A Doctor, a Gimp, an African-American, and a Beauty land on Earth after 40 years in Space.  Sounds like the start of a bad joke.  OK, well, maybe that's a bad comparison.

You have to love a movie where half of the main actors get killed before the first commercial.  The Gimp gets killed because her leg is hurt.  OK, we figured that one out.  The black guy gets his head eaten cause he was a stand-up type of guy, and alien monsters don't like stand-up types of guys, except as lunch.

The funeral scene was great.  Wonder why they don't have more movies showing funeral pyres with mutant alien crickets bowing and chanting?

Let's face it.  SciFi Channel makes a lot of... less than par... movies.  I watch all of them.  Wouldn't miss them.  But often I'm left with the thought that it was a good plot idea, just poor writing... and often poor acting also. 

During this movie, I spent much of it wondering if it was supposed to be funny, or if it was just that bad of movie.  That question was answered as they gathered their forces.  You just don't say "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" in serious movies.

Bottom line:  See this.  Just don't see it expecting Star Wars, Episode III or Aliens or even Something About Mary.  It's just an enjoyable Saturday night, popcorn, sit on the floor movie.  If you take the movie seriously, you'll be disappointed.  Bruce Campbell makes for a good time.

Just remember.  According the the IMDB, this was one of two choices presented to SciFi.  You could of been watching "The Man With the Screaming Brain."  [EDIT 8/13: Apparently "The Man With the Screaming Brain" premieres on SciFi on September 10th.]

[After biting off a guy's head.]
Mite Governor: That is one of our favorite delicacies... Next to wood.

Doctor: If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
Human Captors: Shut up.

[The Doctor fixing to do some doctoring.]
Doctor:  Here, drink this.
Patient: Why?
Doctor:  It will kill the pain.
Patient: Why do you want me to drink that if you are going to stick me with a knife?
Doctor:  I'm a Sadist.

Now don't go getting upset or scared or go running around yelling "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!"  The sky isn't falling.  It's mearly taken some major damage and the engineers are saying that it needs to be replaced before it does fall.

SHA-1 computer hash code has been broken by a team in China.  A "hash" code takes a file, and encodes the document into a string of characters.  If you think about when you were a kid, if you take a message and cut out every other character, then that would be a hash of the original message.  When you read the message and compare the hash to it, if any of the characters are different, then you know you are not reading the original message.

SHA-1 is often used to encode passwords and secure communications. But don't worry, no one is going to be breaking into your grocery list or your dirty pictures anytime soon.

<<CAUTION:  Superscripts Ahead>>

In trying to avoid cluttering the Main Page with all one subject, even one so close to my heart as movies and shows, I post a lot of my movie reviews in it's own category and not on the Main Page.  Some of the more recent movies posted are:

Sky Captian and the World of Tommorrow -- March 10
Y2K/Terminal Countdown -- January 17
Battlestar Galactica, the Movie -- December 02
And Now for Something Completely Different -- November 24

One of the stories that I've followed closely in the media was the Martian trek of the twin landers, Spirit and Opportunity.  As the mission went on, and was nearing the 90-day goal, and expected end of the mission, the NASA controllers started getting more daring in what they wanted the little guys to do.

After many calculations and tests and heavy breathing exercises, the NASA controllers slowly crept Spirit into a large crater, to explore, and die.  Well..  it didn't die.  It kept going, and going.

After fully learning all that they could learn in the crater, and having a perfectly viable robot on their hands, they had to figure how to get the thing out!  Slowly, and backwards, Spirit climbed out of the crater and went on exploring the planet.

Sounding more and more like a Douglas Adams 5-part Trilogy, the Spirit and Opportunity kept going.  Celebrating it's one year anniversary of the start of the 3-month mission, it kept going.  Spirit gets a gummed up wheel, and it keeps going.  Opportunity doesn't even have any problems, it just keeps going.

I was a more than a little disappointed when they announced a couple months ago that Spirits life may be coming to an end.  The solar panels were getting more and more coated with the fine red Martian dust that was affecting the ability to recharge the batteries.  Opportunity was considerably cleaner and they said it looked like it just blasted off of the showroom floor.

But, everyone rejoice!!  Spirit was the victim of a hit-and-run dust-devil that polished the solar panels and brought the power generation from 60% capacity back up to 93%.  This gives the Spirit a new lease on life.

So, good roving, Spirit and Opportunity.  Find us some more cool stuff to look at.