...of course, I still haven't seen The Spirit because, well, I wasn't excited by a movie about a city that is "my lover, my sister, my mother..." ...just didn't work for me.
But I have liked 300 and Sin City.
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Graphic Novel Flicks
But now that Watchmen is out, I'm hearing very mixed reviews. So, we'll see.
There is something about this style of filmmaking--the hyper intensity/super-human nature of the genre--that is way cool. So, the following are two screen grabs from 300 that demonstrate, as well as any freeze frame can do for a moving picture, the physics of awesomeness:
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Leonidas' Jump
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Spear Throw
What is the future of this genre?
I don't know. And I don't really care how fake the physics of these movies are: As long as they're awesome, I'll be a happy boy.
~Luke Holzmann
Your Media Production Mentor
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