Check out the new trailer here.
Mr. Incredible (voice of Craig T. Nelson)
Saturday, October 09, 2004
I can't wait for "The Incredibles"!
This is going to be the best Pixar movie yet. I can't wait! Coming in November.
Check out the new trailer here.
Check out the new trailer here.
First look at the Flash on Smallville
"C is for cookie."
"That's good enough for me."
More on Batman Begins Images
The Scarecrow image posted yesterday may not be the real deal, says Cinescape, but is likely a rejected concept.
The actual mask will look more like a sewed-up burlap bag, sort of like Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Meanwhile, something that is authentic, -- concept art for the movie by comic-book artist Tommy Lee Edwards, from the same Cinescape article.
The actual mask will look more like a sewed-up burlap bag, sort of like Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Meanwhile, something that is authentic, -- concept art for the movie by comic-book artist Tommy Lee Edwards, from the same Cinescape article.
Friday, October 08, 2004
"Enterprise" Returns tonight
8 pm on UPN, with last season's cliffhanger -- Archer wound up in 1944 NYC, which is run by Nazis, with a little help from .....aliens!
That wasn't in the history books.
Will the show do better on Friday nights? Time will tell....
According to TV Guide:
That wasn't in the history books.
Will the show do better on Friday nights? Time will tell....
According to TV Guide:
Due to low ratings last season, producers have scrapped long arcs and opted for self-contained story lines. Says exec producer Rick Berman, "We want to focus more on action and romance and less on technobabble."
"Good to be In D.C."
The JibJab guys who did "This Land is Your Land" are back.
Click here.
If it doesn't work, go to www.jibjab.com and check it out. May be a little difficult right now.
Click here.
If it doesn't work, go to www.jibjab.com and check it out. May be a little difficult right now.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Smallville Review - Episode 4.3: Kryp/Tuck
Whitney! Kryptonite necklace! Freak of the Week! Smallville High! A good, ol’ flashback episode this week, missing only poor, ignored Pete to make this truly a tribute to seasons gone by.
The episode starts with a flashback to the time period of the early 1st season when Lana was a cheerleader, wore a Kryptonite necklace and dated Whitney. It’s a football pep rally. Here comes the mascot – poor Scabby Abby, teased mercilessly by the players when she takes the mascot costume head off. Look, it’s a pretty girl made up to look ugly.
Then we’re back to the present. Lois, having completed her mission to find Chloe, is all set to leave Smallville, when Ham Tyler, er, Sam Lane, shows up to tell Lois she’s just enough credits shy to not have graduated and she has to repeat a semester. Clark’s laughter and subsequent look of disbelief is priceless.
Meanwhile Scabby Abby shows up again, but of course now she’s gorgeous, thanks to her psycho plastic surgeon mother and some kryptonite (yay! Freak of the Week is back; it’s fun when it’s not every episode) Really, she just took off the false teeth, thick glasses and the prosthetic pimples. Chloe talks Lois into working for the Torch, even though journalism isn’t her thing. (Ha!) Her first assignment – teen plastic surgery and Scabby Abby, er, Abigail.
Clark, now a senior, decides he wants to join the football team, despite his father’s misgivings (hooray for worry-wart Pa Kent!) He goes to see the coach, and finds Jason, Lana’s beau (ugh), now the assistant coach. He and Clark get along pretty well, actually, though of course Clark doesn’t know that he and Lana are exposing shoulders together.
Clark tries out and of course impresses with his throwing arm. He finds out he made the team when his father tells him the coach called. Oops! Not how he wanted Pa to find out. Clark gets a lecture – and another important lesson on knowing when to hold back in the heat of the moment. Then comes the stupid part. He tells his father he wants to be his own person, by being just like his Dad and playing football. Huh? Individuality by imitation? Whatever.
Abby hooks up with her biggest tormentor. Who’s more shallow? The guy who wants the former object of his torment, or the girl who wants to hook up with her former tormentor. They're both idiots. But when they start kissing in the shower (I sense a recurring theme this season) she passes something onto him. He looks fine until he sees himself in the mirror. He thinks he has turned into some kind of freak! Oh, cruel irony! He’s fine but the side effect of her “Kryp/Tuck” is that she passes along some LSD-like hallucinogen that makes people she comes into contact with think they are ugly. He runs out of the locker room onto the campus and straight into Lois’ car!
Jonathan and Martha have a discussion about Martha working at the Talon, where chauvinistic pig Jonathan continues to object to the idea of his college-educated wife working. He whines, “but why for the Luuuthors?” Fine, she can work there. What a guy. But that’s the end of that story for now.
Lana, unfortunately, is part of the main plot this week. She sees Scabby and Shallow Guy in the school hallway, so now she’s a witness. After Lana visit Dr. Psycho, who tells her that her tattoo (yawn!) is below the surface of her skin, Abby shows up. Mom soon realizes Lana is a witness, pretty Lana has to go now too. So in the next scene where Lana and Coach Jason make goo-goo eyes, Abby shows up and kisses Lana, making the poor girl think she’s ugly. A mirror falls on her, cutting her up and knocking her unconscious.
Visiting unconscious Lana in the hospital, Jason makes a little speech about how much he cares for her only to be interrupted by Lex, who acts all smarmy before introducing himself and revealing that he knows Jason’s family. And clever guy, he’s the 1st person in Smallville to realize that Jason and Lana expose shoulders together.
Investigative Lois makes an appointment with Dr. Psycho to uncover the truth, by posing as someone who needs plastic surgery (not Lois! She’s hot!) But amateur reporter that she is, Lois carelessly lets her noisy tape recorder rewind, so that Dr. Psycho knows she’s being set up. She puts Lois in her krypto-contraption, complete with a half-naked death trap outfit for Lois. Hey, works for me. This is supposed to make Lois ugly. But Clark saves the day, getting Lois out of the trap before collapsing from the kryptonite therein. Lois then saves her own day with a swift kick to Crazy doc.
All's well that ends well, Lana is fine (do you only like me'cause I'm pretty? auggggh!), Clark and his Dad reconcile about football in a touching, father/son bonding moment, Lionel is a no-show and Lois gets her first taste of investigative reporting. The episode ends with a bookend of a present-day football rally. And now – in the theme of flashback – we see Chloe get jealous of the chemistry between her cousin Lois and Clark. Too bad, because Chloe’s looking pretty good this season too.
The episode starts with a flashback to the time period of the early 1st season when Lana was a cheerleader, wore a Kryptonite necklace and dated Whitney. It’s a football pep rally. Here comes the mascot – poor Scabby Abby, teased mercilessly by the players when she takes the mascot costume head off. Look, it’s a pretty girl made up to look ugly.
Then we’re back to the present. Lois, having completed her mission to find Chloe, is all set to leave Smallville, when Ham Tyler, er, Sam Lane, shows up to tell Lois she’s just enough credits shy to not have graduated and she has to repeat a semester. Clark’s laughter and subsequent look of disbelief is priceless.
Meanwhile Scabby Abby shows up again, but of course now she’s gorgeous, thanks to her psycho plastic surgeon mother and some kryptonite (yay! Freak of the Week is back; it’s fun when it’s not every episode) Really, she just took off the false teeth, thick glasses and the prosthetic pimples. Chloe talks Lois into working for the Torch, even though journalism isn’t her thing. (Ha!) Her first assignment – teen plastic surgery and Scabby Abby, er, Abigail.
Clark, now a senior, decides he wants to join the football team, despite his father’s misgivings (hooray for worry-wart Pa Kent!) He goes to see the coach, and finds Jason, Lana’s beau (ugh), now the assistant coach. He and Clark get along pretty well, actually, though of course Clark doesn’t know that he and Lana are exposing shoulders together.
Clark tries out and of course impresses with his throwing arm. He finds out he made the team when his father tells him the coach called. Oops! Not how he wanted Pa to find out. Clark gets a lecture – and another important lesson on knowing when to hold back in the heat of the moment. Then comes the stupid part. He tells his father he wants to be his own person, by being just like his Dad and playing football. Huh? Individuality by imitation? Whatever.
Abby hooks up with her biggest tormentor. Who’s more shallow? The guy who wants the former object of his torment, or the girl who wants to hook up with her former tormentor. They're both idiots. But when they start kissing in the shower (I sense a recurring theme this season) she passes something onto him. He looks fine until he sees himself in the mirror. He thinks he has turned into some kind of freak! Oh, cruel irony! He’s fine but the side effect of her “Kryp/Tuck” is that she passes along some LSD-like hallucinogen that makes people she comes into contact with think they are ugly. He runs out of the locker room onto the campus and straight into Lois’ car!
Jonathan and Martha have a discussion about Martha working at the Talon, where chauvinistic pig Jonathan continues to object to the idea of his college-educated wife working. He whines, “but why for the Luuuthors?” Fine, she can work there. What a guy. But that’s the end of that story for now.
Lana, unfortunately, is part of the main plot this week. She sees Scabby and Shallow Guy in the school hallway, so now she’s a witness. After Lana visit Dr. Psycho, who tells her that her tattoo (yawn!) is below the surface of her skin, Abby shows up. Mom soon realizes Lana is a witness, pretty Lana has to go now too. So in the next scene where Lana and Coach Jason make goo-goo eyes, Abby shows up and kisses Lana, making the poor girl think she’s ugly. A mirror falls on her, cutting her up and knocking her unconscious.
Visiting unconscious Lana in the hospital, Jason makes a little speech about how much he cares for her only to be interrupted by Lex, who acts all smarmy before introducing himself and revealing that he knows Jason’s family. And clever guy, he’s the 1st person in Smallville to realize that Jason and Lana expose shoulders together.
Investigative Lois makes an appointment with Dr. Psycho to uncover the truth, by posing as someone who needs plastic surgery (not Lois! She’s hot!) But amateur reporter that she is, Lois carelessly lets her noisy tape recorder rewind, so that Dr. Psycho knows she’s being set up. She puts Lois in her krypto-contraption, complete with a half-naked death trap outfit for Lois. Hey, works for me. This is supposed to make Lois ugly. But Clark saves the day, getting Lois out of the trap before collapsing from the kryptonite therein. Lois then saves her own day with a swift kick to Crazy doc.
All's well that ends well, Lana is fine (do you only like me'cause I'm pretty? auggggh!), Clark and his Dad reconcile about football in a touching, father/son bonding moment, Lionel is a no-show and Lois gets her first taste of investigative reporting. The episode ends with a bookend of a present-day football rally. And now – in the theme of flashback – we see Chloe get jealous of the chemistry between her cousin Lois and Clark. Too bad, because Chloe’s looking pretty good this season too.
Late Review Of Smallville, Episode 2
It’s only the second episode and I’m already behind schedule. Geez, talk about lack of discipline.
Episode 2 is finally the conclusion to last season’s storyline. Clark’s back to “normal” but Chloe’s still presumed dead, and Lionel is still in jail. After Clark’s revelation from the previous week that Chloe’s grave was empty, Lois decides to dig it up. That’s right, by herself in a single afternoon without getting a smudge of dirt on herself, Lois digs a perfect hole six feet down without being stopped. OK, that’s realistic. I know we needed to confirm it fast, but why not have Clark do it? We know he can do it quickly with a minimum of muss and fuss. Lois could have showed up at the end, made a comment about his handiwork, then we would have the same conclusion – Clark is right: Chloe is not in her grave.
Oops, almost skipped right over a couple bits of fun. Clark and Lois and being chased by a military copters, which Clark shoots down long distance with his heat vision. Cool! Then their cute, little shower scene that is meant to demonstrate how worldly gal Lois is different from farmboy Clark. Worth it just to see the reaction on Martha’s face when Lois head pops up behind half-naked Clark. Then there’s Pa Kent – more upset about blowing up a military copter than sharing a shower with their comely houseguest. I love John Schneider’s over-protective Jonathan. His worry-wart ways are obviously what will lead Clark to adopt a dual identity in the future. Though how anyone in his future life (Lois, Lana, Lex, Perry) won’t know that Clark is Superman is beyond me. Maybe he’ll give everyone one of those memory-erasing kisses like the one Supes gave Lois at the end of Superman II. That kiss looks long overdue between Clark and Lex anyway.
Lana’s back in Smallville in this episode too. She’s taken to showing more skin now, particularly her shoulders. I think that means she’s a woman now. Ah, Paris! She meets Lois, shares yet another awkward moment with Clark, makes a comment that hints at the great love affair between Clark Kent and Lois Lane, then goes back to being insignificant this episode. And she confirms that her tattoo (in the stupidest subplot so far, which I think exists only because she has been otherwise completely supplanted by Lois – just like in the comics) is identical to a symbol in the cave. And her Paris boyfriend shows up. More on that in Episode 3. That’s enough about Lana.
Lionel and Lex have a great scene at the prison. Lionel has taught Lex that he can never relax again. “Don’t wound what you can’t kill,” he says to his estranged son. What a great line, one that I suspect will serve Lex well over the course of his life. Never again, Lionel says, will he trust anything he drinks, opening a door, making a friend. He will always have to be on his guard , suspicious of everything and everyone. Evil Lex is starting to bloom. As if to prove the point, while Lionel is taking one of those infamous prison showers (more shower scenes!) he is stabbed. Who arranged this, we don’t know.
Meanwhile, Lionel has hired the T-1000 to do his dirty work. Which is to make sure that Chloe is indeed not alive to testify. That’s right, Chloe’s still alive (Surprise! Those clever producers keeping her out of the opening credits). Lex is protecting her. Her safe house had a bomb shelter which she and her father were ushered into just in time to avoid being hurt in the explosion. Just like in the movie serials of old, what we saw in the finale is not the same thing we saw when the survival is explained. In the finale, the house exploded within seconds of her entering the house, but now, it seems they had at least a minute to get to the safety of the shelter. Lex was protecting Chloe and her father, but he lied to Clark about it. They are still in the midst of their lover’s spat, not helped by the fact that Lex keeps lying to him. Kiss and make up boys!
There is absolutely no explanation as to who this T-1000 morphing metal dude is, where he came from or how he got those powers. It’s like the producers have decided, “Look, this is a show about a kid from another planet with superpowers and freaky meteorites that have strange effects on everybody. Weird stuff just happens. Accept it.” OK I accept it. Harder to accept is the total lack of remorse when Lois and Clark ice the guy. That’s more of a stretch, but hey, we gotta wrap things up here.
Speaking of wrap up – Lionel’s trial, completely offscreen, done and done, Chloe testifies, Lionel’s guilty and back in jail. We see none of this dramatic development.
Finally, can’t forget to mention that this episode features the debut of Michael Ironside as General Sam Lane, Lois’ father. Ham Tyler from V! The voice of Darkseid in the Superman and Justice League cartoons! That’s just awesome.
Pretty solid episode as we get Chloe back, set up the Clark/Lois dynamic and see Lex get yet another life lesson. Next week: “Kryp/Tuck” (how cheesy!)
Episode 2 is finally the conclusion to last season’s storyline. Clark’s back to “normal” but Chloe’s still presumed dead, and Lionel is still in jail. After Clark’s revelation from the previous week that Chloe’s grave was empty, Lois decides to dig it up. That’s right, by herself in a single afternoon without getting a smudge of dirt on herself, Lois digs a perfect hole six feet down without being stopped. OK, that’s realistic. I know we needed to confirm it fast, but why not have Clark do it? We know he can do it quickly with a minimum of muss and fuss. Lois could have showed up at the end, made a comment about his handiwork, then we would have the same conclusion – Clark is right: Chloe is not in her grave.
Oops, almost skipped right over a couple bits of fun. Clark and Lois and being chased by a military copters, which Clark shoots down long distance with his heat vision. Cool! Then their cute, little shower scene that is meant to demonstrate how worldly gal Lois is different from farmboy Clark. Worth it just to see the reaction on Martha’s face when Lois head pops up behind half-naked Clark. Then there’s Pa Kent – more upset about blowing up a military copter than sharing a shower with their comely houseguest. I love John Schneider’s over-protective Jonathan. His worry-wart ways are obviously what will lead Clark to adopt a dual identity in the future. Though how anyone in his future life (Lois, Lana, Lex, Perry) won’t know that Clark is Superman is beyond me. Maybe he’ll give everyone one of those memory-erasing kisses like the one Supes gave Lois at the end of Superman II. That kiss looks long overdue between Clark and Lex anyway.
Lana’s back in Smallville in this episode too. She’s taken to showing more skin now, particularly her shoulders. I think that means she’s a woman now. Ah, Paris! She meets Lois, shares yet another awkward moment with Clark, makes a comment that hints at the great love affair between Clark Kent and Lois Lane, then goes back to being insignificant this episode. And she confirms that her tattoo (in the stupidest subplot so far, which I think exists only because she has been otherwise completely supplanted by Lois – just like in the comics) is identical to a symbol in the cave. And her Paris boyfriend shows up. More on that in Episode 3. That’s enough about Lana.
Lionel and Lex have a great scene at the prison. Lionel has taught Lex that he can never relax again. “Don’t wound what you can’t kill,” he says to his estranged son. What a great line, one that I suspect will serve Lex well over the course of his life. Never again, Lionel says, will he trust anything he drinks, opening a door, making a friend. He will always have to be on his guard , suspicious of everything and everyone. Evil Lex is starting to bloom. As if to prove the point, while Lionel is taking one of those infamous prison showers (more shower scenes!) he is stabbed. Who arranged this, we don’t know.
Meanwhile, Lionel has hired the T-1000 to do his dirty work. Which is to make sure that Chloe is indeed not alive to testify. That’s right, Chloe’s still alive (Surprise! Those clever producers keeping her out of the opening credits). Lex is protecting her. Her safe house had a bomb shelter which she and her father were ushered into just in time to avoid being hurt in the explosion. Just like in the movie serials of old, what we saw in the finale is not the same thing we saw when the survival is explained. In the finale, the house exploded within seconds of her entering the house, but now, it seems they had at least a minute to get to the safety of the shelter. Lex was protecting Chloe and her father, but he lied to Clark about it. They are still in the midst of their lover’s spat, not helped by the fact that Lex keeps lying to him. Kiss and make up boys!
There is absolutely no explanation as to who this T-1000 morphing metal dude is, where he came from or how he got those powers. It’s like the producers have decided, “Look, this is a show about a kid from another planet with superpowers and freaky meteorites that have strange effects on everybody. Weird stuff just happens. Accept it.” OK I accept it. Harder to accept is the total lack of remorse when Lois and Clark ice the guy. That’s more of a stretch, but hey, we gotta wrap things up here.
Speaking of wrap up – Lionel’s trial, completely offscreen, done and done, Chloe testifies, Lionel’s guilty and back in jail. We see none of this dramatic development.
Finally, can’t forget to mention that this episode features the debut of Michael Ironside as General Sam Lane, Lois’ father. Ham Tyler from V! The voice of Darkseid in the Superman and Justice League cartoons! That’s just awesome.
Pretty solid episode as we get Chloe back, set up the Clark/Lois dynamic and see Lex get yet another life lesson. Next week: “Kryp/Tuck” (how cheesy!)
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