This New York Times article is certainly laughable. It’s arguing that the future of movies is in the third dimension. 3-D!
That’s no punchline.
Yet, to predict that 3-D is the next big thing in movies is to miss out on the resurgance of virtual reality. VR movies will supplant the lame 3-D technology of today. You can’t get more into a movie than virtually walking through the sets.
Take that to the bank.
I love pirates. Sometimes I fancy myself as one. But pretty soon searching for pirate booty will be replaced by a yearning for the freedom of the rails. And every one will want to be a hobo.
Don’t believe me?
It’s starting to appear every where thanks to John Hodgeman’s book and his reading of 700 hobo names. Soon there’ll be a hobo day and it’ll seep into the blogosphere memes. You’ll be wanting to know what your hobo name is.
I’m just feeling it because of watching Sullivan’s Travels last night. Good movie. Veronica Lake is short. Yet, it made me want to be a hobo too. Or at least a bum.
Contrary to what Marge says, I wanted to write up my review, or thoughts on, 28 weeks Later…
In most horror films, there is the jerk. The character that does things against the grain in service of selfish ideas rather than in service of the survivors, like Burke in Aliens or Ed in Shaun of the Dead. It’s the character you want most to die, and to be there when it happens in the most gruesome of way. In 28 Weeks Later, I felt that the two kids where that character. If not for their own selfish reasons, this movie would’ve been over in half the time. They were the prime motivators for killing off the human race, but they shouldn’t have survived. They should’ve died the gruesome death of the jerk onscreen for us to cheer. I would’ve liked the movie that way. I couldn’t like this movie when the characters I really wanted to live didn’t.
Plus, there were plot points that made no sense. Why did it take hours to find the children in a deserted London? Why is the US Military incometent? How on an island can you let zombies escape? WTF?
The movie is badly plotted. And the twist, which I thought wasn’t going to happen, happened. And I called it when I did not want to believe it. That’s what killed it for me.
2 of 5 stars.
Now that’s what it’s like when your the VP and are a board of director.
Awesome.
I wonder if its one Mac driving all that or is it 3.
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Here’s an interesting Barbara Stanwyck site. It’s got lots of info and vids and screen caps, but what the most impressive thing about it is how stuck it is in web design. It reminds me of 1998 and those who were on the geocities kick. Nice. Frozen in time. Like Miss Stanwyck, one for the ages.
For millions of hard-working, middle-class families, life under the Bush presidency has grown less affordable and less secure. President Bush%u2019s record of fiscal incompetence and mismanagement, and Republicans%u2019 close ties with special interests, have helped lead to both lower wages on the one hand and skyrocketing costs for basic necessities like gas, health care, and college tuition on the other. Unfortunately, instead of producing solutions to the problems facing the middle class, Bush Republicans have ignored them and pushed for policies that would make matters even worse.
We are a poorer nation with that wanker in charge.
