The Importance of Being Idle

Terrible What Passes For A Ninja These Days

Well I've finally seen Speed Racer, and all I can say is; I loved it! It was everything I'd hoped it was going to be and more, and I am thoroughly disappointed in the movie going public for shunning it! I suppose the critics are to blame though, and it's marketing. It was obviously marketed as a kids movie, yet with an extended running time, inter-cutting time shifted narratives and an anti-capitalist plot about the manipulation of sports for the gain of corporations I'm not sure kids are gonna sit through it. Then again, it has a comedy chimp. Much like the Matrix trilogy was, this is the Wachowski brothers doing what they apparently like to do, make smart movies about dumb things. Technologically and visually it is just stunning, there's no other way to describe it; like the ultimate sugar rush of colour and motion and whilst it starts as over-whelming you soon start to wish our world was as vibrant as theirs. And they do have a world, a whole complete parallel to our own, perfectly realised. And I'm completely in love with Trixie; obviously she's beautiful 'cos she's Christina Ricci, but she loves all the same things that Speed does and is just as good at them. And as I mentioned, she's beautiful.
So yeah, I enjoyed that.
Today is also the day the the fifth (count 'em!) edition of 40K graced us with it's presence and I have to say I've been actively avoiding going into GW for pretty much that very reason. Not that I'm not excited about the prospect of 5e, 'cos I am, it's just having to shell out for anothe rule book so soon? I suppose it's not that soon since fourth came out, I've just been away for a while. And I am looking forward to a new Space Marine Codex. Still they've made it all but irresistible by putting extra fluff in and actually adding to current events in the universe rather than it's back story ('cos let's face it we all know that anyway and the Black Library Horus Heresy books are filling in more detail than any rulebook could ever hope for). I had been hoping to make something of a return to traditional Warhammer land, maybe even dabble a little in the LoTR game ('cos I just love the miniatures, I absolutely have to paint the Fellowship, at least one troll, a Balrog and something of Nazgul persuasion at the bare minimum!) and even though I will go to my grave saying that fantasy is the better game there is something about the characters, scope and iconography of 40K that is utterly irresistible and constantly draws me back. It's been a while since I've frittered money away in GW, in fact it's been a while since I've had money to fritter, or the time to enjoy things thus frittered on. Let's hope my upcoming weeks holiday (upcoming in a couple of weeks) will herald time to enjoy toy soldiers. And movies, video games, running and anything and everything else I can think of! It's only a week...

posted by BadMonkey @ 9:47 PM