June, 19, 2001 archives

so, the phantom menace is finally going to come out on dvd. right around my birthday, as it happens. but i don't want it! i'd rather have this movie. (i still haven't even seen phantom menace, but i'll probably put it in my netflix queue when it is released.)

speaking of movies, i watched se7en several times over the last few days (for the first time, and then to listen to a couple of the commentary tracks). i like david fincher's work, and the film is pretty good. but i knew a little too much about the ending going in (but not who played the killer, which was a cool surprise), and i don't think all of the killings fit into the pattern very well. (a slight non-sequitor: a group of bears is known as a sloth, and a group of apes is a shrewdness.)

one more movie-related tidbit. i watched all the president's men last night (catching up on another movie classic thanks to netflix), and it was very odd to see the dad from seventh heaven in the movie as the former treasurer of nixon's reelection campaign.