Adapted from a comment I made over at Chris’ blog to help him and his buddies kick start their science fiction club, by suggesting films they should watch.
Generally speaking, I think you could say that Science Fiction films have roots in ideas, whereas fantasy have root in the fantastic. To use a comparison from one of my friends, while a whole batch of films coming out these days could be considered science fiction, like Iron Man or any James Bond movies (ever), since they make use of technology currently unavailable to us, that isn’t really the crux of science.
I’ll try and stray away from the obvious ones, but you can’t get around 2001: A Space Odyssey. And if you do watch it, make sure the sound is so loud that you’ll think on more than one occasion: “Should we turn it down just a notch?”. And then don’t.
Continue reading ‘Science Fiction Films Galore’
I normally keep quotations to my tumblr account, but this one I came upon while idly flipping through Troublesome Words, and it felt like deserving of more prominence:
‘Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die’ is often heard, but is wrong. The lines from Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ are ‘Their’s not to reason why,/ Their’s but to do and die’. Note that the closing words ‘do and die’ give the lines an entirely different sense. Finally, it should be noted that Tennyson’s punctuation of ‘theirs’ is irregular.
- Bill Bryson, Troublesome Words, 3rd ed. paperback, Penguin Books, 2001, p. 149.
I accidentally slipped into a Star Wars hole about a month or two back, which turned out to be not so much a hole, but more of an entirely undiscovered cave system (which caused me to also purchase a few items for my Star Wars ‘library’).
Really, I blame those pesky bastards over at originaltrilogy.com, for always working on stuff that isn’t simply interesting in that nerdy ‘I’m I’m 30-years-old and I’m a Star Wars nerd’ kind of way, but also on a larger more serious film historic scale.
Continue reading ‘Star Wars Community Projects of Note’
I took a few hours and scanned all our movies and english books into Delicious Library 2. The new export function is sweet; check it out.
(Except for Mars Attacks of course, sorry Rassi :)
I’m back from Rome in one piece, albeit paradoxically now in serious need of a vacation. Touristing it is hard work.
Just before I left, a few thing happened in relation to Habari and Monolith, which I didn’t find the time to comment on, but which may be of interest to those of you following the progress of these two projects.
Continue reading ‘A Quick Monolith Update’
Ah, Rome.
Today I met a woman named porn. She was a cleaning lady in the airport…
Our room here, is with the exception of the window, a panic room. You’re not coming through the door, your best bet is the wall…
Ellipsis…
We’re doing well, send more money.
Love.
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