This is an animated movie in the Star Wars series, in this case dealing with events between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
The Good: The dialog between Anakin and his newly assigned padawan, Ahsoka, is entertaining almost throughout the film, growing tiresome only a couple of times. Graphically, the movie is well executed, with a distinctive style to the drawing and an almost filmed quality to the animation.
In this third of the series of Mummy movies, the O’Connells find themselves in China, battling the resurrected Han emperor, who wields magical powers, and his army of terra cotta warriors.
The Good: Pretty much everything about this film is good. Visually, it’s powerful, with great settings and excellent special effects—fully up to what you’d expect, given the previous films. The story itself is well written, with a clear arc of rising conflict, driven by the desires of opposing characters, and those characters are, themselves, well conceived. Everyone has a believable motivation, even the emperor’s modern toady. Further, the dialog is well-written, with some great little moments of true humor injected into otherwise tense scenes. (”The next time I say we’ve been in rougher spots before, this is the spot I mean!”) The acting is right on target from opening to ending, without a hitch. And the action itself is so smoothly integrated into the story that I forgot I was watching an action film.
At first blush, the idea of a Chief Technology Officer for the US of A strikes me as a good idea. After all, the Internet we know and love was originally a DARPA project. But Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins makes a good case for keeping government mouthpieces ignorant of tech speak. Read his article, “Do We Really Need a National CTO?,” and let me know what you think.
If you haven’t given Twitter a look, I’d definitely recommend it. It’s a free Web application with transformative potential.
If you have given Twitter a look, and weren’t impressed, or just didn’t get it, I’d recommend trying it again. Consider this quote from Al Tompkins of The Poynter Institute: “I have hated Twitter for more than a year. It always seemed silly and a waste of time. But having used it steadily for about three weeks, I find it is a great way for me to pass along quick story ideas as they develop throughout the day.”
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