INASCIFI BLOG

Hello everyone. It’s Arvin here. Some of you may know me, others may only know me through online. For years there’s been this group called Inascifi, an Indonesian science fiction group. Inascifi has a blog and a website at inascifi.com. But for quite some time, there hasn’t been any worthwhile activity nor any participation from the group members, and thus I’m considering of terminating it because of financial reasons. What do you think?

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Halo semuanya, Arvin nih. Sebagian dari anda mungkin sudah mengenal saya, sebagian lain hanya kenal secara online. Selama bertahun-tahun ada sebuah grup yang disebut Inascifi. Grup ini awalnya kumpulan penggemar fiksi ilmiah yang kebetulan ditemukan saya. Grup ini juga memiliki blog dan website di inascifi.com. Tapi karena sudah lama tidak ada aktivitas ataupun partisipasi dari anggota grup tersebut, saya sedang memikirkan untuk mematikannya karena alasan finansial. Bagaimana pendapat anda?

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Hi, I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything significant here in this blog. Things been going on in my personal life, but I promise to post some newer reviews and perhaps new previews related to science fiction. Regards…

Hi, I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything significant here in this blog. Things been going on in my personal life, but I promise to post some newer reviews and perhaps new previews related to science fiction. Regards…

Hi all!

The Chinese Lunar New Year just passed by early this week. For many Chinese, this day was a cause for hope and gathering with family and kin!

Inascifi wishes you all readers a Happy Lunar New Year!

Renovatio.

That’s a very good latin term I’ve learned four years ago from Michael Bay’s 2005 action packed film, The Island. The protagonist (Lincoln Six-Echo) of the story had this dream of being on a ship bearing that name, heading to the Island, a place where all people dream to go.

Renovatio… Renewel. Restoration. Rebirth

That is the sense that I’m carrying as I begin this blog.

The domain Inascifi.com has been around since 2006. Before then, the eGroup ina_sci-fi was established in 2000. Its purpose was to gather Indonesians as well those who speak Bahasa Indonesia (and English) into a forum of science fiction fans.

Yet, my attempts to start up an Indonesian scifi community was met with mediocre results.

Getting the scifi community moving in was a challenge. Biggest among them all is to get the members to particapte. The most reason lack of participation was because the members either have little access to the Internet for leisure activity, or they’re just too busy to take notice of it.

So in November 2008, I started the Inascifi blog (in http://inascifi.blogspot.com) which already contain several posts. If any of you “new readers” would like to catch up with the previous posts, you can check these old links:
November 17 2008: Inascifi blog is online
November 25 2008: Most anticipated (scifi) movies for 2009
December 8 2008: Penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia yang Baik dan Benar
January 2 2008: Happy New Year!
January 2 2008: Movie Review: The Spirit
January 17 2008: My opinions on 2009’s summer (scifi) blockbusters

In the future I’ll probably re-post them all here.

Plans for future project:
- Add more reviews, in these categories of movies, tv series, video games and books.
- Publish articles regarding science fiction concepts (i.e. time travel, cloning)
- Recruit more staff members.

Well, please wish me luck in my future endeavor with this website.

Regards,
Arvin Nathanael Chandra

Okay guys and folks.

This will be my first movie review of this year.

The Spirit. Official link

Watch it: If you like comic movies, don’t mind the combination of live action and colorful graphics.
Avoid it: If you hate films based comics, films don’t do justice to the source material.

Directed by Frank Miller (Sin City, 300).
Casts: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendez

The Spirit is a somewhat a detective noir film, thrown in a masked vigilante/(super)hero (who is working alongside the city’s police department), a nemesis (mad evil scientist), henchmen (who are mostly played by the same actor) and female characters (all except one, does not fall for the masked hero).

The storyline in my opinion is quite decent, and I do like the dialogue and costume styles. Of course, some elements of the film get a bit over the top, like how do every girl fall in love with The Spirit, and the main villain of the movie (played by Samuel L. Jackson nevertheless) is very much enjoying himself as being The Man. The action is alright, but in some cases are more acceptable than the disorienting gritty fights in The Dark Knight.
One thing I should highlight is the humor. In many scenes the dialogue can be very very hilarious! I’m not kidding.

Overall rating: B or 7 out of 10 stars.