Batson's Blog

Last week Disney-Pixar announced a follow-up to the mega-successful Finding Nemo , released in 2003. Finding Dory will be in theatres by 2015 . After the Finding Dory announcement, I saw lots of happiness on Facebook. As a big fan of the original movie, I was really excited by the news myself. It's not one I was expecting though. It's been 10 years since the original movie was released. Despite being very successful, there never seemed to be any serious talk about doing a sequel. There's actually quite a few unexpected sequels that are coming to theaters soon. Star Wars: Episode VII (sequel to Star Wars: Episodes I-VI ) Release Date: 2014 Did anyone see this one coming? I was shocked when Disney made the announcement that they'd purchase LucasFilm's Star Wars and that they'd be making not one, but several new follow-ups . In some ways it's kind of cool, but I'm not sure if they'll be as successful as the original trilogy. It w...

They say not to judge a book by its cover. To that, I say: hogwash. Fair or not, if a book doesn’t have some interesting cover art, I usually pass on picking it up for a read. I gotta’ say, from my experience, it usually works. I recently learned the hard way, however, that the same can’t be said for DVD covers. While going through the $5 bin at Best Buy, I saw the Planet of the Apes (the Mark Wahlberg version). The cover art looks pretty epic. A few days and a Netflix DVD later, it was in my mailbox. My initial reaction was surprise. I was kind of surprised at how limited the special effects seemed. Since the movie was made in 2001, I was expecting more. Anything that’s post-2000, I kind of automatically assume it will have some realistic special effects. Then again, it’s a story that is about talking apes. I suppose no amount of special effects will make that look completely convincing. Still, based on the picture quality, it seemed like it was filmed in the 197...