I think this review of the Da Vinci Code clearly states the reasons I thought that it wasn't that great a movie. Which is a pity -- I think it would be good if there were some good conspiracy films out there. Why can't we get a Conspiracy Theory or X-Files with Templars and Illuminati and stuff? Is it just that Black Hellicopters and Alien Abductions just more mainstream and part of popular culture than the Thule-Gesellschaft or the Golden Dawn society? Am I the only one hanging out for a good cinematic version of Foucalt's Pendulum? :)
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So, I went to the panelbeaters yesterday to deal with the learner driver's little run-in with me. The good news? The replacement indicator will only cost $65, including the freight. The bad news? Repairing the dent and repainting will be about $180. I figured I may as well get the hubcaps repainted; so with the labour and stuff, it's going to be a bit more than $360, all up... hoorah, I guess.
And I don't have my car until it's done. Luckily, I got a ride home yesterday, and the bus came about five minutes after I arrived at the bus-stop this morning; long may this trend continue.
Oh well. At least I like my car. :)
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I posted about the photo-documentary that someone from Weta did about a mainly Weta team on our forum. Or rather, I thought I did; and then it turned out that I'd just written a rather cryptic note, with no link.
I've fixed that, but, in case people missed it you can have a look at this site to get a feel for another team's approach -- the photographer has made a quicktime movie using the photos he took on the day, and sound he recorded at the time. Pretty nifty.
Also nifty, in a "my brain hurts" kind of way, is an applet that lets you play with a 4D Rubick's cube. And a different kind of brain hurting is provided, yet again, by what appears to be a Japanese gameshow set in a library, where such feats of endurance as "Bad Smell Air", "Hitted Hip" and the ultimate "Old Man Bites Tenderly" must be endured with just enough quiet sniggering to really annoy anyone who is trying to use the library. On the other hand, does anyone whose culture has Rodney Hide on Dancing With The Stars have any sort of high ground to judge from?
Now, if we could get Rodney Hide in front of a slapping machine... :)
Posted by svend at June 8, 2006 9:12 AMI don't think Foucault's Pendulum would be a very good movie because it's too good a book. Same reason I see no call for a Watchmen movie.
On the other hand, I agree, a really big conspiracy movie going back to the olden days of skullduggery and nefariousness would be nice. For instance, The Invisibles, ending somewhere before the American chapter anyway. Oh no wait those naughty Wachowskis done gone and stole that movie...