I just don't know

Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes) has been cast as a young Spock in the next Star Trek movie, which will feature younger versions of the familiar original series characters.

I think he'll make a good "young Spock". But I think the entire idea of movies featuring the original characters when they were younger is a bad idea. The ST movies (and the entire franchise) have been suffering for awhile. Voyager wasn't that great. Enterprise was just plain awful. Even when Enterprise was good, it still didn't compare to mediocre episodes of some of the other series. Even with the cheese factor all the series have.

Let the movies/tv side of the franchise rest for awhile - just continue to explore the universe in the novels.

Now Star Wars.... I am looking forward to the new SW cartoon and the eventual live-action series they have planned.

I just don't know

Belated Happy Anniversary

To Star Wars. I forgot to post something about it a week ago during the "official" 30th anniversary of the original release of Star Wars.

I first saw Star Wars, the original, in the theater with my older brother and my youngest older sister one Sunday afternoon after church. I remember being five years old, which would make it the late summer of 1978, was Star Wars still in theaters at that point? If not, then I must have been four years old when I first saw it.

That's really all I remember about it. I remember a little more about the trip itself, but not seeing the movie for the first time. I remember my sister and her friends didn't want to sit with my brother and his friends, and I had to choose which group to sit with. I chose both, and ran back and forth between the groups at least once during the movie. I think my sister got mad at me for that.

I've been a Star Wars geek ever since.

Belated Happy Anniversary

Free Comic Book Day 2007

Yesterday, I took my 6 year old son Alexander to a local comic book store for Free Comic Book Day. I knew in advance that my local Star Wars Fan Force club would have a table set up, and one of the members was dressed up in his replica Darth Vader costume. I thought Alexander would get a big kick out of meeting the Dark Lord of the Sith in person.
The comic store also had a Spiderman out front handing out copies of the free Spidey comic book and Alexander thought that was really neat too. After meeting Spidey and Vader, I let him explore the store for awhile. He wandered up and down the aisles checking out all the cool comi book-related toys the store had displayed, picked up a few freebies from FCBD and the store, and then we were on our way back home.

Free Comic Book Day 2007

Hardly Any

How many of the top 250 IMDB user-selected movies have you seen?
I can you tell you now, it won't be many. I just haven't seen that many movies that usually make these lists.
Also - I'm sure what order this list is in.

( ) The Godfather
(X) The Shawshank Redemption
( ) The Godfather: Part II
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
( ) Casablanca
( ) Schindler's List
(X) Pulp Fiction
(X) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
( ) Seven Samurai
Total so far: 4 (hmmm, almost half of the first 10).

( ) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(X) Star Wars
( ) Rear Window
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
( ) 12 Angry Men
(X) Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) The Usual Suspects
( ) City of God
( ) Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
( ) Goodfellas
Total so far: 10

(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
( ) Psycho
(X) Citizen Kane
( ) Once Upon a Time in the West
( ) North By Northwest
( ) Memento
(X) The Silence of the Lambs
( ) Lawrence of Arabia
(X) It's a Wonderful Life
( ) Sunset Boulevard
Total so far: 14

( ) Amélie
( ) Fight Club
(X) American Beauty
(X) The Matrix
( ) Vertigo
( ) Apocalypse Now
( ) Taxi Driver
( ) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
( ) Se7en
( ) León
Total so far: 16

( ) Paths of Glory
( ) Chinatown
( ) To Kill a Mockingbird
( ) American History X
( ) The Third Man
( ) Downfall
( ) The Pianist
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
( ) M
Total so far: 17 (wow - just one out of that list).

( ) The Bridge on the River Kwai
( ) Spirited Away
(X) Alien
( ) Das Boot
( ) L.A. Confidential
( ) A Clockwork Orange
( ) The Maltese Falcon
( ) Requiem for a Dream
( ) Hotel Rwanda
( ) The Shining
Total so far: 18 (This isn't looking good)

(X) Double Indemnity
(X) Metropolis
( ) Reservoir Dogs
( ) Saving Private Ryan
( ) Rashomon
( ) Singin' in the Rain
( ) Sin City
( ) Raging Bull
( ) Modern Times
(X) Aliens
Total so far: 21 (Which Metropolis? The original? or the original, but with the 80's soundtrack?)

( ) The Manchurian Candidate
( ) Rebecca
( ) Some Like It Hot
( ) The Great Escape
( ) Pan's Labyrinth
( ) The Departed
( ) All About Eve
(X) 2001: A Space Odyssey
( ) Touch of Evil
(X) Amadeus
Total so far: 23 (Amadeus rocked!!)

( ) Million Dollar Baby
( ) Life is Beautiful
( ) The Seventh Seal
(X) Forrest Gump
( ) Jaws
( ) The Sting
( ) Strangers on a Train
(X) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(X) Batman Begins
( ) On the Waterfront
Total so far: 26 (Didn't like Gump or Batman Begins)

( ) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(X) Braveheart
( ) The Elephant Man
(X) The Wizard of Oz
(X) Full Metal Jacket
( ) Kill Bill: Vol. 1
( ) Blade Runner
( ) The Apartment
(X) The Incredibles
( ) City Lights
Total so far: 30 (Hated Braveheart, hate war movies, The Incredibles is Excellent!)

( ) Cinema Paradiso
( ) The Big Sleep
( ) High Noon
( ) Notorious
( ) Ran
( ) Donnie Darko
( ) Fargo
(X) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
( ) The Great Dictator
( ) Crash
Total so far: 31 (uh... just one, and it's Star Wars. I've heard good things about Donnie Darko though!)

( ) Once Upon a Time in America
(X) Finding Nemo
( ) Cool Hand Luke
( ) Princess Mononoke
( ) The Sixth Sense
( ) V for Vendetta
( ) Unforgiven
( ) The Wages of Fear
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Ben Hur
Total so far: 33 (couple in that list I'd like to see).

( ) Oldboy
(X) Back to the Future
( ) Annie Hall
( ) Kill Bill: Vol. 2
( ) Yojimbo
(X) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
( ) The Killing
( ) The Green Mile
(X) Life of Brian
(X) The Princess Bride
Total so far: 37 (Life of Brian made the top 250 list?!) Princess Bride is a great movie!

( ) The Deer Hunter
(X) Platoon
( ) The Graduate
( ) It Happened One Night
( ) For a Few Dollars More
( ) Gladiator
( ) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
( ) Nights of Cabiria
( ) Gandhi
( ) The African Queen
Total so far: 38 (wow - only one, and it's another war movie)

( ) Kind Hearts and Coronets
( ) Love's a Bitch
( ) The Bicycle Thief
( ) The Battle of Algiers
( ) The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938]
( ) Diabolique
(X) Toy Story 2
( ) 8 1/2
( ) Shadow of a Doubt
(X) Stand By Me
Total so far: 40

( ) The Night of the Hunter
( ) Brief Encounter
( ) Run Lola Run
( ) The Wild Bunch
( ) The General
(X) Die Hard
( ) Harvey
( ) Children of Men
( ) The Conversation
( ) Wild Strawberries
Total so far: 41

( ) Dog Day Afternoon
( ) Patton
( ) Duck Soup
( ) Glory
( ) Nosferatu
( ) The Day the Earth Stood Still
(X) Gone with the Wind
(X) Groundhog Day
( ) Hero
( ) Spartacus
Total so far: 43

( ) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
( ) The Gold Rush
( ) Trainspotting
( ) Finding Neverland
(X) Toy Story
(X) The Grapes of Wrath
( ) The Exorcist
( ) Magnolia
( ) Heat
( ) Mystic River
Total so far: 45

( ) The Big Lebowski
(X) A Christmas Story
( ) Twelve Monkeys
( ) King Kong [1933]
( ) The Prestige
(X) The Philadelphia Story
(X) Shrek
( ) Beauty and the Beast [1946]
( ) Cinderella Man
( ) Big Fish
Total so far: 48 (hated A Christmas Story - that little kid is so annoying!)

( ) Before Sunset
( ) Ed Wood
( ) Judgment at Nuremburg
( ) The Hustler
( ) Snatch.
(X) The Terminator
( ) The Best Years of Our Lives
( ) The Lady Vanishes
( ) Bride of Frankenstein
( ) Walk the Line
Total so far: 49 (Rubi says I have got to see Walk the Line)

( ) Grave of the Fireflies
( ) Out of the Past
( ) In the Heat of the Night
( ) Stalag 17
( ) Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
( ) Witness for the Prosecution
( ) Sleuth
( ) Little Miss Sunshine
( ) Bonnie and Clyde
(X) The Thing
Total so far: 50 (but only if it's John Carpenter's The Thing)

(X) Young Frankenstein
( ) Talk To Her
( ) Rosemary's Baby
( ) Manhattan
( ) Scarface
( ) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
( ) Frankenstein
( ) The Straight Story
( ) Arsenic and Old Lace
( ) Anatomy of a Murder
Total so far: 51

( ) Sling Blade
( ) High and Low
( ) Rififi
( ) All Quiet on the Western Front
( ) Throne of Blood
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(X) Monsters, Inc.
( ) Roman Holiday
( ) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
( ) The Lost Weekend
Total so far: 53

( ) The Four Hundred Blows
( ) Doctor Zhivago
( ) The Searchers
( ) Bringing Up Baby
( ) United 93
(X) A Streetcar Named Desire
( ) Planet of the Apes [1968]
( ) The Lives of Others
( ) Come and See
( ) Sweet Smell of Success
Total so far: 54 (Stella!!!!!)

( ) Brazil
( ) Stalker
( ) Infernal Affairs
( ) The Ox-Bow Incident
( ) Great Expectations [1946]
( ) Dial M for Murder
( ) Umberto D.
( ) Inherit the Wind
( ) In Cold Blood
( ) Mulholland Drive
Grand total: 54 (ooh.. none on that list).

Wow.... Only 54 out of 250. Of course, many of those listed I really have no desire to see. A few I just haven't gotten around to yet (Walk the Line, Blade Runner).

Others that I'm proud of seeing, The Philadelphia Story (love it!), Double Indemnity.

I fell asleep during Citizen Kane and didn't finish American Beauty because it was such an awful movie - do those two count?

Hardly Any

Vote for the name of the next SITH LORD

The current Star Wars Expanded Universe series of novels, called Legacy of the Force, features Han and Leia's son Jacen Solo turning to the dark side in what he sees as the only way of bringing to peace to the galaxy.
Much like his grandfather Anakin Skywalker thought years earlier during the Clone Wars.

Only this series of novels does a much better job of showing his reasons for falling to the dark side and makes the readers wonder if that really is the only way. But really we just know he's being deluded and we scream at him as we read the pages that he's making a big mistake.

As Jacen fully gives in to the dark side, he will take a Sith name, much like Palpatine gave Anakin Skywalker the name Vader.

Del Rey and Lucasfilm took suggestions from fans for Jacen's Sith name, and they have narrowed it down to five and are now taking votes for what will become Jacen's official Sith name in the EU.

Vote for the name of the next SITH LORD!

Who will be the next SITH LORD?

We asked you for your input in naming the next Sith Lord. We received more
than 8,500 entries. From them, the Lucasfilm, Del Rey editors and Legacy of the
Force authors Karen Traviss, Troy Denning and Aaron Allston narrowed it down to
five finalist.
Choose from the five names below, and help name the next Sith
Lord!
Darth Acheron
Darth Caedus
Darth Judicar
Darth Paxis
Darth Taral

Vote at www.darthwho.com

The winning Sith Lord will be name will be revealed in Star Wars®: Legacy
of the Force: Sacrifice, the fifth book in the new Legacy of the Force series.
On sale in Del Rey/Lucasbooks hardcover May 29, 2007.

Wow, those names are quite lame. There's discussion of them on the boards at theforce.net - with Darth Judicar and Darth Paxis being the seeming best suited names for Jacen as he sees himself as judge of the galaxy (Judicar) and the bringer of peace (Paxis). Caedus, depending on how you pronounce it, seems to be too close for comfort to the name of the Skywalker character in the Legacy comic book series set some time in the future after this series. Taral is just dumb. And Acheron is a river or something from mythology, and from what I've read, the fans aren't sure how that relates to Jacen.

Go vote. Or don't. Maybe if no one votes for any of these names, They'll go back and pick different names. But I doubt it.

Vote for the name of the next SITH LORD

My Ears Are Bleeding!!!

That is just... too funny.
Force this upon - I mean share this with everyone you know. You can't be the only one to enjoy this - you have to let others in on this.

Actually, I still like Meko's disco version better where he breaks it down in the middle and raps C3POs story of his adventures with the rebellion to the Ewoks.

My Ears Are Bleeding!!!