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Look at the suit, now back to this blog. Now back to the suit. Now back to this blog.
Now tell me you're happy.
Let me just say that I am a huge Spider-Man nerd. I love the comics, movies, video games, he is hands-down my favorite superhero of all time.
And he is that way for countless others, more than likely because he is one of the heroes we can relate to the most.
I was already skeptical about this reboot of the Marvel poster child. I know there were more mistakes made in the third Spider-Man movie than I choose to bring up, but was the franchise really that ruined by it?
Was Tobey Maguire's emo look and unnecessary dancing THAT much of a violation of all that is right and good with the world?
OK, bad example to lead with. That was quite bad. But was is really worth scrapping the whole thing? I highly doubt the Spidey series had to go the way of Hulk, but then again I'm not the one making millions over in Hollywood.
I would like to think a movie starring Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Ben and May Parker can't be that bad, and the fact that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the men who created Spidey, are the writers certainly lends quite a bit of credibility to it. But after seeing the suit, I started losing hope.
I mean, look at it!
Maybe it's just me, but that design seems to be too intricate for a teenaged boy to make. Now, I don't know if they're going to take that angle or go with other adaptations, but that's just the way I see it. Too intricate, not enough red, and way, way, way too detailed. I mean it's like I can see the threadcount.
It looks like a suit that was made by a movie company paid big bucks to do so, made for show, and made to look Mr. Andrew Garfield look good for the leaked photos. It doesn't look like a suit that a high school kid would make by any sense.
I don't know if this suit will be changed, or if I'm just over-reacting. After all, you're never going to please everyone, but this does look slightly ridiculous.
**Begins to bang head on wall.**
But other opinions are appreciated as well.
Now, let me say this first and foremost. I am speaking this as a man who never saw the original "Tron".
So yes, here we go, commence the throwing of objects and the name-calling.
"YOU IGNORANT FOOL!! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY PRESUME TO JUDGE, THEN?!"
"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! YOU'RE JUST A HATER! LOL!"
"I HOPE YOU DIE IN A VAT OF MOLTEN COOKIE DOUGH!"
If you're the type of person who would scream the third one, I don't know whether I should be insulted or delighted. Delicious way to go.
But I did see "Tron: Legacy" when it premiered, and I knew enough of the first movie. It's called IMDB. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't go to a movie without doing some searching into the background of the franchise so I can enjoy it better.
So I knew enough to geek-out when I saw the character Alan and yell in my head "that's the guy who played Tron! Only he's old now!" And I somehow managed to convince a girl in the row in front of me to join me in my latest theater antic. When the REAL Jeff Bridges showed up, not the CGI imposter, we decided to copy the Literal trailer and yell JEFF BRIDGES!!!!
Let me at first say the good parts about the film. It was INCREDIBLY SHINY!! Seriously, it suits the perfect purpose for a movie, escapism. Go see it and I guarantee that you will be transported to another world, and you will love said world.
The Lightcycle sequences and disc battles were some of my favorite sequences in the movie. They were just so visually stimulating and really shot the stakes up high when our hero, the son of Kevin Flynn, first gets transported to the The Grid.
The acting was also pretty good, and I for one was really impressed that they tried to maintain continuity as best they could when the last movie was made way back in '82. The CGI younger Jeff Bridges, even though a bit tacky, was well-received in my mind because I knew what they were trying to accomplish.
But here's my beef: Was there a point?
I mean, in the first movie, wasn't the point to destroy the Master Control Program and stop its efforts to destroy all imperfect Users from the system? Wasn't it the whole humanity vs. machines type thing? So then....why create a program called Clu who's going to do THE EXACT SAME THING!
I mean Clu outright asks Flynn "am I still supposed to make this sh** perfect?" And Flynn said yes, which I immediately cringed at in the theaters. News Flash Mr. Flynn....you are an imperfect equation. The cycle begins again.
So son goes in, finds Dad, spends rest of movie trying to get out of The Grid and stop Clu from taking this topside and totally LOLing on humanity. He's also trying to decide if he wants sexytimes with Quorra even though she's a computer program.
Awkward.
It's the same thing, only this time Tron has been reprogrammed to be evil. Granted, he has one last act of redemption against Clu to hold him off, but his face is hidden behind a mask the entire time, and in the confrontation he falls in some sort of water (inside a computer?) and supposedly dies.
Bullcrap. Tron doesn't die.
So Jeff Bridges tells his son and Quorra to GTFO before it's too late, uses his gravity-manipulation to hold Clu back from the portal to the real world, and then explodes, imploding the entire Grid I guess. Here's a quesiton, if he could do that gravity thing....why did he only do it twice in the movie?
Oh well, his son and Quorra get back to the real world, I guess Dad is dead, end of story. And now Quorra is apparently human. How she can just become human after just being a computer program is beyond me. I assume this means they'll probably get it on later...and I have no idea how that's going to work seeing as how she probably doesn't know what a vagina is.
Also, she has WAY too much adulation for his father to make any sexytimes normal. I'm sorry.
But with that said, it was still a great movie. Well worth your money.
Here's some great highlights of it.
Olivia Wilde. HOOOOOOOOOT!!
JEFF BRIDGES!!!
Daft Punk's cameo and music. Admittedly, this was my biggest geek-out of the night.
Let me just reiterate: SPOILERS.
Now that that's out of the way, let's Geek the hell out of this movie. After just getting back from the premiere, I don't care that it's 3 am because I'm psychotic that way.
I also didn't go to the premiere with my fedora after taping "The Daily Prophet" to it or anything, if that's what you're wondering.
But here's my skinny on Harry Potter, Chapter 7, or Part 7, or Mode 5, or whatever.
First of all, remember when you could take your kids to see Harry? Yeah, those days are gone. I can easily recall the days when the theme music was light and everything was all happy and shiny and sparkly.
In this movie I would have literally killed for one scene of bright colors. No matter what they were doing, there were always some shades of gray somewhere. Hell I'm pretty sure even Hermione's blazing red dress had some in there.
Parents, if you have a child or children who love Harry Potter, you have been warned. The kids do not go back to Hogwarts this year. They spend most of the movie doing what the poster says. Running. Lots of running. And fighting for their stinkin' lives.
The alternate tagline to this movie should be something like: Harry Potter 7: Sh** Is Goin' Down. Or maybe Harry Potter 7: You're All F***ed.
But let's get to the juicy and get the elephant out of the room. Yes, there is a scene in which Harry and Hermione kiss and for all intents and purposes, they are naked. It happens right before Ron gets up the balls to cut Voldy's jewelry with Godric's glorified scimitar. In its last line of defense, it projects the image to keep Ronald from following through. Counter-productive, I would say, as the image only serves to piss Mr. Weasley off until he channels Chuck Norris and slices and dices the lady-jewel until it resembles a pile of smouldering you-know-what.
Let's get to my first and probably only complaint: Moody's death. Anyone whose read the books knows it's coming right at the beginning. Trouble is, we never see it. We do however, get a rather hilarious scene at the beginning when the Order shows up, drinks some polyjuice and turns into a dozen Daniel Radcliffes.
We never see Mooday die. Bill only says it at perhaps the most inopportune time in the scene. I mean, here's George with a bloody stub where his ear used to be on the Burrow's couch, he cracks a joke and everyone smiles. COMIC RELIEF. IT'S SUPPOSED TO THE TAKE THE TENSION OFF! And then Bill drops the "Oh by the way, Moody's dead" bomb and it goes right back to it all.
We get to see Hedwig get hit with a killing curse and tumble to the ground, but not Moody. Boo. I liked Moody. I know his main claim to fame was in a book where it wasn't even the real him, but he was a badass. He did the magical equivalent of going to hell in a handbasket and having the scars to show for it. When the Death Eaters took his eye, he told them to go f*** themselves and strapped on a new one. He was the grizzled veteran that always meant well. What a way to go, off-screen.
Now let's get to the kids. Daniel once again was great as Harry, and Emma was great as Hermione, but I'm sorry, Ron's character was what really shone through for me in this movie. For the first time, Ron has as much at stake in this as Harry. Sure he risked his life alongside Harry through all these books but he always had a live family to fall back on. Now for the first time their lives are suspect, and we see the wear and tear on him just erupt, and Rupert Grint does a smashing job.
I think the franchise is finally going in the right direction and splitting the movie up. Sure it'll tick us all off that we have to wait so long but at least they are trying to put as much in as possible, which is more than I could say for Prisoner of Azkaban (hurls).
The scenes still move on very quickly, but when you think about it they really have no choice. Even splitting the movies up you still have to keep things rolling. This movie was nearly three hours long and we still have so much to go off on.
But I did like the little moments in the movie also, like when Harry and Hermione randomly dance in the tent while they're on the run. Silly? Sure. Unnecessary? Possibly. But it made us remember that these were kids we grew up reading about and now watching, so it gives us somehting to smile about in between death scenes and crying moments. I also like the scene where George is just awkwardly staring at Harry and Ginny when they share the only kiss of the movie.
Because guys, Voldy's back, and he's kicking butt and taking names. The first scene where he makes an innocent witch hover over a table in clear pain and then ends her with one stroke of his wand, is pure evil. He then orders his snakey-poo to eat her. Why? She liked Muggles. UNFORGIVEABLE!
The end of the movie has the locket destroyed, the kids are still on the run, Dobby is dead and Voldy destroys Dumbledore's tomb and takes the Elder Wand. We get really creepy images of his face hovering inches over the dead former headmaster's, as if mocking his failure even in death. Voldy then fires a beam of power into the dark sky and laughs. End of movie.
All in all, it was awesome. Go see it. Don't wait. The acting was good albeit rushed, but the action sequences were great. The development of the three kids comes in great here as they are all kids trapped in a hopeless world where everyone is out to get them and yet somehow they have to save it. That kind of pressure is exhuded well by these incredibly talented young actors.
So guys, consider this movie Geeked. Hope you liked it, and get ready for Part 2: Hogwarts Will Burn.
That's right, a Geek-Gasm. This blog will be devoted to nothing more than geeky things and how we love them so, so, so much.
Sometimes we pretend that we don't, but this blog will also be dedicated to exposing the inner Geek inside all of us. Because you know, secretly, even though you tried to put on a persona of coolness, you loved that one geeky thing you saw/heard/did/owned
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2/10/10- Hello again everyone. if you have been reading my blog now, I apologize for all the inconvenience I have beset upon you with no posts. I'm still currently working on my last semester of college and making sure I do it right, so of course there have been many commitments clambering for my attention.
But now I have a moment to bring you all up to speed in my quest, and hopefully will get a chance to post more regularly in the future
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1/13/09- It's been far too long since my last post, I know. It has been a rambunctious couple of weeks for me. Got a chance to spend a few weeks with family in the grand old state of Iowa. Those few weeks in the frozen heartland had left me with plenty of thinking time. I have been pondering and pondering for many a day as to what to write about for this book I'm going to barter with Harlequiin for.
And then, finally, it hit me
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12/23/09 - I'm just curious. After finishing my first Harlequin Nocturne novel, reading two Nocturne Bites, and now three-quarters through my first Nora Roberts book, I'm trying to discover just the right equation for sex and plot?
Would it sell more to have more sex than plot? As in, do we have that sexual tension right off the bat or let it develop a little more
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12/10/09- I think it was Hippocrates who said "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food". Well if by food he meant romance novels and my medicine he meant life, then you've got me.
Haven't written any updates recently. Dead week is officially here on campus, and like all supposedly "dead" weeks, it is anything but. But in my time between study sessions and reviews I have managed to finish reading "The Vampire Affair" by Livia Reasoner
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12/06/09- Logan Leppert here.
Nearing the one week mark in my quest. Already. Turns out I'm no cloer to my goal after the first week. Don't think I was expecting anything different. After alls, I'm sure Isaac Newton wasn't finished with the theory of gravity one week after the apple hit him. Heck, he was probably still nursing the bump
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