GKarsEye
Regular
Rather than hit you with another set of opinions, I thought it would be amusing to describe the actual watching of the movie.
Background:
The mighty GKarsEye spent Saturday evening in his Boston apartment-house with his roommate, Adam, and a couple of people coming and going. The snow was falling outside, and I had come back from an unproductive self-imposed half-day at work. The Rangers was recorded on Tivo while we watched both football games, finishing off with a stirring victory by the Patriots.
By the time we were all set to watch the movie, we were both elated by the sports and buzzed by the Sam Adams and Pete's Wicked Ale.
Adam knows little of B5, whereas I am, of course, a hardcore fan. We were both the primary target audience for this movie.
With Sam Adams in hand, pizza boxes littering the floor, and lights down, the credits roll up on the Rangers movie. Adam remarks, "Now don't cream yourself because it's Babylon 5."
After the first couple of times they said, "We live for the one, we die for the one," Adam asks, "Are they going to say this a lot?" I told him that they probably would. Naturally, this turned into a drinking game. Everytime they live for the one, I get a little drunker. At one point in the movie, one dude is dying and just gets out, "We live for the one..." I declared that this meritted a half-drink. Do you agree, or would you say that it doesn't count at all? I invite you all to play next time you watch.
When Sarah Cantrell jumps into the VR weapons thingy, Adam exclaims, "What the f*** is this, Japanimation?" After going on in typical male fashion about the, ahem, merits of Sarah, this was just too funny. I'm sorry, folks, but this was corny. I dig Miriam Sirois and the character she plays, but watching her flail her limbs about in space awkwardly as if she were suffering from heroin withdrawal had me in hysterics.
I got excited to see G'Kar, and he was cool. The whole "kiss-kiss" line really bothered both of us, though. Again, corny.
Watching Firell made me smile, because the character is so demure, yet we here know she's quite a different gal.
Something that I haven't seen praised yet, though god knows I can't make my way through all of these threads, is the non-spaceship combat. Specifically Martel vs the Minbari and Martel vs Kafta. Both fights looked realistic enough, but still interesting to watch. I was extremely impressed. I am curious- was that Dylan Neal doing all of that stuff, or was it a stunt-double?
By the end, both of us had basically the same opinions. We liked the characters and the story, which is the most important thing. Dulann, in particular was excellent. The captain was possibly the best captain in the first episode of a sci-fi series I've ever seen, second to Picard. Adam didn't like much of the humor, but I think he missed some of the more subtle things, like G'Kar peeking under the robes. He also hated the Swedish meatball line, but he didn't know the reference. However, I've said before that JMS' biggest weakness is humor. It fails as often as it works, and that was true in this movie.
We would both watch Rangers if it comes out as a series.
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"You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it."
Background:
The mighty GKarsEye spent Saturday evening in his Boston apartment-house with his roommate, Adam, and a couple of people coming and going. The snow was falling outside, and I had come back from an unproductive self-imposed half-day at work. The Rangers was recorded on Tivo while we watched both football games, finishing off with a stirring victory by the Patriots.
By the time we were all set to watch the movie, we were both elated by the sports and buzzed by the Sam Adams and Pete's Wicked Ale.
Adam knows little of B5, whereas I am, of course, a hardcore fan. We were both the primary target audience for this movie.
With Sam Adams in hand, pizza boxes littering the floor, and lights down, the credits roll up on the Rangers movie. Adam remarks, "Now don't cream yourself because it's Babylon 5."
After the first couple of times they said, "We live for the one, we die for the one," Adam asks, "Are they going to say this a lot?" I told him that they probably would. Naturally, this turned into a drinking game. Everytime they live for the one, I get a little drunker. At one point in the movie, one dude is dying and just gets out, "We live for the one..." I declared that this meritted a half-drink. Do you agree, or would you say that it doesn't count at all? I invite you all to play next time you watch.
When Sarah Cantrell jumps into the VR weapons thingy, Adam exclaims, "What the f*** is this, Japanimation?" After going on in typical male fashion about the, ahem, merits of Sarah, this was just too funny. I'm sorry, folks, but this was corny. I dig Miriam Sirois and the character she plays, but watching her flail her limbs about in space awkwardly as if she were suffering from heroin withdrawal had me in hysterics.
I got excited to see G'Kar, and he was cool. The whole "kiss-kiss" line really bothered both of us, though. Again, corny.
Watching Firell made me smile, because the character is so demure, yet we here know she's quite a different gal.
Something that I haven't seen praised yet, though god knows I can't make my way through all of these threads, is the non-spaceship combat. Specifically Martel vs the Minbari and Martel vs Kafta. Both fights looked realistic enough, but still interesting to watch. I was extremely impressed. I am curious- was that Dylan Neal doing all of that stuff, or was it a stunt-double?
By the end, both of us had basically the same opinions. We liked the characters and the story, which is the most important thing. Dulann, in particular was excellent. The captain was possibly the best captain in the first episode of a sci-fi series I've ever seen, second to Picard. Adam didn't like much of the humor, but I think he missed some of the more subtle things, like G'Kar peeking under the robes. He also hated the Swedish meatball line, but he didn't know the reference. However, I've said before that JMS' biggest weakness is humor. It fails as often as it works, and that was true in this movie.
We would both watch Rangers if it comes out as a series.
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"You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it."
