Archive for June, 2006

I like thought-provoking films, challenging films… anything by Lars Von Triers, Wong Kar Wai, or Kubrick will usually do the trick.  Unlike the typified American - however true that stereotype is - I embrace subtitles, vastly preferring speed-reading to witnessing asynchronous voice performances and compromised translations.
There’s some question, then, as to why I paid cash […]

A brief list

djpretzel.com’s first and hopefully last redesign

While 20th Century Fox were wise to release their Omen remake on 6/6/06, viewers could just as easily have stayed home and watched the 1976 original and seen essentially the same thing, minus the inept direction of John Moore, lackluster soundtrack by Marco Beltrami (which dilutes some of Goldsmith’s original themes into almost unrecognizable schlock), […]

…I’ve spent the past several years building up a tolerance to iocaine powder.