In alt.religion.kibology, DarlaVladschyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> I am eagerly awaiting your review of "Master and Commander/The Far
> Side of the World," which I saw this afternoon with Himself. Since I
> know this sort of thing is your sort of thing, I cannot wait to read
> your take on the fillum. Please to be quick about it! And thank you.
Tonight, I caught a later show of "Shattered Glass," which was excellent
except for the very last scene. Young A****in Skywalker made the
snottiest lib'ral rag look stupid and he was hyperwhiny the whole way
through, but in the end, the lib'rals will still okay with themselves,
and that's just appalling.
I eagerly await The Far Side of the World, m'self, but tonight I worked
late because I'm taking to-morrow (that is, Saturday) orf in order to
see Master & Commander, or not, and have dinner w/my parents, since they
were barging around the canals of France during my birthday.
Thing is, birthday dinner's for my dad, as well, because his birthday is
about a week and a half away, which is why my birthday dinner was so
late-- he's got seniority, so he only had to move his birthday up a
bunch of days instead of waiting months. But they're taking me to
Palisades, so pwn3d! Except I haven't gotten him anything yet. I have
this thing in mind, but I forgot to order it from that online place, and
now I gotta bus downtown and buy it. I don't know if I'll get back in
time to
A) see ASIMO at the Pacific Science Center, which should be cool even
though they brought 2 trucks-worth of stages and stage-lighting, and
maybe some little people and furniture in order to trick the human eye
into thinking he can climb normal-sized stairs. (Using this trick, it
will defeat a Dalek and ED-209.) and/or,
B) Master & Commander at el Cinerama, the biggest only screen in town
that's wider than IMAX, but it doesn't matter because you have to sit so
very far away if you want to be above ground level. As well as the
obligatory
C) find a way up to Magnolia to eat, drink, and score leftovers.
I can tell you, though, that the movie has every reason to D) kick ass
and E) take names. I don't get the casting of Maturin-- his Catalan
origin makes for so much of his motivation in fighting Napoleon, which
they are doing in the movie even though in the book they were fighting
an American ****p because the year was 1813 or so, instead of 1803 when
this movie is more or less set. I'll give you my full re****t.
Your most humble, &c,
-Captain Sir LAN3
RN, FRS, NPR
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