Because I have tickets to Cloverfield for 9:40pm on January 18th, 2008, the precise night the movie is supposed to take place. I am cool. Phear me. Oh, did I mention I bought them for a DLP theatre in a major city?
I am so cool.
So on my last night here in Virginia/D.C., I decided to have some solitude and enjoy the Coen Brothers’ latest flick, No Country for Old Men. I had very, very high expectations for this film. By and large they were fulfilled, except for the ending. I’m not sure I could go with the ending – it was disappointing. I suppose I need to study it a little to get it back. The rest of the movie was really gripping. The slow foreboding that pulses through the entire movie is just absolutely nerve-racking.
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845
Via Boing Boing.Â
This is an absolutely brilliant article by John Hockenberry about network news and how they are just not innovating with the rest of the world, especially in terms to new media.You owe it to yourself to read this, especially if you’re into new media.
For those of you who don’t know this already – someone out there has taken oodles of time and $7,000 to build a near-life-size model of an X-wing fighter, complete with class-M rocket engines.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-12/st_xwing
Video of the flight is here:
…now for those conspiracy theorists out there, here’s the REAL reason the X-wing crashed:
So, Cloverfield really is the name. I just can’t wait for Cloverfield. JJ is the new Spielberg. Already, the film thrillseekers in my family are making plans to descend upon our new theatre (Monaco Pictures) and soak up Cloverfield on January 18th. I will be there, even if I have to take time off from work.
I cannot fathom waiting a day longer, yet I must.
Because 01/18/08 can’t come soon enough…Tonight’s bachelor movie was straight out of Korea. It’s a mutant monster movie by the name of _The Host._It started off promising – with a really fun attack scene on the banks of the Han River in Seoul. Plenty of mayhem and crowd panic scenes. Obviously most of the budget was spent on that sequence because the remaining 1 hour and 40 minutes of the film didn’t do much for me. It tries to be a drama/horror/comedy but ends up failing almost all of those. Instead, it runs around with no set goal, except maybe to paint the U.S. as a bioterrorist. I can hardly wait for the U.S. remake. Thank goodness that’s not what J.J. Abrams is cooking up… I’m very much looking forward to that one.
I’ve managed to catch up on quite a bit of to-do’s while the wife and son were out of town. Netflix is probably scratching their collective skulls at the amount of movies I’ve returned. I had three of them for over a year and suddenly I’ve not only returned three of them, but now I’m returning three more. What’s going on here? Surely he must be *gasp* copying the movies?
One of the things I’ve been able to do while the wife and son are away (see porkbuns.org as to why they’re not here) is catch up on some movies that I’ve been meaning to see.
My daughter warned me that Pan’s Labyrinth is one of her favorite new movies. I finally got to soak that one in tonight. By the end of it, my only thought was that Spain has managed to top China in sad movies. What a totally unexpected, touching gem of a film. I’m glad to see foreigners aren’t afraid to break boundaries in cinema.
Interview with Ang Lee – CNN.com
Here’s an interesting interview with one of my favorite directors. There’s not a lot of new information in there, but you at least get a sense of his character.
