Reply With QuoteI like both versions of X. I do think the movie does a great disservice to the characters backstories, and the deaths were too simplistic, but the animation is impressive.Originally Posted by Lester C.
Whatever you say Jean-Claude Van Damme!
I like both versions of X. I do think the movie does a great disservice to the characters backstories, and the deaths were too simplistic, but the animation is impressive.
Hello all. What's new?
I rented the movie at Blockbuster on VHS when it first came out so I don't remember it to well other than being pissed that everyone well you know since you've seen it. I don't want to spoil it even though you did already!
Watched some interesting stuff in the past couple of days.
Yesterday, I finished S1 of "The Killing." Damn, that is one GRIM show! It basically starts out with a detective ready to leave Seattle and get married, but she catches a case of a murdered young girl on her last day. The story follows the intertwined stories of her and her new partner's investigation, the girl's family's reaction to her murder, a politician's run for Mayor, and a couple of other issues. The season is 14 episodes, and covers about two weeks, so it's very dense. It's also ALWAYS raining!
It's very powerful and emotionally draining. But season 2 is on-going, so it's not available on Netflix yet. And the first season ends on a cliffhanger of sorts. So, I'm dying here!
The main detective, Sarah Linden (played brilliantly by Mireille Enos) is this dour redhead, who is just trying to juggle her drive to solve this case, dealing with her new partner, trying to be a parent to her son, and her total inability to get the heck out of Dodge so that she can get on with "her new life." She also has a very wicked, dry sense of humor. She's a very memorable character.
Also, on a lark, because I've heard people say everything from "It's AWESOME and so much fun!" to "It's AWESOME because it's so laughably terrible!" I rented the pilot episode of "Pretty Little Liars" from Amazon this morning. Now, this is one whacky show! It's an ABC Family show (more on that later) where four girls have a friend disappear. But, oddly, they keep getting contact from someone seeming to know them, their secrets, and appearing to be their missing (presumed dead) friend. I just had to check it out, and I think after one episode (not much of sample, frankly) that I would come down in the middle of the two opinions I mentioned above.
It is sort of laughably bad. It's clear that they have almost zero budget. A lot of it doesn't even make sense. For instance, they are supposedly in college, I guess (it's hard to tell, honestly), but it looks like high school. And what first day professor in college says, "Hello, I'm Mr. Fitz, your new English teacher?" Huh?!
OTOH, it's vaguely compelling. A number of plot threads and mysteries are introduced in the pilot, and it ends on a huge "cliffhanger."
Here's where the ABC Family thing comes in, though. The ABC Family site only has the last few episodes for viewing, and they are now in S2. No Netflix, no Amazon for free, no way to watch the first number of episodes at all. And my library doesn't have it, either. On iTunes, it's $50/season!!! And I sure as heck am not buying the first season DVDs for such a fluffy endeavor. I mean, what it is about this show?! If I want to watch any episode from any season ever from HBO, I can. Even networks like CW have more viewing opportunities. Heck, so does ABC itself!
Luckily, though, MelCAT, the state-wide library loan program has the answer. So, now I can find out what "The Jenna Issue" is, in episode 2!
Someone taught my two year old niece the word, "no."
X has been out for ages. Not spoiling much.
I rented the movie at Blockbuster on VHS when it first came out so I don't remember it to well other than being pissed that everyone well you know since you've seen it. I don't want to spoil it even though you did already!
You got yer handful, hero. LOL
Someone taught my two year old niece the word, "no."
They still haven't finished the Manga. While it's not unheard of for an anime to be way ahead of the Manga, it is unheard of for a Manga to such a popular properity to go unfinished.
Small mercys but she back down right away and will go to sleep when cranky without a fight. Her brother at the age fought me every step out of the way, not being bad excatly just fought because it was what I wanted and he would be damed if he gave it to me even if he didn't understand what it was HE wanted.
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks