Stargate: Atlantis returns to the SciFi channel tonight. I must say that when the show first started up I wasn’t a big fan. Matter of fact, I expected it to fail by the 2nd season. Thankfully, it didn’t and now it’s back for it’s 5th season.

Yesterday I saw Iron Man at the Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18. The movie was one of the best I have seen in a long time, not only was it one of the best Superhero origin movies, it was probably one of Robert Downey Jr.’s best performances. While I was thrilled with the movie, I’ve also got to say that this also happened to be one of the worst movie experiances ever.

I saw the digital showing of Iron Man. Who would pass that up, right? Well, the theater experienced issues with their digital projector causing the movie to skip and studder every couple of minutes. It studdered more than Max Hedroom… though Max was cool. Thankfully, the theater did give everyone a free pass, so I’ll probably go back and see it again later.

For me, this ranked right up there with Batman Begins. RDJ was an awesome Tony Stark, and I’ll love to see Iron Man 2.

I wasn’t the only one there who loved the movie. Despite the studdering, there was a scene that actually caused people to clap while the movie was still playing. I’d wager that they would have clapped afterwards as well if we hadn’t been ready to mob the box office.

Go see it. It’s fracking awesome!

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.

Tonight is the return of Stargate: Atlantis on SciFi. When we left off with episode 10 back on Dec. 7th, the Atlantis team with the help of their duplicate selves had just enabled a way for them to track all Replicator ships in the galaxy.

Anyone remember how many episodes we’re getting for SGA in season four? Is it a full 22 or 24 episodes, or was it a smaller 16 or 18?

It’s almost time for the Stargate: Atlantis “Fall Finale”. To be quite honest, I don’t know why I continue to watch this show. For the most part the stories are dull and boring. I was surprised when it lasted past season one, and now that it continues by itself after SG1 went off the air I’m even more surprised. What is it about this show, it just wont die.

Tonight is the premier of Tin Man on SciFi. This could be a very interesting miniseries, or it could wind up like most SciFi’s recent productions and turn out to be a steaming pile of crap. I’m not sure if we’ll watch it tonight or not, but we do have TiVo set up to record it.

I cannot wait until Todd McFarlane does his Oz rendition!

The SciFi Channel’s Technology and Gadget Blog has been reborn. The site is now known as DVICE, and it looks like they are already posting even more that they had been. Personally I think DVICE rates up there with Engadget.

I wonder if this means we’ll see a similar make over for SciFi’s Entertainment News Blog, SciFi Wire.

Tonight at 9:00 pm (just an hour-ish) away is the world premier of the next Highlander movie. Sadly, this one is a SciFi Original movie, which I’m hoping I won’t have to suffer through. Though from what I’ve already herd about this movie, I don’t have high hopes for it… word is, this movie has absolutely no flashbacks in it. What the heck is up with that? Highlander with no flashbacks? Don’t like the sound of that.

We may be on the verge of a movie that sucks more than Highlander II. We’ll find out in about an hour.

Depending on how you want to take this is could be good news or bad news for all of you fellow Highlander fans out there. Adrian Paul will be returning as the Highlander… sadly, it will be a SciFi channel original movie. SciFi channel has a lot of talent, but they usually suck at making movies. Matter of fact, I’d expect a SciFi Channel Highlander movie to be worse than Highlander II.

I think tonight’s episode of Battlestar Galactica, 208 Final Cut, was probably the best episode of this season so far. Personally, I loved hearing the origional BSG theme song during the show. I wish it was played more often. Time to grab Ron Moore’s Podcast and see what he has to say about it.

Stargate: Atlantis was also pretty good, though I wish it hadn’t been one of those episodes where right at the last minute everything turns out to be ok. Personally, I think the writers/directors from SG:A could learn some stuff from BSG. But what do I know, eh? :p

I couldn’t really complain about Stargate: SG1. I enjoyed the hand-to-hand combat scenes. It actually reminded me a lot of Gladiator, only on a much smaller scale. It was nice to see something other than the Ori (??) and the friars being the focal point. I’m already sick of them. They either need to do something, or go back to being hermits in a distant galaxy.

Can’t comment on Firefly, as I haven’t seen it yet. It’s TiVo’ed so I’ll watch it tomorrow. Gotta love that little toy.