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[iainjclark]

There's a nice behind-the-scenes article on Babylon 5: The Lost Tales over at CG Society (Society of Digital Artists) with a lot of new photos and a few story spoilers.

AICN have a test image of Rorschach from the ever-mired-in-Development-Hell Watchmen movie. I'm still ambivalent about the movie, but the high-res image is very well-realised and faithful to the comic. Janet says that it just looks like a man in a cloth mask, but that in Watchmen this is probably part of the point.

A version of the image has been snuck into the middle of a new promo for 300 for some reason, a film which has just exceeded box-office predictions on its first day of release. The movie looks visually gorgeous and is getting very positive reviews, although I suspect it may be just a teensy bit OTT and hyper-macho for my sensitive tastes.

EDIT: For those who don't read Neil Gaiman's blog: Bob Dylan sings Dr. Seuss.

Comments

[dalmeny]

just looks like a man in a cloth mask

That does look like Rorshach to me, but is he short too?

I just read a review of 300 on nytimes.com. They panned it.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

300 seems to be getting a lot of praise for its visuals but some are feeling it's style over substance. It wouldn't surprise me, but then again you don't go into a film like that expecting low key scenes of people murmuring profundities. The marketing has been pretty clear that the entire script is bellowed in sound-bites in the finest Brian Blessed tradition. ;-)

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Bob Dylan sings Dr. Seuss.

.........

See, some people think the internets are for increased inter-cultural global communication, about wider sharing of knowledge, opinions, and news. But really, it's all about websites like that. That's the internet's true purpose.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

No matter how unrelated two interests may be, somewhere on the internet they're bound to be colliding messily.