Month: August 2007

So The Bourne Supremacy… I liked it, I guess, but not as much as the earlier two films in the series. Still, the cast is pretty terrific. Julia Stiles, in particular, does a whole lot with almost no dialogue.

Via Scott Westerfield, comes this really interesting New York Times article about New York City underworld explorers:

Alone and with cohorts, Mr. Anastasio has crawled, climbed and sometimes simply brazenly walked into countless train tunnels, abandoned subway stations, rotting factories, storm drains, towers, decaying hospitals and other shadowy remnants of the city’s infrastructure the authorities would rather he did not enter. Although he records his adventures on his Web site, ltvsquad.com, anonymity is, for him, a necessary tool.

Although, it’s a little tough to be anonymous when you post on your website and are interviewed at length in The New York Times…

While I think a lot of the photos are incredible (particularly Miru Kim‘s NSFW images), and it is a shame that some of these structures are completely closed to an interested public, I can’t say I really disagree with the M.T.A.’s position on this. These are very dangerous places to be crawling around in without training — and much less naked, as in Ms. Kim’s case.

A few from the Sci Fi Wire:

  • Dark Is Now The Seeker:

    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is the new name of the movie from Fox Walden based on the second of Susan Cooper’s five fantasy books. The studio made the change on July 27.

    Yeah, because that name rolls right off the tongue. Maybe this will appease the angry fans of the books who say the movie has taken way too many liberties.

  • Extinction is the Last Evil:

    Paul W.S. Anderson, the producer and screenwriter of Resident Evil: Extinction, told SCI FI Wire that his original intention was to create a trilogy based on the popular Capcom video games and that the upcoming sequel may be the last.

    You know, lately, it seems like every time somebody manages to squeeze out a couple of cash-driven sequels it’s because that’s what they always intended to do. Like it’s some grand artistic vision finally reaching its natural culmination. Like Weekend at Bernies was always intended as a trilogy, but sadly, the third film was never made*…

  • Cavemen Veers From TV Ads:

    The creators of the upcoming ABC sitcom Cavemen said that the idea may have started with the popular Geico TV commercials, but that the show will take things in a different direction.

    Well it would pretty much have to, wouldn’t it?

  • Beowulf Enhanced With Nudity:

    “We had our theory,” Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust) said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 27. “Our theory was that, at any point when the poem tells you what happened, it’s telling you the truth. But at any point when anybody in the poem goes offstage and then comes back on and says, ‘While I was in the other room, this is what happened,’ they could be lying.”

    I’ve got nothing to add to that. I just like it.


* I had to double check. Thankfully, no, it looks like it never was.