Battlestar Galactica Season 3 starts Oct 6.
Here's the first teaser that came out for it. If you haven't seen the end of Season 2, you may want to skip all of this. Nahh, just watch this one. It's just a bunch of scenes cut together, you won't see anything too revealing.
Okay, now here's the one that just came out during the premiere of Eureka on SciFi. Definite spoilers, here. You may want to skip this. But you'd love Adama's line at the end. Makes you want to yell "Yeah!! Bring it on!!!"
If you already watched the first two teasers, you're probably wondering what events lead up to them. Well, you could watch all of Season 2, or the last few episodes. Or... you could watch just the final minutes of the absolutely stunningly amazing Season 2 finale on SciFi.com!
If you were able to resist temptation, Season 2 is on DVD. But that's just the first half. According to VideoETA, the second part of Season 2 comes out Sept 19.
If you were able to resist the teasers AND the Season 2 final minutes, have some fun reading what The Office's Dwight Schrute has to say about BSG and Lost.
If not, then like me, you probably now really can't wait for Season 3!!
Well, you can get a LIVE BSG fix at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend:
This Friday, from 2:00 to 3:00 in Room 20:
Panelists include stars Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama), Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), James Callis (President Gaius Baltar), and Lucy Lawless (D'Anna Biers), Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol), plus executive producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore and SCI FI VP for original programming Erik Storey. Moderated by Lisa Chambers, features director, TV Guide.
It doesn't get any better than that!
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Friday, July 14, 2006
Superman Inside Story
After watching this story told by Kevin Smith, now I get why Superman was only mediocre at best. And why most Hollywood movies have really stupid writing.
I remember talking to some guys working on CG for the TV show SeaQuest DSV. They went through all this trouble to make things look realistic- the textures, lighting, motion. And the producers said "the sub moves too slow... can you make it faster?" Umm, that's how fast a big sub moves underwater. But guess what? They made the sub move faster. Why? Watch the Kevin video and you'll understand.
I remember talking to some guys working on CG for the TV show SeaQuest DSV. They went through all this trouble to make things look realistic- the textures, lighting, motion. And the producers said "the sub moves too slow... can you make it faster?" Umm, that's how fast a big sub moves underwater. But guess what? They made the sub move faster. Why? Watch the Kevin video and you'll understand.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Howl's Moving Castle
A classic animated movie by Hayao Miyazaki. Highly recommended. You'll be so drawn into the story and artistic style that you'll wonder where the time went when the credits roll. Good American translation and reading by famous real-life actors.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Superman Returns
I was hoping that with all the hype over this movie for the past year it would be a surprise revival of the Superman series, as was (definitely) Batman Begins.
Instead I found it un-original, deriving too much from the original Superman movie, as well as other popular movies, including Batman Begins. You never know how much of this is intentional or accidental. I'm sure Director Bryan Singer set out to pay homage to the original and the people who made it. But I think he overdid it. In some scenes, characters spoke word-for-word the lines from the first movie. It's almost a bit creepy.
Overall, it's not a bad movie. Most of the negatives were due to my expectations and my memory and appreciation of the original movie. The visual effects are spectacular. Worth watching on a big screen.
The visuals may have alot of depth, but the characters are kinda flat. Jimmy Olsen's exuberance is over-done. He might as well have been played by Screech from Saved by the Bell. Perry White is a sort of knock-off of J Jonah Jameson from the recent Spiderman movies. Everyone talks about how adventurous Lois is, but you really don't see it (she doesn't jump on an elevator with a nuclear bomb in the Eiffel Tower, does she?). Lex Luthor is played well, but you don't really get he's a diabolically evil mastermind.
Superman is not bad. Again, you don't really get the depth of his character that you do from the original, or Smallville, or especially the recent cartoons (Justice League). Justice League and the Batman animated series have THE best stories and characters of all the Superman/Batman versions. And what's with him stalking Lois & family at their home?
I hate to bad-mouth such a sentimental film, but the truth is that it's good but not great. Not from lack of quality, but mostly from trying too hard.
Instead I found it un-original, deriving too much from the original Superman movie, as well as other popular movies, including Batman Begins. You never know how much of this is intentional or accidental. I'm sure Director Bryan Singer set out to pay homage to the original and the people who made it. But I think he overdid it. In some scenes, characters spoke word-for-word the lines from the first movie. It's almost a bit creepy.
Overall, it's not a bad movie. Most of the negatives were due to my expectations and my memory and appreciation of the original movie. The visual effects are spectacular. Worth watching on a big screen.
The visuals may have alot of depth, but the characters are kinda flat. Jimmy Olsen's exuberance is over-done. He might as well have been played by Screech from Saved by the Bell. Perry White is a sort of knock-off of J Jonah Jameson from the recent Spiderman movies. Everyone talks about how adventurous Lois is, but you really don't see it (she doesn't jump on an elevator with a nuclear bomb in the Eiffel Tower, does she?). Lex Luthor is played well, but you don't really get he's a diabolically evil mastermind.
Superman is not bad. Again, you don't really get the depth of his character that you do from the original, or Smallville, or especially the recent cartoons (Justice League). Justice League and the Batman animated series have THE best stories and characters of all the Superman/Batman versions. And what's with him stalking Lois & family at their home?
I hate to bad-mouth such a sentimental film, but the truth is that it's good but not great. Not from lack of quality, but mostly from trying too hard.
World's Fastest Indian
I love movies based on true stories. Stand and Deliver, October Sky and several others come to mind. A great quirky true-story movie I loved was The Dish, about a radio dish in Australia that was the only one that could be used to monitor the NASA moon mission.
The World's Fastest Indian is based on a true story, it's quirky, and takes place (partly) in New Zealand. So it has alot of thing going for it. But it also stars Anthony Hopkins, which could make up for alot of other flaws (if there were any). It's a great "underdog triumphs over all" story- even the story about the making of the movie. Turns out the director is a New Zealander who has been trying to make this movie for years. He finally did it, and it's worth the wait.
The gist of the story is Burt Munru, a motorcycle fanatic, works on perfecting his bike for 25 years so he can race it on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He saves up the money and makes the voyage by sea to Long Beach, buys a car & drives from Los Angeles to the Salt Flats. He meets some really colorful characters along the way. What's great is no matter how different they are from him, everyone is good natured and want to help Burt make his way to his race.
When he finally arrives, he's told he can't race because he didn't pre-register. All that way for nothing? Well you have to watch the movie to see what happens.
Watch the ending credits for some facts about Burt (like the end of Stand and Deliver). And definitely watch the Extras - not the "making of", but the real-life footage of Burt. What a character!
The World's Fastest Indian is based on a true story, it's quirky, and takes place (partly) in New Zealand. So it has alot of thing going for it. But it also stars Anthony Hopkins, which could make up for alot of other flaws (if there were any). It's a great "underdog triumphs over all" story- even the story about the making of the movie. Turns out the director is a New Zealander who has been trying to make this movie for years. He finally did it, and it's worth the wait.
The gist of the story is Burt Munru, a motorcycle fanatic, works on perfecting his bike for 25 years so he can race it on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He saves up the money and makes the voyage by sea to Long Beach, buys a car & drives from Los Angeles to the Salt Flats. He meets some really colorful characters along the way. What's great is no matter how different they are from him, everyone is good natured and want to help Burt make his way to his race.
When he finally arrives, he's told he can't race because he didn't pre-register. All that way for nothing? Well you have to watch the movie to see what happens.
Watch the ending credits for some facts about Burt (like the end of Stand and Deliver). And definitely watch the Extras - not the "making of", but the real-life footage of Burt. What a character!
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