| Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 02:19 pm Random Media |
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Transformers Movie
This really was a good movie. Funny, and exciting. It does a wonderful job of making transforming robots seem both natural and awe inspiring. The only complaint is that the big robot battles near the end are a bit repetitive when it's hard to see which robot is which.
( Spoiler )
"...until we were betrayed by the 'Decepticons'". I think I said this the first time I saw it. Seriously dudes, you didn't see that coming? For the SECOND time?
Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob
Erfworld is a webcomic by Rob Balder of PartiallyClips and hosted by Rich Burlew along with his Order of the Stick[1]. (Both of those are awesome.) When I first saw it, I was not drawn in: it's inevitably compared to Order of the Stick, but is harder to get into, because it tries to build up an ongoing whole, but this means each strip by itself doesn't necessarily pack as convenient a nugget of humour, while it tries to squeeze plot in. And some people are put off by how gratuitously sexy some of the characters are.
[1] And illustrated by Jamie Noguchi, who I haven't heard of, but draws beautifully. So setting it apart from most other webcomics I like, which start off as crude stick-figures until the author learns to draw better ones[2].
[2] This is gentle irony in the case of most comics, but high praise in the case of OotS, which has really good stick-figures. Really. Really.
However, I just reread through the story, and it is very good. An awful lot of the humour is worked in sideways over a few strips, so when you first see it, it's just odd, and then later on it suddenly dawns on you what atrocious pun you've been reading past, and totally crack up. And the characterisation seemed patchy seeing each strip individually, but when you see the whole, it has half a dozen characters plus who I really, really like. (My favourite is Vinnie Doombats! But also Parson, Lord Stanley, Wanda, Jillian, Bogroll, Sizemore, Misty, Charlie.)
A few other humorous images and links
Simple diagram of the anatomy of an american news story, all the way from "unsubstantiated internet rumour" to "bad movie made for tv about it"
Cat macro
Other movies which can be made cooler by digitally insertinglightsabres!
Kitty pic |
