Professor Elam

Outer space has been good to me 

Sigourney Weaver

You can see the blue creatures elsewhere, Sig photos gets my vote on this blog. Whoever did her eye job certainly earned his fee!

Avatar with a budget of over $300 M and 3 D effects debuts this weekend. Projections are $80-$200 M for the first weekend, it is a world wide debut. James Cameron has not done a film since Titanic and with its success, got free reign to do what he wanted. 

Read about it and Sig W's comments here. 

Thirty years later, Alien and Aliens are perhaps the best sci fi movies ever made. The gritty realism (?) if in fact we ever end up on distant planets seems just right and it established one of the first female action stars. Avoid the last two which are in no way equal to the first two franchises. 

Sean Connery only did one space film Outland. while the the Review at Amazon is nothing special, I thought like Aliens it captured the loneliness of a far off world. Connery said he had been offered many scie fi scripts before finally picking this one.