Review: King Kong
King Kong (2005) is an action movie. It’s a great action movie.
I don’t remember much from the original(although I DVR’d it Saturday night and I’ll watch it this week), but this version definitely stands well on its own.
The CGI is awesome. The action is breathtaking. The acting is as good as any Indiana Jones film. The comedic moments are genuinely funny. There were a few moments that I thought were TOO unbelievable and crossed the line. These moments were on the island. While they were happening, they bothered me. Now, though, they are cemented in my memories of the film and stand out as items on the timeline, helping me remember the incredible sequences that led up to them.
Sidebar: I’m playing, slowly, the King Kong XBox 360 video game. Great game, so far. It’s amazing how much it differs from the movie while still capturing a lot of its magic.
Murderball review (in hReview format)
Murderball is uplifting, irreverant, gritty, fun, etc..
Dec 19, 2005 by jtokash
Review Type: product
I felt guilty adding Murderball to my Netflix queue. As IMDB says, it is “a film about quadriplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs – overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.” It has exploitation written all over it, right?
I couldn’t have been more wrong. The movie is mostly honest and these players are leading incredibly rich, fun, colorful, athletic lives. And the movie was very informative about the game rules, training, etc.
On the negative side, I don’t think their presentation of Coach Joe was balanced(the faq session with him in the special features section is excellent, though). Also, I would really like more information about the dangers of the game – some of those hits were pretty rough.
Gregarius Changes
I made a few more changes to my Gregarius ‘frames’ theme. I also made a change to my installation of Gregarius that hides feeds with no unread items. That change is available as a patch. It is currently awaiting approval for inclusion in the main codebase.
This is the most streamlined my feed reading has ever been(well, it was more streamlined when I only watched 10 feeds).
Del.icio.us Outages – perfectly understandable
I started actively using del.icio.us last weekend. I’ve played around with it before, but I finally got in the habit(thanks to a Firefox context menu extension). The recent outages (today’s in particular) are driving me crazy. Mind you, it’s perfectly understandable for a free service to have these outages, but it’s perfectly understandable for the users to be frustrated. I’m just glad I moved my feed aggregation to a private install of Gregarius! Tomorrow’s 6 hour bloglines outage is going to bug a lot of people – understandably!
Blog layout/info changes…
I added this text to the header:
To subscribe to my blog in an aggregator, use this link. To subscribe to my bookmarks, use this link. The other blogs and feeds I watch are at this url.
I also added my XBox Live Gamercards and my 15 most recent del.icio.us bookmarks to my sidebar.
John Tokash 