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The first caravan has arrived at Pennsic. To help pay for the expedition, I have not, and won't until Friday. How I will escape NJ is still in the planning stages.
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loosecannon. Mostly watch movies and TV that loosecannon isn't remotely interested in. Video games are played with sound turned up. Food is strictly bachelor fare, cereal with milk, frozen things with enough artificial components in them that the cold is really just for show.
Sleep in absolute darkness, no TV, no night light, just as black and quiet as it can be; I find this soothing, others seem to find it disconcerting.
Today's lineup has been: The Forgotten, Galactica s2e4, The4400 s2e5, Sphere, DrWho BBC2005e1, The4400 s2e6, Spiderman 2 (2nd half), Terminator 3, and the last few chapters of Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King
As usual, a mixed bag. The TV Guide review of "The Forgotten" was priceless, "A mother (Julianne Moore), grieving over the loss of her son, is told the boy never existed. An unmemorable thriller." Who writes this copy? I'm glad I didn't pay money to see it, but not awful.
If one were to make a list really bad movies with really good casts, Sphere would be near the top. A movie pretending to be speculative fiction that's ultimately weak in every way. At one point it becomes the most loathsome of all movie sub genres, the body count movie. All Freddy and Jason movies are body counters, it's a tired formula. They're like porno, but the money shot is next murder. Final Destination was the last body count movie I was tricked into watching.
The Battlestar Galactica from the SciFi channel is near perfect, except for one thing; the name. If they hadn't begged comparison to the old BSG, hadn't even mentioned the thing in the title, it would be a better show. As is, it's surprisingly good.
I'm enjoying The 4400 from USA, but it's just one of those things I follow. The new Dr.Who, available only in England ( the Internet is my Tivo ), is OK, but not good enough for me to get excited about seeing more.
The movie, Dreamcatcher, is one I once saw on a different silly Saturday. For some reason, watching it, I thought, "I bet this was a really good book that translated for crap." With that in mind, I just finished the book. It was a good book. King's movies are a strange bunch, it's really hard to get the charm of the book on screen. Ironically, the better the book, it seems, the worse the movie.
Carrie was good, but it was simple. Shining also good, but the book was absolutely brilliant, still one of his best. To capture even a small of bit of that would make a good flick. The novellas that generally don't feature the author's name are often good. Everything else...
Left to my own, I like to do all the things that I know would bug
loosecannon. Mostly watch movies and TV that loosecannon isn't remotely interested in. Video games are played with sound turned up. Food is strictly bachelor fare, cereal with milk, frozen things with enough artificial components in them that the cold is really just for show. Sleep in absolute darkness, no TV, no night light, just as black and quiet as it can be; I find this soothing, others seem to find it disconcerting.
Today's lineup has been: The Forgotten, Galactica s2e4, The4400 s2e5, Sphere, DrWho BBC2005e1, The4400 s2e6, Spiderman 2 (2nd half), Terminator 3, and the last few chapters of Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King
As usual, a mixed bag. The TV Guide review of "The Forgotten" was priceless, "A mother (Julianne Moore), grieving over the loss of her son, is told the boy never existed. An unmemorable thriller." Who writes this copy? I'm glad I didn't pay money to see it, but not awful.
If one were to make a list really bad movies with really good casts, Sphere would be near the top. A movie pretending to be speculative fiction that's ultimately weak in every way. At one point it becomes the most loathsome of all movie sub genres, the body count movie. All Freddy and Jason movies are body counters, it's a tired formula. They're like porno, but the money shot is next murder. Final Destination was the last body count movie I was tricked into watching.
The Battlestar Galactica from the SciFi channel is near perfect, except for one thing; the name. If they hadn't begged comparison to the old BSG, hadn't even mentioned the thing in the title, it would be a better show. As is, it's surprisingly good.
I'm enjoying The 4400 from USA, but it's just one of those things I follow. The new Dr.Who, available only in England ( the Internet is my Tivo ), is OK, but not good enough for me to get excited about seeing more.
The movie, Dreamcatcher, is one I once saw on a different silly Saturday. For some reason, watching it, I thought, "I bet this was a really good book that translated for crap." With that in mind, I just finished the book. It was a good book. King's movies are a strange bunch, it's really hard to get the charm of the book on screen. Ironically, the better the book, it seems, the worse the movie.
Carrie was good, but it was simple. Shining also good, but the book was absolutely brilliant, still one of his best. To capture even a small of bit of that would make a good flick. The novellas that generally don't feature the author's name are often good. Everything else...
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The only other Crichton book I've read was Eaters of the Dead, which I enjoyed and like the movie. Of course, anything with Beowulf is cool in it's own right.
Timeline was an OK book, but again, I thought the book might be better. Congo was a dreadful movie; I have no interest in the book.
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From a martial arts perspective, I'm often annoyed seeing the fighters performing moves that so painfully typical of a different time and place. The most over the top version of this I can recall was "The Musketeer", where the fight scenes were all Chinese action theatre. Also, if a movie has Kickboxer in the name, I expect to see some Muy Thai, not Tae Kwon Do or that silly savate that Van Damme dances.
Curiously, disparate martial arts was the high point of StarWarsII for me. When all the Jedi are spinning all their lightsabres in the finale, not one of them is consistent. Our main heroes favor Japan, but the extras where obviously just told; make it flashy. I saw Chinese broadsword, taichi sword, kendo, kenjutsu, various staff and spear styles, etc. My personal favorite, some dude with a big head was fencing. It was like Army of Darkness where you start looking for the heavy metal tee shirts under the costumes.
Sorry, side tracked my rant, I'm better now.