22nd
November
2007
Ponderings For 2007-11-22
posted in Ponderings |- So, did you have a happy Thanksgiving?
- I’m SO far behind on movie reviews, I’ve got more than half a dozen partially completed and have trouble getting myself to just choose some to finish and get on with it. I’ll quit promising to have them up soon and just cross my fingers and hope I’ll get ‘em posted over this long weekend. Until then, here’s a list of the 11 pending with my score out of 10 with each. I also added each to the 2007 film list (which, btw has passed 100 for the year now - and climbing). So, here are all the ones with pending reviews: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (7), Gone Baby Gone (9), 30 Days Of Night (8), The Darjeeling Limited (7), Dan In Real Life (8), American Gangster (8), Rendition (9), Martian Child (9), P2 (8), Hitman (6), The Mist (6). Hmmm, guess there haven’t been much by ways of bad movies that I’ve seen since my last reviews (though there was Good Luck Chuck & The Heartbreak Kid just before this streak).
- Was discussing Buffy The Vampire Slayer with somebody who had never seen it, and was clearly unlikely to ever be convinced otherwise. As Joss once referred to it, and I completely agree, “those who can’t get past the title aren’t invited to the party.” Actually, I also like his very first concept title for what would eventually become Buffy - “Rhonda The Immortal Waitress.”
- Speaking of Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar apparently changed her last name to Prinze in honor of their 5 year anniversary. This sounds like a pretty logical practice in Hollywood, where marriages rarely last that long…
- Here’s an amusing approach to cracking MD5 encryption hashes.
- “The Vampire Angel” - a completely chronological history of Angel, which is quite cool simply for the effort alone. It’s split into twenty-something parts thanks to Youtube limitations, but quite fun. Can’t imagine this’ll last long before it gets yanked due to copyright restrictions…
- What if everybody in the U.S. flushed at the same time? Interesting. A tad obvious, but interesting.
- That’ll do for now. Back with more soon.
