Marc Singer, Faye Grant (1983) A TV Cameraman and a medical student lead the resistance against huge spaceships of alien visitors.
I am impressed by how much this Marc Singer guy looks like Kevin Bacon.
Also, quite a good miniseries. Long, but really good. I'm looking forward to the follow-on miniseries, and series, as well as the new series, which I think will be coming on tomorrow.
Also, nice way to tie the first scenes together with the last set of scenes.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
The Rapture
Mimi Rogers, Patrick Bauchau (1991) Saved by religion from a life of empty sex, a blissful woman starts a family, only to have it torn asunder.
One of the guys just gave out the same copy of the New Testament that they passed out a bunch back when I was at school. I collected as many as I could in order to tax their organization as much as possible for annoying me... I think I've still got a bunch of them laying around somewhere. Probably in the midst of some of my crap at my parent's house.
Female character in her bra 21 minutes in. And now topless from the back. And now some blurred Syfy boobs. That progressed rather quickly. And more blurred boobs at 26 minutes in. I guess this would be the empty sex part of the movie...
Also, lots of random waiting around for the Rapture... which doesn't make the most interesting of viewing.
One of the guys just gave out the same copy of the New Testament that they passed out a bunch back when I was at school. I collected as many as I could in order to tax their organization as much as possible for annoying me... I think I've still got a bunch of them laying around somewhere. Probably in the midst of some of my crap at my parent's house.
Female character in her bra 21 minutes in. And now topless from the back. And now some blurred Syfy boobs. That progressed rather quickly. And more blurred boobs at 26 minutes in. I guess this would be the empty sex part of the movie...
Also, lots of random waiting around for the Rapture... which doesn't make the most interesting of viewing.
Mmmm. Pie.
Yup. Pie is awesome.
Also, it seems I've used this title before. Man, I'm creative. Or maybe I just like pie. Or both.
Also, it seems I've used this title before. Man, I'm creative. Or maybe I just like pie. Or both.
Megafault
Brittany Murphy, Eriq La Salle (2009) A seismologist and a miner work together to stop a massive earthquake from destroying the world.
Syfy Saturday movie from 10/10. Glad that we're done with that Horrorfest drivel, and we're back to our regularly scheduled programming of Syfy Saturday and Sunday stuff...
So, you wanna know what it looks like when you take a helicopter shot of some countryside, and impose some shoddy CG earthquake fault breaking and stuff? Then watch this movie
They just showed that we're in Washington DC now. And they showed an aerial shot of an airport. The runway pattern of which doesn't match any airport in the DC area.
Also, Senator Kelly as director of FEMA.
And some random woman seems to be the main character. And she sucks at public speaking. Brittany Murphy, I guess?
Got to watch a bunch of stuff to clear it off the DVR. In preparation for the new V series coming out, Syfy is showing all of the old V stuff, including the original Miniseries, the follow-on miniseries, and the TV series that followed. And in preparation, I guess I'm gonna have to watch 'em all, assuming they don't suck. That could probably take a while. We shall see...
And for some reason, a seismologist is flying in a Medevac helicopter to investigate the earthquake.
And apparently the C-130s are the sturdiest airplanes known to man. One just got run into by something, probably another plane. All that happened was that the C-130 lost an engine. And then had to crash land.
And Black Guy just blew up a porta-potty. In order to jack a guy's helicopter. Thankfully for the plot, he knows how to fly a helicopter.
I'm really curious what the stall speed of an F22 is. Because they're keeping pace with a helicopter. And they just fired a missile or two as a warning shot, to try to get the helicopter to land. Seems that using a couple of missiles is a ridiculously expensive warning shot, as opposed to a couple of bullets.
Oh, good! It seems that the military made an earthquake weapon using an "invisible phase beam" to freeze water under the earth's crust to create earthquakes. They're gonna try to create another earthquake to stop the propagation of the first massive one.
Also: Earthquake + Farm field = Explosion. Apparently. Apparently this movie takes place in mythical Micheal Bay Land.
And for some reason, a the terrain around a mine in Wyoming looks exactly the same as the terrain around the mine from the first scene of the movie.
Syfy Saturday movie from 10/10. Glad that we're done with that Horrorfest drivel, and we're back to our regularly scheduled programming of Syfy Saturday and Sunday stuff...
So, you wanna know what it looks like when you take a helicopter shot of some countryside, and impose some shoddy CG earthquake fault breaking and stuff? Then watch this movie
They just showed that we're in Washington DC now. And they showed an aerial shot of an airport. The runway pattern of which doesn't match any airport in the DC area.
Also, Senator Kelly as director of FEMA.
And some random woman seems to be the main character. And she sucks at public speaking. Brittany Murphy, I guess?
Got to watch a bunch of stuff to clear it off the DVR. In preparation for the new V series coming out, Syfy is showing all of the old V stuff, including the original Miniseries, the follow-on miniseries, and the TV series that followed. And in preparation, I guess I'm gonna have to watch 'em all, assuming they don't suck. That could probably take a while. We shall see...
And for some reason, a seismologist is flying in a Medevac helicopter to investigate the earthquake.
And apparently the C-130s are the sturdiest airplanes known to man. One just got run into by something, probably another plane. All that happened was that the C-130 lost an engine. And then had to crash land.
And Black Guy just blew up a porta-potty. In order to jack a guy's helicopter. Thankfully for the plot, he knows how to fly a helicopter.
I'm really curious what the stall speed of an F22 is. Because they're keeping pace with a helicopter. And they just fired a missile or two as a warning shot, to try to get the helicopter to land. Seems that using a couple of missiles is a ridiculously expensive warning shot, as opposed to a couple of bullets.
Oh, good! It seems that the military made an earthquake weapon using an "invisible phase beam" to freeze water under the earth's crust to create earthquakes. They're gonna try to create another earthquake to stop the propagation of the first massive one.
Also: Earthquake + Farm field = Explosion. Apparently. Apparently this movie takes place in mythical Micheal Bay Land.
And for some reason, a the terrain around a mine in Wyoming looks exactly the same as the terrain around the mine from the first scene of the movie.
Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
Rachel Miner, Chris Carmack (2009) A young man who can time-travel tries to solve his girlfriend's murder.
The last of the After Dark Horrorfest movies that they showed on Syfy a few weeks back. I think the score is currently 2.5 out of 6. So, this one needs to get full marks to get to the Horrorfest to .500. I may just have to give this one at least half a point due to the lack of Ashton Kutcher.
Syfy blurred boobies 23 minutes in.
And, my review: Meh.
The last of the After Dark Horrorfest movies that they showed on Syfy a few weeks back. I think the score is currently 2.5 out of 6. So, this one needs to get full marks to get to the Horrorfest to .500. I may just have to give this one at least half a point due to the lack of Ashton Kutcher.
Syfy blurred boobies 23 minutes in.
And, my review: Meh.
Racing
For all my intrepid readers, who don't care too much about all the racing stuff I've been blathering about recently, it should be over for a while soon. One more MotoGP race (next week, I think), and then it'll be over until March for F1, and April for MotoGP.
Although the WRC season is over, HD Theater is showing the highlights of one rally a week. We'll see if I end up talking about it. I'm really not sure about whether I've actually mentioned WRC yet, and we'll see if I ever do.
Although the WRC season is over, HD Theater is showing the highlights of one rally a week. We'll see if I end up talking about it. I'm really not sure about whether I've actually mentioned WRC yet, and we'll see if I ever do.
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Final race of the season. Button already won the Driver's championship last week, so there's not a lot to play for here. However, Blog-favorite Sebastian Vettel
A couple of early passes by the BMW team on the first lap. Not too pretty of passes, but it was nice to see that the circuit has been designed enough to ensure that some overtaking is possible. Interesting circuit design, though. A stupidly long straight (the longest in the F1 calendar), and a bunch of twisties.
Coming off a very dominant qualifying performance, it'll be interesting to see how dominant Lewis Hamilton is during the race. Even though Hamilton was 6 tenths of a second faster than anyone else during qualifying, Vettel in 2nd seems to be sticking with him pretty well.
And a really nice pass from Kamui Kobayashi in his 2nd Grand Prix, on 2009 World Champion Jenson Button.
And Vettel just passed Hamilton in the first round of pitstops. So, its now Vettel in first, Hamilton 2nd, and Webber 3rd. Although, that all seems moot, as Hamilton retires with brake issues shortly after his first stop.
And that's actually an interesting development in the Constructors championship. Brawn has obviously locked up first, and Red Bull Racing has locked up 2nd. However, McLaren (Hamilton's team) is currently one point ahead of Ferrari for 3rd. Blog-second-favorite Kimi Raikonnen (from Ferrari) is currently in 6th, one place ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen. That'd end up with both teams even on points, but I think with Hamilton's 2 race wins will trump Raikonnen's 1. (Neither of their teammates has done much of anything this season). And Kovalainen just passed Raikonnen in their first and only pit stop. (The front-runners are on 2-stop strategies, and the guys further back are running on 1-stop strategies)
A very interesting pit stop for Torro Rosso's Jaime Algersuari. He completely missed the Torro Rosso pits, and ended up trying to pit in Red Bull's box. All this while Vettel was coming down the pit lane as he prepared to make his stop. Luckily the Red Bull guys managed to get everyone out of the way, and get Algersuari to pass through in preparation for Vettel showing up. And since they waited until he was almost out of fuel to pit, Algersuari ran out of fuel since he'd already passed his team's pit box.
And Kubica just went to pass Buemi in a similar place he bullied his way past someone else earlier in the race. Unfortunately, it appears that he overcooked it and spun, and lost out, and then got passed by Nico Rosberg.
And things might be shaping up for a last few laps interestingness between 2nd place Mark Webber and 3rd place Jenson Button. Button's been reeling Webber in, during the last few laps. And coming off that stupidly long straight, Button's front wing was probably less than 2 feet off of Webber's rear. After some rather close racing on the last lap between Webber and Button. But, Webber prevailed in the end, just barely.
Vettel's fourth win of the season, which definitely helped solidify his 2nd place in the Driver's Championship, finishing 11 points behind Champion Jenson Button, and 7 points ahead of Rubens Barichello.
And another 1-2 finish for Red Bull, their 4th of the season. Tied with Brawn in that respect.
So, the season ends with 6 wins for Button, 4 for Vettel, and 2 for Webber, Barichello, and Hamilton. With Kimi Raikonnen taking the win for the only race not won by either of those 5.
And despite 6 wins and a 3rd place in the first 7 races, this is only the second time since then that Button's been on the podium, with the 3rd here, and a 2nd in Italy.
So, we'll have to wait until mid-March for the next race report, as the 2010 season opens in Bahrain. Which will be strange, as it'll be the first time since I've been watching F1, that the season hasn't opened in Australia. Just like this is the first time that the season has ended somewhere other than Brazil.
And just FYI all the McLarens and Ferraris finished outside the points. So McLaren gets 3rd place in the Constructor's Championship.
Be interesting to see if the more senior Mark Webber or the higher-scoring Sebastian Vettel get the first seat at Red Bull next year. Probably be Vettel...
A couple of early passes by the BMW team on the first lap. Not too pretty of passes, but it was nice to see that the circuit has been designed enough to ensure that some overtaking is possible. Interesting circuit design, though. A stupidly long straight (the longest in the F1 calendar), and a bunch of twisties.
Coming off a very dominant qualifying performance, it'll be interesting to see how dominant Lewis Hamilton is during the race. Even though Hamilton was 6 tenths of a second faster than anyone else during qualifying, Vettel in 2nd seems to be sticking with him pretty well.
And a really nice pass from Kamui Kobayashi in his 2nd Grand Prix, on 2009 World Champion Jenson Button.
And Vettel just passed Hamilton in the first round of pitstops. So, its now Vettel in first, Hamilton 2nd, and Webber 3rd. Although, that all seems moot, as Hamilton retires with brake issues shortly after his first stop.
And that's actually an interesting development in the Constructors championship. Brawn has obviously locked up first, and Red Bull Racing has locked up 2nd. However, McLaren (Hamilton's team) is currently one point ahead of Ferrari for 3rd. Blog-second-favorite Kimi Raikonnen (from Ferrari) is currently in 6th, one place ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen. That'd end up with both teams even on points, but I think with Hamilton's 2 race wins will trump Raikonnen's 1. (Neither of their teammates has done much of anything this season). And Kovalainen just passed Raikonnen in their first and only pit stop. (The front-runners are on 2-stop strategies, and the guys further back are running on 1-stop strategies)
A very interesting pit stop for Torro Rosso's Jaime Algersuari. He completely missed the Torro Rosso pits, and ended up trying to pit in Red Bull's box. All this while Vettel was coming down the pit lane as he prepared to make his stop. Luckily the Red Bull guys managed to get everyone out of the way, and get Algersuari to pass through in preparation for Vettel showing up. And since they waited until he was almost out of fuel to pit, Algersuari ran out of fuel since he'd already passed his team's pit box.
And Kubica just went to pass Buemi in a similar place he bullied his way past someone else earlier in the race. Unfortunately, it appears that he overcooked it and spun, and lost out, and then got passed by Nico Rosberg.
And things might be shaping up for a last few laps interestingness between 2nd place Mark Webber and 3rd place Jenson Button. Button's been reeling Webber in, during the last few laps. And coming off that stupidly long straight, Button's front wing was probably less than 2 feet off of Webber's rear. After some rather close racing on the last lap between Webber and Button. But, Webber prevailed in the end, just barely.
Vettel's fourth win of the season, which definitely helped solidify his 2nd place in the Driver's Championship, finishing 11 points behind Champion Jenson Button, and 7 points ahead of Rubens Barichello.
And another 1-2 finish for Red Bull, their 4th of the season. Tied with Brawn in that respect.
So, the season ends with 6 wins for Button, 4 for Vettel, and 2 for Webber, Barichello, and Hamilton. With Kimi Raikonnen taking the win for the only race not won by either of those 5.
And despite 6 wins and a 3rd place in the first 7 races, this is only the second time since then that Button's been on the podium, with the 3rd here, and a 2nd in Italy.
So, we'll have to wait until mid-March for the next race report, as the 2010 season opens in Bahrain. Which will be strange, as it'll be the first time since I've been watching F1, that the season hasn't opened in Australia. Just like this is the first time that the season has ended somewhere other than Brazil.
And just FYI all the McLarens and Ferraris finished outside the points. So McLaren gets 3rd place in the Constructor's Championship.
Be interesting to see if the more senior Mark Webber or the higher-scoring Sebastian Vettel get the first seat at Red Bull next year. Probably be Vettel...
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