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Suddenly, the old characters seem pretty old. Timur really raised the bar here. Batman better be really, really good to top this.
Mark Millar (writer of WANTED the graphic novel and mad scotsman) speaking about WANTED the movie
I’ve seen this kind of effusive praise from Mr. Millar about “WANTED” for the past couple of days, having already decided to give the movie a look either way, this excites me to see it. As the writers of source material in comic movies almost universally hate the end result when their comics become film.
Not that every comic movie has been bad either, even the bad ones were okay in many cases. (Captain America, with the rubber ears, BAD. Spider-man with the ropes for webs, GOOD for the time, BAD in the scope of things). The X-Men movies aren’t all good, but they have their moments, which makes up for the stupid stunts like “I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch”. I don’t think I need to list all the comic movies off for you to have a few in the good and a few in the bad columns in your head. Nevertheless, Wanted was one of those Comics that was MADE to be a movie and DRAWN to have the casting in place. Which makes this adaption worrisome and now also exciting.
So, are you going to head to the theatre this weekend to see the R rated violence, or what?
When I tried to visit the Beautiful People Website, I was presented with this page http://ca.beautifulpeople.net/not_supported.htm which was sad, how was going to submit my picture and determine if *I* was pretty enough for their community. It seems that no firefox user is going to be pretty enough for Beautiful People.
Chat logs from icanchat.imcorp.soulitions.chatsubo.corp
10:35AM June 25, 2008 Conversation between Bunnikller1 and JimChats
BunniKller1: Are you online?
JimChats: I am online
BunniKller1: Do you know what happened?
JimChats: I would think that you know what happend
BunniKller1: I think that something has happened outside, I see people dying on the security cameras.
JimChats: What do you see on the security cameras?
Bunnikller1: I think I see the people being gassed or something. I think it’s terrorists.
JimChats: Why do you think it’s terrorists?
Bunnikller1: Because the people are dying outside. I can see them.
JimChats: Do you want to talk about them?
Bunnikller1: No, I don’t want to talk about them anymore.
JimChats: What do you want to talk about?
Bunnikller1: I don’t know. I will go and check things out. Good Bye.
JimChats: Good Bye.
I reinstalled STALKER the other day there; I had read about the Oblivion Lost mod and decided to try it out. Initally it was “more of the same” but once the changes started showing up, (freaky weather, startling darkness, zombies and mutants all over) it got very very exciting.
I can’t portray how startling the crazy weather and sudden black nights are in text; especially when it comes on out of nowhere. The screen goes black and then the whole world seems to shake and rumble. It was amazing.
Congratulations to the Oblivion Lost team for an excellent Mod.
Poor news reporting sickens me
Published by NiteMayr on June 25, 2008This certainly looks shocking:
Court overturns father’s grounding of 12-year-old
This is as detailed as I could get from the general web, I ended up having to search using the Lawyers name to find this article from the National Post:
Quebec girl wins court case over field trip
I never thought the day would come that I would be praising the national post (again, I think) but there it is, real context and details that make the whole thing plausible and sane. There is a behind the scenes fight going on where the daughter has moved back with her mother and there is a battle going on between the two households. With that context in place, the ruling seems a great deal less shocking.
If one was only to read the light on details story one could easily assume the the courts were subverting the father’s authority over a willful and disrespectful child. This would send shockwaves through the whole of parentdom, no more punishments. On Noes!
The truth, as always, is a great deal muddier and requires more reading that most news sources provided. I shouldn’t have to research this crap on my own, I should be handed the facts up front and draw good conclusions, instead I have to treat every headline like it is out to lie to me. That’s no way to present news guys.