• Shorter post for today. I’ve sufficiently distracted myself with other online projects this weekend, and didn’t do as much posting to make up for all my down time as I had intended. I did get one movie review posted, and will hopefully do a number more soon.
• Eeeeek, I say, EEEEEEEEK! Rounder Records has announced a delightful surprise for us Buffy nerds (of which I am without a doubt definitely one) - an actual, official release of Christophe Beck’s splendiferous score material from his seasons on the show. Sure, much of it has been available on the long circulated composer promo CD’s of his stuff for seasons 2 & 3 for the show, not to mention the few score cues included on the CD release for the musical episode, but it’ll be great to get an official release, not to mention the new stuff that’ll be on the disc.
• You know, it really makes me sad to see a fantastic movie destroyed by one fatal mistake. Such is the case with Sunshine, which I was re-watching on Blu-Ray recently. Up until the end of the film, this is an utterly fantastic movie. Then it all goes right out the window when the up-till-this-point brilliant script takes an overdose of stupid. Even still, I love watching the movie up until that point. Where is the studio to step in and ask the writer what in the world he’s thinking? I mean studios love to get involved for insanely dumb reasons all the time. Where were they when they really NEEDED to get involved and fix this otherwise great film they were pouring money into?
• Ruh-roh. Warner Bros is doing the typical studio-exec stupidity with their Superman franchise. After the perceived failure of Superman Returns (which I quite liked), and the success of Dark Knight, Warner is doing the unimaginative thing of “rebooting” the Superman franchise, this time darker. Now, let’s not start on the fact that Superman as a franchise isn’t meant to be dark. If you wanna do that, make another Batman movie. Second, I’m one of the few people that thinks that Ang Lee’s Hulk was far better than the new Incredible Hulk film from this year that did the similar “reboot” of a franchise after a luke-warm performing previous film. This all points to a disaster of a Superman film to come.
• Ah, fun with optical illusions

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