Rope in Fate

Watching the latter part of Hitchock’s Rope, it seems to me that you could run that whole long psychological and investigative cat-and-mouse game in Fate, with most of the movie consisting of Investigation, Empathy, and Deceit rolls, trying to assess and declare aspects, leading up to a big Will conflict at the end.

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I got a Barnes & Noble gift certificate, and mister_wolf had reminded me a few days ago that I’d been meaning to pick up the DVD of Nausicaä, so yesterday I did. I also discovered that the official English translation of Pom Poko was out; I figured Disney would never release that story of magical shape-changing animals who make weapons out of their own ( Read more... )

I’ve been watching lots of westerns on DVD recently. Once Upon a Time in the West for one, and the second season of Deadwood for another. And, um, that’s it. So maybe not a lot, but hey, it was a whole season of Deadwood. The mustache on this guy here was inspired by a photo of the historical Seth Bullock, hero of Deadwood.


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I just joined a Flickr group for faking up the covers of Nintendo DS movie and book tie-in games. (No, I wouldn’t actually want to play a DS games based on Lolita. But a Blazing Saddles game would be awesome.) Here are my mock-ups.

I’m ashamed of myself for not having noticed till today that Seinfeld owes a tremendous conceptual debt to Annie Hall.

bugsybanana and I saw Pirates 2 today.

Me: We’ve gotta see Pirates! I’m wearing my pirate underwear!
She: I shudder to think what sort of underwear you’ll wear for A Scanner DarklyNot as good as the first. Not terrible, but just not as good. Not as coherent, the characters’ motives aren’t as clear, the double-crosses aren’t as clever, the wacky fight ( Read more... )

So, if I went and saw An Inconvenient Truth, but I left my air conditioner running while I was out, is that a net gain or loss for the environment ( Read more... )

bugsybanana and I saw Superman Returns on Friday. This is pretty directly a sequel to the 1978 Richard Donner film, but holy crap, it’s half remake. Seriously, this thing slavishly recreates entire scenes and incorporates chunks of dialog from the original. Hey, Brian Singer, could we maybe have had more new stuff in our new movie? And what the heck was the ( Read more... )

Via mcroft: Add your own subtitles to a short Bollywood movie clip! Here’s mine, from a script by E Gary Gygax!

This was a two-movie weekend! Friday night, I couldn’t get tickets for X-Men 3, so instead bugsybanana and I saw Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a South Korean revenge flick I first heard about through Enrico Casarosa’s blog.

Lady Vengeance sounds like a chop-socky wire-fu flick, but it’s not. It’s about a woman who had to take the fall for a crime she didn’t ( Read more... )