Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.
— Patty Wentz-Daly
TV And Films
The shows and movies I like (or don’t).
Enterprise: Dear Doctor
The crew encounters an alien race in desperate need of medical and scientific assistance. Phlox declines to assist them because of his ethical beliefs leaving Archer to decide whether to help them find their own solutions.
“Dear Doctor” marks not just the most recent Enterprise episode, but in my opinion, the strongest I’ve seen yet. After the on-again, off-again nature of last week’s episode, this weeks was a real treat, with a well-written and structured blend of of drama and character development, with subplots that actually worked well with the main plot, rather than distracting from it.
A solid 4 and a half out of 5 this week.
Evolution
It’s kind of a slow Saturday today, so Candice and I rented a couple movies to kill the day with. She’s working on homework while I watch the flicks, and the first one I checked out was Evolution.
David Duchovny and Orlando Jones star as a couple scientists/college professors who discover the crash of a metor in Arizona. The metor has punched through the surface into an underground cavern, and it brings a surprise package along with it — alien organisms that are able to evolve at a super-fast rate, letting them adapt to our atmosphere and threaten to overrun the natural life on the planet.
About three out of five on this one — cute, but it could have been so much better.
Enterprise: Silent Enemy
So last night was the first new episode of Enterprise, Silent Enemy.
When Enterprise is attacked by an unidentified enemy ship, the crew must work frantically to get their new phase cannons to operate. Meanwhile, Archer realizes that no one knows Reed well enough to give him a personalized birthday gift.
My take on the episode — extremely uneven. Overall I’d give it probably around 3 out of 5, but the show could have been much better.
Tron
Very, very cool. I just picked up the Tron Special Edition DVD during lunch today, and got to watch some of it after I got home. I jumped around a bit in the film itself just to take a look at it, then bounced over to the second disc for all the special features and watched the ‘Making of Tron’ documentary. Turns out that Disney’s DVD department has done their usual stellar job, and the documentary is a full 90 minutes long! Much better than the 15-minute fluff piece that seems to be the norm for so many studios. I didn’t get through any more of the special features tonight, but I plan to soon.
Oh, and possibly one of the coolest things about this disc — right at the end of the documentary (around the 1:23:00 mark or so), there are a few quick glimpses at concept art for a possible Tron 2.0! There’s also a very cryptic teaser when you load the disc that ends with this web address — www.tronkillerapp.com. I’m not sure if it’s early promotion for Tron 2.0 or not, but it’s a very interesting site…will be fun to see where this goes in the future.
In any case, if you’re at all of the age to have been as entranced by Tron as I was, this set is a definite must-buy.
Kate and Leopold
Candice and I went out to see Kate and Leopold this weekend. End result from both of us — cute flick. Probably a matinee or renter rather than an evening show, but definitely fun to watch.
It’s just a movie, folks
One for the Darwin Awards — the first item on this page is a story of a Japanese tourist who died in the middle of a snowy field outside of Fargo, North Dakota…while trying to dig up the stolen money left there in the movie Fargo. The fictional movie.
Kevin Smith directs Lord of the Rings
The Council of Elrond from Lord of the Rings (as directed by Kevin Smith), and The Mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings (as directed by Michael Bay). Too funny not to share.
Site fixed, new addy, and LOTR
Okies — first off, I was able to restore this main page from a recent backup, so the page is back to normal again.
Secondly — www.djwudi.com is active! Yay! I’ll go ahead and leave the old djwudi.dyndns.org addy active for a while, but the preferred address for my site is now www.djwudi.com. Woohoo!
Lastly — just got back not too long ago from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In a word — incredible. I’m not sure I can get much more than that out yet, a more detailed review will have to wait, but…. Well, I enjoy fantasy movies, and they’re a lot of fun, but this is the first time I can remember that a fantasy film was that good and true to the spirit of the genre, completely sweeping you up in its world and carrying you along the entire time. Just wonderful.
And it’s going to be a long year until the next part….