Skyline

So I rented Skyline and had great hopes for the movie, but that really didn't happen.  Lets just say that it is a Scifi B movie with a bigger budget and I have seen better on SyFy.  So the movie is about a group of friends party all night and wake to find the world is being taken over by aliens and the rest of the movie is spent with them trying to figure it out and survive.  The aliens were a little strange you never really got a sense of what they were, there are different kinds but they are all powered by brains they harvest from humans.  Eric Balfour plays the main guy who gets infected somehow even though no else does by this light the aliens use and he starts gaining super human strength.  In the middle of this he finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant and the rest of the movie is spent trying to protect her which leads to a very bizarre ending where his brain is harvested but his brain manages to override the alien body and he trumps off to save his girl.  The other characters in the movie spend there time doing one of two things 1) Dying in stupid ways and 2) arguing about how to escape and survive and no one and I do mean no one had a good idea.  So the move was a disappointment but if you got a thing for scifi B movies go for it.       

The Adjustment Bureau

So my husband Steven and I went to see The Adjustment Bureau last night.  This was probably the first time I had been to see a movie in the theater in forever.  For us the review was split.  Steven didn't like it but only because it had Matt Damon in it and he doesn't like him for some strange reason, but we are not going to listen to him anyhow ;).  So on to my review.  I liked the movie I though Damon and Emily Blunt had really good chemistry together and it made it a really good romance.  And my God Blunt went though some serious ballet training for this movie which means I am not going to the gym nearly enough.........
Anyhow, the movie wasn't just a romance it was also a strange Sci Fi movie as well.  It was kind of like a movie called Dark City in that people's lives are being manipulated.  FYI if you have not seen Dark City you must see this movie it is one of my all time favorites!!!!!   So back to the Adjustment Bureau.  The main plot it that Damon plays a politician who's like is being manipulated to suit the greater "plan" but he meets Blunt who he absolutely can't live without and the movie is about how he tries to keep them together.  This is very over simplified and the plot is a whole lot more crazy but I don't want to give to much away. And it makes you think about how much of your life is controlled by fate and chance.  So I would recommend this movie I really liked it and it had an intriguing story.   

Thank God for British Sci Fi

So I can't tell you how glad I am that the new season of Being Human started on BBC America.  If you have never seen the show here is the basic gist: A vampire, werewolf, and ghost share a flat and try to deal with being monsters in the everyday world.  What makes this show good is the British humor.  So please do no be fooled by the Syfy channel's version.  I normally live on the Syfy channel but in this case we are having a big issue.  I'm not sure what happened but Syfy didn't get the British version and decided to adapt their own and change the character names.  However, they follow the British script version word for word and I hate to break it to you but the British humor is not translating!!!!!  And another thing is the American characters especially the vampire they are trying so hard to tap into the Twilight mania that is is ridiculous and it is driving me insane.  So do me a favor if you are looking for a new Sci Fi show and you get BBC America watch the British one because the humor is the best thing about that show.

Cretaceous Jurassic Park???

Something to look forward to in May.  Fox is starting a show called Terra Nova.
http://www.fox.com/terranova/

I first heard about the show a few months back from my husband on Tor.com and it sounds interesting.  The basic premise is that a group of people from the future who (once the Earth is completley used up) travel back 85 million years to the Cretaceous Period to recolonize the Earth and start over.  Now why this is not the Jurassic Period with all the creatures a brief google search of the Cretaceous Period show that there were Dinosaur like creatures still running around which should make the show more interesting.  However, one point I would like to contend is that at 65.5 million years ago there was a substantial extinction event.  So I am not sure in the show if they have a choice as to what time period they are going to or if there is some sort of fixed phenomena that makes that the only place to go...... so we will have to see what happens with that.  And if you watch the trailer the older guy is the bad guy from Avatar so we will see if they are playing off of that character again.  But if you are like me and grew up with the Jurassic Park series then you may welcome a new Dinosaur fix in your viewing schedule.  So for now I will say that the show looks interesting and has potential so stay tuned for more info :)