2008 has got to be one of the worst years for Hollywood. At least so far, and for people like me. There have been so few movies I actually looked forward to, that I can count them on one hand. I mean I’m a huge fan of going to the movies, I absolutely love the experience, but this year there have been times where I didnt go to the movies for like 4 months straight. Off the top of my head, the only movies I looked forward to were Jumper and Vantage Point. Only TWO movies. Of course I went to see a couple more, but that was out of desperation . The Forbidden Kingdom was a waste of money, though I’m glad I got to know another hot asian actress Li Bingbing.

Yes, I gave this woman almost a half meg of space and 3 pictures, so you can tell I like her . Really, Forbidden Kingdom is worth it just to see this beautiful woman in action…but dont waste 12 bucks at the movies, just rent it. So as I said Jumper I actually looked forward to, because it was just a very cool idea for a movie, and yeah it proved once and for all that Christian Haydensen’s poor acting in Star Wars as Anakin was not just attributed to poor writing, the guy cant act period. But the movie is entertaining, I reccomend it. Vantage point was another movie I looked forward to due to the unique style of shooting, and it turned out to be a pretty awesome movie…the only thing is the ending was pretty disappointing and was one of those movies that made you think “this is it? What was the point?”.

IronMan I also looked forward to because I’m a big fan of pretty much all Marvel movies, and love comic-based movies in general. And it proved out to be as good as all the hype made it out to be.

Ok, so lets come to the present. I went to see the new Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian movie, becaues I’m a fantasy fan also, and it turned out pretty decent also. No Lord of the Rings though. And last but not least, Indiana Jones 4. I have shocked plenty of people by telling them I have never seen the 3 Indy movies, and I told myself I wasnt going to watch the 4th without having watched the 3 original ones, so that’s one less good movie to go see.

So…this is why I’m so excited about WALLE, which comes out June 27th. I’ve always been a fan of this type of animation movies, and am a big kid in many ways. I’m the type of guy that will say “awww…how cute” to a lot of things. And I had seen the teaser for WallE way back when, I think at the teather, and loved it immediately. And I’m so glad it’s finally about to come out, I cant wait to see this one. Probably the movie I am most excited to see since “Transformers”.

As for the rest of 2008, it looks like the only 2 movies that are worth mentioning for me are Dark Knight (Batman Begins sequel) and Star Wars: Clone Wars. For being a complete Star Wars fanatic, I’m actually very surprised at myself for knowing so little about this upcoming movie. In fact if I had not seen a poster advertising it when I went to see Narnia, I would have still now really paid it much attention lol. I’m looking forward to it, though of course, it is a cartoon after all. I’m looking forward to “Dark Resurrection Vol. 2″ more than Clone Wars. And considering Dark Ressurection cost 7000 Euros to make by a bunch of amateur fans, and that I’m looking forward to it more than something officially produced by LucasFilm…goes to show how much faith I’ve lost in George Lucas and his establishment. I’m in fact more excited about Dark Knight than this Star Wars movie, which is crazy. I fell completely in love with Batman Begins, it truly was the beginning of a whole new way of looking at Batman. It redefined and revolutionized the comic movies genre. It is still one of my top 10 movies to date. It is SO well done, the score was so nice, it was so realistic, everything about it rocked, so I’m excited about the sequel. It makes comparing the original batman movies to Batman Begins akin to comparing the original Battlestar Galactica to the re-imagined new Battlestar Galactica series…they dont even come close.

Anyways, I’ll end it here, or I’ll lose all of you on my first blog post lol. I’ll congratulate you if you have read this far. I’ll post more about Dark Ressurection soon, as I feel it’s important to get the word out about that fan movie.

So say we all!

~Adalla

If you are reading this it most likely means you already know me somewhat, because I’ll be posting the link to this blog in my signature on my own websites. And if you dont know me, well it is nice to meet you!

I always loved blogging, although I dont quite know why I never set one up before. I think just like the rest of my “internet journey”, I believe I had signed up with LiveJournal when I was part of a Wheel of Time community long ago, I had my own blog on a now defunct community site I ran, and I had a private blog on typepad once that I shared with my closest friends, but I stopped updating it.

I felt the need to create this blog mainly to glue my internet presence together. I have created and ran over 20 websites in the past 8 years, under various aliases including *Ingwe* (My first), Alixor, Kaylan Dunai, and Mishraile Rashima. Yeah, I was heavily into fantasy literature back then, so my aliases reflected that. Adalla was born when I became a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica, a SciFI show that pretty much revolutionized not only SciFi, but a whole bunch of other things, such as the scores on television/movies, Visual Effects, writing, and many others. You’ll be hearing me talk a LOT about Battlestar Galactica, as it is my greatest passion at this moment. I live, breathe, eat and sleep BSG. Anyways, Adalla was the combination of two of the characters fromthe show, which are Adama and Apollo. So that’s how Adalla was born, and I’ve used this alias when I got into the online gaming community primarily, and now I just use it for just about everything I do online.

So as I was saying, this Blog is meant to glue all my projects together, and link the various communities I created. I’ll be giving updates on my latest projects here, and I’m guessing most of my blogging will fall under the “Adalla Productions” category…much like this post right here. After all, Adalla HQ is yet another Adalla Productions website . But I’ll be yapping about many other things, anywhere from Battlestar Galactica (yes, brace yourself ), to other shows and movies, games, cool things that grabbed my attention, YouTube videos, and onto more serious stuff like my occasional philosophical/spiritual posts, or comments on world news. I’ll also be throwing a lot of my day to day stuff, like frustrations, hopes, challenges, accomplishments, plans, works in progress, new stuff in my life, events I attend etc etc. I’ll try to keep this stuff to a minimum, as I know you are more interested about the stuff I’ll be talking about, rather than about me, but it’ll be there.

So all in all, a well rounded blog, hopefully with enough interesting stuff to keep you folks coming back. It is the first time I’m doing a 100% public blog, so forgive me if I end up posting stuff you just end up skipping. I’m hoping you’ll all leave comments and give me feedback, so that I know what things you guys are digging most and which least.

Of course, I gotta promote this blog a bit too, or no one will know it exists So I’ll just shutup now and do that, so I can stop talking to myself.

But for when you do eventually visit and if you read this, let me say welcome to Adalla’s Headquarters, enjoy your stay, and be sure to make plenty of comments

So Say We All (yeah…that’s from Battlestar Galactica )

~Adalla