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Excellent weekend; started Friday eve with Blade Runner: The Final Cut at the Astor with [livejournal.com profile] imajica_lj, [livejournal.com profile] kremmen, [livejournal.com profile] hathhalla, [livejournal.com profile] ser_pounce, [livejournal.com profile] caseopaya and Michael C. all in attendance. The new, digitally-enchanced film has a few minor modifications, perhaps most notable being the extra crowd scenes and the original, more graphic (but not gratuitious), violence. Personally, I still think it's a little weak on that regard, but overall it is still one of the greatest films of all time.

On Saturday [livejournal.com profile] severina_242 and [livejournal.com profile] _zombiemonkey did the marriage thing, at the Old Treasury Building. Unsurprisingly, they both looked fantastic in their Victorian-era clothing and with their many Goth-type friends, it was all a very appropriate scene. Small dinner gathering afterwards at Pure South was likewise enjoyable. The setting a little modern for my tastes, but with excellent food. Didn't go to the "drinks and dancing" afterwards, but I'm sure it went well. Congratulations to both of you...

Following the Auditor-General's porkbarreling revelations, an assesment shows the Coalition election campaign has been a debacle from start to finish. Just when you think they couldn't get worse, last night Howard brought out the most brain-damaged policy for the entire campaign. Meanwhile, AWA's in action: when you have few buyers of a product and many sellers the price goes down. That's what happens to hospitality and retail wages.

In recent weeks, I've ditched my membership to [livejournal.com profile] libertarianism and [livejournal.com profile] anarchists. With the former convinced I am some sort of communist and the latter convinced that am sort sort of capitalist and one full of aggressive frat-boys and the other full infantile punks, it is far better to spend time in the quieter, more mature, more pragmatic, [livejournal.com profile] socialists community. On a similar angle, having reached the point of boredom on Warbook and frustrated with Scrabulous timing out, I've ditched all my Facebook applications. Suddenly... I have more time.

Blade Runner

Date: 2007-11-19 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laptop006.livejournal.com
How could you ignore the lack of narration?

I went on thursday and found it the best projection I've ever seen, so good in fact that I found it made the Cars trailer look a little plastic and not like a film.

Of course given it's a half-million dollar projector I'm not surprised.

Re: Blade Runner

Date: 2007-11-19 11:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

How could you ignore the lack of narration?

Well that wasn't in the Director's Cut, was it?

I don't mind the narration in the original release - it gives it a bit of a gumshoe-noir feel, even if it does reduce the active imaginative input of the audience.

This is, I recognise, a minority opinion.

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