Last night, I watched Die Hard: With a Vengeance. Tonight, I watched Cowboys & Aliens. Not exactly what you’d call a real feast for the brain on either count, but both movies had their (scattered) moments. The third Die Hard movie isn’t going to replace the first one on my list of favorites anytime soon, though I was amused by some of the casting. Particularly musician Sam Phillips as mute terrorist Katya. Her presence — plus that of Aldis Hodge (from Leverage) as a young boy — makes the movie seem a lot more interesting on paper than it actually is.
(Then again, Die Hard itself was based on a novel, which was a sequel to a book adapted to film in 1968…a film starring Frank Sinatra. So, on paper at least, Frank Sinatra starred in the prequel to Die Hard.)
As for the other movie…well, it does exactly what it says on the tin. There are cowboys, and there are aliens, and there’s a whole lot of stuff getting blowed up real good.
I spent almost all of a very rainy Tuesday working on the Kaleidotrope website. I think I’ll be ready to launch next Monday, with the first of four issues for the year, but I still need to do some work in the background to make it all hang together.