John Galt has been found

The theatrical production of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has had the status of “announced” for several years. Until recently the only person cast has been Angelina Jolie in the role of Dagny Taggart. I’m not sure when this was updated, but Jamie Clay will play John Galt. Mr. Clay is quite a bit older than Angelina and I don’t recall there being a very big age difference between the two characters. According to Mr. Clay’s page on IMDB this will be his first time as an actor. I think using unknowns is a good idea for a movie like this. There are a lot of people out there who are expecting the studio to screw up this project. If they don’t have to deal with major stars maybe they can focus on doing this well. It’s listed as coming out this year. Well it’s February so we’ve got 10 months left. I really think they need to bump it ahead to 2010.

JUMPER: Sliders meets Highlander

I don’t want to give away too much. Those of you who found Hayden Christensen annoying as Anakin Skywalker, well he has redeemed himself. This is a film about people who are able to create wormholes and pass through them whether it’s five feet or half way around the globe. It’s also about some other people who hunt them down. It also stars Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane and Samuel L. Jackson as an evil Mace Windu. I really liked this movie. Christensen did well with this character. I’ve seen him in Shattered Glass, but nothing else. I’ll have to catch up on his other films.

Movie Review: SS Doomtrooper on SciFi

Baa-Baa Blacksheep takes on The Incredible Hulk. I’ve learned to not expect much from most SciFi Channel movies. This one stars Corin Nemec and Ben Cross. A US Army captain puts together a squad of convicts to go after Nazi creature that is near invincible. The CG shading is so bad I thought I was watching a FPS game made into a movie.

Cloverfield: Godzilla mates with the Blair Witch

I’m sure it has its good points beyond the suspense of not knowing whether New York was under a military or monster attack. It’s the jostling handheld camera that I was ultimately unable to deal with. I ended up walking out because my motion sickness kicked in after a few minutes of shaking and running. I tried to hang in and see it all but I started getting feverish and turning a very unattractive shade of green. It is hard to tell that’s what they’re doing from the previews. I thought it was just a normal mounted camera. I tried to hang in there but I had to give it up. I’ll wait until it hits PPV where I can stop it and watch it in pieces.

Huh? What?

Back in 1977 we saw both Star Wars and Close Encounters. I had two friends at that time who saw both pictures and didn’t like Close Encounters saying Star Wars was “so much better” I’m sorry, what? I thought it was an irrelevant comparison. They might as well have been comparing rice to cottage cheese. Plus such a statement is a complete betrayal of all true sci-fi buffs and blasphemy of the highest order. But we should probably keep things on a friendly basis. The only time I compare movies is when there are similar themes, if one is a sequel or prequel of the other, or if I see a clear ripoff of thematic material. There was none of that between those two movies.

Never needs sharpening

Looks like the TSA will have to add this to their list of stuff you can’t take on a plane. I think for some cooking jobs I’d like one with a blade you could adjust. You wouldn’t want to be slicing carrots and cut into your plate or counter. Also they need to supply a special cutting board that the blade cannot slice through. But that would make one wonder why they didn’t have it in the SW movies. Remember what they said on the Physics of Star Wars. In order for the lightsaber to work it would have to be made of plasma and hotter than the sun.

Ready for Battle

I am very much looking forward to the AVP-R movie. I wish I could go tomorrow but that whole getting up thing is a pain. Especially since I have to work tomorrow. I guess this will be the final chapter. Nobody knows. As I posted earlier, it would be really cool to have Riddick show up in this movie. I’ll be posting a review sometime this week.

New Movie Idea

AVR: Aliens vs. Riddick

So after Riddick takes the Necromonger horde into the underverse he goes back to Furya to find that some idiot showed up with an alien queen in their chest and the planet is about to be overrun with them. Toombs has gotten off Crematoria and the mercs are back on his trail. He befriends a pack of those wolf-lion beasts and starts taking out aliens. Of course there’ll be the requisite acid burns, pleas to be killed by people impregnated and about to pop open. And of course Riddick wins in the end. As for Toombs, well he should have taken the money.