Honestly this is probably the best prison movie I've ever seen (Shawshank Redemption notwithstanding). Typical story, but everything is done perfectly. Great performances from Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Harold Perrineau, and the rest of the cast. Fantastic.
I've put it off for the longest time, but tonight I finally saw Changeling; I was pleasantly surprised. Clint Eastwood has had arguably the greatest career (and probably life as well) in the history of Hollywood. It's unfortunate that he's really getting up there in terms of age; he's not going to be around much longer. I wonder if he had been born 30 or 50 years later if he would have seen similar success. It's kind of a shame that a lot of his work is sort of hokey by today's standards,
Walking Dead finally back. Still kind of bogged down on the farm, but there was an interesting conversation about hope in the bar. Followed shortly by a nice scene where Rick had to lay down the law. I'm just wondering if they're going to pick things up soon. At this point I think there's nothing left for anybody on the farm.
Try deleting your Slashdot account.
I agree; this is my biggest problem with the inevitability of online only retail. I don't mind buying (relatively) cheap items more-or-less blind, but when you start getting into hundreds and thousands of dollars it's harder to part with your money without seeing the item in person. Reviews are a nice source of information, but they can only tell you so much.
Another thing is that it's nice to go browsing every once in a while. Generally when you're going to buy something online you know ahead of time what you want; you don't really browse online in the traditional sense. I remember going to CompUSA and Circuit City and coming across all kinds of cool things (this was way back before everything turned to shit).
Sadly I think the only thing that's going to give brick-and-mortar retail a chance is taxing online retail, but at this point it's probably too late even for that. It's kind of sad thinking that in the future nobody's going to go to the store to buy anything anymore; it's all going to be shipped from a sterilized warehouse by computers and robots.
What can I say? Liam Neeson is one bad motherfucker. Interestingly he was in two of the previews before this movie (Wrath of the Titans and Battleship; yes, I will eventually see both (on DVD) because he is THAT awesome). So basically he's (sort of) part of a crew of oil workers up in Alaska; they are flying back into town or whatever when the plane goes down in a vast wasteland of ice and snow. As a side note I thought the scene of the plane crashing was very well done considering they d
users.pl seems to take you to a random location. The Slashdot maintainers are either A) incompetent or B) hostile. I think I'd prefer option A since that can be corrected, but either way it's not a good situation.
Granted I am not familiar with the law on that side of the pond, but here in the States we have governors pardoning child killers.
The game was decent enough if not particularly memorable. I suppose the commercials were slightly better than last year, but that's not exactly saying much. Just complete meh for me.
Has anybody else experience odd behavior with logging into Slashdot lately? Probably the past week or so every time I login I get redirected to some random page rather than the front page (usually my Edit User page, though not always).
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