Ho-hum
Back to work today, which felt better than being at home, alone with the beard.  Once home, though, all I really have to do is watch movies.

I actually got to sleep by midnight last night, though I was helped by what could be the most boring movie on the cocaine trade in Miami in the 70s and 80s.  Cocaine Cowboys is alright, but it just comes off as a laundry list with fancy graphics.  By the way, that technique of creating a faux-3D image by taking elements of the picture and moving them at differing rates is getting annoying, what with every third commercial using it.  I would look up the name, but by the time I found it no one else will remember it either.

Resident Evil: Extinction was fairly crap, but after seeing the first two I knew what I was getting into.  It ends up as a 90-minute (or whatever) fight scene.  If I wanted to see that, I would just play the games again.  Basically, I just wanted to see zombies being laid waste and was disappointed to that effect.  Just an assload of zombie birds and smart zombies in matching jumpsuits (I shit you not).

Superman Doomsday was ho-hum.  The animation is iffy in a few spots, but decent.  They preserved some of the violence of the original story, though a lot of the back story and background details got cut, what with only 75 minutes to work with.  The main annoyance was the repeated use of the same damn musical cue for Superman.  You don't need to use a cue everytime a character comes on the screen.  We got the point the first time; it's Superman.  Rather self-explanatory.

The one shining spot for last night was 30 Days of Night.  I wasn't completely sold on the movie from what I'd heard of it.  I'm always wary of vampire movies, since they usually follow the "woe-is-me" vampire that I'd rather not waste my time on.  The best comparison would be the Nosferatu of 1922 with the Nosferatur of 1979.  The creature of the former has no care for humans, their feelings, or their lives, happy to spread death and disease with impunity.  The latter (though Klaus Kinski did well enough, though Schreck is no slouch) goes along well enough, until Orlock starts getting in touch with his mushy feelings and bemoans eternity.  Fie on that!  It's why I infinitely prefer Brian Lumley's Necroscope series to Rice's vampires.  There's nothing wrong with her world, per se, I just prefer the other.  Back on track, 30 Days surprised me and came out as an entertaining movie.  The soundtrack has some nice bits in it, and the end credit sequence is interesting.  If you get a chance to see it, tell me if the intro (with the ship in the background) doesn't make it seem like the loneliest place on earth.

Tonight, I've got quite a few to choose from.  I'll let you know how they turn out.


Looking at this picture, I can see just how powerful my glasses are; check out that refraction!