No, you relax, you're the dead guy!*

[bending_sickle]

While exercise is all well and good, I'm a bit tired of ending the day and entering relax-mode at 9 pm. Ye gods, I'm knackered. Also, internet browser still being a pain, not loading whenever it feels like it, so tomorrow I'm running the 'puter through another antivirus.

Yesterday I watched White Noise 2: The Light (2007) (Wiki, IMDB, Trailer). This is a sequel to the less-well received White Noise with Michael Keaton. WN2 stars Nathan Fillion, which is the only reason I watched this film. (On that note, The Waitress is also on my list of films to see.)

The premise is that Nathan's character has a near death experience and can now pick up ghost signals without having to go through the bulky special cameras folk like the Ghost! Ghostchasers! or the nifty altered walkmans the Winchesters would need. As part of this ability, he can identify people who are going to die and thus does the obvious thing. There's one hilarious moment where Nathan's character and his one-dimensional friend (most other characters are pretty one-dimensional) discuss how this makes him sound like some sort of super hero, all "Captain Tightpants". I had to pause the video I was so full of glee. Oh, Captain! A Firefly always makes things better.

So anywho, there's a glitch to these heroics, although it doesn't take the turn that Final Destination does. There's an unexpected dash of Christianity (it's all the devil's fault, of course) and numerology and shot after shot of research scribbles which gets a bit much, especially when it doesn't make any sort of sense. Oh, and the "going towards the white light" scenes are just...gah, too sweet for my taste. (Just once, I'd like the person at the other end to say, "What the hell'd you do that for? You want to be with me?!? You turn right around and get your ass into that body, mister!")

In general, it's quite watchable, not scary or terribly tense, but a bit bland towards the end. Nathan's nice, the supporting actress Nurse Sherry's bubbly (although shaaaame on the film recurring to "Look! Colourful hair!" as the means of making us remember her when she moves from cameo to role). I loved Nathan's freak out when he's home alone seeing things, and later when he calls his friend:

Abe Dale: [Abe calls his friend] Hey Marty how would you feel about me dropping by?
Marty Bloom: [Marty answers still sleepy] Abe? Yeah, sure why not?
Abe Dale: How does right freakin’ now grab you?

The end was logical if you followed the Christianity bit, although quite disappointing (needs more moral dilemma!). I forgive all, though, because that shot of Nathan's (holy fucking shit are they blue) eyes was lovely.


Links of the Day:

literaryquotes's Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson ; The October Country by Ray Bradbury
fabi7 (rule_my_world)'s Multifandom Icons
plasticminds's Multifandom Icons
crazy_pill's Lost Ben Linus Icons
ben_munchkin's Lost Fanvid To Be Judged (Ben)
Wondermark promotes Archive Binge - "At Archive Binge you can create a custom RSS news feed for a webcomic, which will take you through the archive, at a rate faster than the new comics update. This lets you get up to date on comics with large archives..."
Webster's Swahili-English Dictionary
The Alternative Swahili Dictionary
Online English-Swahili Dictionary
How to use combofix
How to temporarily disable McAfee


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