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Stargate, a review by DJ DoenaFirst I thought about a re-run of Smallville but I have watched this in the middle of last year and it's been a while since I've watched Stargate SG-1. In order to watch Stargate SG-1, one has to watch Stargate first. Stargate Kurt Russell ... Col. Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil James Spader ... Dr. Daniel Jackson Alexis Cruz ... Skaara Viveca Lindfors ... Catherine Mili Avital ... Sha'uri John Diehl ... Lieutenant Kawalsky Leon Rippy ... General W.O. West Erick Avari ... Kasuf French Stewart ... Lieutenant Ferretti Jaye Davidson ... Ra Synopsis: Dr. Jackson is not very renowned in the scientific community. But he is convinced that the great pyramids weren't build during the fourth dynasty 5,000 years ago. He believes that they are much older. A digging back in 1928 confirms his suspicions: buried in the sands of Egypt under a great cover stone with unknown symbols - not hieroglyphs - the My Opinion: Unfortunately I haven't seen this movie in the theatres (I went to Star Trek: Generations instead). The idea that alien cultures have been to Earth and have had an influence isn't new, but it was interestingly presented. I also liked that the Abydosians really spoke abydosian (a variant of ancient egyptian) and not just english. The fights were very well choreographed, too, I didn't have the feeling that the weapons of the humans were a match to the ones of Ra's. To adopt the story for the series they had to make some adjustments (this contains spoilers in regard to the pilot of the series):
Additionally one has to activate one's "suspension of disbelief" even more than in the movie, because:
Now we can get started ... (From "Stargate SG-1" Marathon on February 29th, 2008) The Proposal, a review by RichTitle: The Proposal Runtime:104 Certificate:PG-13 Year:2009 Genres:Comedy, Romance Plot:Sandra Bullock is at her funniest in the fresh, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy The Proposal. On the verge of being deported and losing the high-powered job she lives for, the controlling Margaret announces she's engaged to her unsuspecting, put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds). After proposing a few demands of his own, the mismatched couple heads to Alaska where they have four short days to convince his quirky family and a very skeptical immigration agent that their charade is real. Featuring a star-studded supporting cast, including Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and the delightfully inappropriate Betty White, this madcap comedy will have you saying "yes" to The Proposal again and again. My Review: My Rating (From DCO third annual November Alphabet Marathon - discussion/review/banter thread on November 2nd, 2009) Pilot Season 2014-15, a review by DJ DoenaHalt and Catch Fire Halt and Catch Fire @ Wikipedia Halt and Catch Fire @ IMDb Synopsis: Set in the early 1980s this is about three employees of a IBM PC clone manufacturer company who want to build a new kind of PC. They start off reverse engineering the IBM BIOS and then go from there. These three people are very different and yet excellent at what they do. My Opinion: The real life's history of the show's name can be read on Wikipedia. In the beginning I was a bit hard for me to actually care about the characters. They appeared to be cardboard cutouts for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak from Apple and an Angelina Jolie's Acid Burn from Hackers thrown in the mix. But after a few episodes they really grew on me and towards the end of the first season I truly wanted them to succeed. And it's very nostalgic to see them fight over every kilobyte of memory whereas nowadays? "8 gigs are too slow? OK, put in 16 gigs!" (From Pilot Season 2014-15 on September 8th, 2014) |