What's up? It's time for another update on things underdog. Did I ever mention that I have a blog that acts as my site? Well I do, and sadly nobody posts there, and it's really really sad that it's got little to no posts. If you like monsters, video games, and all things media, then please fell free to drop a line, maybe even show me your blog...I love to leave comments.

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Let's talk about movies shall we?

Watchmen:

Me and mom went to go see Watchmen a week ago, and honestly...I loved it. If you've heard a few loyalists who have doubts bout it, it's because there was some cut content in it. There are a few missing pieces, and altered scenes, but think about it for a minute.
Watchmen was a pretty big graphic novel, not to mention the additional tid bits of information regarding the universe of Watchmen after every issue (or chapter). To try and fit all of that content in a movie would take forever, and I think it's the reason why Alen Moore thought that the comic was considered imposable to bring to the big screen.

The movie did leave a few things out, but at the same time, they left almost all of the comic intact, hell, I would go as far as to say it's pretty damn accurate to the book. The movie kept all of the important stuff in, and it still delivered the heart and soul of Watchmen, which is still about heroes that have flaws.

To end this part of the blog, I'll quote from Spoony. "If you've never read the book, and in the end you wanted to go read it, then the movie set out to do it's job. It was successful." During the movie, my mom, who just turned 55 three days ago, and teaches medical assisting, wanted to read the graphic novel...I rest my case.

Go watch it.

The Princess & the frog:

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The cool thing about this new Disney film, is that it's going back to it's roots, which is hand drawn animation. The movie would look to be cute, and resembles the animation of the golden age of Disney films (Aladdin, Beauty and the beast, Lilo and Stitch). Now what would a golden age Disney film be without controversy? All of those films had at least one douchbag complaining about something.

Without going into too much detail, the main character is a character of African decent, and originally, I think, she was similar to Cinderella. Some people thought of a female of African decent working blue collar style, was considered racist. So, her character archetype was changed to a princess...though I think it's still in hot water, I'm not sure how or why, but I'm sure it is.

You have no idea how much this pisses me off. I mean, the first hand drawn Disney film we see in a long time, and somebody's got to go mouthing off some misunderstanding. The weird thing is that none of the CGI Disney films had any controversy towards them, but all of the silver age and golden age Disney films had them. Peter Pan, Mulan, Beauty and the beast, Aladdin, Lady and the tramp, I could go on.

I wish I could say something to try and defend Disney, but there's just no way around it, I'm probably going to get my ass picked by activist that want to live in the real world. Am I the only one that wants to go on a killing spree on these people?

Regardless, I really hope this movie turns out well, I mean after all, it does look cute. The frog is pure cute gold. ^^

New Heavy metal movie:

Perhaps the film I'm really excited about, is one that's not coming until a year or two from now. That movie being a CGI adaptation of Heavy metal. For some that don't know, Heavy Metal is a magazine that came from France, but found it's way to America when someone from Nation Lampoon got a hold of it.

The magazine is basically a melting pot of comics from different parts of the worlds. While each of these comics were different, they all had the same soul...Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Each story would be different, ranging from one shots, to a long spanning series. Some were sci fi, others were fantasy, and some were adventures, while others were head scratchers.
The comic was cool for it's day, because it was pretty hard to find a mature comic back in those days, and here was all of those adult comics in one magazine. Though nowadays it's pretty easy to find adult themed comics, but back then, Heavy Metal was your fix for mature comics.

The magazine is still going strong to this day, and provides niffty stories for the mature mind. A movie was made back in the 80s, which had different animated shorts, all taken out from issues of Heavy metal, and strung together to tell a story. The film was kind of like the magazine, but it came with cool music, and awesome voice acting.

Although the movie is still fun to watch, the animation is out of date, so it's kind of understandable to have a newer film to come out. Now here's some facts that I know of the movie so far.

+ The film will be similar to the pacing of the original film. It'll have nine segments, and each segment will have different styles.

+ David Fincher, of Benjamin Button and Fight Club fame, will not only head the entire film, but also direct one of nine planned segments.

+ Kevin Eastman, who created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtules, and the current president of Heavy Metal magazine, will direct one of the nine segments as well.

+ Tim Miller, who is the president of Blur Studio, will direct a segment as well. The studio, which is a cool CGI studio, will handle all of the animation.

+ A few well known directors want to do segments as well. Including Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth), Gore Verbinski (Pirates, Mouse Trap), and Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen).

So yeah, if they, by chance, get to do segments, then all is pretty well.

With all of that, I wish you a happy night.

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Take care everybody.