A 49 foot tall Giant Robo Asimo kicked off the 120th Rose Parade on New Years to help celebrate Honda’s 50th year in the US. Not as powerful as the Anime Giant Robo, but not as silly as the Live Action Giant Robo, this version was biodegradable and hydrogen powered for that green effect. Also not to be confused with the chain of art galleries banded together under the Giant Robo flag, like GR-SF, GR-NY, or the LA outlet, simply called GR2. And then there is the robot-building farmer…
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If you don’t know about this movie, brace yourself; Franklyn is releasing in the UK next month, it better be out in the US soon!
If you don’t know about this movie, brace yourself; Franklyn is releasing in the UK next month, it better be out in the US soon!
Wolverine is coming, even if they haven’t built the full site yet. Or even the home page; this was the only link I pulled out of the page source that gave me anything on the screen tonight. Maybe by next month. A fully realized movie home page is Cyborg She, also known as Cyborg Girl or Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu. It would be just another robot girlfriend/time travel/disaster/superhero/romantic comedy, if it wasn’t for the world-class acting, good special effects and cinematography, and fun story line. You made need to explain a few details to viewers who have trouble following simultaneous personal and linear timelines, but it is an enjoyable film even for the temporally challenged.
Or at least the Sci-Fi Flicks for the Thinking Man, which makes sense, since Rotten Tomatoes put this 10 best list together. This is a different kind of list, put together in honor of the final story segment for the new Battlestar Galactica series, and a mighty good list it is. It includes Dark City (which also made the Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time meme, in the number 30 position), Gattaca (25 on that list), Children of Men (6th place), and Blade Runner (at number 5). Primer didn’t make the Dystopian list, but was one of the best time travel movies ever made, and didn’t need a big budget to do it. 2001: A Space Odyssey also didn’t make the D list, but had to be on this one. And then there are Solaris and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and several more. For once, a list actually includes the targets its description requires.
While it is still part of the SciFi Channel, SciFi Wire has split off, with a much cleaner, more elegant, and faster-loading home page than the original site, living on its own domain name. This is a reversal from when the SciFi Channel absorbed Sci-Fi Weekly back in 1994, paying the collage students who created and maintained it some serious money for their troubles. Weekly may have evaporated from the independent Net, but some of us remember. Another spin-off property is DVice, which currently has a fun article on the most absurd devices from sci-fi movies. Of course, when you consider the history of ownership of the channel since it began in 1992, and how the mergers changed everything over the years, who can be surprised about how it all turned out?