The New Star Trek Movie

I found this post on the upcoming Paramount release of the Star Trek Pre-quel:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/15/exclusive-new-star-trek-movie-photo-with-kirk-spock-sulu-and-the-uss-enterprise-bridge/

It seems to me like the cast look reasonably like their older selves. I couldn't get a good enough feel for the visual quality of the film from the photos, but they do give a good idea of the general look of the movie.

They're had better be a lot of explosions in space and aliens. Any science fiction movie with out explosions and aliens automatically gets low marks from me.

The Greatest American Hero

I know this post is linked to an older post from another blog, but I just found it today.

It has some pretty good info about a Greatest American Hero movie set to begin filming in 2009. In conjunction with the film, some animated episodes and "comic" novels will be release towards the end of this year.

It's kind of fun when the people, who were kids at the same time I was, decide to make movies based on stuff that was cool when I was a kid. It's like getting to live my childhood over again, except I can drive. Legally, that is.

http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/the-greatest-american-hero-ralph-hinkley-to-return-in-comics-animation-and-movie/

The man that inspired it all....

Long before Inspector Gadget and MacGyver, was Maxwell Smart.

Some think that James Bond had all the world going for him, but I think that really imaginative inventions were really from Agent Smart's arsenal of "electronic" goodness.

The gadget of his that started it all was the shoe phone.

I just saw this documentary on the future production of food crops. It's an eye opener. Large seed companies have patented genetically altered strains of common food crops and then sued independent farmers for patent infringement when strains of the altered crops appear in the farmers fields. You won't look at corn the same way again. Here's a link to the movies site: The Future of Food

I don't usually endorse a movie unless I think it's really well done, or has some sort of interesting twist or aspect to it.

We recently watched Amazing Grace (2006). It's a movie about William Wilberforce, who was a British abolitionist from the late 1700's.

It was really well acted, and written. I expected this show to be somewhat boring as I don't usually go for historical movies, but this one was pretty engaging.

I highly recommend renting it.