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Monday, 6 October 2008 14:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claidheamhmorHere's a bit of a catchup on movies and books.
I saw Taken a couple of weeks ago. I must admit, it wasn't a great movie, but I like Liam Neeson, and I like revenge-themed movies, so it was a fairly easy movie to watch.
I finally got around to seeing Ultraviolet. Frankly, I wasn't impressed at all. I really like Milla Jovovich (hey, she's my #1 choice for Heinlein's "Friday", if it ever gets made into a movie), but the movie, bluntly speaking, was crap. A completely unrealistic character who gave you no sense of tension, a rather confused plot, and an over-stylised, fake-looking feel to it killed it for me. That said: I liked some of the background technology - things like a fold-up card mobile phone dispensed from a vending machine.
Then I watched the pilot for Knight Rider 2008. I must admit, I kinda liked it - but then, I'm a sucker for uber-cars. And the hero seems better than David Hasselhoff - that, to me, was always the weaker part of the original Knight Rider.
I just finished Roger Zelazney's "Great Book of Amber": it's a collection of both of his Amber quintologies. I found the first five books better than I remembered them from my youth, especially the last couple couple of books which I'd not liked much. The second quintology was also better than I remembered - but that's not saying much, because I couldn't get very far into it back then. The final two or three books were very complex, with a number of confusing characters and sub-plots, and much of that wasn't really resolved by the final book - a pity.
I saw Taken a couple of weeks ago. I must admit, it wasn't a great movie, but I like Liam Neeson, and I like revenge-themed movies, so it was a fairly easy movie to watch.
I finally got around to seeing Ultraviolet. Frankly, I wasn't impressed at all. I really like Milla Jovovich (hey, she's my #1 choice for Heinlein's "Friday", if it ever gets made into a movie), but the movie, bluntly speaking, was crap. A completely unrealistic character who gave you no sense of tension, a rather confused plot, and an over-stylised, fake-looking feel to it killed it for me. That said: I liked some of the background technology - things like a fold-up card mobile phone dispensed from a vending machine.
Then I watched the pilot for Knight Rider 2008. I must admit, I kinda liked it - but then, I'm a sucker for uber-cars. And the hero seems better than David Hasselhoff - that, to me, was always the weaker part of the original Knight Rider.
I just finished Roger Zelazney's "Great Book of Amber": it's a collection of both of his Amber quintologies. I found the first five books better than I remembered them from my youth, especially the last couple couple of books which I'd not liked much. The second quintology was also better than I remembered - but that's not saying much, because I couldn't get very far into it back then. The final two or three books were very complex, with a number of confusing characters and sub-plots, and much of that wasn't really resolved by the final book - a pity.