Truthfully, I wouldn't know how

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This afternoon was spent at Dura-Europos with wind05 and Sabitha, or at least at the very fine Yale-BC exhibit thereon. Names like Marcia Aurelia Mat-Tar'atha make me very happy. There were gods mentioned I had never heard of.

Pitch Black (2000) is a surprisingly good little piece of science-fiction survival horror with a successful genre-switch halfway through. I have been warned against the sequel.

For the foreseeable future, I will be in Providence with greygirlbeast and humglum, line-editing my eyes out.

I forgot about Daylight Savings.

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[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

The sequel had great ideas but poor science and might have worked beautifully if it had been better edited. It does have Dame Judy Dench in a small role, clearly having fun, and apparently the only reason she's in the film is because Mr. Diesel is a complete Judy Dench fanboy and asked her to do it. With lots of bouquets.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

The sequel switches genres once again, revealing that Riddick lives not in an Alien universe but on the outskirts of a very dark Star Wars one (or maybe even a Flash Gordon one), and turns him into Conan/Kull the Conqueror. They sort of can't be seen as sequels, even though they absolutely are, but I enjoy both of them on their own merits; if you had to pick and choose, though, Pitch Back would absolutely be the keeper.

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It does have Dame Judy Dench in a small role, clearly having fun, and apparently the only reason she's in the film is because Mr. Diesel is a complete Judy Dench fanboy and asked her to do it. With lots of bouquets.

Okay, that's pretty adorable.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

There were gods mentioned I had never heard of.

Count me as amazed.

I forgot Daylight Savings too. I thought Jarman's Tempest had made time jump.

Nine

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Riddick lives not in an Alien universe but on the outskirts of a very dark Star Wars one (or maybe even a Flash Gordon one), and turns him into Conan/Kull the Conqueror.

And I'm not sure how I feel about that, given the character (and the parameters of the world) established by this film; I don't think it needs space opera. greygirlbeast mentioned David Twohy and Vin Diesel keep talking about a third movie, although it does not yet seem to have materialized.

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I thought Jarman's Tempest had made time jump.

I'd believe it could do that. What did you think?

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed the exhibit, which sounds fascinating. I have to admit to a certain selfish wish they'd also show it in New Haven.

Hope all goes well in Providence.

I forgot about Daylight Savings.

I've not done that in a few years, mostly because of fortuitous circumstances involving my family having Things To Do on the day. I hope you didn't miss anything you'd regret missing on account of it, and that you got some good rest in the process of missing it.

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Glad you enjoyed the exhibit, which sounds fascinating. I have to admit to a certain selfish wish they'd also show it in New Haven.

They may have: most of the objects are from Yale's collection. It looked as though the initial excavations in the 1920's were under the university's direction.

and that you got some good rest in the process of missing it.

Hah. No. But I'm not dead yet.