Results tagged “Sci-Fi” from Mrs. Happy Housewife

While the rest of us are waiting for Hollywood to churn out a Lord of the Rings prequel (The Hobbit), Kate Madison of England has put together an amazing one-hour movie telling the story of Aragorn's parents using her life savings, donations, and over 400 unpaid actors.

Here is the trailer:

Can you believe Madison pulled this movie together for 25,000 pounds? Imagine what she could do with a Hollywood budget. Eat your heart out, Peter Jackson.

I watched the whole movie this morning and was very impressed. If you enjoyed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then I think you'll like Born of Hope.

Also, Closed Captioning is available for those us who are hard of hearing. Click on the up arrow on the bottom right of the movie screen and choose the "CC" option.

Here's Born of Hope: 

Piccard:

I hear Obama is a Star Trek fan.

We are the BORG.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
You will be assimilated into the socialist collective.
Your health and care now belong to us.
Resistance is futile!
Yes we can!

We just got back from watching the new Transformers sequel. Unfortunately, the audience was loud and immature. Many hooted and shouted when the "New Moon" preview showed because of this guy. And, right before the movie began, one man yelled into the darkness, "We love you, Michael!" During the movie, much of the audience screamed or talked. I missed hearing many parts because of this.

The movie itself was more, more, more. More action, more battles, more Transformers, and more vulgarity. Although the movie was fun, the smut level was really too high and I wonder how it was able to get a PG-13 rating.

At the end of the movie, everyone clapped louder than I've ever heard before. Trust me - it wasn't that great a movie. S, however, has already declared it to be the best movie ever made. Of course, he's an eleven-year-old boy. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie, but a little editing would have done wonders.

(Shown above are the Transformers t-shirts I made the kids last year using freezer paper stencils. Can you guess what the kids wore to the movie tonight?)

I didn't know he had cancer. As a teen, I read Andromeda Strain. It was the only one of his books I've read, but I enjoyed it. It fit nicely with my love of science fiction.

My condolences to the Crichton family.

I love Sci-Fi. Yes, it's true. My favorite show is Stargate SG-1 and it was canceled (after ten years and 200+ episodes) a year and a half ago. That was terrible, but at least we still had the spin-off show, Stargate: Atlantis. We, meaning H, D, S, and me. We're one big, geeky family. Unfortunately, I just found out that Atlantis will end in January. This makes me sad, sadder than watching the Jane Austen debacle that was P&P3. Alas and alack, how will I get my Sci-Fi fix now? Pardon me whilst I mourn.

This week is Exam Week in our little homeschool. One part of the Language Arts exam I gave the children was write an original poem. These are the children's poems from yesterday:

The knights of the Republic
With sabers blue and green,
They guard the Republic
From the Sith, the dark terrors.
They fought and fought,
Until they thought they had defeated the Sith,
But in their moment of triumph
They were overthrown,
Betrayed by one of their own.

That was S's poem. D, who usually weeps when she is forced to write poetry for school, was so enthusiastic she wrote two poems. She prefers the second one, so that's the one I'll post here, but both poems were about Stormtroopers.

There they stand,
There they fight,
Nameless white terrors are they,
They stand in the sun,
Laughing at the destruction,
Killing all in the name of the Emperor.