Author: Greg
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Mission: Impossible III
One of the joys (and believe me there aren’t as many as you would believe) of being, well let’s just say, in a state of flux between employers, is the ability to just go and do things at a moments notice. Like today for instance, I had nothing to do so I went to see Mission: Impossible III. I knew Robyn wouldn’t want to see this as she has no love for Tom Cruise, so it was a guilt free excursion…
Now, first things first, this follows the same formula as the previous Mission: Impossibles.
- Ethan is sent on an easy mission
- Easy mission is partially successful
- Ethan uncovers the real bad guy
- Bad guy uncovers Ethan
- Bad guy kidnaps Ethans love interest
- Ethan makes a trade with bad guy involving some disasterous secret weapon for his girl
- Trade goes south, Ethan gets his ass kicked by bad guy and just when the situation is at it’s most grim, he triumphs, saves the girl, kills the bad guy and makes sure secret deadly weapon is still safe
- America, Fuck Yeah!
That’s it, sorry if I spoiled it, but if you’ve seen M:I or M:I-2 you knew it was coming. That said, it was a pretty enjoyable action movie, the usual mix of action sequences, insane stunts and plot twists to keep just about everyone happy. I have to say, it was strange seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman as the bad guy, cause the main thing running through my head was “holy shit! Truman Capote is kicking Tom Cruise’s ASS!!!”
Another good thing about it is, it rings in the Summer blockbuster period, bring on Superman Returns, X-Men 3, Pirates of the Carribean and, of course, the much anticipated Snakes on a Plane.
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Mike Metzger Nails a Backflip Over Caesars Palace Fountains
Mike Metzger broke the world record for longest motorcycle backflip Thursday, flying 125 feet over the fountains at Caesars Palace and becoming only the second person to clear the pool on two wheels. The jump, aired live on ESPN, was made legendary when motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel suffered a 29-day coma crashing on a New Year’s Eve 1967 attempt with no backflip.
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Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy
The original unaltered Star Wars Trilogy is to be released on DVD this September. Yay for no dodgy Jabba scene, Han shooting first and an assortment of bad special effects (orange blob under Luke’s speeder anyone?). Just like the old days…
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Superman Returns Trailer
Superman Returns Trailer. A little insight about the plot, a lot of Lex Luthor, some cool flying scenes and a whole heap of “OMG, this is gonna be AWESOME” (my reaction).
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8 Bit Legend
Thanks to Seth, it’s another fun quiz…
I would have done so much better if it wasn’t for (old) school errors, like mistaking Ninja Gaiden for Shinobi…
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AT&T Plans to Kill Cingular Brand
AT&T plans to kill Cingular brand. So, let me get this straight, AT&T broke up into the baby bells and thus Bellsouth was formed, Bellsouth Mobility formed as the cellular/paging arm of Bellsouth, Bellsouth Mobility got renamed to Cingular when Bellsouth Mobility merged with Southwestern Bell (SBC) Wireless, AT&T wireless was taken over and merged into the Cingular brand owned by SBC and Bellsouth, SBC takes over AT&T in a weird child buys out the parent deal to become the new AT&T, meanwhile Bellsouth and the new AT&T are possibly combining to become AT&T all over again thus Cingular is becoming AT&T again… Its no wonder the US telecom industry is confusing.
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Turner “Classic” Movies
In what must be one of the ballsiest moves in recent memory (or the sign of an imminemt implosion in the Turner/Time Warner world) Turner Classic Movies are showing the “classic” Birth of a Nation film tonight at 8pm as part of their Race & Hollywood series…
Sure they sugar coat it in the description.
Families from the North and the South fight to survive the Civil War and its aftermath.
But everyone knows it’s quite possibly the most notorious movie ever made… Put it this way, after being inspired by the movie, a group of Atlanta men climbed Stone Mountain one night and reconstituted the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan also used it as a recruiting tool.
The funniest part of it is, the Race & Hollywood series is 37 movies ranging from Birth of a Nation through to Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus. Turner originally wanted it to be 38 movies by adding in Disney’s Song of the South, but the studio has withdrawn it from exhibition, apparently Disney doesn’t want to acknowledge it ever made that movie.
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The Web Design Trend Obituary
The web design trend obituary. Whats not hot in the design world? Gradients, low contrast, small fonts and shinyness to name a few…
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The View from 1,768 Feet
As well as rearragning the layout of our small one bedroom condo, we’ve also been going through our extensive photograph collection to find prints to, well, print and frame and hang on the walls. Alas years and years of shooting on web format (640×480) has bitten me on the ass, so since mid-October we’ve been shooting in much higher resolution.
So today I decided to go downtown and reshoot some shots I had previously taken and thanks to the advise of the Atlanta Flickr group, I ended up going to the 74th floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza, the second tallest hotel in the world no less, and taking shots of the awe inspiring and bowel loosening view.
Now I hate heights, so the express glass elevator on the way up really set me off, luckily the public viewing platforms on the inside are actually set back from the glass. One day soon I’ll head back up there, I imagine it’s a great view at dusk/night time.
Originally uploaded by FLC.
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Love is the Truth
Just for you Duane, here’s the music from the Coke advert mentioned previously…
Jack White – Love is the Truth -
Awesome Coke Advert
An awesome little Coke advert. I have to say, this is very well done…
