Ramblings about entertainment and other things
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(There are a LOT of people hitting the site right now, and it seems to be having problems, so be aware of that if you try and register).
Namaste.
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
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?
(Thanks to Andy!)
Do the producers really have a plan for what’s happening?
They had the LOST panel at Comic Con 2008 last night! Here are a few questions that got posted to YouTube:
Discussing “The Constant”:
Time Travel on Lost:
Question on characters (like Mr. Eko):
Randy Pausch, the professor that gave his ‘Last Lecture’ at Carnegie Mellon last year, has died.
Here he talks about the reaction to his lecture:Read more at TheLastLecture.com.
Are you watching “The Office” webisodes?
E-mail went out today about the LOST event at Comic Con next week. Octagon Global Recruiting will be there, and 10 lucky folks will be “recruited” – whatever that’s going to mean.
“ATTENTION ALL RECRUITS DHARMA HEAD OF RECRUITING TO ATTEND LAUNCH
Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, is pleased to announce that Dharma’s Head of Recruiting, Mr. Hans Van Eeghen, has confirmed his availability for the launch of our latest recruiting drive at Comic-Con 2008.
“My colleagues at Octagon Global Recruiting assure me that Comic-con hosts some of the brightest minds in the country,” said Mr. Van Eeghen. “As Head of Recruiting it is my intention to personally assess the very best of this talent in the hope that they may join us.”
The Dharma Initiative will be conducting eligibility assessments at Booth 3529 at Comic-Con, San Diego between July 24th – 27th.
If you are attending Comic-Con and would like to submit your name for a randomly selected drawing to secure one of ten (10) pre-release appointments with one of our recruiting officers, please click here. Ed. – Link disabled
The volunteer eligibility assessment will be available online from July 28th for a limited time at www.dharmawantsyou.com
The Dharma Initiative hopes you will spread the word. Invite your friends to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com
More details at Variety.com
(Thanks to homeybeef!)
Kali asks what I think about the upcoming Fox show from Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Gallactica”) “Virtuality”, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Commander Frank Pike. The show’s about the starship Phaeton which is on a 10 year mission to a distant solar system. To keep the crew occupied, they use a series of modules that put them into virtual reality worlds. Everything goes great until a “bug” in the system starts messing things up.
(You can read further details at Reuters and at The Futon Critic).
Now this sounds like an interseting premise for a movie, and is very open ended for a show. It’s basically people playing around on Star Trek holodecks, although more like the Matrix, I suppose. At first glance the lack of direction for this show seems like it wouldn’t have a good focus, but remember this is coming from Ron Moore. A lot of people were surprised that someone would actually do a remake of “Battlestar Galactica” and even more surprised that it was a good show.
I’m still not certain. It has possibilities, but the open-endedness of this show really bothers me. Unless the show has a clear purpose, and it establishes it right from the start, I think people will be wondering where it’s headed. Trying to survive a 10-year journey doesn’t seem to be much of a premise.
I guess we’ll see.
(Thanks to Kali!)