It took me nearly two hours to get home last night because some joker thought it’d be a great idea to shoot people while driving down the freeway, forcing the cops to close off the 805 while they conducted an investigation.
Full of anger and righteous ire, I sat down at my laptop and was ready to vent when I saw an e-mail somebody sent me that talked about an amazing looking bit of film.
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Directed by Tarsem Singh (who worked on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and The Cell), and presented by David Fincher and Spike Jones, The Fall was released on blu-ray in 2008, one year before I began collecting movies in that medium. To atone for the sin of missing this film I ordered a copy last night.
I just thought you’d like to know that something like this exists:
The long wait is finally over. Ever since it was first announced in January I’ve been anxiously anticipating this day. And now, after oh-so many months of waiting, I’m proud to say that I have in my possession the extended edition of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy:
We’re talking 682 high definition minutes of hobbits, ring wraiths, wizards and elves. Arriving just in time for the long fourth of July weekend, I do believe that I have everything I need to get my Middle Earth on.
Odd thought: I wonder, if Ceicl B. DeMille were alive today, would he release an extended version of The Ten Commandments?
This week just flew by! I guess that’s what happens when you actually enjoy your job
To celebrate a successful week I’m going to settle down with a mug of black & tan ale, a shot of whiskey, and a viewing of all four Alien films on blu-ray. I held back on purchasing this set on day one, and was finally rewarded with a huge discount from blu-ray.com. This set arrived on my doorstep yesterday and I’m doing my best not to pop ‘em into the PS3 until the weekend.
Thanks to some forward-thinking geniuses at work I was glued to my monitor for nearly two hours today parsing through hex files to try and unlock a few “urgent” legacy databases. This goes to show that you don’t fire somebody before obtaining the passwords they use to secure company files.
I’m beat. I think I’ll relax tonight and watch Avatar on blu-ray. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with this picture of Steve Martin ironing a kitten:
If you haven’t picked up your copy of Lord Of The Rings on blu-ray, what the heck are you waiting for? Yeah, yeah, I know…”no EE, no sale.” But when do you honestly expect the extended versions to be released? And if you’re willing to pass up on the theatrical versions, then you have more self control than I.
As my greedy, sweaty hands ripped into the soft plastic skin of this box set, I couldn’t help but notice the following MPAA ratings on the back of the box:
Hmmm…what’s the difference between “Scary Images” and “Frightening Images”. I would think that there’s enough of a difference between the two to distinguish “Scary” and “Frightening”.
Utilizing the vast, unbridled power of the tubernets, I see that Webster defines “scared” as:
Thrown into or being in a state of fear, fright, or panic
And “frightened” as:
1: to make afraid : terrify 2: to drive or force by frightening
These two definitions seem to define the same thing, so why does the MPAA differentiate between the two? Is this simply busy work? A way to justify their existence?
Of course there’s always the option that I’m making too big of a deal about this trivial matter.
