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View to a Kill
The above title might be overly dramatic, but in this area you never know. The view? Well, sticking with the recent theme of very large images, here's the new view. It was taken about a week and a half ago, when the weather was considerably nicer, the sky considerably bluer, and the trees considerably greener. Considerable changes for a week, but this is the nature of fall in Toronto -- no fall, just a sudden jump to early-winter.
Check out the trailer to "Flatout". It's like Burnout 3, but with driver-flying-through-the-windshield rag-doll physics. Some of the goals of the game basically involve launching the dude as far as possible from the car. Sounds briefly enjoyable!
Dream On, the old HBO comedy series, is out on DVD. I have a lot of nostalgic memories about this show so I thought long and hard about picking it up, but the sense that nostalgia is often misplaced kept me away. There's just something about buying old tv shows that I haven't seen in a decade. It feels risky. The fear is that I will come to the realization that they sucked, and then I'd realize that I paid money to have my fond memories shattered. This is why I have not bought Transformers, or Batman: The Animated Series, or The Ben Stiller Show, or, now, Dream On.
October 19, 2004. General.Related:
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The fear is understandable, but I've always felt that old television shows are a bit "safer" than old movies. I often find that tv shows are more affective with the whole "warm, fuzzy feeling" of the past, and that any non-relevant jokes is often negligible since there's just so much other material to enjoy... about 13 hours worth on average. So of course one lone film that's just an hour and a half and it's out of date jokes will not work.
Maybe that doesn't make any sense. If not, sorry.
Anyway, Transformers is still pretty good today (actually, better than some stuff today), and Batman will always be good, thanks to it's almost timeless qualities. Ben Stiller treads the water of having out of date references, but I enjoy the DVD because of the performers, not necessarily the material.
As for Flatout, it's a shameless Burnout rip-off, but the rag-doll guy is pretty hilarious. As a coworker said when showing it to her, "Oh no! That poor, one guy!"
October 26, 2004 04:12 PM. Posted by: Matt.
Batman: The Animated Series is great with or without rose coloured glasses. That is all. I think it will definitely hold up better than any pop culture based reference show ^_~
October 21, 2004 06:28 PM. Posted by: Jenn.