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2003-09-26

The trailer was wrong. Way wrong, mostly because this isn’t an action-movie. It is an action-comedy with a large portion of it belonging to a romantic subplot. While I really would like to see the movie they promoted in the trailer, I honestly believe the actual result was better. It wasn’t overly Matrixy (as I feared it would be), and while there where things that seemed borrowed from Blade, they did use it differently. In the end, it was more about the characters than the nifty action or the expensive pixel-layer. I liked it whole lot.

And was it just me or did anyone else have a “Oooo! Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back”-moment when Reeve enters the church with his lightsaber collapsable sword in his belt?

People have said that the new Neal Stephenson book (Quicksilver — big and cover in silverish grey) doesn’t have anything in common with science fiction at all. These people also claims that it is a non-genre book, but that’s obviously because they miss the finer points of genreness definition. The book in question has two — I’ve counted them — maps. It’s clearly fantasy, no doubt about it. Oh, the the main charatcer is called Enoch. Gee, supernatural in volume two or three? Yeah. Probably not lots of much, but some must occur.