Since I ama fan of sword movies, I am going to watch the new show Spartacus: Blood and Sand this autumn even though it looks like a mix of Gladiator and 300.

Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) and Robert Tapert (Hercules, Xena) are producing this and Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica) is starring – that makes it basically a must-see for me.

Categories: Short Review
Tags: 300 · Battlestar Galactica · Gladiator · Hercules: The Legendary Journeys · Spartacus: Blood and Sand · Spider-Man · The Evil Dead · Xena: Warrior Princess
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I am normally not the fan of teen dramas but maybe Smallville has softened me for the topic. And when I learned that Veronica Mars/Kristen Bell was Gossip Girl (off-screen voice only), I thought I gave it a chance.

I’ve never really watched 90210 (the original), Melrose Place, The O.C. or this show with mother and daughter (something with “Girls”, I can’t remember).

But GG somehow sucked me in. I can’t really put my finger on the why, but I found these characters very interesting, even though the dice of chance was clearly filed off sometimes.

Yesterday and today I watched the complete second season and I curious to know how they are going to transport the show from high school (where they were all together) to college level where some are at Yale, some at Brown and some at NYU (but they way they are drinking, some will surely also land in the ICU). But the final episode gave some nice hints towards possible disasters that are about to happen, and I will “tune in” on September 15 to watch it.

PS: That’s also the reason why my marathons are going rather slowly, I am currently trying to find new stuff I have missed and I am preparing for the new TV season this autumn.

Categories: Short Review
Tags: Beverly Hills 90210 · Gossip Girl · Melrose Place · Smallville · The O.C. · Veronica Mars
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Categories: Misc
Tags: Babylon 5
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Deutsche Version

Over the last weeks I felt the urge to watch some Smallville episodes again and decided to do a theme: “I am an omnipotent being and have the power to show Lana who and what Clark really is, before she marries Lex.”

So I watched:

1×01 Pilot – Sets everything in motion, shows Clarks origins and his weakness to Kryptonite.
1×04 X-Ray – Clark gets x-ray vision.
1×21 Tempest, 2×01 Vortex – Lana brings Witney to the airport and gets caught in the tornados.
2×02 Heat – Clark gets heat vision.
2×03 Duplicity – Clark reveals his secret to Pete.
2×04 Red – Clark under the influence of red Kryptonite.
2×10 Skinwalker – Clark finds the caves and is told the story of “Naman”.
2×16 Fever – Martha and Clark get sick by Kryptonite spores, Martha is pregnant and a blood sample of Clark is taken.
2×17 Rosetta – Clark understands the kryptonian language and learns about Krypton and Kal-El.
2×22 Calling – Dr. Walden wants to stop “the last son” from becoming the ruler of “the third planet”.
2×23 Exodus, 3×01 Exile – Clark destroys the spaceship, Martha loses the baby, Clark goes to Metroplis under red K.
3×02 Phoenix – Clark has to clean up his mess, including the providing of another blood sample.
3×03 Extinction – Lana condemns all meteor freaks but expects Clark to confide in her.
3×10 Whisper – Clark gets super-hearing.
3×22 Covenant, 4×01 Crusade – Clark becomes Kal-El and goes on a hunt for the three stones.
4×08 Spell – Lana becomes Countess Isobel and magicks can hurt Clark.
4×11 Unsafe – Alicia returns and marries Clark under the influence of Red K.
4×12 Pariah – Alicia dies and Chloe learns Clark’s secret (partly).
4×19 Blank – Clark loses all his memories and Chloe becomes his tour guide.
4×22 Commencement, 5×01 Arrival – Clark completes the stones, builds the Fortress and Chloe learns his full secret.
5×03 Hidden – Clark dies and becomes super again.
5×11 Lockdown – Two cops hold Lana and Lex hostage to get the ship and Clark knows that his relationship with Lana is falling apart.
5×12 Reckoning – Clark tells Lana everything, proposes and then she dies.
5×22 Vessel, 6×01 Zod – Lex becomes Zod and Clark lands himself in the Phantom Zone.
6×02 Sneeze – Clark gets super-breath.
6×06 Fallout – Clark fights his first Zoner.
6×10 Hydro – Chloe is keeping everyone’s secret, Lana is pregnant and Clark has to protect Oliver’s secret.
6×11 Justice – Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), Cyborg (Victor Stone), Aquaman (Arthur “AC” Curry) , Impulse (Bart Allen), Watchtower (Chloe) and Boy Scout (Clark) fight against Lex’s project 33.1.
6×13 Crimson – Clark crashes the wedding rehearsal under the influence of red K.
6×15 Freak – Chloe is a meteor freak, too.

6×16 Promise – The wedding.

Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Smallville Marathon
Tags: Smallville
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Now, after I’ve finished Crew Edit 2 which rips the crew data from IMDb and makes them available to DVD Profiler, I’ve decided to combine it with the well established program Cast Edit 2.

And here it is: Cast/Crew Edit 2 and Cast/Crew Edit 2 For TV Shows.

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Categories: Misc, Software, Web
Tags: Cast/Crew Edit 2 · DVD Profiler
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Deutsche Version | May | July

June, 3rd

Transformers

Shia LaBeouf … Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox … Mikaela Banes
Josh Duhamel … Captain Lennox
Tyrese Gibson … USAF Tech Sergeant Epps
Rachael Taylor … Maggie Madsen
Anthony Anderson … Glen Whitmann
Jon Voight … Defense Secretary John Keller
John Turturro … Agent Simmons

Synopsis: The AllSpark is a mystical cube which can create life from lifelessness. Many eons ago it got lost, but Megatron – leader of the Decepticons – has found it on a planet called Earth. But he crashes here and freezes into a form of stasis in the arctic. But his arrival did not go unnoticed and many years later the Autobots under the lead of Optimus Prime also arrive on Earth. And now the hunt for the AllSpark begins. The question is whether the Humans can help save their own planet or whether they will be a mere annoyance that stand between the Decepticons and the AllSpark.

My Opinion: Robots that turn into cars, trucks, helicopters and tanks – need I say more? It’s a great fun flick whose sequel is about to start in the theatres. I enjoy such harmless movies where I don’t want to think and don’t need to think from time to time. The only thing that was a bit annoying was the final fight where one often couldn’t make out who’s currently fighting who.

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Movie Watchings 2009
Tags: Alex & Emma · Bring It On · Cars · Fanboys · Indiana Jones · Martian Child · Office Space · Shooter · Spider-Man · Transformers
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