Category: Geeky Fanboy

I’m going to call that seven years well-spent.
Damn. Great ending. Great beginning.
Oh, and a Strongbad reference in the very short spoiler section:

Continue reading “Buffy”

So this weekend marked something of a milestone.
Well, not really, it just felt like it.
[geeky gamer stuff lies ahead]

Continue reading “When worlds collide! impact? moosh together into a sort of weird amorphous goopy ball.”

One beef: the sounds for the fights weren’t as good as the first movie, or the theatre I was in isn’t as good as listening to the DVD on my headphones. Seems like in the first movie you heard each punch; in this one it’s a lot more muted.
Then again, there’s a LOT more punches to put in sound effects for in the sequel — that’s my impression anyway.
Oh, and related, mean-spirited, non-matrix thing:
Gina Torres (married to Lawrence F. in RL) must be a hell of a good cook. Damn.

The guy bitching on aintitcoolnews about this movie was…
Well, really wrong. Wrong enough that I almost wonder if he wasn’t being wrong on purpose to throw people off. The only other explanation is that he just didn’t get it.
This is a fun movie, it’s got some great ideas in it, and it really… well, it’s not afraid to change the rules. Good stuff. I entirely enjoyed it.
There was one silly comment of his that stuck with me though, and it colored one of the scenes in the movie in a funny way.
The following is not a spoiler in any plot sense, but if you don’t want to know ANYTHING AT ALL about ANY scene that hasn’t been in a trailer, don’t read on.

Continue reading “Matrix 2 Review”

Some guy in Hawaii got to see an X2 blooper reel and lists all the stuff on it here. The list contains spoilers so be warned, but some of it is damn funny.

22. During the scene where Bobby cools Logan’s soda… he starts slowly licking the rim of the bottle, gazing at Logan. Logan starts rubbing the top of the bottle with his pinky.

(via Stan)

Just in case folks had missed the HUGE anime inspiration in the original Matrix (you should see the original movie’s storyboards — they look like a manga), I got another dose of it last night watching the Matrix preview that came before X2.
No spoilers, but…

Continue reading “Now all they need are Whizzies”

Good episode Tuesday. Sounds like next week is a two-hour finale? Only two episodes left, certainly.
I remember loving the original Buffy movie when I was in college. It was funny. I remember thinking after the fifth or sixth time I watched it (we didn’t own a lot of tapes in college, that was one of them) that it almost seemed like the writer was trying to say something ‘deep’. I pretty much assumed I was just reading too much into it.
Then the show came out, and I started to realize that I’d been right — the only reason it had been unclear was because the movie making process had muddied the whole thing.
I saw the ads for the show in 1997 — I was out here in Denver and got Jackie to watch the first couple shows with me (well, she worked on her computer and looked over every now and again). Mostly I was curious to see what they could do with it. I mean… how can you have her traveling around, hunting vampi–
Oh, Hellmouth — evil comes to her. Clever.
That wouldn’t be the last time I’d use that word.
By the sixth episode, we were making sure to be off the computers and ready to pay attention when the show came on. We started taping the show the first time Spike showed up (Season two, Episode three: “School Hard”).
I was thinking about it yesterday; there have been some ups and downs… some bad episodes and a few story arcs that really didn’t need to be told, but the simple fact is, the show has vision and it stuck to it throughout, even when the Life Event that the story meant to reflect was a painful one that made people uncomfortable — sometimes for a whole season. Gotta respect that.
I love this show. It’s come full circle this year (“Have you got any Tab?”) and when it’s all said and done it will have irrevocably changed the face of the genre and altered the landscape of pop culture.
And it’s gonna surprise you before it’s done. It’s gonna do something we didn’t see coming.
The last episode is written/directed by Joss Whedon, that’s how I know.
I’m going to miss this show.

Maybe not as much as this guy, but still.
(Thanks to ***Dave for sending the pic.)