Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Young Frankenstien

Not a bad film, this black and white comedy showcases some fantastic acting but some meh scenes. The original version was something like 4 hours long and you can still feel that it's not quite coheisive. Written as a homage to the original (with some of the same set hardware, like the lab!), it's more of a fun film with a side point that if people had been nicer maybe the original wouldn't have gone beserk.

I'd say a B+

Friday, June 5, 2009

YPF

So this is a film about people having sex. It's the greatest Canadian film ever, which I guess says something about the Canadian film industry. Not a bad film and something that a teenager could watch and learn from (the sex scenes where mostly realistic, people enjoying themselves but the inevitable awkwardness was real too). But no real plot or enlightenment so I'd say a B+ at most. Interesting but not something to really talk about later. I did like the bit about the Exes where he left his wine glass. Good stuff.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Dyson vacuum cleaners

Not a movie but good stuff none the less, I tried one of these a week ago for the first time and now I'm a true beliver. It's amazing to use a vacum cleaner that's made by an engineering company. It does not make your rug cleaner, it makes it clean. Good stuff.

Lois McMaster Bujold's "The Sharing Knife" series

Looks like there will be 4 books, although only the first 3 have been published so far, this series is both an excellent high fantasy story and one that presents some good examples of how to form healthy relationships, both stressing to never lie to your SO and the fact that if you can solve a problem generally you can dig down and solve what's causing the problem to be a problem. Very well done most of the time although I think at times you can tell the author gets bored and pays less attention to certain aspects of the book then she could.

Excellent series across the board, if you're looking for realistic high fantasy I really recommend it.