Today I am wearing a new shirt. A shirt I bought yesterday, as a matter of fact. This particular shirt is, for lack of a better word, fuzzy. It is shedding tiny little fuzz particles every time I touch it, and the result is me looking like I’ve been clawing in the dirt all morning. I’ve washed my hands about fifteen times this morning, and it just keeps coming back, because every time I stand up I have to tug on the shirt a bit. It’s incredibly frustrating. I just had to get that off my chest. Thanks for listening.
Speaking of chests, this was at the top of my feeds this morning:
“One of the beneficiaries of Avatar’s success could be the on-again, off-again Heavy Metal movie. Now there’s talk it may be reborn as an all-3D, all-animated anthology with contributions from Avatar’s James Cameron, Watchmen’s Zack Snyder and David Fincher.” (via io9.com)
Heavy Metal? In 3D? Holy bouncing breasteses RIGHT IN MY EFFING FACE, Batman!
And, in case you were wondering, I am totally listening to Don Felder at the moment. Duh.
I wouldn’t consider myself a Heavy Metal fan, per se…partly because I was never a 17-year-old boy, and as such I just never got a ton of exposure to it. I would consider myself a fan of the soundtrack and its featured South Park episode (see above). And in that respect, I want to see it done well. I want Heavy Metal to be awesome. As awesome as, well, heavy metal!
There’s also a lovely article on the new Preadators movie up on io9 today that makes me feel a little better about it than I may have before. I have an intense love of the original movie and an intense dislike of remakes, so I’ve been a little hesitant to be all gung-ho about it. But there are two words that really jump out at me and make me very happy here: “practical effects”. It’s not that I’m against CGI (okay, maybe I am a little), but I think it has a place. CGI is for things that absolutely cannot be done practically. Not for “enhancing” things that already exist (*cough*Lucas*cough*), not for making real people look like cartoon people (because that can be done practically too). And it should especially be avoided in the horror and action genres. When I see a giant explosion, I want to know that it really was a giant fucking explosion. I watch Mythbusters, I know it can be done. I know people that can make disgustingly true-to-life rotting flesh and delicious blood. And I’ve seen Guillermo del Toro make creatures ten times more terrifying than anything a computer could dream up.
one of the only movie creatures that ever gave me nightmares
That bastard still gives me the shivers. There have only been 5 movie characters that have ever attacked me in my dreams, and that’s just the latest one. The others, in case you’re interested, are (in order from earliest to most recent):
1. gremlins
2. the stair-rail snake thing from Beetlejuice (nos. 1 and 2 were actually both in the same dream, and I’ve had this exact same dream at least 4 times in my life.)
3. Gollum (not particularly scary except when he comes out of your roommate’s closet and tries to eat your face)
4. a Chucky-esque little kid (cuz let’s face it, little kids are frickin creepy. especially the kind you can’t kill, even by swinging them baseball-bat-style into a wall repeatedly and throwing them down a flight of stairs.)
Now I’ve lost my train of thought. And it’s after 3:00, and I was just given the ok to sneak out of work early today since I’ll be putting in overtime in my boss’s absence at the end of the week. So that’s where I’ll leave you for the day, little ones. Come back tomorrow, things should be less scary.
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