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Hello, everyone! My home internet has been mostly down for days, which is fine, considering the holidays and all. I'm only mentioning it because I'm very behind and all, and totally not ignoring anyone on purpose.
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Over at GC today we have Pearce's take on the Avatar movie, What's Avatar Missing?
We took the boys to see it this weekend and we all rather enjoyed it. Though it has many of James Cameron's big, greasy narrative short-cut fingerprints on it (the villain who will fight to the death at the end, no matter what, for wobbly reasons; the climax that gradually goes from big fights to smaller-scale ones in which the objectives become more personal, etc.), but the technology here was amazing. The settings and the animals looked absolutely real, and the CGI characters/facial expressions were great, too. I think the gap between real actors and photo-realistic cgi characters is narrowing significantly. It didn't take me out of the story.
There was also a post on or around Christmas with a lot of holiday-related videos, Some Holiday Cheer.
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Also, after relaxing the requirements to post comments, we finally got spammed with comments about Ugg boots and cheap watches, so I turned the comment settings back to where they were before. It was worth a try.
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Also, I finished watching Time Between Dog and Wolf, and I have to say I enjoyed it. I think my favorite character was probably the Thai restaurant owner/spy. In any case, it seemed to avoid the "hero dies at the end-- or did he?" thing in the clumsiest way possible, but I'll take it (if only because Jun Ki dies (or does he?) in everything I've seen that he's starred in so far, and it was getting old).
I was impressed by the way they drew parallels between Mao and Soo-Hyun, and by the end you get the feeling that not much separates them morally, if anything.
That said, the love interest drove me batty. I'm sure it's because female characters can't do much without making themselves less attractive as mates in Korean mainstream culture. She basically got to love her fathers and be nice to everybody, even when being nice meant leading Min Gi on in the most horribly cruel fashion. There was something pathetic about her asking her biological father, sweetly, if he could please stop being a gangster and making people unhappy? ARG. TBDaW does pass the Bechdel Test because one NIS female operative talks to another female NIS operative about tech stuff in the course of a mission. (I really liked the female team leader. She rocked.)
Of course, the real question is, Did my dolly suffer, and was it pretty? Yes, and yes.
*happy sigh*
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Over at GC today we have Pearce's take on the Avatar movie, What's Avatar Missing?
We took the boys to see it this weekend and we all rather enjoyed it. Though it has many of James Cameron's big, greasy narrative short-cut fingerprints on it (the villain who will fight to the death at the end, no matter what, for wobbly reasons; the climax that gradually goes from big fights to smaller-scale ones in which the objectives become more personal, etc.), but the technology here was amazing. The settings and the animals looked absolutely real, and the CGI characters/facial expressions were great, too. I think the gap between real actors and photo-realistic cgi characters is narrowing significantly. It didn't take me out of the story.
There was also a post on or around Christmas with a lot of holiday-related videos, Some Holiday Cheer.
***
Also, after relaxing the requirements to post comments, we finally got spammed with comments about Ugg boots and cheap watches, so I turned the comment settings back to where they were before. It was worth a try.
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Also, I finished watching Time Between Dog and Wolf, and I have to say I enjoyed it. I think my favorite character was probably the Thai restaurant owner/spy. In any case, it seemed to avoid the "hero dies at the end-- or did he?" thing in the clumsiest way possible, but I'll take it (if only because Jun Ki dies (or does he?) in everything I've seen that he's starred in so far, and it was getting old).
I was impressed by the way they drew parallels between Mao and Soo-Hyun, and by the end you get the feeling that not much separates them morally, if anything.
That said, the love interest drove me batty. I'm sure it's because female characters can't do much without making themselves less attractive as mates in Korean mainstream culture. She basically got to love her fathers and be nice to everybody, even when being nice meant leading Min Gi on in the most horribly cruel fashion. There was something pathetic about her asking her biological father, sweetly, if he could please stop being a gangster and making people unhappy? ARG. TBDaW does pass the Bechdel Test because one NIS female operative talks to another female NIS operative about tech stuff in the course of a mission. (I really liked the female team leader. She rocked.)
Of course, the real question is, Did my dolly suffer, and was it pretty? Yes, and yes.
*happy sigh*