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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 arrived and I have to say I am glad it is back.
I have been playing Rainbow since Rainbow Six Three on the original XBox and while a few of the sequels have faltered Rainbow Vegas continued to advance the franchise and gaming in the right direction.
Gary Glassman of Providence Pictures writes a Projo piece on fixing the R.I. Film Tax Credit law.
I became a fan of Neil Marshall when I caught Dog Soldiers on Sci-Fi.
His second movie called The Descent had the dubious honor of having a copy cat called The Cave. The Descent had better casting, story, cinematography and the poster of the heroine covered in blood screaming at the top of her lungs is iconic enough.
That being said, seeing the Doomsday trailer, I thought it’s Mad Maxine! And, so did Paul C, even before I even uttered the words to him.
If this movie started off with the idea of how far a civilization can decay when locked up and forgotten about for entire generation ala The Village it degraded to a one note apocalyptic Mad Max rip off with a dash of MTV/Michael Bay editing and side order of stupidness.
The few bright points are Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig and money shots that were worth the $10 bbq, bacon, hamburger I ate at The Abbey trying to forget this movie.
Personally, I don’t mind the plot of a virus is beatin’ on your front door and you have to send the hero out to get the vaccine. The problem is the lone hero or heroine in this case of Eden Sinclair played by Rhona Mitra aka Kate Beckinsale Lite is too two dimensional. Thankfully, she’s given some back story but it’s not simply not enough.
The problem is the heroine is given nothing to work with since the story just sucks once it hits act two and three. The homages to several movies such as Aliens, Resident Evil, Mad Max, Gladiator by way of Monty Python and Holy Grail and even a Raiders of the Lost Ark just doesn’t cut it when it comes down to final ten minutes when there’s a Mad Max race to the finish line that decides to assault the audience’s ear drums.
I don’t know what happened with Doomsday. I was ready to try and compare it to I am Legend the one book that started all these apocalyptic shenanigans, that lovely four star movie happens to be out on DVD today but when a one star movie like Doomsday is not screened for the critics you know it’s gonna be bad.
Hopefully, when Underworld 3 arrives, Ms. Mitra will have a better plot to chew on.
According to the recent Collings Foundation Newsletter, they now a fully flyable P-15c Mustang.
Yes, that squeal you hear is Paul C doing backflips.
And, you too can fly it for an hour for only $3,000.
It’s unfortunate that Collings Foundation schedule and Quonset Air Nation Guard Airshow are at odds with each other.
Quonset needs some class, er, I mean, acts and Collings Foundation certainly has enough planes at their disposal now.
Over the years, several UK Television Shows have been remade into US Television Shows.
The most popular right now is The Office.
So, with the US Version of the IT Crowd DOA they have announced a US Version of Spaced and it sounded like a good thing.
Come to find out, they hadn’t really talked to the original creators about it. You know, those guys from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Doctor Who?
This should teach us two things: 1: Hollywood will continue to remake properties and make money. 2: Always check your contracts with lawyer before signing your life away.
….to yesterday’s post regarding the Rhode Island Tax Credit Situtation.
From the LDI Mailing list:
A bill is being proposed which will cap the film tax credits at $10
million a year. This could prevent productions from filming in RI. If
this will impact you, it is very important that you testify against this
bill.
The hearing is today, Thursday, March 13th at 3PM in Room 211 of the State
House.
If no one makes a statement, this bill will pass and restrict future
productions in the State of RI.
Be pro-active and be there!
“Lose all respect for the source material.†Akiva Goldsmith to Aaron Sorkin on adapting George Cril’s novel “Charlie Wilson’s War†into a feature length movie.
Those seven little words could explain why Batman Forever and Batman and Robin tuned out the way they did.
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