An interesting theory for what the heck Lost is all about. I don't really go for all of it but it is an interesting read for Losties out there.
http://www.timelooptheory.com/the_timeline.html
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Crank It!
Back in 2006 the film Crank was unleashed upon the world. Starring (the strangely awesome) Jason Statham as Chev Chelios it told the rather bizarre story of man who has to keep his heart rate or die due to be injected with a mysterious deadly poison.
He of course decides to do this by going on a rampage of retribution against those who have wronged him. Now the seemingly was a crass B-movie with the highest of high concepts and all the brains removed. So colour us surprised when it turns out to be a thoroughly enjoyable raucous ride of a movie not afraid of finding time to gently mock and play with the conventions of action movies.
Now it seemed to be a perfectly self contained film since, well, our lead character seemed not to avoid his inevitable fate (although he did successfully wreak his revenge and have some rather public relations) falling out of a helicopter at films end.
But now it seems the team behind the film have been inspired and come up with an even more implausible and ridiculous was to repeat the mayhem. A bionic metal heart for Chev. A bionic metal heart that needs constant jolts of electricity to keep going.
So once again Chev has to find who has done him wrong and do them wrong whilst this time having to constantly find ways of jump starting his heart. Just one look at the trailer and it's clear that it's been decided to dial up the crazy to "11" and I suspect things will be all the more entertaining for it. Whatever happens it's probably safe to say there won't be another film quite like it out this year.
Cast your eyes over the trailer below and get ready to crank it up to level two...
He of course decides to do this by going on a rampage of retribution against those who have wronged him. Now the seemingly was a crass B-movie with the highest of high concepts and all the brains removed. So colour us surprised when it turns out to be a thoroughly enjoyable raucous ride of a movie not afraid of finding time to gently mock and play with the conventions of action movies.
Now it seemed to be a perfectly self contained film since, well, our lead character seemed not to avoid his inevitable fate (although he did successfully wreak his revenge and have some rather public relations) falling out of a helicopter at films end.
But now it seems the team behind the film have been inspired and come up with an even more implausible and ridiculous was to repeat the mayhem. A bionic metal heart for Chev. A bionic metal heart that needs constant jolts of electricity to keep going.
So once again Chev has to find who has done him wrong and do them wrong whilst this time having to constantly find ways of jump starting his heart. Just one look at the trailer and it's clear that it's been decided to dial up the crazy to "11" and I suspect things will be all the more entertaining for it. Whatever happens it's probably safe to say there won't be another film quite like it out this year.
Cast your eyes over the trailer below and get ready to crank it up to level two...
Sunday 25 January 2009
I'm an addict..
Well it seems Jonathan Ross' return to the airwaves on both television and radio this weekend didn't cause the universe to end in a super massive explosion of cheeky banter so we can now look forward very shortly to thee return of Lost
Sadly enough this is going to be the highlight of my weekend (I'm a very exciting individual but sadly this weekend Saturday was a day of work - well that's me defense anyway)
Lost is currently like an addictive substance to me, I actually need to see what happens, I need to find out what is going on. This sad state of affairs made me think if there were any other TV shows were I developed this need.
Buffy comes close, I did watch week in, week out without fail whilst it was on but I never truly lived in true anticipation of what would happen next or sit around stretching the far reaches of my brain trying to think of theories as to what was going on.
The Wire is probably the closest contender but it's altogether more stately pace doesn't quite engender that same sense of breathless panic that Lost sometimes does when it decides there's been quite enough explanations for now and it's time to throw out a few more curveballs.
Stablemate Alias did occasionally make me desperate to see the next installment, largely due to it's ridiculous nature. More happens in the pre-credit sequence in an Alias episode than happens in a whole episode of Lost more often than not. This stupidly accelerated pace combined with twist upon revelation upon bluff upon betrayal upon twist did give Alias a strange sort of compulsive nature. Like the TV equivalent of the Pringles sickness, where you know you should stop eating them because there are garbage that will make you sick but.. you... just... can't.
24 has never grabbed me (though at some point I intend to retry it), The X Files became to convoluted for me to care, Scrubs bizarrely sometimes almost gets there, Battlestar Galactica just doesn't quite manage it (I think this is because I get the sense that although top quality it doesn't really have any more surprises up it's sleeve) and well Neighbours on it's heyday was on everyday anyway so you never had time to ponder upon it.
So that's the truth, I have a problem, I'm a Lost addict and tomorrow I swear I'm going to go to my first LAA meeting!
Sadly enough this is going to be the highlight of my weekend (I'm a very exciting individual but sadly this weekend Saturday was a day of work - well that's me defense anyway)
Lost is currently like an addictive substance to me, I actually need to see what happens, I need to find out what is going on. This sad state of affairs made me think if there were any other TV shows were I developed this need.
Buffy comes close, I did watch week in, week out without fail whilst it was on but I never truly lived in true anticipation of what would happen next or sit around stretching the far reaches of my brain trying to think of theories as to what was going on.
The Wire is probably the closest contender but it's altogether more stately pace doesn't quite engender that same sense of breathless panic that Lost sometimes does when it decides there's been quite enough explanations for now and it's time to throw out a few more curveballs.
Stablemate Alias did occasionally make me desperate to see the next installment, largely due to it's ridiculous nature. More happens in the pre-credit sequence in an Alias episode than happens in a whole episode of Lost more often than not. This stupidly accelerated pace combined with twist upon revelation upon bluff upon betrayal upon twist did give Alias a strange sort of compulsive nature. Like the TV equivalent of the Pringles sickness, where you know you should stop eating them because there are garbage that will make you sick but.. you... just... can't.
24 has never grabbed me (though at some point I intend to retry it), The X Files became to convoluted for me to care, Scrubs bizarrely sometimes almost gets there, Battlestar Galactica just doesn't quite manage it (I think this is because I get the sense that although top quality it doesn't really have any more surprises up it's sleeve) and well Neighbours on it's heyday was on everyday anyway so you never had time to ponder upon it.
So that's the truth, I have a problem, I'm a Lost addict and tomorrow I swear I'm going to go to my first LAA meeting!
Thursday 22 January 2009
Our Front Room Pre-endorses...
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Leading the field with 13 oscar nominations and carrying critical praise by the bucket load David Fincher's follow up to Zodiac could well be one of the films of the year (and it's only January).
Consider this a petition to people to go out and watch it instead of sitting at home complaining Hollywood only makes sequels anymore.
Leading the field with 13 oscar nominations and carrying critical praise by the bucket load David Fincher's follow up to Zodiac could well be one of the films of the year (and it's only January).
Consider this a petition to people to go out and watch it instead of sitting at home complaining Hollywood only makes sequels anymore.
Battlestar's back
Well BSG is back and we are heading into the final episodes. The mother of all fanboy argument gets closer as the undoubtedly opinion splitting ending approaches. (Be careful to spoil yourself with the below, you might have to change you're trousers)
This week we pick up after the arrival on 'Earth' (I'm not yet convinced it is Earth) with people wandering around shell shocked that all there is a nuclear wasteland. A planet sized Whitley Bay. So shocked they even remember Baltar is a scientist and let him do things without accusing him of being a traitor every two minutes.
Roslin is so shocked to find she's been a bit of cow to the lead to here that has a full scale breakdown in her belief system; locking herself away to burn books and cry. Even the Admiral can't do anything to make her feel better.
Lee struggles to fill the gap she leaves at the head of the forum and just as it seems to be going well he's gut punched by Dee's suicide. (Dee had finally just had too much and it makes you wonder how much of a suicide problem the fleet has had all these years). Upon realising this the Girl who isn't dead but is a.k.a Starbuck hold her tongue just as she is going to lay on him the weirdness that is her discovery.
The Chief, Anders and Tori (the dull) are meanwhile having flashbacks to former lives lived on this planet roughly 2,000 years ago. Freaky. Well, apart from Tori who just says she had one not to feel left out. What is going on here? How did they get from here to the colonies? They in typical style remember not a jot.
Yes, Starbuck made a discovery so freaky even the Cylon (even Leoben freakest of 'good' cylons) ran away from her when he worked it out. You see, there is a dead Viper pilot on 'Earth', a dead Viper pilot with Starbuck's Viper, hair, flightsuit and dogtags. Seems she is dead. (But not a cylon, well not one of the expected five, since Deanna would have recognised her otherwise).
One Return of the Jedi style bonfire later and it seems the evidence is gone, until someone realises she has too many sets of dogtags.
Elsewhere the Admiral is in a foul and drunken mood, snapping at Lee rather harshly as he stands next to his dead ex-wife, crying manly tears and then trying to get Tigh to kill him since he can't bring himself do it. For once Tigh things there's been too much drinking and disarms the gun and refuses to be the easy way out for Adama.
We finish back on 'Earth', it seems even De'anna has lost the will for the fight, something so depressing it then drives Tigh to a suicidal wade into the sea but before he goes to far, flashback; he's on the planet, it's chaos, apocalyptic, a woman cries out, he goes to help, it's Ellen!
Ellen Tigh is the fifth!
So there we have it, a massively depressing but massively intriguing start to the final chapter of Battlestar Galactica. Any minute now it'll turn out to be all in Walt from Lost's head. But seriously it is going to be fascinating to see how this all ends; Where will they go? Will they find the 13th tribe (who by the way it appears where all cylons)? Will Tigh find Ellen? What the heck has happened to Starbuck? Can Lee handle being president? Will we find out what exactly is going on with the Six in Baltar's head? Will they ever run out of booze? What will Cavil do when he finds out he was frakking the fifth lost Cylon?
This is going to get messy, I can feel it.
This week we pick up after the arrival on 'Earth' (I'm not yet convinced it is Earth) with people wandering around shell shocked that all there is a nuclear wasteland. A planet sized Whitley Bay. So shocked they even remember Baltar is a scientist and let him do things without accusing him of being a traitor every two minutes.
Roslin is so shocked to find she's been a bit of cow to the lead to here that has a full scale breakdown in her belief system; locking herself away to burn books and cry. Even the Admiral can't do anything to make her feel better.
Lee struggles to fill the gap she leaves at the head of the forum and just as it seems to be going well he's gut punched by Dee's suicide. (Dee had finally just had too much and it makes you wonder how much of a suicide problem the fleet has had all these years). Upon realising this the Girl who isn't dead but is a.k.a Starbuck hold her tongue just as she is going to lay on him the weirdness that is her discovery.
The Chief, Anders and Tori (the dull) are meanwhile having flashbacks to former lives lived on this planet roughly 2,000 years ago. Freaky. Well, apart from Tori who just says she had one not to feel left out. What is going on here? How did they get from here to the colonies? They in typical style remember not a jot.
Yes, Starbuck made a discovery so freaky even the Cylon (even Leoben freakest of 'good' cylons) ran away from her when he worked it out. You see, there is a dead Viper pilot on 'Earth', a dead Viper pilot with Starbuck's Viper, hair, flightsuit and dogtags. Seems she is dead. (But not a cylon, well not one of the expected five, since Deanna would have recognised her otherwise).
One Return of the Jedi style bonfire later and it seems the evidence is gone, until someone realises she has too many sets of dogtags.
Elsewhere the Admiral is in a foul and drunken mood, snapping at Lee rather harshly as he stands next to his dead ex-wife, crying manly tears and then trying to get Tigh to kill him since he can't bring himself do it. For once Tigh things there's been too much drinking and disarms the gun and refuses to be the easy way out for Adama.
We finish back on 'Earth', it seems even De'anna has lost the will for the fight, something so depressing it then drives Tigh to a suicidal wade into the sea but before he goes to far, flashback; he's on the planet, it's chaos, apocalyptic, a woman cries out, he goes to help, it's Ellen!
Ellen Tigh is the fifth!
So there we have it, a massively depressing but massively intriguing start to the final chapter of Battlestar Galactica. Any minute now it'll turn out to be all in Walt from Lost's head. But seriously it is going to be fascinating to see how this all ends; Where will they go? Will they find the 13th tribe (who by the way it appears where all cylons)? Will Tigh find Ellen? What the heck has happened to Starbuck? Can Lee handle being president? Will we find out what exactly is going on with the Six in Baltar's head? Will they ever run out of booze? What will Cavil do when he finds out he was frakking the fifth lost Cylon?
This is going to get messy, I can feel it.
Sunday 18 January 2009
Like Joan of Arc coming back for more.
Ok, this thing has been dead. But I've wiped out the defib panels and starting zapping the thing back into life. Things are afoot.
Like for episode review/updates/wanderings on BSG, Sarah Jane, Lost Watch will return with the new series of The Bill, no wait.. I mean Lost.
Along with general blogs on, well, stuff.
Our Front Room is dead, long live Our Front Room.
Like for episode review/updates/wanderings on BSG, Sarah Jane, Lost Watch will return with the new series of The Bill, no wait.. I mean Lost.
Along with general blogs on, well, stuff.
Our Front Room is dead, long live Our Front Room.
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