Heroes

Apparently Worf got promoted from General to President. He does have a very good voice... Very authoritative.

Also, what a tweest! Be interesting to see what they do with this in the next season...

Oh, and for once, Mohinder's blathering was halfway decent, and I wasn't yelling at him to shut up the whole time...

And seriously? Is Ali Larter's character(s) ever going to go away? Because she's probably the worst and most annoying character in the series...

Fringe

"The C1 Cervical Vertebrae is connected to the C2 Cervical Vertebrae...
The C2 Cervical Vertebrae is connected to the C3 Cervical Vertebrae...
The C3 Cervical Vertebrae..."

Oh, John Noble/Walter Bishop, you are awesome...

They do have some good actors playing the Bishops. But I've probbaly mentioned that before...

Also, Agent Dunham is sort of ambiguously hot. At times she seems hot, and then others not so much... Its kinda strange. Although she does have an awesome name. Anna Torv. Or at least an awesome last name.

Capitols Game

The announcer just referred to one of the New York players as "just like a weeble"

In other news, do they ensure that only cute girls sit behind the benches, and next to the exit things?

A.I. Assault

Joe Lando, Michael Dorn (2006) A team of SEALs must deactivate two top-secret military robots running amok on a deserted island.

Apparently the people who made this movie couldn't afford anything except for rubber prop guns. Because the slides aren't moving on the pistols, and they've just post-processed in some muzzle flashes. And it looks ridiculous.

And I'm hoping that they accidentally capitalized the letters in the word "SEALs" in the description. Because a team of "seals" would be much more awesome. And aren't they colloquially known as "Navy SEALs", not just "SEALs"?

And apparently George Takei is now the pilot of a 747. Big change from the USS Enterprise that he used to drive as Hikaru Sulu.

And they've got Bob Picardo! The Emergency Medical Hologram, or Mr. Woolsey, depending on which franchise you feel like talking about. Oh, and recognize the name "Michael Dorn"? Because, that's totally Worf. Its a freaking Star Trek convention...

And now it would appear that Woolsey has kicked the bucket... and Sulu... yup, he's done too...

But, luckily, with the demise of his Star Trek compatriots, we are now introduced to General Worf. Looks different without the forehead wrinkles, but he's still got the same voice.

Also, it seems that everyone in this movie (aside from Worf thus far) is a Major. Seems its a popular rank... Although, the main character seems to be a Navy O-3. Which I can't remember. Perhaps Lieutenant Commander? No, that's an O-4. Whatever the Navy equivalent to an Army Captain is. (After some research, it seems to be Lieutenant) But sadly, the guys who made this movie didn't realize that there is a significant difference in rank between an Army Captain and a Navy Captain. Because they just referred to him as "Captain". Which he distinctly isn't, because he's a Navy SEAL.

OK, that's weird... because now they're using blank firing guns... Which begs the question of why they didn't use them earlier...

And apparently Main Character just got promoted... because he's now wearing the gold maple leaf insignia of an O-4. Lieutenant Commander?

And the Admiral guy just used the word "ro-but". My quest to rid the world of the word "ro-bought" continues.

Oh, and this Captain/Lieutenant Commander/Lieutenant guy seems to think that Chinooks and Hueys are the same thing. Which they aren't.

Also, Bazooka =/= LAW.

Cake!

Apparently, if you add a layer of custard between 2 layers of cake, it makes the entire cake awesome.

Cakes Plus in Laurel Maryland, I must commend your cake-itude. You have justified the existence of the state of Maryland for a few days. At least until I finish the cake.

2009 Bahrain Grand Prix

Not quite as exciting a race as China.

Sucks to be BMW Sauber today, as they ended up as the last cars to finish, with only Nakajima retiring from the race...


Another pretty dominant performance by Jenson Button and the Brawn GB BGP001. Still, Barichello's down around 5th in the same car. I guess the car suits Buttons driving style moreso than Barichello's.

Something interesting I learned today about the whole diffuser controversy: The "trick" diffusers apparently destroy the clean air behind the car. The whole point of the rules changes this season was to clean up the air behind the cars to promote overtaking. But these new diffusers seem to ruin that whole thing... So, apparently the "diffuser cars" are much harder to pass than cars without the diffuser.

Oh, and Vettel got 2nd. Which means he's still a ways behind in the Driver's Championship, but at least Button only gained 2 points in his lead, and due to Barichello's relatively poor performance means that Vettel is now only 1 point behind him. But still 13 points behind Button.

Also, Kimi got 6th place, so Ferrari got 3 points, thus ending their ridiculously long points drought...

Avalanche

Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney (1999) A widow and a helicopter pilot battle an oil company seeking to build a pipeline in Alaska

Is it just me or does that description sound like the one Stephen Seagal movie about oil piplelines an bad pony tails?

Also, did you ever wonder what building a bunch of small models, and then demolishing them with fake snow looks like? And then add some bad green-screen work of people running to and fro? Because, if you watch this movie, you'll totally find out.

Gum is good?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/chewing.gum.benefits/index.html

Apparently, a study funded by the Wrigley Science Institute found that chewing gum is good for you in all kinds of ways.

Imagine that...

What's next? The American Pork Coucil funding a study that states that eating pork chops is the key to stopping global warming?

Castle

You remember me talking about Castle? The TV show with Nathan Fillion.

Allow me to describe this awesome scene from last night's episode.

Castle (Fillion's character) is waiting in the police car while the detective he's working with goes and tries to capture a suspect. And by waiting, I of course mean that he's sitting in the drivers seat, turning the steering wheel, and humming some sort of theme song.

Anyways, it doesn't go according to plan, and the suspect manages to escape. And ends up leaping out of the second floor window or something onto the hood of the car.

Castle sees this guy, and is surprised. He then looks at the drawing of the suspect on the dash of the car, and realized it was actually the guy they were looking for. After trying to figure out what to do about the armed suspect on the hood of his car, he ends up doing the only natural thing: Turn on the windshield wipers.

And then he acts like an amazing smartass to the armed suspect.

And then they use the music theme that Castle was singing earlier as the background music for the ensuing fight scene.

I like this show.

Knights of Bloodsteel

David James Elliott, Natassia Malthe (2009) Four ordinary citizens battle an evil warlord who tries to take over their kingdom.

Apparently in the mythos of this story, there's some sort of rock called "bloodsteel", which seems to important to just about everything.

Apparently, this bloodsteel is also used to create machinery, or magic machinery or something...

Also, David James Elliott (also known as the main character from the TV show JAG) is the main guy in this movie... and he has a pony-tail, and some sort of accent. Quite different from his straight-laced Naval Officer character from JAG...

This one's a two night miniseries, so I'll only be reviewing the first half tonight.

This half seems to be the set-up, and thus far is a pretty standard fantasy quest story. Four travelers have to go do something. I can't remember what it is anymore. Perhaps the "previously on..." at the beginning of the second half will remind me... but that's a story for another night...

And for some reason elves have vampire teeth...

Formula 1 Drivers Championship

I'm firmly in the "Sebastian Vettel for World Champion" camp. He seems like a good guy, and he seems to enjoy what he's doing, and doesn't seem to be a cockbag like Alonso.

And for some reason, I'm just not a fan of either of the Brawn drivers.

I wouldn't mind if Kubica started finishing races, and gaining gobs of points, either... However, the BMWs seem to lack the pace all around to keep up with the Brawns. Or at least, they can't keep up in the wet. Because Kubica almost had second place in Australia, had Vettel not hit him.

So, basically go Vettel and Kubica.

Thor: Hammer of the Gods

Zachary Ty Bryan, Mac Brandt (2009) A disgruntled viking battles various creatures when he goes to war with the gods.

SciFi Saturday movie from 4/11.

Frankly, I'm hoping that Thor is a short, pale, scrawny, bald dude, who's voiced by Michael Shanks. Because that'd be awesome. Because what the world needs is more Stargate to Bad Sci Fi cross-overs.

OK, this might be enjoyable, because the narrator seems to have some sort of Scandinavian accent. Which is awesome...

Aw, dammit. The actors don't seem to have the same accents as the narrator. Which is totally not awesome. I demand awesome accentage. But not as stereotypical and ridiculous as that volcano movie. Because that was almost painful.

It would seem that this movie has either the Norse gods wandering about the world, or has people who are named after the Norse gods wandering about... It seems we've got Freyr, Thor, and probably some other ones that I neglected to notice.

Sadly, I am tired, and full of food, so the likelihood of me staying awake/aware enough to blog effectively is very low.

Oh, by the way, all the Vikings' helmets don't have horns on them. I'm kinda sad...

Also, for vikings, who are by definition awesome, these guy's have some thoroughly crappy battle cries... or war cries... or whatever you call yelling while charging... Not so much with the badassness...

Frankly, I was right.... Again, I have no idea what's going on... something about Thor. and a decent amount of sword fights. But no hammer yet. Just dreams about hammers. And only one character with an accent...

And now the hammer has finally showed up. In what seems to be the last act... Or at least after the last commercial break. Unless the DVR didn't record the entire movie... We shall see. doubtful though, because the dude just bashed the big monster thing with the hammer...

I kind of wish that I had second dinner or something. Not because I'm hungry, because I'm really not. But because I kind of wish I had some excuse for not paying attention.

Apparently, today was a bad day for me reviewing movies. Or at least paying attention while reviewing...

Furnace

Michael Pare, Ja Rule (2006) A detective investigates supernatural killings at a maximum-security prison.

SciFi Saturday movie from 4/4.

51 minutes in, and they finally use the word "Furnace".

This is a really bad movie for me to watch, because I looked away for one scene at the beginning, and it apparently was the most vital scene in the entire movie, because I've got no freaking clue what's going on anymore...

I think the SciFi channel should start showing more SciFi, and a lot less horror movies. But perhaps its that I've already seen all the SciFi movies, so now I'm only recording the horror ones, as they're the ones I haven't seen yet.

You know what's better than this movie? Eating dinner. Which is what I was doing instead of watching the beginning. Which kinda screwed me over for the end because A) I had no idea what was going on; and B) I frankly didn't care.

So, I think I can post this, without having to even wait for the movie to end... although, it seems like it might be done now. Because the furnace just shut down for whatever reason, and they're bricking it back in.

But still, the architecture of the prison was pretty sweet. Had all sorts of towers and turrets and things... They certainly don't make them like that any more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Prison

That's where they filmed it...

And apparently the guy singing the music that's playing over the credit smokes train wrecks. Whatever that might mean...

War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

C. Thomas Howell, Fred Griffith (2008) Mankind unites to fight back when a second alien invasion threatens Earth.

SciFi Saturday movie from 4/18.

Another exciting offering from "The Asylum". Remember them? The ones who make crappy movies? Yeah, them.

My main issue with the first one of the Asylum's War Of The Worlds movies was that the alien walkers had 6 legs, rather than 3. That, and it was terrible. I'm pretty sure that the book described the walkers as "tripods". Which implies 3 legs. The first scene of this movie shows 3 legged walkers arriving and wreaking havoc. Let see if this one is any better than its predecessor. I'm not too hopeful, given that this is an Asylum production.

You know things are bad when an amazing birthday present is a can of canned ravioli. I guess that's how the tell us that its a post-apocalyptic movie...

Apparently C. Thomas Howell's character has never seen an F22 before, or he's got a really good imagination. Because those things don't really look like F22s, aside from the fact that they're airplanes, and they can fly. And are gray. They don't have any sort of vertical stabilizers. They've got sort of a delta wing configuration, and they've got 3 separate cockpits (think SR71 style), rather than the large glass cockpit of the raptor. And the pilots seem to wear infantry combat helmets instead of flight helmets. And the planes don't even have wheels. So, all in all, not even close to an F22 Raptor.

But he is supremely awesome, because he can get printouts from his telescope. It looked like a regular telescope. That wasn't connected to anything that might be a printer... or any sort of machinery...

And apparently in the post-apocalyptic world, fuel gauges don't work. And people drive freaking huge trucks. In a world of limited gasoline. Yay, fuel economy! Wait a second...

Intriguing... It seems that the tripods can fly. And they fly in the opposite direction that they walk. I wonder if there's an alien on one end that's in charge of watching, and another one at the other end that's in charge of flying...

In other news, some guy just used a rifle scope as a monocular. With the scope rings still attached. I think in post-apocalyptic, alien invasion world, you'd want to have a rifle attached to that scope... or you'd want to use all your rifle scopes for rifles, and use binoculars for far away viewing.

And then stuff happened. I'm not really sure what, and I was paying attention more than I have been lately. Just was sort of incomprehensible, and not very well explained.

But the great thing is, that they left the door open for another sequel! Joy of joys! Oh wait... not so much...

2009 Chinese Grand Prix

Just in case you were wondering, Formula 1 cars look really strange lacking the rear wing. But I guess that sort of thing happens when one car attempts to go up and over another one from the back...

And Mr. Buemi if your collision with Vettel puts him out of the race, I'm gonna be pissed.

Sebastian Vettel takes the pole (Vettel's first for the season, and first Red Bull Racing pole ever). Last year he got his first pole ever, and Scuderia Toro Rosso's first pole ever in Italy, where he won in the wet. This race is in the wet as well. Let's see how this one goes.

(Oh, and Buemi, the Swiss rookie seems to be doing pretty well (aside from almost running into Vettel's rear). Currently running in 8th about halfway through the race, after the Safety Car period. Was up a bit higher earlier.

And now for a few updates from the other folks we care about..

Kubica qualified pretty poorly, and then had his poor position exacerbated by running into Jarno Trulli's rear (Kubica's car was the one I discussed earlier trying to go up and over Trulli's) Took Trulli's rear wing off, and put him out of the race. Kubica lost his front wing, but he was able to replace it. We'll see how he's currently running when the show the graphic again. Currently running in 13th...

Kimi was running pretty close to the top, but apparently his engine's having some performance issues. He's currently 10th. Lets see if he can pick up to positions to earn Ferarri their first points of the season. Massa's out with some sort of mechanical problem, so it's all up to Kimi.

And from the "Things which are not surprising in the slightest" file: Both Nakajima and Piquet are both sucking it up, going off track left and right, and hitting the occasional thing...

Some good racing though. Webber and Button are battling it out for 2nd. You might remember that Button is the one who picked up the first two poles of the season, as well as the first two wins. At the time that I'm writing this, Webber seems to have 2nd. But in the time that I've been typing this paragraph, the position has changed 5 or 6 times.

Well, it looks like Webber won that battle. Now there's an interesting battle between Vettel (now 3rd due to his pit stop), and Button (now 2nd). Well, now its actually between 1st and 2nd, now that Webber has had to pit. And now Vettel seems to have taken 1st. Although Button may pit, just to change to intermediate tires (as opposed to the full wet tires) to see if he can get some additional performance for the closing laps.

Williams seems to have made the switch over to inters. But that point is moot, because Button just pitted and put on another set of full wets. Which gives Vettel a 15 second lead over Webber with 13 laps to go... And apparently its still a little too wet for the intermediate tires at this point, as Williams seems to have some issues with their cars.

And now another opportunity for Force India to pick up their first points as a team (ever, I think) lost, as one of their cars goes wrong in the wet (granted, last year, it was Raikkonnen running into the rear of the other car after his front wing failed)

And a 1-2 Finish for Red Bull, and 3-4 for Brawn. So, hopefully, that means that Webber can contend for the championship as the season progresses (especially given the fact that he didn't finish the first 2 races of the season)

Oh, and Buemi finished in 8th (just inside the points), and Raikkonnen finished in 10 (still no points for Ferarri for the season)

Polar Storm

Jack Coleman (2009) A scientist must save the day when violent storms threaten Earth's magnetic poles.

Recognize the name "Jack Coleman"? Yes, its that one. Noah Bennet from Heroes? Yup. He's in a bad SciFi movie...

Which just happens to be the SciFi Saturday movie from 3/28.

I've been doing a rather poor job of keeping you updated on these movies. A lot of them have been movies that I've seen already (e.g., Jurssic Park 2 or whatever), and I know that I forgot to mention it for at least one of my reviews...

We'll see if I do any better in the future...

The movie starts "in medias res". AKA in the middle of everything... Is it sad that I first thought of the latin phrase? Usually, the movies take some time to get into things, or they have someone we don't really care about dying in some rather stupid fashion... This way, instead, we get to see some tragedy befall character that we might care about at some point, but currently don't.

Oh, right blogging... Man I'm good at this...

Best in Show

Best part of the movie is probably Fred Willard as the commentator at the dog show.

Similar to Jason Bateman's character from Dodgeball.

That and the fact that all sorts of Stargate actors show up. Dr. Frasier, General Hammond, Major Davis... and that's all I can remember right now... I've been watching this in spurts so its distinctly possible I've forgotten some...

The WIcker Man

Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn (2006) A lawman uncovers strange rituals, a sinister harvest festival and possible human sacrifice as he searches for a missing girl on a secluded island.

This movie is to Nic Cage punching random women in the face what Passenger 57 was to Wesley Snipes punching people in the groin...

Possibly the best scene from the movie occurs about 1:20 or so into this youtube clip... Yes, that is Nic Cage in the bear costume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

Enjoy...

Jason and the Argonauts

Jason London, Dennis Hopper (2000) Jason faces monsters and daunting tasks in a quest to find the Golden Fleece and reclaim his father's kingdom in ancient Greece.

Dennis Hopper with a beard. Pretty wacky!

Also, in case you were wondering, the Golden Fleece is a ram's skull, and a bit of sheepskin. Spray painted gold. Its not even shiny. Its just sort of crappy gold spray paint colored...

Mad Max

So, did Max lose the arm of his leather jacket in the second movie, or sometime in between the first and the second one?

Because I just watched the first one, and he seemed to end it with both sleeves intact...

Ewoks suck?

According to Hurley from Lost, the Ewoks suck.

I enjoy the ewoks.

Thoughts?

Commenting

So, I've been getting a rash of "Anonymous" posting on my blog lately. By which I of course mean that it's happened about twice. Ever.

So, I'm thinking that I might dis-allow anonymous posting, just so we all know who's who in this happy little part of the blog-o-sphere...

Thoughts?

Oh, and I have to pee.

Thoughts?

Fringe, you're awesome...

Because they decided that the best weapon to shoot the transgenic half tiger, half gila monster, half bat, half other stuff monster was a chrome-ass Deagle. In .50 no less... with incendiary rounds.

Oh, and Walter Bishop is fantastic. John Noble (the actor who plays him) is a great actor, and pulls off the crazy really well. Although I probably mention that every time I talk about Fringe.

I wonder how good this show would be without John Noble in that role. Although, the rest of the actors do a pretty good job.

And now he just killed the beast with his Deagle. But after the second shot (he double-tapped the beast), they showed him holding the pistol, and the slide hadn't returned to battery, having jammed about a centimeter or so back... perhaps they had a chamber plug thing in the barrel, that ensure that there was no round chambered, and also interfered with it going back into battery, so you could visually check from the outside that there was nothing in the barrel... Or perhaps it just jammed.

Wow... I'm out of it

I just read a news article which started off with "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton". My first reaction was "Holy shit! Hillary Clinton's the Secretary of State!" You'd think I might have realized that fact sometime in the past few months... But I guess it never really sunk in.

PS. Did you know that we elected a black president?

Brian Van De Graaf

Or however you spell that.

I'm amused that that seems to be the local ABC weatherman's name. Seems sort of fitting, don't you think?

Noah Bennet is Awesome

Plus, I want that gun.

Interesting Episode of 24

Showing the uber-hero Jack Bauer as he goes through the illness is an interesting choice. Granted we all know that he's going to be saved somehow, but its still interesting to see him going up against something he can't torture or kill to beat.

Although, apparently there is some shared border between Fairfax County and DC. I'm pretty sure that's called a river, not a "county line".

And that would/could have been a nice redemption for Tony Almeida. But, not so much...

Passenger 57

Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne (1992) An airline-security expert tries to bring down a skyjacker who, with his gang, has seized a jet.

Apparently, when one is playing roulette, red isn't the best thing to be betting on.

And I probably shouldn't be ending sentences with prepositions...

Note to self: Don't piss off Wesley Snipes.

And today we've learned that sleds/carriages from merry go rounds are bulletproof, but the horseys are definitely not.

Movie's got some pretty fantastic early 90s action movie music... and a lot of assaults on the male genitalia... Seriously... I think there may be more groin punches and kicks in this movie than in all the cinema of the last decade....

Primeval

Its some British show about time anomalies and dinosaurs and stuff...

First episode seems interesting. Seems worth another look, at least...

My Face Is Peeling

I've probably lost about 20 pounds of dried skin that's peeling from my ridiculous sunburn.

The Departed

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon (2006) In Boston an undercover cop gains a gangland chief's trust, while a career criminal infiltrates the police force for the mob.

Also, shouldn't it read "In Boston, an undercover cop..."?

Jack Nicholson just gave Leonardo DiCaprio a phone. Which is identical to my phone. I hope my phone doesn't get all snooty now that its famous... Actually, its the version of my phone that has a camera. So, I guess I don't have anything to worry about...

Also, "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd is better on the album "The Wall" than on the version from "The Wall Concert In Berlin". Pretty good song, though. Good album. Good band.

"Marriage is an important part of getting ahead. Lets people know you're not a homo..." Thanks for that Alec Baldwin.

This movie's got a bunch of famous people in it. Marky Mark, Alec Baldwin, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen...

And Jack Nicholson's character, who seems to be an Irish mobster is currently wearing a t-shirt that says "Irish" on it. It amuses me.

Good movie. Matt Damon and DiCaprio both are rather good in this one. Although, they generally are...

Long movie though... 3 and a half hours, including commercials. Most movies they show on TV are 2 hours, for reference...

Lots of people getting shot in the grape in this one.

My Face Hurts

I think I've learned that I'm definitely going to get a full-face helmet if and when I start to ride motorcycles...

Sitting around on motorcycles in a parking lot for over 6 hours a day in the bright sunlight, wearing what amounts to a solar oven on your grape can result in the most ridiculous of sunburns.

Volcano: Nature Unleashed

Chris William Martin, Antonella Elia (@004) A volcanologist faces resistance when he tries to warn a town's mayor of an impending eruption.

The following quote pretty much sums up the entire movie:

"The school bus is on fire. The children. They are trapped."

You might notice the lack of exclamation points after those sentences. They seem like sentences where those would be in rather regular use. For people who could act. Or had emotion. And I should probably mention that this movie takes place in Italy, yet was made in Bulgaria. So everyone has a completely outrageous "Italian" accent, and only uses the pronoun "she", no matter the gender/article of the particular word... Not knowing any actual Italian, I don't really know if they only have the female article in the language, or if it's just the stereotypical "Mario Italian", made famous by everyone's favorite red-pantsed plumber.

There's some sort of supernatural element involving Main Character dude's dead wife, and some creepy teenage girl... And a lot of very poor acting. Did I mention the poor acting. Cuz its terrible.

Movie "plot keywords from IMDB:
Disaster Film | Volcano | Natural Disaster

Sort of self-explanatory, wouldn't you think? A movie with "volcano" in the title, is most likely a disaster film. That involves volcanoes. Which are sort of by definition natural disasters. We can figure this all out solely through reading the title of the movie, and not even watching any of it. And yet, IMDB decides to install a spoiler warning for these keywords, that you have to move your mouse over them, so as you can see them.

Did that last sentence make sense? I just kind of typed it, stream of consciousness style, and didn't really have a plan for what I was going to say, as I typed...

So, anyways. Spoiler warnings for the keywords on this film. Completely ridiculous.

Quantum of Solace

Instead of watching "Volcano: Nature Unleashed", I have decided that I have watched enough ": "Nature Unleashed" movies for one day.

So, now I'm watching Quantum of Solace.

I bought the DVD last weekend, and then when I went to watch in on Sunday, I discovered that instead of the 2 discs that the "2-disc Special Edition" promised, I only had one. The Special features. which did me a fat lot of good, since I wanted to watch the movie, and save the special features for later... Luckily, Best Buy exchanged it for me, and didn't give me any crap. And also luckily, I bought it at the Best Buy near work, as I happened to be there over the weekend, which made the exchange so much easier...

Anyways, I think were were thinking about going to see this when I was in Hawaii, but never got around to it, so this'll be the first time I'm watching it...

Starting off, I really like what they're doing with the sound in the opening chase scene. Where it starts off with just the opening music, and then abruptly changes to the actual car chase sounds.

Not a big fan of the main theme, though. Don't know who it is, but I guess its back to female singers for the opening theme, after the departure from the norm with Chris Cornell for Casino Royale. And apparently its Alicia Keys. Not a particular fan...

Hopefully they give a decent overview of Casino Royale, as its been a while since I've seen it.

And I do like Daniel Craig as James Bond. He brings a certain athleticism to the role that Pierce Brosnan lacked. Less suave. More "I'm gonna kick your ass". And Casino Royale lacked the gadget absurdities that seemed so prevalent in the Bond movies. We'll see if this holds up in this movie.

And I want one of those touch screen computer things. They're just downright cool, with all the dragging of stuff around and rotating and stuff... Pretty fancy...

And now Olga Kurylenko has showed up. Or whatever the hell her name is. And she's managed to keep her top on. That's kind of novel for her... The other two movies I've seen her in (Max Payne and Hitman), she gets nekkid pretty quick...

And they seem to have broken the monopoly that H&K seemed to have on this film, at least SMG and Assault Rifle wise, in that some guy had a SIG 551 or 550. Didn't get a good enough look at it. I guess that sort of fits with the SIG pistol that the dude had in the earlier chase scene.

Oh, and by the way, sugar cubes are an awesome invention.

James Bond just won a dogfight. Flying a DC3. Against a plane with guns. That's pretty awesome. The DC3 is a nice looking plane... Too bad he lost the fight against the Huey...

I wonder if Bond realizes that, like The Doctor, his tuxedo seems to be cursed. Whenever he wears one, he seems to get into zany adventures.

And then I got caught up watching the movie, and kinda forgot to blog.

Good movie.

Kings on SciFi Channel

Well, they're showing Kings on the SciFi channel now. Looks like that show's dead...

I am hungry

What kind of food shall i eat? Respond soon, as I am currently hungry...

Fire: Nature Unleashed

This movie was all kinds of nonsensical. Something about fires, and dirt-bikes.

And a guy almost falling in a hole, but no one helping him, even though he had a broken leg. There were people on both sides of the hole at the time...

And somehow, whenever the female characters are on dirt-bikes, they're wearing riding leathers. Whenever they're not, they're in tank tops. They never are shown changing, or carrying the leathers...

Mighta helped if I'd actually paid attention.

Counter-Steering

Probably one of the wackiest things ever...

King Crab

If Hells Kitchen has taught me anything, its definitely that King Crabs are frakking ugly critters...

Life on Mars Finale

Sam Tyler's gun switched from a Mini14 to an AK to a Mini-14 again, in successive shots... but that's OK, because this show is really good. And really, the only reason I called it out was because Su complained about it last time I did. In the immortal words of one B. Bunny, "Ain't I a stinker?"

Also, Gene Hunt's shoes are awesome... Perhaps, to go with my fancy hats, I should invest in a pair of bright white loafers...

And now its over. I can honestly tell you that I did not expect the show to end that way. I'm not really sure how I feel about that ending. I may tell you about it at some point, but I need some time to digest it...

I'm not wearing pants

Yup. That's right.