The upcoming movie Noah seems to have more magic in it than one might have expected.  Someone plunges a wooden rod into the ground, unleashing a spreading ring of fire; stuff like that.  Some miraculous stuff is part of the story, of course; we see snakes and birds and animals streaming toward the ark.  And falling fireballs and gigantic geysers, ( Read more... )

I just watched Peter Bloody Jackson's The Hobbit, splitting my attention with a bit of code work, which was probably for the best ( Read more... )

Re: the new Lone Ranger movie... If they had to have Depp as Tonto, would it have been less problematic if they'd also had a native-American as the Lone Ranger?  In, well, paleface... so to speak?

(I haven't seen the movie, and the reviews I've seen don't inspire me to do so.)
 

Little T is fascinated by the Disney fairies, so I thought it might be fun for her to watch Peter Pan, which started the whole Disney fairy thing with Tinker Bell.  I put my name in the library queue to borrow the DVD ( Read more... )

My brain's "variables" - internal representations - for "heroic" and "awesome" and so forth are signed values.  Peter Jackson's are unsigned, so he gets to enjoy twice the level of awesomeness and heroicity that I do.  But when he cranks his movies up to the max, for me, the values wrap around to being negative.
 

I am not a fan of Peter Jackson's work in Tolkien's mythos ( Read more... )

I went for a short drive with mentisiterinvit to where some of our local friends were making a low-budget alien-invasion movie.  As we waited for the production to get underway, it became more and more clear that the film was about the performers in a long-running gay musical revue, with all of their interpersonal conflicts and neuroses, fighting the invaders.  ( Read more... )

Having seen a few minutes of the recent Conan flick, I am now pondering the merits of the original version by Ron Howard.

"Hello.  My name is Conan the Barbarian.  You killed my village.  Prepare to die."