Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Confession Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!

2008-02-23 Thread Martin
Tracey, the only people on this planet who speak or write English, IMO, *are* 
the English.

tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   guys 
sorry.  I'm not illiterate.  I just play one on the list.  I will
 try not to post so rushed in the future
 
 -- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  So gang.  It seems like it is a given that some us go to or rent
  movies we pretty much knoware going to be bad.  So lets make it a
  confession time and open up about other bad flicks we saw knowing they
  were going to to be bad.  
  
  I have to think on it, but most recently, I saw Wild Hogs.  Don't kick
  me off the list, but I thought the first half was hilarious.  I
  watched a really bad one star movie, Cyber Wars also known as Avatar
  or  Matrix Hunter.  It starred Joseph Lau, David Warner (Jack the
  Ripper, Hog Father), and Joan Chen (twin Peaks) The Plot: In the near
  future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is
  recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using
  illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who
  makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a
  police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an
  insidious and deadly purpose
  
  Okay, your turn
  
  tracey
  
  --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin truthseeker_013@ wrote:
  
   Give 'em time, Tracey.
   
   Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) tdlists@ wrote:
I saw it.  It definitely was not theater
  worthy, but I think it would be 
a great TV show.  I love the teleportation concept and some of the 
mythology and laws were good too.  Unfortunately, it came across
  like a 
pilot movie for a scifi tv show.   To mad it is not a tv series

ravenadal wrote:
 To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all
  superpowers.  
 Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear 
 when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets
 there), 
 or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set!

 ~rave!

 --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE nehesi@ wrote:
   
  
 
  On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote:
  
  
   There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen 
   
 it)
 
  
SPOILER

   
 ALERT!!
   
  
where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane 
   
 Karina on
 
his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, 
   
 where he
 
has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with 
   
 great 
   
 power!
 
  
   
 It was right in keeping with how his character was established in 
 the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might
 think of 
 using his abilities for good.  

 Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception.  How 
 
 the 
   
 hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers?  Its one
 thing if 
 you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of
 one who 
 is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your 
 stun-wand, how are you gonna get him?  In less than three
 minutes, 
 my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation 
 
 power 
   
 offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la 
 Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up
 with, no 
 normal human would have a chance against a jumper.

 




  
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[scifinoir2] Bad Movies Confession Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!

2008-02-22 Thread tdemorsella
guys sorry.  I'm not illiterate.  I just play one on the list.  I will
try not to post so rushed in the future

-- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, tdemorsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 So gang.  It seems like it is a given that some us go to or rent
 movies we pretty much knoware going to be bad.  So lets make it a
 confession time and open up about other bad flicks we saw knowing they
 were going to to be bad.  
 
 I have to think on it, but most recently, I saw Wild Hogs.  Don't kick
 me off the list, but I thought the first half was hilarious.  I
 watched a really bad one star movie, Cyber Wars also known as Avatar
 or  Matrix Hunter.  It starred Joseph Lau, David Warner (Jack the
 Ripper, Hog Father), and Joan Chen (twin Peaks) The Plot: In the near
 future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is
 recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using
 illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who
 makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a
 police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an
 insidious and deadly purpose
 
 Okay, your turn
 
 tracey
 
 --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin truthseeker_013@ wrote:
 
  Give 'em time, Tracey.
  
  Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) tdlists@ wrote:
   I saw it.  It definitely was not theater
 worthy, but I think it would be 
   a great TV show.  I love the teleportation concept and some of the 
   mythology and laws were good too.  Unfortunately, it came across
 like a 
   pilot movie for a scifi tv show.   To mad it is not a tv series
   
   ravenadal wrote:
To me, teleportation has always been the coolest of all
 superpowers.  
Couple it with a proximity sense, keen hearing (so you can hear 
when a shot is fired and teleport an instant before it gets
there), 
or just plain common sense and you have one heck of a skill set!
   
~rave!
   
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, DJ VIBE nehesi@ wrote:
  
 

 On Feb 15, 2008 6:31 PM, ravenadal ravenadal@ wrote:
 
 
  There is a scene in the new Jumper movie (no, I have not seen 
  
it)

 
   SPOILER
   
  
ALERT!!
  
 
   where the hero is watching the aftermath of the Hurricane 
  
Karina on

   his television. He gets dressed and teleports...to London, 
  
where he

   has a date. So much for great responsibility coming with 
  
great 
  
power!

 
  
It was right in keeping with how his character was established in 
the movie, although for a moment there I thought he might
think of 
using his abilities for good.  
   
Overall, I found the movie pretty good, with one exception.  How 

the 
  
hell did the Paladins continually catch jumpers?  Its one
thing if 
you get the drop on one, but if you're standing in FRONT of
one who 
is fresh and the jumper sees you and you try to get him with your 
stun-wand, how are you gonna get him?  In less than three
minutes, 
my wife and I came up with several ways to use a teleportation 

power 
  
offesinvely (i.e. teleport in a circle around your opponent a la 
Nightcrawer. et. al) and in all of those cases we came up
with, no 
normal human would have a chance against a jumper.
   

   
   
   
   
 
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 will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A
 Man Without A Country
 
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