tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66874765242348066202009-06-03T04:15:29.501-04:00Engines of CreationCarlo Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900315513090127439Carlo210@gmail.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6687476524234806620.post-75505690550314767682008-11-07T13:04:00.001-05:002008-11-07T13:16:49.630-05:00

Let's just say I really liked it. As a revamping of the bond series, it's gotten me excited. And yes, it has taken me a while to watch it, and the upcoming release of Quantom of Solace forced me to watch it. I'm happy I did. I really liked Daniel Craig as Bond and I love how he constantly gets the shit kicked out of him. The chase in the beginning of the movie was absolutely fantastic in how is

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I've been veeery busy, but happy. I saw Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist; it's a great movie. I saw Lakeview Terrace; it works, it's just not really great or anything. Waiting to see Eagle Eye, though I've seen most of the first act already and I'm intruigued. And a taste of awesomeness: Someone who has 700+ Whose Line clips! (and counting)

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It really was a great movie. I watched it not too long ago in one of my classes (yes, an actual film course! aha), and I really enjoyed it. I was expecting really oldschool dialogue-based exposition, which was existent during the first 10ish minutes of the movie. However, the movie was very modern, entertaining, funny, and intriguing. My favorite aspect of the movie was definitely the

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I've been tagged by a meme. You can thank Jane at her blog. So, why do I want to write for television? I love certain television shows, and I'm probably more active in my television watching than my movie watching. However, I feel movie writing has been where my heart is. It would be cool to work on a serial series, and I'm open to the idea of doing something for, say, the internet, but I

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Click to enlarge of course... not that they're good quality or anything.

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Well I'm back in University and things are going fine. Regarding recent and upcoming movies, this is the skinny: Disaster Movie sucks, Babylon A.D is a mess, The Dark Knight is finally out of theatres (a sad day indeed), Death Race is needlessly gritty looking, The Rocker is a flop through and through, Clone Wars's dialogue feels as natural as a hairless italian, Tropic Thunder Robert Downey Jr.

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Some more cellphone pics. More elegant this time through. The last one is my favorite. :)

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I got a newish cellphone a couple of days back and it has a camera. I always liked the idea of being able to take random pictures while I'm off on my day. You can come across many interesting things on a walk, or in a subway station. The quality of the phone's pictures suck, of course, but at least they're at a high resolution (640x480). I can make them look unique by using photoshop and a couple

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Thanks to Pineapple Express, we have an earthly aroma in our theatre every night at seven.

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I saw a pre-screening of Pineapple Express last night, and I liked it. The story's premise is very reminiscent of The Big Lebowski, but not much else. The movie is a bunch of fun and the characters are great. I've heard some bad things a month back about this movie, such as there being too much action and too little character development, but I wouldn't agree. And, as many of you guys are likely

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When you write for your very own television show, you can write like this. Dream for when this day comes, cause it looks like fun. Until then, you shouldn't be writing like this (any other news?) because you don't have any actors, directors, and/or composers to address personally in spec scripts. Television scripts are written for the cast and the cast only, so I wouldn't advise you adopt their

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There aren't many things that do this, but THIS really pisses in my soup. Meaning it pisses me off. Doing a live-action movie of this show is just... urgh. But hey, it's not like Hollywood hasn't already done many equally shitty things within the past five years. I'm not angry because I'm afraid they won't do the show justice, I'm angry because of the state of the film industry's creative

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At my new job at a movie theater (yippee, right?), I got to peek in and see parts of Wall-E, Hellboy II, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.Now, I haven't seen these movies in their entirety, but I stuck around to watch full scenes and saw I saw things in the special effects department that I liked. However, there were also things that I didn't like.First off, Wall-E looks great and visually

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Why? Oh GOD why?

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After sending many emails to Canadian politicians I've just received an email from my good buddy Jack Layton. You know, the leader of the NDP political party of Canada. His email was very kind and spot-on to our concerns, which is relieving. He even attached a petition sheet to the email. Here's his email, Thank you for contacting me about Bill C-10 and the Harper government’s plans to censor

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John August recently wrote about how to write "unspoken things". It's another lesson in showing rather than telling, which is very important. Of course, the complexity of showing instead of telling depends on what kind of story you are writing and what kind of pace you want to set. While writing conversations such as these, you're trying to make things feel natural, but things may get more

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I know I may sound bitter and critical about some of Hollywood's newest creations, and I may shoot them down fairly often...But that isn't going to change if Hollywood keeps giving me ammunition.Today's delivery: Rocket Propelled Grenades.Thanks to Burbanked for the shipment.Open the crate

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I'm just wondering what some of you guys are currently working on. I thought it would be interesting to know what kinds of things some of you write.As for me, I've been busy with things like digging up our backyard to put in a patio, and I haven't been in a very writery mood as of late. I don't feel there's a need for me to force anything on page, so I'm taking it easy in that regard.Also,

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Someone found my blog by using Google. What were they searching for, you ask?See for yourself. Golden. :P

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It seems Unk's inbox is being bombarded with trivial questions from budding screenwriters, so I thought I'd help answer them. Clive and Todd have answered these questions on their own blogs, but they tried to be all "funny" and whatnot.Funny? To screenwriters with pressing questions about the craft, there's no room for "funny". If nobody will answer them seriously won't answer them, then someone

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John August recently wrote something that really caught my eye.Why is he doing that?I don’t want to pile on the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hate-parade. But beyond the tonal issues, I was often at a loss to say why Indy was doing what he was doing. Is he trying to take the crystal skull to the cave, or keep it out of the cave? Does he think Mac is a traitor, an ally, or not

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I'm back with my laptop. However, I won't be in full operation for a bit due to my harddrive being wiped out.Apparently HP felt the urge to wipe my harddrive for no reason while replacing my broken fan. I'll be getting all of my old programs, music, and such and such within the next while. Hopefully it shouldn't take too long. To my writery fellas: I'm scared to look at my Google Reader to find a

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BuzzzzzzzThat's all I hear from my laptop. The fan is broken and makes a buzzing noise you can hear across the house, kind of like when your washing machine is acting up. The sound is reminiscent of a bicycle that has a baseball-card installed on its rear tire.Fantastic.I cannot use the computer for more than 5 minutes before it reboots, likely because the thing is overheating (even though it

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