Movie Diary
1) War Of The Worlds
Really this was just worst case scenario porn, wasn't it? The kind of thing that I'd be bored by if I waited to see it on DVD, but in the theater with the big sound system and everything the really cool scary scenes actually make my jaw drop. Still kind of unsatisfactory, though, just because it didn't feel like there was any connection between the 28 different ways the aliens would kill people other than that they all looked weird and scary, and their downfall, which of course was part of the original H.G. Wells story, but still felt rushed and unsatisfactory.
2) Sabretooth
J.G. likes to watch these terrible low budget made for TV flicks on the Sci Fi Channel, and I have to say, this one was pretty entertaining. The computer animated sabretooth tigers would've been kind of impressive in a video game but in any kind of live action movie it just looks fake as hell. And it decapitates a bunch of people and there's a lot of needlessly complicated plot lines and character interactions, and Gimli from LOTR/Professor Maximilian Arturo from Sliders was there too! The plot about reanimating an extinct species that kills a bunch of people was ripped off pretty hardcore from Jurassic Park, but not nearly as much as the movie that came on after it, Raptor Island, which we didn't stay up to watch all of because it was getting late. But Lorenzo Lamas was in that one! And Raptor Island 2: Raptor Planet is coming soon!
Really this was just worst case scenario porn, wasn't it? The kind of thing that I'd be bored by if I waited to see it on DVD, but in the theater with the big sound system and everything the really cool scary scenes actually make my jaw drop. Still kind of unsatisfactory, though, just because it didn't feel like there was any connection between the 28 different ways the aliens would kill people other than that they all looked weird and scary, and their downfall, which of course was part of the original H.G. Wells story, but still felt rushed and unsatisfactory.
2) Sabretooth
J.G. likes to watch these terrible low budget made for TV flicks on the Sci Fi Channel, and I have to say, this one was pretty entertaining. The computer animated sabretooth tigers would've been kind of impressive in a video game but in any kind of live action movie it just looks fake as hell. And it decapitates a bunch of people and there's a lot of needlessly complicated plot lines and character interactions, and Gimli from LOTR/Professor Maximilian Arturo from Sliders was there too! The plot about reanimating an extinct species that kills a bunch of people was ripped off pretty hardcore from Jurassic Park, but not nearly as much as the movie that came on after it, Raptor Island, which we didn't stay up to watch all of because it was getting late. But Lorenzo Lamas was in that one! And Raptor Island 2: Raptor Planet is coming soon!
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