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Jul 30 2007

Reaper 1.01

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures, TV

Dir: Kevin Smith
Writ: Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas

Bret Harrison - Sam Oliver
Tyler Labine - Bert ‘Sock’ Wysocki
Missy Peregrym - Andi
Ray Wise … The Devil
Allison Hossack - Mrs. Oliver
Andrew Airlie - Mr. Oliver

Yet another pre-air show has escaped onto the wilds of d’internet. Isn’t modern technology a wonderful thing? Right, on with the recap. We open with Sam on his birthday. He is 21 today, but his parents seem a little off, odd would be a good term^[1] His brother Kyle is more normal in his response, the usual brother banter goes on. Sam, at first distracted by a news story about an arsonist on the news, retaliates by asking, ever so innocently about a letter from Stanford. It turns out that Kyle had applied, and didn’t get in. His parents are a little upset at this, something that Kyle can’t quite understand and protests that Sam never went to college. His mother however disagrees, Sam did go to college, for a whole month, it just made him sleepy so he came home. They are both very proud of him.

Linknotes:

strange is another good word ↩

Tags: 8 Stars, Allison Hossack, Andrew Airlie, Bret Harrison, death, humour, Kevin Smith, Michele Fazekas, Missy Peregrym, pre-air, Ray Wise, Reaper, Reaper 1.01, sff, Tara Butters, telly, The Devil, Tyler Labine

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Jul 04 2007

Die Hard 4.0

Published by Fence under Moving Pictures

Or, Live Free or Die Hard as it is in the states
Dir: Len Wiseman
Writ: Mark Bomback, David Marconi; some characters: Roderick Thorp; A Farewell to Arms by John Carlin

Bruce Willis … John McClane
Timothy Olyphant … Thomas Gabriel
Justin Long … Matt Farrell
Maggie Q … Mai Lihn
Cliff Curtis … Bowman
Kevin Smith … Warlock
Mary Elizabeth Winstead … Lucy McClane

What better way to mark America’s Independence Day than with a trip to see this film? The makers of Die Hard 4.0 obviously agreed with me, why else would they have had it open on Wednesday otherwise? And it was the perfect popcorn action flick. Not a lot of plot, or character, but plenty of explosions and much violence. Remember violence from 80’s films? It was all about the death count, the casual shootings, and the big explosions, not like the torture and slow deaths you are more likely to see today.

The plot isn’t that important. Suffice to say that there are bad guys. They do bad things. John McClane stops them. End of, baby, end of.

Course the fact that Willis is now in his fifties might make you wonder does he make a believable action hero. And I’d have to say yes. Totally believable. Afterall, if Rocky could do it, then so can McClane. And yes, it is silly, at one stage McClane “kills a helicopter” with his car. But it is also totally enjoyable and entertaining. And the action scenes are damn cool.

I guess you could say that I enjoyed this film. Just don’t think too hard about it, or wonder at the fact that the bad-guy is a carefully chosen american, and that there is mix of ethnicities to the cast. Guess they didn’t want to bring too much politics into this film, and that is as it should be.

Course, maybe I enjoyed it so much cause I’ve always been a Bruce Willis fan, right from those Moonlighting days. As for recommending people to go see it, well it is a total no brainer. Do you like action films? If so go. If you are in the mood for something with plot and storylines and want to think then I’d give it a miss. But if you are a fan you’ll love it, just try and catch it on the big screen cause I’m guessing it won’t be as much fun at home.

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