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Second, thing: I watched Metropia with my girlfriend (Lizzy) and a few of my other friends. I kept reading how "revolutionary" it was. I think by "revolutionary," they actually mean "shitty". First off, the movie is animated with edited photos that make "real" people look like Anime characters. Now, the movie's budget is 32 million, according to IMDB. I'm calling bullshit, and here's why. To Photoshop one picture like they did for all of the characters, it costs $5000. Multiply that by sixteen for mouth and eye movements, add 100,000 for photo-manipulation of each different pose and animation , then multiply by 60 for total screen time in minutes, then, finally, multiply by 10 for each of the main characters. That's 108 million, not including voice actors. It would actually be cheaper, and better looking, to make it a live action movie.
Maybe then, they would put some time into the most important part of the movie: the script. I cannot tell you with a straight face what this movie is about. A man hears voices and gets help from a supermodel to get to the bottom of it. That isn't the reason why I can't keep a straight face, though. The reason is because during the movie, I had no clue of what was going on because nothing is ever explained! I still have no idea why the bad guy was bad, and what was going on. It isn't because it was a mind bending "Sci-Fi" film, it was because the writers tried to keep everything a mystery by never addressing simple questions, you know, like, "What the flying monkey-fuck is going on?"
I think towards the end of the movie, the writers left in the middle of writing process. I'm not joking, this is an actual scene:
Ivan Bahn (the "Bad Guy...?"): What are you doing here? (grabs Roger)
Roger (Our.. hero... I think): Don't fucking touch me! (Bahn lets him go. Roger grabs a fishbowl and casually walks out of the room).
Ivan Bahn: (Waits 30 seconds, then looks around, and then confused)Why'd we let him go? (angry) GO AFTER HIM!
After watching that part alone, I couldn't stop laughing. It wasn't only out of place, the only appropriate place for that kind of writing is a "Sea Lab 2021" episode. In fact, I'm sure they did that in an episode... or 12.
Today, Lizzy and I went to see Faster. I didn't exactly have high hopes for this one, but I needed an action movie to get my mind off of a few things. Faster isn't an action movie. I know, I know, I was shocked, too, when I saw that the Rock wasn't in a Family movie, and that Faster wasn't actually an action movie. It couldn't be, because its both boring and unintentionally funny. First of all, the characters names: "Driver" (okay), "Cop" (really?), and "Killer" (you aren't even trying to be clever, are you?). ""Killer," the hired assassin sent to kill "Driver" is insane, and ultimately shouldn't exist because he doesn't get killed, instead, he's sent away with his tail between his legs by the dumbass who hired him.
Oh, Billy Bob Thorton plays "Cop," whose real name is, brace yourself, "Slade Murphies." "Slade," as in "Evil Roy Slade" or "DC's Deathstroke, Slade" and "Murphies" as in Robocop's "Murphy." You know what would've been a more serious name? "Splint Chesthair, Roll Fizzlebeef, Rock Slamfist, Slab Rockgroin," or even "Big McLargehuge." You know, anything that the cast of MST3K named Reb Brown in "Space Mutiny."
Again, the writing demon strikes. This was meant for TV, I think, because there is no excuse for lines like, "Oh, C.R.A.S.H? Cops that go in with guns blazing and porno staches?" How about the fact that so many characters that are introduced had absolutely nothing to do with the story ("Killer" being the biggest one), yet got high tier billing. While some of them had nothing to do with the plot, at least this movie had a plot, unlike Metropia. Though, I'm not convinced... I think Faster was either a movie that occasionally forgot it had a plot, but it might have been a movie that occasionally forgot that it didn't have a plot, and one snuck in.
Finally, some news: I am still writing the scripts for "Muzzle," but it's proving very arduous, and for very good reasons. Firstly, I'm trying to get a good timeline of events, but my life has changed so much and so fast that it's very difficult. I'm trying to figure out a smooth transition from "Wounded" to the story where I meet Lizzy, because my depression as well as the depression that another character goes through, is a big story event over the course of the series.
The other reason as to why it's hard is because of what the first storyline is about. See, one of the characters in the first chapter is, to put it relatively "nice" (though it's still not the right word), sexually assaulted. The person who went through this is a very close friend of mine, and is helping me write the chapters the revolve around this. The tricks are that I'm trying to handle this with as much comfort and care as humanly possible, while addressing that I'm not doing this as a trope, but as part of the overall story, and that it's incredibly painful to write.
Okay, so I've written stories where a man has his skin forms tentacles from his flesh, where a woman dreams of being eaten alive, wakes up to find that her doctor was her killer in the dream and kills herself, and made characters that are purely evil, with no good in them whatsoever. But, those are fictional stories, and while this one is a fictionalized version of my life, it's hard to write about this because, while it is fictionalized, it's based on a true and horrifying event in my friend's life. I'm trying to portray how she's reacted to this, but at the same time, show that this didn't happen because she was "weak" or "too independent." In short, I'm trying to get as close to the real motive (which, I warn you all, is incredibly disturbing), with out even hinting that this was thrown in for no reason other than publicity.
At the same time, I'm trying to make the comic both drama and comedy all at once. The first chapter, while mainly serious, does have some humorous moments in it, but not so much as to make light of the situation. In fact, the humor is kind of dry to show that it's more or less to relax us.
I'm also doing pin-ups of my more "serious" comic characters, i.e. not "Muzzle." My pin-up for "Sin" from "Goria" is done in line art form, and I'm working on coloring it. I'm going to start drawing the following:
1: Gomorrah (Goria)
2: Mina Ross (Goria)
3: Taylor Murdoch (Shade)
4: Mystery (Goria)
5: Vomir (Goria) (...Now, that's going to be tricky...)
6: Fay LeCroix (I Am Nothing)
7: The Terror Twins (Goria)
8: Li Chan (Shade)
For now, this is me getting ready to watch Shutter Island with Lizzy. I'll see a good movie, yet!
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