Sometimes Science Fiction doesn’t have to be a story.
Sometimes it can just be an object:

I mentioned this strange Vin-Diesel picture a while back, and there’s a second trailer for it now:

 
It seems to be falling more into the realm of “weird euro science fiction” category.
But maybe not this weird:

I’ll be following up my previous post on Doctor Who with a more in-depth discussion next week, but I wanted to take note that the shows best writer, Steven Moffat, has just become the head writer for the next season.  There’s always a risk when someone new comes on board a show that the magic will be broken, but it should be a good thing for fans of the more serious sci-fi elements of the series.

It’s hard to be a fan of Doctor Who over the age of 25 without also being a meta observer of the strange and unique place that the show holds in the firmament of the modern Science Fiction show. Premiering in 1964, two years before Star Trek, the show ran continuously for over 20 years. It pioneered concept of the modern traveling show, with a character able to move through space and time so that he could appear in radically different locations each and every week. Originally this was …

This looks interesting.  If nothing else it feels like they may have made an actual Indiana Jones film.

I’ll be honest and say that I never felt like the second two films lived up to the promise of the first one.  Somehow they got bogged down in the cliches of the summer blockbuster (which the franchise helped to invent) and became artifacts of the 80s rather than having that spirit of timeless adventure that the first movie had.
Let’s see if this can bring back the magic.
HD version available here.