Belphegor - 06-11-2005 - Updated Tue/Thu/Sat

The Opinions Expressed Here...

You know, I understand the allure, the temptation to say it wasn't a bad movie. I mean, how bad can it be when there is such cool shit like lightsabers and telekinesis and space ships and Yoda and such. Hell, Darth Vader was even in this one (though not properly voiced by James Earl Jones, but this is understandable).

I know all these things to be true, but that doesn't make it a good movie. This movie is proof that you can have all the cool stuff in the world, and still waste your audience's time. I mean, what was interesting or new in this one? What happened that you couldn't have inferred from the other movies? Hell, my imagination had a much cooler take on it, and I didn't even think it through all that much. If you took out all the garbage, you'd have a half hour of some of the awesomest action footage ever. You'd have... Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series. By that, I mean something worth my time.

In other, less violated news, technical problems have me producing the comics on my brother's computer. I normally work on my 12" iBook G4 (that's right... doing graphic work on a 12" laptop... SO ideal), letting me work at all hours of the day. With the plastic and metal idol in the shop, I am at the liberty of my brother's own need for his machine (and privacy, sleep, and all the other things that come from the machine being in his room). But I'm grateful. If I didn't live in the same apartment as him, I'd likely not be able to work on it at all.

So during this time of great hardship, if the comic will be late, I'll post a progress report, including what ever lines they are feeding me about the hostage situation my iBook is caught up in. That is all.