More Misc. Thoughts
May. 19th, 2004 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefner1.) Saw Lauren, one of the two comic book fangirls I mentioned several months ago, and she expressed interest in coming along to the cast party (and bringing Amy, the other girl). I hope no one minds some outsiders to the shindig, since I'm totally psyched by the idea of havin' them come over.
2.) Recently, I finally saw two Brian DePalma movies, Dressed to Kill and Scarface, and I have only one thing to say: what the fuck? Seriously, what the fuck? The first, ok, it was Hitchcock rip-off crap, I understand, but seriously, why is Scarface hailed as a masterpiece? Why? How can you take any film seriously that has "Take it to the Limit" as the montage piece? And ok, so Pacino, Robert Loggia, and F. Murray Abraham are supposed to be Cuban? What the fuck?
Do yourself a favor. Rent the ORIGINAL 1933 movie version with Paul Muni, Boris Karloff, and George Raft (the first ever movie gangster to flip a coin). Seriously. It rocks. At least the remake had the decency to perfectly reenact a couple major scenes, but besides that, it was crap. The original is where it's at, and that fact that the public at large doesn't know that makes me sad.
3.) Fellow geeks: I'm going to ask you to do something incredibly hard.
Do not buy the new Star Wars DVDs. I beg you.
Lucas is only releasing the remastered "Special Editions." What's more, he's releasing "Special, special editions," including, among other things, Hayden Christensen as Anakin's ghost at the end of Jedi. Don't believe me? See it here for yourself: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17592
What the fuck? That's supposed to be Sebastian frickin' Shaw there! Bah! Resist the Dark Side, my geek brothers and sisters! Resist! Hit Lucas where it hurts, right in the pocketbook! Ach, who'm I kidding? I'm not realistic enough to know it probably won't have any major effect. But that doesn't mean I still can't whine about it!
4.) Saw Smallville Season Finale. I'm glad that wasn't really Kara (aka Supergirl), if only for the fact that Clark would have been kissing his own cousin. And Chloe! Holy crap! I really, really, really didn't see that one coming. Wow. Seriously. And wait, what was the deal with Lionel shaving his head? I thought for a second we had fast-forwarded to him about to go into the chair or something.
And I don't care what anyone says, I STILL don't think that's Jor-El. Hell, it's Terrence Stamp doing his voice! If it doesn't turn out to be Zod, I will be majorly disappointed unless they somehow figure out a way to explain Jor-El's decidedly evil actions over the show. I kept expecting the voice to say "Come to me, Kal-El... come... kneel... KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" Ah well, a geek can dream, can't he?
5.) "I would have followed you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor."
Jus' felt like saying it.
2.) Recently, I finally saw two Brian DePalma movies, Dressed to Kill and Scarface, and I have only one thing to say: what the fuck? Seriously, what the fuck? The first, ok, it was Hitchcock rip-off crap, I understand, but seriously, why is Scarface hailed as a masterpiece? Why? How can you take any film seriously that has "Take it to the Limit" as the montage piece? And ok, so Pacino, Robert Loggia, and F. Murray Abraham are supposed to be Cuban? What the fuck?
Do yourself a favor. Rent the ORIGINAL 1933 movie version with Paul Muni, Boris Karloff, and George Raft (the first ever movie gangster to flip a coin). Seriously. It rocks. At least the remake had the decency to perfectly reenact a couple major scenes, but besides that, it was crap. The original is where it's at, and that fact that the public at large doesn't know that makes me sad.
3.) Fellow geeks: I'm going to ask you to do something incredibly hard.
Do not buy the new Star Wars DVDs. I beg you.
Lucas is only releasing the remastered "Special Editions." What's more, he's releasing "Special, special editions," including, among other things, Hayden Christensen as Anakin's ghost at the end of Jedi. Don't believe me? See it here for yourself: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17592
What the fuck? That's supposed to be Sebastian frickin' Shaw there! Bah! Resist the Dark Side, my geek brothers and sisters! Resist! Hit Lucas where it hurts, right in the pocketbook! Ach, who'm I kidding? I'm not realistic enough to know it probably won't have any major effect. But that doesn't mean I still can't whine about it!
4.) Saw Smallville Season Finale. I'm glad that wasn't really Kara (aka Supergirl), if only for the fact that Clark would have been kissing his own cousin. And Chloe! Holy crap! I really, really, really didn't see that one coming. Wow. Seriously. And wait, what was the deal with Lionel shaving his head? I thought for a second we had fast-forwarded to him about to go into the chair or something.
And I don't care what anyone says, I STILL don't think that's Jor-El. Hell, it's Terrence Stamp doing his voice! If it doesn't turn out to be Zod, I will be majorly disappointed unless they somehow figure out a way to explain Jor-El's decidedly evil actions over the show. I kept expecting the voice to say "Come to me, Kal-El... come... kneel... KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" Ah well, a geek can dream, can't he?
5.) "I would have followed you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor."
Jus' felt like saying it.
