Month: July 2008

Heroes: Create Your Own Hero


Sprint is running the “Create Your Own Hero” promotion for NBC’s “Heroes”, which will determine which Hero will appear in a live-action online series.

You can chose between Santiago, who has the abilities of moving quickly, and doing quick analysis of probabilities, and Audrey, who has the ability change other people’s speed. Check out the full descriptions on the Hero’s website.

After reading the descriptions, I picked Audrey. I think there’s some good potential in that kind of character.

Which Hero did you pick?

(Full disclosure: I was informed about this via M80 who’s contacted me on behalf of Sprint)

Summer Viewing: The Island


Yeah, I should have started doing this at the beginning of the summer, but things were a bit hectic around here, so I couldn’t really do this until now.

Since we’re in REALITY TV land during the summer, it’s a good time to turn the dial around to other channels you don’t frequent, and to break out the DVDs you’ve been meaning to watch.

We recently wanted The Island, starting Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It’s a couple of years old, so if you missed it, it’s worth a look-see.

I’ll give some thoughts about various things in the below, but be warned, there are some –

SPOILERS AHEAD

During the first scene, when Lincoln woke up from that weird dream, the first words out of my mouth were “Anakin? I just had the weirdest dream!”

Yeah, I kept thinking of Obi-wan Kenobi during the whole movie. I didn’t really help they had a scene on two floating craft that seemed a lot like those racers in the Luke/Leia/”little people in furry costumes” trilogy. It also didn’t help that at one point Lincoln goes off alone to shut down the generator for the complex – Oh, Obi-wan… Obi… Always shutting down those generators.

Oh, and those costumes sure had a “Logan’s Run” vibe.

END OF SPOILERS

I’m not going to say any more about the movie because, well, saying just about anything about the plot gives too much away.

Anyway, overall the movie was a good summer view. Check it out.

Did you see this movie? What did you think of it?