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Farscape: Premiere (1999)
Monumental Sci/Fi with an Attitude
Watching this series will probably make you feel like how our parents felt when watching Star Trek for the first time.
This series has it all. The kind of stories that makes you forget how to blink, the kind of characters that makes you want to jump into the TV to join the action, and the kind of atmosphere that makes your hair curdle in awe and endless admiration.
In short, we start out with John Chrichton, an astronaut, who gets shot into a wormhole and ends up with a gang of prisoners on the run from the badguys in black, ironically known as Peacekeepers.
Other colorful characters consists of D'argo, big dude with a short temper and a sword/laser-rifle. Aerun Sun, former peacekeeper and a Ph.D in buttkicking. Zotoh Zhan, who's a plant. No really, she is. She's also a priest, but with a mean streak. There's also Dominar Rygel XVI, an fat lazy bastard who farts helium and generally does more harm than good.
Later in the series we meet the most sexy alien that has ever been on television, namely Chiana. A young and seemingly chronically horny Nebari. She is played by Gigi Edgley, which is a name you should remember.
One of the many things I love about these series is that since John Chrichton ended up in this part of the galaxy by mistake, he keeps giving references to "Real Life". Namely, when John is having a bit of difficulty accepting the fact that he will be frozen as a statue for 80 years, one of his many complaint is that when he returns, Buffy The Vampire Slayer will be dead.
So Frell all the other series, get your Dren together and spend an Ahn on one of these episodes. I can assure you, Sci/Fi as you know it, will change forever.
This series has it all. It's sexy. It's actionpacked. It's hillarious. It's Farscape
U.S. Seals II (2001)
Utter crap.
When I decided to see this movie, I was under the impression that it was an action movie. After about 5 minutes I was convinced that this had to be a comedy. Stupid one-liners like "We're warriors, we can't be held to the normal standard", or "No regret, only honor" made me certain that it was. I could not believe that anyone would make a movie like this, without it being a comedy. I first thought it was a good comedy, very subtle and not too slapstick.
Then it started dawning on me. It wasn't actually funny, just stupid. I checked back to imdb.com to see, and it being listed as an action movie, and not a comedy, was probably the funniest thing about it.
From the ludicrous (Adj. "Laughable or hilarious because of obvious absurdity or incongruity.") camera-angles to the boring and unoriginal plot, over to the choreography that has to had been done by a couple of monkeys, this movie was sheer torture to watch, and I feel that my time on this earth is valuable, and not worth wasting on filth like this.
It is a waste of time and money, unless you feel like watching a good example of how NOT to make a movie.
After watching movies like Hard Boiled, The Killer, Saving Private Ryan, and the mini-series called Band of Brothers, you would think that the standards of action-scenes had been raised, above this stereotypical nonsense which is closer to the early 80s low-budget era.
Finally, I just have to mention this; what was with all those swoosh-sounds? A guy raises an arm and you hear a swoosh-sound, like a big log has been swung past your ear. What the heck?! Same thing when a guy gets into a car, or someone turns around. Stupid stupid stupid.
I could probably point out dozens of examples of how this movie is both unbelievably unrealistic and stupid, but quite frankly, I think I've wasted enough time on this crap.
Farscape Undressed (2001)
Spoiler Alert!
This is indeed a great introduction to the series.
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This documentary is obviously intended for those that are not yet familiar with the Farscape-series. Me, a faithful viewer, thought it was more interesting to see the interaction between Claudia Black and Ben Browder, than to see the clips from the series, although it was weird to see them out of character.
The thing that struck me the most about this documentary was the fact that they, again and again, talk about their characters (Aerun Sun and John Chrichton), in the 3rd person. This is obviously because anything else would be misleading, but still, the continous talk about "her" and "my character" makes me think they are saying it because some people might start to think that they are actually real. Ok, fair enough. There are a few people out there that might be crazy enough to think this, but for everyone else, I think that they will be a bit put off, when they have to face the fact that these are just actors.
Great actors! Brilliant! But there's a certain charm in the make-believe of this series. When they continiously state, and not very discreetly either, that they are just actors and nothing is real, it kinda takes the air out of the feelings behind the series. When people are in trouble you think, oh well, they are just actors, who cares. But anyway, thats just my view.