hahahah because there is SO MUCH INTEGRITY in posting ANONYMOUS BLOG "CRITICISM." yall really know how to keep "spreading the hardcore reality" -- get KRS-1 and Sick of it All on the iPhone, it's time to pass the torch! YAY GAWKGLOMERATE BLOG-BOT!
as the might Coalesce once said, "sometimes selling out is waking up." [youtu.be]
as the might Coalesce once said, "sometimes selling out is waking up." [youtu.be]
check the sausage fingers on that guy
hahah, "Craigslist". they're selling this shit out of the back of a van you mopes.
re: "does Disney really believe that there are multiple Iron Man-scale successes in there...?"
well, not a lot of people saw iron Man as a viable success until it hit the theaters. I was incredulous. and i would have thought that X-Men was a tough sell outside of the existing fan-base, but i was wrong. I think what we have here is a company that's going to have the resources to mine this "Marvel thing" out for everything it's worth. Disney might have a long-view on this one.
did that person describe the movie as "cinematic" (around 00:21 left on vid) ?! i think it's telling that their plugging their movie as being "movie-like."
then stop hyping bad franchises in IO9 (e.g. see archives for iron man lovefest, batman lovefest, transfrmrs lovefest, watchmen lovefest, etc) and then hopefully fewer people will go see them and then hopefully fewer studios will rely on them and hopefully fewer awesome stories will become "franchises" and HLLYWD will have to write their own damn ideas for a change
"This is one of those "good in theory" ideas that eventually end up biting you in the ass later. "
care to quantify that statement with any actual evidence or conjecture?
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That panel still looks great! just got goosebumps!
Also, they need a leader who is a whiney good-for-nothing who shirks his chores to run off and fly space ships with his friends, abandoning his adoptive family to be destroyed in a kind of police cover-up
thanks for the pics from 100 Days of Sodom. Now i can spend the whole day feeling queasy and bugged out. While you're at it, could you throw up some beheading footage? and give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? THANKS, GUY!
nobody told there was fucking on this thing! i wrote it off as boring. WHY THE HELL AREN'T I NOTIFIED ABOUT THESE THINGS?
Any commenters out there playing Monsterocolypse? is it worth checking out?
Well I, for two, would like to welcome our monstery overlords.
how about a storyline where Wolvie is an unlikeable, ugly, violent berserk'r who has trouble keeping himself from just killing everybody in the room? i feel like people are ready for that.
here's a wacky idea: tear down half of your building and use the available space to grow actual plants. plant more stuff on top of the remaining building. tear up the parking lot and plant even more plants. then bike to work every day, and, if possible, disable some cars. Share seeds and plant vegetables instead of grass. slowly but surely, Los Angeles will return to Earth's orbit. Hopefully, roving packs of leather-clas brigands won't shoot you all and take your crops.
PS, i saw this opening night out in Deptford NJ and some of the local comic-book-shop guys did a whole "swede" thing and had the folks in line re-enact all the scenes from SWIV:ANH. very ahead of their time, i might add. If there's anybody out there who knows what i'm talking baout or can at least remind me the name of the store please send me a message (minotarr@gmail.com). gods forbid if you have a copy of their finished film & can direct me to a RAR link.
i hope i am not the only guy out there whose fun ended once the opening crawl ended. sucks to yer phantom menace.
hahah, you nailed it. hilarious.
almost ten years, people. TEN YEAR ANNIVERSY RE-DO! LET'S ALL LINE UP AGAIN!
Instead, they have two super-important functions...
let's say 2.5:
these fantasizes provide a visual "map" for our anxieties about the way our thought structures have changed since the advent of data-processing and the prevalence of the personal computer. That isn't necessarily just our having to deal with "rapid progress" and new technologies and "upgrades"; rather, it is our having to deal with a fundamental change in the way that thought and identity are conceived in our techno-centric cultures. Wherein we once considered ourselves to be essentially bodies with brains ("brain -in-a-vat") who perceived themselves as "organically whole" (or not -- "fractured" or "de-centralized" in the post-modern lingo), the Posthuman paradigm shift is one where humans identify more closely with intelligent machines than "human subjects." We use computing & data processing as metaphors for the way intelligence expresses itself, picturing ourselves as "embodied intelligence" and seeing fewer differences between the human experience and the experience of computers or animals. We are computing machines, running various functions & capable of being multiple subjects from context to context.
So the Posthuman change means augmentation a la cyborg-isms like avatars, mechanical enhancements, etc, but more importantly it means is a change in practices of identification. This causes many folks, corn-fed on old fashioned ideas about "souls" and "mind over matter", a great deal of anxiety. So we play out these anxieties in films, TV, Games, & fiction. This is also why we so often represent that change as a monstrous one - though I'm glad to see that feature films like Avatar are catching up with yesterday's anime (uhm GITS, as noted above) and representing the change as one of possibility and hope rather than degradation and "dehumanization."
Thanks for this interesting article!
