Redeye

This is a very strange movie, as you watch the protagonist and antagonist do probably the most logical and sensible things in the situations that arise. As a result some may complain that the ending was anticlimatic, but I would argue that the entire movie was satisfying simply because almost every movie before this one created tension through really contrived means that any normal person could resolve with a few words or a phone call.

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Constantine

Heaven won't take him. Hell doesn't want him. Or something like that. The convoluted details of a plot that isn't entirely explained are not important. The direction, editing and special effects all deserve praise here. Keanu Reeves, playing perhaps the hard-edged, depressed version of Mr. Anderson, pulls off an uninspired, but good performance.

A very interesting world, nonetheless, and heck, if it inspires me to read the comic, it must be worth watching indeed.

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Featured Show: Invader Zim

You dare read about Invader ZIM!? You do not have the brainworms to know such madness. MADNESS! A worm-baby could BARELY understand the awesome might of ZIM.

Sometimes uneven, but absolutely hillarious when it is on, ZIM is sure to be successful in bringing DOOM to the planet Earth. Originally on Nickelodeon, this show is full of obscure humour and PRECIOUS GOO. The character GIR is almost never short of hilarity. The over-the-top music will DESTROY you.

Watch it. WATCH IT!!

Pitiful human swayed by my words. Why am I so AMAZING?!!

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Alias S4: 03 The Awful Truth

This episode shows that they really are going back to the old formula. I mean, I wasn't even sure what their overarching purpose was this episode. They had to infiltrate something, stop something, save the world maybe? I'm not too sure.

The episode was entertaining though. I really like the ridiculousness of the opening theme (showing just how many costumes they dress Jennifer Garner in). They have pretty much dropped all but one main continuity of storyline. So it's gone from being overcomplicating fluff to now straightforward fluff. But at least it's fun fluff.

Also, the birthday scene early on in the episode was exactly what was missing from the show for so long. It's too much to show them all in spy-mode all the time. Show them interact and be friends, let us get to know who they still are. Prove to me that I haven't lost touch with the characters.

Maybe if they get a few more storylines going, and add a few more character moments, this season may actually get on track.

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Alias S4: 01-02 Authorized Personnel Only

The season opener for Alias. I'm uncertain of where this show is going. Definitely they are trying to go back to basics, and the show is almost exactly where it was at the beginning of the series. Irina Derevko's end of storyline was disappointing, and very little has weight for me in the show. I used to really care about the characters and what happened to them. This is the only time that I have ever felt so much for the characters of a show, only to grow bored of them later. I watched a re-run of a Buffy episode today, just a filler episode, and I had far more emotional response from that unremarkable episode than from the season premiere of Alias. I will stick with this show, but I miss the first seasons of Alias, where they motivated the character interactions, especially with her friends like Will Tippin. Now it's just a series of action and plot with very little character.

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