21st
June
2007
Ponderings For 2007-06-21
- Coolness. A trailer for Blade Runner: The Final Cut has materialized. One of my favorite films of all time, spruced up with (yes, another) cut of the film and a fancy remastering. It’ll have a limited theatrical run (for which I’ll drive to wherever is necessary to see) then hit DVD (and one or both of the HD disc formats). And Ridley is doing this new DVD edition right. It’ll have all three cuts of the film (the original, the Director’s Cut from the 90’s and this new version) and bunches of extras. If any of Ridley’s recent special edition DVD releases are any indicator, this’ll be contender for DVD of the year. Drooooooooool…
- Brian Ford Sullivan continues his daily reviews of TV pilots. This year, he’s doing one pilot that was picked up and one that wasn’t each day. As always, the reviews are well done, and I’ll be putting a few of them on my watch list. However, I had to be amused reading his review of the pilot for the TV adaptation of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (It’s the bottom half of the page). I kinda cringed when I first heard they were developing one, but I didn’t expect it to be THAT bad. Sadly, I believe him about how bad it is, particularly given his description of events. Morbid curiosity makes me wanna track down a copy. Never mind the fact that there was already an excellent TV series titled Mr. & Mrs. Smith, featuring absolutely fantastic casting of the leads (I’ve got one episode of it in good quality on tape from when it was originally on, but would love to scrounge up some quality copies of the rest of the series).
- YIKES! Check out the “Dalek Cage.” Cool for not only its insanity, but for the Doctor Who reference.
- 17-year-old son turns an armed robber’s plan back against himself. Good for you, kid. I know the police chief has to make the statements he made, but at least the Arby’s management are giving the kid credit. If more people would actually do this, armed robbers might be a little more skittish about trying these things.
- So, OJ Simpson’s “If I Did It” book has leaked online. Curiosity got the best of me, so I hunted it down. Read the first chapter, which is pretty much just OJ & Nicole’s history together (his telling of it, anyway). The scanning job of the book is a bit messed up in random spots, but it’ll surely be an interesting read.
- Fun with highways
- Wow, here’s one set of investigators and university staff that are gonna have to come up with a seriously impressive reason for their secrecy. That’s pretty stupid on their part, in almost every way possible.
- Here’s a fairly disgusting story of what you don’t want to happen on a long, international plane flight you’re on. Then again, the dude they are interviewing seems to be doing nothing more than fishing for a lawsuit with his over dramatized descriptions and accusations.
- And United Airlines had a nifty little glitch yesterday…
- Here’s a funny little warning dialog box
- Let’s see, this weekend’s to-see movie list is… 1408, Evan Almighty & A Mighty Heart (in that order). How many weekends do we get to have more than one high profile movie release with the word “mighty” in it…
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