LadyCrimson

I don't care how great they can make CGI humans look in stills or freckles or skin wrinkles etc. They still can never get the speaking-mouth movements right, and that ruins the whole effect in terms of "realism'...for me at least.

My list from the last top-10 thread: At the moment I'd probably replace Overlord with WoW/Burning Crusade...simply because Overlord has very little replay value for me and WoW-BC has sucked up way more hours than Overlord. Something about BC that is a lot more fun than pre-BC WoW. If you're level 70 at least.

"If I Had $1,000,000" - Barenaked Ladies. I don't think there's a single song of theirs that I don't at least like.

I could be out at the park with my camera, but today I'm waiting for the cableTV guy. I hope he won't turn out to be a psychotic stalker.

I'm going to have to agree w/this. He doesn't look morbidly obese in that picture, certainly. Ridiculous defense argument no matter how you serve it up. Haha. If you're for the death penalty in the first place, I don't see any rational objection to gun or even guillotine vs. lethal injection. *shrug*

Doesn't really look like my kind of series, but I'll have to watch the premiere at least, because hey, Ron Perlman and the Married w/Children wife Katey Sagal are in it. They're cool.

@ babydol - I saw the ads for the new Mummy movie and it's not one I'm going to go see in the theater. I loved the first two movies too and even bought them on DVD. They had flaws but were great light adventure entertainment w/a fun sense of humor. I agree with your "Let's just drop the whole "Mummy" franchise, and call this something new, why don't we?" assessment. I mean, I can see wanting to have a new bad guy because how many times can you "kill" Vosloo's mummy, but the rest....meh.

Since I've neither seen or heard of either of those before - not surprising in my case, heh - I wouldn't know. And everything has been "done before" - but you can always do it better.

Tent-camping is great (and necessary) if you're backpacking around the wilderness. But we've also found that as you get older, if all you're really doing is "car camping" (never going far from the main roads/hot spots/gas stations), after a while you start wanting to sleep more comfortably, have a hot shower, and so on. Plus we became tired of lugging around a car full of camping equipment. Seemed like every year there was more equipment that we had to have with us, heheh! Pain in the arse. We just stay in cheap motels or vacation rentals near where we want to explore and then take day-cruises/hikes/eat at cheap diners. A small RV or fixed-up van/truck/camper might be cool someday, but I don't think a huge RV would be for us...for one thing, hubby wouldn't want to drive it. :D

I see it as a strong-arm profit-oriented-cult of mental-health-empowerment psychology which actually leads to mental instability.... They still follow me around via mailings. We moved, and not 2 weeks later their mail was coming to our address - without the yellow "forwarding' P.O. sticker. I guess they have a whole department dedicated to keeping track of when people post mail-forwards and immediately change their mailing list.

Agreed on all counts. It's one of those movies that I personally thought I wouldn't like much, but I caught it on HBO and it held my attention...mostly because of Whittaker's intense performance. We saw "Vantage Point" as the weekend DVD rental. A flashy, hyper-kinetic film with an interesting premise but flawed execution. I'm not really sure how they could have done the viewpoint perspective aspect better tho. On the one hand, I enjoyed how each viewpoint revealed more of the story/plot, but on the other, you can't help but realize "I'm seeing essentially the same segment over and over". Still, if you ignore the plot improbabilities and possibly obvious red-herrings and just enjoy it as a sort of mystery-crazy-action flick, it's entertaining.

Heh. I used 1280 for a long time but would switch to 1600 for photos (more space)...finally got tired of switching back and forth so stick with 1600 now. I can just increase text-size thru the browser. Doesn't work for all sites very well, but it seems to work fine with yours. Drupal's a decent program...I checked them out a couple times. My ability with CSS is limited tho and I didn't like available templates much, so I went elsewhere.

A story based on the progeny of Han and Leia would interest me. Their kids would likely be strong with the Force since Leia supposedly is. You have a time of great peace and then something threatens it - something completely outside the SW universe, something new, some new race or "empire" they run into and try to set up relations with. Perhaps even a new source of mystical power that can challenge the Force. Stories need new places, new names, new trials, along with the familiar, or they grow stale.

Today I decided we're going to get cableTV again. Not so much because I want 45 music and sports channels (I don't) but because I absolutely loathe the way digital broadcasts stutter and entirely stop/interrupt if the signal gets weak or disrupted. Y'know how old TV signals, if it wasn't coming in perfectly clear it was still watchable, tho a bit fuzzy or static-y? Digital/HD broadcast gets those garbled square blocks then screeches to a halt like you paused the show. No sound, no moving picture, nothing. The evening winds where we moved to are so frequent and gusty that the digital/HD network broadcats often become slide-shows. And since they're going to stop broadcasting the old signal type next year, so I won't even be able to watch the old-style fuzzy non-HD version...cable it is! Might even get TiVo. Hehe.

A lot of short stories by Richard Matheson, the guy who wrote "I Am Legend" - which I also read, since it was part of the three story collections of his I bought. I didn't like I Am Legend all that much - and it's not because I loved the movie more, because I didn't - I think for me it's that I feel his writing style is more suited to the short story vs. longer ones. His style feels very sparse and a bit abrupt, which isn't enough to completely suck me in over a long haul. But those short stories - they were all kinds of awesome.

Collapsing bad. I can agree with that.

If the font was bigger it'd be easier to read....at least on my 1600 desktop. I haven't looked at it in lower resolutions. But yeah...you usually want to stay away from textured backgrounds for text. Otherwise, it looks nice to me. I don't know why you think it looks "unprofessional" - the layout looks fine. I like the images by the menus and stuff, plus the menu boxes have some personality. Are you using a particular blog software or doing everything yourself? I finally resorted to WordPress because of the easy-factor, but I'm always too lazy to make things look personalized. :D

"The Bank Job" - with Jason Statham. It was Jason, so I was expecting more of a mindlessly violent action picture - it's actually something a bit more akin to, say, Oceans Eleven...only less big-money Hollywood flashy. Except for Jason, not many people you'd easily recognize, especially to US audiences (British cast) which I think works in its favor. A caper movie based on some real-life robbery. I liked it more than Oceans Eleven, actually. The movie is a little slow/confusing at the start as they flip back and forth during the set up, but after that it was cool. Nice to see Jason in something that's a slight change from his usual smash 'em/punch 'em action picture. He did get to kick someone around a bit at the very end of the movie, but that was about it. :D

The only one up here in my lifetime that ever felt like it might be a "big one" was the Loma Prieta in '89 (and it was major for many people - not us tho). All the rest feel no worse than a 10 pound cat jumping lightly up and down on your bed or a big freight truck/train rumbling by a trailer park. But a 5.0+ can feel a little disturbing depending on your location to the epicenter and the building you're in. Some buildings are a lot...shakier than others.

I liked the first Tomb Raider movie ok...nothing special but watchable and entertaining enough for a silly action flick. And I also liked Doom ... although "liked" is probably too strong a word. I found it ... amusing ... and in a positive way more than a negative. Also agree about the writers issue - the studios are either unable or unwilling to get people who can make a decent script. A lot of games would make fine settings for a film, IMO...but if the script is bad, ick. Plus, if you can't afford/get big name actors, it's harder to get a "big studio" to make it, which means less money, and so on...

Y'all do realize that even if there is a Kotor MMO, they could still make a single-player Kotor3 someday...don't you? Or "MMO features" could mean some kind of server-multiplayer option along with the SP-aspect of the game. So maybe when you're done with the SP game, you can port your character over into a multiplayer version/world. Anyway...MMO's don't bother me. Doesn't mean I'm going to charge to the store opening day to get it, but if reviews are good I might check it out. It really depends on the game - I wouldn't expect it to be like a sp-rpg of course...but it'd have to do something fairly different from, say, WoW - or any of the other current fantasy MMO's out there - to reel me in. Something besides the fact it's just set in a SW universe.

At least they recognize DK as a good ol' game. Definitely has potential cool-factor - not only to re-visit old games but to try those classic games you might have missed.

I'm in the sad for loss of diversity camp...but I'm also not surprised. If you hype your first product up and spend oodles of money, and then the product isn't what people expected/wanted, then...boom. That's business. HG:L wasn't the worst game in the world, but it certainly wasn't anything...stellar. And I buy games that I think I might like .... since I never know if I really like it until I've actually played it. If the game is by a company that I'm familiar with and have liked some of their past games, that's a bonus and makes me more confident I will like the game, but nothing is ever certain. While I'm willing to try anything if there's a free trial or something, to see if I want to purchase, I don't buy games (or anything else) I don't want just to show moral support. Perhaps if I was richer I might, but I'm not, so I don't.

That bit leaped out at me too. I kept thinking he'd "jump" over there and we'd see scenes of him saving people from drowning where he could, or something. Later, I felt that they'd put it in there largely as a display of how completely narcissistic and oblivious the character was. I'm guessing if there was a sequel we'd start seeing him be a little more heroic, but I'd also guess a sequel is pretty unlikely. :D

Was it ever difficult? Today I was "forced" to return to the store to buy canned cat food, since I forgot to yesterday, and my cat has been yowling, puking up furballs, and clawing at my feet all last night and this morning in protest. Patience is not a kitty's virtue.