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  • in reply to: Doctor Who Has Left the Building! #74288
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    Good Lord – its terrible. ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

    in reply to: Carnivale #74284
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    jerhume wrote:

    Thank you for bringing this one to our attention, bonnee. ๐Ÿ™‚

    On the strength of what I’ve read here, I bought the DVDs of the series & watched eps 1 & 2 last night. This is quality stuff!

    I think this is definitely one to add to the Board.

    Wow Jerhume – I’m pleased to see that I managed to encourage you to seek Carnivale out. ๐Ÿ˜€ Welcome to the fan club called the church of the poisoned mind. Please share your thoughts when you feel you’re in a better position to. I hope you’ll be singing the freak show’s mantra ‘one of us, one of us…’ soon. And make sure to track down season 2 if and when you can – it just keeps on freaking me out.

    hishadow – what happened to Rita Sue’s Knicker’s? (although I prefer the image of brother justin ushering in a new day).

    in reply to: Doctor Who Has Left the Building! #74281
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    in reply to: Bad News Everybody #74272
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    oops!

    good news, everybody..

    Spike Backs Off Enterprise Talk

    A spokeswoman for Spike TV backed off comments that the cable network was considering picking up UPN’s canceled Star Trek: Enterprise in an interview with SCI FI Wire. The Boston Herald had quoted Debra Fazio saying: “It would definitely be something we would look at, and we know how devoted the show’s fans are.”

    But Fazio clarified her remarks on March 8. “The quote was misconstrued,” she said in an interview. “We can’t say yes or no until it’s proposed to the network, and that hasn’t happened yet.” Fazio added: “That’s not something that we’re actively going out and pursuing.”

    UPN announced earlier that it is canceling the low-rated Enterprise at the end of the current fourth season. No other network has stepped forward to pick up the show, and executive producer Rick Berman previously said that he was not interested in shopping the series around.

    Fans, meanwhile, have been actively campaigning to revive the series for a fifth season, going so far as to raise funds to finance a fifth season themselves. They claim pledges of more than $3 million toward their goal of $36 million.

    in reply to: Fantastic Interview #74257
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    theFrey wrote:

    Tsk, tsk, tsk. Such fighting and posturing. Is this how things run in the Star Trek universe. ๐Ÿ˜‰ WWCKS?

    What’s most galling about the ‘revealations’ is that they reveal the Star Trek universe to be a gaping black hole. A show built around a model of team work was hardly modelled on the star trek reality. Behind the scene rivalries, factions, dissent, disregard for your own members, bullying, etc were the order of the day. Meanwhile, everyone on the show is idealised as a team player in so far as the team had to falsify the show’s own workings and ideals. ๐Ÿ™„

    in reply to: Carnivale #74247
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    Um, those pictures actually deter me from wanting to watch the show – they seem so boring and uninviting. Couldn’t you find any of the lesbian or anal sex scenes? ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Carnivale #74238
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    hishadow wrote:

    Hey. Keep your language simple, can’t you see my avatar ๐Ÿ™‚ Luckily I got my Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary here… lets see… <frantic paging>

    .

    Sorry dude – unfortunately, that ‘s how I naturally think and speak. I should try and remember, though, that there might be someone actually reading my thoughts ๐Ÿ˜† and its best to try and adopt a less complicated way of speaking. Trouble is – when I speak ‘unnaturally’, I keep putting my foot in my mouth, am usually labelled a troll, and find myself banned indefinitely ๐Ÿ˜›

    to summarise for those not discouraged by the verbiage:just watch the fucking thing already!

    in reply to: Carnivale #74235
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    hishadow wrote:

    Well, I would say this show has alot more in common with Twin Peaks. Carnivale has a much more “adult” theme, if there’s such a thing. Anyway, this show does not resemble Buffy and Angel.

    I’d really enjoy if David Lynch was asked to do an episode though ๐Ÿ™‚

    I can’t say I agree hisshadow, although I can certainly see why you would think that. In my view, Carnivale is a curious hybrd and superficially resembles Twin Peaks and Buffy/Angel. I wouldn’t want to insist on the parallels with Whedon’s universe, but Carnivale also has a ‘chosen’ one engaged in a cross generational conflict with a Big Bad intent on bringing about Armagedden. Unlike Buffy and Angel, though, Carnivale has a much more interesting conception of good and evil (its difficult to know what is what here, and part of the intrigue is that neither our ‘hero’ or ‘villian’ really recogise themselves as such, and answer their respective callings reluctantly). The Twin Peaks/David Lynch element, of course, comes by way of the stlyised and obtuse treatment – not to mention the little dwarf addressing ‘management’ pulling all the strings from behind a red curtain. Despite Lynch’s reputation, though, I find his moebious strip teases intellectually bankrupt – he generally works with a straightforward dualism between ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’, and his obtuseness tends to work its way to the revealtion that ‘all is lllusion’! ๐Ÿ™„

    Carnivale, on the other hard, appears to have an elaborate mythology and questionable salvation narrative. It seems to draw on sources as disparate as Hinduism and Gnostism, and (if I understand correctly) wants to question the ‘illusion of the world’ that Lynch’s carnival of freaks takes as a given. Unlike Lynch, Carnivale’s creator’s seem genuinely interested in the question of the ‘disenchantment’ of the world – where Reason has been on the ascendent and the mystery or ‘magic’ of life in decline. And by setting the show in the past (just prior to the development of the Atomic Bomb) I suspect that Carnivale is spriritually close to Battlestar Gallactica – it seems to view the future (our present) as a post apocalyptic age in spiritual decline.

    then again – I could be talking out of my backside. ๐Ÿ˜›

    I’m still waiting for Lynch to direct that promised episode of X Files, although it would be great to see him come on board for Carnivale.

    Ultraviolet, btw, is certainly good and worth seeing wherever possible. Iits main claim to fame now, though, is that it provided an American launching pad for British actor Idris Elba – Idris is simply amazing in what many critics regard as the best show on TV (HBO’s The Wire) – coincidentally The Wire is the show Carnivale replaced when it finished its amazing run on HBO recently.

    yes, I watch too much tv. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Which Sci-Fi Writer are You? #74210
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    I’m Stanislav Lem

    This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English.

    F**k yeah! ๐Ÿ˜†

    in reply to: Gallactica the Best Show on TV? #74132
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    Headgehog wrote:

    Bonnee, I’m not sure how Carnivale (another Ron Moore show) aires down in Oz, but in the States, its on HBO which most people don’t get. I’m interested in seeing some episodes, but I don’t have HBO. I suspect it’s a similar situation for other posters.

    Moore was involved with the first season of Carnivale prior to moving on to BG. Apparently he left because of ‘creative differences’ – since Carnivale wasn’t originally his creation, though (it is written and conceived by Knauf), Moore’s move hasn’t hurt the show one bit. As far as I know, he was more the midwife to Knauf’s vision and helped to produce it.

    If you don’t have access to HBO, I reccommend you check out season 1 on dvd or both seasons via your local internet connection. Give it a couple of episodes if you can manage to source it – the show is intricately plotted and slow moving at first. Across the two seasons, though, it contains some of my favorites moments/scenes in television, and has a hypnotic effect on me as a whole.

    in reply to: Gallactica the Best Show on TV? #74128
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    ”LexxLurker” wrote:

    it’s certainly the best show Sci-Fi has ever produced.

    Dont &#@! it up Hammer.

    By sci fii, I assume you mean the network and not the genre? If so, why do you prefer it to another fav of yours, Farscape? And whilst I’m asking, what are your – or anybody else’s – thoughts on Lost, a (possible) reiimagining of the cult sci show Fantastic Journey?

    Speaking personally, I’m surprised that both Lost and Carnivale seem unappreciated around here – they might not involve spaceships as such, but their outlandish premises and treatment are way out there.

    in reply to: Battlestar Galactica Miniseries #74074
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    The mini series has just screened downunder, and the television series follows soon. I quite liked it, apart from it being literally too dark in places. In space, no one can see you scream.

    The series is definitely promising, and will compliment my other fav cult ‘sci fi’ shows – the fricking awesome Carnivale and the big tease that is Lost.

    in reply to: Carnivale #74052
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    Well, we’re now up to the fourth episode of the second season – and Carnivale has hit the ground running. The anti/christ are headed for one Allmighty smackdown, and part of the fun is trying to work out the role of good and evil in the scheme of things.

    I’m sort of surprised that Sadgeezers appear uninterested or unfamiliar with it. It is a cult show incarnate, and the production values are one hell of an immaculate conception. If you’re a fan of Buffy, Angel and/or the devil, this show was made for you. Hopefully my post will usher in some love for the series…track down the first season out on dvd and/or both seasons on your local bittorrent tracker.

    in reply to: Shed 10,000 Tears for Lexx #73736
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    The spirit of Lexx lives ! Well, not really – but if you want to see a movie with a similar plot to the finale season, go see Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow. The giant robots are way cool, and the spaceship ark storyline not too dissimilar. You’ll have to forgive the crap writing, waver thin characters, poor dialogue and innane plotting. Come to think of it – Lexx lives! ๐Ÿ˜›

    in reply to: *spoilers* Peacekeeper Wars #73119
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    Did no one else watch it or want to share their thoughts? ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

    Great review LexxLurker, despite the miniseries (apparent) non event on the Sadboards.

    in reply to: *spoilers* Peacekeeper Wars #73094
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    I only managed to finish watching it just now – took bloody forever to download! (can’t complain of course – at least I got to see the effing thing).

    I suppose what I was most struck by was the seemingly transitional *and* resolution nature of the miniseries. On the one hand, it immediately launches us into the Farscape universe without many concessions to the uninitiated. On the other hand, it tied up recurring narrative threads and themes with the view of wiping the slate (relatively) clean. It was a very satisfying way of resolving the narrative arc or trajectory that arguably hijacked the entire series to diminishing returns. Speaking personally, I thought the wormhole weapon was an apt metaphor for the entire series – that storyline seemed to engulf and annilihate its own universe. Now that the show rated well, we can only hope that other, more hermetically sealed (or less drawn out) stories can be introduced into an expanding Farscape universe.

    in reply to: Farscape Miniseries Debuts This Weekend #73047
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    I’d like to see those two spank each other. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Farscape Miniseries Debuts This Weekend #73044
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    Headgehog wrote:

    Seriously folks, just remember to watch it when it aires in your respective country, even if you first saw it some other way. We do want to keep good TV scifi alive right?

    Unfortunately, Australian television has indicated that it has no intention of showing it. Neither free to air or pay per view are interested – or at least, that’s what they’ve claimed so far. Its possible they might find themselves in possession of it when they buy some other package related to reality tv or crime drams – in which case, they’ll pretend to be committed to it.

    To rub salt in the wounds – the final series of Farsacpe was thrown around the schedules on Foxtel. Not only was it interrupted for months without explanation, the final episode wasn’t even mentioned in the foxtel guide. It literally disappeared up its own wormhole, only to thankfully reappear on the other side of the universe (the Internet for poor buggers like myself).

    Particularly disgraceful when you rememember its made in (and by) Australians. ๐Ÿ™„

    in reply to: Best Website in the world #72590
    bonnee
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    Spirited Away is a great movie. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Tripping the Rift Verdict? #72228
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    ”LexxLurker” wrote:

    Ranting aside, yes TTR has had it’s dull moments, plenty of them in a pilot season like this. But it’s also shown signs of brilliance the least of which being the current writing. But as time goes on and this series is allowed to develop, the sky is truly the limit as shown by every single successful animation show. The ball is simply in Sci-Fi court, do they want to go the easy route and blur the lines between Sci-Fi and Action/Reality show pushing us all away, or do they want to embrace the Science Fiction community like they have in the past by renewing shows like TTR and getting to work on accomidating it by not placing it in timeslots with their reality shows?

    You may as well cancel it when you do things like that. Because it makes absolutely no sense, you may as well tell people: “We have a show you’ll really like, but you have to watch 2 hours of complete and utter garbage first.”

    Stay tuned after these commercial messages.

    I do believe that was another rant, lexxlurker. ๐Ÿ˜†

    but yeah – the sci fi channel is clearly not committed to quality programming, let alone science fiction. Unfortunately, there has been talk to introduce (a) sci fi channel downunder – if the Armerican model/experience is any indication, don’t think I’ll bother. To be frank,though, I suspect the original channel will be renamed or relaunched eventually – they seem to have alienated their own constituency, and (presumably) deter potential subscribers with their obvious committment to alien programming. Part of the problem is that there seems to be general resistance to science fiction on television – I think the big screen’s emphasis on ‘spectacle’ has conditioned us to expect special effects and action over character or plot. Since spectacle can’t be readilly produced on the small screen, producers attempt to attract as many people as possible with television’s variant of mindless crap. Its a shame, really – television also allows for the possibilty to explore sci fi with greater intelligence or depth.

    The fate of Earth: Final Conflict sums up the state of sci fi on television – a distinctive and promising first season, characterised by morally ambigious situations , mysterious premise and indeterminate characters – is replaced with generic shite season 2 onwards. I recall a noted critic initially comparing it to the Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Street (arguably the best written and acted shows on television) in the film journal Sight and Sight. By the time E:FC completed its run, it might as well have been something mass produced by KFC, and can be unfavorably compared to a Michael Jackson music video.

    At the end of the day, I blame the ‘fans’ – if the general population indicated an interest in quality programming (intelligent writing, interesting characters, nuanced performances,etc) there would presumably be more of it. Witness what happened to Firefly (I wonder how well it will translate to the ‘big screen’? As ‘good’ as the Star Trek franschise?) In my view, television sci fi’s last best hope is more marginal settings, like fledging networks where Buffy and Angel somehow survived with a relatively small fanbase or on HBO, which has produced wonderfully varied stuff like Oz, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire and Deadwood.

    Its true, of course, that the Sci Fi channel should lead the way, but they’d rather do it doggy style and lead from behind.

    in reply to: Tripping the Rift Verdict? #72221
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    in reply to: Tripping the Rift Verdict? #72217
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    Was it something I said? ๐Ÿ˜†

    I’ve since found the reviews and interview, and feel in a better position to judge.

    in reply to: Lexx Season Four on Channel 5(UK) #72136
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    You better open the windows – season 4 manages to stink up two universes, and the smell attaches itself to things indefinetely (much like that Seinfeld episode).

    Lexx season 4 arrives. Soon, we discover something is definitely amiss…

    Jerry: Boy, do you smell something?
    Elaine: Do I smell something? What am I, hard of smelling? Of *course* I
    smell something.
    Jerry: What is it?
    Elaine: I think it’s B.O.!
    Jerry: What?
    Elaine: It’s B.O. The *valet* must have had B.O.
    Jerry: It *can’t* be. Nobody has B.O. like this.
    Elaine: Jerry. It’s *B*.*O*.
    Jerry: But the whole car smells.
    Elaine: So?
    Jerry: So when somebody has B.O., the “O” usually stays with the “B”.
    Once the “B” leaves, the “O” goes with it.

    They each do their best dog impression and stick their heads out the window while they’re driving. They come back inside. They moan disgustedly and stick their heads out, again

    in reply to: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind #72122
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    Deathscythehell wrote:

    I really want to see this movie, is it on video and DVD yet?

    Not yet – September onwards (2004 release date depends on the region).

    in reply to: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind #72118
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    I loved this movie (I reference it in the recent Lexx thread ๐Ÿ˜† ), and the film’s ending is especially lovely.

    Basically, on discovering each other through the tapes, they agree to start again – with their knowledge on how (and why) badly the relationship ended in the first place. Despite being destined to make the same mistakes in the ‘new’ relationship, the two lovers can now learn to be more accepting and loving of each’s (perceived) failings as if learning about them for the first time. It doesn’t imply that they’ll succeed with this knowledge, only that they now have reason to be more understanding and accepting of one another’s known ‘failings’.

    in reply to: Shows NOT Sci-Fi #72040
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    My current favorite is HBO’s The Wire (created by David Simon, the creator of Homicide: Life on the Street ).

    The Wire recently won a Peabody award, and its description of the series sums it up nicely.

    The Wire โ€˜is one of the most intense and complex narratives television viewers have seen. Probing the full range of human behavior, The Wire has the depth and intensity of a complex novel. Both cops and criminals face dilemmas where boundaries of right and wrong, honesty and dishonesty are constantly blurredโ€™ and interrogated.

    Television doesn’t get better, in my view. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: why is LEXX the only good sci fi around? #71953
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    Unfortunately thefrey, the behind the scenes problems were all too apparent in front of us on the screen. I’m not sure what happenned during season 4, but it seemed to me that the makers committed themselves in advance of knowing what they were really getting themselves (or us) into. And given the show’s cult status and rabbid following, I felt that the arbritary and haphazard approach proved to be divisive amongst its own (dwindling) fanbase.

    Personally speaking, I feel deflated and tainted by the entire experience.

    in reply to: why is LEXX the only good sci fi around? #71915
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    thanks streudel – you sum my position up nicely. ๐Ÿ˜€

    The only thing I would add is that, in my view, the series internal logic (cycle of time motif, eternal recurrence theme, etc) was completely abandoned in favor of the possibility of a redundant and illogical spin off (ie, without the character that effectively brings the lexx universe full circle again). I felt that the show had betrayed its own avowals and characters. That’s what I mean by ‘disappeared up its own narrative arc’ .

    There were some great ‘stand alone’ episodes in the fourth season, but the narrative thread hung together very poorly – a situation not helped by the fact that there were too many episodes tenuously stringing us along. I recall complaining at the time that it felt as if they were making things up as they were going along (apparently they were), and made little attempt to draw on (or flesh out) its own history in the process. It just seemed to trade on our good will and memories, and invariably undid much of the good work that preceeded it. By the time Lexx completed its run, it had emptied itself of its own content – if only because Lexx 4 was running on empty (indeterminate season premise, ill conceived scripts, rushed production, etc).

    There was a time I loved Lexx, and wanted to tell everyone about it. Once its completed its run, I made an appointment with Lacuna Inc in a failed bid to have season 4 surgically removed from my memory. Instead, the surgeons spent most of their time extracting bad carrots from where the sun eternally don’t shine.

    in reply to: why is LEXX the only good sci fi around? #71823
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    Sexecutioner wrote:

    people that ridicule LEXX need to die.

    Flamegrape wrote:

    Have you met Bonnee?

    Lexx died a slow, agonising death by becoming ridiculous – it disappeared up its own narrative arc in season 4, never to be seen again.

    Pleased to meet you. ๐Ÿ˜†

    in reply to: Recently Locked Post #71220
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    Damn – every board seems to have a troll. But what can we do about any of them?

    in reply to: Farscape: Peacekeeper War! #70707
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    Oh.My.God.

    Farscape was on downunder – after being sidelined FRELLING AGAIN, for TWO WEEKS in favor of some Paris Hilton specials. So, after months of being frelled we were thrown some scraps and put on hold again. Who knows – maybe we’ll get to see the final episode next week, assuming there isn’t a ‘special’ on David Beckam, Posh and their babyshitter. cry

    in reply to: Farscape: Peacekeeper War! #70611
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    ”LexxLurker” wrote:

    Predictions anyone?

    I predict that a commercial network in Australia will buy the rights, but won’t screen it due to its lack of commerciality. Foxtel will invariably snap it up once its been sitting on the shelf for a year – and then chose not to show it as scheduled because the Next Top Model will have just begun again. And so, many of us will be squinting at our pc screens because we were forced to download it – given the size of the file, it will take weeks to download. once downloaded though, it will invariably execute itself as a trojan programmed by the commercial network protecting its ‘rights’ in protest.

    in reply to: Farscape Swearwords #70577
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    I’m not sure about their meaning, but I’ve been using many of late anyway. Foxtel has really been screwing us Australians around regarding the final four episodes. For no apparent reason – and certainly without any explanation – the timeslot was vacated for crap like Next Top Model and David Blaney ‘specials’. It was basically off air for close to three months, and due to return last night – except it didn’t (despite being in the schedules). According to their online guide, it SHOULD return next week for four consectitive weeks, but we’ll frelling see. ๐Ÿ™„

    in reply to: Best and Worst Sci-Fi Series Finales… #70451
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    Logan wrote:

    Didn’t like the Voyager finale, nor how Earth: Final Conflict ended (I actually felt that show jumped the shark long before it ended).
    Of course the worst finale is those that have none at all — are cancelled before they even make the final episodes and are just left in limbo…

    Earth Final Conflict backfilpped over the shark season 2 onwards, and kept going back to shark infested waters with each successive season. Talk about ruining a once great show.

    Lexx also ended badly in my opinion. Despite some good episodes, most of the season just seemed botched from begnning to end (uncertain in tone, meandering pace, lack of narrative and thematic focus, etc). I would have liked to have seen the narrative brought full circle in some way – that would have been consistent with its cycle of time motif, but instead it disappeared up its own narrative arc.

    I also hated the way Buffy ended. In my view, the series went on for two seasons too long and should have ended with her death at the end of season 5. Instead, the series entered the realm of the insufferably bad by embracing facisism as a moral imperative.

    in reply to: Helpful Hints for a Happier Cyber Life. #69506
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    theFrey wrote:

    I have noticed on several boards there always seems to be some fractious posting going on. I know you know, but I remind you again that refusing to respond to usually the best policy.

    I myself favor a little ‘Talk To the Smiley Icon’ that looks like this *** ๐Ÿ™‚ ***

    What this means is; “I do not respond to your posts because; There is no point in arguing with the righteously self centered, even when you win, you lose. I do not believe in rewarding bad behavior with the attention it craves. And lastly, my life is too short to provide you with endless opportunities to be unpleasant, no matter how much enjoyment it gives you.”

    Trust me, even when the original post is nothing but a fantasy, don’t worry. Even the newbies catch on pretty fast, and will be able to tell which posters can be relied on to fabricate, stretch, mangle, fold, spindle and mutilate the truth.

    New Years day is approaching, you may want to consider making something like this one of your New Year Resolutions.

    Me? I think I am going to give accepting humanitarian awards for promoting .net peace….. Well, unless Stockholm calls me that is. ๐Ÿ˜€

    Happy Holiday to Lexxians near and far. We have a new year ahead of us and I don’t know about you, but the blank slate of possibilities always excites me.

    You must be the change you wish to see in this life. – Gandhi

    ๐Ÿ™‚

    in reply to: last of buffy #69323
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    I wrote an obituary accusing the show of shadow boxing. The final series promised to take us back to the real begining by adopting a Jungian (and more adult) perspective towards the conflict between good and evil. It purported to show us the real face of evil by (finally) acknowleding that WE were essentially the source of the world’s evil. The First was really a parasitic or secondary life force, and powerless if we didn’t allow it to feed off our own fears and desires. In other words, s/he was a projection of our own shadow . The final season indicated a willingness to withdraw our own projections, but opted for the safety of retreating further into the shadows. It projectied eveything back onto the First, who is really the first scapegoat (it was no accident that Caleb merged with its goatlike essence, although it would have been nice to see this caricuture of a bible basher provide the scriptural origins of scapegoating. The First is the leader of the race of demons, oherwise known as ‘the watchers’…Buffy’s watchers, then, are a round about way of looking at ourselves).

    From my perspective, the series ended on an adolescent (and fascistic) note, despite the fact that the characters were allegedly ‘adults’ working towards the greater ‘good’.

    in reply to: last of buffy #69316
    bonnee
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    I thought it devoured us from beneath – the final (promising)season was an unfortunate ending to a once great series. Good riddance ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: What Is Going On Here! #69261
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    Thanks for the live report Fatguy. ๐Ÿ˜€

    (for the record, 2,735.6 members are really just me in disguise replicating at an alarming rate. Sadboard is just a simulated reality, and we are agents of the matrix).

    in reply to: Matrix 3 – What did you think? #69248
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    I really like the Matrix films, particularly the way the second film turns the first one on its head…and then, how the third brings everything to a head and/or full circle. but alas – almost everyone I know seems to hate the Matrix films second One onwards. I think the problem is the way the salvation narrative has been reconfigured and how Reloaded transfers the focus from an enslaved species to a besieged community.

    Its bizzare, because the sequels are cited as being either too overstated or obvious and/or obtuse and incomprehensible. Most people seem unwilling to even bother discussing their mixed and/or confused (or confusing) response to the films.

    I can’t help but feel that 2 and 3 are particularly audacious and worthwhile , but the box office reports (and lack of interest in this thread) speaks for itself.

    Like a sinking ship, The Matrix Revolutions is falling sharply at the box office both in North America and internationally. The Matrix Reloaded fell 58% in its third weekend over the summer and a similar fate looks to result for the final chapter in the sci-fi saga giving Revolutions just $7M for the frame and $126M after 19 days of release. Overseas, the Zion epic has amassed just under $200M for a worldwide haul of $311M, but suffered second weekend declines of 55-66% in such key markets as Germany, France, Australia, and the U.K. On a global box office scale, Revolutions should end its run in the vicinity of the first Matrix film’s $456M total rather than approach the $736M of Reloaded.

    http://www.boxofficeguru.com

    in reply to: Michael Jackson Has His Fans. #69246
    bonnee
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    Innocent until settled out of court. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

    in reply to: Dr. Who: Ideology, Philosophy, and Religion #69236
    bonnee
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    Doctor who? ๐Ÿ˜•

    in reply to: 5.08 – "Destiny" #69231
    bonnee
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    It is written that I shall watch destiny . ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Mini-series rumour #69217
    bonnee
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    Let’s hope its not an unrealized reality. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Dreams and Goals… #69039
    bonnee
    Participant

    My goal is to be the best possible father to my daughter, and make her dreams come true. Given the amount of suffereing in the world – personal and social – I just hope she can forgive me for inflicting life upon her – or at least, achieve her goals without hurting and/or be hurt by too many others. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

    another goal is getting that threesome my wife keeps promising me. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Favourite Angel Season – POLL #68974
    bonnee
    Participant

    in reply to: Favourite Angel Season – POLL #68962
    bonnee
    Participant

    I can’t chose between season 2 and 3, so I’ll lodge an absentee vote. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

    The interesting thing about Angel is that it was often better than its parent program on an episode per episode basis, although by season’s end it typically peterd out or lacked the resonance of Buff’s narrative sweep/arc.

    in reply to: SadGeezer Up Again – Ooer, that was scary! #68955
    bonnee
    Participant

    welcome back Sadgeezer

    I just assumed that Flamegrape took the site down with him. ๐Ÿ˜€

    in reply to: Afghanimatrix #68886
    bonnee
    Participant
    in reply to: New "Who" Due #68655
    bonnee
    Participant
    Logan wrote:

    BTW, Richard E. Grant is most enjoyable, if not terribly versatile from what Iโ€™ve seen (*Logan ducks rotten fowl eggs*).

    The sound of his testicles in L.A. Story is the very defintion of versatility. ๐Ÿ˜ก

    in reply to: FX in a uniform!? #68449
    bonnee
    Participant
    Logan wrote:

    If you have any info on this Bonnee, I’d appreciate it if you shared it. I generally feel that more info is better than less, but thanks for trying to clear this up; however ineffectually. ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ™„ ๐Ÿ˜†

    I think you know me better than that Logan – I know nothing, and was simply trying to make fun of you. ๐Ÿ˜›

    (appeared to backfire though, and I was shown to be the fool – again).

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