Yesterday the Oscar nomination were announced; to no surprise, Heath Ledger has a spot on the list of Best Supporting Actors (and will certainly win) for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight; to much outcry, The Dark Knight failed to recieve any other major nominations, such as Best Director or even Best [...]
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Defending Gotham in Hockey Pads: The Lie of the Hero
Posted in Analyses, Movies, Theory, tagged Batman on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you not entertained? Empty spectacle in Quantum of Solace
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Casino Royale, Die Hard, Gladiator, Indiana Jones, Quantum of Solace on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I really should have seen this the first time. (Spoilers for Quantum of Solace below.)
Having watched Quantum of Solace for the second time today, it seems so obvious to me. Hindsight, of course. The first big action sequence–Bond’s chase after traitorous MI6 agent Mitchell–is intercut against shots of a horse race. I noticed this the [...]
SOFA
Posted in D&D, Fictions, Internets, Movies, Personal, Television, Video games, tagged Facebook, Far Cry 2, Heroes, Letters from Africa, Overlord, Pushing Daisies, Quantum of Solace, Steam, The Forsaken Jewel, Twitter on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new plan of attack involves more shorter posts, so that there aren’t months without anything. I stayed away from that here before because I keep really short thoughts to Facebook status updates (would be Twitters if I had any friends on Twitter, but I don’t), but there’s a place between rambling essays and one [...]
Why you should be watching The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Posted in Analyses, Movies, Television, tagged Asimov, Blade Runner, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a fascinating show. It’s a show on a major network (and one notorious for canning potentially brilliant but niche shows befor giving them any real chance to establish an audience) that manages to get away with many things you wouldn’t expect possible on a major network (and especially on FOX). [...]
Gender in Wall-E
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Joseph Campbell, Wall-E on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really have much to say about this, but it struck me when I finally saw Wall-E (which is brilliant and deserves every accolade it can get):
Wall-E, the masculine protagonist, is a robot whose job is to literally clean up the mess left behind by humans. More figuratively, it is a care-taker, protector, preserver, [...]
Narrative space
Posted in D&D, Movies, Theory, Video games on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a storyteller. I see the world in stories. That’s not saying much, because this is true of everyone. What is a story, after all? It’s an organization of reality, an illusionary order imposed by our brains to make sense of the fundamentally nonsensical universe. So why say I’m a storyteller? Because it means something [...]
Nuking the Fridge: A Reexamination of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Indiana Jones, nuclear era on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in theaters for the second time. I’m a true Indiana Jones fanatic–hung above my desk, right next to my computer, are all four movie posters, framed–so when I saw the film for the first time, most of my response to it was as [...]
The Dark Knight in Three Phases
Posted in Analyses, Movies, tagged Batman, Camus, Nietzsche, The Plan on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t a review; so if that’s what you’re looking for, go somewhere else. (Preferably to a theater, where you can buy a ticket to see The Dark Knight.) Nor is this a critical analysis, although that’s closer. I think the best term for it would be a “response” to The Dark Knight–if only because [...]
