I'd been getting spoiled, I'd been watching good movies

[ultranos]

Made it home yesterday and hauled suitcases through 6 inches of snow up since the sidewalk wasn't shoveled yet. All before 11am. Then proceeded to be completely out of it for the rest of the day.

Watched a fantastically bad post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie called The Last Sentinel, which taught us that any explosion can be escaped with nary a scratch, as long as you jump into at least 6 inches of water. It also contained Katee Sackhoff as the principle female lead, and got the credit "Girl". Yes, no actual name. (Was BSG on hiatus or something around 2006?)

It was hilariously bad. Not to mention the sniper scope had an AI that would not shut up. I mean, I should have known something about the, um, quality of what we were about to watch seeing as it came in a four-pack of sci-fi movies for $5 Yarmond picked up at Target. But we seriously weren't expecting Prince of Fallout: The Sands of LA. I WAS ALMOST EXPECTING HEADCRABS.

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[lyssie.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT MOVIE.

so awful. omg.

Katee shot it during... season two? three? Somewhere in there. I don't think she was quite doing the same thing Claudia did when she'd fall asleep during the dual-shooting of Pitch Black and Farscape season one.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

IT WAS FANTASTICALLY TERRIBLE. OMG.

I still need to see Pitch Black completely. But the little snippets I have seen are not nearly as terrible as this was.

One of my friends found the movie he was looking for while watching the previews. I suspect Mysterious Island with Patrick Stewart is in my near future. (All I know is that it looked like it had pirates, swashbuckling, Patrick Stewart in a turban, and what looked like the EMP generator from Ocean's Eleven.)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Pitch Black is... It is good and it is so-so in the science department, but it's... fun. ok. Fun for me. It's really pretty and insane the way they shoot the different light-variations, and Vin Diesel is sort of , um, well, Riddick is amusing.

Mostly, I just love Radha Mitchell. (I don't care if I'm killing everyone's names!) And Claudia, of course.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

you're very brave (and very strong) to do all that before 11am.
(you're my hero; though you're that already)

I think the Mythbusters tackled that (or at least with shotguns, not explosions), though I forget what the conclusions were.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if "brave" is the right word. "Insane", maybe.
(aw, thank you)

I wouldn't be surprised if Mythbusters did. Water really does slow down the velocity of a bullet dramatically. I had to do a fluid dynamics homework problem on it once: if 10 feet of water was enough to keep a .22 Civil War round from killing you. The answer was "yes, by a lot". I think 2ft can save you from .50 caliber rounds.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy. Bad sci-fi is sneaky like that. *g*