Showing posts with label aliens among us. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aliens among us. Show all posts
BETTER
Oh, the CGI needs cleaning up, as will surely happen, but this footage is about a hundred times better than the teaser trailer.
Battle: Los Angeles, Round 2
A month or two back I posted the surprisingly well done trailer for this, the latest big budget alien invasion movie. Here's the new trailer, showing more of the movie's Blackhawk Down sensibilities:
It's the billionth "aliens attack Earth movie...
...but I still kind of like the tone of the trailer.
MONSTER MASH-UP: THE SEQUEL (iPod shuffle challenge!)
This worked out awesomely last year, so let's do it again! You remember the deal: you're scoring the trailers for several upcoming horror movies, so put your iPod or MP3 player of choice on shuffle and post the first song you hit for each trailer. That song is the centerpiece of the trailer, and you should write a few lines about how it'd fit the trailer or where it kicks in. Does it make it a comedy? Does it make it a teen movie? A freaky foreign flick? Follow the link to last year's challenge for bitchin' examples.
Here're the new trailer concepts:
Reminder: You might want to skip the orchestral stuff to avoid being too on the nose and go with mainly pop music.
Here're the new trailer concepts:
1) Haunted House
2) Mad Scientist
3) The Devil!
4) Creepy Aliens
5) SEQUEL! (Choose one of your movies from last year and score its sequel trailer. Pick the movie first, then hit shuffle - no cheats! If you didn't participate last year, your trailer topic is...MUMMY!)
Reminder: You might want to skip the orchestral stuff to avoid being too on the nose and go with mainly pop music.
"You cannot escape us..."
A new trailer for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of "The Whisperer in Darkness" is online:
Highlights include a working brain cylinder and several glimpses of the pseudo-crustaceous Mi-Go.
Sadly, this won't be an October 2010 release as originally planned; it looks like they're hoping to wrangle a TV or theatrical deal next year.
I'm petitioning ThinkGeek to start selling brain cylinders. And Red Lobster to add "pseudo-crustaceous" to their menu descriptions.
Predators Trailer
Robert Rodriguez
Walton Goggins, Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne
Who knows if it will be any good, but I'm interested.
Walton Goggins, Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne
Who knows if it will be any good, but I'm interested.
I ran out of steam on the Halloween Blogstravaganza...
...but maybe I can turn up a few more things before October's out.
Here's the trailer for the alien-abduction film, The Fourth Kind:
(I was very scared of aliens as a kid)
Here's the trailer for the alien-abduction film, The Fourth Kind:
(I was very scared of aliens as a kid)
I must confess: I've never read DUNE
But I'm mesmerized by this standalone adaptation of a quiet scene from it, courtesy fave comic artist, Paul Pope. It was inspired by the constraints of his work in DC's Wednesday Comics, a weekly where each creative team had a single page of a "Sunday Funnies"-style newspaper as their chapter.
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Here's Pope talking about it:
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Here's Pope talking about it:
I've always been struck by the taciturn Nietzschean aspects of M'uad Dib's character as a leader. One of Frank Herbert's points in DUNE was a warning-- beware of charismatic heroes. When entrusted with great power, they can do great damage to a civilization. Even a brief sweep of history can illustrate this point.
I wanted to try applying the lessons learned from the Wednesday Comics experience to a different subject, here finding a source which would be difficult to illustrate as a page of comics, given that there is very little suggested action. I find that with the format of the Sunday Comics page, one must condense the plot and action to the briefest yet most vivd bursts of information available-- there is a lot of space on the page for the illustrations to really overwhelm the reader/viewer, but there isn't a lot of space for story development in the sense of how we'd develop a plot or work up dialogue for a typical comic book page. In a comic book, one page may be well drawn or well written, but it is still just a single facet of a larger whole. One page can be preceded or followed by another, but no one page carries the entire weight of the sustained narrative. The Wednesday Comics single page format forces the artist to create a story unit which may well be part of a larger storyline, however it still must be able to stand alone.
This depiction of Paul M'uad Dib and the Fremen Stilgar is based on paintings John Schoenherr did for an illustrated edition of Dune published by Berkley Books in 1977. Frank Herbert said that of all the visual depictions of his ideas, Schoenherr's work was closest to the way Dune's people and things looked in his own mind. The colors here are by Lovern Kindzierski, who worked with me on the second half of the Strange Adventures strip.
Alive in Joburg
I don't know if everyone's aware that the coming movie District 9 springboards off concepts developed in a 6-minute short called Alive in Joburg. But so it does! Same director and everything. It's a fairly direct allegory for Apartheid, set as it is in early 90s Africa, and showcases the same verisimilitude the film looks to.
Oh, and it seems spoiler-safe to me. It's largely atmosphere, like District 9's first teaser, with none of the suspense angle.
Oh, and it seems spoiler-safe to me. It's largely atmosphere, like District 9's first teaser, with none of the suspense angle.
This is gonna be cool.
That first teaser for DISTRICT 9 was interesting, but the new full trailer really has me pumped...
Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles
Yes, you read that right.
(I doubt that the wallabies had anything to do with this jellyfish crop circle that appeared recently in England, but I think it is just so snazzy that I am posting it here anyway.)
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