Sunday, 19 January 2003
Went and saw Gangs of New York last night...
It's got plenty of action, most of the acting and dialogue is ok (as far as I'm concerned), and the story cracks along at a fair old pace... Till the end. Then it completely loses focus and by the time it's finished you're wondering what the hell the film was about. My first words were "what was that film about?" and Neil said "yeah, I dunno", and Jamie said "that's exactly what Marcello said!". Jamie quite liked it, me and neil felt it was missing something really really badly. I would say don't bother seeing it, the end disappoints in a big way.
My guitar still needs fixed. I'm still unemployed.
I've been getting excited by wargaming again. There's a new version of Games Workshops Epic system in the wings, and the rules are available on the website so that gamers can play it and provide feedback. I think the main drive behind this decidedly out of character behaviour at GW is that Jervis Johnson REALLY liked the last version of Epic (Epic 40k), but nobody else did and it barely sold at all. I think the new rules are looking better than the Epic40k rules, but I've not seen the up-to-date version of the rules yet.
Games Workshop stuff is still damned expensive. There haven't been the utterly ridiculous price rises we saw in our last year of playing GW games but I still find their prices somewhat excessive. And the kind of thing I like is how they're planning to move the entire Epic line from plastics to metal.
Apparently metal miniatures have lots of advantages over their plastic counterparts, and it's true that the metal Epic stands will save a lot of time putting together the plastic ones, but it gives them an excuse to raise the prices on them. A lot of their reasoning behind not using plastics is that it costs a lot to set up plastic molds, but plastic models *always* sell cheaper than metal ones. It used to be that five quid would buy you several hundred stands of Space Marines or whatever, now I expect five quid will buy you maybe 5, or perhaps 10, but certainly nowhere near one hundred.
See you later.