This week, I start off with something I posted years ago, but it came back up in my suggested file, and I couldn't resist posting it again. These are 2 of the Cinematic trailers for 'Star Wars: The Old Republic' video games from 16 years ago.
They still hold up pretty well today, and frankly, these trailers leave me wanting to watch a lot more.
The thing I don't understand is how the studios that put these insanely good trailers missed delivering this level of on-the-edge-of-your-seat goodness for the last two Star Wars Films, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. Don't get me wrong, I do like both of those movies, and I REALLY loved The Force Awakens (and Luke's storyline in 8 was so damn good), but Star Wars movies 8 and 9 just missed with a lot of the secondary plots.
I also LOVE how they de-aged the technology in this timeline before the Star Wars movies we know.
Can you imagine if the creative team behind these trailers had been handed the last two movies? You would've come out of the theater exhausted!
Staying with the movie world, the book Cold Storage (by David Koepp) was an incredibly scary book, with a villain as scary and relentless as the Terminator robots, and it finally got made into a movie. The unfortunate part was that the movie was somewhat discarded with its release, and is now off to some streaming service.
As a fan of the book, this clip follows the story pretty cleanly. It's from early in the movie. It does get a little scary and icky, so watch out!
I will watch Cold Storage when it does eventually stream.
Finally, tonight, how did the moon get to be the moon?
The current theory is that a large planetoid hit Earth in its early forming stage and the resulting crash led to the smaller planet breaking up, half absorbed by Earth, and the other half forming the Moon.
This is presented as the answer to how the moon was formed, but I was surprised when Howtown put this video out and pointed out a lot of problems with that theory.
That's it for this week!
Have a great weekend and make sure you stay up to date on all of your vaccinations!
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