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Babylon A.D., a review by Rich

Babylon A.D.



Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America in a post-apocalyptic world. But it isn't long before they are pursued by warring factions who are both determined to take the girl, and it is up to Thoorop to stop them.

Ignore the trailer for this film, it will give the impression this is worth spending your hard earned dosh on, it isn't. A woeful effort which is reminiscent of the superior Children of Men, the effects and action don't get going till the last half an hour, and these are so choppy it is difficult to understand what is actually happening.
The acting is poor, the action pedestrian and badly filmed, direction amateur and characters unbelievable. An awful ending where it is jumped several years in advance without explanation or what happened in-between culminates this waste of viewing time.
 

(From Riches Random Reviews on January 6th, 2009)

Office Space, a review by DJ Doena

Ron Livingston    ...    Peter Gibbons
Jennifer Aniston   ...    Joanna
David Herman   ...    Michael Bolton
Ajay Naidu   ...    Samir
Diedrich Bader   ...    Lawrence
Stephen Root   ...    Milton Waddams
Gary Cole   ...    Bill Lumbergh
John C. McGinley   ...    Bob Slydell

Synopsis: Peter works in a software company and he and his colleagues are scanning program code for possible Y2K bugs and change the code to a 4 digits system. But his work doesn't fulfil him, he feels useless and the job is repetitive and tedious. When he seeks counselling he gets hypnotized but never awakes from it because his shrink dies of an heart attack. From now on everything is different. Life is easy, he goes to work when he pleases, he works only on stuff that is actually useful and he even gets promoted for it - while his friends get fired due to "reorganization". But they have a contingency plan - they plan to steal "virtual" money.

My Opinion: This movie feels so real and Peter's life before his hypnosis is pretty much the same that I am currently leading, especially the boringness at work. Now I only need to find the diner where Jennifer Aniston is working and I will get hypnotized, too.
The supporting characters are also very great, especially Milton and his stapler.

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2009 on June 19th, 2009)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Charles "Chuck" Bartowski is a man who works is an electronic market in the "Nerd Herd". But he's also a spy - sort of. He carries all of the government's secrets in his head without having direct access to them. But from time to time he "flashes" on something and then he and he and his handlers Sarah and Casey go on a mission to save the country. But Chuck's main goal is it to get the Intersect data out of his head again.

"Pilot"
After 9/11 NSA and CIA have put their information together into a computer system called Intersect. It stores the data encrypted in a huge amount of images. One day the rogue CIA spy Bryce Larkin destroys the Intersect and sends this data to his former friend Chuck Bartowski who opens it and unintentionally loads all this knowledge into his brain. Both CIA (in the form of Agent Sarah Walker) and NSA (in the form of Major John Casey) try to get the data back but the computer gets destroyed and the only remaining Intersect copy is in Chuck's head. Additionally an east-european assassin wants to kill a high-ranking NATO general.

My Opinion

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 8th, 2009)