New Tron Legacy Trailer

10 degrees of cool.

The Titans Will Clash Again

via mikelgan.posterous.com

I had no idea they were remaking Clash of the Titans, but it only makes sense. I remember it being a very cool movie from my own childhood.

I'm not terribly impressed by the trailer, and hopefully it doesn't do the movie justice, which comes out in March 2010.

I'm just wondering: where's the little mechanical owl?

I Watched X-Files 2: I Want To Believe

[For those who care, there are spoilers here.]

Scully is a physician.

Mulder is in hiding.

FBI brings them back to work with a psychic pedophile priest to solve an abduction.

They figure out that this Russian dude is the bad guy, harvesting body parts for Frankenstein-like experiments in rural West Virginia.

There are no aliens.

6.8 out of 10 stars.

I Watched Gran Torino

So Gran Torino was about as interesting as the filthy language throughout.


Clint Eastwood is old and lives in a bad neighborhood.


An Asian gang picks on people.


Particularly this dude and his sister.

So Eastwood gets himself killed by the gang in front of witnesses so they'll be locked up.

And a bunch of stuff about family, culture and regret. Plus, it's in Detroit.

6.6 out of 10 stars.

I Rented The Day the Earth Stood Still

Basically, it goes like this:

Keanu Reeves is an alien visiting Earth to pass judgment (in the form of death) on the human race in order to save the planet.

Jennifer Connelly is a scientist who tries to convince him to give humans another chance. So he does.

Oh, and stuff gets destroyed before he's convinced.

Plus, there are big swirly balls.

Really, there's nothing else worth mentioning.

5.2 out of 10 stars.

Ben Stein's New Movie Looks Very Cool

By the looks of the trailer, this could be a movie I'd truly enjoy.

From the movie's website:

The American public’s awareness and beliefs vis-à-vis our government’s expanding role in defining the curriculum in America’s schools, universities and institutions of science.

Neo-Darwinian theory contends that life is the result of a random, purposeless process.

Neo – Darwinian theory is taught in schools as if it is the only plausible scientific explanation of how life originated and developed. Yet Intelligent Design theory has recently emerged to challenge neo-Darwinian theory.

Both are scientific theories, and the debate is therefore legitimate. Why is the debate being suppressed?

At stake are two very consequential views of existence: Is life purposeful, and intelligently designed? Or is it random and purposeless?

“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” presents a point-of-view so powerful, that it
literally forces a re-examination of these issues.

“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” looks to scientists on both sides of the issue…and reveals some truly shocking answers.

Expelled opens April 18th. Check to see where it's playing near you.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Did you enjoy National Treasure a couple years back? Yeah, it was okay for me, too. But only because Sean Bean is a great villain.

The sequel is coming out this December. The only reason I mention it is that it shines a spotlight on the Black Hills, South Dakota, where I spent an enjoyable week gawking at giant granite carvings and toting an infant around. The movies lets you take a gander not only at Mount Rushmore, but also Needles Highway and Sylvan Lake - a picturesque little lake that we visited.

Here is Sylvan Lake in the movie:






And here's Sylvan Lake as captured by my far superior video camera.




And finally, me standing on one of the rock outcroppings.



Take that, Nicholas Cage!