Tag Archives: Sci-Fi

Blog

Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Leave a comment

Awesome:

  • Keanu Reeves arrives on earth in a slimy spacesuit that is described as “like a placenta.”
  • New York City is nearly completely destroyed by a giant cloud of robot nanobugs.

Continue reading Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) →

Blog

I Got This For Free: Ultraviolet

2 Comments

poster_ultraviolet_pg-13So I got a PlayStation 3 and there was this rebate for 5 Blu-ray discs – the catch was you could only select from a horribly crippled list of possibilities (and you had to select from different tiers with only a few titles available on each tier, making selection of 5 decent titles virtually impossible and causing this sentence to run on and on and on…). Anyway, I sent off the rebate 6-8 weeks ago and forgot about it. Continue reading I Got This For Free: Ultraviolet →

Movie Commentaries

Commentary #3 – The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Audio 1 Comment
poster_dayaftertomorrow

The Film Pigs learn an important lesson about the environment in an action-thriller-blockbuster that, after a great first hour of destruction, combines the excitement of a summit on global warming with the pulse-pounding adventure of Dennis Quaid walking! In snowshoes! (IMDb)

TO SYNC WITH MOVIE: start this commentary 10 seconds after starting movie (chapter 1 for DVD/BD).