"...he’s a Sisyphean figure wondering how the hell he got to here and wishing he was home with a beer in his hand. Nineteen years after doing Christmas Eve battle with money-grubbing German terrorists in a Los Angeles office tower, McClane is so far past his sell-by date that his existential exhaustion becomes more than a mere character trait; it’s his entire raison d’etre. Set over the July Fourth weekend, the proudly post-9/11 Live Free or Die Hard is festooned with references to anthrax alarms ..."That one not quite a paragraph has about 5 words in it that have never appeared in Metro. And one that I had to look up.
A diary of sorts, about moving from England to California. Partly because I looked for something similar when I decided to do this, and thought it might contain interesting lessons learned. Mostly to avoid boring my friends with anecdotes.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Film Review
I've gone on about the LA Weekly before, but there was a review of the new Die Hard film in it. Here's a quote from it:
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