Wednesday 20 February 2008

Unaddressed text messages

I finished watching 5 Centimetres Per Second last night, brilliant stuff. The second part was just as good as the first, but the third was a bit vague and spent most of it showing clips of the main characters doing stuff with a song playing over the top. Granted the song wasn't bad, but it felt like a bit of a let down after the fantastic first two parts.
I looked up the director -Makoto Shinkai- to see if he had any other good stuff and found two previous works listed, artwork from latter of which coincidentally serves as my current wallpaper, downloaded both on the phat pipe and will watch them soon.

I watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico today, which is truly a film from a better era. It has some of the best action scenes I've seen in a long time, good classic shooting people and jumping over stuff, none of this special effects showcasing you get with modern films like Die Hard 4. And while it is an action film it still has a lot of decent comedy without becoming slapstick and stupid.
The leading Antonio Banderas puts on a rather uninspired performance, but Johnny Depp picks it up brilliantly and keeps things going. Danny Trejo even got a chuckle once, and that lurch is the last person in the world I would want to meet down a dark alley.

I emailed the guy I bought Burnout off of today, as I still don't have it. He sent me an indescribably poorly written email back (I mean seriously, I've seen six year olds with infinitely better English comprehension than that email displayed) telling me something about his computer not working, and that he'd send it out to me with more expensive delivery to make sure it got to me as soon as possible. If it's true and I get it by Friday I won't have to break anyone's fingers.

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