Monthly Archives: February 2008

D-War: Dragon Wars

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For the most part, I’ve always thought that the SciFi Channel Saturday night original movies were absolutely the worst science fiction movies out there. This evening I watched what may be a step down from the SciFi Channel originals, and the sad part is, this movie even made a brief appearance on the big screen.

D-War, otherwise known as Dragon Wars is what happens when you take something that aspires to be a “C grade” (nope, not even a b grade!) monster movie and combine it with fight scenes that look like they were filmed for The Power Rangers. The movie is so cheap that the military vehicles, tanks, choppers, and even uniforms don’t have a distinguishing mark on them. No name tags, no insignias, not even a U.S. flag. I might have been able to overlook those details if the tanks didn’t spit out sparks every time they fired their main cannon.

It looks like the only way for the writers to get around the huge plot holes in the movie was to mix in bad acting with even worse special effects. By the time this one is over with, you’ll be ready to slit your wrists.

HD-DVD Is Dead

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It’s official, HD-DVD is dead, which sadly means that Sony’s Blu-Ray format has won the war. I wasn’t a fan of Blu-Ray for the simple fact that I don’t like Sony. None-the-less, this is good news for the consumers as now there is only one high definition disk format.

Of course many still believe that HD downloads will triumph over physical media. You know, they might be right. Look at the success iTunes, Napster, and other services have had with downloadable music. Only recently have I jumped on the iTunes bandwagon. I’ve always been a fan of having the physical CD and book, but why? iTunes now offers the same book in a PDF format.

Digital storage space is so cheap these days, and once you’ve purchased several hundred DVDs, CDs, and other disks you’ll probably end up in a predicament like me. Where to put everything. With digital space, I can just add more. That’s a bit harder to do for physical media, unless I want to add on to my house.

So yes, I’d have to side with digital downloads. It looks like the way things are headed.

About All Of The Microsoft-Yahoo News

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In the past few weeks there has been a lot more news about the whole attempt from Microsoft to buy Yahoo. People have left, everyone and their brother has voiced their opinion on the deal, and others are even suing Yahoo for turning down the deal.

There has been so much going on, that I’m tired of hearing about it. So, this is the last I’ll be posting about it until something final happens. They’ll be plenty of other blogs and news sites covering every aspect of Microhoo.

Jericho

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Thanks to a successful fan revolt, we brought Jericho back for a 2nd season. Granted, it may only be fore 7 episodes, but so far the episodes are really kicking ass.

As good as this season has been so far, it looks like the fans are in for another disappointment. The low number of viewers so far means that this is probably the last we’ll see of Jericho. It’s a shame too, because this really is a damn good show. What can you do though when the show airs at 10:00 pm on a Tuesday.

Saw IV

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If you can get past the extreme gore, the Saw movies so far have been fantastic. For those of you that cannot get past the gore, we’ll then you’ll end up missing the entire movie.

As with the other movies in the series, Saw IV picks back up right where the others left off, and continues to fill in the pieces of the puzzle (no pun intended). Saw IV brings in a few new faces, in addition to several that we’ve seen before. Tobin Bell reprises his role has Jigsaw, and he’s created some new traps for everyone to play with.

Bottom line is the Saw movies aren’t for everyone, but if you’ve enjoyed the others than you’ll like this one. I did.