Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet you didn’t know that was an actual subgenre) Warning, language Read more…
. . .and provides an example of a point I was making over ten years ago. You may or may not have visited my home page, which predates this blog by about a dozen years or so, if you have, buried in the writing portion are a couple of essays Read more…
What do you get when you cross muppets with Quentin Tarantino? My favorite parts? Bunsen Honeydew, and the Fraggle Rock characters in the background.
For Star Trek fans who thought James T. should have gone out in more of a blaze of glory… Got this from a thread on The Agony Booth.
According to Ridley Scott, SF Cinema is as dead as the Western, and also thinks all SF nowadays is derivative of 2001:A Space Odyssey. Nothing original is being done. . . Say what? Look, I know I’m an iconoclast when I say that 2001:A Space Odyssey is not the best Read more…
Ok, I know when the premise of your movie is flying a bomb the size of Manhattan into a dying sun you have something on your agenda other than scientific and logical plausibility. However, a film that’s largely a homage to 2001:A Space Odyssey should at least give the impression Read more…
For anyone who believed that Hollywood is any more interested in free expression of ideas than, say, Microsoft, I want to point out a little story that will probably get a lot less airtime than Angelina Jolie’s attempt to ban Fox News from the premiere of a film about the Read more…
Inspired by the (somewhat lame) list of 100 best movie quotes from Premiere (were they even trying?) that I found via a thread on the Agony Booth‘s forums, and in the spirit of my prior top ten list, I decided to compile a top-ten of SF movie quotes. 1. Take Read more…
Short comparison of my top ten list vs. top ten SF movie rankings on IMDB (as of 2/7/07): Common Films:Star Wars, Metropolis, Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner On the IMDB list, not mine:Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Incredibles. On my list, not IMDB:The Day the Earth Read more…