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diaryarena

the itunes movie store

Jan 31, 2009 00:17

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piehead January 31 2009, 07:05:47 UTC

Also: color cycled plasma fractals are boring.

diaryarena January 31 2009, 16:30:06 UTC

Seriously. If it were in Cinefex it would be like those little "BLOCK THAT METAPHOR" column-fillers at the end of a new yorker article.

patchworkstrike January 31 2009, 07:57:15 UTC

I am reading Moby D**k on audiobook right now and I agree with iTunes, very saucy. Totally deserves to be rated not rated.

diaryarena January 31 2009, 16:31:51 UTC

I love that audiobook. MARCHANT SARVICE? DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THE MARCHANT SARVICE!!

Moby Dick is one of those books you HAVE to get the poetry of to really love.

Incidentally, I switched my Audible account over to the much cheaper "no, I don't need any more audiobooks" plan. So what there is in my library is it for the time being. Sorry!!!!!! But there's still hundreds of hours.

lop_lop January 31 2009, 16:51:44 UTC

You can get free ipod compatible downloadable audiobooks from Toronto Public Library now, so you don't need to subscribe to audible.

diaryarena January 31 2009, 16:57:26 UTC

Whoa! I am CHECKING THAT OUT RIGHT NOW.

sanspoof January 31 2009, 18:16:51 UTC

Soderbergh deliberately focused on the love story aspect, which I found infuriating. You can find a damn love story anyplace. Solyaris was at least, as you say, longer-form (pacing is pretty important), and the whole movie was so much more lived-in and full. Newer-Solaris was much more pared down (in the wrong direction) and malfocused. At least with Solyaris many of the elements were more present, so you could pull more of the original ideas out.

sanspoof January 31 2009, 18:33:45 UTC

Man, this is exactly why I keep a livejournal. About movies I watch.

diaryarena February 3 2009, 04:09:32 UTC

I remember those posts! And was thinking about them while watching it. Better than watching the movie haw haw.

It's tempting to say that science fiction literature is inherently incompatible with film, the former being at its best a sort of philosophical epistle (I wish I could find a cite for Greg Egan saying he thought the only really important dialogue is between the reader and the author), the latter being at its best a "poetry" of movement in image. But that'd be wrong!!!

The absolute best moment in Soderbergh's Solaris was when Kelvin looked across the room while sleep-deprived, seeing the hull eaten away somehow for just a split second, and then looking across the room in exactly the same way; clearly we need to get David Lynch doing more sci-fi films.