maxtortheone
Chicken Fiddler
And some games you can't find in physical form anymore, like the id Software ones
Now the only problem seems to be finding a server not affected by the Christmas rush so that I can download at more than 200 kb per sec... 15 gigs, mother of God.
I never really got the appeal of (payed for) downlaodable games. When I buy a game, I would like to have a physical copy to add to my collection and I like looking at the manuals and box art, etc...
I just don't understand why someone would rather download a brand new game for $60, rather than getting a physical copy.
Just watched The Prestige. Great film. Immense magic trick.
The fact that the whole thing is explained by a
was kind of ridiculous and it ruined the movie for me.goddamn cloning machine
anyone planning on watching The Day of the Triffids on BBC 1 tonight? I've seen the trailer playing over the last few days and its grown on me. I've not read the book or seen the adapted versions so hopefully this should be some good classic sci-fi.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9xPcdI__8[/YOUTUBE]
I've seen everything Triffid over the last 20 years, and I really like this new version. I'm an hour in, it's quite good.
I too've enjoyed it, it was solid Xmas fare.
Did you see the crashed Aston Martin V8 Vantage in the plane crash aftermath scene? I'm assuming it was CGI, although I think they used a real AM for the rear closeups...
On that note, there's a fantastic continuity FAIL about an hour in. The two main characters have been using a LR Discovery III to get around, with TRIFFOIL branding on the side. Then for a couple of seconds, as they drive over the motorway away from the TRIFFOIL farm it turns into a Range Rover Sport. Then later on it's a Disco III again...Whoops!
I generally agree with the review given above. The film makers could have done so much more with the material at hand. I generally agree with the review given above. The film makers could have done so much more with the material at hand. In addition, the love story the film features for a substantial portion of its running time basically consists of Kolchak leaving his wife and child for the wife of one of his officers for really no reason at all other than she is slightly more beautiful that his current wife. The film tries to portray it as romantic but it really does not work. They should have just dropped the love angle and done a film on the civil war.Saw the new Russian movie ?Admiral? the other week. The film ?tells? the story of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, the Tsarist naval commander who led White Russian military forces against the Bolsheviks, focusing on his brief love affair with a fellow officer?s wife, Anna Timireva. And when I say ?tells,? I mean the film butchers the complicated history of this era in order to churn out a nauseatingly sweet melodrama that puts Hollywood?s transgressions to shame.
The Admiral Kolchak presented here is a flawless and intelligent hero scrupulous enough to be conflicted over his adulterous feelings for Timireva, pious enough to pray his ship through a minefield, and virtuous (in the soldierly sense of the word) enough to lead the White Army to, well, defeat. But I guess I have to admit it?s pretty cool, albeit ridiculous, when he overcomes burst eardrums to man a cannon and take out a superior German destroyer with a direct hit to the bridge (notice the blood trickling down the side of his rugged profile on the film poster). A true ?Die Hard? moment.
I have to sympathize with Konstantin Khabensky, who plays the Admiral; the film was a dud from the start. It?s bad enough that love interest Liza Boyarskaya?s repertoire consists of a faintly alluring, enigmatic smile and big glassy eyes, a dynamic duo that has more than worn out it?s welcome by the final curtain. A more grevious error is the writers? decision to focus on a love story (tagline: ?For love is strong as death?) that should have been no more than a sideplot. This shuffles the movie into a plot that begins boringly with the Admiral easily winning Timireva when they lock eyes at a ball (the lively conversation during the subsequent evening stroll seals the deal), continues boringly with the Admiral writing lots of letters and gazing meaningfully at the sea as he pines for Timireva, and ends boringly as the couple, finally together, makes passionate conversation in a luxurious train car on the way to Irkutsk. And oh the suspense each time the train stops at another city, where there might be Reds!
In short, it?s a far too squeaky clean and simpleminded take on such an intersting topic. But it is interesting to note yet another facet of the conflicted Soviet legacy here: In modern Capitalist Russia, the Reds are sneaky and evil, and the Whites are heroic, God-fearing, Tsar-loving real Russians, pure and simple. Let?s just ?Whitewash? (sorry, couldn?t help my punny little self) the whole story.
http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.co...admiral-sinks-it-points-to-interesting-trend/
I've seen everything Triffid over the last 20 years, and I really like this new version. I'm an hour in, it's quite good.