Shrek part four?????



What fairy tale have they not mangled so far?

pretty fun movie....
lots of references to other sci fi movies
"Space balls!!!"
"The Invisible Man died of a heart attack... in that chair..."  they look. "he's still there."
giving the aliens The Vulcan hand sign plus the close encounters theme music
"Destroy All Monsters!!!"

The Missing Link: [about Susan] She's speechless!
B.O.B.: She?
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D.: Yes. We are in the prescence of the rare female monster.
B.O.B.: No way! It's a boy; look at his boobies!
The Missing Link: We need to have a talk.

The President of the United States: Commander, do something violent.

my fav
Wendy Murphy: Oh, honey, ever since you were a little baby, I knew... you would save the world from an alien invasion.

Advisor Hawk: We need our best scientists on this. Somebody call India.

[Susan wakes up on board Gallaxhar's spaceship in a containment cell]
Gallaxhar: [enters on a personal hovercraft] This all must seem strange to you. Waking up in a strange place, wearing strange clothes, and talking to a strange being on a strange hovering device.
Susan Murphy: Hardly, this isn't the first time this has happened to me.
Gallaxhar: [surprised] Wow, you really get around.

I have to note here that EACH time Susan... the 50ft tall 18 yr old.... woke up from being knocked uncon... someone took her clothes off of her and put on another different body suit on her.
hmmmmmm.

So there I was sitting in the Norman Oklahoma event center watching 500 HS students graduate, sitting with at least 1500 family members(someone else's family member), who could give a rats ass about anyone else's kid, yakking, yelling when everyone else's kid was being announced and screaming when their kid was announced...

the speaker was the principle of the school and I swear to (fill in the blank) that she either had not read the speech or someone else had wrote it. She kept stumbling over words... not just a few... and at one point she turned away from the podium, turned back looked at her speech as if to read...

Speaker: "And I now introduce Carman Miranda!" speaker turns from podium, pauses, turns back... Speaker reads. 'ok... introduce guest (Did that...), then walk away and sit down....(Oh! that's me!)

Other then that everything went pretty smooth.


I was under the impression that only academics were allowed on the stage for the graduation?
I kid you not, they introduced.. the "chair of the finance dept".. the "Human resource dept" and. "Mr Smith... he's is on the board." and Mr. Jones.. who is... also on the board."

They never did say what board... I was assuming it was the school board. But one never knows.

they at one point asked for various groups in the crowd to stand...

parents
teachers
school bus drivers
marsupials
those who provided paper
those who provided money
those who provided lumber


one of the groups had only one person standing.... out of the entire stadium.

I look forward to my next nieces graduation in 2 years.

Tales from the radioactive kitten juggler and found it had been taken down but I did find a link from this guy...

Yoshio Fujiwara.

to my old web site to old his web site... don't know him from adam but it was cool to find out.

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Narrator: In A.D. 2006, Web was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the journal.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main browser turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you users !!
CATS: All your base are belong to Frank.
CATS: You are on the way to 404.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to reach your page. Make your spelling correct.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....

 


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the group argued some more about what to do and then something came out of the woods.. several somethings.

Elves.
Haggard, torn clothing, they had been whipped and driven from the forest. Their tongues cut out.

after a brief discussion amongst the group, Sorcha went to the kid and borrowed some of his paper, the elves wrote their story

"We are known as dark elves, not from skin color but what our ancestors did and what we believe in.
Our kin created the Banestorm in hopes of ridding this world of the Orcs. instead we drew your kind to this world, a far worse creature then the Orcs.  Moloch discovered this and slew most of our kin, removed our tongues and sent us to serve you and your group. Our penance."

Later

"Moloch was known as the Great assimilator. He was born of a union between Elf and Demon, his first 500 years of life he spent in a demonic dimension. He came here and consolidated the elven races. He brooked no dissension. He got the dwarves to join our alliance and together they drove the Orcs from this continent. He then planned to assimilate the Dwarves by magic. He knew the spells to change a race at their foundation and he planned to use it on the dwarves. One of the elves, our ancestor, warned the Dwarves and they captured him and imprisioned him where none could find him."


The group while discussing this, notice a rider approaching. Lady Shadow notices a LOT of soldiers surrounding the camp at a distance and mentions it, Sir Sorcha immediately draws his sword. The old man on horse back asks to enter the camp for parley, Sorcha asks about the soldiers.
Old man simply says. "If I die, you die."
the group invites him in.

"I live in the mountains to the southeast and I saw you fly by, I had my wizards cast spells to determine your nature and discovered that you (he points at all of you) are the focal point of many portents. Things are happening to this world because of you and I want to know what and why."

the group tells of their dreams but not of Moloch.

old man say's "Okay, can you tell me what that is." and he points west. The group see's the horizon which is lit as if a vast city were just out of sight. "Those are the lights of more then hundreds of thousands of camp fires"

Henry talks about his dream of invading orcs.

Sir Sorcha insults the old man, he gets up to leave, Sir Sorcha apologizes.


The group asks the old man if he knows of Moloch, the old man says no, they then ask if he knows of the Devourer of souls. The old man says he thinks he read of him in some ancient text, that he was a great elven general.

Clarity tells the old man of her dream and he says 'That is a great holy man, why have you not gone to see him???"
She has no answer
the old man says 'I can take you there if you wish, I think it is important. "

The old man gives the group a scroll that can contact the old man once.

He leaves. Clarity goes with him. he has one of his people give her robes of a Muslim woman. She dons it
the old man asks her name, She tell him. 
He says. "Ah... to see with the minds eye."
After a bit. he says. "The man on the spire, the same in your dream, tasked me to tell you. "He has been expecting you." He looks askance at Her. "I doubted him, since I delve into the human condition. But he told me, 'A woman who's name means seeing with the mind will greet you at the beginning of the darkest hour'."


He knows of the watchers and tells her, they captured some of them and 'questioned them' He does not know of Melanie. He tells her they have tried to assassinate Carter three times, but have not been successful. Carter also has ties in the muslim lands too, but not as strong as in Megalos. The old man, who tells Clarity his name is Hashim Abbas, Believes Carter is a demon in disquise, His people were casting demon detecting spells in Megalos and detected one in the royal palace. When they went (read as snuck) in, they saw Carter giving a speech before the emporer and the ministers of megalos. Carter is the most powerfull man on the planet.
When his people tried to take out Carter, the distruction Carter caused was beyond Belief. Carter seemed to not care about collateral damage.

Their  journey takes 2 weeks. no one bothers this group. Although several parties of roving Knights pass by slowly. Soon they enter a valley of Tall, thin rock spires. At the top of several spires, huts can be seen.

At the base of one of the spires, Hashim indicates Clarity is to climb into one of the baskets hanging from a rope. "We shall talk when you have finished, up there." She climbs into the woven basket and his men began hauling on the rope pulling the rickety basket upward til she reach the top. An OLD, old man helps her from the basket.

For one day all he does is sit there, eyes closed. then he begins to speak. He speaks using words from every language in the same sentance Clarity had encountered and then some. At first it is hard to understand him. She learns he is speaking English, anglish, elvish, muslim, gaelic... all at once. He does not seem to be speaking of anything important... at first.

Slowly she determines he has been talking about Moloch the Jade elf, Alexander the Emporer of megalos, Harkeen As wazif Sultan of the muslim lands and Jaddeen M'tollen the King of the Djinn lands.
"Unless one binds all, none will stand against the Dark Emporer of Death who sends his legions from the far continent, First will fall
Caithness, then meglos, then the Muslim lands, then Moloch's forest and finally the Djinn. The Dark Emporer will hold sway over all. Unless the continent is united."
He looks at Her finally.
"Your future is hidden to me. You seem to be outside the destinies of the heroes of this land. I do not know if it will be you who does this or if another, but you are the catalyst."
He picks up her hand and plucks the ring from it. "You have no need of cheap magics." he removes all of the magical charisma gear and tosses em over the side.
He gazes out at the other spires. "Your friends need you." He closes his eyes. "Finally I can rest. I have waited such long time for you." he lays down. "In the morning... Throw the linen ball down after you are in the basket, they will lower you."

In the morning he is dead.

She toss's the ball and the others lower her to the ground.
Hashim looks at her intently. Then he nods. A horse is brought to Clarity.
"My mages tell me war has begun on the western coast. The hordes of Orcs and their creatures are sweeping to Caithness and your friends."
He mounts his horse. It canters nerviously.
"Where would you go now?"
He steadies his horse. "Before you answer I am to tell you of your name from my people. It is Taqleed. It means to blindly follow a person whose following is not based on proof and does not rely upon knowledge. it is Also used to refer to the acceptance of all sayings of a person without knowing the evidence for the fatwa."
He points to his men. "These one hundred are your followers. This they understand. We were told of your coming many years ago, they have been waiting. Their families dedicated their sons for your coming. They will obey without question. They will die for you. Use them wisely. For like a sword, once used to cut something, that something is hard to repair." he looks at his men. "I will return to my mountian fastness and prepare to aid you. "Al Tayyib," He points at one of them. "Will be your contact with me. anything you need that I can provide can be asked through him."
"Now." He looks Clarity in the eye. "Taqleed. Where would you lead them?"

I went and saw Star trek again.


still awesome

The level of Detail that went into this movie is astounding. From what direction the point defense weapons are aimed when not in use. (Yes I said point defense weapons)

to the Soundlessness of space. The filming technique reminded me of Battlestar galactica (new version) but not so dark. ofcourse he adds in the noise of the weapons later on... or was it just loud music.

looking on IMDB I noticed the fake titles they had to do to make this film

Star Trek	Czech Republic / Germany / Japan (English title)
Звездный путь	Russia
Christa & Christan's Big Adventure	USA (fake working title)
Corporate HQ	USA (fake working title)
Corporate Headquarters	USA (fake working title)
Star Trek - Viaje a las estrellas	Venezuela (long title)
Star Trek XI	USA (working title)
Star Trek Zero	USA (working title)
Star Trek: The Beginning	South Korea
Star Trek: The IMAX Experience	USA (IMAX version)
The Ernest Castelhun Chronicles	USA (fake working title)
Untitled Blake Allen Project	USA (fake working title)
Untitled Paramount Project	USA (fake working title)
Untitled Walter Lace Project	USA (fake working title)
Viaje a Las Estrellas	Venezuela
Wet Paint	USA (fake working title)

And I believe I saw george takei as Admiral Chandra.. sitting to the right of the Chairman of the board. But he is not credited in the movie.. Was this a look alike?


As time passes and you still have not seen it, start looking for a digital copy at the theaters... the 70mm film will be degrading and be cut to shreds by the projectionists... it happened with watchmen when I saw it for the 3rd time. I was pissed. My friend did not notice the cuts. But I did.

check out this online comic. The guys very talented and the story is very good.



 comics.shipsinker.com/2007/03/11/doctor-who-comic-the-ten-doctors-page-1/

An low J.J. Abrams did take the stricture that was Star Trek, he did assemble the story and he did

Break

Canon


This is not your Fathers Star Trek.



The audience wept and cheer and laughed and applauded and vowed to see it again.


This Star Trek is awesome.

He kept what was great about Star Trek, the details and minutia.
Things that endeared us to all of the episodes: original Next, deep, enterprise.... but not voyager. and he did what Paramount would let no other director, writer ever do.

He broke canon and it was awesome.

I am going again.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!




I got free tickets to the sneak peek weds night!!!!!!

So I was browsing the internet and was picking my way through craig's list...just rummaging and I saw this ad for a writing partner... so I answered it.
after reading his script and making my suggestions he replied

"I think I've found a writing partner. Your ideas and insight are exactly what I was hoping to find from that ad."

so then later another person out of Hollywood made contact with me and I reviewed his script (this guy said he used to work with Wes Craven... or at least on one movie with Wes) and I made several suggestions.. (His needed a LOT of work)

he replied

"Your notes are incredible! I am going to review with my brother today. Honestly we owe you big time, let me know anything we can do for you. Thank you so much!"

One of the big suggestions I made was to not make the script sound like a porn. :) its a Horror Comedy. And everyone in the script was antagonistic and none of the extras survive. I suggested they mellow out some of the principle characters and let a couple people live through the encounters with the monster.


From what I understand a script re-writer can earn 50-100k per script. If this is lucrative... I could prolly earn 1k per read. Takes me about 3.5 hours to edit 120 pages. Thats not grammar, just coorgraphy, pacing, detail, common sense and alternatives to the current scene.

I used to do the project greenlight thing... did not submit a script but reviewed about 20-30 scripts. and there was a second script writing project similar that I for the life of me cannot remember the title or web site.

I got up at 4 am and made 4 dozen choc chip cookies

as I pulled the first 2 dozen out I placed an Andies mint on, causing it to melt. and I pulled the second dozen out I place a hersey kiss on it, causing it to melt to it. after they cooled I frosted the minted ones and then placed the hersey one on top of the frosted one. kinda like this pic but with a hersey kiss on it.

They sold out of my cookies within 30 minutes and I was declared the winner. Beating a choc cake, dump cake, assorted other cakes and breads etc.

I won a plaque and a time off award.
cool beans!

The players in my game complain about the fact that I seem to kill off their horses, or take them away... I plead innocent to this and as an example....



Player: "I use my wish for horses!"
later on after finding and using a time travel device.
Player 2 "Umm where are the horses?"
player 3 "crap, we left them outside the time travel device."

Player 1 "We set up a defensive circle of stones against the raiders."
Player 2 "I will park the horses here (against the tree, outside the circle of stones).
the raiders, unsuccessful in getting to the players took the unguarded, unwatched horses.

Me: You see giant scorpians come from the jungle.
Players: Run to the back of the wagon!
Me: the scorpians attack the donkey at the front of the wagon
Players: whew!

And I bid you look at the most recent gaming entry I made about the last game I ran (see march 22nd)

Usually the game runs like this

Me: No you cannot carry your horse up the ladder.
Me: No you cannot make your horse walk a tightrope
Me: No you cannot make your horse jump a 40 ft gap
Me: No you cannot make your horse walk a narrow 1 ft ledge
Me: No your horse will not go into the dungeon.. willingly
Me: No your common riding horse is not used to seeing monsters, make a fear check, it runs away.
the players: Dude you robbed us of our horses!!!


In the latest game, One player has managed to keep his war horse, although it is now minus its tail. He is very careful with his warhorse.