12 October 2004 – 5:57 pm +0800
Good gravy, this got released to theaters?
And it made more money than its predecessor!?
My review of the first Resident Evil called it an awful movie, poorly done, which I nevertheless enjoyed. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a frankly atrocious film, yet still I derived some minimal pleasure from it.
Everything I said about the first goes [...]
10 October 2004 – 11:56 am +0800
John Carpenter is an intriguing filmmaker, and a fairly interesting man as well. He has made at least one undisputed and widely influential classic, Halloween, several excellent films, and more than a few stinkers.
The Thing turns out to be one of his sharpest films. It’s his first big studio production, and quite slick. [...]
9 October 2004 – 10:32 pm +0800
Who could that refer to?
Let Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie tell you.
9 October 2004 – 9:25 pm +0800
I neglected to mention it, but I’ve also got a DVD of The House of Flying Daggers, directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Zhang Ziyi and Liu Dong Hua (Andy Lau). With English subtitles.
Haven’t viewed it yet, I’m saving it for a break from the Spook–A–Thon.
Nah nanah nanah nahhhh!
(How frightfully juvenile! —Ed. That’s rather [...]
9 October 2004 – 12:45 pm +0800
One of the problems with turning video games into movies is character. A video game may certainly tell an interesting, engaging story, but the medium is different than film, so it should be no surprise that the storytelling requirements are different as well.
In a movie, your main character should leave a strong impression, be [...]
9 October 2004 – 1:13 am +0800
Marc over at marcland has a pair of disturbing images.
Of course, it was Cheney, and not Edwards, who walked away from the debate saying “They sure got a load of me!”
It does beg the question: has Kerry ever danced with Cheney by the pale moonlight?
(Thank you, you’re a wonderful crowd! Here all week!)
8 October 2004 – 8:05 pm +0800
“I wanted to live in a country where poor people are fat.”
These were the words of a long–ago aquaintance, in answer to my asking him why he moved to America from India.
Dean Esmay has a quick post up which reminded me of this thought. Dean writes:
The old phrase “The rich get richer and the [...]
8 October 2004 – 4:02 pm +0800
We’re more than a week into October now, or as Martini Boy calls it, “the most wonderful time of the year.” As with last year, I’ll be embarking on a string of reviews in honor of the season.
The name change reflects a broader selection of genres. Last year was the Scare–A–Thon, focusing mostly [...]
7 October 2004 – 4:37 pm +0800
…watching Harrison Ford, in a micro–mini–budget D2DVD snowboarding movie, hollering out “What up, bee–yatch!”
Here’s how it happened.
Oh, if only Mr. Ford would pursue more small, character–centered roles like this.
(†Ain’t It Cool News)
6 October 2004 – 1:55 pm +0800
From my mailbox today:
Hello, dear Mark !
Congratulations with the new day, with the new OUR day, with the day which you will become a dream that suddenly comes true. It’s a day of preparation to our happiness! I felicitate you with me, with our love, with our happiness that comes true thanks the strength of [...]
5 October 2004 – 1:55 pm +0800
You’ll like him when he’s angry.
4) When someone from marketing pipes up about how cool it would be to make your product “web enabled”, thus causing the addition of an ethernet port and an insecure, buggy, shoddily written web server, please throw them down the nearest elevator shaft.
5) When your product weighs over fifty pounds, [...]
5 October 2004 – 1:26 pm +0800
Me, to myself, two minutes ago:
“No, I’m not in the mood for ‘So What?’, I’m in the mood for ‘I’m Tellin’ Ya.’”
Does any other musical form capture so perfectly the American idiom in its titles?
4 October 2004 – 11:19 pm +0800
Johann Hari writes about Christopher Hitchens:
And then a hijacked plane flew into the Pentagon — a building which stands just ten minutes’ from Hitchens’ home. The island of Manhattan became engulfed in smoke. Within a year, Hitchens was damning his former comrades as “soft on Islamic fascism,” giving speeches at the Bush White House, and [...]
4 October 2004 – 9:28 pm +0800
They sit, usually, anywhere there is a passing crowd, whether in a city of 14 millions, or less than one million.
He is a man, always. Often he is, or behaves as if he is, blind. His clothes were dirty last week, and likely last month as well. His skin is [...]