Rabidgremlin’s Soapbox

Starship Troopers 3
Lorenzo Senatore (Cinematographer). Sony Pictures 2008, DVD, $5.61

Ok I knew this wasn’t going to be good but oh boy was it bad.
I’m not sure why exactly, it had the same writer as the first two, actually Starship Troopers 2 was pretty awful too, I’d even go as far as to say it was worse [...]

Rambo (Widescreen Edition)
Glen MacPherson (Cinematographer). Lionsgate 2008, DVD, $12.31

This was much better then I anticipated. The acting was good, the storyline was more or less believable and the SFX were very good.
Having said that it is incredibly gory with body parts and blood sprays everywhere. The Jeep mounted heavy machine gun that Rambo commandeers is particularly [...]

Ok now that is just a bit upsetting. One of my favourite films gowing up, Wargames was released twenty-five years ago !
Wired has an interesting article on the film that “That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars”
Here is the orginal trailer for the movie:

And of course because Hollywood cannot leave the classics alone, the new [...]

Watched this over the weekend. Its very very good and very thought provoking. Its a documentary by Al Gore on global warming. Has some very shocking graphs and statistics. I did find it a little personal, very US centric and perhaps a bit too sentimental in places but very good overall. I’d urge everyone to [...]

Serenity Rocks ! I got tickets to the preview show here in New Zealand and the film is awesome. I’m not sure how someone who has not seen the series will take it as they will miss a lot of the tie-ins to the series and they won’t empathise with the characters as strongly but [...]

Watched King Kong last night. Its not LOTR but it is not bad.
I was really disappointed with the CG in the first 3rd of the movie. It included lots of floaty/cartoon animation especially with the human figures. However the CG in the later parts of the film was very good other then some very [...]