11.12.09
Stuck Between an App and a Website
I’m a Star Wars kid. No doubt about it. I’m not as fanatical about the franchise as some are but the films left a huge impact on me (ask me some other time about my application essay to NYU about Star Wars — ahem). Subsequent science fiction films did the same thing — the Alien films left a mightier impact aesthetically and to a lesser degree, the Star Trek franchise and once I worked my way up to it, 2001. Science fiction since then has been about trying to imagine what the future would be like and as technology starts to catch up with the flights of imagination of those early auteurs (and now, multi-millionaires), we’re embracing existing technology with the high-tech look that these films, book, radio shows and comics that looked to the future presented.
06.22.09
On the Moon
We saw Moon this past Friday. I’d been awaiting this film for a while now and it was well worth it. I was skeptical when I first came across the trailer — it makes it seem like an amalgam of various other sci-fi films before it — 2001, Alien and even Event Horizon. But the film has a completely different narrative that I can’t say anything about here. To do so would spoil it completely.
