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Argumental (2008)
great show
I thoroughly enjoy this show. There's a great chemistry between Hound and Brigstocke. The topics and arguments are secondary. This is an improv show. The audience isn't really voting for one side of an argument; they're voting for the funniest performance. If you liked Who's Line Is It Anyway, you'll probably like this show too.
A lot of the comedians are also on Quite Interesting. I guess the British comedy scene is a lot like it's acting community where a lot of the personalities show up again and again. For the most part, that's good. Phil Jupitus, Sean Locke, and Johnny Vegas can't be beat.
I hope the show makes it to a third season.
Black Swarm (2007)
bad
not sure who has been rating this movie--my guess is people with a vested interest. it is NOT a 7 star movie. very slow. nothing happens for the first hour. didn't anybody notice that half the town is walking around like zombies with huge pustules on their faces? will the hot entymologist/evil spy get it on with the hot exterminator, the twin brother of the hot widow's dead husband? "you're an exterminator. she's an etymologist. you could talk about bugs." then it gets really bad. some passable actors, but they're wasted here. i think somebody said "nobody's mixed killer wasps and zombies yet. let's start there and make it up as we go along, then pour some sappy moralistic ketchup on this bad goulash at the end. don't flush any money on this.
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)
are there minus stars?
I am not exaggerating; this really is the worst movie I've ever seen. I couldn't look away. I couldn't believe that somewhere along the way *somebody* didn't say "We can't possibly air this." Obviously what happened is somebody at sci fi said, "Tornadoes are big right now. Let's do a movie about tornadoes." Somebody else said, "We don't have the budget." Then, "Romania--let's do it in Romania. It's cheap there." "But they don't have tornadoes there." "What do they have?" "They have gypsies" "Ooo ooo, a magical gypsy torndado. And an American saves the gypsies" "Oh yeah, that'll work." Godamighty, think of all they starving children who could have been fed with what they wasted on this crap.