Saw Minority Report over the weekend and quite enjoyed it, although [Spoilers:] the last twenty minutes or so almost completely derailed the film (a la the Saving Private Ryan bookends.) Then again, I liked it better once I read the AICN talkback hypothesis that, as in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, everything that happens after Anderton is “halo’ed” is his dream sequence, as foreshadowed by creepy-as-all-git-out Tim Blake Nelson’s soliloquy to that effect. Since that’s the exact scene after which the film began to smell, I much prefer this alternative. At any rate, I’m going to have to view it again to see if it holds up. I hope so.
Month: June 2002
Maybe in 2006.
As everyone knows, England and the US went down together in World Cup action Friday. A very disappointing evening, although at least we Yanks can hold our heads high (unlike the ’98 fiasco.) I’d say it’s Brazil’s to lose at this point, although South Korea is clearly exhibiting great mojo this Cup. In other sporting news, the NBA draft is on Wednesday, which along with the final four Cup games should proved oases of sporting excitement amid another long baseball summer. Ah well, at least there’s always the MLS.
Hardly Extinct.
Australia counts among its citizens approximately 250,000 Jedi, despite its being an “inadequately described” religion. I wonder how they’re all dealing with this most recent crisis of faith.
From Cosmo to Cosmos.
Cindy Crawford ponders edging out Lance Bass as Space Tourist #3.
Struggle in the Ivy.
Are Harvard and Princeton hurting Afro-Am scholarship in their contest over Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West? Hmmm…I don’t really buy it. In my opinion, virtually all the academic disciplines are star-driven with regard to employment. And, while Diaspora Studies may indeed be the most interesting locus of scholarship in this field right now, Gates and West are performing an equally important function in their roles as public intellectuals…a role all too many academics have forsaken. In related news, assorted neocons have used the Summers fracas to blacklist Cornel West. Just like good little orthodoxy-craving neocons to flee at the sound of intelligent opposition, no?
Corporate Malfeasance.
Frank Rich wonders aloud if all the recent hem-hawing about the Watergate anniversary might be better spent monitoring today’s Imperial Executives. (Thanks, Tim.)
Severe Browser Issues.
I’ve just discovered this site looks absolutely afflicted to anyone using Netscape, Mozilla, or any browser outside the IE family. I’m sure this is a problem with my lousy coding, but have no clue how to fix it. Anyone have any ideas? Update: Ah, BMK of Bump on a Log figured it out…the sitemeter code was playing havoc with Netscape while it was nested in the sidebar table. Now that it’s been moved to the bottom of the page, the situation has resolved itself. Strange.
Trailer Smorgasbord.
New teasers and trailers abound this past weekend, including the ones for Daredevil (I dunno…looks goofy. We’ll see.), xXx (looks more fun than any Bond movie I’ve seen in the past ten years), Goldmember (a bit long in the tooth, Michael Caine notwithstanding), and the Soderbergh/Cameron Solaris remake (I have very, very high hopes for this one.)
A Veritable Medley.
Happy third Blogday to Medley, who’s gone on hiatus to celebrate.
Ralph Fiennes needs a hit!
As does Emily Watson, Ed Norton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, etc. etc. The trailer for Red Dragon is now up, and it basically confirms my fears from yesterday’s post. A-list talent, B-list film…and Sir Anthony may even end up out-hamming his performance from Hannibal.