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Why I will Never Be a Hollywood Movie Producer.

Many moons ago, when production for the Lord of the Rings movies was just beginning, a co-worker told me that a live action Lord of the Rings trilogy was being made, and it would use real actors for all the roles and rely heavily on special effects.

I said that would never work, and that the movies would probably be critical, financial and fan-service failures. Do'h!

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Halloween Videos.

Here's a couple of videos to get you into the Halloween spirit. Mwa ha ha ha!

• Halloween Awakening - I guess pumpkins and stop-motion go together.
• Halloween Peep Show - Totally safe for work.
• Jack O' Lantern Kitty - It may be a fake pumpkin, but it's a real kitten.

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The Prestige.

The hubby and I watched our rented copy of the last year's The Prestige last night, and it was astonishingly good. Do yourself a favor and rent it up for the weekend. It will be a few hours well spent. I really enjoy a movie that allows me to think, and rewards me for doing so.

Christopher Nolan directs this film in contrast to Ridley Scott's handling of Gladiator; in which Scott beats the audience with the idea that gladiating is like T.V. and yet another opiate for the masses, without developing that idea to a higher stage.

Well, that's it. The Prestige = great.

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Brrr.

I must quit leaving the office without my coat. It's cold and drippy in downtown Seattle. Anyway, I delievered the package to the post office. We sent a package to Japan - roughly $20 for stuff, and $43 for shipping. Next time we're just sending cotton candy.

More importantly, the hubby and I are coming down to Portland over Thanksgiving day weekend. We've got Thanksgiving day dinner with my mom, and a hockey game on Saturday night. The other days will be somewhere inbetween dull beyond imaging, or busy to the point of strangulation. We haven't figured it out yet. In any case, we'll be missing our annual Black Friday tradition of not leaving the house, and watching 12 hours (that's 3 movies at 4 hours each) of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in our pajamas. It's probably for the best.

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Six String Samurai & Lost Domains

It's election day. The strip joint in downtown Seattle calls it 'Erection Day'. Heh heh. Being a voter-by-mail, I got my ballot in the mail last week.

This weekend, the hubby and I watched The Six String Samurai. We'd been wanting (at a low intensity) to rent it for quite some time, but could never find it at the video store. But at the apartment we now have super-duper froo-froo cable, with OnDemand. And lo and behold, the SSS was one of the available selections.

On the whole, I enjoyed it. It was 20 minutes or so into the flick before I could properly suspend my disbelief and get into the groove. (Where did post-apocolyptic cavemen get gumballs? Who are those 3 dudes with Death, if not Famine, War and Pestilence?) Still, I found it charming and absolutely oozing coolness.

A side note: The distributor's banner at the beginning of the flick advertised their homepage as HSX.com. It most certainly is not. HSX.com is the site where I play the imaginary movie stock market. So I wonder if the SSS distributor went out of business, or if their web admin screwed up big time? Reminds me of the folks at Universal Tubing - a plastics manufacturer. Their domain is utube.com. Poor bastards. They really should have bought the variant domains a long time ago.

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