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| Thursday, November 3, 2005 06:18 PM |
| Fun for Everyone |
 by Fëanor |
- The internet keeps feeding my obsessions. Yesterday Cinematical posted this list of top seven movie trilogies. It's a good list, and I like it. I own either single episodes, or (in most cases) the entirety, of every trilogy on the list. Of course, one of these is arguably not a trilogy anymore (there are six Star Wars movies now, although you could certainly say that they are split into two separate trilogies), and one or two of them may not remain that way for long (there've been rumors of a fourth Evil Dead film for years now), but that's just nitpicking.
- Looking back at the original article, I see that this wasn't really the focus of the interview, and that Frank maybe didn't mean to make a sweeping statement. But it still does sound like he's saying that CGI characters will eliminate the effectiveness of puppets in movies, and I think that's just plain wrong-headed. There will always be space for both in movies. They're each just different ways of simulating reality, and both work in their own ways. Sometimes the puppet, simply by its very actuality and physicality in space, can be more effective. I definitely prefer the puppet Jabba to the CGI Jabba. But it's not all about being more real; sometimes you just want the style that a puppet gives. A computer-generated muppet would not have at all the same appeal as the plain old physical, hand-operated ones we all grew up with.
- Two fun Cinematical nuggets for the price of one: Neil Jordan is making a movie about the Borgias, and Colin Farrell and Scarlett Johansson are going to be in it, as members of the infamous Roman family; and they're currently casting a sci fi film called The Watch "about a team of elite soldiers sent to blow up a German fuel depot who become the target of an evil spirit unleashed by Nazi occult experiments." Awesome. The latter film is produced by Matt LeBlanc, which doesn't make me happy, but it sounds like some sort of crazy Indiana-Jones-of-the-future-type plotline, so I'm hooked anyway.
- I don't care what anybody says, I like Nicolas Cage. And the last bullet point in this post reveals that he's going to be in an action/sci-fi film with the luminous Julianne Moore, playing a guy who can see the future. So yeah. I'll probably be checking that out.
- It's looking like a cancelled Whedon show reunion on upcoming vampire movie Thirst, with folks from "Buffy," "Angel," and "Firefly" in the cast. The movie's about a woman with a terminal disease who considers becoming a vampire in order to stay alive. But really, I'll see any old vampire movie that comes along; the Whedon alumni are just icing on the cake. The bloody, undead cake.
- Another game that I'd really like to try that's coming out exclusively on the PS2 is Guitar Hero, a rhythm game in which you use a special guitar controller to play along with a song. I guess this is another one to file away until the PS3 comes out - or I could just wait until Peccable inevitably picks it up.
- Dude, zombies in 3D! Specifically, a Night of the Living Dead remake in 3D. It'll probably suck, but...zombies in 3D!!!
- Okay, this might finally get me into collectable card games.
- I should have been expecting this, but for some reason I wasn't: Castlevania movie! Directed by the guy who did Alien vs. Predator, no less. I'm one of the weird people who liked Alien vs. Predator, and I definitely loved the original Castlevania for the NES (even though it was way too hard and I never beat it), so that's cool. Maybe this'll be the movie to finally break the movies-made-from-videogames-are-bad curse. Or not.
- Thanks to the fact that the most generous and Super of Tarzans lent me his copy of the latest episode in George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, I can offer you a new feature: the Feast for Crows Spoiler of the Day! As I work my way through the book, I'll be discussing it here. Just highlight to read: I've only gotten through the first few chapters, but I'm loving the book so far. Fantastic writing, intriguing new perspectives, wonderful character development. Awesome. I particularly like The Prophet, Aeron "Damphair" Greyjoy. That guy's a nut, but he still came up with the best and most politically viable solution to the question of succession on the Iron Islands - don't pick any side, just have a big conference about it. Good call!
Cersei's first chapter was excellent. What's with the reference to the old woman in the tent, though, and the doom in a drop of blood thing? Huh. Man is she going to freak out if she ever figures out that Jaime helped get Tyrion out of jail. Having read the sample chapter at the end of Storm of Swords, I know how wrong she is about Kevan being a pushover, and how difficult it's going to be for her to hold onto power. Poor crazy, bitchy Cersei.
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