Very busy.

[teylaminh]

Because it's summer, quite a few of our WPOs are missing, and as a result some of the work on the other side of our floor dates back from Wednesday last week. Which has the knock-on effect of everything else being urgent. We also have quite a bit on our side so our capacity to help out is limited. Meh. Plus Keith's bloody printer still doesn't work properly so that's just adding to the stress today.

In other news, I saw the trailer for Alice in Wonderland over the weekend, and ZOMG it looks AMAZING. Stick a search in Google if you're curious. I am currently more impressed by Burton managing to make Depp look scary rather than gothpaint pretty for the first time in forever than anything else, though the entire thing looks awesome. Also incredibly surprised that it's a Disney production... I thought they still weren't talking to Burton after Black Cauldron. Here's hoping they don't try and quash his creative vision with cute animals or whatever. A shame we have to wait until March, but at least there should be 9 to enjoy in September / October (IMDb doesn't give a UK release date, as per usual).

PS: If you disagree with my enthusiasm, I refer you to the 'contentious opinions' tag, which is your cue to be quiet. That is all.

Also watched I Am Legend on Saturday night, which was highly enjoyable. I like the fact that these days, "the future" is set only a few years from now - I'm also thinking of Children of Men as an example - and is either dystopian or the end product of humanity's mess-ups. It makes a change from old-fashioned sci-fi where "the future" was the 21st century. It also amazes me that Star Trek's First Contact Day will actually occur within most of our lifetimes, when it wouldn't have done back when the original series first aired. Admittedly I'll be about 70, but still. It makes you start to wonder if by 2076 we will actually have made 'first contact'...

Okay, I'm blathering on a bit. Must finish lunch, fix the bloody printer again (sigh) and get one with some work...

Comments

[pandorasblog]

Yeah, I found Children of Men absolutely magnetic for the same reason. Still want to see I Am Legend - I enjoyed the book, but I always visualise it very much in the period when it was written (and of course the two other film adaptations are very dated), so it'll be interesting to be able to see how all that would look now.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

The thing I found most poignant about Children of Men was the fact that the human race had no qualms whatsoever about blowing up historical buildings or even destroying entire societies, because there would be no future generations to preserve the world for...

I had no idea there were other film adaptations of I Am Legend... you have me intrigued now. :)

[pandorasblog]

There's The Omega Man, with Charlton Heston:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/

which was reasonably entertaining but not great, and earlier, The Last Man on Earth, which is infinitely better because Vincent Price is in it and that automatically pwns any other factor. Although in all honesty, the movie is on the quiet side:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/

That aspect of Children of Men is one I hadn't considered, but you're absolutely right. Also, what's scary is that it's kind of like the fundamentalist attitude now, where they don't want to even countenance the idea of global warming, because hey, the Rapture will be upon us before the grandkids need to worry about the oil running out...

[joetimewaster.livejournal.com]

Had a look on IMDB re Alice in Wonderland. My god what a cast. I think I knew it was coming after reading about Matt Lucas doing Tweedledum and Tweedledee months ago, but good grief.

Anyone for tea?

[joetimewaster.livejournal.com]

Oh and don't forget 2015 from Back to the Future 2. Not long to go now for flying cars, fingerprint cash, Live-In modes to be switched on, pizzas that cook on hydrate level 4 and fax machines in your downstairs bathroom*

(at least I thought it was a bathroom, have to dig out the DVD)

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

I was amused to discover that the pilot episode of Lost in Space (which I used to watch addictively as a small child) was actually set on 16th October, 1997 - my 16th birthday. ;)

I think fax machines will be obsolete by 2015, but it's such a typical assumpton that the 1980s pinnacle of communication technology was THE FUTURE.