Finally I am finishing up with this; busy week at school with finals coming up on Thursday.
With Dr. Horrible I wanted to wait until I had seen all three episodes before I said anything about the series – I imagine most people have already seen this, but if you have not doitnow!
There’s also a primer comic introducing you to Captain Hammer on myspace of all places, written by Joss’ brother Zack and put out by Dark Horse. Read that as well.
Short review because I’m tired:
Let me just say that this is possibly the funniest, and saddest, musicals I have ever seen – the first two acts are extremely funny (I would say the bulk of the fun songs are in the second act) and the third has the darker sense of humor I relate to the 7th season of Buffy. Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely amazing as a super-villain and Felicia Day is amazingly expressive. Nathan Fillion also plays a awesome stupid/stuck-on-himself superhero.
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How great this mini-series was makes it more difficult to have to decide between it and the Ghostbusters panel on Friday at Comic-Con, sadly I think I’m going to have to go to the Ghostbusters panel – it’s the main reason I got everything set up for SDCC in the first place.
Hopefully there is a Dr. Horrible or Mutant Enemy booth and I will be able to get a copy of the DVD (signed by the main cast?) while at the con.
As most of you might know already the trailer for the Watchmen is out. I was actually really excited to see this but after watching it I am honestly a little more upset than I thought I would be, I mean how difficult is it to make a movie about people who don’t have super powers but dress like super-heroes? From watching the Comedian punch tile and mortar in huge chunks out of a wall to seeing the (young) Silk Spectre apparently flying and coming down through a roof? Come on!
I honestly can’t judge it too much, I mean it’s just the first trailer after all and it very well could be made to look more sensational for us American audiences which only seem to want action and explosions. Of course I can remember watching the trailer for Fight Club and thinking “what the fuck is this?” and swearing I would never see what actually became one of my favourite books and movies.
I really do hope the “visionary” director of 300 – which I honestly had a problem with the changing of the story – Zach Snyder does Watchmen well. We don’t need it to be a super-powered romp through a small conflict, we need the seemingly normal people that fight crime because it’s right and not because they’ve got super powers. Night Owl is freaking Batman and he should be closer to that than let’s say… Superman. The book was about the (at the time) current state of the world and how a comic book could mirror that. Let’s keep it that way. Two people in the story have super powers – Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias, and the latter isn’t nearly as fantastical as the former.
However, I have to give it props, some of the scenes they showed are freaking exactly from the comic which is an amazing feat.
-Tyler
ps. the Dr. Manhattan being deconstructed thing in the beginning looks awesome!
[...]Dead Rising for the Wii will be a port of the Xbox 360’s zombie hack-fest with a few added features. This updated game will see more weapons, motion controls and a new boss for Frank West to smack around with potted plants and golf clubs[...]
Since I don’t own a 360 I haven’t had the pleasure of playing through all of Dead Rising but now that it’s coming to the Wii I have one less reason to buy a 360. Damn. I’m still working on getting one for a few reasons: Mirror’s Edge, Resident Evil 5, and Ghostbusters.
For those of you who haven’t seen or heard: Microsoft cut the price of the XBox 360 Pro system by $50. Which means I’m $50 closer to getting one. So far E3 this year has been shaping up to be pretty awesome for us consumers and I am pretty sure Comic-Con this year is going to blow the announcements from E3 out of the water.
If anyone hasn’t seen this yet – check it out now!
I’m a fan of a lot of things that are outside the system or are independent in some way. I like indie record stores (now defunct Bionic Records in Huntington Beach, and BooBoo Records in SLO), indie webseries (Retarded Policeman, The Guild) and most of all indie games. They just do it for me.
After playing some of the larger independent games, like Penny Arcade’s “On The Rainslick Precipice Of Darkness” and having absolutely nothing bad to say about the experience, some of the smaller developed flash games like the amazing side-scroller flash version of Portal, and jumping in late on the Uplink bandwagon – I must say that I absolutely love games made by smaller companies. Sometimes just a couple of people, as with 2D Boy, and they come out with an original compelling game that I want to play.
I will definitely be picking it up to support people who have the drive to create something outside the system and the ability to make it as high quality as something made inside the system. I just can’t wait for the Mac version.
I have fond memories of Star Trek: The Experience. From days spent going on the ride, shopping on the Promenade of DS9. I spent so much time at this place, I spent my 21st birthday there – drinking white russians and playing slots because that’s all my mind could handle. It didn’t even register the $250 jackpot for about a minute.
So… I guess all I have to say is “So it goes.”
Who knows, maybe they’ll even do another Experience someplace else in the country? I know I’d visit.
I was just watching some television and came across a funny “Inside the Actor’s Studio” commercial for Hellboy II with James Lipton and Hellboy. Checked out YouTube and (of course) there’s a few of them there so here you all go:
Just wanted to make a post pointing out that a teaser trailer for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog! is out now! Okay, enough exclamation points! No, seriously, that’s enough.
Dr. Horrible’s is a web series being developed by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) and starring Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D., Starship Troopers, How I Met Your Mother), Nathan Fillion (Buffy, Firefly, Slither), and Felicia Day (Buffy, The Guild, Hotel Erotica Cabo… sorry, Felicia, just kidding! She really needs to have that removed) in a musical style, sing-along… blog.
The music and singing, none of which is displayed in the trailer, is undoubtedly great. Why? Oh, I have to support my statements now? Crap, alright, does everyone remember the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Joss Whedon is no slouch when it comes to music, and he tends to surround himself with people who can sing and are great at it – except Alyson Hannigan, apparently, but no worries, she’s still awesome all the same. I can only imagine Joss getting some of the best vocalists he could think of working with on a project that’s touting itself as a “sing-along blog”… so yeah, that good enough for you?
To be honest I hadn’t heard much about “Love, Janis“: The Musical; only a few things here and there, mostly on KPIG radio when the show was already really close. One of my buddies told me he had an extra ticket to the show on the 19th at Cal Poly – and I love Big Brother and Janis Joplin so I was really excited about the opportunity to get to go.
The show kicked off with a short introduction and went right into “Piece Of My Heart” (which is a little overplayed, but still fucking rocked.) There were two girls who played Janis Joplin, one was a narrator of her writing and the other was the singer – who also ended up helping out in the narration, and who also served as a visual show of the duality of Janis Joplin’s personality, she was the on stage personality. I wish I had found out the name of the singer because her voice was… amazing to say the least.
At a lot of the shows my buddy Kevin and I go to we end up being either the youngest or close to the youngest – we saw the Kingston Trio in Carmel-by-the-Sea a few years ago we were almost the youngest people in the crowd, save for a 7 year old that we were informed looked “none too happy to be there”, but because of that and a woman we met there (who ended up being the fiancée of one of the Trio) we got to meet the guys after the show. Of course, I really thought Janis was far from exclusive to the older crowd that these kind of events seem to generate. It was a very well put together show, with great narration and excellent singing.
Last Monday I started a summer English class so I’ll be working on writing for that a lot and probably won’t have the energy or time to write much here for the next 5 weeks. Hopefully I’ll improve my writing skills while I’m in this class. Unfortunately I have a few reviews I want to write that I probably won’t get to, but there’s a good chance I can at least start them and will have something to post a few days after my classes end.
Other unfortunates: I’m almost 100% that I won’t be going to Comic Con this year, which is a bummer – I was really looking forward to meeting R.K. Milholland, Jennie Breeden, and Felicia Day (with the rest of The Guild)
Even more unfortunates: one of my a-hole friends decided he’d be just that and give me a copy of WoW two days before I started my class. Well, I’m not addicted, but I can see it being a horrible timesink which is not good with the start of my English class. Bugger.
I’ve been putting this entry off for a while, not because I dislike this game but because I can’t really think of anything that I really need to say about it other than: If you like Penny-Arcade then you’ll like this game.
As has been said many times before, the fighting mechanics play a lot like the Mario RPGs – what comes to mind (probably because I’ve played it most recently) is Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
Anyway, I’m not being very creative today and I didn’t take any real screenshots from the game, so I have nothing to show off but I assume by now that anyone interested in playing the game has already bought it and played it (maybe multiple times) and if you haven’t played it and not sure if you’d be into it there’s a demo download which I highly suggest (purchasing a keycode will unlock the game.)
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