Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
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. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
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. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
I would join in, but you've all heard the Star Crash story...Can't get any worse than that... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
a...flashback.. OK. good enough. Astromancer wrote: I would join in, but you've all heard the Star Crash story...Can't get any worse than that... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels
Re: [scifinoir2] Bad Movies Conferssion Time Re: Jumper - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!
A...I feel better already remembering that. Thanks, pal! Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would join in, but you've all heard the Star Crash story...Can't get any worse than that... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] There is no reason Good can't triumph over
