heraclitus_flux Reviews

Intergalactic (2021)

pip pip stiff upper lip

[2/10 · 21 November 2021]

Just another second rate... scratch that, middle school attempt at sci-fi play acting from the brits.

Oooooh, let's put some prison girls in space, that's original!

All of them are just soooo scary psycho b!tches. Typical plot fails and bad acting. Careful or you'll make that tough as nails deadly-cop-fighter-pilot hero CRY? She constantly turns her back to armed cons to desperately call for help?

One psycho assassin takes out the entire crew with two guns blazing and then WALKS behind the running hero firing off 20 rounds and ricochets all around the corridor...

Don't waste your time on this low budget tripe.

PoliWood (2009)

It's simple... if you lean to the left, everything is just peachy!

[9/10 · 28 October 2009]

This appears to be only the second commentary on this film, and I am fairly certain that the first critic and I would not be golfing buddies.

I want to refrain from tossing epithets at the loyal opposition... screw it... Republicans are ignorant racist morons, and Democrats are spineless overly sensitive idiots! If you erase the opinions of the Ditto-heads that were dragged by their wives, kicking and screaming, to see this obviously biased 'documentary' this movie is GREAT! Just don't expect to hold a civil discussion on the topic if you insist that your favorite Glenn Dreck fan accompany you.

Hollywood is chock full of vacuous dilettantes who are all-too-anxious to proffer political/cultural/religious gibberish as if they are psychically connected to the Wizard Himself... Hollywood is also filled with highly intelligent, superbly talented people, who are allowed by the grace of their celebrity to encourage their fans to become informed and participate in our Grand Democratic Experiment.

In our time, as 'Hybrid' technology is growing, I am a Political Hybrid. I am liberal on most social issues, but I am also conservative on the Second Amendment, violent criminals, and government spending.

Nearly all of the stars in this film acquit themselves well of the charges that right-wing nut-jobs are constantly hurling from their fortified Fox Studio-Bunkers. It is gratifying to watch beautiful, intelligent people, with the gifts of talent and charisma, speak eloquently and passionately about causes and policies that they deeply believe.

So, if you believe what you hear on Fox Noise Network, do everybody a favor and do NOT see this movie... I am tired of trying to hold a dialog while the shouting morons jump up and down at the center of the room.

Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)

1968's '2001' redux updated with 2009's CGI set in 2040... overall, a good ride

[8/10 · 28 June 2009]

Once we get past the cataclysmic-climatic-catastrophe-du jour... (is it hot in here, or is Florida sinking?) we can get on with our Space Odyssey.

CGI special effects were minimal and well done, the movie/pilot stayed mainly with the initial character development... a Corporate Conglomerate Monstrosity takes the cast of MTV's Real World and CBS's Big Brother and launches them into space to search for a new planet to save mankind.

Based on that, you might guess that I disliked this movie... you would be wrong. Even though I guessed correctly that a crew-member would die the usual 'freeze-dried-airlock-malfunction-sans-helmet space death'... and that said crew-member would return as part of the on-board VIRTUALITY Program... I did enjoy the story enough to stay to the end. I hope the series does not fall into the Star Trek VR trap of showing endless VR SCHLOCK like Virtual Nazi World and Virtual Roman Empire crap just to fill an hour of otherwise promising SciFi TV.

I am happy to see that Lyle-the-Intern has found a suitably delicious villain to ooze his smarmy talents upon!

The overall quality of the movie gets an 8-of-10... the story, a re-imagineering of 2001 A Space Odyssey, is better than average...

I will always dislike the obvious contortions that writers take to develop conflicts between characters.

We have the gay pair,

the tough female Marine,

a doctor with Parkinson's?-(What first-year med student missed that diagnosis while screening the crew?)-

the commander who goes crazy and has Virtual Sex with the Psych-doc's wife,

a paraplegic Second-Officer,

the beautiful African bio-specialist who is hot for the Asian bio-specialist,

the emotionally troubled engineer who talks to his dead son in VR,

and the young female TV intern who is host to the Space-Based Reality Show that is beamed back to earth to entertain the masses, that may... or may not be drowning, suffocating, burnt-to-a-cinder, swept away by super-storms, etc, etc, etc...

Will there EVER BE a Space Agency in SciFi TV that EVER chooses a crew of EMOTIONALLY SOUND PROFESSIONALS who might last the first six months of a ten-year mission without mayhem and death? That might be interesting for a few of us (purists), but it SURELY WOULD NEVER MAKE IT ON FOX TV!

So, enjoy this movie for what it is... a well made SciFi Space Trip with a soap-opera-ready crew, an interesting plot twist, and Lyle-The-Intern in his ready-for-prime-time VR Villain debut.

Let's hope that the writer's are good enough to keep our attention for more than the few weeks it takes for Fox to yank another promising program off the air and replacing it with another 'Tits-and-Ass Eats Disgusting Bugs and Animal Penis In A Bikini While Skanking Her Way Through an NBA Franchise Reality Show'