2001: A Space Odyssey

Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

127 Hours

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

366 In 366

Welcome to 2012! I could go on about how this year is going to be great and will change everything. But to be realistic. Probably not.

Instead of setting some crazy goal like many are (lose weight, stop smoking, be a better person, blah blah blah) I am compiling a list of movies. Good, bad, indifferent. 366 Movies to be exact. 366 Movies for 366 Days in the year of 2012. By my calculations that is 1 movie a day.

Why am I posting this to Blogger?

Blogger, You are about to be inundated with movie posters and “synopsi?”. for each movie I am watching. Don’t freak out and I am sorry in advance. The post time will be the time I am starting the movie. Usually ending at 11:15 or midnight due to the fact I am participating in Stargate rewatch.

Simple, sweet. Wanna participate? Shoot me a message for my list, or create your own! (It’s not easy, trust me.) and don't forget to label with "366n366"

Stargate Rewatch

Note: This article was written in March but was not posted until after the event started.

The Stargate franchise is officially over. That is the sad news I have come to bear.

THE GOOD NEWS!

Gateworld, An online (mega) fan base of Stargate fans and ultimate resource guide for all things Stargate, announced that they will be hosting a "rewatch" event Starting August 1st. (well July 31st really) The objective, watch one episode of Stargate every weekday, watching one season of Stargate a month. This endeavor will take over a year since this encompasses the entire Stargate franchise. The idea is to have fun watching one of the most successful science fiction franchises on television. Not simply to watch it, but to experience the series, and perhaps get some of your friends into it as well. Gateworld also suggested being social in your viewing. Like Gateworld on Facebook and follow Gateworld on Twitter and you are set. Post when you are watching the episode on twitter using the hashtag #SGRewatch and Gateworld + The Stargate fan universe will know that you are preparing on one of the most daring fanventures i have heard of.

The schedule is as follows

Last Week of July – Stargate the Movie (info)
August 2011 – Stargate SG-1 Season One (info)
September 2011 – SG-1 Season Two
October 2011 – SG-1 Season Three
November 2011 – SG-1 Season Four
December 2011 – SG-1 Season Five
January 2012 – SG-1 Season Six
February 2012 – SG-1 Season Seven
March 2012 – SG-1 Season Eight
April 2012 – SG-1 Season Nine
May 2012 – SG-1 Season Ten + The Ark of Truth
June 2012 – Stargate Atlantis Season One
July 2012 – Atlantis Season Two
August 2012 – Atlantis Season Three
September 2012 – Atlantis Season Four
October 2012 – Atlantis Season Five + Continuum
November 2012 – Stargate Universe Season One
December 2012 – SGU Season Two

FB post that needs addressing

This will be short:

"No, you did not just call my faith a myth. Don't compare Christianity to mythology. It's real and you better believe it or your going to get left behind."




I am sure the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Nords, Druids etc. said the same thing.

Picture Of The Day

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Stargate Universe to air final 10 In March

Syfy announced that Stargate Universe, the third canon installment of Stargate, will air the final 10 episodes on March 7th at 10/9c after Being Human. After that the gate will close.

At least in the series sense.

Joseph Mallozzi (Pictured) stated on his blog that all hope for a third season is pretty much over. Instead they are looking into producing movies to finish off the series.

Keep a third season in the back burner. you have TEN episodes in a less competitive timeslot to air. There is some turnaround ability. Movies would be nice but I am still waiting on the new SG-1 movie and the first Atlantis movie, so I am not keeping my hopes up.

Caprica And Stargate Universe

2010 was not a nice year to Science Fiction Shows Caprica and Stargate Universe on the Syfy Network. After a scheduling shuffle in the fall due to an outrage of Caprica's extended break the show moved from January 2011 to October 2010. The problem?

CAPRICA
Well there are two. First, Caprica's ratings were good on Fridays and was the most successful cable show in its night let alone its own timeslot. When Caprica moved to Tuesdays this season it was up against some tough competition, Glee in a preceding timeslot, and The Good Wife and Sons Of Anarchy in its own timeslot. Second, Lack of advertising. the advertising that Caprica did get announced its return in January. It wasnt until about mid-September that Syfy announced that Caprica would return in early October. After the announcement of the date change there was almost no advertising or announcing that Caprica would come back so soon. The way the word got out was through Twitter. Alessandra Torresani, Sasha Roiz, and Esai Morales spearheaded the Caprica Is Back (#Capricaisback) campaign. flooding Twitter with statements that Caprica is Back leading it to become a trending topic.

After the announcement of Caprica's cancellation there was a huge backlash on Syfy's Facebook fan page with outraged fans. (Note: there are of course going to be angry people when a favorite show is cancelled.) People were cursing Syfy, calling it the Wrestling network and the sell out network. Even prompting people to make anti SyFy posters and logos. (Such like the one above). Operation Airlock was crated as a fan based boycott of the SyFy Network until Caprica is brought back or a proper resolution is made. Suffice to say that the project was partially successful until Friday when Sanctuary aired. The popularity of Sanctuary deterred OA members from continuing their campaign.

STARGATE UNIVERSE
When The Caprica dust finally settled Syfy Decided to throw another curve ball. Cancel Stargate Universe. Now to note that when Caprica's announcement was not taken well. Stargate Universe was even worse. The messages are still flowing even to this day. When Caprica was cancelled fear struck through the SGU fanbase starting a preemptive Save Stargate Universe campaign on Twitter as well as a SGU for Season 3 campaign. Despite the impressive numbers of participants Syfy Still cancelled it citing ratings. Again the same argument can be made that Tuesday is a tough night for Cable TV. with A Glee Predecessor and Raising Hope as its biggest competitor Stargate Universe kept what can be called impressive ratings for its situation. The thing is between the Save Stargate Universe Campaign and the support from OA. Stargate Universe does have a chance to come back since earlier Joeseph Malozzi announced that Stargate Universe is a 5 season story and the fact that the campaign is a little more organized than just Operation Airlock.

Save Stargate Universe had a Resurgence Event asking the fans to legally purchase Stargate Universe's midseason episode "Resurgence" providing links to all possible forms of purchase.

An interesting fact about SGU's cancellation is that No one from production knew. All of the actors, producers and writers were informed through Twitter by fans saying how disappointed they were and how sad they were for the loss completely confusing the actors. I have a feeling that that is going to hurt Syfy in a way that we do not know yet.

Happy New Year: NSFW

Happy New Year from Ben's Blog

Courtesy: Caius Schneider & Tina Hadley

Merry (late) Christmas!

I know this post is late but bear with me!

A Lot has changed here at Ben's Blog these last few months. I have expanded a blog from a series to a franchise, adding in Movie, TV and Food reviews to the main blog. TV and Food reviews will start on the 1st of the year as I have been busy preparing to flood the internets with posts. I have been able to fufill my dream of having guest posts on the blog for the Rocky Horror Glee Show. (My review will be available when it comes out on the TV show review blog). Oh and a note to some readers. I don't plan on starting a Game review blog, sorry.

I have recently formed, with my friend David Shatto, a production company for small productions, or productions that are large and cheap. Whichever way you look at it it exists for a purpose, to help people with ideas produce the videos they want. Om Nom Nom Productions is currently working on Vworld and will hopefully shoot in the spring if the schedule doesn't get pushed too much later (It probably will).

Blogger Has thankfully implemented a mobile version of blogs for better reading on your smartphones. I had a chance to look at it and test drive the mobile site. I myself have to admit that it is pretty sweet and is easy to use. Once I figure out EXACTLY how to get to it I will inform everyone.

For the continual running of this blog and my projects there are a few people I have to thank
David Shatto- My best friend and brother. This guy keeps me level and nerdy. Without him life would defenitley be dull.
Anna Ryan- The mentor. We are each others therapists. What would I do without her or Any member of the Ryan family?
Alan and Marianne Knight- my no nonsense attitude comes from these two. My teachers. My mother tells me that I need to do better and my dad just agrees, which makes me work harder on making this blog better.
Andi Enns- She makes me strive to have this blog as professional as possible while still being fun and juvenile (Like my father).
Ken Willard and Kevin Edwards- The people responsible for my avid film-making. Edwards the Technical and Willard the theory, I have learned so much from them the 3 years I was at Wyandotte.