Hostage (2005)

Wow! This was one heck of a movie. Hostage, as you would get from the previews, has a dual meaning. Bruce Willis is a retired negotiator whose family is taken hostage so that he may negotiate the proper setting in a hostage situation with a family to help out your corrupt bad men.

Three boys on what seems like a joyride end up at a mountain side home of a rich man, and

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Trip to Sacremento / San Francisco CA

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Vectorizing “The Glob” Characters from sideart

I got some 6 hi-res photographs of The Glob sideart last night from Richard. It is pretty simple, so for fun I went ahead and did one of the characters this morning. I traced the Frog in just under an hour.

I will probably work on The Glob himself next.

Birth (2004)

This was a weird one. I leave Sarah to her own devices, free movies from the library, and she comes home with some strange choices.

The basic premise, as the box will tell you, is that this woman believes this 10 year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Nicole Kidman does an awesome job of making this believable, but it doesn’t change the fact of how creepy this movie gets when she starts

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Vanity Fair (2004)

Who’s in it

Reese Witherspoon, Gabriel Byrne

What was good

Reese Witherspoon was beautiful as usual, but didn’t do much on the acting front.

What sucked

The previews made this movie seem like it was about Reese Witherspoon seducing men until she got to the top. From what I remember she was actually more ordinary and didn’t rise all that much on the social ladder.

Who should go see this

I don’t think I would recommend this to anyone. It

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Hitch (2005)

A truly funny and original movie. Will Smith and Kevin James are a more natural pair up then it would seem.

Will Smith plays “Hitch”, a dating doctor of sorts. He makes opportunities for his clients to be noticed by a woman that they are interested in. He then coaches them as how to treat them and keep them long term. Kevin James is an accountant who is in love

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Changing shortcuts / Customize shortcuts in 3DS Max

I have mentioned in passing that I have been trying desperately to get a firm hold on 3DS Max for the last 3-4 weeks. It is a dense program, and I attribute that to the fact that Autodesk (Discreet) is also CAD, which to me is all about architecture and engineering and not user friendly GUI’s. This program is very dense, and would be hard to organize, but seriously, it can be so overwhelming. This is the hardest program I have ever had …