The Houston Astros remain a thorn in the Atlanta Braves postseason… Not happy with eliminating them 3-2 last year, they made apparently easy work of the Braves bullpen tonight by gutting them 10-5, a bullpen that for 3 innings couldn’t buy a strike…
In what was predicted to be a low scoring series dominated by pitchers, the Astros wasted no time by scoring in the first, and the Braves were never far behind until what can only be best described as “complete and total capitulation” kicked in and that was that… 5 runs were given up in a horrific 8th inning, most were unearned due to an abundance of walks, now there is a huge game tomorrow, a classic duel too. Roger Clemens vs. John Smoltz. It’s pretty much a must win for the Braves, if they lose this series will be over come Saturday night in Houston…
Apparently, less than a month after introducing the iPod Nano and the Motorola ROKR, Apple have yet more aces up their sleeves…
AppleInsider thinks it could be an iPod capable of playing videos. Sweet, just as I’m selling my old 3G one to finance a new one… Talk about timing.
Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage is a new father. His wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage. Son of Jor-El Nicolas Cage! Kneel before Zod!!!
Nirvana’s Nevermind has been voted the most overrated album of all time by BBC 6 Music listeners. Presenter Andrew Collins, a Nirvana fan, announced the results on Saturday, calling everyone who had voted for the Seattle grunge band’s record “mad”.
ESPN come up with their list of top ten NHL Enforcers. I’m shocked there is no mention of Tony Twist, Stu Grimson or even Rob Ray… Twist and Ray fights were legendary, hell, Twist broke Ray’s helmet and orbital bone with a few punches once and Ray’s method of shirt removal was infamous… At least they included Bob Probert, Claude Lemieux and Tie Domi.
Last night Robyn and I went to see the new Joss Whedon movie, Serenity, which is a spin off from his much loved yet short lived TV series Firefly, and I for one couldn’t be happier…
Now I’ll admit to not really knowing much about the show til I got the DVD set back in February of 2004, I remembered seeing previews for it on Fox and things like that while in Boston but back in the UK it didn’t start showing there for almost a year and I only saw maybe half an episode. So when I revisited the entire series, firstly via Netflix then buying the DVD’s outright, I completely fell in love with it and when the movie was announced, well I had to be there opening night, if only to prove my geekdom more than anything.
I’ll try not to give much away, but this is set some six or so months after the last Firefly episode “Objects in Space” and The Alliance is still after River Tam (Summer Glau) and her brother Simon Tam (Sean Maher), but when Serenity’s captain Mal Reynods (Nathan Fillion) takes her on a job and the Reavers show up, Simon sees this as one risk too much and says they will leave the ship at next port of call, meanwhile an unnamed member of The Alliance is tracking the Tams and Serenity in an attempt to return River the a facility known as The Academy. After leaving the ship River finds herself in a bar where an advert on a screen triggers *something* and her conditioning is revealed, as well as something hidden deep inside her subconscious that could threaten The Alliance…
I went in hoping it would be like a 2 hour episode of the show, but it was so much more involving, it now makes me think that it always should have belonged on the big screen, this had enough moments and sweeping visuals to rival anything that came out of LucasFilms in the last 30 years. Usually movies like this involving an ensemble cast (like Star Trek for instance) can get bogged down with far too many sub-plots just so everyone can get screen time, not this one… It’s direct and to the point… River knows a dark secret and The Alliance want to stop that secret getting out, and it’s 2 hours of action and suspence that wraps it all up… Plus it has kickass battle sequences, and enough of the dry wit that made Firefly so endearing, I dont know who gets the best lines, Mal, Jayne or Wash… They are all great.
I hope this is a success so more movies in the franchise can get made, shame they will be a few crew members short, that is the one thing that surprised me… Highly recommended, even if you havent seen the whole of Firefly, but it might help…
Miami’s Dolphin Stadium beat out Atlanta’s Georgia Dome and Houston’s Reliant Stadium to host the 2010 Super Bowl. Miami is also hosting the 2007 Super Bowl and Tampa is hosting the 2009 Super Bowl, so much for rotating these games around…