The mood was finally right for me to go see Snakes on a Plane this afternoon. I'm happy to report that it was fun to watch throughout, despite all the handwave-y things that should have thrown me out of the movie.
I did think to myself that the witness against Eddie Kim wasn't quite so crucial as they made out, what with him obviously committing an act of domestic terrorism that would get him disappeared to wherever has taken the place of Guantanimo, Miranda rights or no. Not to mention that some of the people who died would surely have relatives that would go Charles Bronson on him.
Slashfilm and Coming Soon.net both have announcements that MGM is going to produce a Live Action Hobbit - possibly a two-parter in conjunction with New Line.
Are these sites generally accurate?
::Going to happy Tony Jaa place in my head. Considering staying there all day, or possibly until at at least Thursday.::
The MGM/New Line Hobbit story is now being reported in The Guardian.
I had no idea they were releasing the ruined unenhanced theatrical releases of the original Star Wars triology on DVD.
I'm turning in my geek card.
They're releasing them
with
the ruined ones, if memory serves. I've read people bristling at the appearance of supporting the crap by buying the originals the only way they can legally.
I bristle. I'm bristling right now.
I'm gonna stick with my ripped laserdisc copies, especially since that's all the unenhanced ones are going to be, really.
Apparently, they didn't realize that we (or at least I) wouldn't have
minded
if all they did was improve the video and audio. Really. It's the crappy extra scenes and changes we don't want.
If i had the time and skills, I'd take the "enhanced" version and the "unenhanced" version and create a version of the second that uses audio/video from the former wherever they didn't actually fuck with it other than in a "make it look less like crap" way. I think somebody out on the internets already did that, actually, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
Since I have neither ripped laser disc copies, nor even a watchable VHS copy, I'll go see them via netflix and be happy with what we've got.
Although I'll bet my cousin who did have a laser disc player and the discs would be able to rip me some DVD copies if I asked him nicely.
Although I'll bet my cousin who did have a laser disc player and the discs would be able to rip me some DVD copies if I asked him nicely.
All it needs is an S-Video out.
We just watched Green Street Hooligans and I loved it. Except Claire Forlani is a stupid bint for taking her BABY to a HOOLIGAN FIGHT. Other than that, I loved it all.
