I feel like I must have. One of my favorite blog subjects seems to be "movies that everyone likes except me." I have attempted to watch Blade Runner at least 3 maybe 4 times. I finally succeeded last night, only falling asleep in the last 8 minutes, in which (like so much of the movie), nothing happens. I watched the "Final Cut" version that ( Read more... )

Lately I've been enjoying Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, it's an NPR culture show but not on any local station--I discovered it because the eponymous authoritative nerd host's connection with John Hodgman. Jesse is the bailiff on the Judge John Hodgman podcast, but more than that he runs the Maximum Fun podcast network, with 3 or 4 podcasts that I ( Read more... )

I waited a while for some reason, but I recently bought the new Jonathan Coulton album. I've been listening to it almost constantly the past few days, and I just love the beautiful melodies, and I like the production values from They Might be Giants' John Flansburgh. What this album doesn't have is any explicit mention of mad scientists, or ( Read more... )

I owe you people a real post, but my change of routine (Alexis' change of routine, which becomes mine by necessity) has become permanent. It's not a bad thing, I just have to figure out where livejournal fits in it all. She bought herself a new (used) laptop, so once that's up and running, we can play with the internet at the same time, at least ( Read more... )

Hey! It's another fairly big budget sci-fi movie that I didn't really care for! I must be some kind of curmudgeon, I tell ya. This time it's the 2007 space disaster movie Sunshine, starring ugly heartthrob Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and a bunch of other doomed bastards. It looked pretty cool, but I was tired of the crew's bickering by the ( Read more... )

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I rewrote my review of "Brotherhood of the Wolf." It's pretty much intact, except for the part where I suppose that the French Film Board mandates that all French movies must have pretentious narration. (Simply not true--I just saw "Triplets of Belleville," and there isn't a word in it.) I kept the word "whore," in this version, for euphonic ( Read more... )

I'm trying to submit a review to Netflix, and it keeps giving me an error message: This review contains one or more words that is larger than 25 characters. All words in a review must be smaller than 25 characters. Please change any words that exceed this length.

Am I missing something here? Here's my review:
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