Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Ladies (and gents, if so inclined) it is NEVER cool to ask folks to sign your sex toys. Even if it is just an action figure with a battery pack.
In less mind-sporking Twilight news, have you heard about the woman who found a New Moon script in the trash?
Blast from the past. Newsweek has a fantastic audio slideshow featuring long-time fan Angelique Trouvere talking about Trek conventions of the 70’s. Don’t miss it!
Don’t blink. MTV points out the many cameos in the new film. There was no mistaking Tyler Perry, but who else missed Greg Grunberg? io9 goes into more detail on the various Easter Eggs.
He is Spock. Geoff Boucher has a great interview with Leonard Nimoy.
But everyone’s a Captain Kirk. Elsewhere on the Los Angeles Times site, Todd Martens takes a look at Star Trek in mainstream music.
Speaking of Kirk… You could get your own next time you fly.
Geek reads. Here’s a site devoted to Star Trek books. Huh. (via)
A fanboy moment. John Serba’s ten reasons why Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Can’t we all just get along? (via)
Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine and Leonard Nimoy showed up on Saturday Night Live last night.
Meanwhile, the film seems well on the way to a $76.5M opening weekend.
With an insanely positive spread of critical reviews and even crazier accolades from genre fans, J.J. Abram’s Trek reboot looks on track to make some serious bank at box office this weekend. (Who says moms don’t like Star Trek?) But what did you think? Vote under the cut or on the sidebar. Continue reading “Saturday morning poll: Star Trek edition”
Guys, I think that this ‘trailer’ will recreate for you the ‘Are you kidding me’ effect I felt watching Transformers. Of course, the ponies don’t talk, so YMMV.
Star Trek reviews are starting to flow in, and the Tomatometer has dropped to a stunning 93%. Huh.
io9 asks What’s the difference between space opera and military sci-fi? I won’t tell you their answer, but mine involves the fact that straight military sci-fi almost always bores me to death. You?
Time Out New York puts Star Trek actor but Star Wars fan Simon Pegg on the Hot Seat, and he opines that the Trek franchise has maintained its integrity while Star Wars hasn’t. Maybe he just didn’t see Star Trek V, or Insurrection? Then again, with the holodeck on The Next Generation, he voices that it jumped the shark there. Anyway, only one more day until the release of Star Trek…
We interrupt my real life in the H1N1 response to bring some sad news to the Stargate family. Dom DeLuise, talented comedian and the creator of the much-beloved character Urgo, has died at the age of 75.
Mr. DeLuise was also father to long-time Stargate director/writer Peter DeLuise and actors Michael (Colonel Danning from Wormhole Extreme) and David (Sam’s boyfriend Pete Shanahan).
Urgo once said, “I wanna live! I wanna experience the universe! And I wanna eat pie!” Hopefully you’re now getting to do so.
Wolverine rules the box office. Naked Hugh Jackman and friends brought in a whooping $160M worldwide this weekend. Also interesting? 47% of the U.S. audience was female. (Hey, look: It had issues, but it was better than X3. Plus, naked Jackman.) Looks like there may be a sequel in the offing after all.
Next week’s shiny. Wolvie faces his first real competition with the release of the new Star Trek on Friday. Anticipation is high, and the reviews are almost ridiculously positive – 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment. And if you must know, Geoff Boucher has the skinny on the film’s homage to ESB.
And on that note… Stephen King’s Dark Tower series may be next for J.J. Abrams.
Let’s not forget Fanboys. With the DVD out in a few weeks, Lightsabre talks to director Kyle Newman.
Only because I am obliged to post it. Pretty much nothing going on with Indy 5.
Your final comic book tidbit. The first picture from Iron Man 2.