The Alamo (Actually more about Soundtracks)

I'm impressed by what kind of a difference music makes in a movie.

Thus far (I'm almost at the end, as the Mexicans have started their attack), the best scene has been what is essentially a duet between Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett and the Mexican Army Band. And the music that is accompanying the Mexican attack is quite good.

And the best scene of Equilibrium is not the multiple scenes of Christian Bale fucking people's shit up, but the scene with Beethoven's music and the Snow Globe. If you've seen the movie, you probably know what I'm talking about...

And I think the only reason I'd be compelled to buy 300 on DVD is because I thought the soundtrack was quite good... An interesting heavy metal type instrumental sound track for a more classical subject matter...

And now back to the movie. I thought it quite good that they included what seems to be an homage to the painting "The Fall of the Alamo", which is pretty much the only thing I knew about the Alamo prior to watching this movie, and reading the Wikipedia article.

Billy Bob Thornton is very good as David Crockett (apparently he prefers David to Davy). Defiant to the last. Dennis Quaid plays Sam Houston. Who I would have thought would have had a bigger role. But then again, I knew nothing about the battle of the Alamo. But he does have some fantastic side-burns... and a soul-patch to go with it... And you gotta figure he'd wear a cowboy hat. Being Texian and all (apparently they're called Texians, not Texans). But nope, you'd be wrong. He seems to enjoy rocking the Tri-cornered hat.

And now for what is apparently (according to Wikipedia) called the Battle of San Jacinto. Best strategy ever. Bring your forces in, bring in your cannons, and open up... and some dude just flying tackled some Mexican. Came flying from off screen and tackled the shit out of some guy...

And a nice reprise of Crockett playing the violin to end it...

Although it is hard to root against Santa Anna. He's got fantastic taste in hats... and clothes in general.

All in all, I think this was quite a good movie. Potentially one of the first good movies that I've reviewed in quite some time. A good amount of character drama, and building suspense, and then a little bit of action. I'd actually recommend watching it, and doing so is not preferable to punching yourself in the business.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Tonight's episode was quite good. I like the parallel between the reading of The Wizard of Oz, and the ambush of the Huge Terminator Guy.

And Derek Reese is pretty badass... hipshooting a .50 multiple times in rapid succession...

That's weird

It seems that when I do a draft of a post, and then come back to it, blogger puts the time stamp as when I started the draft, not when i finished...

so, there's a new post underneath the vice presidential debate blathering...

NYC: Tornado Terror

Something about tornadoes and super-storms and shit... in New York.

And they end it by saying that the storm is moving east and dissipating. At which point my brother made a comment "And the storm is moving over Europe, and no one cares".

The final scene was set in Paris, with all the hallmarks of the super-storm showing up. And the final shot was a freeze frame of a poodle staring into the wind looking rather strange...

The Legend of Earthsea

Um, something about Iceman being a wizard... and earth and see, presumably...

apparently Iceman released some sort of evil being because of a quarrel with a fellow school-mate... and no one knows its name, so therefore no one has power over it... I imagine that'll be remedied in the second half...

and now Danny Glover just gave him a pimp-cane

funniest scene thus far: really old lady casting fireballs with an old-lady-angry-face...

And Mr. Talmedge from 7 Days just got knifed in the chest when the bad guy knifed him through the chest... the traitor who let them in the castle was the school-mate who was feuding with Iceman. Predictably...

And Vincent from Eureka is Iceman's wizard friend.

And the dragon seems to have a lisp.

And the bad guy was "the darkness that was inside" Iceman... and now he's absorbed it... so, he's probably gonna start kicking ass sometime soon... hopefully....

but he seems to have only aided in the release of all the ugly bat critters... and then they reunited the amulet bits together... and accomplished something... whatever that might be...

Vice Presidential Debate

Joe Biden vs. Sarah Palin...

This should be interesting... I'm not expecting too much from either of them... we'll see... Although, I must say, they are the 2 people I most would like to see in HD... oh wait...

I'm impressed by how much Sarah Palin looks like Tina Fey... and thus starts the nicknames...

And again, as when I was watching the Presidential debate, the sound was slightly off synch with the picture... and then i changed the channel, and it was fixed... i started off with a different channel this time, and ran into the same issue. and the same solution fixed it...

There's a lot of discussion about Lumpy... Tina Fey keeps talking about what he's been up to lately, and Oldy McWeirdcolors McSquintyeyes keeps referring to him as well... I suppose they're just running mates, so there'll probably be a lot of reference to the candidates...

Oh, now we're talking about Militia... and about all the taxes he's raised...

Tina Fey just talked to "Government" by referring to it as such...

Just FYI, I have the attention span of... uh... some one with a short attention span... so you likely won't get any sort of meaningful political crapulence out of this blog... it'll be a list of things that amuse me...

Oldy just refered to Lumpy as Militia... how's that for confusing?

And neither of them are actually answering the questions that are being asked.. and the moderator just called them out on it...

Oh wait... i was watching the debate and blogging... that's what i should have been doing...

GAH!!! Stop saying Nukular... At least Oldy pronounces it right.

Sarah Palin seems to have prepared a few talking points before the debate. She keeps trying to steer the debate to these topics, even if they're only slightly related to what the rest of the discussion is about...

And apparently someone from Bosnia is a Bosniac... that's pretty sweet...

I've had quite enough of this... I'm tired, and being to ADD to actually figure out what the hell is going on...

So, to conclude:

Who won this debate?

That would be me. Because I'm not wearing any pants...

and now I have to go pee...


For reference:
Militia = Barack Obama
Lumpy = John McCain
Tina Fey = Sarah Palin
Oldy McWeirdcolors McSquintyeyes = Joe Biden

FYI

Where Eagles Dare

Didn't watch this one because of Stargate. Iron Maiden instead...

Anyways, Clint Eastwood MP40s a lot of Krauts...