ALT: Joel Kinnaman as Tak Kovacs in a dark, strange world, wearing a blue coat and shirt; he's looking around in wonder. Oh god, I didn't know whether I could get past the first episode: I love dystopian futures, but this seemed hackneyed... Altered Carbon has the feel of sometimes The Hunger Games , sometimes Harry Potter , often Repo! The Genetic Opera or Gotham City or Narcopolis .There's martial arts, comic booky treatments, digital effects and story content. Some of it is dumb, and the names for things in the future are lazy: The Array is the internet, a sleeve is a host, ONIs are basically smartphones, Poe is like TNG's Data, Meths are the 1%, and paying my chip-implanted fingers is technology that's already here. The "strong, independent woman cop" is the lamest character attempt/trope out there, and the actress is terrible. The producers seem to be trying to appease audiences on every front rather than trying to make a solid, consistent produ
Got a ton of movies and cds in the mail to review, but this is my current fave: Dengue Fever's Venus on Earth. Go to this link and scroll down to their mp3 samples (they haven't allowed downloads so I can't plug it in here). So the deal, as I understand it from the somewhat dubious source of the CBC, is that these two NY guys were travelling and....well, let's make a long story short and say they ended up hooking up (musically) with the Janet Jackson of Cambodia, decided to collaborate, and came out with the coolest thing since I-don't-know-what. Check out Tiger Phone Card in particular. One caveat: the "album in stores" thing should be taken with a grain of salt coz I could not get it except via online--maybe it's an American thing... This album is definitely worth exploring if you are into indie/fusion.
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