Today was nice and relaxing - Holidays are good. I woke up to my phone ringing because the server room was calling to complain about the power being out. Apparently there was a power outage, and the generators kicked in. I never heard about another one, so it must have transitioned off OK (or still running on them). Anyways, after bugging people about them having to work and me sitting around doing nothing for a while, I caught up on news and then went to watch movies.
First movie of the day was Underworld. That movie has one of the most awesome non-DTS soundtracks I've heard. Usually it seems people just don't pay attention to the regular mix, and the DTS is so much better. I sometimes think it's so the DD mix sounds better on cheap speakers, so in this case it could be that this isn't a super mainstream movie. I don't remember if the normal cut had quite the same quality either. I like the extra footage in some areas, but at least one could have been left out. More explanations for stuff, longer fight sequence at the end... Very good movie. Second movie was The Butterfly Effect. I watched the Director's cut, as that's the one I like better. Some of you may remember I watched this last fall and all the guys liked the Director's cut and the girls liked the Theatrical cut. The reasoning was mainly because of the last scene and the possibility of them getting back together. So I'm watching the deleted scenes and the extra two endings that has which are similar to the theatrical release. One of those actually has them getting back together. So if you really liked that way and wanted to see that happen, you should watch the alternates. And I have some dust in my projector apparently. It's not noticable sometimes, but other times is really noticable (especially after you notice it). I think I'll have to figure out how to get that apart and take a look at it.
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I remember my townhouse (four comp sci majors) watched The Butterfly Effect for the first time last semester and were all blown away by the beginning. Not at all what we expected and it was approved with lots of "whoa..."