...over at the Bleat today:

Well, the minute the movie begins you know you’re in for some cyberdrama, which means people scowling and typing really fast at computers with the mysterious user interface that bears no resemblance to any computers people use:

The moviemakers think we’ll just believe it without effort, because these are special hacker computers, I guess. It’s like a WW2 movie that features unscrupulous journalists who work on strange typewriters that have split keyboards and vertical platens and a space bar you activate with your feet. Audience would have wondered what the hell that was. But we’re supposed to believe that these guys have extra-different machines, all of which not only have different interfaces, but can be instantly understood and commanded by kidz whose l33t hacker skilzorz enables them to cut power to 1/3rd of the nation by looking at a picture of the United States on a computer screen.

DePalma is beaten up as well. What I find interesting is that even the lefty anti-war people who really, really want to like "Redacted" think that it stinks. This may be the biggest bomb since Nagasaki, and it couldn't happen to a more worthy director.

Also, some commentary on little Miss Shaker and the misanthropes (hey, that would be a great band name).

Lileks is a genius. I wish he'd cull the Bleat for the best bits and publish it.

I tolerated Die Hard 4. Some of the lines were good, and some eye-candy action. The premise was absurd.

I enjoyed the irony of the "I'm a Mac" guy being a pc hacker.

Also, wasn't the first "bad guy" helicopter the same helicopter used in the Scott-trade commercial?