木曜日, 4月 28, 2005

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Unfortuneatly, I can't post a review in the way I want here without screwing up the format of my blog, so what I am forced to do is put a bunch of crap in front of it...

I don't really have any new pictures to share with ya'll...So I will share some random wallpapers from my computer...


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I was going to write some big emo crappy thing here the other day but, I decided that'd be a bad thing.

NOW ON TO THE REVIEW!

Time for some more misreviews ripoffing! I'd like to point out that I am in no way affiliated with Misinformer.com


Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Garth Jennings





The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
     a.k.a. A good reason to kill a sperm whale

Staring
Martin "doesn't look good in a close up" Freeman
Zooey "take me to the zoo!" Deschanel
Mos "Definately" Def (that was brilliant)


And

John Malkovich
as
John Malcovich

I have been to the dark side and back! I have seen a world that no man should see!
Reviewed On
April 30th, 2005
Rating (of a possible five...)
    
Four out of five whatever those are. Would have got 3 but I really loved that opening sequence.
Review
Okay! Before you read any of the crap I'm about to write, please please please! Click this link:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging.

Perhaps I should set a deadline for this review...Nah, the gnomes would get me.

But anyway I'm not even getting started yet. I'm sure you're already sick of this and you want me to move on, right? Who am I kidding, no one's out there. Anyway, just incase there are I will.

It all started with a little e-mail corespondence. You should really e-mail people if you want things to happen. Anyway I was having a discussion about this uh, weird game, that really wasn't going anywhere...and it went like this:
From Edward Vincent to Connie Chin on Apr 21
Woah! Two!? Holy shit that's a lot!
Connie Chin to Edward Vincent on Apr 22
I KNOW LIKE. >.> bigger than the forever!

(oh yeah i might go see Hitchhikers with you and Isab. >.>)
Wtf? No one told me about any trips to god knows where. But who cares?
From Edward Vincent to Connie on Apr 22
Oh yay.
I'm always down for a movie.
Then it was just assumed it would happen for the rest of the month there. But the strange thing is that it actually did!

The last time I saw a movie with Connie, it was in Berkeley with Hui and a number of other people. I had my computer and I really hate the United Artist theater in downtown Berkeley. And to top all that off, it was the Matrix Revolutions...Which I liked but, come on. There were people behind me who just ruined it for me. Oh wellio. Moving on...

While that day wasn't so bad, I did end up spending a bit more money then I expected, and I might have paid for a person or two's ticket without really knowing it. It was an R-rated movie and I was the only one over 18. Go fig'. It was really Hui's plan, and that's okay, but it could have been better.

This time it was better. I was 'in charge' this time. I picked the theater, I bought the tickets, and I got to sit where I wanted to sit. And it was on opening night, as well. Gotta see it on opening night, there's just no way around it.

The only problem was figuring out when our schedules matched, and then finding out the transportation. By the time we were ready to do these things we had assembled a team of five individuals, even if I did think there was six. How do you get six people to Emeryville from El Cerrito? It's not easy, I assure you. But the wonderful mafianess of the '94 Lincoln Towncar saved the day once again. The thing is spaceous. However we still had to pack three people in the front and three people in the back. It worked out pretty good for me though, 'cause I got to be, um, very close to two different girls! Closer than normal I'd say. But that's just a minor point.

I still think some of them owe me money...but as of right now the movie was my treat. I expect to be paid back at some point, but...It was worth it to me.

(Am I ever going to get to the movie?)

I'll get into more detail on what happened before the movie at another time...

(Thank you...er...thank me.)

So then we were all waiting in line. Then these two dick security guards start to let people in. THEY LET PEOPLE IN! But not just any people, people with the number 13 on their fucking tickets. Now, as we found out, that's turned out to be okay. But there's something really pissy about standing in line, at the front, and then watching a shit load of people behind you get skipped ahead. Bastards. But it was worth it. Why?

Because they have DLP.

Digital Light Processing (DLP) is a technology used in projectors and projection televisions. It is currently the technology behind best projected image I've ever seen. They had one at the Science Fiction museum and used it to show you the world behind The Jetsons (?) and the Jetson's connection with The Matrix. It doesn't have to make sense, it still looked cool.

Now someone somewhere out there may remember that I've said that I didn't believe in digital projection. If you'd talked to me before the opening day of I, Robot you'd be right. I first saw a digital projection in San Francisco at the AMC 1000 on Van Ness Avenue. The movie was Star Wars Episode II. I saw that movie in all the ways it was ever projected. Film, digital and IMAX. The film transfer was the best looking form of that movie, at least at that time.






I'm sorry I got distracted reading about persistence of vision. It is interesting that : In digital film systems, the raster scan rate may be decoupled from the image update rate. In some systems, such as the DLP system, there is no flying spot or raster scan at all, so there is no flicker other than that generated by the temporal aliasing of the film image capture. YEAH MOTHA FUCKAZ!

But this does have a point, the point is that even though the resolution for the digital version of Episode II was lacking in one of the more major ways I've ever seen (I believe it was a 1K projector), it still was amazingly clear and flicker-free.

Flash forward to 2004.

Dad is the one who wants to see I, Robot, not me. But I never pass up a movie, so I went along and said 'what the hell' and bought tickets to see it in DLP at the AMC Bay Street theater in Emeryvile. I was litteraly astounded. Ever since then I've been a strong supporter of DLP. The next movie seen by me in DLP was The Incredibles. And wow. The hair man, the hair! It was amazing.

These things led to me picking the DLP showing of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and it was everything I hoped the projection to be. It was the best projection of anything I'd ever seen. I can not wait for Episode III to get another chance for pure digital bliss. Digital is the way to go people, seriously.

Now then, the movie, right? That's why you're here, I assume.

First of all, much to my dismay, I'm going to have to employ the use of Misinformer's Haven't Been There, Haven't Done That Disclaimer. I have not, and probably never will, read the books this movie was based on. Who has time for these things? The thing is thicker than my ... Well there are many things I could put there, but I won't, and I'll let your comedic genious figure something out that isn't vulgar or stupid.


Interfuckingmission


I stopped writing around four last night, so if there is a disconnect, you know, don't blame me. I had a little logo there for you luckily.

Anyway this is getting long...I'm going to finish this and head on over to the spoiler section.

I liked the movie, it was very, very pretty. It gets points for its visuals and effects. It also gets points for a scene where...whoops I should stick that in the spoiler lounge.



I watched Ebert & Roeper and they just tore the movie apart. I respect Roger Ebert and his reviews, and I can understand what he was talking about, but that Richard Roeper cock-sucker slammed my favorite part of the movie! The asshole! GRR!

Long story short (too late!) I liked the movie. I thought it was quirky and I don't feel robbed spending $60 dollars so my frends, my dad and I to see it. And I don't really give a shit if it's not like the book. My eyes are too fucked up to read, anyway.

Did you gather I'm a fan of malcovich? When I first saw the trailer I thought it was David Letterman.
Spoilers
Oh my fucking god that opening! If you're too cheap to see it in the theater, please click on this link right the fuck now! While I liked the whole movie, that was by far the most original opening credits sequence I'd ever seen. And I applaud the film makers for realizing that they could get away with such a thing. It also helps that the guy is a director of music videos. Normally I'm against directors of music videos from entering the realm of major feature length motion pictures, but in this case it worked out. It would be hard for anyone else to pull something like this off.

Speaking of that, I'd like to point out that I'm a fan of Sam Rockwell. Recently I've been watching Confessions of a Dangerous Mind on tv. Also, I've liked him in such films as Galaxy Quest, Matchstick Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. However, I must say I didn't totally care for his character, overall, in this film. I didn't believe his motivation. I didn't really care for the second head he had. And that bit with the damn perspective gun or whatever it was called kinda pissed me off.

Also, one more thing that bothered me. The whole thing with that super computer. Why were there two kids talking to the thing? Why was it the same two kids 7 million years later or whatever? Why were those mice the same two kids at the end of the movie? Why doesn't the Dent dude get in trouble for killing two child like mice? What the fuck does that mean? Also, that scene where they talked to the big computer was awful rushed. I don't think I even heard what the thing said. It was a good thing I saw the episode of the TV show with that scene a week earlier. I loved the design of the thing though. One eye...A long floppy-disk styleized drive for a mouth...And it likes to watch television...Brilliant.

I work at a place called TechFutures, and this could not be more appropriate.


¿Will someone please buy me this poster?

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