Nathan Fillion – Castle season 4

Nathan Fillion – interview with Michael Ausiello from TV Line about Castle season 4.  So funny – watch it till the end for the staring contest.

Summing up Sci-Fi Movie Project

I had fun watching all these science fiction movies but my recording of the experience was a mess.  I enjoyed it but it wasn’t as satisfying as the mystery movie experience or really the horror movie project which I didn’t record at all.  Which is just as well, a lot of famous horror movie haven’t aged well.

• Space Travel 5
• Dystopia/Postapocalypse  4
• Robots 1
• Mad Scientists/Experiments 6
• Time Travel 3
• Adventure 3
• Psi powers 2
• Aliens 7
• Virtual Reality 2

Would Watch Again:  Star Trek, Children of Men

Most disappointed: Primer, The Thing

1. 1902 Trip to the Moon C
2. 1924 Aelita: The  Queen of Mars C
3. 1933 Invisible Man B
4. 1936 Buck Rogers C
5. 1942 Dr. Renault’s Secret C
6. 1951 Thing from Another World B
7. 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers A
8. 1957 Monolith Monsters B
9. 1958 I Married a Monster from Outer Space C
10. 1964 Last Man on Earth B
11. 1970 THX 1138 C
12. 1972 Solaris A
13. 1975 A Boy and His Dog A
14. 1982 The Thing B
15. 1983 Videodrome B
16. 2002 Minority Report B
17. 2004 Primer D
18. 2006 Children of Men A
19. 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth C
20. 2009 Push C
21. 2009 Star Trek A
22. 2009 Surrogates B

 

Joss Whedon panel Comic-Con 2011

Look, you all know I want you to suffer; it’s like a drug.

I lo♥e Joss.

Surrogates (2009)

Cover of Surrogates

Human perfection. What could go wrong?

In a world in which everyone has an android avatar, one man seeks out the truth in his own skin.

Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is an FBI agent investigating the murder of a young man in a case that includes many players and possibly a conspiracy.  He’s also ticked off that his wife is hiding behind her surrogate and partying rather than sharing his grieving for their deceased son.

It starts off really well with the son of the inventor of the surrogates being murdered in a mysterious manner.  It’s mysterious as the human interfacing with the surrogates is not supposed to die even if their surrogate has been killed.  I like the idea of changing one important aspect of society and then examining how that changes the whole of society.  Failing that, I like a mystery.

This movie turned out to be an action movie with some tut-tutting about people using computer mediated communication rather than talking to each other in real life.

It’s an OK action movie.  As a science fiction movie, it’s pretty lackluster.

Reviews

Roger Ebert’s review

ReelViews’ review

Salon.com’s review

Fletch’s review

One more review

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1st Derby City Con

I went to the Derby City con in Louisville, KY on Saturday with my sib and his wife and we met up with a few friends.

It was the first one ever.  We got there about 11:30AM and we got the orange wrist bracelets and the last two swag bags that they had.  An hour and a half later, our friends just got a sharpie x-mark.  Apparently, they only had 2,000 bracelets available, so I call that well attended.

What we all regretted were missing the panels – not that I wanted to know how to make comics but I love the conversations between the creators and the audience.  Maybe next year they will have more of them.

Because kids got in free, there were lots of kids with their parents and I liked the small game kiosk and coloring stations that they had set up for kids.

Costumes: we saw a Leia, X-men Rogue (the green & yellow outfit), Captain America, Sailor Moon, video game characters that we couldn’t identify, and a Wonder Woman.  There were lots of adorable tykes in Spider-Man and Super Girl costumes.

The vendors mostly sold comics but there were a few tables with figures and other merchandise. The best tables as always were the artist galley.  Tony Moore from Walking Dead was there – his table was pretty crowded but I had neither read the books nor watched the show – I didn’t stick around.

We talked to several creators but the only one I bought from was Len N. Wallace.  His Love Buzz caught my eye.  The artwork was good and it was a published by Oni so I bought it.  My brother knew that I was going to buy it as it had me written all over it.  Another friend said the topic looked painful.  I’ll give my review later.

All in all, we had fun.  We bought good stuff.  I’ll go back.

Zombie Attacks! The Best for Last

Avengers Cartoon

The Manga Curmudgeon makes this cartoon sound pretty good, so I’m thinking I ought to check it out.

Ron Weasley – decade of dumbfounded

A decade of Ron Weasley looking dumbfounded and nonplussed and sometimes zoned out.

Leia Fatigue PSA

Alas, that there will not be male equivalent PSA.  I have such a long list of suggestions too.

But on this list: no Emma Frost no Cat Woman no Jessica Rabbit no Seven of Nine no Faye Valentine?   Oh, well, at least the point was made about Slave Leia not being the only sexy option.  Though judging by the comments, the het males didn’t realize that there was funny attempting to happen.

Happiness is…

The art for this strip is remarkably good.