The Ziggurat of Doom

The 80’s. They just get weirder. I present to you the next part in a series: Batman: The Musical.

What Has Gone Before

Star Trek: Imperfect, but compellingly watchable. I continue my daily prayers that one day, some paleo-cinematographer will rediscover the ancient, lost technique of Steadycam. As with The Fool, I put all credit for this movie at the feet of the casting and acting, since I can’t stand J. J. Abrams. Worth watching.

Wolverine: Low-end of the “meh, popcorn” scale. I wouldn’t recommend paying movie theater price for it, but you won’t wake up at night screaming, caught in a flashback of a movie that won’t end and a pain that won’t go away if you happen to accidentally walk into a room where this is playing and it inadvertently enters your eyeballs. Which is more than I can say for Ultraviolet.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Officially dead and buried. I blame you. YES YOU. Solid show that deserved better, but at least last season went out on a high note. Godspeed, John Henry. See you at the crossroads.

GI Joe: Resolute: 11 five-minute episodes, written by Warren Ellis. It’s on the internet. It rocks.

What Is Yet To Come

Terminator: Salvation: Let me see if I get this straight: Yet another movie? Fine. The best show on television? Can it. I fucking hate showbiz logic. Whatever, the trailers look interesting and I’ll go see it, if I can get over my screaming bitterness vis a vis SCC.

9: A Tim Burton-produced CGI film based on a short that won a bunch of awards. I love me some post-apocalyptica, so may as well check it out.

Dollhouse: Hang on. I have to confirm this yet again. Yes. Yes, FOX has renewed a Joss Whedon series (reportedly, after he agreed to quit spending so much damn money every episode). But they still passed on SCC. The network giveth, and the network taketh away. Started weak, but got pretty solid after episode 6, so I’m willing to see where it goes.

Supernatural: Picked up for its fifth and reportedly final season. Good show. Worth watching.

GI Joe: The Movie: Ha ha ha ha. We’ll see.

Transformers: Something Something Giant Robots: (May not be the actual subtitle.) From the trailer, appears to have more giant fighting robots, something the first movie was depressingly short on. There’s a lesson here in giving the viewers what they want: fewer whining humans, more robot-on-robot violence.

A new flavor of wargames. The glorious cyberpunk future comes ever closer.

(Via Balloon Juice.)

Do you remember a few posts ago where I said that people were Autotuning the news? And how I said that this, while vaguely hilarious, was ultimately unsatisfying?

I present to you the Slapchop Rap.

Edit: Beware, this will get stuck in your head.

1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

From A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

(Yes, I’m going to try to get back to posting more often.)