So Here We Are

[tracker7]

It is exceedingly terrible that at the time when we need someone the most, they're taken away from us.  Tim Russert and George Carlin, within a few days of one another.

I took in a few movies this weekend, on DVD and cable.  Against my better judgment, I gave A&E's Andromeda Strain another try, and it is absolutely no better at all than it was the first time around.  In fact, being able to pay attention to things that I didn't completely follow before only made the final result even worse.  TCM outdid it later that night, though - it presented The Apple.  I've wanted to see this ever since reading the review over at Cold Fusion Video, and so help me, I think Shumate may have been kind in his review.  This is well and truly one of the most screwed-up things I've ever seen - including a midnight show of Liquid Sky.  Somewhat better was an nth viewing of RoboCop 2.  I've lambasted this movie a lot - RoboCop is one of my favorite movies, and the sequel falls awfully short.  Maybe it's thanks to the recent massive resurgence in my old cyberpunk jones, but I was able to see a lot of good stuff in the movie this time around.  The biggest problem remains, I guess, that it just tried to do everything the first one did but bigger.  It lost the sharpness along the way, though.  The extremely pleasant surprise was Brick.  A low-budget indie film noir set in a modern high school.  It was, in fact, so crazy that it just worked wonderfully.

I came within a hair's breadth of getting the iMac tonight.  I've got a massive amount of rearranging to do first, but I expect I'll have the thing by the end of the week.  Probably just in time for another round of layoffs at 100 Midland.

Comments

[maxsilver.livejournal.com]

Brick was one of my favorite movies last year or the year before, whenever I saw it, and may well be one of my favorites, period.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

It's a brilliant piece of work.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Whatever computer you get, make sure it's compatible with Spore...

:D

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

I keep chanting "I'm a console gamer, I'm a console gamer." For the most part, I even believe it.

[spoe.livejournal.com]

For me that largely depends on if they keep SecuROM in it. Not because of the DRM aspects, but some of the other things it does (like, in some instances, requiring a full XP reinstall to remove).