Tomorrow marks the last day of year 2001 and it has been an interesting period.
I’m not going to discuss the grand world-shaking events, either you know them or you’re not interested, but rather I’m going to look back on this year for myself and what I had hoped to achieve. Continue reading
The last week has been both good and bad. It was a good christmas with my sweetie-wife surprising me with a couple of gifts I did not expect her to pick-up for me. (HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition & Ben-Hur 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray) I had good time with my sweetie-wife, friends and even squeezed in a decent movie on Christmas morning. (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. A good film but not a movie for you if you expect all your spy films to have lots of action, chases, and scantily clad babes.)
It’s been a bad week arthritis-wise. It started badly A week ago Monday and got progressively worse through the week. By the weekend my fingers hurt constantly and I could’t play the new video game I had received for Christmas. By Sunday night thanks to the weekly dosing of my meds, I was feeling better. However my fingers, stressed after a long hard day at work will not let me spend 90 minuets writing tonight. Which is a shame because I have finally figured out the plotting to my next short story, a story that is a commitment to my writer’s group project.
To everyone who stops by and checks out a ffew of this posts I wish you a Maryy Chirstmas and Happy Holidays for what flavor of winter Solitice you celebrate.
May love, luck, and happiness be yours.
Today was the forth anniversary of me and my sweetie-wife getting married. IT’s been a good four year and I can say that I am a happy mna.
So after a couple of years away, I have submitted another story to The Writers Of The Future Contest.
It’ll be about three months at the earliest before I hear anything. Luckily I have plenty of stories to work on while I wait.
So here is the return of my Sunday NIght Movie postings. Last night I booted up the PS3, logged into Netflix and started the next of my Bond Movie series, Diamonds Are Forever. This is a Bond film that I have never seen in its entirety. I can recall seeing bits and pieces of this movie on cable as I flipped through the channels, But I had never sat down and watched the film from front to finish. Now, it turns our that I had seen very little of this film and most of it was a total unknown to me, a very pleasant unknown I might add. Continue reading
Is that against all rational hope and expectations I am looking at this teaser for a trailer and really wanting to see this movie.
So I’ve been playing with the themes again for this blog. Any opinions on this look?
Last March one of my Sunday night Movies was The Wicker Man a film I have enjoyed since I saw it on HBO back in 1979. Now when I watched it last year it was the ‘director’s cut.’ In actuality I’m not sure if this represents the director’s true visions but I know it is the closest surviving print of that version. Sadly, the studio accidentally destroyed the negative this cut was made from a 1″ videotape duplicate, so the visuals suffer.
Late laste year or early this year I picked up the theatrical cut on DVD so that I could have all the bonus material. (the boxed set I had purchased seven or eight years ago came with two discs, one with teh bonus material and the theatrical cut and the second disc with this ‘director’s cut’, sadly only one disc worked.)
Of course I had to watch the theatrical cut in addition to the bonus materials.
I am so torn. In a perfect world there would be a high quality print with material from both cuts. I can’t honestly say if one is better than the other. Each stresses different points, and each omits scenes that I think are really really important.
(Ignore the fact that there was an American *ah hem* remake. That was pure garbage and ignored the themes of the film replacing them with its own misogynistic malevolence.)
I doubt that there are many fi any people reading my blog who has seen both, but if there are, do you have a preference and if so why?
What I am really excited about is next year….