Archive for July, 2007
Spotted an article on Wired News about a new sci-fi movie called Sunshine. I love me some science fiction, especially ones that put in doses of realism. But I wonder just how “real” this movie will be when the director can’t even get his movie release dates right…
There was a strong strain of it into the ’70s that tried to depict space realistically, but it’s been replaced. Alien, one of the great masterpieces, was quickly followed by Star Wars. And Star Wars, of course, led everyone to fantasy sci-fi, that playground where anything goes. You can imagine any creature, on any planet. And they all talk English.
As commenters pointed out and anyone who’s even dabbled in the sci-fi genre could tell you, Alien was released two years after Star Wars. Oh… and it’s funny, but I don’t remember Jawas speaking English.
Suddenly, I’m not all that inspired to watch Sunshine. Maybe I’ll watch it when it gets to DVD but I’d be afraid of how much things would be “wrong” in the movie.
No, not “The Man” as in the big dude we gotta rebel against. But the man who gave Cyberspace its ring. William Gibson is to appear in Second Life. Seems Gibson’s journey is organized by Penguin Books.
While such a thing is awesome and I’ve heard lots of good things about Second Life, I just couldn’t get used to the interface. But maybe, just maybe, I might try again. If only to see if I can see the avatar of William Gibson.
Of all the movies in my collection, I’m planning on loading Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children on my iPhone. While I don’t know entirely how to get the subtitles imported in when converting the movie into iPod format, I’d like to. But then how would it look on my iPhone? Would I even be able to read the words?
So I guess what I’ll do is just load the English dub. Those who know me know that I don’t like that. Most times the English dub comes out corny and stupid.
If anything I can always spend another couple of hours reconverting the movie.
Anyway, time to check it out on my iPhone, which is where I’m writing this post. 
Just got my iPhone tonight.
Yes, friends, I am in love. Sleek, sexy, sultry, seductive. And stuff.
After fiddling with all the different programs, I did experience what seemed to be a crash with the iPod portion; it wouldn’t play music. So, I just turned off the phone and turned it back on and I was good to go. I haven’t encountered any other issues.
Of course, having missed the whole weekend crusade, I was able to activate my phone in a matter of minutes.
Someone mentioned that they were able to connect to their secured wireless network without inputting the password on their iPhone. I call bull-doodoo since my network is secured and my iPhone detected it and asked for a password to connect. Either the person didn’t secure his network or he already slotted his password into his iPhone.
The maps portion seemed to be okay but all I did to test so far was look up the nearest Starbucks to my house. Google Maps picked it out correctly and gave proper directions. I’ve relatives incoming and I’d be interested to test the maps out for finding the good eats.
Other gadgetry, like camera, SMS, email, web browsing, were all good. Nothing outstanding, besides the interaction, but nothing glaringly wrong.
Mmmm… so wonderful.
Transformers was awesome…
More later when I’m not reeling.
Edited July 5th, 2007
So, Transformers could’ve been written better. The dialogue was kinda cheesy. But some of the one-liners were funny. Especially those that related to quips from the cartoon series.
Campy aside, the robots were awesome. Good CGI and interaction with real life stuff. In this day and age, it’s not really saying much but when was the last time we saw huge honking robots? And ones that could transform to boot?
That’s what I thought.
I do hope they’re able to make a sequel. I’d pay admission.
I’d love to go about the visuals but the movie’s still new and I’d hate to spoil it. I’ll say this though… these Transformers can kick ass!
