My meanderings through life.
So things have been changing rapidly! I have moved, purchased a Nintendo DS, become a full-fledged NOC Analyst and gained a crippling Guitar Hero addiction!
DVDs that rule currently:
Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law (Season 1)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Season 1)
This Is Spinal Tap.
Aside from this, I have no real news for my living blog… I continue to exist and consume, and search for peace and happiness.
Until next time,
Ciao!
Man. I can’t believe how behind I am in posing movie impressions!
Two weeks ago (on opening night) I saw Superman Returns with a good friend. Short review with no spoilers: I loved it. They really captured the feel and the characterizations were great! Definatly a see-in-the-movie-theaters movie.
Last night I saw A Scanner Darkly with a co-worker. This has to be one of the best book-to-film movies that I’ve ever seen. The paranoid tone of the book was preserved intact, as was the humor and sadness conveyed by the characters. Several of my favorite parts of the book are rendered perfectly by the cast. Which is another thing: I loved the casting. Robert Downey Junior and Woody Harrelson as burnt-out drug addicts isn’t a stretch, but even Keanu was good. Very surprising. The strange style of animation really suits the movie, once you get used to it. All and all it is a very brilliant and dark movie by Richard Linklater.
For anyone who likes Philip K. Dick in Toronto, go see A Scanner Darkly at the Varsity theater. It’s 100% worth the price of admission.
What a busy weekend! It started on Friday night with a small celebratory dinner at Gothjen and __Flatline__‘s place in honor of Margrock‘s birthday. Much merriment was made, although iolarah had to leave early to finish off a cake for her step-sister-in-law’s Baby Shower.
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Last night iolarah and I watched District B13, a French movie co-written by Luc Besson. And WOW what a movie!
I will probably rank this as one of the best pure action movies that I’ve seen recently, behind Ong-Bak and ahead of The Transporter. It was very stylish, had great music and was paced so well that at the end of the movie iolarah asked me how long the film was. When I told her that it was an hour and twenty one minutes, she looked shocked 
I highly recommend seeing this movie if you enjoy action movies.