Cape-Freak Vs. The Internets

Hmm. Well, ok, so I'm not actually going up against the internets or anything. The title of today's post is simple a clever, clever play on the Scott Pilgrim movie title. *shifty eyes* What? I am to clever. *pout*

But anywho, the main point here is to say that I saw "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" last week and quite enjoyed it. I'm not going to get into too many specifics at the moment since you really should go out and see it - if you like comics and/or games you'll probably enjoy it - I'm just going to limit my comments to one or two things that I particularly liked.

Visually, I really liked the comic book style sound effects that they used and think they really worked well. In a way, it's kind of like the old 60s Batman show (at least I think it was from the 60s, that was before my time) but obviously much better integrated to the point where it just seemed natural.

Some of the video game references were also quite good, some audio as well as visual - some Legend of Zelda music plays briefly during the opening scene. Fun stuff.

The movie also has a lot of Canadian content. It's based on a comic book by a Canadian author, set and filmed in Toronto, has at least some Canadian actors and also has some close-ups of Canadian coinage, among other things.

I am certainly quite interested in getting the original comics now, so that's something I'll have to look into.

It seems I've been babbling on for long enough now so I think I'll take the opportunity to sign out.

Oh, by the way, also google "Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation" - it's not a spoiler for the movie (but is related to it) so it's safe to look up even if you haven't seen the movie yet.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Sand, Surf and Freaks

The civic holiday was this past weekend. I don't really know what the civic holiday is supposed to be for, really - to me it's always just been a day off. But that's ok! I like days off.

On the Friday evening I saw the new Harry Potter movie (#6). I enjoyed it, though I thought they could have probably spent a bit more time on the backstory around Voldemort and the horcruxes since those will be important for The Deathly Hallows. Though, last I heard, the last book will be turned into two movies so I suppose there'll be plenty of time to cover those.

On Saturday I went to the beach with a couple of friends. This was really one of the first beach-worthy weekends we've had this summer. The drive was longer than I remembered, but it was definately I nice day for it. 'Twas a pleasantly lazy day at the beach.

The rest of my weekend was fairly uneventful, though I did get some project work done. Hopefully the rest of August will be nice and I'll have a chance to get out and do some more hiking and stuff - well, what passes for hiking around here, anyway. As I have often lamented, it's really just going for a stroll in the woods, compared to anything involving mountains.

Anyway, Freak Out,
-TFitC

Reboot

Went to see the new Star Trek movie last night with the usual group and we all quite enjoyed it. It will be interesting to see where they take the franchise from here, presuming of course that they continue on with it, though considering that the movie seems to have done quite well, both critically and financially, I'd be surprised if they didn't follow up on it some how.

It was also nice to see a good Trek movie since the franchise has been in a bit of a slump for the past several years.

Freak Out,
-TFitC