never saw the flick. I assume it sucked? -------------- Original message -------------- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You mean like in BloodRayne???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone catch this besides me? Man, this was just awful: cliched, predictable, boring. Some of the stuff that hit me from the start: * Kristanna Loken isn't a very good actress. She was stiff and delivered her lines with all the emotion of a Vulcan. Maybe it was the dialogue and uninspired writing, which were sho' 'nuff problems,but I doubt it. But then, what reason is there to expect the latest Terminator to have acting ability? * Within five minutes of the opening, the show was in one of those cliched (using that word again!) underground rave-type clubs with the pulse-pounding music and young people from Central Casting posing and dancing wildly, while obvious bad guys skulk in their midst doing drug deals. Truly one of the most overused scenes in such shows outside of strip clubs. Booorinng! * The first--and only, I might add--of the good guys to get killed was a brother. Sad thing is, soon as I saw him I thought "This show's gonna kill that Black man". Bingo! There is another Brother left, but of course he's older and out of shape, not young and/or hunky like the rest of the cast. he was already punked by Jane. Surprise! * Will someone *Please* teach these new directors that herky-jerky and tilting camera work is *not* a good way to add action to a scene? Just makes it confused and amateurish-looking. Who's running film school these days, Michael Bay?! * The good guys are another one of those shadow-type groups that hang out in a hidden warehouse HQ with high-tech equipment, and who are "answerable only to ourselves". How original! * There is of course a resident computer geek, and of course he's the oddball who wears stocking caps, tennis shoes, warmup suits, etc. Just once nowadays I'd like to see an IT expert that's not pushing the Gen Y look. * The doctor on here appears to be Indian or Middle Eastern, but has a British accent. I'm really getting tired of Indian, Pakistani, or Arab characters with British accents. From Bashir on DS9 to Sayid on "Lost" (who is British in real life and fakes an Iraqi accent) American-produced shows are replete with such characters who speak the Queen's English or their "native" tongue with such an accent. Is there a reason we can't get actors who actually *sound* like they're from their characters' country of origin? * Man, I think half the profits of the drug trade and the budget of government law enforcement agencies, must go to leather wear! Amazing how every henchman and supposedly underpaid government agent is wearing thousands of dollars worth of leather jackets and pants! Can you tell I wasn't impressed? There were several fights, all of which were dizzying (not in a good way) and too fast-paced. Everyone's too busy posing and speaking bad lines as if they have sticks up their arses. This show reminds me of the late, unlamented "Mutant X", and that ain't a good thing. Not sure I'll watch this one again unless it improves drastically or I'm very bored. What did y'all think? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] "Such music flow on the Fringe...and no one can resist singing to Scarlet." - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
