Screening Diet 2009

Looking back, 2009 isn’t a very exciting year for films for me. So few films I’ve seen in cinemas this year, I could count them with just one hand: “Up”, “Ice Age 3”, “Star Trek, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince”, and “Public Enemies”. Conflicting schedules made me miss “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” –I didn’t even know if it was shown here– and most of films that got shown in cinemas nearby didn’t interest me. 

On Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince,  I’ve given up that the franchise would ever improve its treatment on characters (especially Ron and the Weasleys) other than Harry, Draco, and Hermione. There had been hope after Goblet of Fire. Even with its massive cut down, the Order of the Phoenix managed to convey better character dynamics. But the Half-blood Prince was back to “Harry the hero and Hermione the heroine continue…” Now it’s obvious that Steve Kloves (the screenwriter of all Harry Potter films except the Order of the Phoenix) is to blame. And since Kloves is also writing the scripts for the last two Harry Potter films, I vow that I am not going to see them.

Some of the films that I’ve seen in DVD in 2009 had been more interesting, among them are “Rory O’Shea Was Here” (Inside I’m Dancing), a French-Canadian “Babine”, Korean films “Private Eye” and “The Good, The Bad and The Weird”, and Japanese film “The Departed”. And in this end of year comes some that  I am looking forward to.

 

 

The rest of Nodame Cantabile story is coming in two films,  starting on December 19^th, and  Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” is screened worldwide on December 18^th. The latter intrigues me even more as I love the rather grim source material yet, in the Golden Globes Awards, Robert Downey Jr. got nominated for best actor in musical or comedy for playing Holmes.

Trying Out Wordmobi

I am trying to revive the spirit for blogging by installing wordmobi . Let’s see if it’ll help.

At first, installing its corresponding python runtime, python 1.9.6 for wordmobi 0.9.3, from the download page failed because my handset read it as an untrusted application. So, I grabbed the one from maemo.org, Python_1.9.6_fixed.sis.

So if you are reading this then it works fine.

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World Philosophy Day

That is yesterday, 20^th November.

I got a hangover for being out in the rain for three days in a row. So, sneezes are frequent at the moment and expected to cause headache as well. So why would one need another “Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt”?

Well, those sure are fun in a way. They take one’s mind off of the current economy meltdown, triggered by the credit crunch (the one made in USA, not the chocolate). Though worries, whether my relatives and friends would keep their jobs, linger.

Hmm… I only got two so-called “philosophical” questions at the moment: “am I real?”…………… that begs the question “what is real”? ……………… I am hungry.

Talking about diversion… early this week, I found out that BBC now has a “weird and wonderful” section. Similar concept to Reuter’s “oddly enough” I suppose.

A bit of musing on Trans7 programmes

I can’t get these programme names and Trans7 website is not helping either. I found these programmes crammed around 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the times targeted towards children who have just got home from school, I suppose.

Well, these programmes have been using some of Chrono Cross and Legend of Mana soundtracks as background music.

 

Chrono Cross and Legend of Mana Original Soundtrack album covers

 

So, their music programmers are gamers apparently. And uncreative, definitely.

Should I complain over such “trivial” matter?

It is not because those two are some of my favourite game soundtracks. It is because they are used without given proper credits. Such practice is, I think, unethical. And it’s too bad because I actually enjoy the shows and think they’re ones of the better TV programmes.