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The upcoming (mid-2012) Alien prequel Prometheus looks fun!

I’m thinking Gold-Class for that bad-boy! =D

Jan 2012 Prometheus trailer:

The news that Ridley Scott is going to be directing a brand new Blade Runner movie completely blind-sided me this morning, and I’m yet to pick my jaw up off the floor. I love Blade Runner – it’s my favourite film of all time, and I’m sure I must have watched it like 20 times. I loved the Philip K. Dick book, I really enjoyed the K. W. Jeter extensions, I finished the PC adventure game multiple times so I could see all the different endings… So yeah, bit of a fan, then. To find out they’re making a new movie, and that Ridley Scott’s at the helm has officially just made my year =D

If you don’t know what you’re missing, check out the Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) trailer below:

Surely more of this has got to be A Good Thing =D

P.S. If you like the music in the trailer, it’s Death is the Road to Awe by Clint Mansell.

The good Mr. Doctorow briefly discusses the progression of copying in culture from the earliest silent-movie piano performances to the Net, and how it’s reached a stage where the corporations are strong-arming legislature that will give you three strikes and cut you off if you don’t put your hand in your pocket.

Definitely worth seeing, if only for the grin-inducing progression of Performance-to-Piracy claims

Resident Evil: Afterlife comes out today and although both you and I know it’s going to be cheesy, cliched and poorly acted, if you can manage to switch your head off before going to watch it in 3D then it’s likely to be a bit of a laugh =D And, for added goodness, it’s directed by Paul W. S. Anderson so… oh, I was thinking of Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers etc.) so never mind… It’ll be shit.

Still – zombies. In 3D. Prolly worth a dabble if it’s raining and you’re at a loose end.

This looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun – can’t wait! =D

Relatedly, wearing my hat of cynicism +5 and staring into a magic eight-ball, I predict a re-badged Armagetron Advanced getting ported to every mobile OS in existence… which to be perfectly honest isn’t a bad thing: light-cycles ftw!