So eh… That happened. And still it’s better than Aliens vs. Predator.
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Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses.
THX 1138 is certainly not the most accessible film of all time, but for my money it remains not only timeless, but both engrossing and devastating. It’s as uncompromising in its portrayal of a fundamentally alien society as it is in ignoring and avoiding traditional narrative structures and science fiction tropes.
Stanley Kubrick died today, 10 years ago, on March 7th, 1999 at the age of 70. It’s a strange tradition, to remember someone on the anniversary of their death, but it beats not remembering them at all. Luckily, Kubrick is most certainly worth remembering.
On my desktop I have an entry-draft of considerable length concerning Kubrick, which I had intended to publish today. However, instead I fell into writing on a science fiction project I’ve been working on for a while (making significant headway I might add), and I like to think that writing is something Kubrick himself wouldn’t have minded taking precedence over me idolizing him and his work; he after all held the act of creation in particularly high regard, and considering the problems I’m having writing my project, I see what he means.
In reality, idolizing Kubrick is probably better done simply by watching or re-watching one of his films anyway, any one of which speaks volumes more about the man than I ever could.
The other day a couple of us stayed around at work to watch Mazy play through an hour and a half of Killzone 2, because we are nothing, if not addicted to sci-fi in whatever shape or form it might take, regardless of our preconceptions. And while we were all somewhat surprised that the demo turned out to be the actual first level (we expected a bit more from the opening, I must admit), and while the gameplay part of the game didn’t do much to redeem itself from my previous post, I will say that we were all pretty well entertained throughout.
After years, I’ve finally uploaded these fanastic Homeworld 2 cutscenes.
A reader of mine — whose name has been lost in time — ripped them for me a long time ago. And by pure luck, he couldn’t find the dialog audio files, which are streamed separatly from the score and ambient soundtrack. The result, is an almost abstract series of beautiful aesthetic-centric science fiction vignettes that seem to have no purpose, other than to be cool and awesome.
It’s like science fiction porn that way; just enough story to support what we came to see… Something something desert world, something something starships… I get it.
Now, my Youtube skills are weak, and I can’t figure out how to retain the quality of the original files, so if you’re so inclined feel free to download the originals yourself.
I fell head over heels in love with Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon when I read the first chapter online. And I ordered it right then and there and tore through it when it finally arrived a few days after from Amazon. It remains one of my all-time favorite books to this day.
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