It’s mid-June which means we’re halfway through 2009. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending a lot of it in movie theaters, glued to the screen as Hollywood delivers more science fiction movies which aren’t science fiction movies than ever. Well of course they’re science fiction movies, it’s just that nobody wants to call them that. After all, you wouldn’t want a bunch of nerds showing up at the red carpets. But we show up anyway, and as long as we’re watching here’s a list of the best science fiction movies of 2009 so far. Make sure you’ve seen them all.
Star Trek Star Trek would deserve its place in the top spot, if only for that opening ten minutes which left most audiences simultaneously sobbing and gasping for breath. Is this the
Star Trek we used to know? Thoughtful, challenging, and socially relevant? Nope. It’s morphed into a high-octane Hollywood action franchise and maybe some day down the road we’ll all live to regret that, but for now it’s hard not to sit back and just enjoy the fun. Sure it’s not as good as
Wrath of Khan and some of the other smarter, better, classic
Trek entries but it’s a blast and a movie that I find myself liking more with every passing day.
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It’s a safe bet to say if you are a reader of Giant Freakin Robot then you have watched Star Wars. George Lucas’s masterpiece was a pretty big part of my life just like the rest of you geeks. I watched all the movies and I wanted every toy they had although I never got the AT-AT Walker. Screw you, Santa. Anyways, my love of Star Wars never really went away. Of course, I kept it hidden from most people. My wife, Bethany, knew about it, but I made sure not to let her know how pathetic I was until after she was too far invested in me to run away.
Besides Star Wars, one of my other loves is Walt Disney World. When I heard about Star Wars Weekend 2008, I felt the little kid in me explode. Oh I had to go. Thankfully I have a sweet and understanding wife, and she was willing to go with me. The next thing I knew, we were off to Walt Disney World for June 6th through the 8th. Star Wars Weekends began in 1997 and has happened 9 times now. For each of the four weekends, Warwick Davis (aka Wicket) is the host at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for the Star Wars festivities. Also each weekend, a few Star Wars “celebrities” also appear for autographs and photos. Now, don’t even think that you’ll ever see Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill. We’re talking small time celebrities. For our weekend, we had Jeremy Bulloch and Daniel Logan. Who?? Oh come on you have to know who Old Boba Fett and Young Boba Fett are! The other celebrities are: read this entry »
