Comments on: 484 Subtle Levels.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:49:22 +0000

I have to toss this in, I’ve actually seen a completely faithful book-to-move adaption once, and it was creepy. The book, “The Black Hole” had such a perfect adaption every line could be read entirely out of the book as it was said onscreen.

So there may be such a thing as TOO faithful an adaption. XD

By: Nef

Nef — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:42:28 +0000

Well, I want to comment on the strip.

I think it’s totally accurate. I am a manager and although most of my employees are good, honest hard working people, a very select few that really stand out can make your life miserable. If you want to talk about subtle check this out: people expect a manager to be fair and consoistent, but those two are exclusive of each other, because if you are consistent all the time (treating everyone the same) you are going to be unfair to someone and if you try to always be fair to everyone you will treat them diferently, so you will never be consistent… Catch-22.

And this is just an example.

By: C-Ham

C-Ham — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:26:39 +0000

I really have to agree about the first transformers. the fight scene at the end looked like they had chained the cameras to each robots leg and then edited it all. And since I was not a big transformers fan as a kid (just a few years to young I was in the GhostBusters, Ninja Turtles, X-Men age) it was just a big mess of couldn’t care less.

Megan Fox though.

I’d drink her bathwater.

Just saying.

By: Yarrum

Yarrum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:22:31 +0000

You read The House With A Clock In Its Walls, too?! I totally picked up that book at random! Never saw or heard of it before or since!

J.T. – I have a sixth printing, secondhand, hardcover. It took me years to find even that. Paperback, minus the original illustrations, was the only way to find it for years.

By: AlphaCentaurian

AlphaCentaurian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:12:15 +0000

I’m sensing a lot of hostility here…

By: b00kPo55e55eD

b00kPo55e55eD — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:22:52 +0000

And we aren’t even allowed to kill any Hollywood directors either…

By: Riddik7

Riddik7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:22:24 +0000

ah let me jump in yet again about the discussion (funny how people used to only comment on the comic and now its almost completely the other way around) in any case it is funny how much things have changed… now they seem adament about actualy showing any violence… in the new batman series you see him throw a punch and then it turns the screen away before you see it… this happens constantly know… when back in the day they didn’t worry about it… heck the opening batman scene had the penguine gunning people down… (oh grabbed this point from a friend since we were talking about the same stuff two days ago…)

even the cartoons have shaky cammeras now… guess those were to expensive as well… i liked it when the cammeras were steady but i guess shaky fast moving unfocessed cammeras have become very popular given that even the cartoons have it now constantly.

By: Riddik7

Riddik7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:15:38 +0000

HAHA I would have to agree building is definetly easier than managing… done both… and well let me just say when you need your hammer its there and you don’t have to call it’s cell phone and hope it picks up… people on the other hand….

By: H2O

H2O — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:25:07 +0000

I agree with everything said about the Transformers movies as well as adapted movies in general. I disagree though that there is indeed something wrong with purposely trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Even if I go to a movie that’s fantasy based and not to be taken too seriously I do not enjoy having my intelligence insulted. And all of Bay’s films to me are him saying that audiences are basically like cats chasing after a laser pointer. Fuck that and fuck him.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:05:46 +0000

I really hate random jump-cuts in the middle of fight scenes, cameras switching every time a punch is thrown. There are a few fighting movies which don’t have the problem — for example, Tony Jaa movies such as Ong-Bak or Tom-Yum-Goong. I’d especially suggest the second, as it has a long fight scene that’s all one cut moving up a wide spiral ramp that’s absolutely amazing.