October 13, 2007
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
I’m normally not a big sci-fi fan. (I’ve probably seen 3 of the Star Wars movies.) But they’re releasing a new director’s cut of Blade Runner in December titled Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Also, it’s going to come back into the theatres this year, apparently. New version will be darker, with the original director’s vision of the ending. This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm going to get the DVD, although, seeing as how I don't have an HD television, I may even need to get a new TV to watch it.
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 13, 2007 at 10:48 AM : Comments (4) | Permalink
July 12, 2006
A Farewell To Arms Sucks!
I just finished reading "A Farewell to Arms" and, I must say, it sucks. It blows. I want those hours of my life back that I wasted reading this trite little elementary school composition. It makes me want to read more of Hemmingway's stories to see if they're all this bad. It makes me want to get into writing because, if this passes for classic literature, I'm going to make a mint. I searched the internet to see if there were any other humans on this little planet that felt the same way. I liked this review the best:
A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway is phenomenally unpleasant. In fact, it’s the worst book I can remember reading and I heartily congratulate anyone who managed to drag themselves through it. The book is loosely based on Hemingway’s own experiences as an ambulance driver during the war. In that respect, this reads more like a poorly composed mass email than a stunning report from the front lines. Less a principled condemnation of the insane tragedy of war, and more a stilted biographical piece by someone who just happened to be around at the time.
That's basically how I feel about it. I mean, it's somewhat interesting in that he's describing WWI in Italy, which is somewhat compelling in its own right, but it's also got a pathetic little love story tossed in with an anti-war pathos that barely touches on the politics of war. Predictably, his wife and child die at the end. Like...ho...hum...who really cares? His writing is pathetic in this book. It is appalling boring and flat.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on July 12, 2006 at 7:25 PM : Comments (3) | Permalink
December 21, 2005
Syriana - Unsafe at Any Speed
Warning. Danger Will Robinson. Stay away. This movie sucks @ss. Trust me. Shoo-In for worst movie of the year. Contender for worst ever. Stay away. Run, don't walk. Trust me on this one people. Stay home and drive bamboo shoots under your fingernails. Shave your pets. Boil your underwear. Do anything, but don't go see this movie. Trust me. Sucks in a major way. I sat there for an hour while they bored me with incongruous trivia. Disconnected scenes. Nothing made sense. Nothing tied together. I finally walked out. It was painful. I would have left earlier but I had to stay for an hour to get my parking validated. Stay away. This movie sucks @ss. Matt Damon. George Clooney. Poorly directly. Bad acting. Horrible script. Cut by someone with ADD on crack. Need I say more? This review gave the movie 2 stars out of 5, which is 2 more than I'd give it. The movie starts so slowly you'll want to kill yourself or anyone near you. The only possible reason anyone could like this movie is if they're liberal and think it's a really serious movie about how bad the U.S. is and how oil drives wars etc. Like I freaking care. Fark the Middle East. Fark the oil-drenched desert. Fark the liberals. This movie sucks @ss, and if it didn't attempt to portray the wars of the middle east as driven by greed and politics, then all the movie critics would give it 0 stars out of 5.
Here's a review that gives the movie 1 star out of 5.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on December 21, 2005 at 8:54 PM | Permalink
November 1, 2005
How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
"Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy," author Daniel H. Wilson warns in "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion."
A tip for telling whether a new acquaintance is a real person or a humanoid robot: "Does your friend smell like a brand-new soccer ball?"
Author Daniel H. Wilson has already sold the book rights and movie rights, and is now working on his next book "Where's My Jetpack?" on scientific predictions for the future that never panned out.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on November 1, 2005 at 2:18 AM : Comments (0) | Permalink
May 15, 2005
Revenge of the Sith
Some guy lambastes the Revenge of the Sith as:
....nothing more than a sigh—the sigh uttered by a terminally ill patient when, finally, the euthanasia is administered. Part punishment, part release (in the most scatological sense of the term)...Suffice it to say that Star Wars has long since passed from cinematic to cultural narrative, a story that won’t end with the last movie or the last few hundred million in action-figure sales, but with the as-yet-unforeseeable death of the much-larger phenomenon it initiated: the blockbuster era, which, like crack addiction, sustains itself on cycles of euphoria, amnesia and denial.
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage7.asp
Posted by Peenie Wallie on May 15, 2005 at 12:30 AM : Comments (1) | Permalink
April 26, 2005
A Teardrop In Space
I have no idea what this is, or what the website says, but I found it today searching for information on how banks illegally collude via the Chexsystems scam, and it appears interesting enough that I want to look into it further. So, this is basically a glorified bookmark in Firefox.
http://www.mecfilms.com/teardrop.htm
If anyone gets a chance to review the infomation contained in the diatribe posted on the Teardrop website, please post comments. Thx.
Hmmm. OK. After reviewing the diatribe on his website, I've decided he's a socialist elitist, and possibly worse. Possibly a full-scale commie. But, the thing that I do like about his website, is he's got a fairly well-organized diatribe. I'm not saying I agree with any of his ideas, but I do commend him for presenting his delusional thoughts in an organized manner.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on April 26, 2005 at 11:30 AM : Comments (0) | Permalink
April 4, 2005
Mystery Painting
I'm attempting to identiy the palace in this painting. The artist signed the painting "Brogan". I have no clue who the artist is, or whether this place is real, or imagined. It vaguely resembles some of the buildings on the South end of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu. We have scads of these 2005 XPEDX calendars at work featuring this image. I emailed Thomas Costello, the president of XPEDX, a subsidiary of International Paper, but he didn't see fit to respond. Any help identifying the artist and the subject matter is greatly appreciated.
Update: It does not to appear to be the work of Patricia Burke Brogan.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on April 4, 2005 at 9:46 PM : Comments (5) | Permalink
March 27, 2005
A&P - By John Updike
John Updike wrote this short story entitled A&P. You should take the time to read it. It's only a few pages long. We read this story in the 9th grade, though you can bet your sweet @ss that they don't let children read this stuff any more. His story is a victim of the Politically Correct Feminazi's campain to eviscerate men for lusting after women. Read a scathing, lascivious tirade against testosterone from the narrow mind of a foaming, rabid man-hater here.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on March 27, 2005 at 2:37 PM | Permalink
March 3, 2005
Everything We Had
I just finished reading the book "Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War" by Al Santoli. I've had the book on my shelf for nearly two decades. Some little punk gave it to me back when I was still huddled down in the piney backwoods of Mississippi. He was just one of those little chicken-shit trailer-trash back-woods kinda people you'd find living under bridges down by a creek, poaching game to stay alive. He never had any money. Just a few quarters and that's where I met him. Playing video games down at the Mini-mart.
Continue reading "Everything We Had"
Posted by Peenie Wallie on March 3, 2005 at 10:21 AM : Comments (0) | Permalink