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| | The Intellectual Property Planes are Dissapearing | | | Sunday, March 22, 2009 (5:12 PM)
(I'm feeling aggravated) | |
I just finished re-reading the wikipedia page on one of my favorite classic computer games; American Mcgee's Alice. The game itself was not without flaws. I think the artwork was a little cartoonish at times betraying the game's major motifs, and the character development wasn't prize winning. However, the game was still amazing. The concept of a dark and mysterious version of wonderland, porteyed with interesting character models, witty acting, and haunting music. But that's not how our culutre will remember it.
I recently saw the Watchmen movie for my birthday, and it was amazing to see how faithfully Hollywood had re-made the masterpiece on the silver screen. However, that doesn't mean that I don't protest the fact that it was made into a movie in the first place, and that's probably the same way I feel when they fnish turning ALICE into a movie.
More and more, there is a morbid, growing, trend of taking cult-classic pieces of art and dumbing them down (even if only a little visa-vi "Watchmen") and turning them into movies which are far more PASSIVE experiences that are far less engaging and mentally stimulating. I used to think,
"Well if people go and see Watchmen they won't be tempted to believe that they have recieved the full experience, but rather the shadow of the full experience, which has only served to show people their favorite works of art in a different light"
But now, I feel as though the only purpose of these "Shadows" is to DRAG THE GOOD ART THROUGH THE MUD so the stupid and the lazy (those too lazy to play all the way though a video game or read a damn book) can somehow derive pleasure from it, like a necro-pheliac deriving pleasure from raping a corpse.
I used to think that it would be amazing to see a BONE movie done right, but maybe there is NO WAY to make a movie out of it, without changing it, and making it less valuable. Like refining sugar into cornsyrup. At this point, I'm starting to feel that no matter HOW good they're making your favorite video game movie look, your just going to come out of the movies feeling like it's been prostituted to stupid, movie-going-knucle-draggers. | | | 540 Views | 0  Thumbs Up | 9 Comments |  |
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| | If Certain PC Files Don't Work with Macs Even... | | | Saturday, March 14, 2009 (2:46 PM)
(I'm feeling Confused) | | Last night, when I couldn't find anything on the internet to amuze me, I went back and started replaying certain missions in Call of Duty 4 in arcade mode. After MANY exasperating attempts to play through all of "War Pig" without being gunned down, I got my highest score yet, and turned off my brother's console feeling finally satisfied at my preformance on the virtual battlefield. Not yet ready to retire to my bed, I started scrolling through the Verison Menu on the television, looking for something acceptable to watch.
"Rich white people... Rich white people...," I chanted as I skipped over the miriad of typical fascist American programing. I stopped on Indipendence Day, out of mere desperation. I started laughing, remembering when I first saw that movie. My grandparents bought a VHS copy of it for my brother's birthday, and endeavored to watch it with us. My body grew stiff lying on the floor and my eyes widened in shock, as right in front of my VERY conservative grandparents, the crop duster in the end ripped off his oxygen mask and yelled,
"Allright, you alien assholes, in the words of my generation, UP YOOUUUURRRSSSSS!!!"
So I sat there watching the movie last night, up until the point where Jeff Goldblum concieves the idea that in order to destroy the alien's ships it was necessary to program a virus into their systems. Immediatly, the older, wiser part of my mind concluded that this was beyond ridiculous, because here on earth we have all sorts of computers and devices that have trouble with formatting and cooperating. Am I really supposed to believe that an alien computer system designed to control an entire fleet of intergalactic starships can really be affected by a lone hacker and his windows driven laptop? For that matter, how on earth could a program like Cortana interact with the technology on the Covenant ships?
Either way I never liked science fiction that uses technology in the form of Deus Ex Machina. It's lazy writing. However, I used to be more conservative in my views of what was possible, and all the time you'd hear me talking about movies I had dubbed unrealistic, saying things like,
"That's not possible.... Time Travel? Oh yeah, that works... Cloning can't work like that..."
These days, however, I am constantly being wowed by what is possible through scientific powers. Yesterday a light-saber made me laugh, the very thought of it. Then I read a book on string theory..... oops. | | | | 445 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | Friday the Thirteenth? | | | | Friday, February 13, 2009 (6:58 PM) | | | You ever wonder how the superstition arouse out of Friday the Thirteenth? It adds up that somebody would eventually say something was special about it seeing as it only comes around once a year (I think.) But the concept that oddities are more prone to occur never really caught on in my mind. I've never been a superstitious person, though. | | | | 501 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 8 Comments | |
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