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Natural City – (2003 movie)

2016-05-18

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TODO – Oh god my DVD looks awful. I’m spoiled by Blu-Ray.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/

I’m not really sure what’s going on with this movie. Something about cyborgs and a guy who is in love with one that he’s trying to “resurrect”.

It’s an interesting watch, but probably only because it’s Korean. I don’t get to see a lot of foreign science fiction movies outside of the glut of Japanese anime. I sort of like it, but I tend to get confused in a couple of places. It’ll be recommended, but only to those of a similar mind to me.

Very good subtitles; very few were awkward for me.

Korean: 내츄럴 시티
See also Blade Runner – (1982 movie)

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The Boondock Saints – (1999 movie)

2016-05-17

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/
was boondocksaints.com

Tired of lax justice, two brothers become particularly effective vigilantes against the criminal element in their greater area.

I don’t know what to say about this movie. It’s fantastic. Good characters, a good story and with a good flow to it.

TODO – A two-part comic book story, serving as a companion to the movie sequel, was released in May 2010.

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Riddick – (2013 movie)

2016-05-16

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/
https://www.riddick-movie.com/

Surviving an assassination attempt but stranded on a hostile world, the eponymous anti-hero finds himself hunted for his bounty.

Decent, but I’d only recommend this for fans of the whole series. On it’s own, it’s not a particularly interesting movie.

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Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999-2000) dvd

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
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A military unit is sent on missions in a future where all of humanity is at war with alien insects.

The show is animated, and not “anime”. As such, it has not held up well with time. The music is fantastic, though. Truly. However, its other high points do not make up for the visual issue I have.

While it doesn’t do it for me, I would recommend this for fans of the movie or movie series who can also handle the visual style and jerky movement that to me is reminiscent of ReBoot – (1994 show).

Properly titled Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
Ran from 1999-08-30 to 2000-04-03
Based on Starship Troopers – (1959 book), by Robert A. Heinlein
Based the movie Starship Troopers – (1997 movie), and is definitely not a sequel to it.

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Starship Troopers 3 – Marauder – (2008 movie)

2016-05-16

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844760/

The war with the bugs rages on, with humanity starting to lose, but something about god and wining and things.

This started off as a great or at lease decent tv-movie, but its “wrap up” took enough of a nosedive to spoil it. It has a much higher budget and is generally better than part two, but.. that ending, man. That ending. This is still worth a once-watch for fans of the original.

Properly titled Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

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VLC alternate audio track from a separate file

2016-05-15

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Problem: Given a main video file, with or without multiple audio tracks, play the video with an audio track provided as a separate file.

I googled for an answer, and found How to play a video with a different audio track?, whose accepted answer gave me a hint. Thanks! (I should have probably searched VLC’s community or superuser directly, but I didn’t think about that.) Since VLC was pretty difficult for me to use for this, I made a tutorial. Maybe it will help others.

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Starship Troopers 2 – Hero of the Federation – (2004 movie)

2016-05-15

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367093/

Soldiers flee an unwinnable battle, but find themselves trapped in a bunker surrounded by an enemy desperate to get in.

Recommended for fans of the original who can tolerate less character development, story and budget. It’s definitely not bad.

Properly titled Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

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Starship Troopers – (1997 movie)

2016-05-15

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/

Aliens are sending spores to colonize Earth, but when humans send a retaliatory force to their homeworld they learn the bugs are a far more dangerous foe than anticipated.

It’s a largely flawless movie. Amazing fun for what it is, which is the sort of military movie where only one soldier runs out of ammo once in the entire movie.