Profound, profane or pedestrian

It looks like the Watchmen prequel comics are finally a go, according to ICv2. Just running my eye down that list, there's some nice covers there already and some big names on the writing teams so this might be quite good. That brief line "DC will release one issue per week" sounds impressive - let's hope they can keep up with that schedule!

First day back at work since 23rd December - sometimes it's a hard life!

I need to pump up my tires on the way to work so I pulled into a petrol station and headed over to the air. There was a vehicle in front of me but I didn't look too closely.

After a while I realised that I had been sitting there for a while so I looked a little more closely - the vehicle in front was, in fact, a large white 4WD towing a double axle trailer, on top of which was a smaller 4WD along with two trail bikes. Even better was that each 4WD had two spares on its roof rack and there were also a couple of spare tires for each trail bike. Better still, the guy was pumping up each and every single tire - a total of at least 22 tires!

I gave up and drove off.

I felt highly distracted during this movie - as soon as I saw that it was Bruce Willis and M. Night Shyamalan, all I could think was "If they find that he really did die in the accident and this is all some kid's strange perception of dead people, I am going to be so very pissed."

Ignoring that side of things, the movie really was quite good with Willis doing some of his best acting (that I've seen) and Jackson being suitably enigmatic right to the final brilliant moments. Overall, a thrilling movie with at least two outstanding scenes - the kitchen gun scene (I really wasn't sure where that one was going to go, right to the last second) and the pool cover scene (the sense of terror and helplessness was spot on the mark).

In the end, a damned good movie, probably the best of Shyamalan's movies that I've seen.

Still looking for a good post-apocalyptic webcomic to read - my best find so far is Derelict but even then ......

I really wish the much announced Crossed had appeared but it seems to have drifted away slowly - no new announcements since May 26th last year.

Not sure if you still frequent LJ but
( Happy Birthday! )

AMC expanded The Walking Dead to 16 episodes for S3, according to Spinoff Online.

WOOHOO!

My inner animal is:

Your Inner Animal is a Polar Bear
You are a big old softie but prefer a solitary lifestyle. You thrive in the coldest remote areas and definitely do not like the heat. An avid swimmer, you really enjoy being in or around the water.

I think not, myself but there you go!
(from here

I like a lot of Rowan Atkinson's work but he is not a leading man - and this movie is yet another example of that. I know it is supposed to be a funny satire of the Bond movies and the ideas are there - the opening foot pursuit with all the parkour moves, for example, but it just doesn't work for me. If this was done as a series of sketches on a comedy programme with an ensemble cast, it would work well but as a full-length movie, it just doesn't fly for me.

Dominic West and Gillian Anderson were both good - and it was funny seeing them both with English accents (West's, of course being very good!).

This was an interesting movie, done in the mockumentary style of a investigative animal doco. The mythology of werewolves was quite explicitly explored and at least the movie attempted to give a "rationalisation" of how werewolves could exist - hence the mockumentary style.

Not bad, if a little predictable but it could have done well as a pilot for a series, perhaps.