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Sep. 27th, 2005 10:30 amAnyone have a spare Mac laying about unloved & unwanted? I'll even give you money.
The local art college offers Paint Shop courses, but everything is taught on a Mac, so until we have one for hubby to do his homework on, there's no chance of his being able to edumacate hisself and get a desk job.
Watched possibly the worst movie of the year last night, if not the decade.
"Alexander", from Oliver Stone. It was so incredibly appalling that I gave up early and went to play computer games. Props to hubby for sticking through the whole thing. Of course, the first thing is WTF ARE YOU WEARING? Shaped and fitted chitons with necklines? Are you STONED?? 5th C dancers in BODICES??
*SMACK*
Secondly, who knew that the Macedonians of Phillip & Alexander's time spoke with Irish accents? huh - the things you learn! And Scots accents! And Angelina Jolie, to show that she was a "foreign" woman, spoke with some sort of Eastern European accent. I think. Maybe.
Third, Colin Farrel with a blond wig? Pussy. He spent the entire movie looking like he was waiting to be called to the principal's office - even Val Kilmer (as an over-the-top Philip of Macedon) told him to stop looking so worried all the time. His speeches were uninspiring, and his motivation unguessable.
A pox on the writer. A different pox on Stone for dragging this abomination out for hours longer than needed. A third pox on the editor who let him get away with it.
The battle scenes were sooooooo artsy and contrived (ooooo dust clouds! ooooo jittery combat a la "Gladiator" oooo!) that even they seemed to last too long. I admit that at least the battles weren't all squeaky clean white teeth and clean swords. Blood was everywhere, limbs sheared off, rocks meeting skulls, poor elephant getting his trunk hacked off (a really disturbing image for some reason). And omg the most incredibly beautiful horse for Bucephalus EVER. And the Persian archers looked good.
But the money spent on this endless whiny painful abomination could have been better used to build a school or six, to offset the national debt, to fund health care. ANYTHING but this!!
Anthony Hopkins, Brian Blessed, Angelina Jolie, not a shabby cast. I hope they got paid well to have their names associated with this crap excuse for entertainment. It may play better with no sound, just to look at the pretty colors, but I dunno.
The local art college offers Paint Shop courses, but everything is taught on a Mac, so until we have one for hubby to do his homework on, there's no chance of his being able to edumacate hisself and get a desk job.
Watched possibly the worst movie of the year last night, if not the decade.
"Alexander", from Oliver Stone. It was so incredibly appalling that I gave up early and went to play computer games. Props to hubby for sticking through the whole thing. Of course, the first thing is WTF ARE YOU WEARING? Shaped and fitted chitons with necklines? Are you STONED?? 5th C dancers in BODICES??
*SMACK*
Secondly, who knew that the Macedonians of Phillip & Alexander's time spoke with Irish accents? huh - the things you learn! And Scots accents! And Angelina Jolie, to show that she was a "foreign" woman, spoke with some sort of Eastern European accent. I think. Maybe.
Third, Colin Farrel with a blond wig? Pussy. He spent the entire movie looking like he was waiting to be called to the principal's office - even Val Kilmer (as an over-the-top Philip of Macedon) told him to stop looking so worried all the time. His speeches were uninspiring, and his motivation unguessable.
A pox on the writer. A different pox on Stone for dragging this abomination out for hours longer than needed. A third pox on the editor who let him get away with it.
The battle scenes were sooooooo artsy and contrived (ooooo dust clouds! ooooo jittery combat a la "Gladiator" oooo!) that even they seemed to last too long. I admit that at least the battles weren't all squeaky clean white teeth and clean swords. Blood was everywhere, limbs sheared off, rocks meeting skulls, poor elephant getting his trunk hacked off (a really disturbing image for some reason). And omg the most incredibly beautiful horse for Bucephalus EVER. And the Persian archers looked good.
But the money spent on this endless whiny painful abomination could have been better used to build a school or six, to offset the national debt, to fund health care. ANYTHING but this!!
Anthony Hopkins, Brian Blessed, Angelina Jolie, not a shabby cast. I hope they got paid well to have their names associated with this crap excuse for entertainment. It may play better with no sound, just to look at the pretty colors, but I dunno.
