awesome

imagine a story that takes place during the iron age in ancient norway. a flash of light streaks across the sky. it's the burning wreckage of a spacecraft crashing through the atmosphere and into the sea just off the coast. one man emerges alive. his name is kainan and while he looks just like a human, he is from a distant planet. his people have just terraformed a planet to settle and were in the process of exterminating a species of large killer beasts with knashing teeth and razor sharp claws known as moorwens. just when they'd thought they were done killing the moorwens the beasts strike back killing most of kainan's people. he was actually on his escape when he crashed on earth. little does he know that a moorwen stowed away on the ship and also survived the impact. as he struggles to survive and inevitably begins to hunt down the moorwen he runs into a local viking tribe. joining with the forces of the primitive but fierce warriors, kainan uses his new allies to continue to hunt the moorwen, which they refer to as a dragon.

if this sounds like a ridiculous plot for a story... we agree. the above is a partial breakdown of a movie that apparently just came out called outlander. i doubt it's playing in a theater near you, and that's probably a good thing. while it stars jim caviezel, an actor i think very highly of, it looks really dumb. i almost wonder if they're just trying to outdo that fabulously terrible movie pathfinder (both are named after cars i think) or just have a modern classic like america 3000. either way, it will probably prove to be another great move to torture people with.

here's the trailer