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Charlie’s Angels: Full… (6.0)

What made the original Charlie’s Angels movie great fun was that it featured cute chicks kicking ass and not taking themselves seriously, references to the series and other movies plus a kind of James Bondish spy action thing happening.

As a lot of sequels, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle decided that taking everything to the next level would be a good idea. Not the case. The Angels still dont take themselves seriously but try too hard, ending up with a constant “Look at us, we dont take ourselves seriously” attitude. That’s the least of their problems, the references to other movies are so numerous and over the top it sometimes feels like Austin Powers which, to me, doesn’t fit with what I expect from them. The action is also way out there, who ever decided everyone fighting nowadays has superpower like abilities? Kicking people 20 feet away, making 3 revolutions in the air from a one handed hold or swinging down buildings looks good when you’re Neo or Peter Parker, not when you’re “real word” spy chicks. If you thought Pierce or Vin were doing some crazy stuff, think again, this one takes it further, out of the somewhat plausible into super hero “lets take on the X-men” territory.

Last thing, go see The Italian Job if you want to see car chases that look real, seems with current CG effects everyone thinks they can make a good one with shots from GT3. Again, not the case.

Once again some quality content at Microdoc News, this time an article that is mostly a patchwork of quotes from various blogger opinions (hence the title). For “veterans” it makes for a good recap of recent ideas and discussions concerning the blogosphere. It can also be a good intro for people discovering blogs. From the intro:

We cannot see the blogosphere, and we cannot experience the blogosphere in its totality, we can experience it only in our minds and in reading and interacting with one weblog at a time.

Sounds a bit Matrixy.

Hard-boiled wonderland…

Metropolis Mag as a nice feature showing some designer workspaces. When I started working as a web… something, coder I guess, the desks cluttered with all sorts of wild things, wearing shorts to work, open space offices, flex time, etc. were all part of the draw, I now know better and look for different things but it’s still fun to see the stuff people pile in their space.

John Gruber is on fire this week, this time with a detailed, clear and funny destruction of a Paul Boutin article in Slate. Linux and Macs aim for largely different markets (although there is some overlap), the rise of Linux hurts Microsoft first and foremost but I guess it’s more fun for Boutin to pit the two little guys against each other.

The book pile list in the sidebar isnt complete, it’s the list of novels I know I’ll get to but in my apartment there are many other books that I just hope to get to, technical, science, classics, etc. Probably at least twice as many as what I list here and of course every trip downtown or on St-Denis has to include a stop at Indigo or Renaud-Bray so the pile keeps getting bigger or at the very least is sustained through the years which means it’s always a fresh reminder of all there is to read and how I wish I read even more.

That’s why I had a big smile on my face when I saw that Blork posted his summer reading list and mentionned that he has about a hundred unread books in his pile. Ah ah! someone worse than me! Of course, being the sneaky blogger that he is he quickly got his revenge to my laughing at him by listing books I’ll have to add to my pile! Damn you Blork!

The guys at Coudal Partners have come up with a list of “field tested” books to enjoy this summer. Various friends of the partners share some book/location combos they enjoyed. Might cost me another couple of additions to the book pile.

Wired as a quick review of the G5 design with Jonathan Ive. The reporter mentions that some PR flack cut it short. Too bad, I would have liked to read everything he had to say or even better, see it in quicktime.