A nice little list sorted by title. No search functions but it does have the Japanese and English names listed (unless the English name was titled by the Philippines like “Nobody’s Child”, then it’s almost impossible to figure out what the original title was).
Movies about the Hollywood Golden Age always make me think, “My god, those guys were libidinous hedonists that got away with a lot of crap!”
Wow. I actually liked Pacino in this… I’d given up on the guy since Scent of a Woman (okay, Godfather III), but this was a nice performance. Good movie, not raving about it like the critics are, but I enjoyed it. Not so much a mystery as it is a story of ethical dilemma.
Things that are nice to know: my car is valued at $3000 less than when I bought it 18 months ago.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Well I can’t sleep.
Been up for two hours because the assholes next door decided to do some roofing.
I’m walking over there later to drop off a copy of Los Angeles Municipal Code 41.40 - the one about not starting construction work before 8am on Saturdays, and not at all on Sundays.
If they ignore my request for them to avoid a misdemeanor, I get to call the cops.
Because 5 hours of sleep is not a good fucking way to start the Memorial Day weekend.
It also doesn’t help that I couldn’t get them to stop because of my lack of Spanish. That and like they care.
Ponderous film about the trials of a brilliant heterosexual genius Tom Jericho in Bletchley Park, the home of crytography for the US and British European war effort in World War II.
In reality, Alan Turing was the genius of Bletchley Park and today is considered the founding father of computer science, particularly concerning artificial intelligence. He was also gay.
Of course, the plot in Enigma would not work well with a gay lead role, so there you go. Unfortunately, the film’s pacing and story were a bit rough to go through. Jeremy Northam’s performance is the highlight of the movie, but one you can catch on video.
Today I spend the last of the money I was saving up to begin a new life with Satomi.
When I get home my car will be sporting 185hp under the hood, courtesy of UPSolute programming, along with a Bosch 4-bar fuel pressure regulator and Forge diverter valve.
Next up are interior niceties to make driving my car feel like driving MY car instead of some other person’s New Beetle.
This includes getting some rubber floor mats, changing the shift knob (and possibly getting a short shifter assembly), new interior trims for the dash, etc.
We shall see. After all, now I am broke. I don’t call it that, though. I call it starting fresh. Any money saved from now on is free and clear of original intent.
Maybe one day I’ll learn to accept. But right now, the thought that fear can and did conquer love really pisses me off. I may not be able to do anything about it, but I can try to put it behind me and try to start again. By myself. So I might as well exert my energies towards goals that I can achieve by myself. With my money. On my car. For my life.
IMAX large format.
This thing is cool! 3D technology has come a long way. There are scenes in this film where it truly felt like you were there. None of that, well, I see the depth but everything is still kinda flat. No no, this film had moments in it where you had true depth perception with objects rounded out within the depth field.
Best scene: a Russian rocket launch with the camera a a hundred feet from the pad. Blast off!
Well. Yeah, it’s better than Episode I.
I’m either gonna rank the series as V, IV, VI, II, I or V, IV, II, VI, I. Probably the former. This one has virtually no emotional investment and Jedi was still pretty rousing.
John Williams slept through this movie, which made it worse. His music tended to lift the scenes in this series and without that lift, they came off flatter than they already were.
The only bit of emotion, the only bit of drama that seeped out of that technogeek special effects laden film was Anakin finding his mother, and the results of that encounter.
Other than that, I spent the entire film mostly in shock. Sorry.
