The Blood of Heroes
Posted on September 10, 2006 | Filed Under Celluloid
It’s been years since I’d seen this movie. After tonight it won’t be another 15 years before I see it again. On a whim I added this a while ago to my netflix queue and it came yesterday. I convinced my wife to sit down and watch it with me and I gotta tell ya, not only did it take me back to the halycon college years of all night gaming sessions and taco bell runs, it made me remember what I like about movies.
The plot is simple, a group of juggers in a post-apacolyptic world journey to the ‘nine cities’ to join a skull match in the arena and make a name for themselves. But the movie is all good. Debuts by Joan Chen and a young Vincent D’Nofrio (a huge favorite actor of mine) and a phenomenal performance by the every evocative Rutger Hauer make this movie a pulse pounding, hard as nails film. With homages to Mad Max and Rollerball this movie doesn’t just borrow from its sources, it takes them and runs with them.
I love this movie. I’m going to find me a copy of this movie and own it. I just hope I can get it in widescreen rather than pan-and-cram.
Excellent must see movie for anyone who is a fan of sci-fi genre films.
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Comps or How I Learned to Drop the Bomb
Posted on September 10, 2006 | Filed Under Life in NC
I take my comprehensive finals this Friday.
The word “UGH” has played a great part in my vocabulary these last few months.
Four questions. Six hours.
Fail one or two and re-write or do an oral over the next few months. Fail more than two and take the whole thing over again in December.
Fail in December and you’re gone.
Nothing like pressure to help someone appreciate the small things in life. Then again, it certainly isn’t the end of the world no matter what happens. The future is still out there and regardless of how this ends, I have learned a great deal.
Still, it’d be nice to wake up Friday morning, eat my breakfast, go for a run and not feel like a great big gorilla made a decision to do a tap dance on your gut.
BOOM!
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Breaking (or Bending) the Rules
Posted on September 3, 2006 | Filed Under Gaming
I wish to start my making a proclamation that all of this is primarily Jonathan Walton’s fault. Blame him for everything I am about to say that has been done before and yet I remain ignorant of it.
I also wish to state that the above paragraph is a lie, bald faced that is, and that it’s my own hyperactive brain that thinks “look it me, I’ll invent a brand new idea!†and yet, anyone who reads this I beg you to free me from this absurd notion and point out places in the fringe that have surely already come up with these ideas and moved on to other things.
During our gaming session last night, near the end, things had really begun to roll (no pun intended) nicely. The story was moving along wonderfully, all of the player’s imaginations seemed to be captured by everything that was being unveiled. The key point that jumpstarted this topic was the fact that nearly half of what began to come out of my mouth was utterly on the fly and completely startling (in a enthusiastically enjoyable way) to me. Developments in the story just seemed to take on their own life. For now, and for the sake of this writing, we’ll give this specific environment of role-playing a nifty new name, like, um, invivo (we can talk about my pretentiousness another time.) Read more
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