'Conviction (1)'
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I saw the trailer for 21JS during the football game, and I couldn't believe it. Because seriously: no WAY do those guys look 17. Not even in tv-land. So, basically, they're doing the same thing they did with Starsky & Hutch and turning it into a comedy?
Pfeh.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
Why am I okay with S&H being a comedy? Because I liked the actors more, maybe? I don't know.
Possibly also because S&H is prominent enough that skewering felt like you could do it with great affection and as an offhanded tribute to the original. With 21 Jump Street, it's relatively obscure, and it feels like mocking to me instead.
no WAY do those guys look 17
right? they would be arrested at any HS I know.
Maybe Channing's character convinces them he was held back multiple times like Jethro Bodine? I'd buy it.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
Ah sing it, sister!
ita !, did you say Colombiana didn't suck? I saw at least one review that made it sound like she spends most of the movie moping over her boyfriend, and all the cool stuff from the trailer is in the last 10 minutes or so. Was the guy just not paying attention?
ETA: And really, "not complex emotionally, or psychologically meaty" kind of sums up my feelings on Contagion too.
No, the boyfriend is pretty irrelevant until the later 1/4. At first he's there to show how conventionally she can't manage a relationship, but she manages. And then he gets drawn in and...basically a threat of fridging. I'd like to see the fight parts distilled down.
She's not particularly cheery--traumatised as a child and turned into a killer at about age 9.
Man, I miss Dustin Nguyen.
Okay, Alien: Resurrection is much better than Alien 3. It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun. Not groundbreaking like the first two, but pretty solid. I can see a little of the proto-Serenity aspect, but I wasn't really able to see the movie Joss claimed he wrote that got fucked up. He was mad that they took his script and played it seriously? The rest of the franchise is...serious. That's kind of a thing.
I wonder who's going to be the token android in Prometheus. And whether we're going to see any Xenomorphs. I wonder, but I don't actually want to know. What was that one article that said that Christopher Nolan's started this new thing where not knowing anything about a movie is why you're interested in it?
Man, remember that first Inception trailer that just sort of came out of nowhere and we were all like WHAT THE LIVING FUCK IS THIS MOVIE I CANNOT WAIT.
It feels more like an Alien movie, and it's pretty fun
Oh, good, I'm glad you liked it. I really enjoyed the smugglers--anytime we see Ron Perlman is a plus--and the Ripley clone was an interesting commentary on the character. I actually felt sorry for the alien hybrid at the end. But I'm a sap.
Well, I think she did too.
The Ripley clone was weird. Because she was clearly not Ripley, even characterization-wise, but she looked like her and had her role. Wasn't sure what I thought about her, although I've encountered several other clone stories recently that handled those questions in interesting ways.
The smugglers were way more interesting and entertaining than the religious prisoners. Although I didn't remember a goddamn thing from this movie. Not even Call's deal.