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When in doubt...............watch both!

STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS

Now I've seen the film I went and read John & James spoilers from the previous page and I have nothing to add, I felt and thought exactly the same. Very enjoyable film though and I thought Cumberbatch was great though I'd have preferred him playing a different character in a different story. As for the music, aside from that wonderful theme there didn't seem much to it ( here I also agree with James comparison with a certain other film ), still, I'll probably pick it up.


Film: 6.5/10
Score: Dunno?


IRONMAN 3

I loved this, great fun, great cast, very funny. Brian Tyler's score was better than a lot of his that I've heard, the theme was pretty good though that's only because it's compared to the majority of lame-ass superhero themes.

Film: 8/10
Score: 5/10

He was very good, to be honest I can't think of anything Ben Kingsley has been bad in, even the excruciating Thunderbirds.

[spoiler]I really didn't see that coming, I really thought he was the films 'big bad baddie'[/spoiler]

That was a LOL moment.

I liked the fact it showed what Rhodey thought of it.

I'm watching Eurovision Song Contest, and blimey if I didn't just hear a track I actually liked, the Netherlands entry was melancholic yet uplifting, very good IMO.

Yeah, that was a good one inbetween all the crap.

I actually also like Norway's contribution this year -- a slightly down-and-dirty electropop song that wouldn't be out of place in something like TRON: LEGACY. It's coming up soon.

Yeah, not bad really.

Yeah, not just that but the song is shite too!

Anyway, I'm off now, cheers Thor

p.s. The Nowegian singer was hot but I preferred the curvy Ukrainian goddess

So Denmark won! At least we kept it within Scandinavia. A fourth place ain't too bad for Norway....our song was really far too 'intelligent' and arty to be the winner in this contest.

The ESC ended for Germany just the way I predicted. Well, you did not have to be a prophet to do so, given the political situation. The German song was shite too.

Good for Denmark, they also would have gotten my vote.

Volker

I watched all 17 episodes of the short-lived TV seires "Strange Luck". I had only seen some of the episodes when it originally aired.

The show is about freelance photographer named Chance Harper, whom has unusually good and weird luck.

It never takes Chance more than seven scratch off tickets to win money. It's not unusual for him to deliver a baby, find a prostetic leg in the road, have his car hit by frozen flying airplane poop, or get caught up in a wild series of events involving a potato that looks like Elvis.

Chance is the sole survivor of a plane crash, until he finds out his brother was not aboard the plane.


In spite of all the potential it had, it never reached the qaulity of "The X-Files", "Nowhere Man", and other strong series. Early on some of the writing was sloppy, the plots slow and yeilding little, and the chemistry between the characters didn't take off right away. By the way, one episode ends with personsaying that if he;s in trouble, to contact the only person in the F.B.I. he trusts, a man named "Mulder" (when that episode originally aired, "The X-Files" began right afterward)

The casting was good, not great, but it worked.

The show lost some of it's weird quirkiness that made it appealing, and moved more into grand conpsiracies like the two aforementioned shows above. It worked, but some of the charm was gone, and the main supporting cast was edged out.

The show's theme and episode music was done solely by Mark Mothersbaugh. While I'm sure some of it would make a good seperate listening experience, it was mostly supportive and nothing remarkable. It was also often loud and in your face, banging you over the head (not in a good way) until you wish it had gone away, and sometimes poorly spotted and improperly scored.

As the series went on we got more answers, but kept having more questions, and the climax at the end of the last episode, leaves us with no answers and tons more questions.

If you want a somewhat interesting show that you don't have to invest a lot in, I guess it might work for you.

There's been no VHS or DVD release, so all you got is Youtube. (search words: "Strange Luck" "Episode 1")

I watched the first one. It was so traumatizingly boring that I haven't seen any of the sequels. I wonder why people even go to see these movies, as everyone seems to hate them. You know you'll end up having a miserable time, so why go and see it? Makes me wonder whether the success of these movies is entirely due to marketing.




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Peter

How's lucas vidal's score for ff6?

Guess the poster with Ross' name was either incorrect/fake; or one of those rare instances where a score is replaced, a new score done, then the original score is reinstated.