I watched the Watchmen again last night, and I can now make a correction and an observation. First the correction. The shot I mention a couple posts earlier with the blimp moving towards the WTC is in the background of Ozymandias’s office. He is giving a speech that starts: “The conflict with the Soviets is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Film'
I just randomized my Netflix queue
March 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
and it feels so refreshing.
I just logged into Netflix and noticed a lot of changes due to badsegue’s Netflix Queue Manager, a Greasemonkey script I had forgotten I had installed. The script changes the appearance of the queue, and lets you shuffle or reverse the queue, as well as sort by genre, availiability, star, title [...]
Long takes in two movies
February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
I’ve been thinking about why I hated Atonement so much, and why so many people don’t. Part of it is what I take to be its incompleteness. A thwarted love story turns into a meandering, half-done war movie, tied together or torn apart, apparently, by a little girl’s dishonesty, which I failed to bring myself to care [...]
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Media sites
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments · General
I have been mulling over a project for awhile now that would basically serve to put together film, media, digital technology theory sites, blogs and resources all in one place. Not only a list of resources, which would be part of it, but also perhaps a running feed of blogs, news and whatever else. I [...]
WGA Strike
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · General
So the much anticipated Writers Guild of America strike has started. I don’t have much to say about it right now, but there is a twitter feed that will keep you abreast of developments. That’s where I found this USA Today article featuring Tina Fey and Sth Meyers on a picket line.
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