Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "Here Comes the Boom", etc.

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies:

"Here Comes the Boom"  (2012?)  ON cable and DVD

Characters/Actors:  Scott Voss (Kevin James), Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek, etc.

        A slacker and high school biology teacher named Scott Voss (Kevin James) inspires his students when he gets involved in the potentially dangerous world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting to raise enough money to save the music program at his school and the job of his mentor (Henry Winkler) following deep budget cuts at the school. At first Voss loses all of his fights, but after a while he becomes a contendor.  I enjoyed this film even though it wasn't very funny. (It is supposed to be a comedy and James is a comedian. )

"The World's End" (2013)  Characters/Actors:  Simon "Shawn of the Dead"  Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan, etc.

       Gary (Simon Pegg) is a middle-aged drunk who never really grew up. He persuades three reluctant former teenage friends to accompany him on a massive pub crawl to all the pubs in Newton Hill, England where two decades ago they failed to finish up their quest to make it all the way to the  World's End pub.  One member of their party gave up drinking.  Along the way, they inadvertently discover that most of the townfolk have been replaced with malevolent automatons who may intend to take over or destroy the world.  An homage to drunken road trips and dystopian sc-fi films.  If not for the sci-fi element, this movie would have sucked.


"Riddick"  Vin Diesel (Riddick), Katie "Battlestar Galactica"  Sakhoff, etc. A murderer trapped on a hostile planet with hundreds of lethal, dangerous animals is under more peril when bounty hunters arrive. Some of the bounty hunters want to behead of kill him.  The animals on this planet were really cool to watch. VEry similar to  "Alien".