Terminator:Salvation & Watchmen
January 7, 2009
If you haven’t taken a look at these two upcoming movies yet, do it now. They both peak my interest for two very different reasons.
Terminator: Salvation looks incredible visually. The lighting and production design look like they finally bring this franchise into the 21st century. And Bale as John Connor? You simply can’t do better. Chills man, chills.
Watchmen interests me for another reason. As stated in the “journal” trailer: This seems like an “unfilmable” graphic novel. I sort of agree. The Watchmen graphic novel is quite good. It’s a rare and undeniable classic as well. It also happens to be self-cousciously campy and intentionally over-bizarro. Parts of it would work very well in film. An example would be Rorschach’s storyline. The over-arching story remains decidedly comic book, and I fear it will translate poorly on the big screen. Contrary to popular belief, this is my opinion on Sin City. The translation to screen was too literal and it should have stayed a comic book. If I wanted to read my comics on a big screen, I would scan them and project them on my livingroom wall. If you’re going to make a comic, make a comic. If you’re going to make a movie, make a movie. Movicomics suck. Never forget your medium. We’ll see how they do with this one. Fingers crossed…
P.S. The Watchman site is pretty cool. WB dropped some dollars.
Cloud Based Sumo Paint
January 3, 2009
No freakin’ way. Stranded on a desert Starbucks without your trusted copy of Gimp or Photoshop? Try Sumo Paint, an online PS clone that’s pretty elegant and sure to grow in funtionality as time goes by. This, along with cPanel (which I use through bluehost) means I can take care of pretty much every aspect of creating a web page with nothing but an active connection and a copy of Firefox.
Web 2.0 indeed.
Welcome to 2009, by the way.
