May 04 2006

admit that the waters around you have grown

Published by Fence under Irishify, Moving Pictures, TV

Alien: the director’s cut was on Sky One last night[1] although I couldn’t really tell you what the difference is between that and the theatrical release as I haven’t seen it in a while. And I missed the first half cause I didn’t know it was on.

It is still a good film, still makes you jump, but aren’t those special effects really noticeable. And the cutting between fake robot Ash and real actor Ash were very obvious.

Although, that didn’t really detract from the film[2] Not the way the ropey cgi in Narnia did. Possibly because the effects were very much secondary[3] to the story. Even the alien didn’t look all that great, and in comparison to a lot of films today, the ending wasn’t very climactic was it?

There are posters up all over town with pictures of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and underneath a sentence reads “murdered by British Imperialists”. Makes me want to print off a picture of Michael Collins with the line murdered by betrayers of the Irish Republic[4]

Course he wasn’t, he was killed in military action. And the leaders of the 1916 Rising weren’t murdered either. They were executed for a failed uprising against the government of the time. Semantics?

Work is busy busy busy. Loads of students around, and quite a few of the lecturers are cleaning out their offices before summer and bringing down donations[5] for the library. I’ve two rather large piles of books to be added to the catalogue. But because it is exam time the students who work in the library are on reduced hours, understandably, and so I don’t have that much time away from the desk.

I’m probably way behind on my paperwork too[6]

Linknotes:
  1. with surprisingly few ad breaks. Do Sky show less when it is a film? ↩
  2. not like Jar-Jar ↩
  3. see previous mention of a certain prequel trilogy ↩
  4. - course it wasn’t a republic back then, but *shrug* ↩
  5. and very late returns ↩
  6. - is there a more stereotypical complaint in the world? ↩
Tags: 1916 Rising, Alien, Alien: the director's cut, Director's edition, irish history, Michael Collins, Sky One

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Apr 26 2006

Why does my spell check think that im typing welsh

Published by Fence under TV

During the final ad break of last night’s BSG a promo for Sky’s 10 o’clock news came on. It had one headline. Do you know what that was?[1] The main news story was that Tom Cruise was going to…[2] shock horror, a film premiere. And not just any première, but one for Mission Impossible III, a film he starred in.

Now I can easily see that making the news, after all entertainment is news nowadays, but for it to be the headline event?

Was yesterday a slow news day? Couldn’t they have come up with anything better? A cat stuck up a tree’d make for a more interesting story if you ask me.

And, speaking of animal rescues[3] a new programme all about the various SPCAs started last night. And one of the people being investigated was this old fella living in the middle of Connemara. He was just a typical auld lad, turf fire, couple of dogs and cats, sheep farmer. These sorts of bachelor farmers were pretty much gone at this stage, but he was still there, “walking 5 mile upa mountain” every day. Yer wan from the Galway SPCA[ took two of his dogs off him. He wasn’t really abusing them or anything, just underfeeding them, one tin of dog food between two working sheep dogs and a puppy doesn’t go far. But she left him the puppy, on the understanding that it’d be fed properly.

Oh, and don’t get too used to the current theme, because I’m thinking of going red in support of Munster in the lead up to the final on May 20th. It may not happen, we’ll see.

And seeing as I mentioned BSG, I’m a bit undecided about this season. there is so much that’s really great about this show, but they have these annoying habits. First off there is the slightly over-done documentary style. They just seem to over use it a tad, and for no realy purpose. Then there is the flashbacks, again, over-used. And now they seem to be Show Spoilers ▼

but it seems like they find a way of doing something, a way that is sometimes excellent, and then over do it to death.

And while I’m talking about tv I may as well mention Lost. We had a good episode on Monday. I know. I’m shocked too. things happened. The story progressed. Yes there were flashbacks but not silly pointless ones. And Show Spoilers ▼

course they’ll probably ruin this by recapping and doing nothing for the next five weeks.

Linknotes:
  1. you probably do if you were watching, but how many of you were ↩
  2. dots are pronounced dun. Now, say it out loud. See ↩
  3. segue, segue ↩
Tags: BSG, Lost, Sky One

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