Just over there
It almost works as an action/comedy. The usual suspects:
Tom Arnold,
Jamie Lee Curtis, and
Arnold Schwarzenegger
It’s amazing how young Eliza Dushku looks in this, 3 years before she appeared on BtVS.
Glad to see he’s finally decided to settle down….
Today’s treat was the second half of the SciFi Channel‘s remake of the Steven King novel Firestarter turned into a movie. Can’t comment on the original Drew Barrymore version. It’s been too long since I saw it.
It wasn’t bad as SciFi channel productions go. The four hour running time gave them more time to develop the characters and plot.They picked a decent actress to play the title role who manages to look good while the special effects folks are throwing around lots of flamable liquids (Hopefully it was CGI and not real).
It’s another one of those conspiracy movies where the good guys have to run for their lives because no one can help them.
They even have a contest going on for it. Too bad you can’t enter all of the information required by the rules into their little form.
All entries must contain the following information:
a) Entrant’s name;
b) Entrant’s date of birth;
c) Entrant’s address;
d) Entrant’s daytime telephone number; and
e) Entrant’s email address.
which is pointless since you can’t enter a phone number or date of birth and their entry form craters if you don’t enter a SciFi.com membership username & password, neither of which the rules say are required.
Oops….
No broadband or any other higher bandwidth connections to the outside world available out here in the NH wilderness.
Note: I’m not really in the wilderness but being 5 miles outside the nearest town I might as well be.
Grumble.
Why do people in movies/tv live in houses or apartments their characters couldn’t afford in real life ?
There’s an ark reference in “The Last Crusade”… did you notice ?
[Another evening of channel surfing.... yuck!]
Something we’ll probably never see again. The airport scenes from “Sleepless in Seattle“.
A much better movie if the Meg Ryan friend had been played by someone else. Not a mistake in other similar
Nora Ephron movies like You’ve Got Mail. Did Meg Ryan really only make 3 movies with Tom Hanks ?
Which movie would you watch and which would you surf if they were on at the same time on basic cable ?
A: “Speed” with Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock (on for the 40th time in the last 60 days)
B: “Sleepless in Seattle”
Hmmm….. action or romance ? Tough question.
Made easier because they co-inhabited the cable bandwidth for only 30 minutes and half of that was commercials.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is really just another “Grail Quest” movie, though given that Spielburg twist.
I was expecting a lot more from the McQueen version, otherwise why would they have remade it ? It wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Of course, that could have been partly due to the “edited for television” look.
I’m not a big McQueen fan. Too “60′s/70′s macho”. I prefer John Wayne and Clint Eastwood style “Western macho” in my 60′s/70′s action movies. And of course, Sean Connery is The True Bond. Doesn’t seem much choice for 80′s/90′s action macho with the exception of Harrison Ford.
And none of them are “hard edged urban jungle” like McQueen.
But a lot of movies from that time period had that vibe. Unlike the 90′s+ “gloss”. So how do the two movies stack up ? Based on dim memories of the newer one:
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Actor | Steve McQueen | Pierce Brosnan | |
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occupation | Banker | rich playboy | |
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plot | Somebody robs a bank | Somebody robs an art museum | |
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protaganist | Faye Dunaway | Rene Russo | |
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end of movie | He robs another bank | He returns painting | |
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attitude | hard/cruel | sophisticated | |
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Would I watch the original (if it really was the original version) again ? Not if I have a choice. The newer one ? Possibly. Depends. I’m going to have to watch the newer one again.
Ahh, trivia – Faye Dunaway was in both movies.
I wish I had time in the morning to listen to CSPAN. Fridays are the best. It’s almost like a television version of blogging.
It’s a small world…. living within a quantum particle of the rest of the world.
Apparently the Soviets sent an unmanned probe to the moon (Luna 16?) at the same time as the United States sent the manned Apollo 11. The History Channel is doing another in its’ long series of “Soviet vs. USA ” history shows. Showing once again that the people of the Soviet Union were able to accomplish amazing things but the effort was wasted by their government due to the usual Cold War shenanigans.
Politics before safety… more people died during the development of the Russian space program, on the ground & in space, than the USA. Of course, I’m watching a show on Soviet space disasters so that’s not a surprise.
Learning how to import old/other web pages into Radio. Fortunately, someone (Dave Berry ) has a tutorial on similar things that provided the necessary clues. The only quirk seems to be images. Any included in stories require a different URL if I want to view them locally versus in the “cloud”.
Next step…. how do I get an external style sheet file to work ?
Hmmmm….
Apparently, having a theme is a good thing. Makes it easier to write. Now if I could just think of one……
Hmmmmm……
Looks like Yahoo hasn’t learned the lessons of eBay and their availability problems from last year.
Maybe I’m biased (Nah!) but given that the technology for designing reliable, high availability computer systems is
older than the Internet (With Compaq now owning 2 of the
most well known solutions – OpenVMS and Tandem Non-Stop Himalaya servers) seeing this kind of thing happen does not give one the warm & fuzzies for the long range success of Yahoo.
Not planning for things like this is really inexcusable in a 24×365 world. Especially since Yahoo claims they are “powered by Compaq” and the database in question is supposed to be Oracle (which has licensed clustering technology from Compaq to provide availability/reliable systems to avoid problems such as this.
Too bad….
