Friday, May 20, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Posters For Upcoming Tintin Movie
At the moment, I'm finding it hard to care too much, but I imagine as the release gets closer, my interest will grow proportionately.
Sourced from blledingcool.com, who sourced them from empire and deadline, i think.
Sourced from blledingcool.com, who sourced them from empire and deadline, i think.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
September11th
I had a thought this morning at work as I was preparing breakfast, that people shouldn't keep saying the term 9-11. There were a couple reasons I think for this. Firstly, it's a date, not a slogan. It's a tragic date, but I don't know the date when the bombs landed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We seem to be defining the whole of human history by this one date. It's not September 11th anymore, it's 9-11. It's stands for something now, and by keeping on referring to it in that way, it seems to me we can't let go of the past, we 're holding onto the hurt.
Also, the rest of the world doesn't necessarily write the date down month/day/year. 9-11 to me means the 9th of November. It's this USA-centric view of the world, which needs to change. Brad wrote about something similar on his blog. By continually referring to it in the way "we" do, we keep accepting or perpetuating the idea that the USA is the be all and end all. I think we've seen recently that the US isn't some unassailable paragon of power. And they're responsible for their own downfall.
Anyway, that's all I really had to say. Got to keep watching HSM3 now.
Hiroshima-August 6th
Nagasaki-August 9th
Also, the rest of the world doesn't necessarily write the date down month/day/year. 9-11 to me means the 9th of November. It's this USA-centric view of the world, which needs to change. Brad wrote about something similar on his blog. By continually referring to it in the way "we" do, we keep accepting or perpetuating the idea that the USA is the be all and end all. I think we've seen recently that the US isn't some unassailable paragon of power. And they're responsible for their own downfall.
Anyway, that's all I really had to say. Got to keep watching HSM3 now.
Hiroshima-August 6th
Nagasaki-August 9th
Trailers.
So I went to the movies last night, and I saw three trailers.
The first trailer was for a film called The Zookeeper. It seems to be the "story" of a zookeeper who comes to work one morning, or evening, or sometime, and all the animals can talk. And he freaks out. And that's it. There's no story there. Maybe the film does have a story, though I suspect it doesn't, not really. But is this what passes for a trailer now? There was no suggestion of a story, there was a couple of "gags", and that was it. Am I expected to go see this movie based on that?
The other two trailers were better, but I can't even remember now what they were.
This rant really isn't going anywhere.
The first trailer was for a film called The Zookeeper. It seems to be the "story" of a zookeeper who comes to work one morning, or evening, or sometime, and all the animals can talk. And he freaks out. And that's it. There's no story there. Maybe the film does have a story, though I suspect it doesn't, not really. But is this what passes for a trailer now? There was no suggestion of a story, there was a couple of "gags", and that was it. Am I expected to go see this movie based on that?
The other two trailers were better, but I can't even remember now what they were.
This rant really isn't going anywhere.
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