The Island: An action packed film – I had no idea what it was about, which helped. The film starts with a setting in a kind of utopian safe place. Everything seems very controlled, including emotions, and diet. It’s not clear to me what is going on, until almost halfway into the film. So I […]
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Film: Paycheck (2003)
Paycheck: A fairly odd premise – a smart guy works for companies, and then has his memory erased of what he did for them. One of the companies he works for, sets him up, and he ends up having to run away, with only a small bunch of items to help him. It’s almost like […]
Film: Death Race (2008)
Death Race: An action movie, involving cars, and death. It’s set in the near future, in a world where crime is really high, and corporations run the prison system in the US. With one prison doing races with cars that have weapons, and killing other drivers is within the rules – in fact, it’s all […]
Film: Revolution (2009)
Revolution: This is a bit of a weird one – on IMDB it’s listed as in post production, and as a ‘TV’ thing, yet, it was shown on Sky Movies, which is where I watched it, at a friends. Anyway, it’s a pilot for a TV series, it seems. Set on an Earth like colony, […]
Film: Terminator Salvation (2009)
Terminator Salvation: It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen this – I’ve just realised I never logged it at the time I watched it in the US, in June 2009. Anyway, I can’t remember a great deal about it anymore, apart from shit blows up, there’s a bad guy, who kinds turns into […]
Movie: I, Robot (2004)
I, Robot: When I was younger, I remember reading some of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, and enjoyed reading them, though I can remember very little about them now. It’s a mystery movie – and I was misled a few times as to what was going on in, and who was responsible. I give it 7/10. […]
Movie: Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis: I think this is the oldest movie I’ve seen in the IMDB top 250 so far. It’s a sci-fi story set in a world where the rich have a great city, while the workers who keep the city running live underground. According to the introduction to the film, around a quarter of the original […]
Movie: Species (1995)
Species: What can I say – a movie for boys who like girls. But still vaguely interesting. Kind of a horror/sci-fi. Interesting concept of alien lifeform making contact with Earth – reminds me of some old John Varley books I’ve read. The Ophiuci Line specifically – just the bit about how the aliens communicate. I don’t […]