and Kevin Costner*
Well, I guess someone out there has to like him.
Moontrap, 1989
Walter Koenig (Star Trek) with his puppydog eyes and Bruce Campbell
(Evil Dead) with his boastful frivolity team up for a likeable spacepatrolling
duo who finds a 14 thousand year old astronaut corpse and a football like
gizmo, floating somewhere close to the moon. impeccable space adventure.
Sounds engaging.
I was never much for 80’s scifi movies unless it started with Star and usually ended with Trek or Wars. The Aliens movies were a blast too.
I was fully aware of this too, however I fail to see how it inspired Half Life as nothing in the trailer hinted at any type of connection Valve made to the book. Perhaps I should watch the movie or read the book…
It’s about scientists that open a portal to another dimension letting monsters/aliens in. So it’s at least connected to the Resonance Cascade. That’s really where the similarities end.
And even then the events of the movie/ book happen after the fact and from a completely different POV.
Saw Chronicle. Liked it a lot.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. What a boring movie. I understand the style they were trying to capture with all the CG - unfortunately it caused everyone to turn in completely lifeless performances. And since the story wasn’t great and the visuals weren’t great either, you’re not really left with anything to engage your mind, and you just sit there waiting for it to be over. At least in other CG-heavy movies there was cool stuff to look at. This just felt like everything that was wrong with Peter Jackson’s King Kong multiplied times 10. Blecch.
Watched the first Evil Dead again with a couple of friends. Still funny as shit
Another great film that reminds of Half Life is ‘From Beyond’. It’s about an experiment in a basement that goes awry and odd interdimensional creatures invade.
My favorite Half-Life movie is The Arrival. It’s about a government coverup–wait, no, an alien conspiracy (!) around the time our glasses-wearing, goatee-laden, short-haired research-scientist protagonist finds out about it (and inevitably sneaks through their hive).
Based on a story by HP Lovecraft. I haven’t seen the movie but the story’s rather short. Not quite sure how you can turn it into a movie. Here’s a link to it: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_Beyond
I saw Act of Valor just a few days ago. Acting was mediocre and beginning was pretty slow but once they got into the action I liked it a lot. Lots of shots of people getting shot in the head 
. Ending was pretty cliché as well.
Also awesome, Charlie Sheen looks like Gordon Freeman in that movie 
I liked the Arrival quite a bit. When I was a kid i thought it WAS a half-life movie
Being John Malkovich is quite possibly the best movie I’ve ever seen.
Last night I watched China Coffee.
It’s a film which has Al Pacino and some other guy in an apartment room together shouting.
That’s right, it’s a film which consists entirely of Al Pacino shouting and nothing more.
It was alright, although my girlfriend enjoyed it far more than I did.
I looked up the trailer on YouTube and it looks pretty cool. From Beyond; not so much, though Jeffrey Combs is always a hoot.
Man, I hadn’t realized how much stuff I missed from the 90’s, and I grew up in the 90’s!
Seven was playing when I got home so I watched the ~2 hours that was left of that. Still one of my favorite movie endings. It was even better because I had forgotten how exactly it played out, though I knew in general what happened. It’s just perfect.
The movie I saw last was The Book Of Eli
awesome move 5/5
I watched The Mist, and I suppose it wasn’t bad. The ENDING however kind of irritated me. It’s the type of thing where I’d recommend the movie, but say something like: [black text] [COLOR=‘Black’]watch up until you see them run out of gas, then turn the movie off and imagine that they get out and walk.
I suppose the psychological idea of putting yourself in the characters shoes is alright, but as a movie ending, fuck you.
I also saw Tower Heist the other day. I’m not too sure how I feel about it, however.