Tuesday's Nerd News Top 5

Nothing about Transformers 2 making a gajillion dollars over the weekend? And I was all set for some Michael Bay mocking. I guess the robots would have made it too easy to come up with BSG references...

So your book got an awesome review, you're still 40! Ha ha!

@ Lev - I thought you've been tailoring your posts to try and make BSG connections tough. There's just been way too much vampire related material and not nearly enough evil robots and/or spaceships on here lately.

Really Kemper? The "daybreakers", about the last band of a decimated humanity trying to turn the tables on their pursuers? The title was even taken directly from the last episode(s) of BSG. Frankly I thought it was condescendingly easy- a bit like T-ball. I didn't even take a swing.

@ anon76 - I'm just bitter that Church beat me to that one...

Speaking of The Pirate Bay...

To buy or not to buy Watchmen. Its not the special edition with the black frieghter on the dvd that Snyder said he would make. But perhaps that will come out later like all marketing schemes. Its has Snyders touch on it. All style and no substance. It wasnt nearly as good as the graphic novel and scene for scene, shot for shot style of adaptations is starting to make me sick. But it was still fairly good adaptation for a story that isnt primarly a action story like it was promoted to be. Regardless of its flaws I will most likely still get it. Did I hear correctly? Is Snyder going to make his "own" movie with original material not just a remake or adaptation? Of course the question is, is the material original.

C'mon Grossman! I know its summer, but I've still got work to blow off. Throw us a bone already!

Duvateen. Second most important wonderful substance on a film set, just before black wrap and just after black gaff tape. Black cloth that magically absorbs light.

@dennitzio: awesome right!?! The creativity that was involved in creating some of the techniques in film, before CGI started to try to take the glory, is just amazing.

@lostepic - for what it's worth, there's a movement here among some younger directors and VFX supervisors to do as much in-camera as possible and use CG for elements only for what can't be done. Look at Chris Nolan with Batman or even Jackson's LOTR movies. There's something amazing about doing it in-camera. Of course, then we have the opposite extreme with guys like Zach Snyder and Pixar directors who try to push the CG as far as possible - but generally that means creating stylized worlds, not trying to recreate reality. I have to admit, as a nerd, I really love both ideologies. One is retro-cool and the other is geek art.

I love CG. I just dont like a film to be bloated with it or watch a film were a director is addicted to CGI and that is all he wants to do. "cough" Lucas "cough". LOTR was a beautiful combination, the first two specificaly, of CGI and old fashioned tricks and techniques. I love CGI when if fits and is in its proper place, not so much because the director wants to pass it off because its too difficult a shot. Pixar can not be included because thats what they do. Pixar is awesome. Its computer animation. If you look at Pixar history they have come a long way but they are not in the same room as Lucas' "mickey mouse". I reconize completely the beginning of bringing a proper balance between the two.
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Now if we can keep another crappy motion capture from being made. I like motion capture, I just think nothing beats the close ups of real actors.

@lostepic - then you'd better not have a 5-year-old girl. Mine is WAY too into these moderately bad mocap CG Barbie Fairy Tale movies.

movies #14...

Your topic Mr. Big Dubya: Trackback::Working Without a Net Since 2005 was interesting when I found it on Sunday searching for movies #14...