I can’t believe how many films I’ve watched already this year. I’m behind on the cinema viewings (I wanted to go once a week), but the home cinema experience is hardly slumming it. I watched The Host alone last night, and The Fountain with Crumpet tonight. I’m very glad she chose to watch it – [...]
Archive for February, 2008
24 frames per second
Posted in Film on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Zodiac
Posted in Film on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This one started off very promising (I felt it was going to be a buyer), but it dragged towards the end with too much police procedure and not enough spooky murdering. Also, not enough Robert Downey Jr. But then, there can never be enough RDJ. And man, it’s long. So long that they obviously had [...]
Stupid error of the month
Posted in Macs on February 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Seriously, Apple. What. The. FUCK.
Apocalypto
Posted in Film on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We watched this last night – well worth watching, but I don’t want to say too much about the plot besides the fact that Mel Gibson is still obsessed with brutality. The image was really… interesting. When it moved slowly, it looked very good – excellent detail, decent good shadows, but it didn’t feel ‘perfect’. [...]
Bring it on
Posted in Film on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The format war is over. Moments after Toshiba announced they were giving up on HD DVD, Universal followed suit. It’s certainly not unexpected, but there was always the possibility that Universal would be tied into some stupid exclusivity contract until the end of 2009. I can’t wait for Children of Men on Blu-ray! And of [...]
How weird is it that on the night that we watch Ratatouille, Stella catches and kills a freaking rat in the back yard? The first rat since we moved in about 3-4 years ago… Pixar rats are much cuter than real ones.
Weedy
Posted in Film on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Crump and I watched the first two episodes of Weeds tonight. Ten half-hour episodes with commentaries and other features, all on the one disc. I love Blu-ray. Oh, and the show is fun too!
Ouch, Inc.
Posted in Film on February 12, 2008 | Comments Off
In one day both Netflix and Best Buy have turned away from HD-DVD in the States and put their support behind Blu-ray. It looks like the high-definition format war is going to be over even earlier than I expected. I predicted Q3 2008, but I’d say HD-DVD is going to be dead before June now. [...]
Wow!
Posted in General on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I would have loved to have been involved in this:
Musing…
Posted in Film on February 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think I’m done with going to the cinema. It costs the same to buy a film on Blu-ray as it does to see it once with Crumpet, plus I get special features, commentary and the like… and if the film sucks, I can sell it to get some money back. Plus, I’m really over [...]
