The Channels.
Apr. 16th, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hoveringsombreroOur complex gets free satellite TV, and the recently added new channels, among which are SciFi, IFC, FX, and The Science channel.
I mention these specifically cause I've been watching pretty much nothing but those channels. Mostly SciFi and IFC. IFC is fantastic cause it shows uncut, unedited movies, it's nice to have TV with boobies and cussing again. I can turn to IFC at pretty much any time of the day and there's something watchable. SciFi succumbs to the informercial sometimes, but usually there's something of interest.
I recently saw part of an original miniseries on SciFi that I LOVED, even though I saw about the last 4th of the first episode. I haven't had SciFi in so long that I never saw this.
The Lost Room I looked it up and read the wiki for the first episode, The Key and the Clock, so that I could figure out what the hell it was that I was watching, and now I'm very interested to watch the whole thing, so I've not read anything about the next two parts. I'll either grab the DVDs or download it. It seems very Dark Tower-esque to me though I'm not sure exactly why I think that.
And on IFC last night I watched two flicks in a row, again only really started paying attention halfway through the first, and the second doesn't require a lot of attention.
Primer. One of the weirdest and most confusing time travel flicks I've ever seen. The "science" was way the fuck over my head but soon as it caught my attention I was glued to it. I liked it even more after watching it and looking it up. And discovering it was written, directed, produced by and starring a mathematician who taught himself physics while writing it. AND only had a budget of $7,000. It is one of the prettiest low budget flicks I've ever seen. They did an amazing job of working with what they had.
And then there was Gerry Which I didn't really like much at all, but I thought was rather good, and well done. Very stark, simple, plain, excellent use of silence. I think I might have liked it better with different actors. Enough of Matt Damon and an Affleck brother already.
I mention these specifically cause I've been watching pretty much nothing but those channels. Mostly SciFi and IFC. IFC is fantastic cause it shows uncut, unedited movies, it's nice to have TV with boobies and cussing again. I can turn to IFC at pretty much any time of the day and there's something watchable. SciFi succumbs to the informercial sometimes, but usually there's something of interest.
I recently saw part of an original miniseries on SciFi that I LOVED, even though I saw about the last 4th of the first episode. I haven't had SciFi in so long that I never saw this.
The Lost Room I looked it up and read the wiki for the first episode, The Key and the Clock, so that I could figure out what the hell it was that I was watching, and now I'm very interested to watch the whole thing, so I've not read anything about the next two parts. I'll either grab the DVDs or download it. It seems very Dark Tower-esque to me though I'm not sure exactly why I think that.
And on IFC last night I watched two flicks in a row, again only really started paying attention halfway through the first, and the second doesn't require a lot of attention.
Primer. One of the weirdest and most confusing time travel flicks I've ever seen. The "science" was way the fuck over my head but soon as it caught my attention I was glued to it. I liked it even more after watching it and looking it up. And discovering it was written, directed, produced by and starring a mathematician who taught himself physics while writing it. AND only had a budget of $7,000. It is one of the prettiest low budget flicks I've ever seen. They did an amazing job of working with what they had.
And then there was Gerry Which I didn't really like much at all, but I thought was rather good, and well done. Very stark, simple, plain, excellent use of silence. I think I might have liked it better with different actors. Enough of Matt Damon and an Affleck brother already.
