I think that my non-American friends would be interested to know that the famous saga of Charlie’s angles (“Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle“) weren’t just born out of thin air. It turns out that there were TV series with the same name back in 1976 (until 1981). IMDB pages you might want to check out are here and here.
Among other points of interests I find this movie connections list the most impressive.
Anyone has a DVD to fill in my gaps?
Watched “Radio” on DVD. At first I was a bit scared that it will be yet another movie about American football, but luckily it wasn’t. American football was just a theme for the movie. It could have been anything at all.
This film is an excellent drama. Excellent is very easy to measure in my case. If I cry like a baby, it is surely excellent. The story was good, but mostly it was due to the Cuba Gooding Jr. performance. I have already said several times that he is a very talanted actor, and I can repeat that any time. This guy is amazing. Others, of course, acted very good too in this film, but Cuba was unmatchable.
7 out of 10.
Olga gave me a somewhat early St.Valentine’s Day present – Philips SBC-HP800 Hi-Fi Headphones. These will help me to be more productive in the office, isolating my ears from all the noise there.
If you are interested, here are the specs from the box:
There is nothing much in the box – just the speakers and the standard 3.5mm to 6.3 mm adapter.
I like the sound a lot and the headphones are very comfortable to wear. Let the mp3 times begin. Again.
P.S. The picture was stolen from here.
Just watched “Boiler Room” on DVD and I liked it. A lot.
When I think about it, there are not so many components for a great movie. Get an interesting story from one of those billions books in print. Than think of a nice way of telling the story, making sure that all main characters are described nicely. Spend some time on the relationships. I hear that having some anger and some romance helps a lot. Than find a couple of artists and/or photographers who can picture out some nice images involving the characters of the story and their surroundings. Maybe add some music to it. And that’s it. You are done.
Of course it is slightly more complicated than that with all the fuzz and details, but it is, in my opinion, a managable job. Making a great movie is like any other business. I wonder though why there are so few of them. Probably that is because there are so many lousy jobs in all other businesses.
Well, “Boiler Room” is one of those films which were done right. Everything fits in together very nice – interesting story, good character development, excellent acting spiced up by a few celebrities (Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Ron Rifkin, Ben Affleck and others), good photography and music. And as any great movie, it provides not only entertainment, but also few points to think about. Questions of family relationships, good and bad, trust, and racism are all nicely covered.
Rating this film as 9 out of 10 I feel the need to provide some feedback on why it wasn’t perfect. Minor issues indeed. It was kind of slow without the point at times and it left some loose ends to the story. Loose ends as in there were certain things that were given some time in the film, but which on the other hand led to nothing and weren’t properly explained. Other than that – a great film.
Technorati is yet another peice of social software. It works very much like del.icio.us, but is more oriented towards your own posts, rather than bookmarks to someone else’s sites.
Since my blog is already monitored by Technorati because of other people submissions, I thought that it would be a good idea to claim my site. In order to do that I needed to either place a permanent link to the JavaScript which or just post a link to my Technorati Profile. Here is another link to Technorati Profile just because I used to have more than one domain for this page.