the darkerside to rants

Watched this the other day, and here is the scene that made this movie world famous:

An interesting documentary about hoarders:

Who’d though…. I have never seen it, but the documentary is interesting:

Outside of me having the new tradition of having a cold over Christmas and New Years (or a concussions) for the last three years, the BBC also has the tradition of a new Doctor Who Adventure (story summary), and actually they have expanded it, from an hour long to an hour and a half long one.

This years episode was…. Bizarre, while the new series is rather slick in it’s execution most of the time, this year I found it rather campy, the “ship” had the good old “Doctor Who” feeling to it, meaning you knew it wasn’t what it claimed to be and didn’t really try to hide it either. I suspect Russel T. Davis will hate me for making this observation, but I actually enjoyed it. As much as I enjoy the “new slickness” that the re-imagined Doctor Who has brought (much like the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica), it was nice to see that they still have to use the art of story telling to cover up a low budget.

Happy Holidays.

… Hollywood that is. The New York Times has an article on the cost of digital film preservation, who knows, maybe all the crappy sequels that the Studios produce right now will never be seen by our grandchildren…. Yes, I am trying to find the positive in the negative here.

The problem became public, but just barely, last month, when the science and technology council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the results of a yearlong study of digital archiving in the movie business. Titled “The Digital Dilemma,” the council’s report surfaced just as Hollywood’s writers began their walkout. Busy walking, or dodging, the picket lines, industry types largely missed the report’s startling bottom line: To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.

Much worse, to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault.

Watched it today… Now you go and watch it too…

Jesus Camp is a documentary about…. well a Jesus Camp I guess is the best analogy.

Someone posted it in parts on YouTube, all the episodes are linked here. Go get them before they’re taken down.

Here’s the Trailer

Watched it yesterday and…. Well it was okay. I had read the book when it first came out and compared to that the movie is rather week.

If it was intended as a teaser for the book it works, but that’s not how it seems. Bummer really, they tried this crossover between documentary and drama and it just didn’t work. They should have turned it either into a biting satire or a documentary. But the way it was it didn’t work.

Oh boy. I didn’t expect a lot, but this was really lower than low. Think Pearl Harbor low.

Sad really, it had some potential to be fun, but in the end it was just a scam. Or maybe it’s just me, being a history and airplane buff and all that.

Oh well. I am sure they’ll make their money back.