After missing it in the Japanese theaters and on airplanes in-flight service and in hotel rooms’ pay-per-view, I finally saw Collateral last night via rental DVD. Due to a sense of high school nostalgia caused by Manhunter and Miami Vice (forgiving a misstep with The Keep ), I am willing to watch just about anything Michael Mann makes. Moreso that Heat , Collateral felt like a return to the stylings of Miami Vice’s action and drama, with natural, well-paced comedy to even out the emotional pacing. In a word, Collateral was good. With all the freak-out based press Tom Cruise has been given, and hearing what appears to be zealotry in his responses to a German interviewer who questioned the data as Cruise presented it, it is even easier to watch him in the role of a villain. It is probably preferable; he did a good job with the arrogant, untouchable Lestat in Interview with the Vampire , though that character was a bit more ham-fisted than the role of assassin, Vincent, pla...
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ReplyDeleteYou can also go buy a 4GB hard disk for the PSP, provided you're willing to pay nearly the same as the unit itself. Or you can drop a couple of Franklins on a big memory stick; up to 2GB now, right? That gets you to about the same price as the iPod, doesn't it? I mean the 60GB one, not the 30.
I probably won't buy one, since I am getting along nicely with my iPod shuffle for songs, and my iBook for video; though I must admit to wanting a new iBook; my current one is long in the tooth, and is beginning to go senile. Either way, I think my 12" iBook screen is better than an iPod or a PSP's screen.
ReplyDeleteIt's also worth nothing that I've only got 20GB of storage on my iBook and 40GB on my home desktop machine, so I don't even have much room to swap music and video around in.