Month: July 2002

Posts as and when.

I think Spielberg’s broken.

Ok, so I’ve just checked out a preview of Minority Report. I wasn’t sure what to expect of it, I had not heard anything really good about the movie and considering the last movie that Spielberg made (A.I.) I was kinda wary. The story was by Philip K. Dick and I have a very high opinion of Colin Farrell were the plus points.

Concept is not bad at all, the ideas behind it could have been used to make a really good movie and this appears to be what is going to happen. The setup works well, nice and simple but it gets everything across and when the story kicks off it works for the first hour or so. The pace is way off (just like A.I.) and when the film finally leads to the climax or at least what you expect to be the climax it is in fact not and continues on needlessly for another 45 minutes or so. The entire downward spiral a movie that so far was allright can be pointed to exactly at the moment he says “if you kill me, my family don’t get anything”. Had the vision of the murder simply come to be I would have left happy enough I had seen a decent movie. No setup, no nothing just a simple payoff of a concept.

Colin Farrell was solid for sure but his entire character made no sense, one moment he is investigating Pre-Crime for flaws, next minute he is having a punch up with Tom Cruise’s character and then he is solving crimes…hmmm

More tomorrow, I gotta go pack.

I have quite a few things I want to talk about, I just don’t feel I can talk about them here, or rather it would not really be appropriate. I am so looking forward to a week off so I don’t have to worry about crap like that.

Going to go see a preview of Minority Report tonight then home to pack.

The headline Man speared in head survives just made me have to read more and that was the picture that greeted me. Wow… story at CNN.

Wimbeldon + Roadworks + London Traffic = 65 minutes to cover 3 miles = Dave late

I hate this country.

Work has been better, a project is getting quite frustrating and I would really like to get some stuff solved before going away for a week but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to. I hate that.

My Artbomb order is so far so good. Dumped by Andi Watson was really enjoyable and I’m really enjoying making my way through Box Office Posion by Alex Robinson. Picked up James Bond for my GameCube today…less than impressed so far way way way too simple.

THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself this week with a “long-awaited” definitive speech on Middle East policies that stretched even the weirdest imaginations.
Daily Telegraph

and just because I wanted to know
$365,750,000

I went to the pub for lunch with my team this afternoon, we had some stuff to talk about and it usually works better for us to be out of the office. I don’t normally pay way too much attention to the news. I check headlines once an hour or so when I’m in work because I can and it is fairly easy to type in keyword News and off I go. So this morning I knew there had been a plane crash and it was in Germany. It didn’t really mean anything to me. Ya know shit happens. So as we sat down to wait for our food in the pub I noticed there was one of the afternoon papers lying on the bar. It had the plane crash on the front page with the fact that 52 children were killed in it in big bold letters. That kinda changed things, it was just a bad feeling.

In other news as regular readers and work folk will know, I’m quite bitter over a certain work project that was a huge success but never acknowledged. I’ve felt very hard done by in many ways over the entire incident. I don’t know how I feel anymore. I received a piece of information as gossip last week that kinda stunned me and had it confirmed yesterday. It’s one of those things that just blew me away. I have no idea what I feel now. I have a very hard time feeling bitter, there is a sense of achievement of major fucking achievement and awe, a hell of a lot of awe, some shock (by some I mean a hell of a lot but I didn’t want to repeat the phrase) and a little pride.

I knew it was a big deal but my god that’s some big deal. I really wish I had heard the news properly and not from someone down the pub. Don’t get me wrong I am glad I was told but fuck a meeting or a face to face with someone involved with those details would have just been stunning. Selfish I know but fuck I think I’m more than entitled to it especially considering the end result.

I should stop there.