I saw Oblivion a few weeks back. Much better than TRON: Legacy by miles, but still missing that something that could ave made it great. I thing a lot of that was how the story tried to tack on too many ideas for its own good. Otherwise, Oblivion is a perfectly acceptable film that is continuing the flourishing trend of original science fiction appearing on the big screen.
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I saw another author do this on her blog, a year-end assessment on some highlights of her year, so I decided to do this myself. 2012 has been a momentous year on all aspects. Hear are some of the better points that happened throughout. Read More…
The new, full Man of Steel trailer that’ll be playing before The Hobbit came out yesterday ago and lit up the Interwebs. We get a fuller scope of the film, which features a rebooted origin story, action and explosions up the ass, shots of Supes in full costume, Pa Kent (Kevin Costner), Ma Kent (Diane Lane), Lois Lane (Amy Adams), Zod (Michael Shannon) and Jor-El (Russel Crowe). Take a look below. Read More…
Wow. Just…WOW.
And here I thought it was going to be another news day dealing mainly with the horrible Sandy aftermath. Then, Disney decides to break the Internet by announcing that they just bought LucasFilm from its sole shareholder, George Lucas for about $4.05 billion (half of that in cash and the other half in stocks).
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I FINALLY finished ‘A Storm of Swords’ today. WOW. What an amazing, epic whale of a book. It took a couple of months to get through that, but it was worth it. The damn thing was over 900 pages. The world of Westeros and Beyond really expands in this book, as does the appearance of magic, plus there are some huge power shifts that happened in the major power players of the book. Read More…