tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post5244907678905074552..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: This Week in Geek (5-11/06/17)Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-1135282090156114822017-06-13T11:56:21.753-03:002017-06-13T11:56:21.753-03:00I mostly liked Wonder Woman, but the biggest stick...I mostly liked Wonder Woman, but the biggest sticking point to me was that Diana was not allowed to carry her own film. Steve Trevor had just as large a character arc as she did.<br /><br />--DeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-59079400951195461802017-06-11T22:09:04.158-03:002017-06-11T22:09:04.158-03:00Harhar, then I shall never be in the know.
However...Harhar, then I shall never be in the know.<br />However, 'tis time to hear Nick and Benji on this week's Big Finish Podcast. Such fun! Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-17663276272368782572017-06-11T20:39:12.404-03:002017-06-11T20:39:12.404-03:00AmHawk: That's not a bad comparison!
Brendon:...AmHawk: That's not a bad comparison!<br /><br />Brendon: I'm not planning on seeing the new Mummy picture, which is apparently terrible. Maybe in... how long did it take me to see the Fraser one? 18 years?Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-22981791329433277282017-06-11T19:16:25.609-03:002017-06-11T19:16:25.609-03:00Incidentally, the CGI worked better in slow motion...Incidentally, the CGI worked better in slow motion, I thought. <br />The leaping, bounding, climbing and hitting-really-fast in "real time" CGI characters still look really off... Though you can only use slo-mo a couple of times and get away with it.<br />I reckon the alternative can't be gotten away with at all. That's why Jackson's Fellowship of the Rings (slow motion Balrog and Cave Troll) was a CGI masterpiece and Two Towers was mediocre, even a failure in my book. (fast leaping/running Wargs, fake as anything. Didn't work at all.)<br /><br />Wonder Woman running up the wall and jumping across the street in fast motion looked just wierd, while the slow motion fighting at least looked like it could have been real.<br /><br />In fact, 70's SIX Million dollar man and 90's Flash on a treadmill and sped up to a blur still work better than the every-movement-crystal-clear high speed CGI does. <br />I think it has to do with visible detail and speed... In real life our brain doesn't have a chance to process things as fast as they happen. I was in a fight ONCE in my school days and I never saw the fist that gave me a bleeding nose. I only felt it!<br /> Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-1583658011992170792017-06-11T18:57:47.698-03:002017-06-11T18:57:47.698-03:00The new Mummy looks like it might be more of a hor...The new Mummy looks like it might be more of a horror flick than the one you reviewed here. I'll leave you to find out if this is the case... there's a line between excitement and freak out that I don't dig on crossing. <br />Were Fraser and Cruise ever together in the same film? I wouldn't have minded that as a comedy action duo...<br /><br />As fer Wonder Woman, loved it too. "Look! A Baby!" (though I still can't see a fault with the Snyderverse overall... Bats and Supes actually felt real to me.) <br />BUT, as with about every Hollywood flick since perhaps 1990, (including Peter Jackson) the last 20 minute special effects climax always loses me too.<br />I lose faith it when it happens in novels too (when the author starts describing explosions in detail and throws in great beams of power with the bad guy floating in the air cos he's so awesome???? FUHgeddaboutit.) I'd rather another 20 minutes of moving the plot forward and perhaps some more character development. <br /><br />I DID wonder if there was a corny explanation why, after Diana was zapped by Ares through her roll of magic twine how she crashed to the ground with it neatly rolled up on her hip? I suppose it IS magic. <br /> Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-54055204582691641302017-06-11T13:03:14.316-03:002017-06-11T13:03:14.316-03:00I'm a bigger fan of the Mummy than you, mostly...I'm a bigger fan of the Mummy than you, mostly because it's essentially a Hawkman film without flying. :)American Hawkmannoreply@blogger.com