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TRON? TR-OFF!

by taoski on April 2, 2006

I managed to get a copy of TRON from… er… somewhere and it's a great copy in widescreen too!

I attempted to convert it to DVD using DVD Santa and got an "Unsupported video stream" error. Roxio 8 also decides to give me a cryptic "unspecified error" plus a load of hex to go with it! Fecking computers!

So, it appears that the format of the file is one of those odd DivX ones that refuses to convert without a lot of hassle. I also downloaded DivXtoDVD too (after reading a few good things about it) and after converting and burning which took about 2 hours, the quality of the DVD is jumpy and the audio is about 3 seconds ahead of the video!

Good job i've still got my old, modded XBox to watch it on over the network.

On a side note, I have decided to post at least once per day this month in an attempt to kick start my blogging again. I failed yesterday though already! I was discussing a possible "april fools day" post with Swimpig over breakfast yesterday but nothing came of it.

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TRON

by taoski on March 31, 2006

This is the story of two worlds and the beings who inhabit them. One of these is our world, the one we can see and feel. The world of the 'Users'.

It lies on our side of the video screen. The other, an electronic micro-civilization, lives and breathes just beyond our grasp. This is the world of the 'Programs'.

Because we, the Users, have created this new world, part of us lives there, too…ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN

I'm off to find this film this weekend!

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Snikitt!

by taoski on December 6, 2005

Lock up my wife, Logan's back.
Get the trailer over at Quicktime.com

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Retraction

by taoski on November 24, 2005

I would like to retract my earlier statement regarding the casting and special effects used to make Mad Eye Moody in the new Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire film.

I watched most of it last night in the Taoski's Torrent Sofa Cinema and I was impressed! It certainly is the best HP film to date - and I have'nt even got to the good bit yet at the end of "The Maze"…

Mad Eye is done very well actually and does the character justice.

So… sorry… I appologise.

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Mad eye

by taoski on November 7, 2005

No, no, no, no… NO!

This is not what I expected Mad Eye Moody to look like!

In my minds eye he was a lot more "grotesque" than this. He was more kind of like Robert Deniro's version of Frankenstein's monster. And what the hell is that? A strap on eye? Get a grip!

I might have to go back and check The Goblet Of Fire for the first description of Moody - but this just destroys him for me. Nearly as bad as casting Keanu Reeves as John Constantine for the poor film version of the Hellblazer comics….

Casting directors….. "Stupefy!"

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