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If I recall correctly Samuel L Jackson got to choose the color of his lightsaber.

I think it was yesterday on AMC movie news they were talking about the possibility of Spaceballs 2. They were talking how it'll probably not happen because Mel Brooks is basically retired and if they gave it to someone else, it would probably be as bad as all these parody comedies like Scary Movie and others they do these days. Another note mentioned was Mel Brooks did get permission from George Lucas but there could be no toys on market. Too bad I would've too loved to have a Dark Helmet bobble head.

Here's the new Terminator trailer.

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Even the Paradoxes have paradoxes.

I mean it looks like T800 is carrying a girl I can only assume to be a young Sarah Connor! Does that mean Arnie showed up in the 1960s?! and if so... Here's a mind _____ thought What if he was sent by Skynet to Father Sarah Connor so there would be a John Conner to lead the rebellion, who would need to hunted in the past so Skynet could create time travel to send terminators into the past so they could be trashed and salvaged creating the basis for Skynet!

The idea was said to have come partly from James Cameron. There was some concern over Arnold's age and can he continue doing Terminator movies. Cameron gave a theory on that where Terminators can age. They having living flesh so they can age if they had no means to replace their flesh. The story I've read is Skynet attempted to send a Terminator before the one in the original movie. Nothing happened so I guess Skynet assumed that mission was a failure to which another one was sent back in time which is the one in the original movie. What happened to the first Terminator was it was sent to the wrong earlier time laying in wait to complete its mission disguised as a human. To which how a Terminator can age. But because they have a chip with the ability to learn as explained in the second movie, that Terminator learned right from wrong and decided to protect Sarah Connor. I believe I read also that Skynet sent a Terminator to kill Sarah Connor when she was a child to which is how the first Terminator saved Sarah Connor and that's how they're together when Kyle Reese arrives in the past. So I think the Terminator from the original movie was the third sent back. There's going to be some timeline questions ripe for a geek debate.

So in the new Terminator I'm surprised to see the human forces still haven't yet hack into the T-1000 to their advantage like they did to the T-800? I mean I would like to see Arnold in a T-1000 concept instead of the T-800.

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So in the new Terminator I'm surprised to see the human forces still haven't yet hack into the T-1000 to their advantage like they did to the T-800? I mean I would like to see Arnold in a T-1000 concept instead of the T-800.

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I guess in the end, they decided that the T-1000 was still the best villain ever in the Terminator series.

I always Though that the T1000 and TX were built they way they were specifically to prevent Resistance fighters from turning them. I mean all you have to do to turn a T600-T700-T800 (T1)- T850(T2) T888 (SCC) T900(, SCC) is find away to disable them, pull there chip and star hacking there software, In the Sarah Connor Chronicles it's obvious that at some point the Resistance has become masters of this having seemingly dozens of verious models. T1000 by being a mimetic polyalloy Whatever that means ( Best Guess Nanotechnology) may be disabled or destroyed but your never going to hack liquid metal even if you disable it ( somehow ) you would have to find a way to access it and I doubt there is a handy USB port. In the Sarah Conner Chronicles the only way to get a T1000 series on your side was to hope it wanted to join. There was a "Cyborg Resistance" Machines who some how glitched and decided to form there own faction in hopes of gaining there own independence.
TX by using it as a outer shell is basically armored. When combined with onboard weapons becomes anti-terminator-terminator. again by using the liquid metal covering she could prevent hacking of her self. about the only way she or T1000 could be turned is if they were attacked by another T-X and I always felt that Skynet's answer to that would be that T-X's Systems Core is likely a carbon copy of Skynet.

Finally saw Interstellar yesterday with my family. I didn't review yesterday because, frankly, the film is hard to review. On one hand, it is perhaps one of the most innovative movie of the decade (and certain THE most innovative of the year) touching on powerful scientific and philosophical themes but on the other, I felt that it fell short of a cinematic master piece and comes across as more of a though provoking blockbuster.

One thing that's for certain is that Interstellar is Nolan's most ambitious effort to date. This time, he tried to tackle the issues of emotions and strong female characters in his film. Despite the fact that his efforts fell short, I still applaud the Nolan brothers for trying something new in their film.

The film is grand in scope and the cinematography is nothing short of breathtaking. Like Kubrick before him, Nolan spelled out in exquisite details the challenges of near-future space travel. Unlike "2001", however, Nolan fell back on old (bad) habits and tried to answer everything for the audience as well through stilted exposition, leaving nothing to imagination. This time, however, I can't entirely accuse Nolan of not following the old writing axiom of "show, not tell" because in this film, he first shows the audience and then tells them the exact same thing just a few scenes later. For instance, the opening of the film established Cooper's engineering and pilot background through the hacking of an Indian Airforce Drone and a nightmare flashback to a piloting mishap. But around 10-15 minutes after the aforementioned scenes, the school principal literally tells Cooper that "he is a pilot and engineer". Who the heck talks like this? This problem got especially irritating at the the part when ********************************************************************* Spoilers Alert *****************************************************************

Cooper travelled to the "Fifth Dimension" through the black hole in a scene highly reminiscent of the "Stargate" sequence in 2001. As an audience, I was filled with awe and wonder up till the point when Cooper and TARS explains to the audience that the fifth dimensional beings are actually future evolved humans. To me, what Nolan did there is akin to showing the precise mechanisms in the hat right after he pulled a rabbit out of it.

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In short, if "2001" -- Interstellar's spiritual ancestor -- can be compared to an open-ended essay question, then Interstellar is a multiple-choice exam with 90% of the answers bubbled in by a smart student. I felt that Nolan truly aspired to make Interstellar a master piece but was afraid to go all the way. By not doing that, he made Interstellar merely a great movie as opposed to a true classic.

Do check it out if you haven't already. It really was a mind blowing experience for me. 8/10.

I'll chip in for Interstellar as well -- **************spoilers ahead ***************

I think the movie was ambitious in scope, and I could respect and appreciate the lengths to which they went to depict "realistic" long haul space travel, as well as some of the physics involved -- the redocking scene after Matt Damon blows open the Endurance is a great example.

However, by trying to make the movie so realistic, I can't help but poke holes in it, physics/practicality wise (story wise comes later). These qualms aren't big issues, but:

-Why did the initial Ranger leaving earth need a rocket booster if the Ranger shuttles could leave the other planets through VTOL/direct ascent on their own power? Of course if the other planets have a small radius (even if they have 80% or 130% earth's gravity), then the escape velocity of the Ranger shuttle could be correspondingly smaller. That said, this is a smaller issue I have, because there are ways to explain this. I just feel like they wanted a dramatic "leaving" sequence.
-Shoudln't it have taken Cooper months to retrain and learn the mission, instead of just leaving right on cue?
-Are the Ranger shuttles frigging water proof?? Why?? And are they able to survive a mile high tidal wave and still fly?
-Why did the inside of the Endurance's stasis pod room look like it was an old bathroom, with chipped paint and everything? Wouldn't the interior of such a vessel seek to minimize tiny floating particles that could damage circuitry or enter individual's mouths and noses?


The plot is a bigger issue for me:

-Introducing 5th dimensional beings/humanity in far future in the end is the ultimate dues ex mechina, especially for a film that has tried to be so realistic. I'm left wondering if everything else prior to Cooper entering the blackhole was thus pointless, because it felt like everything was just a distraction for Cooper and TARS to get the blackhole's data
-Why did the 5th dimensional beings choose Murph's frigging bedroom as the vehicle of communication for Cooper?? Are the future 5th dimensional beings that fond of symbolism and poetry? Couldn't they have created a tesseract that allowed Cooper to interact with a blackboard in (adult) Murph's office in NASA or something? that way he could have simply written out everything on a blackboard instead of having to translate it via morse code to that stupid watch. There are so many other more practical ways for Cooper to return the information back to Murph. Of course, I understand that Nolan wanted something poignant and symbolic and personal. For a movie like Inception, symbolism can work given everything is occurring in a dream. But for Interstellar, everything is happening in physical reality where symbolism shouldn't matter as much. It feels shoe horned.
-How did Murph know it was her father who was the ghost/sending her the information??
-Why didn't earth send another expedition through the wormhole in the years after Endurance left, or even after Murph solved the gravity issue?

I can appreciate Nolan bringing sci-fi ideas on the big screen in the most realistic way in recent years, and despite the plot holes and skepticism regarding issues of practicality, it also works on an emotional level. Cinematography is also fantastic, but these days with CGI and practical effects nothing is particularly mind blowing. I will say that the entire redocking scene after Matt Damon's screw up is quite epic -- the music there was amazing.

Personally I give it a 6.75/10 -- for comparison, I rate Inception as a 9.5/10.

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Japan’s Toho to Produce New ‘Godzilla’ Movie

60 Years of Godzilla
DECEMBER 7, 2014 | 05:57PM PT
Mark Schilling
Film Reporter
TOKYO — Ten years after “Godzilla: Final Wars,” the last Toho Godzilla movie, trampled across the screen, the Japanese studio is gearing up to make another film featuring its iconic character.

The movie is scheduled to begin production in the summer of 2015 and bow theatrically in 2016, Toho sources have revealed. Details, including director and cast, have yet to be announced.

The inspiration is the success of Gareth Edward’s 2014 “Godzilla,” which earned $525 million worldwide and JPY3.2 billion ($26 million) in Japan, with Toho and Warner Bros. Japan co-distributing.

Toho has launched what it calls the Godzilla Strategic Conference (Godzi-Con), a committee of studio executives and directors whose aim is to reboot the Godzilla brand, including the new “Godzilla” pic.

The head of the new Godzilla project, veteran producer Taichi Ueda, told the press that, though Toho will not spend the $200 million reportedly lavished on the American “Godzilla,” “The time has come for Japan to make a film that will not lose to Hollywood.” Ueda added that Toho hopes to make Godzilla a character that “will represent Japan and be loved around the world” by the time of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

As part of its effort to reacquaint a new generation of Japanese with the country’s signature monster, Toho plans to erect a giant Godzilla statue in its Toho Cinemas Shinjuku theater by April of next year.

Meanwhile, Edwards has been signed to make “Godzilla 2,” which is set for a June 8, 2018, bow, with Legendary and Warner Bros. again co-producing.

The 28th Godzilla pic since Ishiro Honda’s first in 1954, Ryuhei Kitamura’s “Godzilla: Final Wars” earned a disappointing $12 million following its 2004 release, prompting Toho to put the character into cold storage.

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