Sadly, my local video store did not have the new release of Furturma: Bender's Big Score. It wasn't that they were gone, the store wasn't carrying it, so I had to buy it on Amazon because I am too lazy to drive around town looking for it. Instead, one of the movies I rented yesterday was call The First Snow. Now I am not going to say it was a great movie, but it was a little esoteric and filmed mostly here in Albuquerque. The basic story is that the main character is told by a psychic that he will die sometime soon after the first snow of that year. Everything else the psychic told him, that seemed ridiculous at the time came true, so he started believing it. First he gets really paranoid, since he is healthy he assumes someone is going to kill him. It isn't like he is such a great guy that there aren't a couple of people that may want to kill him so it is understandable that he would be paranoid. However, after the first snow hits it changes him and instead of being paranoid he starts telling people that he cares about them and finally admitting to the mistakes he has made and the lies he has told in the past. I won't tell you if he lives or dies because the interesting thing is how he tries to fight death and finally just decides that if he is going to die he wants to at least use the opportunity of knowing beforehand. Not really a new story, we have all heard it in one form or another, but it rings true. Another great thing about it was that it must have been filmed during that horrible snow storm we had last December 28th because our beautiful Sandia mountains were totally covered in snow which doesn't really happen that often. Not that it made me nostalgic for that snow storm, but if there was one good thing about it, it was that the mountains looked beautiful.
Before The First Snow we tried watching a movie I rented with Christian Bale called Rescue Dawn. I think we must have watched about 30 minutes of it before we decided it was not for us. It is about a guy captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. As I said, we did not watch the entire thing, but the way it was going, it seemed like a propaganda piece. The good American being tortured by the evil Vietnamese.
A little off topic again tonight, but I will try to get back on track soon.
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Any cameos from Hoagland in The First Snow ?
I figured he might be wandering in downtown Albequerque with a sandwich board saying, "The End is Near" or something like that.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new Futurama movie too. That is one of my all time favorite shows so I am psyched that it is coming back, at least in movie form.
At the risk of losing whatever credibility we might have had with aristocracy, and piss on them anyway, did you ever get into Invader Zim? I give it my highest recommendation, if not.
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No Hoagland. I did hear that there is a huge casting call in Santa Fe this week for a crowd scene, so maybe he will get lucky with that one. :-)
I haven't seen Invader Zim, but if it is available on DVD I probably will check it out sometime.
Hurry -- You can get all three seasons for under 20 bucks... a wealth of commentary on public school, the short bus, hero worship, celebrity, woo-kookians, snobs, geeks, and weirdos -- fast food, power and desire, church (and neat how they pulled that off) but much much more.
Real mind candy border dissolving psychedelic stuff that teaches, inspires, and reassures as it provokes projectile squirty guffaws... or maybe that's just me.
Every bit as good as Futurama IME and I like that too.
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Rescue Dawn was a big disappointment, considering Herzog and Bale. You would have gagged at the ending if you thought the beginning was tacky.
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