Thursday, April 19, 2012

ABC's Titanic Part 4 Review

Part 1 Review here. 
Part 2 and 3 Review here. 

Part one was okay. Part 2 was good. Part three was really good. And part 4 was pretty epic and sad.

As most films about people dying are, the fourth part was very sad.
And that was pretty much the point of this part. It was filled with sadness. But, there was almost no other elements to this part of the film.
The creators could have and should have included more about what actually happened to cause the ship to sink. Basically the ship hits the iceberg, well, scratches along an iceberg, and then sinks.
I think it would have been really dramatic and awesome to see some of the workers in the engine room and in the basement dealing with the incoming water, instead of 20 minutes of people getting into boats.

Still, my main complaint is that this entire series could have been more epic, drama-filled, and sad. By the fourth part, the show got pretty good at showing the emotion of the characters, the other parts weren't that good. 


You can watch the fourth part below. 

Billionaire-Backed Space Venture Planetary Resources to be Unveiled April 24



An audacious new private space exploration company backed by billionaire investors and filmmaker-turned-explorer James Cameron will unveil its master plan "to help ensure humanity's prosperity" on Tuesday, April 24.

While details of the company, called Planetary Resources, Inc., and its mission are still under wraps, officials with the enterprise did state that "the company will overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP," according to media alert sent to reporters today (April 18).

On April 24, Planetary Resources officials will announce details of their space exploration plans in a press conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Wash., according to the alert. The announcement will be held in the museum's Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, which is named after billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi, a Planetary Resources investor.

"This innovative start-up will create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources,'" company officials said in the statement.

Planetary Resources was co-founded by two veteran commercial space pioneers: Peter Diamandis andEric Anderson.

Diamandis is chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, which offers prizes for technological feats, as well as a co-founder of Zero-G Corporation, which offers commercial flights to experience weightlessness aboard a modified Boeing 727-200 jet. Anderson, meanwhile, is the chairman and co-founder of Space Adventures, the only company ever to broker multimillion-dollar flights for private citizens to the International Space Station. Simonyi, for example, flew to the space station twice with Space Adventures, most recently in 2009 on a trip that cost a reported $35 million.

Other big investment icons and spaceflight industry veterans form the core of Planetary Resources' team, according to the media alert.

The company named "Titanic" filmmaker James Cameron and Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its groupof investors and advisors. Others on board include Simonyi, Google board of directors founding member K. Ram Shriram and Ross Perot, Jr., who is chairman of Hillwood and the Perot Group.

The Onion: Democrats: Obama Has Dicked Us Around For Four Years, Now It's Our Turn

McDonald's Worker Arrested for Spitting in Drink

(NEWSER) – Allegedly spitting in a customer's drink didn't just get a South Carolina McDonald's employee fired—it got him arrested. Marvin D. Washington Jr., 19, has been charged with unlawful and malicious tampering with food after a mom and daughter found phlegm in their tea,WYFF4 reports. The pair had ordered sweet tea Saturday, then returned it after realizing it was not sweet. The replacement tea was still not sweet, but they decided to sweeten it themselves at home. That's where, upon removing the lid, they noticed what WYFF4 appetizingly refers to as "a large deposit of phlegm" in both drinks. Washington was seen on video leaning close to the cups, authorities say.

Stop the Charade: Being a Mom Isn't 'Toughest Job'


(NEWSER) – When Hilary Rosen dropped her never-worked-a-day bomb on Ann Romney, Democrats immediately sensed the political danger and backed away. President Obama himself weighed in: "There is no tougher job than being a mom," he declared. Oh, really? wonder Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times and Vivia Chen at the Careerist blog. Both take pains to acknowledge that parenting is, of course, difficult, but Obama's commonly spoken view strikes them as a little patronizing.
  • Chen: "Isn't being the leader of the free world just a tad tougher?" she asks. Rosen should have specified that Ann Romney never held a paying job. "And therein lies the distinction that politically correct people (on the left and right) dodge when it comes to women's work: Working for a paycheck is different. And doing so while juggling home and work demands ... adds another layer of complexity to the equation." It's reasonable, then, to question whether Romney can relate. Full column.
  • Daum: "Might we possibly consider retiring that idea?" she asks, referring to Obama's comment. "Off the top of my head I can think of several other jobs that are tougher than being a mom. For instance, president of the United States. Or coal miner. Or teacher in an underfunded urban public school. Or Amish farmer." Click for the full column, whose larger point is about Americans' obsession with work.