Geek Week Round-Up

Transformers vs Terminators: It's a robot smackdown!!

I think the Chinese may wish to revise their calendar and rename 2009 Year of the Robot. 

An exciting new Terminator: Salvation trailer has gone up online. With more robot action than the latest Transformers trailer this is shaping-up nicely!

Find the trailer at Yahoo.

Who will be watching the Watchmen?

Well, if critics have their way not many will trot out to the cinemas this weekend for a dose of R-rated comic-book action. For, unfortunately, the reviews are not looking good. Not. Good. At all!

However, those in the geek community (I know some people) are close to raving about the film. Granted, this is the target audience, and they tend to get excited for all the wrong reasons, but there is still some hope...right?! Not a huge comic-book fan I will still make my way to the cinema on the weekend to have a look-see. Expect my review sometime over the weekend (I know you are hanging out for it!).

Break out the Floyd and the reefer; here comes The Tree of Life!

Terrence Malick's latest film is due this year. The project has been shrouded in secrecy with little to go on but a few photos (above) and a brief synopsis (below).

We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, Jack, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does, with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way, of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.

Framing this story is that of adult Jack, a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracle — precious, incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.

The story ends in hope, acknowledging the beauty and joy in all things, in the everyday and above all in the family — our first school — the only place that most of us learn the truth about the world and ourselves, or discover life’s single most important lesson, of unselfish love.

It sounds like a transcendent drama; small in character with only the ambition of it's themes to make it grandiose. Well, according to the latest reports this project requires CGI dinosaurs and Nasa shot IMAX images from space!

Ain't It Cool News has suggested that these latest revelations may be for an accompanying IMAX project that Malick releases alongside The Tree of Life. But with other rumoured sequences featuring a sleeping Minotaur, and the birth and death  of the Universe, this is sounding like a real trip. Although the details are not yet clear, my excitement for this film has shot from an 11 to a 12! (Beat that Nigel Tufnel!)