I’ve been so busy for the last year, that I haven’t made a new film of my own. I have a couple of shorts lately, one of which I may post up here if I get a chance to finish a couple of polish issues. The other short, a variation of the Get Smart television intro, I put together for work. It turned out pretty decent – if you are a Rackspace employee, you will likely see it soon.
My buddy Travis used my apartment this weekend to shoot a short for the San Antonio Local Film Festival (SAL).
Another home in which my neighbors wonder why zombies are roaming the neighborhood or why guys are carrying a girl wrapped in a tarp down the stairs. Oh well.
Go see this movie. Right now.
I think it’s the best Sci-Fi movie since Blade Runner. It does a great job with believable technology and balances that with realistic characterizations. Definitely see it on a big screen! I have no idea why the film distributors have been so quiet about this movie and why the release has been so small.
I’m apparently a little (a lot) behind in the review party. I’ve only read the first three books in the series, so at this point, I can only review the movie and a movie. Order of the Phoenix is one of the best films in the series so far. The story moves along at a good clip, the story is accessible to those who haven’t read the books or even (in the case of Virginia), those who haven’t seen previous movies.
The story has gotten progressively darker as the series works to a close, and the film reflects this change in mood well. The actors are growing well as actors and the performances here are very good. In particular, Imelda Staunton plays Dolores Umbridge as the sort of person who uses a pleasant exterior to cover a ruthless and viciously conformist interior. I love the way the film uses the Umbridge character to make comments on standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and using traditional values as a cover for villainy. I also love how the film points out how authorities (in this case the Ministry of Magic) can be in such systematic denial about threats that it turns on those who would point out those threats. Very interesting.
In other Harry Potter news, I’m only half-way through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as compared to most people I know who finished the book within hours of the Saturday release. Too much life going on to dedicate that much time to reading at the moment – which isn’t really a bad thing.
This is a video I made for Matt featuring his autocross run in his Honda Civic hatchback. It is a taste test of some stuff I’m going to do for the full SASCA promo video.
My daily link posting was getting out of hand and was certainly hiding the occasional posting that I do here, so I’ve decided to give the links their own blog.
From now on, this blog will contain only content produced by your truly.
