March 28, 2022
www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/22/star-trek-movie-shatners-eyeball/
The iconic “retina scan” scene in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan was not Shatner’s own eye.
It was an “eye double” software engineer.
(As the man himself says, your iPhone can take a more detailed picture these days, but it was high tech for 1982…)
December 27, 2021
In case you didn’t know, the entire film of Akira has been available on YouTube since 12/23…in Japanese.
Kanedaaaaaaaaaaa!
Still, it’s free. I first watched it (in badly translated dubbed English) on the big screen in a cheap arts cinema in 1991.
Glorious.
Bought the original Japanese comics (MUCH better than the movie, which barely covers the first volume) and then the English translated comics. Then got the collector’s edition movie with a new English translation (both subtitles and dubbed).
Tetsuooooooo!
It’s online for free until 12/28, so if you’re sick of Santa movies go check it out!
Kanedaaaaaaaaa! Help me…..!
(It’s meant to advertise the upcoming Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works manga collection, available at the end of January.)
Tetsuooooooooooooo!
December 10, 2021
The Bradbury Building is well known (Blade Runner, 1982), but do you know these other locations?
Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings, city halls, abandoned mills, even a high school in Texas…
(An older article, but still interesting…too many movies rely entirely on green screen these days…)
November 25, 2021
Between a hated Marvel movie, a quarterback in space, and ‘the worst movie ever made,’ there are so many sci-fi flicks just waiting to be rebooted.
— Read on screenrant.com/cheesy-science-fiction-movies-that-deserve-remakes-reboots/
I agree with some and totally disagree with others.
A remake of Flash Gordon?
🙆♂️ Sure! (The original is campy, but the comic strip it’s based on was fairly dramatic.)
Logan’s Run?
🤔 Would make a much better series than a one-off (a movie remake is currently in “development hell”).
Howard the Duck?
🤢🤦♂️
Are you kidding? 🙅
What do you all think?
December 4, 2020
…researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have created an artificial skin that mimics this mechanism and reacts to pain stimuli….
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/02/health/artificial-pain-sensing-skin-spc-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
Once again, Star Trek was way ahead of its time…
No, that’s not it. Wait…
Yeah, that’s it.
I, for one, can’t wait to greet our artificial skin-covered overlords…
September 26, 2020
“But decoding and storing memories raise a new set of ethical, moral and legal questions. For instance, who would own these memories after a person has died? Could the police obtain warrants to search through memories? Given that memory itself isn’t completely reliable, could memories be used in lawsuits? How could we ensure that unscrupulous professionals don’t sell or share them?”
Hm, I think I can see another direction this might eventually take…
March 16, 2020
😱😱😱
Welp, guess it’s back to ST:TNG and Teen Titans: Go! for a while…
March 14, 2020
Wasp-76b, as it’s known, orbits so close in to its host star, its dayside temperatures exceed 2,400C – hot enough to vaporise metals.
Hmm….this reminds me of…let me think for a minute…wait, I got it…
Yeah, that’s the one. I think.
(Seriously, check it out. Not even the Jedi could possibly handle an actual “inferno” planet.)
March 9, 2020
Another classic actor, gone.
I still remember my favorite line, from The Greatest Story Ever Told:
“Don’t vory, Mary.”
Ah, classic Swedish Jesus.
And the scifi-fantasy list…
What’s your favorite Max von Sydow movie/TV series?
February 7, 2020
“I think we’ve got a better chance of having slightly higher forms of life on Europa, perhaps similar to the intelligence of an octopus.”
Hmm. Maybe. It seems more like that any life would be of the microscopic or worm-like variety. But we still have to get out there first to find out…
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