I figured I might as well jot down a few things/impressions from the event. Here are a few quick takes: Celebrities: lots of famous people are at this event, so it’s hard not to see someone that’s recognizable. Some that I saw: Seth Green, John Landis, Stan Lee, Scott Ian, Bruce Campbell, and a dozen or »
It’s no big surprise that I’m a huge fan of Pixar movies; they’ve mastered the art of making movies with more humanity in them than most movies that actually contain humans, and their visual brilliance is second to none. But at some point you’ve got to figure that their magic will wear off; red tape »
A lot of people have been asking me why I hated the new Star Trek movie so much; there’s some sort of mass hysteria created if there’s a hint of suggestion that this movie is not the best thing evah (at least until, say, Angels & Demons or Terminator: Salvation, etc.) – and anyone who »
Watchmen is not a story for everyone. Unlike the traditional comic archetypes of a ‘hero,’ the characters are unlikeable; they aren’t empathetic or relatable on more than a superficial level, which is of course the idea – likewise, they can’t relate well to people, events, relationships – or, in the case of Dr. Manhattan, time »
So, we’ve ended the naughts and moved on to the respectable and grown-up sounding double digi »
So, 2009. Quite a year. It began in a state of flux; I was laid off of my job in late January, found »
