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For 106 minutes, Steven Spielberg’s 116-minute adaptation of The War of the Worlds is scary, exciting, depressing… captivating, even. The film effectively deals with a post-September 11th world and never feels as hokey as disaster films (and Spielberg films, for that matter) can. Before it reached its conclusion, I was envisioning a 3½-star rating appearing on this site. By the time I left the theatre, I was formulating my 2-star review.
I had read of concerns about the film’s ending on the internet. But, I knew that the source material has a somewhat anti-climactic ending which serves to further one of the novel’s main themes. My hope was that Spielberg’s (and David Koepp’s) faithfulness to Wells’s novel (and its central theme) was what was frustrating a number of moviegoers. In truth, Spielberg and Koepp use H.G. Wells’s words to make their own pompous, saccharin, shallow point. And their bastardization of those words is plainly offensive.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
You have to read what Fox News had to say about the London bombings…
0 Comments Published by grey July 9th, 2005 in postsfrom Guardian Unlimited:
Fox News slammed over ‘callous’ line
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Guardian
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bombs.
Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the channel’s Washington managing editor, said: “Just on a […]
from Guardian Unlimited:
Canada approves gay marriage
Associated Press
Wednesday June 29, 2005
Canada last night became the third country in the world to approve gay marriages when MPs passed a historic bill granting same-sex couples equal rights to those in traditional marriages.
The bill was passed by the Canadian House of Commons despite strong opposition from religious leaders and […]
There are inherently problems with this movie. First, Lucas wrote it. Here’s a bit of dialogue:
Anakin: You are so… beautiful.
Amidala: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
Wow. Second, Lucas directed it. There are long passages during the lightsaber duels where nothing happens because these people are all Jedis or Sith or whatever and they’re all too good with the lightsabers to really hurt each other. Zzzzzz…
Third, it’s the sixth movie in a series. Some stuff just gets old. Are you like me, are you sick of all of the original trilogy main characters making cameos every five minutes? (I am so glad that a young Han didn’t show up on the Wookiee planet.) Are you like me, are you sick of every single sentence which Yoda utters being of some painful mixed construction? If just every once in a while we could have a nice noun, verb sentence to break them up… That being said, he does have one great line:
Continue reading ‘Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)’
Okay, kids, so, the big news: we’re buying a house. It’s located at 69 Hughes Street in East Haven (ugh—it seems that all the things that make East Haven the armpit of the east coast also work to make it a cost effective place to buy a house… dammit—it’s okay, though, ’cause we’re gonna […]
The Directors Label returns on September 13th 2005 with simultaneous releases from four more of the world’s most acclaimed directors: Mark Romanek, Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer & Stéphane Sednaoui, once again produced by Richard Brown for Palm Pictures.
Palm Pictures launched the directors label in October 2003 with a groundbreaking format showcasing the individual creative talents […]
69 Hughes Street, baby, 69 Hughes Street.
What a day. More later.
Four point oh, baby, four point oh.
More later.
‘Queer Eye’ Is an Eye-Opener for Students, Study Shows
0 Comments Published by grey April 18th, 2005 in postsfrom IMDb.com’s Studio Briefing:
University of Minnesota researchers have concluded that TV shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will & Grace, and Six Feet Under have had the effect of reducing prejudice against homosexuals among viewers. Some 150 students participated in the study, conducted by communications professors Edward Schiappa and Dean Hewes and graduate […]
Okay, a couple quick things:
1. The Yankees freaking stink. I guess that’s pretty apparent, however.
2. Gary Sheffield should a.) have been ejected from that game in Boston and b.) definitely be suspended. It appears as though neither of those things are going to happen, however. Here’s the thing: Sheffield’s job in that […]
That’s it.
That’s the spirit.
Thank you for your honesty.
Now fuck off and die,
You fucked up slag.
Okay, tonight was the live draft. Eight teams in the league this year. Small leagues make for tougher competition.
Here’re the 21 players on the preseason Scottish Bugs roster:
C J. Varitek, BOS
1B J. Thome, PHI
2B J. Kent, LAD
3B D. Wright, NYM
SS K. Matsui, NYM
OF B. Abreu, PHI
OF J. Edmonds, StL
OF C. Lee, MIL
OF B. […]
Our driveway being plowed at 4:20am on Thursday.
Unless you can afford to pay someone to plow, don’t buy a house…
Okay, here’s the thing: Easter is not a real holiday. It just isn’t. I could leave it at that, but, just for fun, let’s prove the theorem…
First, we’ll need to establish the criteria by which real holidays distinguish themselves from the others. Here are the three I’ve come up with:
1. The holiday […]
I thought it might be semi-interesting to post the photo from which our header image was snipped:
That’s Ruben James, the most photogenic of our fish.
Okay, kids, here it finally is. This site has been aching for the assistance of a content management system for, literally, years longer than there has been such a thing. So, now it has one.
Welcome, officially, to greybean.com v4.5 lite. I’m leaving the ‘lite’ moniker attached despite the fact that this site […]
Read this article from MSNBC.com:
Calif. judge strikes down gay marriage ban
Ruling says there is ‘no rational purpose’ for limiting unions
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET March 14, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Monday that California can no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman, a legal milestone that if upheld on […]
As you may have seen, the cover art for Criterion’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou DVDs hit the internet this week, and I found myself terribly disappointed with it. And that got me thinking about just how good Criterion’s covers always are.
The Criterion Collection covers are consistently hands down the best in the industry. […]
All right… So, welcome to the new, much stripped-down greybean.com: version 4.0 lite. You’ll notice a few things. First, this is the only real page of the site. As I put together other pages (a page of photos and some downloadables’ll probably first, if anything ever is), I’ll add them. You’ll also notice that the, […]
Okay, here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened since my last update: 1. I started school full-time at Paier College of Art in Hamden, 2. I quit my job (sort of), 3. my dad’s been in and out of the hospital (he’s out right now), 4. I got married (twice) and 5. I had my […]
It poured on Monday, by the way.
Updated most of the sidebar menu option dealies over there —->. Check ‘em out.
As if to make up for the last two weeks, it’s a Monday night and it just started pouring while I was taking out the trash.
Updates have been made to the ‘recent views’ and ’scottish bugs’ sections to the right. Also, check out trailers for Open Water and Danny Deckchair (which are showing before Fahrenheit […]
I have a few movie trailers for you: Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator is an early favorite for this year’s Xmas movie. The Hunting of the President definitely looks like an interesting documentary that I’m gonna want to see once I get into Bill Clinton’s My Life (which hits stores next Tuesday). And there’s a new […]
This might be two Monday nights in a row without rain. I haven’t gone out there yet, though, so I could be wrong. It did rain this morning, however.
A couple things: 1. Ocean’s Twelve has a website and a teaser trailer (if you can call it that). The teaser has a pretty awesome look to […]
Quickly: it’s Monday night and it didn’t rain. Whoa.
I just added the ‘future stimuli’ section in the menu on the right. Check it out.
Three quick bits of info:
1. A day after I picked him up for the ‘Bugs, Anaheim relief pitcher Francisco Rodríguez gave up more runs (3) than he had the entire season to date (2) while blowing both the hold and the save and earning the loss against the Indians tonight. Incredible.
2. Have you guys seen […]
Some quick ‘Bugs updates: we went 5-4-1 last week against Elliott’s team, the Juiced Team Heros (sic). That’s three weeks in a row with a 5-4-1 record. But, the tough part of the schedule is now over. I’ve made a couple moves in the last week and a half as well: Mark Bellhorn has come […]
I really don’t even need to say this anymore. It’s Monday. It rained.
Rained on us for three hours or so at the Cutters’ home-opener, in fact. In case you care, the New Haven County Cutters are the new team playing at Yale Field this year. Filling the vacancy left by the departed New Haven Ravens, […]
Can I just mention that it’s Monday night and it rained?? With thunder and lightning, no less.
Also, I should mention for those of you who are paying attention (and who exactly is that, by the way?) that my fantasy baseball team, the Scottish Bugs, completed its first trade this past Sunday. Silvestre’s Team received Atlanta […]