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Terminator Salvation (2009)
DVD Dec 31st or Jan 1st???
I loved Terminator Salvation and cannot wait until the DVD comes out. It kinda upset me to see that Wolverine is already out on DVD and it hit theaters around the same time as Terminator. I think I am one of the few that also loved the Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. I likes T3 simply because it changed everything that we thought we knew about the terminator movies, that we should have seen from the start. I didn't until the end of T3. TSCC was gong to semi fill in the blanks, but not enough people liked it so they canceled it after only two years, less than 30 episodes between the two. But back to the subject: DVD time. Why is Wolverine out, and why are Monsters vs Aliems and Aliens in the Attic and Ice Age 3, all coming out so far before Terminator Salvaton? But yet 24 hit DVD midnight after the last episode of season 7 aired. Man these guys are fickled lol.
Dollhouse (2009)
Dollhouse has to go...bring Sarah Connor Chronicles back to replace it!!
I give it a one cuz you can't give a zero. I watched half the first season and it was just plain dumb. Eliza, go back to Tru Calling where you were best or do the Faith thing that they offered you to do...the spin off of Buffy. If dollhouse comes back for a season 3, I will be mad as.......... Terminator and Tru Calling and Point Pleasant were all canceled after one season, tru calling came back for 6 episodes... Dark Angel lasted 2 full seasons....Stacked deserved another year at the least....Man I hope CW really buys The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It should get an ending, not a cliffhanger like John Connor was never the leader of the resistance.
Tru Calling (2003)
Proof that Fox really sucks
After hours, days, weeks of relentless searching, I finally found out the reason that Fox canceled Tru Calling. OK, Fox claims it was canceled due to poor ratings, but when you get online and search for any negative comment on the show, well, I have yet to find one. I don't recall how I got the information, but I think it was a response from Fox. I was informed that while Tru Calling was wrapping up season one (and anyone who was there when it was airing knows it was canceled after the first season originally), they changed owners. The new owner decided he liked reality shows much more than drama (so count your blessings on Bones, House and 24). Fans actually brought it back for the 6 episodes of season 2, which I think is amazing that we have that power! I hope the same comes for the terminator Sarah Conner Chronicles. Ironically enough, that is not what makes me the maddest about Fox Networks. The fact that a dumba$$ show like dollhouse or a show that should've lasted only two seasons at most like prison break or American Idol stay around way past their welcome. Reality is ruining television. We the people who hold hopes for a better future in television are constantly at war with our people dwindling everyday, leaving us behind, glorified by this new idea they have called a life which was not such a happening thing prior to the upbringing of reality TV. If you ask me, there should be one set of channels for just reality programming, charge a monthly fee for these like they do with sports packages, and give us back the good shows, and everyone will be happy. Quit canceling series just because they aren't reality TV, or more people will quit watching your channels, knowing that if they get into it, it will be gone within 2 years. The only reality show ever worth watching lasted 13 episodes, called Murder. Real people got a crash course in forensics and solved real murders...CSI meets reality...How did that go wrong?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chosen (2003)
Awesome season, but the worst finale of all for Buffy
OK. To begin with, I just watched all of Buffy recently. I never watched it on TV because when the Buffy movie came out, I hated it (of course, a lot has changed since then). That being said, I gotta admit that I was very stunned to find out how enjoyable it actually was. I even began to get Willow-y when I talked at times haha. Season 7 was much darker than all the others, but I liked the way it was going, especially in the final few leading up to the finale. You can tell that the writers had practically given up by this episode or run out of ideas or something. The weren't giving nearly as much as they had for all of the others. I had a lot of problems with this episode, but one thing I did like was the Spike and Buffy scene (even though I never wanted them together, esp after he turned stalker-y and built a mannequin and a sex-bot, sniffing her undies...etc) I didn't understand why the spell had to turn all potentials worldwide into all out slayers when the major battle was in the school. Which also brings up another question... Why did the spell have to be performed at the school? Why not have done it at home instead of putting Willow and her girl in danger? I didn't think about it til today, but someone brought up another good point on this message board... Buffy was nearly killed by the uber-vamp two or three times... and she's got 8 years or so experience on the "new slayers", but they were killing the slayers with no problem. I was also rooting for her sis to be a potential which could've led to a very different ending, probably even better, a lot better. Its not that we are criticizing the show for it being the finale. All of the other endings were far better (even the one with the dream sequence). 5 was the best ending when they planned to end it the first time. What happened?
The Final Destination (2009)
My only problem(s) with this movie are....
These all deal with the cinema scene.... One, I was extremely upset to see the audience in the movie wearing aviator style glasses while we had to sit back and enjoy our buddy holly looking ones lol Two, why they didn't make the 3d movie in the movie 3d, is beyond me (If you look at their screen its all the crappy old school 3d effects, green and red blur-vision) Three, dude saved a theater full of people, so now they are on deaths list as well, right? Am I the only one to catch that?? Four, How many theaters have barrels of highly flammable liquid sitting behind the screen? As far as the 3d effects, way better than Beowolf, but not quite as good as G-Force, which I think can't be put in the same category since a lot of it is green-screened. The premonitions were vague, but I was glad to see that they returned to the physical premontions. All of the Final Destination movies are full of holes and flaws, but every one of them are still enjoyable to my taste. I hope to see many more in the future, 3d or not to be 3d.
Friday the 13th (2009)
Did they really think we'd buy Friday 13th as a remake?
I have a lot of problems with this movie, but I will start with one good thing about this movie that a lot of people frowned on. I was glad to see Jason actually run in this movie, which was half the reason I went to see it. The other half was the fact I was so impressed with Rob Zombie's Halloween, that I thought these people were finally getting horror right this go around. Without dogging all the bad horror movies that I have seen this year, I will get on to the points. 1) Everyone speculated this would be a remake of the original Friday the 13th, and there were some clues that led me to believe that it was supposed to be such as a) the sack over his head prior to the mask b) finding of the mask c) his mother being the killer (at least at the very beginning) but the main thing that baffled me as to the legitimacy of it being a remake? Okay, it starts out showing his mom on April 13th, 1980. BAM! She's dead! Then it says 20 years later. 20 YEARS LATER and Jason is running around with a sack on his head. WHO WAS NOT CONFUSED BY THIS??? 2) I'm sorry, but horror movies with the Supernatural guy just don't work well. Cry_Wolf anyone? 3) Since when does Jason set up bells and lights to let him know someone is in his territory? 4) Since when does Jason take hostages? 5) The only person that I really didn't predict dying 5 minutes prior to the death was the last female in the tunnel. 6) How many times can you hit a guys head on multiple bus windows, shattering them, without getting a scratch? 7) If you report to the police there is a big man carrying around a dead body, when does only one cop (happening to be the same friggin cop you meet earlier in the movie) show up? 9) The wood chipper. The writers were smart enough to use a wood chipper in the movie, but only as a tease. I don't know about you, but I would've ended it there and satisfied the audience. No possibility for a sequel? Even if he had've been shredded in the chipper, he still could've switched bodies or something. He did it in one of the other movies, can't remember which one. 10) Yeah, it was kind of a cool death scene, but what the hell is Jason doing with a bow and arrow?? Don't take the killer out of his habitat, it just doesn't work. Jason uses (mainly) a machete or other sharp objects, not a bow and arrow. Come to think of it, what horror movie "monster" has ever used a bow and arrow in a seriously good scary movie? 11) And lastly: (kinda repeating a little here, but...) What writers and directors are forgetting is, all the hype in the world will not make a horror movie work. You don't need so much suspense to the point where the audience can predict who when and pretty much how and where a person will die. You use the element of surprise. The best kills in this movie were the first set! And all this could've been prevented if everyone was honest with the rich OCD guy. I don't think there was one person in that "cabin" that even liked the guy. All in all, it was okay for a sequel, but there are far too many problems that can't be (and should not have been) overlooked. People, this was a horrible attempt at a remake.