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Sunday, February 29, 2004

posted by Travis at 9:30 PM

The Return of the King won every Oscar category for which it was nominated, 11 in all including Best Picture, making it the first genre movie ever to win Best Picture. I'm glad that Sean Penn won for Mystic River, but I really wanted Naomi Watts to win for 21 Grams. 21 Grams comes out on DVD on March 16th, and I can't recommend it enough. I won the GiaS Oscar Pool for the second straight year with 17 out of 24 right, and Kim came in second with 16. This was our first Oscar ceremony with the Tivo, and it made the whole thing much more bearable. We took hours off from watching it to do other things and were still able to catch up with the live broadcast four times by skipping the lame stuff. Tivo is good.

Saturday, February 28, 2004

posted by Travis at 7:56 PM

We went to see The Passion of the Christ today. As promised, here is my review. I've also implemented trackback, so you can link to stories directly if you so desire. Also, I put a comments and trackback field on my review for The Passion of the Christ, so feel free to post your knee-jerk reaction to my review. I'll probably put the code in for all the reviews sometime because those seem to get a lot of my hits from Google. But that isn't going to happen tonight.

Friday, February 27, 2004

posted by Travis at 8:47 AM

It's not you, it's me. I just haven't been in the mood to blog, and there really hasn't been anything interesting going on, just a lot of rain. Tomorrow we're going to see The Passion of the Christ at the Arclight, and I'm going to write a review for it. Expect that to be posted sometime Saturday late afternoon or Saturday night. Some of the more faithful guys at work have seen it and really liked it, so I'm looking forward to it. In other movie news, the official title for the new Batman movie is going to be Batman Begins. They are going to try to make you forget the other movies existed. This is the slow time for movies and games, but it should all pick up in a few months. Then we'll have more stuff to talk about.

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

posted by Travis at 2:49 PM

Weekend Update: On Valentine's Day I was tasked with cooking prime rib for Kim. I've never cooked prime rib, and I was very apprehensive about cooking meat in an oven. In my opinion you cook meat on a grill and you bake cakes in an oven. But I followed the directions and it turned out perfectly. Kim and I put away roughly 3 lbs of prime rib before settling in for a "romantic" movie. As it turns out, Laurel Canyon is not so much romantic, but rather the story of two people who are considering getting married and move to California where they end up drifting apart and cheating on each other. Happy Valentine's Day!

The other event of the weekend was our trip to get Kim a new car. We were driving her car to the dealer to trade it in, and we suffered what I can only describe as "catastrophic structural tire failure". My dad taught me how to change a tire when I was younger, but I was much more interested in remembering how to get infinite lives in NES Contra (Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start) at the time. I do remember all he taught me, however, Kim's car has a custom hubcub and custom locked lug nuts, which we didn't have the key to unlock. How to remove such things without the necessary key was not covered in my father's syllabus on car repair, so we called AAA to tow the car. Towing a car to a dealership with the intent of trading it in for a new car is not recommended. By the end of the day Monday, Kim had signed a lease for a Nissan Murano and we decided to take her Mitsubishi 3000GT back home to sell privately.

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

posted by Travis at 8:27 AM

The original Star Wars Trilogy is coming to DVD on September 21st, 2004. Here is the official release. I haven't been able to find a comphrensive list of the disc specs or the features yet.

Sunday, February 08, 2004

posted by Travis at 2:13 PM

On Friday we went to see The Fellowship of the Ring at the Egyptian with Peter Jackson speaking. We haven't watched the first one in about a year or so, so it was nice to see it on the big screen again. It wasn't the extended edition, but we weren't complaining. Also, Peter had some good stories and wasn't just redoing the interviews from the DVDs. We had tickets for The Two Towers and The Return of the King on Saturday and Sunday, but we sold them to some out of town fans for a huge mark up! Some of the cast and other members of the crew were going to be there for the other screenings. Peter Jackson said he had just finished cutting the extended edition of The Return of the King DVD and it topped out at 4 hours and 10 minutes, including 50 minutes of unseen footage.

Earlier this week we bought a bunch of DVDs including some old stuff we needed for our collection and some new stuff we had not seen yet. We watched Lost in Translation last night, and after all the good stuff I heard about it I was left wanting. In my opinion, it's just a good movie (as opposed to great) because nothing really happens. Some of you may really dig on the whole character process, and I thought it was entertaining to watch once, but I'll probably put it up on Ebay next week.

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

posted by Travis at 8:44 AM

I usually watch the Super Bowl, but more out of obligation than anything else. I don't watch sports very often, and I never care about either team in the game. Instead of watching the Super Bowl this year, Kim and I opted to Tivo it and watch Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It has been several years since we've watched the original trilogy, and I've been bugging her to watch them for a while. I warned her that watching one means watching the other four soon after, and she accepted that responsibility. The original Star Wars Trilogy comes out on DVD in September of this year, so we'll watch them again then.

After the movie, we fast-forwarded through the Super Bowl and watched some of the commercials that caught our attention. My favorites were the two for the Ford GT. They were nothing extraordinary, just well done footage of a very nice car. Here is the teaser, and here is the full commercial in case you missed them.