Ponderings For 2010-01-27

Submitted by GuyGG on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:59pm

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By Grabthar's Hammer, What A Movie! I received my blu-ray copy of Galaxy Quest today from Amazon and just finished watching it. This is one of those movies that's just as entertaining with every single viewing. It's one of the rarest comedies in that it's both a parody and a genuine representation of what it parodies. It's the best of both worlds. It's one of the all-time great comedies, and it's great to have a nice, great quality release of it with the recent blu-ray release. I think the funniest thing is that the legendary Michael & Denise Okuda did the trivia/information system for the Galaxy Quest (for you non-Trek fans, the Okuda's have done many trivia tracks, written tech books and were art and tech advisors on a number of Trek series). Another cool thing is that 10 years later the visual effects in Galaxy Quest still hold up remarkably well. And the story is still as brilliant yet elegantly simple as ever. And of course the cast is perfect. The film also feature one of the single most obvious dialog replacement moments to achieve a lower rating in film history (for those who've somehow never noticed it, pay attention to Sigourney Weaver when the come upon the "chomper" metal compressor obstacle course. This new 10th anniversary edition features a nice, new retrospective documentary as well. At any rate, if you haven't seen it, you must. If you have, then you should see it again. Never give up! Never surrender!
Hurray! Looks like ABC has ordered up an additional 2 episodes of Castle, and the series may be finding the traction to survive a long life.
Try this piece of weirdness on - the great Weird Al is going to direct his first feature film, for Cartoon Network, and it's going to be live action. Well, I guess "weird" is the watch word.
Best of luck to Mars rover, Spirit. Hopefully it can survive the Martian winter. It's amazing that they're still getting use from Spirit & Opportunity after this many years.
La Femme Nikita gets yet another iteration. As a fan of all three previous forms (yes, even Point Of No Return), I'll give the new one a chance.
25 classic dialog scenes performed in "typography." It's really quite nifty work.
And in closing, ladies and gents, I give you this piece of utterly, gobsmackingly, insanely unbelievable piece of stupidity. I swear I thought I was reading an article from The Onion at first. This bit of lunacy is not much better (though it's at least slightly understandable).