Monday, September 12, 2005

More F***ing Amen's...

Sunday, September 11, 2005

A F***ING MEN

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Doom Theatrical Trailer

Ooooooooh, aaaaaaaaah

Okay, ignoring completely warranted cynicism about video game translations into film (Resident Evil 2, Super Mario Brothers, Streetfighter (live action only), etc), I've gotta say I'm looking forward to this. They've got many of staples: A lot of the monsters look like the ones from Doom 3 (the most graphically realistic looking of the games), the chainsaw and BFG are there, but its the camera trick that, while looking gimmicky, could end up being extremely cool.

You see, Doom is a First Person Shooter. With the exception of a few scattered cut-scenes in the third game, the player never actually sees the avatar, and what they see is what the avatar sees. The scenes that use that are easily recognizable by the lack of a human on screen and a gun in the lower half.

Now, this could easily be gimmicky, but it could also be a great way to create a lot of fear and confusion in the audience, if used correctly. Of course, anything could be good if used correctly. We just have to see if the directors, editors, and producers are competent.

And its only 6 weeks away...

Friday, September 02, 2005

Random weird things about me...

1: Back in elementary school, I was one of the best math students in my grade. I was so good I got bumped up a year. I was also so good that I finished math quizes damn fast, so fast that I got bored, so I started a habit:

Every time I took a quiz, I'd turn it over and do long division. I'd divide something like 564651684 by 13684, taking it out to as many decimal places as I felt like.

And I'd never actually check to see if the answer was right. How could I? These were elementary school quizes: no calculators.

So, yeah, that's how much of a math geek I was back then. And, ironically, that's why I can multiply and divide so well in my head. Practice and all that.

2: Last year in college I wrote a paper about how the assasination of Hitler in 1939 probably wouldn't actually stop the war from happening, and it things might have become even worse for the world. Scary, I know.

3: I inwardly cheer whenever I watch an action film and the hero, when he goes into enemy territory with only an SMG or Assault Rifle to back him up, doesn't use full automatic, because it only takes a couple of bullets to kill someone and full auto just wastes ammo.

4: I've written three (as of now) pieces of fan fiction for the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, available here: http://kotorfanmedia.com/story/author/wraithfighter/

5: I'm really, really, REALLY bored right now.