformers".
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