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I Have Seen The Future

May 27th, 2009 fanaticalpupil

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Now, if I just had a time machine so I could get to a point where I’d actually finished writing something…

I watched Primer last night (I’d been meaning to watch it for a long time). I’ve been watching Terminator all season. I’ve known for a while that I’m a sucker for time travel.

I haven’t quote*unquote written anything for a while. But, I realized that I was putting too much pressure on myself to get it done while also having (or creating for myself) a significant amount of pressure at work. But I’ve finally recovered from that, and have gotten to the point where I am ready to start writing again. This time, I’m not going to pressure myself with word counts or anything like that though, since clearly that didn’t work for me.

So, I’m revising the outline of a project that I’d started on with the intention of adding time travel elements (easier than it sounds, actually, now that I look at it) to make it more interesting to my unconscious mind. Hopefully, by making it align (even more) closely to something that I’d be interested in reading, I’ll keep myself interested in writing it.

I’ve also rearranged my Netflix queue so I’ll get some good time travel movies that I’ve been meaning to watch for a while anyway. I also want to get some good scifi books about time travel, but I’ve got so much other stuff to read anyway, that I’m not going to dive into that just yet.

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Please Let Terminator Salvation Be Awesome

May 8th, 2009 fanaticalpupil

(Trailer courtesy of TrailerAddict)

Things that could/should be good:

  • Christian Bale seems like a pretty awesome John Connor
  • I am still carrying a torch for Moon Bloodgood because of the canceled Day Break (and also Journeyman, which is in my Hulu queue, and also because her name is cool)
  • Any opening sequence that uses the Terminator Theme, because it makes anything awesome
  • Use of NIN in the movie and not just the trailer
  • Lot of cool Skynet robots/machines
  • Whatever that flashback is where the guy throws a chair through a window

Things that could be bad:

  • It seems that one of the main plot points centers around John finding out that the Terminators are making themselves look human. This could annoy me because it seems like in every possible future (that I can think of), John would have to know that the machines are going to eventually look like humans since his mom was hunted by one that looked like the Governator, and he was hunted by ones that looked like a creepy emotionless cop and a really hot woman. If they explain it, then fine, but I’m afraid they’re more likely to just gloss over it, and it will nag at me for most of the 130 minutes.
  • If they ignore what’s happening in the TV show. I have been watching the TV show on Hulu and I am getting super addicted (still have about 3 more episodes to watch and I am dying of anticipation)
  • I see more than one potential love interest in the trailers. And considering that future John shouldn’t really have a love interest at all (at least in my opinion), this could be a big problem (for me)
  • Too much stuff exploding. The Star Trek trailers looked kind of the same, though, and that has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I’ve heard it’s good because it’s character driven. Let’s hope that T4 is also character driven and not explosion/special effects driven.
  • If they don’t acknowledge the time travel part. It seems like they could be setting up this first one (hopefully not the next two) to be fairly straightforward and linear. I’m a huge fan of time travel, and that’s one of the main reasons the whole Terminator environment is so fascinating to me

So, I did manage to list more thing that could be good than could be bad. The things that could (and should) be good don’t really require any explanation. Of course, I left off the biggest one: It just looks like it’s going to be good.

I might have to get T1 and T2 from Netflix to watch before I go see this one, just to get properly hyped up.

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Remaster vs. Remake

May 4th, 2009 fanaticalpupil

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Joey presents a Memo to Hollywood wrt GI Joe and Transformers, the point of which is: GI Joe trailer = GI Joe; Transformers trailer = Really Cool Space Robots that aren’t Transformers so much as Robots that turn into things that humans have.

Of course, that’s fine with me, because, honestly, I liked GI Joe much more than Transformers when I was a kid. I think it was because the GI Joe action figures were about half the price of the Transformers, but also because the GI Joes were humans and they were the heroes, as opposed to Transformers where the, shall we say, Really Cool Space Robots were the heroes. I guess I liked heroes that I can imagine I could actually be (y’know, with some endless hours of training and an invincibility clause built into my contract).

And it doesn’t hurt that the first Transformers movie had about the worst script ever brought into the world. I mean, the line in the trailer for the sequel where Optiumus says:

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing

is already better than anything I can remember from the first movie. Of course, the trailer also has Megan Fox saying:

I’m not going to go without you.

That should be appeal to me with my “I could be a hero” preference, because she might as well be saying: Yes, fanboy, you too could score the hottest girl in the world despite the fact that you’ve never actually spoken to a female besides your mother, and even then only in monosyllabic grunts. But, that is probably too many words to fit in between something crashing or exploding. I can understand why Michael Bay wouldn’t want that.

Also in the world of It Doesn’t Hurt: it doesn’t hurt that the casting director for GI Joe combined with the makeup and costume people to draft Sienna Miller and make her look EXACTLY like the Baroness. I mean, when I first saw her in the trailer, I thought:

Holy crap. Did they CGI the Baroness in there?

because none of the other characters bear more than a passing resemblance to their cartoon counterpart (well, except for Snake Eyes, but really, with the mask, he might as well be CGI). Channing Tatum may be perfect for the role, but you have to admit he looks a lot more like a certain Commander Shepherd than GI Joe’s Duke.

In other GI Joe news, someone thought they were funny:
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