Disorderly to poke by mouse is accepted in fleshe
I realize that fun with Babel Fish translations is old news, but I’m really enjoying how it handled this Russian review of “Ice Station Santa”, the first episode of Sam & Max season 2. The only part that I can read is the reviewer gives a 55% (yikes! whatever happened to glasnost?), but the translation…
Say what you will about populism filmed with stylistic excess; at least that’s an ethos.
No Country for Old Men is about as close to perfect as you’re ever going to see in a movie. Not a single shot is unnecessary. The pacing is perfect; both for the movie overall, and for individual scenes that feel as if they were meticulously orchestrated down to a fraction of a second. Almost…
They grow so that we don’t have to
I found out too late that this year’s Whiskerino had already started, and I was ineligible on account of being goateed at the time. Cause I totally would’ve been up for a four-month beard-growing contest. There’s no part of that that doesn’t sound like a straight-up fun time explosion. Two or three weeks of being…
All of this I’ve seen before, and I will watch it all again.
I got back from Thanksgiving to find the “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” movie waiting for me. On a scale of 1 to 10 I’d rate it radical. (For comparison, the episode where they get off of New Caprica rates a holy crap that was wicked awesome, and the one where Starbuck gets kidnapped on a farm…
Thanksgiving, cont’d
I spent most of actual Thanksgiving digesting and being thankful for the traditional stuff — the health of my family and friends, having pretty much exactly the job I’ve wanted for over a decade and as far as I’m aware I’m keeping it despite the wishes of several people on the internets, and the fact…
In the event no actual movies are available, the Internet may be used as a substitute.
They’ve been warning us for years that the onslaught of digital distribution, torrents, iTunes, rental-by-mail services, and the new entertainment-in-pill-form (not available in some markets) was going to change everything. What they failed to warn us about were all the tragic implications of the entertainment glut. Case in point: there are currently movies by Wes…
You Can’t Go to World 1-1 Again
I took advantage of the weekend and nights sneaking out of the office just after dark, to play some of Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. I’m about 31 stars in, and I’ve come to two conclusions: 1) It deserves all the perfect reviews it’s been getting, and 2) I’m old. Now, it doesn’t take…
Hooray for stuff I worked on!
I’m starting to regret all that stuff I said earlier about videogames being non-union, because a writer’s strike would be pretty sweet right about now. Not because I have anything in particular to protest, but because it’d be nice to get a little break. Yet another problem with doing exactly what I want to be…