Hey I added re-imagining and re-processing :) I seem to remember the approach to marketing Batman Begins starting with a title that says Batman Begins, at least. There are a number of Conan book titles they could have drawn from. Ah well.

So my question is this: Hollywood keeps making bad movies. How? Why? And we know it's bad because they use the same tricks to try and fool us, like teasers with no real content and strange release dates. These remakes and re-imaginings and re-processings are mostly disasters, but they keep giving people money to make…

I like Appleseed, and I've always wanted to be Deunan for Halloween, except for A-I'd have to cut my hair a bit shorter than I'd like and B-no one I know would know who I was.

I have no idea about the science, but yes to the being a denizen of the Rockies again. My retirement plan is to move even closer, not just to see them on the horizon. :)

The wonderful Rocky Mountains, one of my favourite places! I can get there in an hour, see them from most places around the city, and the origin is now pretty kewl. Not some boring old tectonic or ripple effect, but magma dipping and suction! Science is awesome, yet somehow still makes things...magical. :) I can't…

I'd rather that we didn't destabilize any stars through these types of journeys. I mean, will there be Asgard to save us? Probably not. The greys we know, well...their probing methods don't make me think they can repair a star. ;)

That cheese case is getting mighty full, and meanwhile the butcher counter of fine quality cuts seems so empty. And now I am hungry. Bad cheesy sci-fi makes me want a nice ham and mozzarella melt. MmMmm.

Stars connected to one another in a wormhole kind of way...I am SURE I have seen this in some bad made for TV early 80s kid fic sci-fi Canadian type movie. It might be UFO Kidnapped, which has tiny shreds of info at [www.imdb.com]

It would be neat to see if there's some sort of magnetized iron or other interesting element below that crater. Maybe the initial impact stirred up some other, smaller meteorites in close orbit, and with the law of attraction being what it is, they set the path for the orbital bits to come raining down over time. Not…

Lucky you! I love moments like that in life. Don't give up that moment to Hollywood unless you get a flight on a commercial space craft or something to replace it. Hollywood has stolen enough ideas, about time they found their own.

Maybe I've seen The Right Stuff too many times, but I was hoping for some music in there, and was thinking of Holst's The Planets, and how the movie used Mars and Jupiter to great effect for the rocket launches. Ah, Holst, so powerful, so amazing, just like watching a launch from the side of a booster. :)

Too bad they're not my kids so I can't discipline them. But I see about 7,000 a year as part of my job, so let's hope they remember at least the most important message I teach, which is "Don't Panic!" And if only I could then tell them about The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy... ;)

And now you know my frustrations at teaching safety to kids. :) Not that I'll ever stop trying, I like that part of my job :)

I think kids are great, I just feel frustrated that everything they see on TV is a lie. A LIE I TELL YOU! Too much Hollywood fluff, not enough Discovery Channel. And even then, grains of salt a la Morning Spoilers required! We won't even get started on how wrong the gunplay is in films. Kids don't need to know that.…

As part of the movie viewing audience of planet Earth, yes, I am sick of being lied to. I'm also sick of trying to convince children that cars will not explode when they crash because the movies make everything explode when someone breathes in the wrong direction.

It's like a big "hey Music Industry, suck it" when you think about it. So yes, being able to say Oscar Winning really is the best.

So what happens is...Autumn becomes Winter this Summer. I can handle that :)

Stuff, reading, grains of salt, links, details on movies, Trent Reznor... *hits the brakes*

Well, when we can deflect asteroids with this idea to protect our home AND have a solar system wide game of billiards, then I'll be happy. "Apophis in the Jovian Orbital Pocket," so to speak. A match might take a while...