Aug. 10th, 2004
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/steamboy/index.html
I loved Akira - still do, really, despite the utter incomprehensibility that was the inevitable result of compressing several phonebook-sized books into a single movie. And now, its creator's next work has finally made it to America. On the big screen.
Damn, but I can't wait to see this one. The trailer alone is better than the majority of what they've foisted on us out of Hollywood this year.
I loved Akira - still do, really, despite the utter incomprehensibility that was the inevitable result of compressing several phonebook-sized books into a single movie. And now, its creator's next work has finally made it to America. On the big screen.
Damn, but I can't wait to see this one. The trailer alone is better than the majority of what they've foisted on us out of Hollywood this year.
FOUR YEARS AGO, when it was suggested to him that he should run for the Senate in New York, he said: "I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it."
(Excerpted from the article here: http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040806/OPINION03/408060306/1023 )
And yet he's going into Illinois, and running for the right to pretend that he represents them. I guess 9/11 really did change everything...
(Excerpted from the article here: http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040806/OPINION03/408060306/1023 )
And yet he's going into Illinois, and running for the right to pretend that he represents them. I guess 9/11 really did change everything...