http://atomicwriter.com/blog3 Is time travel possible? Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:30:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_94" align="alignleft" width="93" caption="Stutter Island might have been better"][/caption] The Atomic Writer liked this movie, but grew tired waiting for the last reel payoff that never really came. Don't get me wrong, the movie is well worth seeing and is very entertaining, however with all the extravagant buildup I was ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2010/02/21/shutter-island-hitchcock-turning-over-in-grave/ [caption id="attachment_90" align="alignleft" width="96" caption="The Book of Eli"][/caption] In The Book of Eli we see the hero, Denzel Washington on the road in a post-apocalyptic world littered with bomb craters and full of Mad Max characters that appear to be re-using the same costumes from the original movie. We never actually ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2010/01/20/the-book-of-eli-supernatural-or-divine-intervention/ I know you must be thinking the Atomic Writer has lost it this time, but read the entire post and I think you'll find new insights into this great movie and agree with my comparison. I really think the title speaks for itself. I just returned from seeing this amazing ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/12/26/avatar-the-matrix-meets-dances-with-wolves/ There's an old adage in the screenwriting world, "grab the reader in the first 10 pages". It refers to what's needed to sell a script in today's highly competitive market. Based on the sheer number of scripts written each year; movie executives could not possibly attempt to read even a ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/10/24/law-abiding-citizen-characters-slip-in-powerful-message/ This weekend marked the opening of Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's take on the 1978 original movie Inglorious Bastards. Yes he changed the spelling. The movie centers around a group of American Jewish soldiers led by non-Jewish, part-Apache Southerner Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt puffing out his jaw to look ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/08/24/inglorious-basterds-tarantinos-ultimate-revenge-flick/ Pulsars are the most energetic objects known in the universe. They can accelerate photons close to the speed of light. And if you know a little science, or have been reading The Atomic Writer, you know close to the speed of light means close to the speed of altering the ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/08/09/could-pulsars-be-portals-into-new-worlds/ Is it just me or does this storyline suck? What's up with the latest installment in the boy wizard series? I mean, come on, have we become so love-struck with Harry Potter and everything Hogwarts that we’ve become blind to poor filmmaking and storytelling? It seems anything Potter, no matter how ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/07/19/harry-potter-%e2%80%93-grade-c-is-it-just-me-or-does-this-storyline-suck/ Hello Readers, Today marks the day all national television stations stop broadcasting analog signals. Just over an hour ago analog signals that have been broadcast as the standard for over sixty years have been switched off and replaced by a digital broadcast signal. Like the vinyl record, cassette tape, and vacuum ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/06/12/digital-tv-transition-what-are-we-losing/ Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. Today at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colo., Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/06/02/nasas-fermi-mission-have-we-detected-an-unknown-close-by-object/ "Los Angeles, year 2029. All stealth bombers are upgraded with neural processors, becoming fully unmanned. One of them, Skynet, begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time, August 29th" In the new Terminator movie we see a theme of what it means to be ... http://atomicwriter.com/blog3/2009/05/27/terminator-salvation-humanities-salvation/