Month: May 2008

[chuckle] The first Starship Troopers is a work of art but it is very definitely a Paul Verhoeven film, with all that the tag entails. It’s similar yet very different to the Heinlein book, you’d need to see it to know how. The second Starship Troopers is eminently missable.

Daniel Dae Kim did ok in Andromeda Strain – they put a little more in than was there in the old film, still wondering if it added or blurred.

PS I have a really old copy of Starship Troopers – it’s kinda quaint having to turn the disc over halfway through !

I would watch Robert Downey Jr. read the phone book. I reckon I’d even pay for the privilege. Funny, but movies like this usually aren’t my thing. But get an actor like him in one and I’ll be there in a heartbeat. Thanks for the reco. On my way…

Come to think of it, you’ve reminded me that I never got arould to seeing Starship Troopers. I’ll need to rectify that soon.

Been getting through the movies this weekend 🙂 As well as watching cricket and a bit more World of Warcraft (in moderation).

The big one of the weekend was :

Awesome film, they did a really good job with one of the more “real” seeming superhero types. Robert Downey Jr is outstanding in the lead role, with his Tony Stark being an eccentric oddball with quirky sense of humour. It was fun, which is what entertainment is supposed to be. Gwyneth Paltrow was up to her usual high standards too as Miss Pepper Potts.

What else have I watched ? Ok – long list time. There’s Starship Troopers off dvd, ahead of watching Starship Troopers 2 which was on sci-fi channel yesterday. I like the first film, it’s a decent interpretation of the book, while putting its own spin on things. It’s got me wanting to read the original Heinlein book again 🙂 The second is a major letdown though, no surprise that it bombed. The black humour of the first just isn’t there.

Also been watching Mission To Mars, which was better than I expected. However, I think the other Mars film that came out that year is better and not just because Red Planet had a shower scene with Carrie Ann Moss 🙂 Not seen Red Planet for a while, must do so to remind myself how they dealt with the spacecraft engineering. Space travel has always fascinated me and the near future sci-fi films set around space usually have a decent science/engineering background in how they set up their disaster situations.

It’s now the latest adaptation of The Andromeda Strain, which so far is following the model of the first albeit with the characters switched around a little. The epileptic doctor is now Daniel Dae Kim, now playing geek mode. After seeing his stronger, athletic characters, the contrast will be interesting.

The dinner bell just went off, so I gotta retrieve the charcoal from the oven. If you’re interested in sci-fi movies and haven’t seen Iron Man yet, Go For It !!!!

[biggrin] D&D is good fun, much better playing it socially than playing it on the computer. Shame my cleric ended up as a troll’s dinner but I’ll have to make her live on when I eventually got the first few chapters out on my stories blog 🙂 The story’s just in my head at the moment.

Living in the south west here – Bristol – Severn Estuary area, not bad here – little expensive though.

PS Welcome to the blogging world ! 🙂

Hola, sleepypete! Michele sent me. Hey! I used to play D&D. I had a druidess. She was bad-ass. Sometimes I miss that chick. Well, where do you live in the U.K.? I live in Atlanta, GA. Yo, whaddup? (Used to be “Hey, y’all! Whatcha doin’?”)

[chuckle] I cheated a little there – I really struggled for that first one this time, so I went for the cookies that always catch my eye when I stray too close to the cookie shop 🙂

Smarties in cookies? Do share!

Have a great weekend, thanks for playing!

Lol at word verification 🙂

I think the key with it will be figuring out what limits I can set on what I do. Things like deliberately pulling the punch on the jump smash to go for more accuracy instead of power.

It’s the more violent moves that get me into trouble with the shoulder but I’ve still got a lot of work to do in other areas (mobility and consistency!) of the badminton. I can work on the other areas while figuring out the limits on the shoulder 🙂

From experience I would listen to your body. Perhaps your shoulder isn’t ready for jump smashes 🙂 It’s a tricky one to call as you can’t let the psychological thing overwhelm you but on the other hand if you push a physical injury too much before it’s healed then you could do more damage. A toughie!

Michele sent me by today. Out of interest the word verification is ‘lapshax’. What can it mean? LOL!

If you’d like to keep up with the Friday Fill In Meme run by Janet, check it out here 🙂 Here’s mine for this week :

1. The cookie collection had an extra secret ingredient; it was laced with orange flavour ing and Smarties !
2. The wilderness outside means I daren’t look through my window.
3. Right now, I need to catch up on sleep and take it easy on the shoulder.
4. Entrenched on the sofa watching cricket is where I went Thursday night; it was spectacular until interest got lost when the mystery of “who’ll win ?” disappeared.
5. Why does getting hit in that place hurt so much?
6. All I can think of is the possibility of maybe getting pizza tomorrow 🙂.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to chilling out in front of cricket on telly, tomorrow my plans include catching Ironman with the Crazies and Sunday, I want to watch as much sport as possible !