movies

lileks, on "titanic"'s music:

really – the visuals were excellent, but you can’t recollect them without thinking of the plot or hearing Enya cooing, or threatening to coo. The main theme isn’t bad, in a formless sort of melancholic adolescent notion of romantic loss, but most the score is a bore, stuffed with the sort of tics and riffs Horner threw into all his 90s soundtracks. The four-note trumpet tattoo. The crazy piano glissando. Anvil strikes. Could have been worse; could have been Elfman, and then we would have seen the Titanic sink to the sound of overwrought ironic oompah-oompah melodies.

imao, on "300":

I think we should all rewatch 300 to see strategies that worked against the Persians. There’s a big difference, though, since in that movie their leader is very tall while Ahmadinejad can fit nicely in a shoebox.

imao, on "thief" ...or "the sting" ...or "the heist" ...or something:

I just wish this day didn’t feel so much like take a big portion of my earnings from last year and throwing it in a pile and burning it. What am I paying for these days? Defaulted mortgages caused by earlier jackassery of the government? It would be nice if the government at least humored us, sending us pictures of terrorists getting blown to pieces labeled, “Your taxes paid for this.” Then I’d at least feel my thousands of dollars were going to something useful. Instead I keep hearing about million dollar grants to some random museum in a Congressman’s district that didn’t even request money.

Here’s what we should do. I assume a lot of the Congressmen use some credit union or something in D.C. We should find a way to hack into all their accounts, steal all their money, and then spend it on completely useless crap like everything from the Sharper Image catalog. Then they’ll know what it feels like.