“Where have we heard that before?”

Glad I didn’t watch it.

And now we’re all re-enacting the scene in the living room. Here’s my 5-yr old:

“Jeremy…the thumb!”

Sad.

Believe it: Alimony for your goldigging ex-wife and private school for your kid is expensive. Which, coincidentally, also explains why any of Tom Clancy’s books turned into movies after 1999 are crap.

ScottMcC on May 27, 2008 at 7:20 PM

You should hear the commentary for ‘Some of all Fears.’ He spanks the director all the way through it. Clancy even introduces himself as “I’m the guy who wrote the book that they didn’t read.”

- The Cat

I also can’t believe Michael Crichton signed off on this

Believe it: Alimony for your goldigging ex-wife and private school for your kid is expensive. Which, coincidentally, also explains why any of Tom Clancy’s books turned into movies after 1999 are crap.

Totally agree, give me the originals any day…not that they didn’t make awful scifi in the 70s…anyone ever see Zardoz?

MechEng5by5 on May 27, 2008 at 1:51 PM

Zardoz?? HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! That movie what WHACKED! It wouldn’t even make sense if you were stoned!

Back to AS: Did anyone get the jab at the left’s favorite corporations in the name of the chemical company that was pushing for undersea mining? “Enburtel.” As in ENron-haliBURTon-bechtEL.

It will join the collection that includes The Omega Man, Soylent Green, and Planet of the Apes.

MechEng5by5 on May 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM

I just watched ‘The Omega Man’ the other day..

I’ll never forget Chuck in a crumpled velvet suit..

Long review: The movie is totally gay.

They have an unmarried male to take care fo blowing up the Wildfire lab in case of infection…

But it’s apparently OK for a female fighter pilot to drop a themonuclear device on an American town.

This is what happens when you PC up a good story and add a little BDS to the mix –

A convoluted mish-mash of Hollyweird tripe.

Most rational people rejected their propaganda, and as a result the Hollywood-lefts credibility factor will be marginalized in the months ahead.

Don’t count on it… these people LIVE the fantasy– it’s their existence, and what is dreamed of is as good as truth in their minds. They’ll just “CG” the environment to make it look real.

unseen on May 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM

Totally agree, give me the originals any day…not that they didn’t make awful scifi in the 70s…anyone ever see Zardoz?

For anyone who enjoyed the original book, I highly recommend “The Swarm” by Arthur Herzog. It was adapted into a schlocky movie in the 70s, at the height of the killer-bee craze, but the book has much of the same sense of genuine scientific wonder as “The Andromeda Strain.” At least, I thought so when I was eight. I probably should dig up my old copy and reread it before I recommend it, but what the heck – eight-year-old me gives it two thumbs up!

Whoever suggested they knew TAS remake would be crap when they found out A&E produced it, instead of Sci-Fi, I have one word for you: Riverworld. Once upon a time, I hoped the Sci-Fi Channel would produce reverent adaptations of classic science fiction, instead of movies about giant snakes. I demand a Congressional investigation into that…

I almost hurled…. then I turned it off and went to bed.

Needless to say, I won’t be watching part 2 tonight.

Not yet. So far the evil guy is the head of the NSA. He chews alot of gum. Does chenny chew gum? the gum is important. they spent more time on the gum chewing then on the the bug it seems. so it must be important right?

You think that is bad. saw the new Indy Movie last night also. they destroyed that also. Why if a movie is set in the 1950 must present day politics come into a movie. At least TAS is suppose to be set in present day. IJCS was suppose to be set in 1950. Not multiclutral america by any degree yet the movie was cast as if it were 2009 America. And to top it off it made absolutely no sense. The plot was broken. It was only moved forward by special effects that you had to suspend disbelief to believe that the people doing the stunts could somehow possibly survive. Indy is not a super hero. Most of the special effects and stunts would have killed an avg human.

And all that anti-Bush screed aside, can we not just rate the movie as is, in other words, as a piece of crap due to bad acting? It seriously looks like they all got together one long weekend and decided to do a movie really quickly; not only that but the writing is crap. Additionally, as a military man, I cannot watch a movie when the producers don’t care enough to get the actors berets that fit their heads. And guess what else: not every organization or group in the military is run by a 4-star general.

We will not be tuning in tonight…and my wife is a serious Benjamin Bratt “fan” and she doesn’t even want to waste two hours of her life (again).

The Chinese guy is there to give credence to the moral equivalence – “Our country (China) was developing biological weapons,just like YOURS was…”

But Daniel Dae Kim is (South) Korean. Couldn’t they just as easily have said (North) Korea was developing biological weapons?

I thought they did the story a disservice by NOT spending more time on the decon process.

I know, right? That part is so cool.