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Thursday 21 August 2008
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Monday 11 August 2008
'Mythbusters' Blows Up -- Literally
Steaks, ninjas and moon landings highlight the latest episodes of Discovery Channel hit "Mythbusters," which starts a run of new episodes tonight (9 ET/PT).
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Eclectic topics, to be sure. But that's precisely what's made science-based "Mythbusters" enduring and endearing to viewers. With an appeal that spreads far beyond laboratory geeks and pre-teens who enjoy watching poppycock being winded up, "Mythbusters" was Discovery's top-performing series during the first quarter of 2008 and has been among its to the highest degree popular shows since 2005.
The first of 11 new episodes aims at boeuf lovers as hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage do what they do best � use pyrotechny and explosives, this sentence to determine their suitableness as steak tenderizers.
Separately, the show's "build team" of Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci comport an every bit thorough series of experiments in an abandoned suburban subdivision to determine what kind of driver gets better gas mileage: stressed-out or relaxed?
Hyneman and Savage � special-effects experts with top Hollywood pedigrees � have been using science to harbour TV audiences since 2003, determining the validity of more than 300 urban legends, myths, folklore, sayings and oddities. Can you actually tear fish in a gun barrel? (The impact wave from the heater kills the fish.) Use chili peppers to revolt sharks? (Nope.) Find a needle in a haystack? (Possibly.)
"The register is entertainment, but the science part is intended to be thought-provoking," says Hyneman, noting a doozy of an episode Aug. 27 examining the opening that the government arranged the moon landings of 1969 and the early 1970s.
Frequently, the pair will conduct thorough experiments to prove � or confute � a point. Tonight's meat-tenderizing procedures include military explosives, laundry dryers, 40-foot-long air cannons and testing devices similar to the government's.
Yet voice of what makes "Mythbusters" a success is the interaction of the subdued Hyneman with the more playful, excitable Savage, a former child actor. The pair's popularity has earned appearances on talk shows and cameos, including CBS hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Steel Trap - movie review
If companies can still get sued for false advertising, I have a case against Dimension
Extreme. Steel Trap is anything but what Dimension makes it out to be. The DVD cover
art shows a woman inside a steel trap and the tagline reads, "surviving each floor
is the name of the game." One can only conclude that the film involves victims escaping
steel traps. Right?
Wrong. If Steel Trap was actually about surviving different floors of horrific traps
and surprises, it might have made for a decent Saturday night guilty pleasure. There
are no steel traps, though. Not one.
The movie begins with promise but quickly becomes a run-of-the-mill, below-average
serial killer flick. The victims are guests at an extravagant party at the top of
an abandoned building. A short while into the party, five of them receive text message
invites to a private gathering being held a few floors down.
Once the guests (and two uninvited crashers) arrive, they discover a well-decorated
room with name tags waiting for each of them. The tags read: Pig, Loser, Two-Faced,
Loverboy, and Heartless. The invited guests have been tricked. (Didn't see that coming,
did ya!?) A psychopath has locked them inside the abandoned floors, and their name
tags hint at the methods he will use to kill them.
Imagine a golfer with perfect form, but who stops swinging as soon as he makes contact
with the ball. It would be a disaster; spectators would laugh. And audiences wil
l laugh at Steel Trap. It has potential, but doesn't know what to do with it. Screenwriters
Garbrielle Galanter and Luis C�mara (who also directs) have good ideas, but they don't
follow through. Instead of expanding upon the lines the film draws for itself during
the first act, it scribbles off the page with the penmanship of a Kindergartener.
As soon as the first guest meets his demise, the plot loses all of its momentum and becomes
a frail clothesline for unmemorable slasher sequences.
Aside from the lack of steel traps, the film's other plot points disappoint, as well.
The guests do ascend and decend floors as the tagline suggests, but there are no
surprises or even traps in store, only a masked killer who chases them while they
scamper around like decapitated chickens. The nametag gimmick isn't developed thoroughly,
nor is it taken far enough. There just isn't much that makes Steel Trap worth a gander.
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