Archive for January, 2010

 

Exactly Not What It Appears to Be, The Book of Eli

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January 16, 2010 12:04 PM
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Contrived and oh so hard to believe.  That is a good summation of The Book of Eli.  Written by Gary Whitta and directed by the Hughes brothers, this was a generally bad piece of cinema.  I tried to like this movie, especially as post-apocalyptic pseudo science fiction, not much good exists of this [...]
 

This Week = Busy , Slow

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January 14, 2010 1:28 PM
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I don’t have much to blog about at the moment.  School has kept me busy and yesterday I was going to review an old SF flick, but it turned out that mounting my speakers on the walls was a much longer project than I anticipated.  It took about 8 hours as I ran into one problem or another, but now [...]

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Splice

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January 11, 2010 6:57 PM
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Splice.  This movie just came up on my radar over the weekend when my cousin Luke invited me to go to Sundance with him.  You know, the Sundance Film festival, where what are supposed to be the best movies of the year are screened.  Ok, so I’ve never been, but I know it’s pretty much the place to [...]
 

A Letter to My Readers

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January 10, 2010 12:15 PM
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Hey everyone, I’ve been keeping pretty decent tabs on people visiting my blog and it’s great to know that I’m getting a fair amount of visitors. To let you know I have had so far 48 unique visitors with 174 unique pageviews. Basically that means 48 people have looked at my blog, and those 48 [...]
 

Where Have All My Movies Gone?

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January 9, 2010 2:05 PM
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In a previous post I talked of the SF greats and the core of what makes this such a fine genre.  I’ve always had a love and enthusiasm for it, but as history and I both know, presently  it’s more like the red-headed step child when it comes to movies or books.  This was not always so, much like [...]
 

Nexus One, Another HTC/Google Home Run

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January 8, 2010 12:00 PM
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Would you like to know the best advertisement spot in the world?  The Google home page.  I mean, millions of people hit that site every day, you can’t ask for better product placement.  And that’s exactly where I first heard about the Nexus One.  It just sounds cool.  Then I took a closer peek, it [...]
 

Still Talking Avatar

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January 7, 2010 12:00 PM
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Another comment that spurred it’s own response in full post form, via my good friend Jordan: Great post, Jon. And I agree entirely. The old masters of sci-fi were also masters of political thought, to a large degree (insofar as novelists ever are). Here’s MY question for you: Did “Avatar” make you [...]
 

The Science Fiction Masters

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January 6, 2010 10:45 AM
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I thought it was about time that I finally talk about those authors who made science fiction what it is today.  I say authors because SF has always been at its best and most true when in the literary form. Science Fiction has been around since Johannes Keplers Somnium written almost 400 years ago. [...]
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