Meh…. Ibex wouldn’t recognize the new raid controller config, so the update went very wrong. Between scouring newsgroups and reading up on kernel patches it took me until 2 am to get my system back to where I wanted it, only to discover that my carefully crafted bluetooth hacks to get my fancy ass keyboard and mouse working all went to hell. I gave up and went to bed.
Saw Coraline in 3D yesterday. It was fun. Not the best movie to be sure, but still quite fun. A little too nerf’ed for my taste, but then again, they really were aiming at kids with this. It’s sad, but so much good fantasy and horror gets nerfed for consumption by kids, and I don’t see why. ‘s not like the nightly news isn’t a horror show all by itself, and children are already little monsters. The whole point of grimms tales was to scare the pants of kids and make ‘em think twice before running off into the woods alone with a stranger, or eating a magical mushroom.
Coraline is actually a pretty spooky book. It reads more like a ghost story than any sort of animated romp. But I wasn’t expecting the movie to live up to it. I was however dissapointed in how nerfed it actually got. And what the fuck was with the addition of the boy? He had no point whatsoever in being in the damn movie.
Artificial injection of a love interest in a children’s movie?
Dear gods, please deliver me from markters.
3d was pretty good tho. N33t.