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WE’VE BEEN SIFTING through the movie options available to watch on TV and streaming services over the week.
Transcendence
When a leading computer scientist is killed, his colleagues upload his mind into a computer system. He sets out trying to change the world for the better, but the consequences of their actions could signal the end of the human race.
The Snowman
An elite crime squad’s lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter and begins to fear an elusive serial killer may be active again. The team must connect decades-old cold cases to the latest murder if they hope to outwit this evil before the next snowfall.
Oxygen
Liz wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive.
Jungle Beat: The Movie
When a lost and lonely alien crash-lands on Earth, his new crew of talking animal friends helps him get back home — and try to save the world.
World Ward Z
When the world is hit by a zombie pandemic a UN investigator is sent to uncover where this virus came from and to find a cure before the entire population is infected.
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Transcendence and The Snowman are absolute muck. The Snowman in particular is clearly unfinished and has enormous holes in the plot where scenes weren’t filmed to complete it.
@Mark Brown: I thought ‘The Snowman’ was really good …. Very creepy ….
If you have not read Max Brooks fantastic “World War Z” then you should because it will show how bad an adaptation that heap is.
@Richard Cronin: Apparently there were a load of rewrites, and the original scrip was based off brooks book. If you get a chance read his other one “how to survive the zombie apocalypse” really good too!
@The Kev in Kevlar: J. Michael Straczynski (the genius behind Babylon 5) wrote the original screenplay, then they just threw it away because there was a delay till filming started. That it just goes to show how much of a feck up that film is, I’ve read the survival guide, I especially liked the comic version “recorded attacks” but I have to say I could not get into his latest book “devolution”.
@Richard Cronin: I actually quite liked world war z
@Seán O’Conchubhair: Me too. Listened to the audio book, stuck with it to the end but it bored me to tears.
@Tommy the postman: I guess there was no need for comments , it just goes without saying “s*um bags”
Jungle Beat it is so……
The Snowman….is an absolute mess….awful
I’d watch the snowman again, good film
Is fassbender in the snowman? I thought it was good.
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