The Day The Earth Stood Still

An unnecessary remake

An alien race has decided to prevent the earth from dying by wiping out the human race. The alien Klaatu is sent to deliver the message to them before their end but when he meets Dr. Helen Benson he starts understanding the other, not destroying, side of the earthlings.

One should think there could be not so much wrong with a well animated movie that even has Keanu Reeves in it but after seeing this remake of the 50's classic that had such a better story, you see there can be much wrong.

The movie is just boring. There is the climatic topic of "The day after tomorrow" missing that let you stunned. There is the action from "War of the worlds" missing and after all it seems like a movie you've already seen somewhen. Not my cup of tea!


The Day The Earth stood still - released December 2008

Primeval

Season 3

Primeval is back on screen for the third time. Series number three had a not so great trailer released a while ago, now for the fourth episode already it is back on TV.

Hm, I started up watching it "back in the days" as a huge fan. I mean, great characters, nice storyboard, you can overlook the strangely bad animations of the creatures themselves. You can do that one season, you can do it two seasons but then the third seasons starts up with a supercroc walking on two legs. To fit into ancient egyptian mythology.

Yes, I like supercrocs, I also like egyptian mythology. What I not so much like is when screenwriters can't come up with new ideas anymore and therefore set the whole storyline into a mystery context. First episode, okay Sina, give them a chance.

The second episode came up with ... this ... and what the hell that is describes the website of ITV: "The Camouflage Beast is a visitor from the future. It appears to be a form of primate and shares many characteristics with the Madagascan aye aye: a creature so strange looking that native mythology believes it to be a symbol of death." Is that so? Aha ...

No, ITV, you can not make that up with big carnivore dinosaurs in episode four and it even overshades my love for the characters a bit. Please. Stop. This. The story became a mess. Don't stop the series, get it back on a straight path! Pleeeeeaaaaase!

Primeval Season 3 - on TV since April 2009

Fringe

"We should do some new mystery series!"


That's how it all must have been started. Someone stepped up and said "Mystery is big! And science is, too! Let's mix it up and ... when we are already on that, I don't like these simple location descriptions shown at the side of the screen. We need to come up with something new for that!". "Fringe" was created. A mix of conspiracy, pharmaceutical companies, bio terrorism, mysterious phenomenons and of course the FBI and a lost love - what a series. In a negative way.

Agent Dunham (Anna Torv) creates a new team to solve strange happenings, getting herself a modern day Dr. Frankenstein and ... his son? ... and a few other FBI MDs and tries to find solutions for all the strange cases that come her way since her partner died in an other case where he had turned out to be the terrorist, not the victim.

Sounds illogical and messed up? Yes it is! And also it's very boring set up. The acting is some normal TV series thing and the only good thing is Peter Outerbridge in the first episode. I love Peter Outerbridge.

Oh and back to the location descriptions. Have you ever seen giant letters floating in the air in front of buildings showing you where you are? You will - in this series. When a line at the side of the screen isn't enough you gotta stretch the description to the whole scene and make it 3D. Very ... clever ... guys ...

Fringe - On TV since 2008

David Duchovny

A portrait of strange success

Nowadays everyone knows David Duchovny. Even people who don't really watch movies know him from „Californication“ the TV series around Hank Moody that went to be a total success all around the globe and everyone who grew up in the 90s would never get Agent Mulder from „The X-files“ out of his mind. David Duchovny has a safe place in the hall of fame of TV stars but he also made it through in Hollywood. Who is that charismatic guy that a famous celeb website even called an „uber-sex god“ - for the record, we find that a bit exaggerated.

David Duchovny was born in Manhattan August 7^th 1960 into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and Yale later, worked on a Master's degree in English literature. Young Duchovny was no fool so to speak but some when the interest in acting took over and he dropped the whole thing to ... have you ever heard of the „Red shoe diaries“ series?

„Red shoe diaries“ was a TV erotic series that started up in 1992. David Duchovny was on board there from the first part released to the 18^th in 2002. Now if that would not be a start to a serious acting career. He had caught a few small roles from 1988 to 1991 already but what really made him famous were the three episodes of „Twin peaks“ he starred in 1991.

From that he headed over directly to his role of a lifetime, our all time favorite, Mr Everybody-loves-him, Agent Fox Mulder. At total of 176 episodes, 4 movies and lots of video games and specials were released basing on „Spooky

Mulder“ and Dana Scully hunting for mysterious phenomenons at „The X-files“. A whole generation growing up with the series agreed later that 9 seasons were really enough for the latest movie from 2008 was kinda … boring.

But as mentioned from the start Duchovny also got famous with movies. For example there was “Evolution”, the sci-fi comedy from 2001 with Duchovny in a lead role. He was in “Zoolander” with Ben Stiller in 2001 and a handful of other movies in the last years.

But David Duchovny also successfully tried himself as a writer. He wrote 8 episodes of The X-Files and in 2004 the wonderful movie “House of D” .

“Californication” in 2007/2008 brought him back as a teeny idol and sex symbol and it seems he always grabs the right roles to make it up to the top again and again. This guy had a strange but kind of straight career and for that David Duchovny is one of our highly recommended actors!

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Stay exited for many reviews on David Duchovny's well- and unknown movies, coming the next days!

David Duchovny movie reviews yet available on JebbyMovies:

-> Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's dead (1991)
-> Californication Season 1 (2007)
-> House of D (2004)
-> Full Frontal (2002)

Regenesis - The future today

Well well, to cut a long story short: "Regenesis" is first of all the first TV series on the subject of future technology and chemistry, microbiology and genetics.

Second "Regenesis" also used the latest online medias to create a story far above the series story. Everyone who watched the series from the first episode on could change the online game to get behind the secrets of the series. Some facts are left open and the tv-creators for that purpose created the whole company virtual and you can track down clues all through the internet to solve the mysteries behind the secrets of the employees. There is a story created that mixes up with the real science field so you can be an active part of the series story.

Now for the story: The scientists at the "NorBAC" laboratories handle the most agressive viruses and epedemics, genetic questions and micro-dangers from all across Canada and the USA. They gotta deal with the really smallest problems in the most extensive dimensions. They even dig out the Spanish flu from 1918 to find a final cure and also handle HIV and lepra. To cut it short they are the specialists in any case of dangerous bacteries and cellmutations.

In their first cases they for example gotta find the reason why people all across the country die when they all had contact and why the carrier who spreads the disease all along the way doesnt die, too. It turns out that a baby and his mother were infected on purpose and are resistent against the virus they carry while everyone around dies within hours. While they still try to get rid of the virus a boy comes out of nowhere and tells Dr. David Sandström (Peter Outerbridge) he was a clone born in 1990 when cloning of animals didnt even work stable.

Every character in the series has its own problems and secrets and that is what keeps the thing alive. Basically it also helps when you dont have a clue about genetics and microbiology (like me) because the content of the series is then quiet new to you and you will say out loud from time to time (like me) "Oh wow, that kinda stuff is possible?". Its not like for example Dr.House where you cant really follow the ways the crew thinks anyway and just take the diseases as facts. Here you get to know the way everything works in detail and that kinda scares you after a while.

Great series, go watch it!