I brought back a bunch of William Gibson when I came to Korea last, but I left my hardback of Idoru at home. But now that they’re making an anime film of it, I shall have to get my grubby little hands on it and read it sometime.
Category: FILMS&TV
SFFS International Remix Redirect
Kinda neat, but not running on my Ubuntu installation — been having issues with Flash lately. I’ll try it on my Winbox later. You won’t win a prize for your online mashup, but they will show it at the Festival. via Yahoo Searchblog.
The Weird World of Coming Entertainment
Japundit on smell-o-vision being introduced to Japanese cinemas. Let’s hope a few cinemas remain free of this for those of us with respiratory problems, like me. And Marginal Revolution on two new trends: Want to play video games against your pet? And how will online availability change TV?
I’d pay to see this, I think…
Gorehound Canned Film presents ‘WORST CASE SCENARIO’ via Shaved Ape Chronicles (who would also pay)
Where To Download Movie Trailers
After spending some time looking for a useful video clip with a nerd depicted in it, which was long enough to have students pick out ten physical, verbal, gestural, or other traits that marked a character as a nerd, and realizing this was frankly impossible within the DVDs I have in my own collection, I realized that the perfect medium would be a movie trailer for a film about a nerd. After searching in vain for a long time for a place where I could actually download the trailer files themselves (it’s better not to be dependent on streaming media …
A Coupla Films
Let’s see, what have I watched lately? A Sound of Thunder. I can’t say it was all bad. I mean, those primate/reptile predator critters were pretty cool. Imaginatively conceived preadtory megafauna, yeah, I like it. But the film was also chock full of almost-good-enough CGI that, well, frankly, just wasn’t quite good enough. But what bothered me more about this movie was what it has with so much other TV/film SF: the science comes last, if at all, and the Wow, cool! concept comes first. Except that the Wow, cool! concept isn’t so cool, and doesn’t make me go wow. …
Englishie Movie About Korean Royalty
Apparently a co-production between a US and a Korean film company is set to make a dramatic film about Julia Mullock, the woman who married the last crown prince of Korea. The film is supposedly going to be a “mainly English-language feature”.
A CHINK IN THE ARMOUR
A CHINK IN THE ARMOUR is a documentary about stereotypes of Chinese people. Nothing you don’t already know, but there are a couple of amusing moments. via Angry Asian Man
On V
First off, a little occupatio, in which one starts blathering about the thing which he said he was not going to describe(*): I’m not talking about V the miniseries. V was immensely popular in Korea, so much so that only a couple of years ago, during a discussion over dinner with some old Korean friends, when the show came up, some of my tablemates were spouting out the names of major characters in the show, details I couldn’t for the life of me remember. Lime and I talked about the show recently and she said that it had a major …
Gaaaaaaaaaah, more horrid amusements
Four Asian-American guys training up to do a rap on MacBeth for extra credit. It’s a hilarious send-up of life in a home where, even if you got A or A+ in everything else, a B+ in English just won’t do. They embrace the stereotypes, and the geekery is TOTALLY hilarious. Especially brilliant is Earl, the Filipino who is, uh “all ghetto” and stuff. And from the comment section of the post where I got the above, this one is sorta funny too. I can’t speak for dating culture in North America, but most of the interiracial couples in Korea …