Published November 21st, 2006
in Personal, Games, Food and Film.
The Mrs. and I watched a movie by that name the other night. I don’t recommend it. It got all these great reviews, but I can’t see why. How can I go wrong with a western set in Australia? I aksed myself. “The Proposition” was my answer.
This proposition is way better though, and if I had a Playstation 3 I would agree in a heartbeat. Taco Bell is offering $12,000 in Taco Bell Bucks to the first person willing to give up their new PS3 to the Boys and Girls Club. As the article points out, this is enough Taco Bell Bucks to get a taco every day for the next 54 years. I’m not sure how long it would last me though. My favorite food is tacos.
It is probably for the best that I don’t have a PS3 to trade in. I don’t remember learning any rhymes about health that started with “A taco a day”. If there was a saying like that it would probably end with “means you’ll need a bidet” or some other reference to the digestive process.
Published June 10th, 2006
in Tech, Personal and Film.
I went grocery shopping this morning, and as I was leaving the store I noticed a new fixture near the entrance. The redbox dvd-rental kiosk. So I took a look at it and was amazed. All you have to do is enter your email address and swipe your credit/debit card, and you get to rent a dvd for $1 a night. No late fees, every night you keep the dvd, you get charged another buck. So if you just watch the movie on the night you rent it, you don’t have to pay for the rest of the rental period like you would at a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. I don’t think that I have seen a deal this good before on movie rentals.
I may have been a little over-excited by the fact that the whole process was automated. I think that if there was a sales clerk involved in the process I would have been more skeptical. Is it wrong of me to be so trusting of machines, since a robot war could be coming some time in the future? It took about 2 minutes for me to commit to the rental upon seeing the redbox kiosk. I ended up renting a title that wasn’t in stock last night at the Hollywood Video. When it comes time to return it, all I have to do is stick the dvd back in the slot that it came out of.
Thank you, red dvd-renting box. I am glad to know you.
Published May 4th, 2006
in Personal and Film.
This September, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are finally going to release the original Star Wars movies on dvd. Each movie will be released individually in a 2-disc version that contains the re-release version that was released in 2004 and the original version released in theaters.
I’ve been hoping that they would release the movies this way since the re-done versions came out, but I feel dirty about this. I bought this trilogy on vhs when they remastered them the first time in the 90’s. Then they released the remastered version on vhs in letterbox, so I bought that too. Then I bought the trilogy when it was finally released on dvd. Now I plan on buying this version because I’ve been waiting for it, and it’s only available for a limited time, September through December.
I’m sure this isn’t going to be the last version of these movies that I buy either. With hd-dvd and blu-ray discs coming out soon, and the 3-D versions in the works, I might just have to admit that I have a Star Wars problem, before this goes too far.
Published April 25th, 2006
in Music and Film.
I’m not sure what the other 4 are, but I’ll bet that this one is going to hold a strong place in the top 5 (possibly snuggled up close with “Mamma Mia!”). It’s the Broadway musical version of “High Fidelity” and it is going to open later this year. There has to be someone in the idea chain whose job it is to say “No way, we aren’t doing this, it is a stupid idea”, but that person must have missed work on an important decision-making day. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong, this could end up being the beginning of something REALLY GREAT!! (<—-bursts into song.)
Published April 3rd, 2006
in Film.
The second trailer for “A Scanner Darkly” was released a couple of weeks ago and it looks really good. I saw it in the theater when we went to see “V for Vendetta”, and it got me excited. Richard Linklater is directing it — as you might have guessed since it is in the same “animation over film” style as “Waking Life”– and he also wrote the screenplay. Judging from the preview, it looks like he did a good job of translating the book into a movie. I’m stoked about seeing it. Release date is July 7th. Click the picture to watch the preview in HD at the apple website.
