I like movies. I like violent movies like Sin City. Old boy – disturbing, but just wow, what a story. Starship Troopers – people really need to figure out what it was all about, and dammit it was a wonderful telling of the book.
There I am tonight watching Sweet Home Alabama. Intially I didn’t think much of it. The problem is that I’ve developed a liking for the romantic comedy/dramas, and tonight was one of the many times.
We’ve got other flicks too. Office Space, which is a romantic comedy dressed up as a work sucks flick.
Then there’s my love of Japanese animation. I’m not a big fan of the giant robot genre, but I do have the essentials – Neon Genesis Evangelion. But what I really like are the ones that have just a touch of mysticism in them. A series which I picked up last Christmas when I was in New Zealand was Haibane Renmei, which is truly beautiful. It’s the tale of a girl with charcoal feathers, and tells a wonderful tale. More recently I’ve got the series Air, which is subtitled only, and I love it. It’s a story told over the course of a Summer. It has characters that you just fall in love with.
Ahh, zombie movies. Tonight I’m watching the Romero ‘Dawn of the Dead‘. I love the original version for the slow zombies and their inexhorable march after the humans.
I wonder how Rob and Edie are doing?
It’s a Sin
My copy of Sin City arrived in the post yesterday.
It’s the Chinese edition, so it’s got a few extra bits and bobs with it – a little note book, and some post cards. Cute little things that i’m sure I’ll make no use out of at all.
Gosh, but I’m tired.
Scariest creatures in TV
Well before the Borg, well before the Replicators there were the Daleks. These without doubt were the single scariest monsters in TV history. Over many years they unleashed their own brand of hell on the universe. These creatures were without mercy, without emotion and with one thing on their minds – the extermination of anything living thing other than themselves. They upgraded themselves constantly, but the constant for the Dalek was the shape they held, and their plunger and gun at the front.
Their creation is explained in the Dr. Who tale Genesis of the Daleks. After a thousand year war a scientist by the name of Davros created the Daleks as a container for the Kaled race, or at least what was going to become them after several million years of evolution. This scientist was not happy with the fact that the creatures were going to still possess such trivialities like emotions, so he genetically modified them to eliminate all emotion. The result was then governed by a computer program built into the machine that was a Dalek’s exoskeleton.
Of course all creators get their just desserts. Given a program which only permitted the Daleks on top of the food chain, they of course decided that as Davros was inferior, he must be exterminated.
The final destruction of the Daleks was supposed to have happened at the end of the great time war, where the Daleks and the Time Lords fought for the ultimate salvation of the universe. This of course was scotched by the 2005 Dr. Who episode Dalek which tells the tale of the last of the Dalek race. If there ever was an episode that deserved an Emmy, that would be the one.
As for me, practically every time I hear the refrain ‘Exterminate, exterminate’ it sends a shiver down my spine, for it means that they are coming, and you’ld better pray for the Doctor.
[Listening to: Katamari Damacy – Lonely Rolling Star – – (5:44)]
The Happy Zombie
While installing the latest release of Solaris Express on my laptop (which took waaay too long) I was watching Dawn of the Dead on the telly. I tell you those zombies were just way too fast for my liking. It makes for a much scarier experience for us fans of the genre. The experience left me just a little shaken it was done so well. I mean, hell I laughed during Scream, but this had me turning my head on more than one occasion.
Obligatory Link of the Day: V.G. Cats. Humourous computer-game based comics by Scott Ramsoomair. Check out the T-shirts. I’m tempted myself.
Aargh! sucky iTunes just crapped out on me while burning mix cd #8 for the party this weekend. At least I can just deselect the tracks that have been already written and get on with the burning. I suppose it’s part of the iTunes does not like writing large compilations (this one’s 14.2 hours long). Scratch that – It’s decide to keep burning the same tracks. I suppose there’s a bug there somewhere. Piece of chit Apple software.
It looks like iTunes tries to make them unusable on computers as well. I have a single badly labelled CD track on the disk.
The music is?
Mmmmmm… chocolate
Went to see Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Yummy; Johnny Depp was just creepy. I liked it a lot.
Revenge of the Sith
I just went to see the last of the Star Wars movies with my 3 nephews. I will have to say it all comes full circle – every i is dotted, every t crossed. Movie wise, it’s a really hectic ride, mostly action from start to finish with a few angst ridden moments suffering from Hayden Christian’s woefully wooden acting.
I’ll say yayy to the light-saber duels, especially the quad saber wielding cyborg.
Based on the speed of Padme’s pregnncy, I’m expecting that the movie took place over a 7 month period, assuming a 9 month pregnancy; but we don’t know that for a fact; do we Mr Lucas? I’ll have to say the kid brings balance to the force by the end of movie VI, the prophesy was correct, people just can’t deal with a ~40 year span between his discovery and fulfillment.
The final fulfillment of Vader is most excellent! The only half believable emotional cry of the entire movie from that character; even if it was distorted by the mask.
Star wars revelations
broken zim
Aargh! two of the chapters on disk 1 of the zim dvd collection are corrupt. I wonder what the returns policy on cdwow is? This is the second time I’ve received a bad dvd – the last one was the first black books series – the last section of the episode involving the subbuteo man, the chipper, the bottle of absinthe and the weather forecast is corrupt. I got a collection of the entire series recently so the loss of the one disk is kind of moot. However I want to see the end of ‘parent teacher night’ and the start of ‘walk of doom’ on dvd dammit!
Update: called them up – they’re sending out a replacement as we speak. Nice of them.
kinsey – worth the watch
Fox Searchlight: Kinsey
Great acting, well told story with the correct finish. It did inspire quite a few immature giggles from the audience (myself included).