Barry Smyth’s Blog

Being a big Star Wars fan I was glad to finally see the release of Fanboys, a movie about four friends who go on a road trip to San Francisco to steal a pre release copy of Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

There was a huge amount of controversy concerning the filming of this movie as the production company really messed with the original script idea, originally the film plot was based around four guys, one of whom had cancer and wanted to see the new film from the second trilogy. Apparently the whole cancer idea did not sit well with the Weinstein Group so they re-shot a lot of the film with a new plot.

This caused quite a lot of angst in the Star Wars fan community as the sneak peak that was shown to a large audience at Star Was Celebration a few years back had the original plot, so they felt betrayed by the film company.

Anyway, that seems to have cleared itself up as it is being released with the original plot.

I am not sure when the film will be released here in Australia but I will make sure I see it when I go the San Francisco later next week, lucky me, US cities listed here.

Preview below

Today is the first official day of Summer in Australia (well NSW anyway) and I am wondering how long it will last.

I want for my normal walk to Red Hill today, the cicadas were singing, the temp was bout 22C at 8:15, so it really felt like summer. However, a quick glance at the Weather Channel on Foxtel tells us its OK for the next day or two & then back to rain!

I cant remember the name of the Weather man who two weeks ago, but I’ll bet he is feeling like a goose for saying “Put away your umbrellas and winter woollies, its going to be a long hot summer”.

We can only hope.

Welcome Summer, lets hope you are a long & hot one.

I just hope that I get a two nice warm days for SMX Sydney on April 2nd & 3rd and a fine evening for SMX Under the Bridge on the 3rd.