Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster
I was first recommended to watch Wanted by a random person who watched Timur Bekmambetov’s other films he had directed. I had no idea what I was watching, no idea about the comics, no idea about the director, and no idea about the actors. I feel this was the best way to walk into this movie cause I knew there was going to be some good action and nothing else.
The movie was extremely good with action sequences that I’ve never seen or dreamt of before. While the acting was as good as the action cause I never once thought of the actors as acting. As a comic book movie I was disappointed in the lack of comic feeling for most of the movie, though the loss of the comic book feeling made the movie that much more exciting for me.
Plot is very important to every movie, and this one had a good one. Nothing out of the ordinary but good enough to keep you on your toes. Sadly I saw through this as the clues were beyond obvious to me, but this didn’t impact my view of the movie even though I would been more excited if I didn’t figure it out till the last second. The twists were good, and key to a good action slash revenge film.
Style used in the movie was great with weapons and ammo with a personal style unique to the assassin that was wielding them. This was beyond anything the part of the movie that screamed comic book to me. Bullets with the words goodbye written on them are only found in comic books in my opinion.
If you love action, love guns, and love assassins this is the movie for you. With bullet time thrown in there it is one kick ass movie.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster
I had planned to spend part of today reinstalling Leopard and such after I woke up. Although I have managed to download a virus on my XP partition so I quickly nuked my XP so I will have to reinstall that as well. Funny how I got that virus too! As a person who doesn’t believe in anti-viruses cause you can usually tell when you have a virus before the virus detector says you have a virus. Thus you are just wasting CPU power on a process you can perform yourself. I didn’t have to scan my hard drive for the virus, I knew it as soon as I clicked that file that it was the WRONG thing to do at that moment. A source I thought was trusted was tainted and realized that quickly enough to reboot into Leopard and format XP.
No podcast will be recorded on hump-day as I will be reinstalling everything. Wish me luck, I hope I backed up everything.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster
First I am going to start by saying, oops. I meant to edit the previous post about installing PicLens but I deleted it instead.
Currently I am working on making the website load up a little faster and look a little more stream line here and there. This includes removing PicLens and SnapShots till I accomplish at least a certain level of speed increase. The other improvement is going to be remove certain items, Live Video, YouTube, and maybe Flickr Pictures to boost the load time of the home page. Though I think the option to view them should still be open as I do update my YouTube and Flickr often when I have time. As for my Live Video you can be certain I will move that to its own tab. On the way I am going to clean up some of the messy code I used while fooling around when I first installed Wordpress.
For a side note, I am crazy right now and I feel like I really need a bar of dark chocolate!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster
Being a big fan of the new Doctor Who I could not pass this up. Over at ThinkGeek they have a delivery of Doctor Who Sonic Screwdrivers. Now that is cool, as one of the greatest tools in all time and is better than any gun but not as handy as a banana as it is a excellent source of potassium.
The story goes like this: the prop made for the new series was small. Then this toy came out - it was bigger to accommodate the batteries - and the Doctor Who producers revamped the TV prop on a mold from this toy. So this Sonic Screwdriver is exactly the same size as the one Doctor Who uses on TV!
