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| Friday, May 27, 2005 01:21 PM |
| Hit and Miss |
 by Fëanor |
- Some of you may have noticed some "too many connections" mysql errors popping up on my site earlier. Turns out you're supposed to free up result sets and close connections after you're done working with the database. Heh. Anyway, I've added clean-up code to the end of all the pages on the site that connect to the database, so hopefully we won't have that problem again. Until, of course, the site becomes so famous and popular that literally too many people are connected at the same time. :D
- Now, for some exciting stuff I found on The Movie Blog this morning: First of all, there's a new War of the Worlds trailer (click your favorite size under "VIEW THEATRICAL TRAILER"), and it totally rocks. I wasn't a big fan of the original film--I thought it was preachy and rather silly. In fact, most alien invasion films are silly in one way or another, and end up being, at best, fun popcorn-fests that you watch just to see the explosions. But it looks like Spielberg is playing this one straight, and is examining what might happen to us, as people and as a society, if our planet was actually attacked by an overwhelmingly powerful extraterrestrial force. If you think about that idea seriously, it is a completely horrifying one, and this movie looks like it has the potential to be very frightening and moving and exciting.
- Another exciting new trailer is this one for David Cronenberg's new film, A History of Violence. I hadn't heard about this movie before, but it looks totally fascinating. It's Viggo Mortensen as a small-town guy with a dangerous past which is unearthed when he's forced to defend his diner from criminals. Ed Harris plays a scary-looking dude with whom Viggo has some kind of history. Looks like some great acting and an intriguing mystery. Plus, it's Cronenberg. Sometimes I don't like his movies, but they're always interesting and different.
- This is really cool news. Number one, I love Rodriguez and Tarantino. Like Cronenberg, they can be hit-and-miss, but they always make interesting films, and they made some of my favorite films of the '90s. Number two, I love the horror genre, and the idea of these two guys each doing their own horror film is just fantastic. Number three, I really love the inventive and different idea of putting those two movies together and then screening them with extra material between, like programmers used to do at the old school movie houses. Awesome. I hope this doesn't turn out to be a rumor.
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