Books and Movies, Movies and Books

Since I haven’t posted an update lately, I figured I would run down the list of movies we’ve seen recently:

Aeon Flux - Action sci-fi. I haven’t seen the original cartoon series but apparently it’s pretty funky. I liked the movie, though the people who over analyze movies probably won’t like it as much. ***1/2
Jarhead - Movie about Marine snipers during Desert Storm: Part 1. More of a drama than an action flick, but very good and shows you what a lot of guys go through while deployed and working in the Armed Forces. ****1/2
Memoirs of a Geisha - Pretty good, though slow in some parts. A drama, so hardly anything exciting going on. But still good. ***1/2
Narnia - Done very well, much better than the TV series I’ve seen a bit of. ****1/2
Syriana - Action/Drama. Basically, our (America’s) oil corporations are evil. So is our gov’ment. Interesting and pretty good. ***1/2
The Ringer - Eh. **
Walk the Line - The Johnny Cash movie. Good, but slow in parts. Another drama. The best parts were the performances. ***1/2

And now, books!

I’ve started reading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. I have to admit, it’s nothing like I thought it would be, but it’s very good. It’s basically a collection of short(er) stories during this upheaval and removal of a galactic empire. I’m now on book 3 and the time compression has slowed down quite a bit.

I was reading the Dark Tower books by Stephen King but those can be fairly intense, it’s nice to read something a little faster and less emotional.

And, not to leave the other two Media topics out:

Music - I got Monster Magnet: Monolithic Baby! for Christmas, and it’s pretty good. I don’t think I’ve gotten any other music lately, but that’s no surprise.

Games - Started playing EVE Online again recently with a bunch of folks from F13.Net. This is one of those games where you play for awhile, quit, come back, play for awhile, quit, come back… A lot of changes have been made since I last played, so I’m getting caught up on those and trying to figure out what exactly to do with our new Corporation.

And that’s about it for Media updates. Oh oh I forgot one!

Lost - We’ve recently started watching the first season of this show. It’s pretty good! Of course, the second season has already started so there’s no way to catch up. Next season I will have to setup Tivo to record the shows so they are ready for us once we have caught up.

L8trz!