random babble about the cutting edge

I recorded The Cutting Edge and its three sequels a couple weeks ago, and just finally got around to (re)watching them today. I watched all four, in order, mostly so I can never watch them ever ever again. Oh, basic cable curse-dubbing.

( unless you are really bored, suffice it to say they're no John Hughes movies )

In conclusion, I can't help but with Ryan Hansen had been the skater instead of the surfer-dude buddy in the second movie, and then stuck around for the next two. I miss him. I should have watched the rest of the episodes of Party Down

Also, there was a total Checkov's gun moment with an announcement at the rink during the performance that just pissed me off.

Riverworld: not precisely the worst 4 hours of my life

On the plus side: Mark Twain! A relatively-diverse main cast! A kickass samurai lady! Alan Cumming making a career out of playing blue people!

On the minus side: Uh, let's just say there were some problems.

On the technical side, my favorite was the part where the dialogue (not the sound, just the dialogue track) cut out for 30 seconds. That just barely beat out some of the editing wtfery that left me completely confused as to the timeline of the movie.

This is apparently the second time SciFi has produced a Riverworld thinger. I haven't seen the other one, and I haven't read any of Farmer's books, but from the wikipedia entry this appears to be a fairly significant reframing of the original story, including several new original characters, while holding pretty faithfully to the world setting. Because I don't know the original or earlier works, it's hard to say what the writers held on to, although I'm assuming that since they moved the setting to include roughly 30 more years of humans than the original work dealt with, they could have done a better job on some fronts. Still, it's entertaining enough once it gets rolling, and it's not MegaPiranha.

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BBC America is going to start airing Star Trek:TNG five nights a week. I have no idea what the rationale behind that is, but I'm willing to take advantage of it.

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There are a fair number of commercials for products that are on the Iron Man 2 bandwagon. I know there's an Audi one, and I think there's two others that I've only seen in fast-forward. MY favorite, though, is the one for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The tagline is, "Peanut butter was just peanut butter until it built a suit of chocolate."

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That guy with the ASL version of Party in the USA did a live show in Tulsa, for some reason. I'm not sure why. The point is, I clicked on the video of the last song - Kris Allen's Live Like We're Dying - and the screaming from the crowd was so loud and so high-pitched through the computer speakers that my cat jumped up and fell off the bed trying to run away.