Try as I might, I just couldn’t finish it.
LOTR: FOTR SE
Last night I watched the new director’s cut of the Fellowship of the Ring. I loved the new scenes — it restores some very important character and plot information — but it’s way too long now. I think Peter Jackson could easily have made LOTR into six movies.
My suggestion to someone renting the director’s cut: watch it in two nights, pausing between books one and two (after Chapter XII, “Flight to the Ford”). I’ll avoid spoiling it for anyone who hasn’t read the book or seen the movie, but I will say that it’s an obvious pause in the action after a serious chase scene and a river (the “flight to the ford”). Although the movie is split onto two discs in the four-disc set, I felt that the break came at a strange spot.
Anyway, I survived the marathon movie-watching session. Now I have to tackle the DVD “extras”. And when am I going to find the time to watch it with the three different commentary audio tracks?? I’ll have to watch it three more times before I return it on Monday.
Minimalism: day two
Stephen will:
a) drive to the lovely city of Burnaby again,
b) attend day two of the workshop on minimalism in documentation, and
c) ponder the irony of extending a minimalist workshop to a second day.
Regarding Dubya
I was watching the CBC news tonight. At the NATO summit, a senior Canadian government official was quoted as saying that President Bush was “a moron”.
I think she should be severely disciplined for such an inappropriate and unfair comment. After all, he’s practically a genius compared to the other chimps.
Action is his reward
Whoo hoo! Spidey has just swung into my DVD collection. I’m in for some web-slingin’ fun.