That sounds like a good...er bad one. anybody else brave enough to shae?
Martin wrote:
> Okay, I'm in...
>
> "Crossworlds", starring a pre-"Sports Night" Josh Charles, who plays an
> aimless college student who gets picked up at a party by a hot blonde in a
> mini-skirt. (That was the first clue for me.)
>
> Said blonde turns out to be a warrior from another dimension, who's after our
> hero because of a necklace he has, the last thing he has to remember his dead
> father by.
>
> Said necklace is actually a talisman that can, if wielded properly, allow the
> user to shape the Cosmos to his or her fancy, travel dimensions at will and
> other fun stuff.
>
> The blonde takes our hero to her mentor, played by Rutger Hauer, whom we're
> *supposed* to see as a famed and nigh-invincible warrior. (I might've bought
> it, if not for the fact that I was in better shape than he was, one lung and
> all.)
>
> Anyhoo, the adventure just speeds- uh, *meanders* along to its utterly
> predictable climax. Watchign it, I was grateful for both the ending and the
> fact that I only paid six bucks for the video.
>
> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Give 'em time, Tracey.
> >
> > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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