Watchmen

Click here to see the trailer for the film I'm talking about
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I've long held the opinion that teaser trailers do a lot more to create interest in a movie than the actual theatrical trailers do. This is likely to be another example of that.

I love the song in the trailer--it sounds like Smashing Pumpkins, can anyone confirm that or give me the name of the song?

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By the way, I hated Watchmen--the book. I didn't like the characters, the plot, the ideas, the philosophy, any of it.

I did like Rorschach though--he was great until...well...I began to hate him too.

I know everyone's like "best graphic novel ever" and all that crap, but I don't buy it. Maybe for the time. [BTW, "Bone" is an amazing graphic novel. Read it!]

Maybe. I can see how it influenced comics and genre entertainment in general, but today, it seems just dark and uninspiring.

Someone is going to say: "well, that's the whole point of the book!"

And I will reply: "who cares? I have a future and I'm not paranoid about authority like Moore obviously is."

And they will say: "But at the time of the book's publishing, people didn't know that they had a future, it was the cold war"

And I will say: "Again, who cares? Everyday we live under the shadow of death. Because of my hope in God, I don't have to live in fear of pain and death. I can and will endure, like we always have as a species."

The lesson? The watchmen film will no doubt be interesting to see, and I have no doubt that I will. But if it shares the tone and philosophies of the book, then I'm going to leave the theater unchanged and underwhelmed.

Zack Snyder helmed 300 which was one of the most disapointing films I've ever seen (as in, I lived through the hype only to see it on DVD months after--only to discover that is is ultimately hollow, and honestly not very exciting either.). I know billions of people disagree with me, but I can't help it when I'm yawning the whole time. Maybe Watchmen will renew my hope in him as a "master filmmaker."

We will see.

My Eyes Are Up Here

"You can't really know anything about someone by looking at their [posterior]... unless that person is a sodomite." --anonymous

---...and most of us are not going to be looking that close.


My friend Kelly-Rae used to run a blog known as "my eyes are up here." [I wish she would still blog on it. *angry face*]. This was a statement on the simple vice that many of us face everyday: looking at people as objects. Her feeling (shared by many) is that one can tell a lot about a person by looking in their eyes.

I agree that there is a tremendous value to interacting with someone through sight and vision, but I often have to remind myself that it is better to include someone in that contact, and furthermore to learn who they are--not what they appear to be.

This applies to many more surface aspects about a person--besides that of appearance: experience for instance.

In any case, I'm working with God on looking at people differently then I sometimes do:as people who have desires, and choices just as I have--people with souls.

And part of that change in me is going to be looking at people's eyes.