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Update on Quantum Leap!! Well folks, SOMEBODY'S hard-spent cash has paid off ... Quantum Leap Season 2 is coming to DVD in October! This means that the first season sold well enough that Universal decided to release season 2 very quickly!Let's just hope they re-think that cover. I mean, I know it's a show that started in the 80s, but this is just going too far... Yeesh. Posted by sarcophage @ 2:10:00 PM Add or check out a |
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Inspiration corner. So I'm wondering where do people go when they need to feel inspired?I usually just walk around and observe the world around me, enjoying the company of my friends and sometimes blissfully (and thus ignorantly) seeing things through rose-colored glass. It's almost impossible to deny that there are terrible things going on in the world, but I make it a responsibility and a value in my life to not worry so much about little things. Does it make a difference one way or another if I wear a shirt with a logo on it once in awhile? No, not really. Does it make a difference if I've not finished all of my meal, have to take some of it home in a doggy bag - and then leave it (sometimes on purpose, sometimes not) on the table? No, not really. Does it make a difference if I leave my coffee mug at random places around the office because I'm deep in thought about some new process, or database I have to write? No, not really. We're out there all the time living in a world that can crush us in its wake without even a thought, and yet we go out of our way to show disdain and displeasure at the people that we love. It is human nature, it seems, to hurt those people who we should be treating with the most respect and love... because it is easy to. We take the easy road in our relationships... We know their hopes and fears, and we know exactly how to lash out at them and hurt them with the most painfully deep words. We can choose not to repair or strengthen these relationships and instead let them languish on and on because of what's come before, and let all the pain that still resides in us drive our choices... On the other hand, we can also choose not to do that, and let our little petty issues just go by - let our egos and our bullshit complaints and grievances about our daily lives just go by... Why should we want to dwell on a crappy day rather than just love the people we are blessed to be close to? Posted by sarcophage @ 1:22:00 PM Add or check out a |
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Obey the skeleton! Wow.I just finished (ok, it was last night) watching an absolute masterpiece of campy satire... a brilliant satire of the best/worst (it's really the same thing) of the 1950s atomic age B movies. While most people think that the etymology of the "B" term came from its budget, in reality these were just films that were created quickly (and yes, usually inexpensively) in order to play at the second half of a double feature in a theater. Most people would leave after the "A" film, so these films would generally get the shaft in terms of the audience. After awhile it became a chicken-and-the-egg sort of thing. Are they crappy because the audiences weren't there to see them, so the studios didn't bother with a worthwhile film? Or did the audiences leave because they were crappy? Anyway, who cares. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is a black-and-white return to these old style, "SHOCKING!!" "HORRIFIC!!" and "BRAIN-MELTING!!" features "SO TERRIBLE THEY WILL GRIP YOU WITH TERROR AND SHAKE THE LIFE FROM YOUR BODY!" I just made that last one up. :) While I tend to enjoy and parade around my love of old Universal traditional horror, like Frankenstein, my favorite the Wolf Man and my other favorite, the Creature from the Black Lagoon - I have seen and read about far more of these Ed Wood-era flicks. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra satires the films with from the most obvious targets (terrible dialogue and ridiculous, unnecessary exposition) to the obscure (almost all of these films made use of stock footage from nature and war films). It really has to be seen to be believed. I propose a double feature of this film and Wet Hot American Summer, a similar satire of the late 1970s, early 80s Meatballs style summer camp films. If you like one of these, I suspect you'll enjoy them both. Oh yeah, also, Elf (from last Christmas) is a damn hoot! Posted by sarcophage @ 3:33:00 PM Add or check out a |
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Me Tired. I'm lapsing into Cookie Monster speak here - I'm frickin' tired today.Missed I, Robot this weekend (thank you to Kim, Matt & Dave for not going to see it either). I have worked myself up over the film, and even though I (gasp!) generally like Will Smith, and I think that Alex Proyas (the director) is a genius of cinema - I ain't going to see their steenking movie. I'm an Asimov fan, but not a huge one - I don't feel my entire sci-fi engrossed world crumbling about me, the rubble burying my Chuck Taylors. I guess I just feel that this material should have been respected a bit more, and if you're going to make a damn movie with the same title of a book but the only real correlation between the two is an "Inspired by..." credit, then there are some serious issues. It somewhat reminds me of the limp "Daredevil." Good source material, and though I do feel it was treated with respect... it needed a more experienced director. I mean, the only other film the guy did was Simon Birch, ok? On the other hand, because of it (I, Robot), I didn't go to the movies this weekend, which is a serious crime in DoyleWorld (watch out for Yul Brynner). Instead, I rummaged around in a post-apocalyptic prison cryptically called "Butcher's Bay" in the "Chronicles of Riddick" Xbox game. Splendid game (did I just use the word "splendid?") , extremely violent, but actually fun - which is a nice change of pace for Xbox games of late. Posted by sarcophage @ 3:19:00 PM Add or check out a |
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