Wii II; Snapey goodness; a whole bajoogaboob of movies

[grrgoyl]

The good news is I now have a working copy of the Wii Link's Crossbow training. The bad news is I had to shell out to buy it all over again, but whatev. It seemed preferable to spending the rest of my life puzzling over the mystery of why it works on my neighbor's console and not mine, even after my otherwise last hope of an online update

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[halfcore]

Haha, those are some pretty good Miis there. Too bad you can't add a lightning scar to Harry's forehead.

[grrgoyl]

Ha thanks : ) Sadly with the Wii the only option I had was a beauty mark on his cheek, not quite the same thing.

[kavieshana]

Those Miis are so cute! Though I worry about your sanity if Tery ever leaves for longer than two weeks. You'll have all of the characters of Harry Potter on your baseball team.

skipskipskip-I've only seen Ghost Town-skip.

Hey, put your disbelief right back where it was. Fat funny guy/hot girl is a staple in American entertainment. Plus, have you seen Girlfriend Jane? She's kind of hot in a really really English kind of way. Plusplus, he's so much funnier than the King of Queens.

Wii II; Snapey goodness; a whole bajoogaboob of movies

[kavieshana]

Ps, that pencil drawing is better than any poster or action figure.

Re: Wii II; Snapey goodness; a whole bajoogaboob of movies

[grrgoyl]

I agree. The artist captured all the things I love about Rickman/Snape...the suspicion, the unhappiness, the (almost) greasy hair the distress at realizing he's fallen in love with Harry.

[grrgoyl]

Thank you! They were fun to do and actually came together very quickly.

I blame it on malnutrition. I've been living on fish sticks and frozen pizza for two weeks. It's amazing I can still type.

I don't know if it was the fat funny guy/hot girl dynamic that I had a problem with as much as the speed with which she was won over despite not only not knowing him, but thinking he was an ass from previous encounters.

See, if I was holed up house-sitting somewhere with no internet, massive movie watching would be the first order of business. Looks like you've got some catching up to do.

[ms_hecubus]

Love the miis. That is so much fun!

And I can't believe that is a pencil drawing. Just amazing!

[grrgoyl]

Thanks! There's no end to the ways I can amuse myself. : )

The guy is incredible. He has a series of 50 celebrities and movie/TV characters that all look equally lifelike.

[metatronis]

I'm going to make a bunch of rambling comments cause I can't help it

[grrgoyl]

Don't apologize. I LOVE this comment. Almost like a bonus feature to the movie all on its own!

All very, very interesting. You have convinced me I need to read the book (not that I needed convincing).

The extras on the Blu-ray didn't really include a behind-the-scenes (unless I skipped it to save it for later enjoyment) but there is a PIP commentary with Zack Snyder that will probably include Dr. Manhattan's effects (at least, IT BETTER).

Might I add that you are adorably nerdy? ; )

[metatronis]

I'm surprised there wasn't behind the scenes! That's kind of crazy. Maybe they're saving more extras for the absolute edition. This is the ridiculous thing I was referring to.

Haha, I have been known to talk about nerdy things until I'm flaily and flustered. That's just how I roll.

[meamjeffyjeff]

Alan Moore knows the score...

I would highly recommend reading anything by Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Top 10 and the list goes on for ever...) as he is the best writer of comics there has ever been. They've all been made into vastly stupid movies (Watchmen and V aren't too bad actually) but more often than not they have to be dumbed down (V, LOEG) or drastically changed (From Hell the book and From Hell the movie are world's apart).

Watchmen begs the question "What's the point?" as the film is almost identical to the book (apart from the changed ending which I felt was a little bit silly in the book, but at least it worked. The movie's version doesn't). What's the point of making a movie if you're not going to add anything (or bring anything new) to the story. At least with V, they took some very bold moves with exploring terrorism and conspiracy theories.

[grrgoyl]

I think the point is to expose the books to a wider audience and open them to a larger fan demographic -- dumbed down or not, people are more likely to sit through a 2-hour film than spend days or weeks reading a book (myself included). I would probably never give Watchmen or V another look, regardless of how revered they are in the comic community, without loving the movies first.

Plus it has to be a little cool seeing the book brought to life on the screen. For instance, I'd love to see Gaiman's Sandman done, if there was any chance of doing it justice (and making it less than 6 hours).

I liked the ending of the movie. Why don't you think it worked? The disc extras mentioned the original ending with the alien(s), and that looked very silly. And would probably add 2 million to the budget just to stay true to the silly original.

I will definitely read the book(s) eventually. I'm waiting for when I break my leg or something and am bedridden for a month or two.

[meamjeffyjeff]

Okay - plenty of spoilers here. Move along if you haven't seen the film

HA. I waited so long to reply to this you probably forgot your original argument.

[grrgoyl]

I agree with all that, while stubbornly maintaining that making Dr. Manhattan the scapegoat works perfectly fine so I don't feel like I wasted 20 bucks on the Blu-ray.

If you haven't read it, then you've just made my Christmas shopping far, far easier! I'll admit a large part of me was hoping you might say something like this. I almost ran out and bought it but I didn't want to spoil your gift options.