Thomas Price

A Worthy Companion to "Blade Runner", July 29 2003

Take a look above and you'll find that a lot of people recommend Blade Runner in addition to this movie.

That's no mistake, and no coincidence. Okay, while "Blade Runner" has and most likely always will be the best film adaptation of a Philip K Dick story, "Minority Report" is a close second. There's no 4 1/2 stars rating, so I'll give it a 5.

What you get here is a very timely tale given today's society. While we are no longer afraid of technology in itself (robots destroying humanity is getting a little over-used as a theme) we are afraid of what others will do with that technology. In a time where insurance companies are selling policies to cover identity theft, what could be… Read more

Philip Marlowe as a Hippie?, July 15 2003

There are two types of Coen brothers movies. There's when the Coens decide to challenge the analytical part of the mind (Barton Fink, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There) and there's the lighter side of the Coens (O Brother Where Art Thou, Raizing Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy).

This, my friends, is the latter.

And in my humble opinion....their funniest movie to date!

Yes, this means that I'm ranking it above O Brother (which is, according to Joel C., "the most expensive three stooges movie ever made"). What, you don't agree?

Okay, let me put this straight.

Well, there's The Dude. And you may not realize it, but he is a private detective in the leanest sense of the… Read more

Demanding but immersive, July 14 2003

First off, let me just start by saying that MOH is the most well-written FPS out there. The story line continues from mission to mission and doesn't resort to the shambling zombies and cyborg enemies that another "WWII-era" FPS does (initials RTCW?). While I will admit that the Normandy Beach mission does seem lifted right out of Saving Private Ryan, it does lead on to some very interesting hedgerow missions.

That said, there are some problems that I'd like to discuss in this review. For starters, there's game performance. I own a PowerMac G4 867DP (MDD) with a GeForce MX440 32MB card and 1GB RAM. This was a heavy-duty machine when MOH came out. And I get frame rate drops all the… Read more