Some brief reviews:

[skywaterblue]

I made a macro tonight here and here. I just want to archive that I made it for posterity since without a doubt, no macro I ever make again will be as awesome.

Cooper and I watched the new Wonder Woman cartoon and we basically loved the crap out of it. It has a really, really high body count. The Amazons kill the fuck out of people and that's even before Diana gets made out of clay. There's some snarky bondage jokes, Themiscara looks convincingly majestic and spacious and there's a lot of good lines. Our favorite was "Nobody messes with Lincoln!"

Don't know how we felt about the depiction of Hades (they uh, mix it up quite a bit) or the very last scene, but I would gladly watch this one again and again.

I also bought a copy of Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter, which actually has two different pieces on it: the Black Freighter and a documentary on Hollis Mason's book, "Under the Hood", which covers the fictional history of crimefighting in the Watchmen universe. I got the feeling that they tried to sell lots of DVDs by promising animated zombie pirates, but I actually thought it was ridiculous. Fortunately, "Under the Hood" totally, totally is worth renting this.

I had to buy it because none of the stores I went to were renting it. There's another documentary about the importance of the interstitial material to the main narrative. It is an unfortunate waste of time because I think the only person who could really comment on the purpose of all of it is Moore and he doesn't want to oblige us.

Cooper and I managed to make it almost all the way through the motion comic preview chapter: seriously, what the fuck is the point of that? It feels like an audio book (the narrator is especially clumsy with Rorschach's dialogue). Except that you have to watch it for the panels so it somehow manages to not be that. Apparently they're selling the motion comic separately, I suppose for people too lazy to read?

I'll be taking Tales of the Black Freighter back to Zia for store credit soon.

Comments

[powerof3.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty awesome macro, bb. Good job! :)

[rosmar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the motion comic's been available on Xbox Live and iTunes for months now, God only knows why. I watched a preview and rolled my eyes.

I need to watch one of my Netflix discs so I can get Tales of the Black Freighter (currently #1 in the queue). Maybe tonight!

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

That is fucking masterful. *admires*

[fashionbeast.livejournal.com]

I suspect part of the deluge of Watchmerch is DC/WBs way to make back their huge losses on the film. Between the Watchmen:
Trade paperback
Hardcover
Absolute Edition
Making of the Comic Book book
Art of the Film
Film Companion
Action Figures
Tales of the Black Frieghter
Motion Comic

They just might be balancing out against what they have to pay Fox.

(Jesus, it's like the secret menu at In-and-Out Burger.)

Also, and this isn't related to anything in this topic at all, but avoid the Life on Mars sequel Ashes to Ashes. The main character is just annoying and you feel more sorry for Philip Glenister than anything.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

No, I totally think that's part of the their deal. They knew it was going to be a big artistic statement but also a loss leader, so let's put out 15 different editions of the DVD.