alienworlds

I think this film shows the underbelly of what being a music fan can be. It is like all the stupid stuff you ever saw anyone do as a teen all wrapped up and put into one long moment. The production values are not great and I think the story contained therein is also not great. The film creates the idea that all fans of alternative rock and or heavy metal are complete idiots and a danger to be around. That is too bad because all rock fans are not that way. Maybe some people like it because it sort of romanticizes the idea of self destructing, but I think it just promotes self destructive activity as a healthy alternative to acting like a normal person. What more can I say, except I kind of wish they had never made this movie. It gets my pick for worst film made after 1990.

Interesting show but contains one or two things...in several episodes a race called the Xindi appear. The name sounds a lot like the Kzinti created by SF master Larry Niven...and at one point a future Star Trek Enterprise appears and its interior looks nothing like the later Federation ship interiors. I generally liked the show, particularly the character of T'Pol. I found the Captain to be a bit of a "goody two shoes" which is slightly out of sync with the Star Trek universe in general. In terms of the Star Trek world I have always had trouble with the warp speed designations, warp one is the speed of light, warp two is ten times the speed of light, warp three is 39 times the speed of light, etc. Warp 9.9999 is something like 200,000 times the speed of light...well, considering that light speed is 186,000 miles per second, 200,000 times light speed is somewhat...improbable, even to the most open minded SF fan. Star Trek created about 200 different alien races, many not very humanoid, so I think using an alien race name that appears in another SF universe is perhaps incorrect to do for them. A tad soapy at times, and I don't always agree with the stances Captain Archer takes, yet I think it is still good SF viewing.

Very well thought out thriller set against a backdrop of ordinary life in contemporary America. Will maybe catch people off guard not for the violence that appears here and thee in it, but for the concepts it embodies. We live in an age of secrets and hidden dangers probably more than anyone would like to admit, and that reality is exemplified by the story in this film. You have to wonder if Mr. Gibson's current problems had something to do with someone not liking what this movie says. What it does say is that you can never be certain that a given business is on the up and up, and danger can explode out of nowhere from seemingly innocent situations. All is fair game in the script and no-one is above suspicion as the plot unfolds revealing the seedy underbelly of one particular company in the corporate world. I will not give the plot away, other than to speculate that perhaps it said the wrong things to someone out there...hey, you never know, the world is becoming an increasingly strange place.