Sharkboy and I have decided to give it one more go. I am, of course, 25% relieved, 77% happy and 5% bad at math. I need to stop being so giving and more vocal when things start to pile up in the trash thats inside my head. We’re going slow. And we’re going the “open relationship” route, with parameters and paradigm in place. I figure if my brother can do it, so can I. I consider it something new and worth of an attempt and in accepting it, I am excited… like getting a new credit card with $1000 limit on it. I trust Sharkboy and if he can come back to me after the way I treated him during the last blow up, then I know without a doubt that he loves me.

Now to more trivial things: It would seem that George Lucas did something right.

I watched THX 1138 last night and was suitably impressed with the work Mr Lucas did on his film. THX is the perfect example of how going back into a technically flawed, yet interesting piece of work and digitally remastering it can create a superior product. I can feel some of you get your backs up as I type this, but its true. THX is light in story (Mr Lucas admits to not being able to write a script, in the DVD extras – Ha! He admits it! Now apologize for Episode I!!) and borrowsome from prefab ideas (Brave New World, 1984), yet the movie is so tactile and stark that you get the sense that you’re going to leave eyeprints on it if you watch it. Now it’s even moreso with the remastering. And Ive forgotten how creepy Donald Pleasance was.

The additions just work, not like the excessive reworking in Star Wars Episode IV. None of the additions feel like they were mechanically inserted for the sake of visiual masturbation (…if you’ve seen the remastered THX, you’ll get that joke) and mesh seamlessly. They actually advance and enhance the film to a respectable level, but the only people who will see this film will be geeky basement dwelving nerds and Klingon makeup wearing convention goers.

And me, of course.

I havent watched Episode IV yet and want to see if George has fixed that dreadful “Han Solo stepping on Jabba’s tail” scene. That stank in it’s execution in the first run. I could do a better mixing job with iMovie.