Sunday, August 04, 2002
OH MY GOD. It's been so long! And we have so much catching up to do!!
Ok ok, I know I've been bad... haven't posted in 2 days. I have a rightful excuse: Neverwinter Nights. I'll get to that eventually. First a recap and some reviews:
Friday: Farscape
Forget Star Trek, Babylon 5, even cast aside your pathetic Buffy the Vampire slayer. Watch Farscape: every Friday night at 10pm and 12 am EST.
Farscape is by far the best sci-fi show on television. It isn't as uninventive as Star Trek (sorry Patrick) as horrible looking as Babylon 5 (widescreen? give me a break) and don't let me get started on Buffy. Farscape is sleek, sexy, and inventive. The show is well into its 4th season, but I'll try and do a quick sorta recap someday.
Saturday: Neverwinter Nights
Absolutely brilliant game. Not only does it come with a full single player experience, but it also has an easy to use toolset for your own levels and design modules and a Dungeon Master control mode (for all you D&D geeks). Anyway, enough of that.
Today was a boring dreary day, so I went go see Signs with Mom (am I not a good son?). It was quite enjoyable, but had some faults. (Probably my second favorite of the directors three films, Unbreakable, Signs, and then The Sixth Sense in last). The movie seemed torn between being a slight comedy (it didn't seem to take itself seriously on more than one occasion, a horror/scary movie, or a 'path-to-redemption' flick. Mel Gibson performed well, and it is good to see him in a less than epic role for a change (We Were Soldiers, The Patriot, and Braveheart..step aside for this one). Overall I would say it is a fun movie experience, and would reccomend the movie to most.
I might as well go ahead and pick my favorite new director (drum roll please):
Christopher Nolan
For those of you into independent movies, you have almost certainly heard of Memento, and you mainstreamers out there have probably encountered Insomnia
will Al Pachino, Hillary Swank, and Robin Williams.
If you watched and enjoyed these two movies, go out and rent Following, his first movie, shot in London in b&w... very good.
Listening to: Eska - Flag Etiquette
Ok ok, I know I've been bad... haven't posted in 2 days. I have a rightful excuse: Neverwinter Nights. I'll get to that eventually. First a recap and some reviews:
Friday: Farscape
Forget Star Trek, Babylon 5, even cast aside your pathetic Buffy the Vampire slayer. Watch Farscape: every Friday night at 10pm and 12 am EST.
Farscape is by far the best sci-fi show on television. It isn't as uninventive as Star Trek (sorry Patrick) as horrible looking as Babylon 5 (widescreen? give me a break) and don't let me get started on Buffy. Farscape is sleek, sexy, and inventive. The show is well into its 4th season, but I'll try and do a quick sorta recap someday.
Saturday: Neverwinter Nights
Absolutely brilliant game. Not only does it come with a full single player experience, but it also has an easy to use toolset for your own levels and design modules and a Dungeon Master control mode (for all you D&D geeks). Anyway, enough of that.
Today was a boring dreary day, so I went go see Signs with Mom (am I not a good son?). It was quite enjoyable, but had some faults. (Probably my second favorite of the directors three films, Unbreakable, Signs, and then The Sixth Sense in last). The movie seemed torn between being a slight comedy (it didn't seem to take itself seriously on more than one occasion, a horror/scary movie, or a 'path-to-redemption' flick. Mel Gibson performed well, and it is good to see him in a less than epic role for a change (We Were Soldiers, The Patriot, and Braveheart..step aside for this one). Overall I would say it is a fun movie experience, and would reccomend the movie to most.
I might as well go ahead and pick my favorite new director (drum roll please):
Christopher Nolan
For those of you into independent movies, you have almost certainly heard of Memento, and you mainstreamers out there have probably encountered Insomnia
will Al Pachino, Hillary Swank, and Robin Williams.
If you watched and enjoyed these two movies, go out and rent Following, his first movie, shot in London in b&w... very good.
Listening to: Eska - Flag Etiquette
