Technology fails me
Mar. 29th, 2003 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynNot that anyone is actually trying to get hold of me or cares, but I just wanted to let people know in case they might have sent me an e-mail, that I haven't been able to access my mail at all for the last 24 hours. I honestly don't know at this point when it'll be fixed -- my nice little ISP also has the annoying policy of not having support on weekends and after work hours, and I have already tried to get them to fix it to no avail.
Went to see The Core today and hoped it might be fixed when I got home; no such luck. So I'm really not rude, just stuck.
The Core is fun -- lots of wonderful, wonderful people in the cast, and totally implausible science mixed with plausible science, and enough holes to drive a truck through, but just a lot of fun anyway. I think Aaron Eckhardt might finally overcome his mean guy reputation from all those Neil LaBute movies, and he made a great hero -- and for once, we got a teacher who likes to teach and only really wants to be a teacher. Stanley Tucci just makes me SO happy anytime, but he was a hoot here with his sly take on Carl Sagan and being a scientist star. Delroy Lindo was a great nutball superscientist, and Tcheky Karyo, one of the main reasons I went (I adore Tcheky!), was really just fabulous. Bruce Greenwood, too -- it's a great cast, rounded out by Hillary Swank, who was probably the most one-dimensional, but still had some depth and you could care about her, and my fave of faves, Alfre Woodard.
I realize it's a total fantasy to have such a mixed race cast of scientists and top drawer people of both sexes and many races, but in a way, I like when movies do this, because I keep hoping that if it becomes mundane enough in films, maybe real life will mirror that some day. All around, a fun, silly disaster action movie that thinks (the thinking woman's fun action movie?), and puts scientists in the hero position. A great way to spend a couple hours.
Maybe it's the earth's magnetic core that's affecting my e-mail...
Went to see The Core today and hoped it might be fixed when I got home; no such luck. So I'm really not rude, just stuck.
The Core is fun -- lots of wonderful, wonderful people in the cast, and totally implausible science mixed with plausible science, and enough holes to drive a truck through, but just a lot of fun anyway. I think Aaron Eckhardt might finally overcome his mean guy reputation from all those Neil LaBute movies, and he made a great hero -- and for once, we got a teacher who likes to teach and only really wants to be a teacher. Stanley Tucci just makes me SO happy anytime, but he was a hoot here with his sly take on Carl Sagan and being a scientist star. Delroy Lindo was a great nutball superscientist, and Tcheky Karyo, one of the main reasons I went (I adore Tcheky!), was really just fabulous. Bruce Greenwood, too -- it's a great cast, rounded out by Hillary Swank, who was probably the most one-dimensional, but still had some depth and you could care about her, and my fave of faves, Alfre Woodard.
I realize it's a total fantasy to have such a mixed race cast of scientists and top drawer people of both sexes and many races, but in a way, I like when movies do this, because I keep hoping that if it becomes mundane enough in films, maybe real life will mirror that some day. All around, a fun, silly disaster action movie that thinks (the thinking woman's fun action movie?), and puts scientists in the hero position. A great way to spend a couple hours.
Maybe it's the earth's magnetic core that's affecting my e-mail...
