Well, it made me laugh
seriouspaul (75.40.237.38)
6th Dec, 2007 17:45 (local)
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Thursday, 6 December 2007
Friday, 30 November 2007
Moving Closer
I have the software to compose the comic strip, as well as the scripts. I have also gotten a fair few images/screencaps from the opening scenes to start.
I am hoping to have the first comic up by the end of December. I am also due to revise the scripts as I found I was using too much material in the early ones, too many jokes and ideas that I can spread out a bit.
I am hoping to have the first comic up by the end of December. I am also due to revise the scripts as I found I was using too much material in the early ones, too many jokes and ideas that I can spread out a bit.
Friday, 16 November 2007
Status Quo
No not the embarassingly rubbish rock band, but rather I am collecting screencaps for the series, and beginning to build a basic page layout template. Scripts have been written for the first 5 episodes, and seeing how everyone else is approaching it, I may get more life out of a seconds worth of film.
Thursday, 15 November 2007
DM of the Galaxy has a Rival Already
I have been lazy, and no reason not to cry, but there is already a DM of the Galaxy rival out there in the form of Darths & Droids.
I have begun screencapping the film and will begin a slow production of maybe one or two a month.
D&D (ha ha) is actually running from episode 1 of Star Wars, whilst mine will start from episode 4.
I have begun screencapping the film and will begin a slow production of maybe one or two a month.
D&D (ha ha) is actually running from episode 1 of Star Wars, whilst mine will start from episode 4.
Darths & Droids
A while back I mentioned the DM of the Rings, and how I envisaged a spinoff called DM of the Galaxy. Apart from a few scripts, and a holding webpage, I didnt really do anything else.
Seems someone else has beaten me to it, albiet in a different style than I anticipated with Darths & Droids.
So far it seems good. But this will not stop me. I have decided to continue on regardless.
Seems someone else has beaten me to it, albiet in a different style than I anticipated with Darths & Droids.
So far it seems good. But this will not stop me. I have decided to continue on regardless.
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
My Multi-Region DVD Player Finally Died
Kinda annoyed for no reason, but now I have one.
My DVD player, a reliable Toshiba which I had modded to play any region DVD finally packed up this week end. I was annoyed, it was a faithful unit, and served me very well. I have a DVD cinema system at home, so I kept it mainly to play my region 1 DVDs I bought over the years. Its just now I've realised that I have some very precious DVDs in region 1 format that I am going to have to hunt on Ebay to replace.
No surprise that the old region 1 DVDs will end up on Ebay themselves. But the 3 that Im most sad to see go, and sure I wont be able to replace that fast are
Mummy Collectors Edition, Brendan Fraser version directed by Stephen Sommers
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a classical funny film, and a cult film to boot
Dune: Mini-Series, the Sci-fi Channel's adaptation of a brilliant book
As I said, these and the others will end up on Ebay shortly the moment I stop crying.
My DVD player, a reliable Toshiba which I had modded to play any region DVD finally packed up this week end. I was annoyed, it was a faithful unit, and served me very well. I have a DVD cinema system at home, so I kept it mainly to play my region 1 DVDs I bought over the years. Its just now I've realised that I have some very precious DVDs in region 1 format that I am going to have to hunt on Ebay to replace.
No surprise that the old region 1 DVDs will end up on Ebay themselves. But the 3 that Im most sad to see go, and sure I wont be able to replace that fast are
Mummy Collectors Edition, Brendan Fraser version directed by Stephen Sommers
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a classical funny film, and a cult film to boot
Dune: Mini-Series, the Sci-fi Channel's adaptation of a brilliant book
As I said, these and the others will end up on Ebay shortly the moment I stop crying.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
DM of the Rings Update
Back in August I told you that the DM of the Rings was over, and how I was looking forward to his next effort.
Well, I am unhappy to report that what I have read so far is that his new web-comic is so wide of the comedy mark, that I am very disappointed.
Now I am not one for fanfic, but I did write a couple of strips, (well, after all he did encourage them) but based them on Star Wars rather than Lord of the Rings.
Ill have a go at editing a couple and posting them later, minus the artwork. I know its self-indulgent, but tough.
Well, I am unhappy to report that what I have read so far is that his new web-comic is so wide of the comedy mark, that I am very disappointed.
Now I am not one for fanfic, but I did write a couple of strips, (well, after all he did encourage them) but based them on Star Wars rather than Lord of the Rings.
Ill have a go at editing a couple and posting them later, minus the artwork. I know its self-indulgent, but tough.
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
DM of the Rings
So one of my favourite webcomics will shortly be coming to its natural end.
It had a funny start, a dodgy middle, picked up towards the end and has kinda been not very funny of late. I can understand this, as the writer is very open about his personal life and how it affects his work.
But, although DM of the Rings is due to end, he has promised a new comic line, something related to RPGs, but not what you would expect. There were enough people out there who wanted him to try Star Wars, me included, but I fully understand his reasons.
Although he doesnt request contributions, he does get fan-made versions of his comics, and I feel geeky enough to admit I have written a few myself, which I might post sometime later this week.
It had a funny start, a dodgy middle, picked up towards the end and has kinda been not very funny of late. I can understand this, as the writer is very open about his personal life and how it affects his work.
But, although DM of the Rings is due to end, he has promised a new comic line, something related to RPGs, but not what you would expect. There were enough people out there who wanted him to try Star Wars, me included, but I fully understand his reasons.
Although he doesnt request contributions, he does get fan-made versions of his comics, and I feel geeky enough to admit I have written a few myself, which I might post sometime later this week.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Valentine - Movie Review
Valentine.
I watched this film last weekend, and am shocked at how this ever got made, let alone made it to the cinema. This is horror movie making by numbers with nothing new to say, but it fatally flawed from the start to the end.
The plot summary is simply a young school boy is mocked by 5 female peers, and then 10 years later proceeds to murder the 5 women systematically.
For starters, the shoes the killer wears only make a noise when appropriate.
The interplay between the police officer and Denise Richard's character doesn't go anywhere, and when it does, it comes out of the blue. Denise Richard has an attitude with the police officer for no apparent reason long before they have their "encounter". The police officer is there to help them, not make their lives hell. The way they act, you are glad when they meet their doom, because they are a pretty unlikeable group of girls.
The film ineptly tries to throw you off the scent by present a few oddballs to suspect, but these are so badly done, you cannot trust the film makers.
There is a bewildering array of characters which arrive and simply make the job of following the basic plot almost impossible.
The main 4 characters have so little in common, along with absolutely no establishing shots, you are left wondering why these people ever came together in the first place.
The film employs no flashbacks, meaning you cannot connect modern day characters with their high school counterparts, it might as well have been a different set of characters.
Events, meetings, parties and shows happen in the film without any forewarning , meaning as a viewer you are left watching a myriad of images that make no sense and are genuinely pointless in the story, along with dialog that leaves you literally out in the cold by discussing events and topics of which you have no knowledge of. Its like they are bitching behind you the viewers back, and leaving you to feel triumphant at their demise.
About halfway through the film, the scriptwriter (and I use the term loosely) is making this up as he goes along, as while watching this film you quickly realise no thought went into this film other than the next shot. At certain moments in the film things just happen or come up in conversation that are so leftfield of what would be considered normal trains of thought. E.g. Plastic Surgery, the concept that the killer may have had surgery to look different suddenly turns up as the scriptwriter suddenly realises he needs a plausible reason why the killer looks nothing like the boy in the opening sequence. The actually killer is such a huge bloke, that not only would he need total plastic surgery, but also a full body transplant. The film tries to throw you by showing you a guy who looks like the boy in the opening sequence too. And finally, the detective is looking for a man with the initials JM, and all the dead women so far have received a valentines card with the initials JM, and not one of them makes the connection. When they sit down and try to think of all the men they know with JM as initials they recount a massive long list, but not the killer. All I can say these women must be an impressive bunch of whores to have so many men in their lives with JM, fuck me theres a whole alphabet waiting for them in the sequels.
Stuff that doesn't make sense include, Maggots in chocolate sweets, how they hell does one put live maggots into them?
The classic horror movie mistake is using the recognisable villain in his hockey mask, or leather faced mask. In this epic, we have the villain wearing a cherub's mask, except the only people who see it are dead. So when the "heroine" sees it she screams and runs without knowing anything. She suddenly has attained the knowledge of the viewer without any effort at all.
This film fails on so many grounds and I hope to have highlighted a few here.
But why did I watch it to the end? Its one of those films where I wasn't going to let its inane style stop me from watching the end, which was as uncompelling as I imagined it to be. Plus I wanted to see how bad it could get at the end, a denouement in my opinion can save a terrible film.
Verdict: Cock Custard
w00hoo (86.136.243.26)
lawbag (81.137.161.230)
lawbag (62.69.73.216)
I watched this film last weekend, and am shocked at how this ever got made, let alone made it to the cinema. This is horror movie making by numbers with nothing new to say, but it fatally flawed from the start to the end.
The plot summary is simply a young school boy is mocked by 5 female peers, and then 10 years later proceeds to murder the 5 women systematically.
For starters, the shoes the killer wears only make a noise when appropriate.
The interplay between the police officer and Denise Richard's character doesn't go anywhere, and when it does, it comes out of the blue. Denise Richard has an attitude with the police officer for no apparent reason long before they have their "encounter". The police officer is there to help them, not make their lives hell. The way they act, you are glad when they meet their doom, because they are a pretty unlikeable group of girls.
The film ineptly tries to throw you off the scent by present a few oddballs to suspect, but these are so badly done, you cannot trust the film makers.
There is a bewildering array of characters which arrive and simply make the job of following the basic plot almost impossible.
The main 4 characters have so little in common, along with absolutely no establishing shots, you are left wondering why these people ever came together in the first place.
The film employs no flashbacks, meaning you cannot connect modern day characters with their high school counterparts, it might as well have been a different set of characters.
Events, meetings, parties and shows happen in the film without any forewarning , meaning as a viewer you are left watching a myriad of images that make no sense and are genuinely pointless in the story, along with dialog that leaves you literally out in the cold by discussing events and topics of which you have no knowledge of. Its like they are bitching behind you the viewers back, and leaving you to feel triumphant at their demise.
About halfway through the film, the scriptwriter (and I use the term loosely) is making this up as he goes along, as while watching this film you quickly realise no thought went into this film other than the next shot. At certain moments in the film things just happen or come up in conversation that are so leftfield of what would be considered normal trains of thought. E.g. Plastic Surgery, the concept that the killer may have had surgery to look different suddenly turns up as the scriptwriter suddenly realises he needs a plausible reason why the killer looks nothing like the boy in the opening sequence. The actually killer is such a huge bloke, that not only would he need total plastic surgery, but also a full body transplant. The film tries to throw you by showing you a guy who looks like the boy in the opening sequence too. And finally, the detective is looking for a man with the initials JM, and all the dead women so far have received a valentines card with the initials JM, and not one of them makes the connection. When they sit down and try to think of all the men they know with JM as initials they recount a massive long list, but not the killer. All I can say these women must be an impressive bunch of whores to have so many men in their lives with JM, fuck me theres a whole alphabet waiting for them in the sequels.
Stuff that doesn't make sense include, Maggots in chocolate sweets, how they hell does one put live maggots into them?
The classic horror movie mistake is using the recognisable villain in his hockey mask, or leather faced mask. In this epic, we have the villain wearing a cherub's mask, except the only people who see it are dead. So when the "heroine" sees it she screams and runs without knowing anything. She suddenly has attained the knowledge of the viewer without any effort at all.
This film fails on so many grounds and I hope to have highlighted a few here.
But why did I watch it to the end? Its one of those films where I wasn't going to let its inane style stop me from watching the end, which was as uncompelling as I imagined it to be. Plus I wanted to see how bad it could get at the end, a denouement in my opinion can save a terrible film.
Verdict: Cock Custard
w00hoo (86.136.243.26)
3rd Jul, 2007 19:26 (local)
You see, the problem is you're obviously not American enough. This is the viewer review for it on IMDB...
Author: Christine from United States
OK, I'm going to be honest with you. The only reason I want to watch this movie (well, the first time anyway) was because David Boreanaz is in it. I know, shallow, right? Well, this comedy thriller was actually pretty good!
One thing that I LOVED was that Kathrine Hiegl's name is on the front of the box and yet she was only in 10 minutes of this 96 minute movie. That's okay though. The beginning part at the dance, was very upsetting and, of course, I felt sympathy towards Jeremy Melton. I mean, if you don't you have some serious problems. This entire movie consisted of constant murders and suspense, you barely have time to breathe!; there isn't a lot of down-time.
Did anyone else get freaked out about the whole maze thing? God, that was one of the creepiest parts of the entire movie!! And then when Lily is trying to find a way out, all of the screens start to turn off or go all static-y, I'm scared for her!! In the background you hear people saying, "Don't walk away from me"s and "Love me"s and "What do you like to do"s. AND THOSE EYES!!! *shiver*
This is probably one of the only recent horror movies I've seen that had some reasonable actors! Most horror movies stink because of the acting, but this one was actually pretty good because of it! With the exception of Marley Shelton (Kate). I don't understand where she got her acting diploma! I did like one of her lines describing Adam (Boreanaz), "Well, he's no angel...". You know. Because of his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel? Okay then...
The ending was a major plot twist! Throughout the entire movie you pretty much know who the culprit is, but you don't know WHO it is... Does that make any sense? Well, if you've seen the movie, then you should get what I'm saying. Overall, this movie is very good!
7/10 stars!
... I mean, bits of it sound like you watched the same movie :-)
Author: Christine from United States
OK, I'm going to be honest with you. The only reason I want to watch this movie (well, the first time anyway) was because David Boreanaz is in it. I know, shallow, right? Well, this comedy thriller was actually pretty good!
One thing that I LOVED was that Kathrine Hiegl's name is on the front of the box and yet she was only in 10 minutes of this 96 minute movie. That's okay though. The beginning part at the dance, was very upsetting and, of course, I felt sympathy towards Jeremy Melton. I mean, if you don't you have some serious problems. This entire movie consisted of constant murders and suspense, you barely have time to breathe!; there isn't a lot of down-time.
Did anyone else get freaked out about the whole maze thing? God, that was one of the creepiest parts of the entire movie!! And then when Lily is trying to find a way out, all of the screens start to turn off or go all static-y, I'm scared for her!! In the background you hear people saying, "Don't walk away from me"s and "Love me"s and "What do you like to do"s. AND THOSE EYES!!! *shiver*
This is probably one of the only recent horror movies I've seen that had some reasonable actors! Most horror movies stink because of the acting, but this one was actually pretty good because of it! With the exception of Marley Shelton (Kate). I don't understand where she got her acting diploma! I did like one of her lines describing Adam (Boreanaz), "Well, he's no angel...". You know. Because of his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel? Okay then...
The ending was a major plot twist! Throughout the entire movie you pretty much know who the culprit is, but you don't know WHO it is... Does that make any sense? Well, if you've seen the movie, then you should get what I'm saying. Overall, this movie is very good!
7/10 stars!
... I mean, bits of it sound like you watched the same movie :-)
lawbag (81.137.161.230)
4th Jul, 2007 10:53 (local)
I did actually look at Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB just to make sure it wasnt me being a tosser and missing the point of the film. Having found out it was not a good film, I ignored their views and wrote my own.
Im not a Buffy fan or even an Angel fan. Never watched them, never will. The American love affair with TV actors and actresses progressing to film and the audience following them is alien to me.
The above reviewer obviously saw humour in this film where I saw none. Not once did I laugh, (a) because there was no humour in it and (b) it wasnt that bad that it was funny.
The film had no suspense, and desperately sought to find new and unoriginal ways of keeping you on the edge, but failed. To say you would barely have time to breathe, that would be because you are so un-evolved that breathing isnt an instinct.
There was NO plot twist, it was David Boreanaz's character all along, after the aforementioned plastic surgery.
Im not a Buffy fan or even an Angel fan. Never watched them, never will. The American love affair with TV actors and actresses progressing to film and the audience following them is alien to me.
The above reviewer obviously saw humour in this film where I saw none. Not once did I laugh, (a) because there was no humour in it and (b) it wasnt that bad that it was funny.
The film had no suspense, and desperately sought to find new and unoriginal ways of keeping you on the edge, but failed. To say you would barely have time to breathe, that would be because you are so un-evolved that breathing isnt an instinct.
There was NO plot twist, it was David Boreanaz's character all along, after the aforementioned plastic surgery.
lawbag (62.69.73.216)
4th Jul, 2007 15:31 (local)
I actually posted my review on www.IMBD.com, but sadly I was just one of 36 odd pages worth of reviews.
I doubt it will count for much, other than me giving it 1 star (Awful).
I read a few random comments and the general opinion is they like it, and it isnt as bad as everyone says. Oh come off it.
Im sure Im not the only one. Maybe everyone else who tried to post a negative review had their computer crash on them just as they clicked on Post Review.
I doubt it will count for much, other than me giving it 1 star (Awful).
I read a few random comments and the general opinion is they like it, and it isnt as bad as everyone says. Oh come off it.
Im sure Im not the only one. Maybe everyone else who tried to post a negative review had their computer crash on them just as they clicked on Post Review.
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
Welcome to the Great Rip-off
Well until someone else does it, I thought I’d do it first.
As a big fan of The DM of the Rings, a webcomic that portrays a realistic look at the way a role-playing game would happen should the DM get a hold of Lord of the Rings and try to run it for a dysfunctional group of gamers, I thought it was about time someone did the same for Star Wars.
Now anyone can put this together, no different from any other idea, but DM of the Rings became big after it had been running for a few issues, so Im hoping the same success here for GM of the Galaxy.
But that isnt the real reason Im doing this, its more to get exposure as a writer, and comedy skit writer, we shall see.
Comments, suggestions and restraining orders, most welcome.
As a big fan of The DM of the Rings, a webcomic that portrays a realistic look at the way a role-playing game would happen should the DM get a hold of Lord of the Rings and try to run it for a dysfunctional group of gamers, I thought it was about time someone did the same for Star Wars.
Now anyone can put this together, no different from any other idea, but DM of the Rings became big after it had been running for a few issues, so Im hoping the same success here for GM of the Galaxy.
But that isnt the real reason Im doing this, its more to get exposure as a writer, and comedy skit writer, we shall see.
Comments, suggestions and restraining orders, most welcome.
Sunday, 11 March 2007
Movie Review - Becoming Jane
The wife was keen to watch this piece of cinematography, but I did point out that while it had good reviews, we would essentially be paying full price to watch what was essentially a BBC2 serialisation that would have been shown over 4 Sunday evenings.
But, despite such great actors, it was one of the hardest films to understand. Being British spoken, it should have been easy to understand what each actor was saying, but I barely was able to understand every few words.
The meandering story lost it for me after 40 minutes, and prompted by my wife, we left the cinema, having now gone on record as the first film I have ever walked out on.
But, despite such great actors, it was one of the hardest films to understand. Being British spoken, it should have been easy to understand what each actor was saying, but I barely was able to understand every few words.
The meandering story lost it for me after 40 minutes, and prompted by my wife, we left the cinema, having now gone on record as the first film I have ever walked out on.
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