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September 16, 2009 | by Vic Holtreman
Open Discussion – September 16, 2009
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I just started reading the sequel to The DaVinci code,
The Lost Symbol.
Other then the involvement of Robert Langdon ,it has no connection to the previous story .
So far ,there is no religious component to this novel .
and thats 12 chapers in .
@ Gary; Have you found out what it is yet?
I just finished reading “EON.” A.C. Clark has a little competition in the “Rama” like story department. If you
read “Rama” and it seemed too intellectual read this.
It has much more action, but still keeps a pretty hard edge
to the science. If I was buying a movie, and could only choose one I think it would be “EON.” With the production of “Rama” a no go right now, someone should at least look at this.
Hey, did anyone catch the show Mental this summer? It was the only one of the new shows listed on Hulu (The Philanthropist, Royal Pains, etc) that I continued to watch, and I think it’s got a really strong cast. I was disappointed not to find any links to it here. Was True Blood worth watching this summer? I keep forgetting about it.
Gracelyn; I think you would be better off watching reruns of “OZ,” rather than any more of “Mental.” I’m unfortunately the wrong person to ask about vampire shows too. I watched all of “Forever Knight” and “Van Helsing” and ” “Twilight” That was enough for me. I’ll have to wait a decade after “Dark Shadows” comes out to be interested again.
I am a big fan of Vampires, and True blood is the best vampire show so far. there is a new show do, and I watched the pilot to this -The Vampire Diaries.
————–Spoilers—————-
Its bacicly twilight, someone dies, a vampire that can be outside in daylight comes to a small town, fall inlove with a girl at the hightschool he attends.
Atleast they are not sparcly, he stays alive in sunlight cause of a ring… ? well, other than that it seems much like a cheap twilight rip of.
As I said I like vampire stuff, but was not going to se Twilight, cause I hear it sucked and was for tweens, than I was on a date and had seen all other good movies, so we saw twilight, and it was ok, – but the vampires sparkle, what?
and – when 1000+ year old vampires fall inlove with 17 year old girls- is that not creepy?
6 years on and “Finding Nemo” can still make me tear up a little.
Damn you Stanton.
I just watched Crank 2 and I am mightily pleased. Suspend all disbelief and you’ll have a good time. I cringed, I laughed, I said… “No way, that didn’t just happen! Did it? OMG it did!”
It was actually more ridiculously crazy and entertaining than Crank 1, and the ending set up for Crank 3.
Knock down, drag out, action lunacy! And the filming was quite good, in a sam raimi-esque/marilyn manson video kind of way. And Amy Smart? Wow!
I’d expect if they made a Crank 3, Statham and Smart would have to “do it” at the Superbowl just to up the ante.
OMG Pitt Man I loved the first one but tried to watch the 2nd and had to throw… err take it out of the player.
I got to the strip joint. I would have lasted longer and do not mind not having to believe a movie… but the F word was used like every other word. Im not a prude but it just didn’t sound right.. IMO. Glad you enjoyed it.
TV wise all Im waiting for is LOST……
Old Man, I was saying a while back that Eon would make a fantastic film. It’s light years ahead of Rama conceptwise and in terms of the characterisation, which was always Clarke’s weak point. The follow-up Eternity is one of those rare sequels that’s just as good if not better than the original. Jaw-dropping stuff. There’s a third book, Legacy, which is a prequel – haven’t read that yet.
@The Pitt Man
I loved the 70s pastiche near the end and the godzilla-esque sequence had me in tears. A lot of people couldn’t get into it though, just couldn’t suspend their disbelief enough I guess.
That is funny about ’suspending their belief’ when it comes to the Crank films. It is about a guy running on an artificial heart having to electrocute himself to keep on going.
You mean to tell me that there is actually a guy out there like that? Yeah, just like there are transforming robots in a planet called Cybertron a million light years away from our planet. Come on, audiences are funny in their thinking.
@SK-47
There is a limit though. Personally I loved Crank 2, but I can understand why, with certain movies, people have a much harder time suspending their disbelief.
Transformers 2 are actually a prime example. People are perfectly able to accept that transforming aliens from another world could exist in the universe put forth by the movie… what they can’t generally accept is that said mechanical aliens would also have testicles for no apparent reason. Or that they’d age in a way that would cause them to use walking sticks and grow beards… and so on and so forth.
The Crank films on the other hand… those are really “turn your brain off and enjoy” films, nothing more. Godzilla sequence? Sure, why not. Sex in the middle of a race track, yeah, happens every day right?
@Gary
I thought The Lost Symbol dealt with Washington, DCs traffic patterns being in the shape of some religious symbol? This isn’t the premise?
@Johnny-K
There is a vampire movie coming out dealing with vampires being the majority and need to either figure out how to cure themselves or find another food supply because humans are about to be extinct. It has a great cast and looks promising.
I thought the first Crank was OK but hated the second. Suspending disbelief is one thing but I just felt Crank 2 just went totally off the deep end. I was very disgusted.
Just finished the first season of Supernatural, and look forward to getting the 2nd from Amazon. The father would make a great Lobo, as one of the Screen Rant articles mentioned.
@Kahless
Daybreakers is the Vamp flick.
Not sure about the premise yet.
reminds me of Angels and Demons without the religion.
crazy science , mysterious plot, that sort of thing .
Right, now there is a minimum of symbols for Langdon to translate but I think that shall soon change.
Crank 2 = More crap than Crank. Only good thing about it was that Amy Smart ate a few slices of bread to even out her body.
I start watching John Woo’s red CLiff today. WOOT!!!
@SIN
any white doves flying in slow motion yet?
I saw Red Cliff a few months back (albeit the abridged version, not the two parter) and yes, there is certainly a dove… a fairly memorable one.
It’s a good movie, I’d recommend it.
@ John “Kahless” Taylor
Yes, Daybreakers looks to be interesting and fun. looks good.
Also I think Cirqe the freak: the Vampires assistant ,may be a funny and diffrent vampire movie.
I just registered for San Diego Comic Con 2010!
Unfortunately, this year it costs 100 dololars for the 4 days ,
the price of poularity .
just letting everybody know .
Has anyone caught the new Leno show yet? I wanted to watch it the other night, but I forgot all about it because I was watching the baseball game. 15 million viewers is a good audience. I like Leno, but I am torn on whether or not I want this to succeed. I think that if it succeeds, it’s going to be a crimp on quality, scripted shows because it’s much cheaper to make the Jay Leno Show than it is to make Heroes or Chuck. That would suck. There is already enough garbage out there with all the reality shows and to bring even more stuff like that would seriously make me read even MORE than I do already. On the other hand, Jay is a pretty funny guy and I always enjoyed his show at 11:30 (MUCH more so that Conan.) Oh well, we shall see how this goes.
@ ken J
Haven’t got to Red Cliff yet, dag blasted thunderstorms here in atlanta knocked out power until 5 min ago. I got the Two parter so I’ll try to give a dove count
.
Though Im sure that the number of doves is no where near as insane as in his game Stranglehold.
I was watching ” the naked gun trilogy” this past sunday… Don’t know why, i guess i just wanted to see it. Whilst i was watching my wacky mind got its motors running and started thinking of another movie i would like to see in this sort of slap stick form only a lil bit more focused on the actual story though. It would be a video game adaptation as well, All the way from the NES ( nintendo)… ” Mike Tyson’s Punch Out”. It could actually have Tyson in it since he is clearly open for comedies ( the hangover) and someone who could get in shape and have the comedic chops for it to go against him and all the other characters in said game. Maybe even have a “R” rating and findout the backstory to the coaches pink sweatsuit ( maybe stole it from his favorite stripper). Maybe it was just what i was feeling while i was watching the naked gun but still it got me curious to see a movie like that. As a lil extra tidbit when the final match comes that tyson is being presented as the champion… A kanye look-alike grabs the mic and says ” before you finish i just wanted to say that ali was the greatest cham-” Tyson knocks him out before he finishes…lol.
Hey any (Doctor Who) fans that haven’t seen the latest Dvd release, “Doctor Who, The Next Doctor”, (it was BBC’s 2008 Christmas Special) should go out and pick it up yesterday on Dvd,,!
Wow they spent some money on this one!
The episode was fracken awesome and could have been a stand alone (major motion picture) film,,, its a great Christmas gift !!!
This story doesn’t focus on the new Doctor that’s coming up, its about our fav Doctor (Tennant) who meets up with another Doctor in 1851. They take on the Cybermen and its kick ass time!!!
The bonus feature is a 1 hour long “Live at the Proms” show that was almost better then the episode. It was basically an amazing extremely well produced concert of the shows music, held for the fans of Doctor Who, filmed (with at least 10 cameras) at the Royal Albert Hall in london,,,
The show was intermixed with extremely well produced characters from the show (Daleks, Cybermen, Ood’s) as well as a brilliantly filmed part from the Doctor himself (Tennant) that steals the entire show,,, !!!
Totally worth the 12:99 price.
I give the Dvd a 10 out of 10 !!!
Just drop what your doing right now and order it on Amazon!!!
Awesome time for us Doctor Who fans!!!!
Hey Big Dentist: Thanks for mentioning those other novels.
I’ll have to pick those up next time I’m buying books.
Going to give Savage’s “The Millennial Project” or Pohl’s
“The World At The End Of Time” a whirl. colonizing the Universe one author at a time.
@SIN187UM
From what I can remember, there’s only one dove (unless he shoe horned another one in to the two parter), but trust me when I say, all the doves from his other movies were building up to this one.
Bruce, any thoughts on theEmmys tonight ?
Hey, you guys might be interested in this – Filmrot.com is doing a movie webmaster Big Brother and I’m part of it:
http://blog.filmrot.com/james/film/the-rotcast-episode-52-zombievirusland
They’re making it all up based on what they know about everyone, but it’s pretty cool and I’m featured in the third episode linked above.
Vic
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