The Reloaded DVD is $14 ($16.32 with tax) at Best Buy. It’s two discs: the first disc is the movie and the second is Preload (the making of Reloaded), That Matrix Unfolds (covers both movies and the game), The Freeway Chase (a making of just for that), Get Me an Exit (commercialism at it’s best), Enter the Matrix (making of the game), and The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded (some Reloaded skit with the Bullet Proof Monkey and that Nsync guy). You actually get about two or three hours of special features on the second disk, which is pretty cool. One thing I have to comment on is the Get Me an Exit feature, which was actually a making of the commercials (Heinekin, Samsung Phone and TV, and Power-Aid). Was this really necessary? I mean, the commercials are crap (as are all commercials). Do I really need to see how they’re made? If I didn’t buy the product back in May when the world was in a Matrix-frenzy, why should I buy it now?
Other than that, it’s great. The movie is the same. If you didn’t like it in the theatre, you probably won’t like it on the DVD. Although, I must recommend at least renting it so you can replay the end and try to figure out just what exactly the Architect says. I picked up on a few very minute details which, coupled with the latest Revolutions trailer (did I mention that I saw the trailer on the big screen when I went to see Kill Bill?), gives you a pretty good idea of the story line for the third film.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 is awesome. It may be a tad on the bloody side for some but that just adds to the whole comic book effect. It’s great how they stole Bruce Lee’s jumpsuit from Game of Death.
My only criticism is that Uma should be a little bit more cautious when playing with swords. She chops off body parts left and right. Can’t she just stab them a few times and not take off their limbs and/or scalp?

In other news, we’ve had about two weeks of clouds and rain now. Take that, evil ball of fire in the sky! It finally feels like Seattle again.

3jane is down because I’m installing Slackware 9.1 (torrents). I’m still in the middle of installing all the packages so I’ll post about how I like it later.

Underworld: Don’t see it.
The Rundown: Irish people aren’t Scottish!

Underworld really did suck the big one. The only thing that made it bearable was Kate Beckinsale. Oh, and they totally stole the ending (Victor’s head getting chopped in half) from Equilibrium. That was just cheap.
The previews, on the other hand, were great. First there was Kill Bill which not only has a great theme song but also has an old ninja man kicking Uma Thurman’s ass. And then there was the Alien Director’s Cut. Only in theatres this Halloween. That’ll be sweet.

I’m moving the pig-monkey.com domain over to a different shell account. This shouldn’t mean anything to you, the reader, but the site (especially the blog) might be down for a short time while the files transfer over.

I’ve also re-released the site under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0.

Quicksilver comes out tomorrow. I’ll be heading over to Barnes & Noble right after school to pick it up (and if they don’t have any copies, I’ll be forced to put the hurting on someone). While I’m over there, I might as well go to Best Buy and annoy Brandon.

“We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability.”
–George H. W. Bush, “A World Transformed”, 1998