The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - I was so disappointed with this movie I find it hard to write a non-angry review about it. I went into this movie with very low expectations (I.e. the mummy has been done why drag it out a third time, Brendan Fraser has the SAME jokes and one liners in every movie, blah blah blah) but this movie didn't even reach my low expectations and it was so bad it hurt. Good Parts: The fight sequences were awesome battling with mummies and yetis that was good. the story... okay. The characters ... well. Lets just say that Rick O'Connell was fine. The son, Alex O'Connell, was... well he was a better lead in the love story then his parents. and Evelyn O'Connell.... couldn't they just say she had died somewhere instead of replacing her with Maria Bello. The actress that took over that position was horrible. She tried to hard to be the other Evelyn that it was rather pathetic and made me sad. For me the Mummy story ends with The Mummy Returns this film will not be added to my collection.
Logan's Run - 197's view of the future. All life has been pretty much wiped out and the remainder of human civilization lives in glass bubbles and to save space and resources everyone is killed at the age of 30. Everyone is born with a silly crystal in their palm that changes colors as they get older. yellow green blue red and then your crystal starts flashing when you're nearing 30 and then it turns black and everyone is killed in a big arena called "Carrousel" where they are told they'll be renewed but really they're all just killed. . . Anyway Logan is a police man who is sent on a mission to find Sanctuary, the place where the "runners" have gone instead of going to Carrousel. Low and behold he meets up with Jessica and together they make it outside the bubble and the world is beautiful and their crystals don't blink anymore. So they go back and save the rest of civilization and they all live happily ever after. I liked this movie. Yes, Cheesy but for 1976 it was ingenious. The people who came up with stuff had great visions of the future and I love these retro flicks.
Kull the Conqueror - About 20 minutes into this movie I asked John if we could just watch Logan's Run again. This has to be the dumbest movie I have watched in quite a while I think this movie takes the #1 spot of stupid movies I have watched. Oh My! We had seen this movie (or bits of it) on Saturday afternoons and John has told me several times that we need to rent this and watch it at least once in our lives so we did. Here is the description of the movie from IMDB.Com: A barbarian named Kull unexpectedly becomes a king after an old king (whom Kull has just killed in a battle) gives his crown to him. But direct heirs of a killed king, trying to topple Kull and regain the throne, bring an old witch-queen Akivasha back to life. Their plan backfires, however, as Akivasha is going to allow their lords - demons - to rule the kingdom. The only thing that can stop her now is a breath of the god Volka.
Stargate SG-1: Continuum - The continuing adventures of Stargate. This movie was great. it's supposed to be the last StarGate SG-1 movie and it was a good end to it if it is. This movie brought back tons of old SG-1 characters and extras. It was fun to see old faces and who was there and who should have been there. All this movie was missing was Jonas Quin I think he deserved to be there as he had spent several episodes fighting Ba'al as well. So the plot of the movie... one of Ba'al's clones (or maybe Ba'al himself) travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. People start disappearing and Sam, Daniel and Mitchell jump through the gate and jump over the change of time and reemerge in an alternate 2008 and then they have to restore history. This was great as the show has periodically touched on time travel and the peril that would come from changing the time line. but SG-1 always gets it back together in the end ... mostly.
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