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Stargate: The Ark Of Truth

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The first of two straight to DVD Stargate movies was released a few days ago. Stargate: The Ark of Truth brings an end to the Ori story arc that began during season nine.

To be honest, I had forgotten most of what had happened during season nine and ten. Heck, it’s been a year now since season ten ended with a whimper. I highly recommend that if you pick up this movie that you first watch the prologue contained on the DVD. It recaps the last few seasons (previously on Stargate: SG-1…) and it’s only a couple of minutes long.

Yes, it really does wrap up the story, and you’ll find out if the ascended being killing device did the job. You’ll also be introduced to a few new faces, and of course get to see several old faces, including an encounter with an unexpected enemy. I really want to elaborate more, but I won’t.

The movie is about an hour and a half long, so it doesn’t feel like it’s much more than a normal episode. Though it’s pretty obvious the production quality went up a bit.

In all, it was really nice seeing Ben, Amanda, Christopher, Michael, and Claudia together again. Too bad there wasn’t any RDA action, I really miss his character. Oh, and Amanda is the Carter we all love in this movie, not the dud that she’s ended up being on Atlantis. I cannot wait for the next movie due out later this year.

Saw IV

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If you can get past the extreme gore, the Saw movies so far have been fantastic. For those of you that cannot get past the gore, we’ll then you’ll end up missing the entire movie.

As with the other movies in the series, Saw IV picks back up right where the others left off, and continues to fill in the pieces of the puzzle (no pun intended). Saw IV brings in a few new faces, in addition to several that we’ve seen before. Tobin Bell reprises his role has Jigsaw, and he’s created some new traps for everyone to play with.

Bottom line is the Saw movies aren’t for everyone, but if you’ve enjoyed the others than you’ll like this one. I did.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

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Yesterday I took the wife out to see The Spiderwick Chronicles. While she enjoyed it, I felt the movie was pretty flat and boring. Granted, it was intended as a kids movie, and it did have some fairly nice special effects, but overall it felt rushed and like it was missing something.

Actually, for those of you that have read the books, this movie was actually missing quite a bit. It might have been better if they had split everything up into two movies. The movie could have also used a bit more Nick Nolte.