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Is Watchmen unfilmable? I’ve seen the trailers. I’ve seen a bunch of clips. It looks good. The visuals are great. Hard to say much else about it, though, so far. I’m also reading the book for the first time. At the moment I’m over 3/4 through it, so I don’t know the whole story, but I’ve seen a lot of it. I like the book (probably not a surprise). Here’s the thing, though. Everyone . . . → Read More: Quick thoughts on Watchmen: unfilmable? For simplicity’s sake, I’m combining the statements of both daughters (currently 4 and 3). Kids: I don’t like much boys. Me: Why don’t you like boys? Kids: I don’t know. Me: Oh. Kids: You’re a boy! We love you! We don’t like any other boys except we love you. And that’s the way it better stay for at least 15 years. A couple years back, I ran across this Star Wars fan film. It’s still one of my favorites. The coolest thing about it is that it’s a completely original story, and it’s not set in the Star Wars universe. In the first film, Three in the Afternoon, three Star Wars geeks get an unexpected, mysterious delivery: a case with three real, working lightsabers. What would you do if they were delivered to you? The effects . . . → Read More: Tuesday TubeWatch: Free lightsabers in the real world Here’s the thing about Michael Bay’s Transformer films: from what I’ve seen, there’s not much plot involved. With this new trailer I was hoping we’d get some semblance of plot or something. I think there is about 3 lines of dialogue in the whole thing, surrounded by a bunch of special effects, frequently in slow motion: Don’t get me wrong… I love special effects (okay, technically they’re visual effects, mostly). But unless something happens . . . → Read More: New Transformers trailer is nice but… A long time ago, before I knew how to embed videos, I linked out to a David Letterman clip showing Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs (and a bunch of other guys) doing “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” as Guys with Banjos Who Know How to Use Them. It’s still one of my favorite live Banjo bits, mostly because I’m fascinated by the fact that Steve Martin can actually play the banjo. I don’t know why that fascinates . . . → Read More: Tuesday TubeWatch: Banjos and Steve Martin (and Star Wars!) My kids have been watching Signing Time on our local PBS station here for over a year now. They love the show so much that we got them one of the DVDs for Christmas. It really is a great kids show and in my opinion is one of the best educational shows out there. The goal of the show is to teach kids basic signs from American Sign Language. It’s a beginning point for learning . . . → Read More: Tuesday TubeWatch: Signing Time Well, here we are with more sci-fi news. This time it’ll be a mix of things old and new. Strap on your propeller hat and hang on, ’cause here we go… Spider-Man 4 is apparently going to shoot in 2010 for a 2011 release. This is information gleaned from an interview with J.K. Simmons, who plays J. Jonah Jameson in the films. Sam Raimi is on-board as director and Tobey McGuire is set to reprise . . . → Read More: Sci-fi rumors and news catch up This post is all about me feeling better about myself and bragging a little. If you can’t handle that, well, sorry. I promise the next post will get back to the usual insightful reporting you’ve come to expect. Not on this site, of course, but I guarantee that somebody is writing something insightful somewhere on the Internet in the next few seconds. The odds are with me on that. Of course the odds are against . . . → Read More: Statistics and Ego Stroking If you were the head of a movie company, which movies would you choose to spend $1.5 million per 30 seconds to advertise during the Super Bowl—an event watched primarily by people who like to watch men running and slamming into each other? Let me give you a hint: it wouldn’t be Wendy and Lucy. No. You get action. You get slow motion beatings and martial acrobatics. You get fast cutting, adrenaline pushing excitement and . . . → Read More: Tuesday TubeWatch: Super Bowl Movie Roundup I don’t follow football. At all. Never have. Most of the time I’m surprised to learn that the Super Bowl is on. I used to appreciate the commercials and watched mostly for them, but in the last few years that hasn’t been much of a draw either. So what was it about last night’s Super Bowl that was so great that I now sing it’s praises? It’s very simple: it kept all you crazy football . . . → Read More: Why I loved last night’s Super Bowl |
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