Weekend's End
Sep. 21st, 2003 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigNot much to say for this weekend. Things are going relatively all right, all in all, so I can't complain (much!) I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's been talking me off-journal up from my occasional downs that I get myself into. =)
Saw Underworld today. It's pretty much a 'style' movie, in that it's mostly about the visual effects. It didn't have nearly as much CGI as, say, Blade II. The acting was kind of wooden. And the fight choreography wasn't quite as good as the last movie Christian Bale was in, Equilibrium. The visuals were dark and bluish, like someone had mis-set the color corrections. (This is not reallly a bad thing.) There's probably one sequence which the greens and blues didn't blend into one another. All in all, though, for eye-candy I could have spent $5 in worse ways. I have to hand it to the leading actress, though; that costume, as good-looking as it was, must have been utterhell to work in for a weeks-long shoot.
Something That Must Be Seen: Matrix Ping-Pong. I've got respect for guys who can do something like that, with the coordination and creativity it takes! When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamahori told me about it, he said "Matrix Pong," and I expected old Atari Pong done in Xiao Xiao's stick-figure blood opera style. This just made my week!
Just about to do some bills right now, and then play a bit of the latest obsession: Homeworld2. THese guys bring model texturing to an grand art form. A Homeworld movie would be quite nice, so long as they don't do to Homeworld what they did to Wing Commander. If they make a Homeworld movie, I want to see the darn bannana-shaped mothership, or at least a hint of bannananess in the motheership!
Saw Underworld today. It's pretty much a 'style' movie, in that it's mostly about the visual effects. It didn't have nearly as much CGI as, say, Blade II. The acting was kind of wooden. And the fight choreography wasn't quite as good as the last movie Christian Bale was in, Equilibrium. The visuals were dark and bluish, like someone had mis-set the color corrections. (This is not reallly a bad thing.) There's probably one sequence which the greens and blues didn't blend into one another. All in all, though, for eye-candy I could have spent $5 in worse ways. I have to hand it to the leading actress, though; that costume, as good-looking as it was, must have been utter
Something That Must Be Seen: Matrix Ping-Pong. I've got respect for guys who can do something like that, with the coordination and creativity it takes! When
tamahori told me about it, he said "Matrix Pong," and I expected old Atari Pong done in Xiao Xiao's stick-figure blood opera style. This just made my week!Just about to do some bills right now, and then play a bit of the latest obsession: Homeworld2. THese guys bring model texturing to an grand art form. A Homeworld movie would be quite nice, so long as they don't do to Homeworld what they did to Wing Commander. If they make a Homeworld movie, I want to see the darn bannana-shaped mothership, or at least a hint of bannananess in the motheership!
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Date: 2003-09-21 09:41 pm (UTC)Suck.
Btw, I think the technique you were talking about, vis a vis 'Underworld', is called a blue filter. There've been other movies, and some TV shows shot like that.
There was a show on Fox, a few years back, called Brimstone - used a similar technique.
I dunno about a Homeworld movie. Tempting, but these days, the line between movie and video game is blurring quite a bit. Look at 'Enter the Matrix', for example.