Category: Film
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Still on the subject of seeing Prometheus, apart from enjoying the enrichment of a much loved story, I enjoyed something that made me think and asked me to join some dots myself. In sharp contrast to the dumb trailers that followed. GI Joe, Abraham Lincoln The Vampire Slayer (!!), another Underworld film etc. It all…
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So I went to see Prometheus last night (the prequel thingy for Alien if you didn't know). I enjoyed it a lot and it made me think. I can't seperate the stand alone film from the original Alien, which I was just old enough to watch while it was still relatively new and hadn't…
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I really enjoyed this Do Lecture from Alan Moore, about how changes in technology are fundamentally changing our behaviour, like movable type did. You might have heard this argument before, but basically; top down organisations are going through their last throes of success, the future will be communities doing it for themselves (it's more nuanced…
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Remember these? Good weren't they? Who says that brand storytelling etc is anything new? I guess the only thing that would be different now might be each character having their own Facebook account, the book, the extra episodes online, the exclusives and the leaks and maybe even releasing new characters and story arcs to…
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One of the things being a Dad makes me lament is the passing of those times we could go see a film whenever we wanted. Which was plenty. However I fully intend to see Scott Pilgrim, mostly for work related reasons. This might sound daft, but I think it got things anyone involved in…
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