An all star cast weaves together a magical mystery tour. We start off watching four struggling magicians as they are chosen by an unknown benefactor to become the greatest magic act of all time. The story is fun to watch and it might have been a great movie if they had played it straight. The Prestige is an example of playing it straight, even though it had a decidedly crooked McGuffin. Now You See Me wants to debunk magic, but then insists on using CGI to perform many of the Four Horseman’s ‘illusions.’ You can’t explain the mechanics of a…
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The One Tree by Stephen R Donaldson
The Matrix lost it’s way once the Wachowski Brothers decided the machines were the good guys and humans didn’t matter. Once the Programs took the lead, the story was doomed. In The One Tree, Stephen R Donaldson starts down the same dark path that the Wachowski Brothers took-he begins to make mere humans irrelevant. The fruit of his love affair with demi-gods will not ripen until the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, but the seeds are planted here. I still loved The One Tree, for all it’s nonsense about Elohim and The Worm of The World’s End and The Guardian…
Life of Pi
A writer looking for a good story is directed to a man who survived a shipwreck. The man is mild mannered, calm, almost spiritual as he goes about the business of telling the story of his life. We learn about how he came to be called Pi, how his father ran a zoo, how he fell in love, and how he came to be on that ship in the middle of the Pacific. Then we are told a story, about a young man spending two hundred days on a lifeboat with the tiger Richard Parker. Ang Lee did an amazing…
Stargate Universe Canceled by Syfy
The Syfy channel seems to be more interested in Wrestling and Paranormal BS than actual science fiction. Maybe that’s why they changed their name. The Syfy channel canceled Stargate Universe only weeks after canceling Caprica. The only shows remaining are Warehouse 13, Sanctuary, and Eureka. Tick tick tick That’s the sound of your life running out. I never liked Caprica, it was too much a show about The Matrix and too little a show about Battlestar Gallactica. But it was starting to get a little interesting, just when they axed it. I didn’t like Stargate Universe either, for similar reasons. …