Well, we got home from Johnbai's about five and a half hours ago; we head out for Stella's in a little over an hour. Time for a post!Thursday night, Otis and I watched The Andromeda Strain, the 1970 sci-fi thriller that introduced that storytelling machine Michale Crichton to the movie-going public. Surprisingly effective (albeit a bit dated in some of the language), even Otis was entranced by the old-school high-tech suspense. *
On Friday, NatDog and I headed up to campus for some meetings, stopping on the way to drop Otis off in LFP to hang with her family. It was a short and productive day, and we were all home in time for some afternoon sunshine.
The evening up at Johnbai's was totally cool. Although we got started late, we had a rousing good time, and the DM presented us with an episode that got to the core of what chaotic and lawful alignments really mean. It was a killer combination of philosophical debate and ass-kicking that was challenging, exhausting, and totally cool.
And which, as I say, didn't end all that long ago. Time for a little more Folger's, baby.
*(LNTAM Memorial Asterix): In the bonus feature, Crichton quotes director Robert Wise as telling him "We're going to make your movie and nobody's in it." While that may have been an accurate (if glib) remark from a marketing standpoint, it belies the talent that the cast of Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, and James Olson brought to the endeavor. Hill, in fact, has a small moment that is one of my favorite in all of film.
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That's funny (not your staying up 'til 2 playing Dungeons and Dragons), but I had just started doing a review of TAS--I just received the screener for the A & E mini-series and had begun watching it and grew nostalgic for the more efficient, hippy-dippy, sci-fi-day-glo-design, "science is golly gee-whiz-good" spirit of the Robert Wise version. I finished the new one, and the first words out of my mouth were "No wonder the kids are dropping out."
Loved Reid. Loved Hill. Loved Hill in everything, really. Since you just saw it...the last words are "What do we do?"
When FarmerScott and I get in a situation where things start to get confusing we both start saying "601-601-601"
They remade it? Wow,I didn't know. Can't wait to see the review.
The small moment that I love is when the military guys come to Hill's house to get him. When they say "There's a fire, sir," watch his face. He goes from loving husband to duty-bound scientist in about a half-second.
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