Surrogates was an OK science fiction film staring Bruce Willis. I have enjoyed many of the science fiction films featuring Bruce Willis. They are usually quirky and very well done. This film was an exception. I had the sense that everyone was going through the motions and no effort to make anything greater than...
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I thought District 9 was an excellent science fiction movie. It was extremely well done and had moral implications. The plot is about an alien spaceship that lands in Johannesburg, South Africa 20 years ago from present day. The aliens are rescued and moved to a refugee camp outside the city. Now, it has...
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I watched “Knowing“ staring Nicholas Cage on pay-per-view last night. It was much better than I thought it would be. The plot is about a single father, M.I.T. professor (Nicholas Cage) who discovers a list of numbers written by a child 50 years ago. He quickly deduces that the numbers have predicted every major disaster...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an assault on the visual senses. It takes the action film genre to a new level. I am not sure if this is good. Towards the end of the approximate 2 hour and 20 minute movie, I was getting anxious for it to end as I was getting...
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Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child was a good fast adventure thriller. It only took me a couple of nights to read. The plot was very similar to Relic, Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston’s most famous book/movie. The story revolves around a group of scientists researching global warming at a mothballed USAF radar station in...
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I finished Utopia by Lincoln Child last night. It is a solid adventure thriller that had plot similarities to the original Die Hard movie. The basic plot is that Utopia, a cutting edge amusement park near Las Vegas is having troubles with its master robotic controller network. The designer of the “Metanet,” Andrew Warne...
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I finished the 8th Pendergast novel, The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child a couple of days ago. It was very enjoyable as the other series of Pendergast novels have been. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are currently some of my favorite fiction writers. The book only took me three days...
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