Week 24: June 16 - June 22, 2014
Books:Still reading Planes of Conflict. Am I a savoring the experience or am I just a slow reader?
Games: Nothing - a very disappointing week.
DVDs: I was very excited to watch The Thing by John Carpenter - put it in the DVD player, couldn't read it. I put it in the XBox for same result,. Even tried it in the computer drive - said there was no data. Have I ever watched this physical disk? I think I bought it as a replacement for one I loaned out in Minnesota and never got back. A counterfeit/forgery perhaps? Either way, I was very disappointed. I ended up buying a John Carpenter collection to replace it, so I'll also get "They Live". I watched Prometheus instead, which is a pretty decent flick by Scott Ridley set in his Alien universe. The atmospherics are very different from the Alien quadrilogy; the alien planet is bright and sunny, with open spaces. Also, the characters had realistic responses to danger; "Wait, there's a life-form signature in that direction? Then let's go the opposite direction until we find some guns" (as if that did any good...) I enjoyed watching it, but the movie didn't make much sense at times and I had to read the wikipedia page to see what the director intended. And of course almost none of the big questions were answered, so we'll be watching "Prometheus 2" some time in 2016.