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'force
Posted Nov 28, 2001
I've been having problems with the 'force recently. I
find myself unable to move remote inanimate objects
and as for influencing the thoughts and actions of
others. Last time I attempted that I was met with a
"Sorry, what do you want me to do about it?"
So I phoned up the help desk. It seemed like a
reasonable thing to do at the time. Only to be
informed that they'd lost it. Lost it! How can you
loose it? Only it gets better than that. I have
since been informed, several phone calls later, that
in fact it never existed in the first place.
Well, if it never existed in the first place, how come
I got a postcard informing me that it had been sent?
Huh?
Damn you Parcelforce!
On a lighter note, if there are no girl jedi in
Episode II Mr Lucas and I will have to have a little
chat.
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film, film, always film!
Posted Nov 19, 2001
And Harry Potter as a film is a lot of fun. Though if at two and a half hours you still noticed the bits missing, how are they going to manage the later books which seem to get exponentially bigger. I couldn't help feeling it would have been better served as a children's tv mini-series. The sort shown at about six o'clock on winter Sunday evenings.
Meanwhile my own film is giving me various headaches as I battle on to get sound and video sync'd together and then cut back into a manageable shape.
Need sleep.
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Latest reply: Nov 19, 2001
This year I have been mostly watching
Posted Oct 30, 2001
This may have to be added to if I run out of time
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 
Tears Of The Black Tiger 
From Here To Where 
Lara Croft 
Cats & Dogs 
Shrek 
The Hole
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 
The Dish
Bridget Jones' Diary
State and Main
Dungeons & Dragons 
Battle Royale 
The Man Who Wasn't There
You Can Count On Me
A.I.
Moulin Rouge
Amelie 
Planet Of The Apes 
Final Fantasy 8)
Tailor Of Panama
Unbreakable
Brother
Ginger Snaps
Requiem For A Dream
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Latest reply: Oct 30, 2001
Lara Croft Sucks
Posted Aug 3, 2001
This is actually a very old apprieciation of the film, I just hadn't got around to posting it here yet. And no I don't know anything about the game history of this film, but I don't care. What follows stands for what I think about the film.
The 2 main reasons the film sucks ass... (others to numerous to count)
1.Lara Croft is the woman every woman wants to be.
Stunningly Sexy yet Unavailable
Doesn't have to do a 9-5
Tailor made wardrobe that looks great
Kicks Ass Impressively
So you should come out of the film thinking 'I wish I could be like Lara Croft'
I came out of the film thinking 'If I were Lara Croft I would be Lara Croft Better'
2. There are no villans.
James Bond has been suffering from the same problem. Since the cold war ended the tacky movie industry has been suffering a lack of convincing, non-politically-inflammatory villans. THe past decade has been all about everyone having a bit of dark, but equally everyone having a bit of like. A completely self serving self obsessed and f**k the rest of the world villan just doesn't work. In science fiction/fantasy it does but this is meant to be quasi-reality.
And with just these two points you can change the entire movie for the better.
Lara Croft is the baddie.
or at the very least an anti hero.
I mean she's a tomb raider. Not an archeologist. That means she's a thief. Right. Anti-hero, not saving the world hero. Out for herself, going to steal to get what she wants.
So same film, or at least same major plot line, just without idiotic baddie. Lara Croft wants to have her daddy back so she steals two halves of mystic triangle and understandably the locals aren't too happy. She's not exactly a great canditate for wielding absolute power either so have Goodies chasing her to stop her.
Sees Dad, who tells her it's not a good idea, she goes ahead anyway . . . . .
So since we're remaking the film might as well get some of the other little niggles sorted out as well .
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First up against the wall when the revolution comes
Posted Jun 11, 2001
Owners of Karaoke Machines should be rounded up put up
against a wall and shot.
Vendors of Karaoke Machines should be rounded up put
up against a wall and shot.
Manufacturers of Karaoke Machines should be rounded up
put up against a wall and shot.
As for whoever invented the Dirty Nasty piece of
Electronic Obsolescence, specially designed to ruin
the aural qualities of any piece of music even before
anyone starts singing (admittedly the music does have
to have some aural qualities in the first place which
neither The Macarena not It Wasn't Me possess) I think
that being trapped in a room next door to one in which
a karaoke machine is being used 24 hours every day
could be a suitable punishment.
I would suggest going back in time to finish him off,
before he can come up with such a profoundly stupid
and antisocially inane idea, but I fear that this
would only delay the inevitable marketability of such
a crass object.
Of all mankind's useless and unlovely inventions the Karaoke Machine has to rate as one of the lowest forms of unevolved existance.
I thank you.
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Latest reply: Jun 11, 2001
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