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Outcasts (2010)
OMG Lame series
I wonder if Bamber read the script AFTER signing the contract and then insisted on being killed at the end of episode one so he would have nothing more to do with this lame series. What a shocker.. going from BSG to Outcasts! The scriptwriters seem to know nothing about creating a believable culture, and oh god I need to borrow someone's BSG dvds to try and erase this feeling of disease from my head. RDK wrote a truly excellent mocking version of the script.. my hat is off to you sir as you've done a better job than the actual scriptwriters.
FFS.. why couldn't they at least follow the Baywatch formula and have attractive actors running around in swimming costumes.. they could have explained this anomaly away by saying the first transporter crashed in a giant lake and only the good swimmers survived and their culture stuck when the later transporters arrived, because those transporters only carried hairdressers and leg waxers..
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
Top Quality Sci-Fi Drama with creepy people!
Hats of to the BBC for this, I've just watched episode 1 and LOVE IT! This brand new series has the right sort of production value quality to do the concept justice, and does not in anyway seem as cheap as the previous series from the last century.
Sound: excellent! Visuals: excellent! Lighting: excellent! Acting: Excellent! Characters: Excellent (and creepy!!) Dialogue: Excellent! Timing: Excellent! All the other categories that I cannot think of: Excellent!
I'm so glad that the BBC has come up with something that beats the US made high production value dramas like Battlestar or Flash Forward.
I will put 5 stars against this series just as soon as I can work out how to do it on IMDb!
Survivors: Episode #1.6 (2008)
Awful
I don't care to watch this pap. Why are these characters so gay? Did the virus only allow mentally retarded people to survive? Why?
If there is ever a good reason to put more money into high quality TV production, this is it. There are no redeeming features to this one. Maybe they are saving the quality for the director's cut or something. This needed zombies. After all it started off with images of Muslims praying (like in Day of the Dead), and had loads of empty streets and cities (like Shaun of the Dead and 28 days later)
The characters appear to be stupid and scenarios are contrived. Why are they not taking advantage of the unguarded armouries to get all the military hardware they need to be able to take out their enemies?
What was the point? Is this entertainment aimed at retards?
Survivors (2008)
A bit poor.
Some truly awful acting and story arcs.
Check how the character Abby throws a lit match at a corpse that she has just doused in something flammable and then shields her forehead from the heat. Or even how she screams hysterically at the sight of a possibly dead boyfriend in a comfy chair.. he's the first person she saw after waking up 10 seconds earlier and has no idea that a virus has killed anyone.. but she screams like she knows he's dead anyway.
Or maybe check how some victims of the virus seem to get caught by surprise as they die going about their ordinary day to day business while others suffer consitutional symptoms which makes them go to bed. Or maybe check the arc where a hard escaped prisoner who had murdered a prison guard can be swiftly dealth with by a girly man who pushes him out the door of a moving car when they discover his gun in a bag. Stupid.
Par for the course for cheap British television that is set outside a pub or laundrette. I found the clichés repeatedly employed too annoying to stomach. I won't watch again. I lasted to episode 2.
Give it a miss.
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
I really enjoyed watching
Its a good thing that they have such gorgeous actors working on the series.. that Grace Park.. she's AMAZINGLY cute!!! Some of the scenes are a little corny, and one or two in the series have completely failed to match up to the standard of the others but overall I think its a good watch!
I like "Starbuck"'s tattoos (I'd love her to get more!) I liked the admiral's moustache I loved hating The Prezident for being so not being a woman of her word I was confused by the no6 in Baltazar's head I loved seeing Baltazar in no6's head I loved seeing classic cylons feature for an episode I was interested to follow Baltazar's development through the four series.
However I do protest the wardrobe decision to make Galactica crew members wear their vests back to front.. That was AWFUL to see! Especially when they look so good in their flight suits and uniforms, and Caprica 6 looked fantastic in her dresses.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Poor, par for the course from the talentless boy in Hollywood.
I only watched it because it came to me at no cost. I'm glad I didn't PAY to see this. Its an uninspiring mish mash of b-movie styles and sensationalist story telling. Hadn't anyone told tarrantino??.. B-movies were crap low quality celluloid pap. I watched it so that I could be sure.. this is pap. Don't bother watching another B-movie again. Waste of time.
I did not enjoy it. All his movies are rubbish. People only pay to see his films because of hype and they want to believe that they are more cool for having seen it.
Its not true.
edit: Yes.. I'm quite harsh in my ranting criticism.. but watching this movie made me feel quite annoyed with the Hollywood hype machine for having elevated tarrantino's films above their proper place.