Phx-Suns.Net

carey wrote:Anyone check out SyFy's TV version of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys?

Superbone wrote:

carey wrote:Anyone check out SyFy's TV version of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys?

Love the movie. I'll have to check it out.

Ghost wrote:No actors on the level of Bruce Willis? hahaha...that was funny. Don't get me wrong...John McClane is my favorite action hero of all time, but Bruce Willis is not a good actor.

carey wrote:

Ghost wrote:No actors on the level of Bruce Willis? hahaha...that was funny. Don't get me wrong...John McClane is my favorite action hero of all time, but Bruce Willis is not a good actor.

Disagree. He has been mailing it in for years but there are some great Willis performances out there and he has charisma very few in Hollywood can match. Just my 2c.

Dan H wrote:There are plenty of actors out there who's range only extends to playing versions of themselves. Paul Rudd? Robert Downey Jr.? Can't complain about Bruce Willis doing the same thing.

Ghost wrote:Anyone catch The Man in the High Castle?

I was pretty wary about this one...this used to be one of my favorite books. Philip K. Dick is certainly my favorite author (or at least up there in the top three, who I can't really choose between). But so many of his stories and books translate very poorly to the screen...Blade Runner being the only one that I think made a solid movie, and that was radically changed from the novel. And you may or may not recall that I was extremely disappointed in The Minority Report. (Total Recall and Screamers don't count, having been made from real sci fi into action movies set in a fictional universe, with only a few plot points in common with the originals. And we don't need to talk about that Ben Affleck atrocity.)

So...when I heard about TMITHC becoming a show on Amazon Prime, I was nervous. However, after the premiere, I am super stoked for the show. No spoilers, but here's the general premise:

Alternate history...Hitler won, and the Axis divided up the continent between them. The Japanese rule the Pacific side, and the Germans rule the east. There's also a "neutral zone" (although it's anything but neutral, more just that it has held up some resistance) in the middle. Hitler is dying, and the Pacific side is worried that after he goes, his 2nd in command will turn on the Japanese and wipe out the Pacific seaboard. But the focus of the story is...well, I'll let you figure that out.

Let's just say there is no such thing as a Philip K. Dick historic fiction unless it has a pretty huge twist, and there's a reason he's one of the best science fiction writers of all time.

Dan H wrote:The only problem with Amazon Pilots is they take forever to actually launch the shows. I'm pretty sure I watched the pilot for Bosch (the books are great) last year and it still hasn't premiered.

Ghost wrote:Agreed...I'm not saying he's a terrible actor. He plays Mr. McClane EXTREMELY well, and most of the time, that's all he needs. I thought Sixth Sense was pretty overrated, but he wasn't bad there. He just needed to blow more things up. Die Hard and The Fifth Element are great because he fits the role so perfectly...must have a good agent.

By the way, I will take this moment to out myself as a closet fan of Hudson Hawk. We're all allowed a few guilty pleasures...don't judge.

Indy wrote:

Dan H wrote:The only problem with Amazon Pilots is they take forever to actually launch the shows. I'm pretty sure I watched the pilot for Bosch (the books are great) last year and it still hasn't premiered.

Do they get better Dan? 10 years ago I went through and read everything he wrote from the beginning (I have a bad habit of picking up an author and reading everything they wrote in order until I run out stuff, then find a new author.) It was ~10 novels by then and I felt they really went down hill with each one. I still think Black Echo was the best story, and Concrete Blonde was best written. Did he actually start to tell any new stories, or become a better story teller after the first 10 novels?

Uncle_Gene wrote:I watch Flip or Flop on HGTV and Flipping San Diego on A&E and FYI channel.

I like these shows on taking foreclosured homes or auctioned houses and watch the transformation from an outdated home to a beautiful home.

Superbone wrote:

Uncle_Gene wrote:I watch Flip or Flop on HGTV and Flipping San Diego on A&E and FYI channel.

I like these shows on taking foreclosured homes or auctioned houses and watch the transformation from an outdated home to a beautiful home.

Huh. I'll have to check out Flipping San Diego since I plan on buying in San Diego later this year.