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claidheamhmor ([personal profile] claidheamhmor) wrote2008-10-06 02:03 pm
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"Starlight beams project me in red blue and green"

Here's a bit of a catchup on movies and books.

I saw Taken a couple of weeks ago. I must admit, it wasn't a great movie, but I like Liam Neeson, and I like revenge-themed movies, so it was a fairly easy movie to watch.



I finally got around to seeing Ultraviolet. Frankly, I wasn't impressed at all. I really like Milla Jovovich (hey, she's my #1 choice for Heinlein's "Friday", if it ever gets made into a movie), but the movie, bluntly speaking, was crap. A completely unrealistic character who gave you no sense of tension, a rather confused plot, and an over-stylised, fake-looking feel to it killed it for me. That said: I liked some of the background technology - things like a fold-up card mobile phone dispensed from a vending machine.



Then I watched the pilot for Knight Rider 2008. I must admit, I kinda liked it - but then, I'm a sucker for uber-cars. And the hero seems better than David Hasselhoff - that, to me, was always the weaker part of the original Knight Rider.



I just finished Roger Zelazney's "Great Book of Amber": it's a collection of both of his Amber quintologies. I found the first five books better than I remembered them from my youth, especially the last couple couple of books which I'd not liked much. The second quintology was also better than I remembered - but that's not saying much, because I couldn't get very far into it back then. The final two or three books were very complex, with a number of confusing characters and sub-plots, and much of that wasn't really resolved by the final book - a pity.

[identity profile] redqueenmeg.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, we saw Ultraviolet on the movie channels a while back. We kept looking at each other, saying "Is this really as bad as we think it is?" And it was always "yes." We actually finished it just to see how bad it could get!

[identity profile] lyonza.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ultraviolet was ultra-crap in my opinion - glad I'm not alone in that thought :)

I wanna see more of the Knight Rider 2008, just to see if its going to get better. I liked the pilot, but now I expect a little more from it. *plots getting grubby paws on it*

[identity profile] windrider-09.livejournal.com 2008-10-06 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And the hero seems better than David Hasselhoff
Anyone is better then David Hasselhof methinks.

[identity profile] evildmguy.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Although, the new show isn't that good.

edg

[identity profile] windrider-09.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
I am not a fan of the actual concept of Knight Rider so i am not really surprised.

[identity profile] evildmguy.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's fair.

I think the problem is that they haven't thought about anything. They are literally trying to be the 80s show, twenty five years later. If they had actually done an update, like BSG, and had, oh, A PLAN! it might be better.

It's still a train wreck that I am watching.

edg

[identity profile] windrider-09.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha, that was they were trying to do, trying to capture the same success as Battlestar Galactica! I wonder if noone told the writers that work actually had to be done, not retyping of the old scripts.

[identity profile] evildmguy.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's funny!

And sadly true.

edg

[identity profile] evildmguy.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I am finding the new Knight Rider like a train wreck that I seriously can't turn away from watching. It's disjointed, makes little sense and is VERY shallow. It's all about T&A and action which won't hold my interest for long.

But, the car is still cool. I do want one.

I don't know if it will last but if it does, it does explain why all of the intelligent shows I like don't last on TV.

edg

[identity profile] evildmguy.livejournal.com 2008-10-07 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
As for Amber, I agree.

Both series start strong but end on such strange notes, very far from where he started.

And the second one definitely went a strange direction. I read it two or three times and still have problems connecting everything together. I think that's why I put the book on paperback swap as they don't hold my interest like they used to.

edg