GAME OF THRONES IS COMING BACK!!!!!!
Rumor has it the show is going to be back on March 30th. I’m not sure if it has been confirmed, but whenever the official season premier is, for the month before that I’m going to be watching seasons 1-3 at 11pm PST, #ASongofShadeandFire. You probably should too.
LET’S GAME SOME THRONES!
Edit: New return date! Now the rumor is it will return on April 6th! GAH!!!!!!
So, apparently in South Korea they’ve taken things to the next level and made a 55 inch OLED TV.
It’s set to go on sale in February so….. who wants to give me $10,000?
I originally wrote this and posted it over at Nerdgasm Noire Network but thought I should share it here as well. Since it’s nerd related and all. ENJOY! Also SPOILER WARNING!
So I saw Prometheus on Saturday……
I liked it. Visually it was stunning, and the concept was really interesting but if I’m being honest with myself the plot was confusing as shit. There were plenty of things in the movie that are left unexplained, most obvious of all being the question that the movie is based around, “Why are we here?” Another question unintentionally brought up through the movie would be “Why would you do that?” Several people have already said it, but the movie was about a bunch of supposedly smart scientists making really dumb decisions, but more than that the movie was obviously only supposed to be about 2 specific people, and the other people in it were originally just props that they decided to teach how to speak. The movie itself was trying to do too much in too small a timeframe with too many characters and because of that, a lot of the characters suffered.
The basic plot of Prometheus is that a couple of scientists who are also a couple find a connection between several historical paintings spanning thousands of years that show a giant man pointing at a cluster of stars that are exactly the same configuration in each painting. I’m assuming that this science couple are a couple of archeologists, because why else would they be looking at cave paintings? However there’s reason to believe that at least Shaw may not be seeing that at two points in the movie she seems to be very familiar with surgical procedures. From these paintings they realize that the cluster of stars is actually a constellation in another galaxy and they convince millionaire Peter Weyland to pay for them to go into space and explore the only moon in that galaxy that can support life. Of course during the trip wacky shenanigans ensue, and by wacky shenanigans I mean death and destruction as well as a lot of creep factor weirdness.
A huge problem with the movie isn’t just that the characters in it are talking props, but also that the talking props somehow got degrees in their various fields of science without learning anything about them. Holloway (one of the couple of possibly-archeologists) decides that even though they’ve only got about 6 hours of daylight left, they should go out on an expedition in an unknown structure on a never before inhabited by humans planet without knowing any of the possible dangers they might face. Holloway is also the genius that decides that because the structure has oxygen it’s totally okay to take your helmet off and breath air that could be contaminated by who knows what diseases. If we go on the assumption that he’s an archeologist he should be aware that even on Earth if you’re entering anything that has been closed off to the outside world it’s best to wear some sort of mask to protect you from whatever diseases could still be lurking around. Somehow though, Holloway doesn’t take that into consideration, and it’s a wonder how nobody ended up sick because of his stupid decision.
That was only the first most glaring mistake in character development. The next one would be Fifield, the Geologist who’d done these kinds of missions (with a lot of this crew) before and has these really cool probes that map out the structure they’ve found, yet somehow doesn’t know what to do when he gets slightly flustered. He’s the one in charge of making sure a map of the structure (that the crew of Prometheus conveniently find themselves right in front of on their first ever trip to this distant moon) is plotted by the probes and sent back to the Prometheus ship. However, when they find a decapitated alien body in the ruined structure, him and Millburn the Biologist decide they would rather get back to the ship to avoid any potential danger they may face. Somehow though, the two of them get lost in the structure, despite the fact that they both had communication links to the crew of Prometheus, and Fifield had a link to the probes that were currently mapping out the ruins. So of course this gigantic error ends up getting them both killed, because the Biologist doesn’t seem to understand aggressive behavior in the alien that breaks his arm, eats his face, and sprays acid jizz on Fifield’s helmet that burns through it and into his face.
The two characters who weren’t an afterthought and actually had nuance in them were David and Shaw. Although Holloway was a main character and Shaw’s boyfriend (Shaw’s the other person in the couple), he seemed to only be there as a weak character foil for both Shaw and David. His interactions with them tell you little about him as a character (other than he’s a jerk and an idiot) and more about Shaw and David’s little quirks.
A lot of Shaw’s characterization seemed to be forgotten about as the movie went on, her relationship with her father only sort of explained her interest in the human like Engineer giants, and her infertility was only mentioned right before she was impregnated by an infected Holloway with a rapidly growing alien squid baby. It seems as if we’re supposed to empathize with Shaw simply because she’s the main character, even though we barely know what her motives are. We do know however, that even after she’s had an emergency c-section to get the previously mentioned alien squid baby out of her stomach, she has no trouble running around and jumping over platforms to get away from giants with staples in her stomach, even though zipping up a zipper on her spacesuit causes her to scream in pain.
David on the other hand, we’re supposed to distrust and possibly hate, because of his not quite human behavior and his willingness to infect Holloway with a highly destructive alien disease in order to obey an order he received from his creator. The characterization of these two characters didn’t work for me, because I ended up sympathizing for David after both Holloway and Weyland criticized him for not being human or having feelings when he seemed to be developing them. Even the sneaky way David infected Holloway intrigued me because even though he was following an order, it seemed as if he was also trying to get revenge on Holloway because of how much of a jerk he was.
The other props were just one big jumble of confusion and unanswered questions. Janek and the other pilots had a lot of potential for good characterization, but instead were used for witty quips. Janek himself was there to speak out loud plot developments that the plot should have explained on its own, and had no real set character. He flip flopped back and forth between Team Vickers and the Don’t Engage With Any Lifeforms and Team Shaw and the Don’t You Want To Do What’s Best for Humanities. The last feat of heroics from him and the co-pilots felt like it should have been fulfilling and climactic, but instead left you confused as to why they would sacrifice themselves in such a way.
Vickers, may or may not be a robot. That ends up being very open ended. Although she refers to Weyland as her father (after Weyland states that his robots are his only children) and Janek asked her whether or not she is a robot because he wants to sleep with her, it’s never directly said that she was. Her actions were mildly robotic, and I believe she was a robot, but I don’t know what the writers were trying to do with her and her robotic nature. However her emotions are part of the reason I believe David was actually developing real feelings instead of mimicking them, because Vickersbot showed fear, anger, happiness and other emotions in a more genuine nature and not forced.
The characters in this movie could have been better. Although they tried to make the only two female characters as badass as Ripley was in the original Alien movies, they didn’t come off quite as good, and very few of the other characters were interesting. Whether or not this movie is really an Alien prequel is still up for debate, and even THAT seems like an afterthought. If you don’t think of the movie as a prequel and just enjoy it for the large bag of popcorn you inhaled while watching it, it can still be very enjoyable, but that’s another post for another day.
The Resident Evil movies are bad, and I will certainly be the first person to admit this.
However when this comes out on DVD, I’m definitely going to watch it. Despite the series being almost nothing like the video game series (which I love), I still find joy in watching the bastardized versions of the characters I’m familiar with, kinda-sorta fight zombies…… sometimes…..
Just 3 days until one of the funniest animated shows on television returns.
Archer the animated series about an asshole (not so) secret agent, the girl he used to date (who is also a secret agent) and the agency his mom runs tries to not go out of business, and do spy shit.
I’m not going to lie, I still have the 3 part mid-off season mini series The Heart of Archness saved on my DVR and was using that and the season 1 and 2 DVDs to get my fix of the show. Now I don’t have to wait any longer.
I absolutely hate Hot Topic, so this literally hurts my soul to admit this but I want this sweater. I NEED this sweater! Even though I know that it will probably only last for about 1 week even if I take good care of it. However it’s gorgeous, and I need it.
I mean, it’s a Wookie Hoodie! Albeit this may be a form of animal cruelty (I don’t know how PETA would feel about the Wookies that were killed to make these sweaters) it’s still highly fashionable and amazing in a geeky way. I’m willing to betray my No Hot Topic policy for this. I mean, it’s a good trade. Right?
(found via Gizmodo)
So The Internet came to me and The Internet said “Lo, NaniCoolJ, and behold violent niche action star perfection!” And I beheld it, and it was glorious.
Danny Trejo once again is in a movie where he’s either killing people, beating people up or both, which is what this man is good at. That alone, will get me to spend $6 at a matinee screening in order to partake in such violence, but a special little gem of a casting addition was added at about 0:39. The biggest and the baddest of the Big Bads, Ron MF Perlman (the MF stands for Mother Fuckin’ if you haven’t guessed already).
I must see this, even if only for the inevitable earth shaking bad ass fight between Trejo and Perlman that HAS TO HAPPEN! There’s no getting away from it. There’s no getting around it. It has to happen.
I’m looking forward to it!
I’m a fan of Alien (and in all honesty who isn’t?), so this looks interesting. I mean, logically, it has to be good. How can it not be? It combines both the (basic) plot of Alien and the director of Blade Runner, two of the best sci-fi movies of EVER. Also it’s meant to be a sci-fi/horror film, where can you go wrong with that?
Actually, now that I think about it there are a lot of places where it can potentially go wrong. Sigourney Weaver’s character Ripley in Alien was one of the most dynamic and amazing female lead characters you’ll find in film. From the the movie’s wikipedia page (which is the WORST source you can look ANYTHING up on, admittedly) it looks like the main character Elizabeth Shaw is supposed to be Ripley-esque, but with the way Hollywood is today, I worry that about halfway through the movie we’ll have to watch what could have been an amazing leading female character scream through the rest of the movie in what looks like the sweatiest, bralessest and nippliest of white tank tops.
Another fear I have is that there won’t be any fear in the movie, just shock. Alien wasn’t just a space action movie when it originally came out, it was actually a horror movie and was very effective at being genuinely scary. Horror movies nowadays use a lot of shock, gore and shakey cameras to convince you that whatever is going on in whatever scene you’re watching is causing you the emotional anxiety that fear brings. You either have a major gross-out gore movie like all of the Saw movies after the first one, as well as with Hostel, or you have the Could-This-Be-Real YouTube like home video movies like Paranormal Activity or Cloverfield. Not that there’s anything wrong with these movies, but I want something that is scary without too many gimmicks, because I’m tired of the headaches that shakey cams give me.
The previews for this movie give me a sense of tensions that I like though (not in the sexy way, more like that I-Can’t-Look-Away… way), and I’m hoping to think as highly of this as I thought of other sci-fi/horror movies like, for instance, Pandorum. I’m definitely going to have to keep my eye out for more info on the movie as it comes out, because let’s face it, as expensive as movies are now, I don’t want to waste my money on something boring.
Tonight is an exciting night.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been watching the prequel video to the Dr Who Christmas Special over and over again. If you’re not like me, or wasn’t even aware that it existed here is my Christmahannukwanzaa gift to you (spoiler warning, if you haven’t seen Season 6 you may not want to look at this):
I’m growing more and more fond of Matt Smith’s Doctor by the minute. He brings this sort of bow-legged, BAMFy swag that I just can’t get enough of (and this is coming from someone who ADORES David Tennant and all of his quirk).
OH! And just in case you haven’t yet seen the trailer for the Christmas Special movie, take a look at the video below:
DO NOT FORGET to watch this tonight on BBC America at 9pm/8pm Central (Oh CST, just because it’s a show about time travel doesn’t mean you have to fight against television programming times!)
Crossposted on NerdgasmNoire.Net
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