Those cracks in your face - do they hurt?
Aug. 4th, 2009 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexsarllPossibly I'm just biased against Logan's Run because I'm 31 and was watching it with a 22-year old. But it really is very silly, isn't it? I mean, even if one takes as given the whole futuristic-utopia-maintained-by-killing-everyone-at-30 bit...why are all of the Sandmen who enforce this situation such abysmal shots? How can a robot which is following its programming but with unforeseen consequences end up cackling maniacally when this results in threats to people, when surely it should be going about its business calmly because it believes it is doing its normal routine? And once again, one feels comparatively mild about the Blue Screen of Death and its compatriots when one sees once more how people in the future thought computers would crash, ie, give it one 'does not compute' and the entire city explodes.
Lovely design work, though. And Jenny Agutter was very pretty. Michael York less so, but I think that was mainly the haircut.
In other age-related news, circa 5pm today I mark my gigasecond. Being alive for a billion seconds probably only feels like a landmark if you read a certain school of science fiction (I first encountered it in the works of Charles Stross), but still...a billion anythings is a lot, isn't it?
SB aside, I haven't mentioned my weekend. Well, by way of a handy reminder that London still has other clubs which feel like home, Friday was Poptimism, at which I was particularly glad to hear Pet Shop Boys' much-underplayed 'Flamboyant'. On the way down, I passed the Fourth Plinth for the first time since they started putting people on it; there was a woman in a safari shirt with two cuddly toys and a sign reading DAKTARI. I hoped she might be reenacting episodes but turns out just to be the name of some sanctuary for which she was raising awareness. That net around the plinth really spoils the effect, doesn't it? Good old 'health and safety'. See also the decision that the ground floor of the Fullback's Ewok Village is 'substantially enclosed', ie not rainy and windy enough to be a legitimate smoking area.
Sunday was understandabaly less active, spent mostly reading crime comics and listening to jangly indie
Why are there so many T-shirts around for the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, which has been pretty much universally panned? If this is viral marketing, is it paid, or are some people just really desperate for free Ts? I mean, they don't look like derelicts.
Lovely design work, though. And Jenny Agutter was very pretty. Michael York less so, but I think that was mainly the haircut.
In other age-related news, circa 5pm today I mark my gigasecond. Being alive for a billion seconds probably only feels like a landmark if you read a certain school of science fiction (I first encountered it in the works of Charles Stross), but still...a billion anythings is a lot, isn't it?
SB aside, I haven't mentioned my weekend. Well, by way of a handy reminder that London still has other clubs which feel like home, Friday was Poptimism, at which I was particularly glad to hear Pet Shop Boys' much-underplayed 'Flamboyant'. On the way down, I passed the Fourth Plinth for the first time since they started putting people on it; there was a woman in a safari shirt with two cuddly toys and a sign reading DAKTARI. I hoped she might be reenacting episodes but turns out just to be the name of some sanctuary for which she was raising awareness. That net around the plinth really spoils the effect, doesn't it? Good old 'health and safety'. See also the decision that the ground floor of the Fullback's Ewok Village is 'substantially enclosed', ie not rainy and windy enough to be a legitimate smoking area.
Sunday was understandabaly less active, spent mostly reading crime comics and listening to jangly indie
Why are there so many T-shirts around for the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, which has been pretty much universally panned? If this is viral marketing, is it paid, or are some people just really desperate for free Ts? I mean, they don't look like derelicts.
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