A short review of "the Good, the Bad, the Weird"

I just finished watching "the Good, the Bad, the Weird" on DVD, but I don't think its out anywhere in the west yet so thought I'd mention it.

It's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. At best its a good if deeply deeply flawed movie. It is, however, utterly bonkers. And is easily insane enough to be a lot of fun. Both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this Korean mess. Its well worth seeing if your into action movies and subtitles don't put you off. I look forward to watching this one again sometime (perhaps with beer and pretzels).

Bugger

Apple seems to have an uncanny knack of really annoying me sometimes. The latest story about their Patent lawsuit against HTC has got me a little upset. Its just another lame attempt at money grabbing and competition stifling (no matter what they say). I don't argue against someone having the right to making some money of their own invention, or someone being able to protect their work. But Apples love of patenting ideas is just ridiculous. You should patent the technology at the transistor level, patent the code, but not the idea. Isn't there a better way of doing that.... *** copy write *** (and I'm aware that there are plenty people around that do this rant better than me).

Also, I'm becoming increasingly interested in buying an iPad after a few months to see how things fair. It doesn't have flash, but its likely to be the only tablet with a healthy amount of comic distribution and game distribution for some time. Such things interest me.

This leads me to my conclusion of - Bugger.