French Mechanicking
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If my car were a person it would have a driver's license by now. That's both good and bad. It means it doesn't have any electrical gimmicks so if something goes wrong odds are that I can fix it myself. But on the other hand it's ageing and that means added maintainance. And lastly, it's french.

The french have an approach to mechanics which always reminds me of Richard McDuff's sofa. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (by Douglas Adams, as you should well know), a sofa is irreversibly stuck on the staircase to Richard's apartment. It can't be edged out. Being a geek and a programmer he makes a computer simulation of the whole situation and makes the following discovery: Not only is the sofa impossible to remove, but there is no way for it to have got into that position in the first place.

In France, these conundrums are embraced by the car industry and every car is put together like a mix of origami and complex 3D puzzles. For example, it can't be considered normal to basically rip the car apart just to be able to get the oil pan out. My Clio is half-way through it's curing process now and my fingers are recharging their healing powers. Chin up.

tack tack

--Drekafluga--

miðvikudagur, maí 06, 2009
Iron Man is still the best
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If you've yet to see Wolverine, make sure to stay through the credits. There are two hidden scenes. Now, there will be some spoilers here so if you don't want to know, don't read on.

Only one thing about Iron Man was downright laughable. When Stark came back from captivity he said he wanted an American cheeseburger and was promptly given one from a Buger King of all places. So no biggie there and compared to Wolverine it's negligible.

First, too many characters. I mean, I like comic book characters. I like seeing them on screen. What I don't like is having way too many and sometimes very vague characters plastered all over it for no apparent reason. Storybending was within limits for the most parts but I was disappointed by what they did to Wade Wilson. Deadpool (Wade) is one of my favourite characters and Ryan Reynolds was spot-on but Deadpool came off like a rushed idea in the end scene.

Wolverine has amazing hearing and can smell a person a mile away. Why didn't he notice his wife was still alive, even in his hysterical state?

The one thing that irked me the most though, were the adamantium bullets. Yes, for storytelling purposes in both previous and future films, Wolverine would have to lose his memory. But to have permanent bullet sized holes in his adamantium skull is a major flaw.

It made me wonder, remember that scene in X2 where the police surrounded Bobby's house. Wolverine got shot in the head and went out cold for a minute. Then the bullet got pushed out of the wound and he was awake. There is not enough enough tissue on a person's forehead for a bullet to get stuck there and it was a flaw of that film that it did. But it happened so therefore the bullet must have hit the hole left by the adamantium bullets and entered Logan's brain. Yet it had no effect. Weird, huh?