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Started on salvation last night... watched 2 in a row which is generally a good sign so will keep on with it. Got punisher lined up for after.
Just got Shot in the Dark on whilst churning away at work. Very interesting, can really understand why these guys do it. However, first ep, just at the part where he is filming the car stranded in the middle lane of the freeway.... I am sorry but I couldn't just sit there whilst someone is stranded, in a black SUV, with no power, no lights in the middle of the road with cars zooming by at 60 mph.
I mean he gets what he wanted... a huge crash and now someone is trapped in a burning car. I could not live with that. So easily avoided by sticking your own vehicle behind with lights and hazards on.
But money tho....
f
k me. In the next episode they're patting him on the back calling him a hero. Granted to pull someone out of a burning car takes some guts,
but I am not sure the owner of the SUV will appreciate it when he sees the footage of them waiting for the inevitable and could have stepped in before time. "He'll be thanking you for the rest of his life".... yes an cursing you at the massive medical bill he could have avoided had you been more proactive!
Just got Shot in the Dark on whilst churning away at work. Very interesting, can really understand why these guys do it. However, first ep, just at the part where he is filming the car stranded in the middle lane of the freeway.... I am sorry but I couldn't just sit there whilst someone is stranded, in a black SUV, with no power, no lights in the middle of the road with cars zooming by at 60 mph.
I mean he gets what he wanted... a huge crash and now someone is trapped in a burning car. I could not live with that. So easily avoided by sticking your own vehicle behind with lights and hazards on.
But money tho....
f
k me. In the next episode they're patting him on the back calling him a hero. Granted to pull someone out of a burning car takes some guts,but I am not sure the owner of the SUV will appreciate it when he sees the footage of them waiting for the inevitable and could have stepped in before time. "He'll be thanking you for the rest of his life".... yes an cursing you at the massive medical bill he could have avoided had you been more proactive!
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Thursday 23 November 12:35
Watched a film called "Alienator".
1990, basically centres around the dramas created by a nasty piece of work that for some contrived and far fetched reason is released from a prison spaceship by his dad, moments before being condemned to execution by the bloke from Airwolf and to a lesser extend his assistant who is wearing a catsuit with two large frontal cutouts to accentuate her cleavage.
Fella steals a smaller space ship and crashes in California. He has trouble breathing on Earth because he still has his prisoner collar on, which, alas, acts also as a tracking device, with a signal strong enough to be picked up by his former captors light years away. Wearing a fetching silver body warmer and headband he manages to convince some bad actors that he is the good guy and the post-op body builder clad in a metal bikini that the prison ship sent to capture/destroy him is in fact the antagonist. They worry, naturally, about his health and summon a doctor who has chosen a Chevrolet Celebrity coupe as his car. This breaks down near to the cabin these guys are holding out in, much to his chagrin.
Using cheap props, terrible CGI, a questionable motive and a Van Halen hair style, the "Alienator" sets her weapon to "painful burning death" and kills the doctor right there in the street. Two random characters who have recently incurred the wrath of the local park ranger for trapping rabbits in the wrong place arrive and, initially ignoring the smouldering corpse, elect to steal the stricken car. Frustrated, they head to the cabin the bad actors are held up in.
The Alienator arrives and with awful aim and this time the weapon set to "death by screaming disappearing", makes short work of these two miscreants and indeed forces the group of poor actors to flee to another cabin to meet a very right wing ex Colonel who has an AK47 amongst other armaments. Resistant to a land mine, said AK47 and an elephant gun, the group' efforts to fight back the Alienator are clear and delivered using the medium of bad acting.
The evil guy with the collar can sense her arrival and after being relieved of the collar by a well aimed shot from one of the bad actors, says that despite being resistant to convential arms such as bullets and shrapnel mines, chicken wire from the shed has proved effective in the past. Lucky the colonel has such a weapon in his shed and it is applied well to the Alienator, rendering her incapacitated under a faraday cage of bad special effects and put, unrestrained, on the back of an old Ford pickup truck. Hooray we all say, until the chap with the body warmer shows his true colours and indeed his ability to possess people using poor CGI, by doing just that to one of the poor actors, using his body in a genius act of misdirection.
All seems well until inexplicably he breaks cover and shoots the park ranger, announcing that he has taken the body of one of their friends.
Predictably the chicken wire attack was not as effective as once thought and the Alienator comes back, kills this chap and sends details of her victory back to the prison ship, giving the group a bag of unidentified jewels as a way of saying sorry for all the drama. These jewels are unestablished by the script so the viewer can only guess as to their significance and value.
Alienator then flies back using bad CGI to the prison ship, where we find out that the chap who was there doing an audit on the facility was in fact the bad guy's dad and is not too happy about his son's treatment and demise. Airwolf fella has a brief and badly choreographed fight with him with light sabres, eventually thrusting one through his chest to return the prison ship to normality.
Back on Earth we find out that the general with the vast arsenal of weapons/chicken wire fancied the Alienator, to the confusion of the group as they agree she looked like a man.
Sorry for any spoilers. 3/10 for me.
1990, basically centres around the dramas created by a nasty piece of work that for some contrived and far fetched reason is released from a prison spaceship by his dad, moments before being condemned to execution by the bloke from Airwolf and to a lesser extend his assistant who is wearing a catsuit with two large frontal cutouts to accentuate her cleavage.
Fella steals a smaller space ship and crashes in California. He has trouble breathing on Earth because he still has his prisoner collar on, which, alas, acts also as a tracking device, with a signal strong enough to be picked up by his former captors light years away. Wearing a fetching silver body warmer and headband he manages to convince some bad actors that he is the good guy and the post-op body builder clad in a metal bikini that the prison ship sent to capture/destroy him is in fact the antagonist. They worry, naturally, about his health and summon a doctor who has chosen a Chevrolet Celebrity coupe as his car. This breaks down near to the cabin these guys are holding out in, much to his chagrin.
Using cheap props, terrible CGI, a questionable motive and a Van Halen hair style, the "Alienator" sets her weapon to "painful burning death" and kills the doctor right there in the street. Two random characters who have recently incurred the wrath of the local park ranger for trapping rabbits in the wrong place arrive and, initially ignoring the smouldering corpse, elect to steal the stricken car. Frustrated, they head to the cabin the bad actors are held up in.
The Alienator arrives and with awful aim and this time the weapon set to "death by screaming disappearing", makes short work of these two miscreants and indeed forces the group of poor actors to flee to another cabin to meet a very right wing ex Colonel who has an AK47 amongst other armaments. Resistant to a land mine, said AK47 and an elephant gun, the group' efforts to fight back the Alienator are clear and delivered using the medium of bad acting.
The evil guy with the collar can sense her arrival and after being relieved of the collar by a well aimed shot from one of the bad actors, says that despite being resistant to convential arms such as bullets and shrapnel mines, chicken wire from the shed has proved effective in the past. Lucky the colonel has such a weapon in his shed and it is applied well to the Alienator, rendering her incapacitated under a faraday cage of bad special effects and put, unrestrained, on the back of an old Ford pickup truck. Hooray we all say, until the chap with the body warmer shows his true colours and indeed his ability to possess people using poor CGI, by doing just that to one of the poor actors, using his body in a genius act of misdirection.
All seems well until inexplicably he breaks cover and shoots the park ranger, announcing that he has taken the body of one of their friends.
Predictably the chicken wire attack was not as effective as once thought and the Alienator comes back, kills this chap and sends details of her victory back to the prison ship, giving the group a bag of unidentified jewels as a way of saying sorry for all the drama. These jewels are unestablished by the script so the viewer can only guess as to their significance and value.
Alienator then flies back using bad CGI to the prison ship, where we find out that the chap who was there doing an audit on the facility was in fact the bad guy's dad and is not too happy about his son's treatment and demise. Airwolf fella has a brief and badly choreographed fight with him with light sabres, eventually thrusting one through his chest to return the prison ship to normality.
Back on Earth we find out that the general with the vast arsenal of weapons/chicken wire fancied the Alienator, to the confusion of the group as they agree she looked like a man.
Sorry for any spoilers. 3/10 for me.
Lynchie999 said:
any one started Godless ??
I watched the 1st two.. nothing happened... actually I just don't know what happened... 2 hours went fast.. but its slow.
Just watched ep1 and it's very intriguing. Slow paced yes but not in a bad way. Excellent character development. Looking forward to the next episode now. That was some opening scene...lots of gore and a child who had been hung from a tree by the neck...wtf! I watched the 1st two.. nothing happened... actually I just don't know what happened... 2 hours went fast.. but its slow.
Started watching Mudbound last night, some time around ww2, American West, blacks and whites, racial prejudice, misery, farming, very interesting but I had to hit the hay halfway through. I’ll watch the rest tonight.
Still grates on the soul the way America practised racial segregation, discrimination and prejudice for so long after abolishing slavery and becoming a ‘civilised’ country.
ETA: finished it now. Jesus, those yanks sure specialised in being backwards and barbaric for a long time after they fought the world to keep backwards and barbaric invaders at bay.....
Still grates on the soul the way America practised racial segregation, discrimination and prejudice for so long after abolishing slavery and becoming a ‘civilised’ country.
ETA: finished it now. Jesus, those yanks sure specialised in being backwards and barbaric for a long time after they fought the world to keep backwards and barbaric invaders at bay.....
Edited by King Herald on Saturday 25th November 10:58
FerdiZ28 said:
Watched a film called "Alienator".
1990, basically centres around the dramas created by a nasty piece of work that for some contrived and far fetched reason is released from a prison spaceship by his dad, moments before being condemned to execution by the bloke from Airwolf and to a lesser extend his assistant who is wearing a catsuit with two large frontal cutouts to accentuate her cleavage.
Fella steals a smaller space ship and crashes in California. He has trouble breathing on Earth because he still has his prisoner collar on, which, alas, acts also as a tracking device, with a signal strong enough to be picked up by his former captors light years away. Wearing a fetching silver body warmer and headband he manages to convince some bad actors that he is the good guy and the post-op body builder clad in a metal bikini that the prison ship sent to capture/destroy him is in fact the antagonist. They worry, naturally, about his health and summon a doctor who has chosen a Chevrolet Celebrity coupe as his car. This breaks down near to the cabin these guys are holding out in, much to his chagrin.
Using cheap props, terrible CGI, a questionable motive and a Van Halen hair style, the "Alienator" sets her weapon to "painful burning death" and kills the doctor right there in the street. Two random characters who have recently incurred the wrath of the local park ranger for trapping rabbits in the wrong place arrive and, initially ignoring the smouldering corpse, elect to steal the stricken car. Frustrated, they head to the cabin the bad actors are held up in.
The Alienator arrives and with awful aim and this time the weapon set to "death by screaming disappearing", makes short work of these two miscreants and indeed forces the group of poor actors to flee to another cabin to meet a very right wing ex Colonel who has an AK47 amongst other armaments. Resistant to a land mine, said AK47 and an elephant gun, the group' efforts to fight back the Alienator are clear and delivered using the medium of bad acting.
The evil guy with the collar can sense her arrival and after being relieved of the collar by a well aimed shot from one of the bad actors, says that despite being resistant to convential arms such as bullets and shrapnel mines, chicken wire from the shed has proved effective in the past. Lucky the colonel has such a weapon in his shed and it is applied well to the Alienator, rendering her incapacitated under a faraday cage of bad special effects and put, unrestrained, on the back of an old Ford pickup truck. Hooray we all say, until the chap with the body warmer shows his true colours and indeed his ability to possess people using poor CGI, by doing just that to one of the poor actors, using his body in a genius act of misdirection.
All seems well until inexplicably he breaks cover and shoots the park ranger, announcing that he has taken the body of one of their friends.
Predictably the chicken wire attack was not as effective as once thought and the Alienator comes back, kills this chap and sends details of her victory back to the prison ship, giving the group a bag of unidentified jewels as a way of saying sorry for all the drama. These jewels are unestablished by the script so the viewer can only guess as to their significance and value.
Alienator then flies back using bad CGI to the prison ship, where we find out that the chap who was there doing an audit on the facility was in fact the bad guy's dad and is not too happy about his son's treatment and demise. Airwolf fella has a brief and badly choreographed fight with him with light sabres, eventually thrusting one through his chest to return the prison ship to normality.
Back on Earth we find out that the general with the vast arsenal of weapons/chicken wire fancied the Alienator, to the confusion of the group as they agree she looked like a man.
Sorry for any spoilers. 3/10 for me.
You do realise I'm going to have to watch that now, and if it's as bad as you say I'm holding you responsible!1990, basically centres around the dramas created by a nasty piece of work that for some contrived and far fetched reason is released from a prison spaceship by his dad, moments before being condemned to execution by the bloke from Airwolf and to a lesser extend his assistant who is wearing a catsuit with two large frontal cutouts to accentuate her cleavage.
Fella steals a smaller space ship and crashes in California. He has trouble breathing on Earth because he still has his prisoner collar on, which, alas, acts also as a tracking device, with a signal strong enough to be picked up by his former captors light years away. Wearing a fetching silver body warmer and headband he manages to convince some bad actors that he is the good guy and the post-op body builder clad in a metal bikini that the prison ship sent to capture/destroy him is in fact the antagonist. They worry, naturally, about his health and summon a doctor who has chosen a Chevrolet Celebrity coupe as his car. This breaks down near to the cabin these guys are holding out in, much to his chagrin.
Using cheap props, terrible CGI, a questionable motive and a Van Halen hair style, the "Alienator" sets her weapon to "painful burning death" and kills the doctor right there in the street. Two random characters who have recently incurred the wrath of the local park ranger for trapping rabbits in the wrong place arrive and, initially ignoring the smouldering corpse, elect to steal the stricken car. Frustrated, they head to the cabin the bad actors are held up in.
The Alienator arrives and with awful aim and this time the weapon set to "death by screaming disappearing", makes short work of these two miscreants and indeed forces the group of poor actors to flee to another cabin to meet a very right wing ex Colonel who has an AK47 amongst other armaments. Resistant to a land mine, said AK47 and an elephant gun, the group' efforts to fight back the Alienator are clear and delivered using the medium of bad acting.
The evil guy with the collar can sense her arrival and after being relieved of the collar by a well aimed shot from one of the bad actors, says that despite being resistant to convential arms such as bullets and shrapnel mines, chicken wire from the shed has proved effective in the past. Lucky the colonel has such a weapon in his shed and it is applied well to the Alienator, rendering her incapacitated under a faraday cage of bad special effects and put, unrestrained, on the back of an old Ford pickup truck. Hooray we all say, until the chap with the body warmer shows his true colours and indeed his ability to possess people using poor CGI, by doing just that to one of the poor actors, using his body in a genius act of misdirection.
All seems well until inexplicably he breaks cover and shoots the park ranger, announcing that he has taken the body of one of their friends.
Predictably the chicken wire attack was not as effective as once thought and the Alienator comes back, kills this chap and sends details of her victory back to the prison ship, giving the group a bag of unidentified jewels as a way of saying sorry for all the drama. These jewels are unestablished by the script so the viewer can only guess as to their significance and value.
Alienator then flies back using bad CGI to the prison ship, where we find out that the chap who was there doing an audit on the facility was in fact the bad guy's dad and is not too happy about his son's treatment and demise. Airwolf fella has a brief and badly choreographed fight with him with light sabres, eventually thrusting one through his chest to return the prison ship to normality.
Back on Earth we find out that the general with the vast arsenal of weapons/chicken wire fancied the Alienator, to the confusion of the group as they agree she looked like a man.
Sorry for any spoilers. 3/10 for me.
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