Best of 2001
NYTimes top 10 lists in music, film, and TV. Get them before they slip into the archives.
NYTimes top 10 lists in music, film, and TV. Get them before they slip into the archives.
The Globe has 100 movie rental picks. Golden Globe nominations came out this week, some are out on DVD.
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This map of Springfield is awesome. I want a framed print-out.
Fellowship was even better than I expected, and I was expecting a lot.
Sure, I have my gripes, but they seem like nitpicking in retrospect. Here are a
few notes:
And the Village Voice review desrves its own link just for this quote: "How much fun it would have been to see a real desecration of Tolkien that periodized the trilogy's cosmic adventures by having them played out inside the brain of some acid-ripped hippie—the Fellowship leaving the snug communes of northern Vermont on a perilous mission to cast the 'ring of power' into the boiler of some fetid East Village basement."
I have tickets to Fellowship tonight and I think I'm going to enjoy it. I've read a variety of reviews, good and bad. It sounds like minor things will annoy me (apparently they show Sauron in the opening scene) but it will be pretty great overall.
Science musings: In search of universe's point.
"The biggest problem in the world today is not that the universe might not have a point, but that too many people think they know what the point is."
The 2001 selections for the National Film Registry were announced today. Woohoo for The Thin Blue Line. Lots of good ideas for my Netflix queue here.
MyVideoGames have published their last article and will be closing down in February. Too bad, it's a great site.