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What have you guys heard? I'm pretty curious, I heard something about Tolkien-dragons in modern time. Sounds cool, but could get very shitty if done wrong (well duh). So?
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Lee: Bahuh??? So then I suppose "Virus" with J-Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland went down nicely in your gullet as well? And perchance "Soldier"?
These new 1:25-movies signify the new explosion of cheap, short action-movies by people with a bunch of computer-nerd relatives who control Lightwave and 3dMAX and work for free... They're ok in the background at a party, when you can drink and have fun with them...
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Given the parlous state of much of the audiovisual SF out there, I think if you expect your genre stuff to be all of extremely high quality before you can enjoy it, then you're not going to have a great deal to watch. I like a good piece of schlocky SF now and then. Deep Rising and Soldier fit the bill quite nicely. Virus, however, didn't do it for me. Reign of Fire may well be in the same category, in which case I'll wait for it to appear on Sky MovieMax, the home of schlock. All they ever show is crummy SF films (saw a quite-ggod predator-clone there the other night, enjoyed it more than I'd thought I would) including the pilots for Witchblade and The Invisible Man; and Eric Roberts films. Anyone who makes a B-grade SF film with Eric Roberts in it is on to a winner.
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Virus is so bad dogs howl at the moon. It's one of only two movies I've ever walked out of. Several other people did too...the only other movie I've seen have that many people walk out on it was this nasty fucking explotation zombie flick they showed once, where the Zombie guy was eating a still living woman's small intestine, and the shit was flying...I mean, hey, I was into it, happily munching my popcorn and watching away... but I understand why they walked...
To garner such a response Virus is a Bad movie, and not in a good way.
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Back on Subject: Reign of Fire looks cheesy but fun.
It has me looking forward to it enough to see it within the first month of it's release. If it makes it that long, at least.
In other words: I'm looking forward to it about as much as I am the new Star Trek flick. Gonna watch it, not expecting a cinematic masterpiece, or even really a good movie.
Just something to take my mind off the fact that someday I'll die.
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Because death is SUCH the right bitch. But a bitchin' bass player & a snappy dresser. Remember:
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