http://sonictremormedia.com/blog Science, Fiction, and other stuff that gives nerds wood. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sebastian Caine [Kevin Bacon] is a man with voyeuristic tendencies. Dangerous character trait for a man working on an invisibility serum. In a modern day update of The Invisible Man, director Paul Verhoeven presents a morality play; a cautionary tale about the dangers of technology in the hands ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/12/10/hollow-man-2000/ Since the first Batman movie starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, Hollywood has been attempting to recapture the magic of superhero movies. On occasion they've come close [Spiderman], and in other instances they've failed miserably [Fantastic Four]. Iron Man does not replace Batman at the top spot on my personal ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/11/20/iron-man-2008/ Hollywood's penchant for making (and re-making) time worn-concepts has begun to get on my nerves. There are so many good ideas waiting to be made into major motion pictures, and yet we're subjected to so many bad concepts and remakes, I'm never sure if it's worth the ten spot ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/11/10/5-science-fiction-concepts-worth-another-look/ Maria Lidon directs and co-stars in this Spanish science fiction film (in English) about an expedition to Mars which crash lands on the surface. Faced with certain death, the international crew of astronauts is forced to consider extreme measures. The script for Stranded is actually quite good save for a ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/11/04/stranded-2002/ Rollerball is another bleak 1970's depiction of a totalitarian future society. This time around it's a corporate controlled world where war has been outlawed. Rollerball even leaves the existence of the United States as we know it in doubt. Corporations and the Executives make all decisions... every ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/10/17/rollerball-1975/ Not too long ago, I saw someone on a message board predicting that the People's Democratic Republic of China would be the first country to successfully place a man on the surface of Mars and return him safely to Earth. An intriguing prediction to say the least. ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/10/07/red-china-red-mars/ PBS' Nova: Astrospies is a true story of space espionage that most have never heard. Despite my own ravenous consumption of anything space-oriented I confess, I hadn't heard of it either. At the dawn of the 1960's, and as a direct result of the shootdown of Gary Francis Powers, the ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/08/23/nova-astrospies/ The fourth installment of the Terminator series, Terminator Salvation is presently scheduled to be released in the summer of 2009, pushed back from an original Christmas 2008 release date. If first appearances are any indication, this installment will be a whole new beginning for the Terminator series. For the first time, ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/08/12/terminator-salvation-2009/ At the turn of the millennium, we all felt like we were on the verge of something big. And we were... the dawn of a new era in science fiction. In 1999, The Matrix became the first movie to encapsulate the concept of cyber-punk virtual reality and display ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/08/11/the-matrix-1999/ Any movie where New York City is one huge ghost town is alright with me. However, I Am Legend feels like a re-write too many on a concept that's nearly overdone at present--the concept that thinking, feeling humans have disappeared and the world is populated by mindless, blood-thirsty beasts, ... http://sonictremormedia.com/blog/2008/03/22/i-am-legend-2007/