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Category Archives: Movies
Copywrong
It’s time to admit that the concept of copyright has gone horribly, horribly wrong. In theory, copyright is there to protect artists and creators, to allow them to make money off their work, and to encourage creativity. In practice, it just leads to stagnation and to corporations profiting off of characters they simply are fortunate [...]
Also posted in Blog, Comic Books, Writing Tagged Batman, Capable Writers, Comic Book, Commercial Success, Corporations, Creativity, Creators, Decades, Dilemma, Expiration Date, Fact Of The Matter, Franchises, Increasing Sales, James Bond, Machine Dc, Profits, Reboot, Spider Man, Spider Man Movie, Stagnation, Superman, Telling A Good Story, Whim 7 Comments
The Event Horizon of Boring
Having seen the recent Batman movie trailer, I have to say this film looks like a stone cold bummer. I realize I stand on the wrong side (culturally) of this struggle, but I just didn’t care for The Dark Knight at all. It struck me as a combination of the worst elements of superheroes, realism, [...]
Also posted in Blog, Comic Books, Writing Tagged Alien Invasions, Batman Film, Batman Movie Trailer, Black Eyed Peas, Brutality, Captain America, Comic Book, Commercial Success, Dark Knight, Event Horizon, Good Guys, Green Lantern, Melodrama, Music Group, Nazis, Nods, Rap Rock, Realism, Universes, Wrong Side 10 Comments
Love the Bunny Suit
I like bad special effects. I like low budget movies. I like stories that are put together from string and scrap and heaps of limitations and somehow still work. I’m not against CGI or great FX. These things can be awesome. It isn’t ultimately the FX that make a sci fi / fantasy / horror [...]
Also posted in Blog, Writing Tagged Bunnies, Bunny Suit, Bunny Suits, Camera Tricks, Fantasy Horror, Filmmaker, Giant Rabbits, Heaps, Horror Story, John Carpenter, Krull, Low Budget, Night Of The Lepus, Puppets, Rabbits, Scary Film, Sci Fi, Slow Motion, Soundstage, Strange Element 5 Comments
Copywrong, part 2