Gorram! Yet another shiny sliver of hope Contention
I, too, enjoyed "X-Men" a lot. It's immune from my Film Forensics hammer, as are the Spider-man films.
By Andrew Shellshear, at
3:59 PM
I still haven't bothered with Daredevil. I've succumbed to the general air of distaste that surrounds its every review...
Curse thy DVD player for a poltroon and coward. It lacks the desire to playeth of the entertaining Joss based dramas. Or words to that effect.
By Anonymous, at
10:45 AM
Well, in theory, this distressing inability to watch Firefly should be no more than an irritation for us, too, since we are playing host to a very nice audiovisual assembly - i.e. yours.
As a data point, we sometimes have trouble with Buffy and Angel DVDs. I concur with the "crap quality DVDs" thing - it's why they're so cheap.
By Anonymous, at
8:40 AM
Thursday, September 02, 2004
The Firefly DVD’s persist in their refusal to collaborate with our lousy bloody player to show us anything after the first scene of the third episode. Tried to watch again last night, and failed again. In frustration, we watched the X-Men 1.5 DVD instead, which worked perfectly (after from one small screen glitch late in the movie which didn’t lead to any further problems).
As I mentioned, we’ve had the same problem with the Buffy and Angel box sets, leading me to conclude (employing my famous powers of rigourous technical deduction) that 20th Century Fox use really cheap, shitty discs and crap quality control in the production of their television series DVD releases. And, furthermore, that we need to take our DVD player in for a checkup. The only things stopping us from doing just that are the twin certainties that (a) the repairer will not be able to reproduce the problem, and (b) it will be cheaper just to replace it than it would be to repair (I just went into JB HiFi, where they are selling exactly the same model for under $200).
Yet another person came over to look at the house last night. She seemed serious (at least, serious enough to look at the pest and building inspection reports). I’ve given up wondering whether anyone will ever buy the house. It is now apparent that we only think we have the house on the market, and that all the people that we imagine to have come through our doors over the past seven months are, in fact, the restless ghosts of the damned, shrieking and wandering the suburbs on their unholy mission to share their misery and despoil the hopes of the righteous.
Or something.
X-Men is a very good movie. It would have been better if Halle Berry had remembered to act, but it was still much better than a superhero film has any right to be.
Coming up in Potted Superhero Movie Reviews: Dave likes Spider-Man too, and cannot believe he did not see the sequel on the big screen.
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Daredevil, on the other hand, is on my little list. Or would be, if I remembered enough of it to criticise.
Curiously, my first CD player had a similar dislike to CDs produced by one particular manufacturer - the one used by the Australian divisions of EMI and Warners - thus a substantial number of my CDs were not actually listenable to. Fortunately, every other device I seem to have purchased since then can play CDs, so it was never more than an irritation.
Man, there's a story we could film and show every Christmas!
And no, I'm not in France yet, but I will be by this time next... ummmm... Tuesday. Yes, Tuesday for sure. No question about it. Did I mention how nice Wales was?
Das Slackmonster
P.S. I'm pretty sure Spider-Man 2 was the greatest film featuring metallic tentacles ever made. Maybe I should see it again, maybe this time at the Imax, just to be certain.
However, it's all the way over at the other house and I wanna watch them now! Waaah!
(Yes, pathetic, I know)
I get my Firefly in a few days. :)
Stu.
