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Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Lovely Bones.

Peter Jackson seems kind of "back from the geeks" with this outing. It seems definitely more serious than his previous work, carrying a lot of substance but still managing to show his incredible inventivity.

As most movies dealing with this kind of themes (the murder of a young girl), it is wrapped in a sort of crime mystery (will the culprit get caught?). However, as the good movies dealing with this kind of themes, the real focus is on loss & grief. Because a movie about death is also about life and because, in the end, everything else than a life ending is inconsequential. Death is a natural thing anyway and however it happens, life has to go on for the rest of the world. Chaos prevails.

Incredible turns from all actors involved, combined by fantastic visuals (the afterlife provides quite stunning vistas) achieve a brilliant result, that hits right at the heart.
Sure there are a lot of things in here and at some pointI wasn't sure where all of this was going. Yet it's also refreshing to see a film so bold & layered, enjoyable on so many levels, whether it's for the teen romance, the portrait of a killer, the suspence or the eerie atmosphere. It's also very cleverly constructed (and not overdone) for a story that's finally very simple.
Peter Jackson shows his versatility here and uses all his tricks to compell the viewer (I especially liked his use of extreme close ups and slow motion).

A brilliant, elegant, sad, harsh yet sweet & beautiful movie.

Update: I wish it got a BAFTA, yet there was a lot of competition and it wasn't really robbed...

Mission: Impossible - 3

I had never seen it before.

Well it's got brilliant cast and is aptly filmed, however it's OTT in the wrong way as far as I'm concerned...
I'm glad Abrams did Lost before this and Star Trek after...

Ethan Hunt's nowhere as good as Jason Bourne, I'm afraid.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Shady URL...

The site says "Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening."
What a brilliant idea that is! :)
Go on, try it, you know you want to!

And don't forget to bookmark the present website: http://5z8.info/foodporn_w2t1_launchexe
:D

(Originally read this from Ecrans)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

One Button Bob

It's been a long time since the last flash game, so here it is.

One Button Bob.

Slightly more sophisticated than Cannabalt.
Not better (the music is all), but very clever still...

Due respect to Ecrans where I got the link...

Swede Mason.

This is utterly brilliant.



Reminiscent of Lasse Gjertsen's work...

More here... He doesn't miss a beat indeed...

I've also watched Jungle All The Way and GimmebackMason and they're a lot of fun as well...

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Sans rapport...

"Mickey Maousse", c'est pas mal comme nom d'acteur porno...
C'est con mais ca me fait rire.

Joie.

Des fois je hais l'informatique. L'informatique refletant la connerie propre, il en resulte que des fois, je me hais.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Tatsunoko VS Capcom.

I used to be a fighting game fiend.
Actually I still am, but I've gone cold turkey for years now, having not had a console since the Dreamcast (which died on me) and having a Wii. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Super Smash Bros Brawl. But it's as much platforming as it is fighting and although it's got a deep gameplay, it revolves more around keeping a safe space around you waiting for a killer blow than combos and actual fighting techniques.
Until now.

Tatsunoko VS Capcom brings the craziness of Capcom's VS series to the Wii in style.
It's beautifully OTT, full of vivid colors. The core system is simple, allowing first easy combos, but soon show a lot of depth, with advanced techniques (air combos, counters et al.) that do require a good deal of training to master.
And to my own surprise, none of the 20+ fighters available play the same! Between the special moves and the way they move jump & dash, each has its own particularities, which makes them all interesting and require a slightly different approach. Also, despite the Tatsunoko side being mainly unknown here (expect the Gatchaman charaters), they've got a great design and completely fit in.
It's pure fighting goodness.

And the fact that it comes to our shores with 5 more characters and an online mode compared to the Japanese version just puts icing on the cake.

Although all things considered, it doesn't bring much novelty to the genre, like New Super Mario Bros Wii, it refines every great things that Capcom have done in the field to still bring the best experience.
It would be foolish not to enjoy this...

Quote.

"It is not our job to parent the child or determine what content is acceptable or unacceptable for our players. But on the other hand, it is not your job to dictate what content we include or don't include in our games. Game development is not a collaborative effort between developers and gamers; it is a dictatorship, where we alone determine what content goes into our game. You the player make the choice whether that content is acceptable to you (and/or your family) or not."
Stanley Woo - Bioware.
(as seen on Kotaku)

I find that this works very well on movies and music...
Reminds me of concepts (thrown around by disappointed fans usually) like "commercial", "selling out", etc.
At the end of the day, it's still a choice, whether you like it or not.

Something I like...

Even after all these years, I still can't help but smile when I see those packs of cereals with "BITES" written in huge letters on them (sometimes even enhanced with a "Chunky" or similar)... Some jokes never get old...

If you don't know French (and therefore don't know what I'm talking about), there's always Google Translate for knowing how "bites" translates from French to English...

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Hyperglycemia.

♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫
"Blue eyes, blue eyes, what's the matter matter, blue eyes blue eyes..."
♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫ \\(^_^) ♫ (^_^)// ♫

(@_@)
(~_~)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!

GIVE ME SOME METALLICA!!!!
(-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/
GIVE ME SOME RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!!!
(-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/
GIVE ME SOME THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT!!!!
(-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/ (^-^)\n/ (-_-)\n/

Pfiuuuu...

(Too much sugarey pop drive me crazy. And to a smiley overload.)

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Bilan Angouleme 2010.

Angouleme 2010, c'etait le week end dernier et on y etait!
Tres bon cru cette annee.

Les expos etaient interessantes, notamment celle sur One Piece, pedagogique pour ceux que le manga effraie (une autre expo generale de presentation du manga, que j'avais vue une annee precedente a la reflexion etait aussi a voir au CNBDI) et l'expo "cent pour cent" qui si elle m'est globalement passee au dessus de la tete (complique!!!) etait un tres bon concept.

Le concert de dessin a ete aussi tres inspire cette annee, sur un scenar de Zep, simple mais fin. Les dessinateurs s'en sont aussi donnes a coeur joie avec quelques effets de styles rejouissants: le dessin a 5 mains est un classique toujours efficace, mais je n'avais jamais vu d'animation en temps reel!

Enfin, cette annee fut la 1ere ou, ayant le temps (sur 3j de festival), on a chasse de "la grosse dedicace". Comprendre "celle des gens connus". Les annees passees s'etaient plus jouees sur les decouvertes fortuites, donnant lieu a d'excellentes surprises (Bookhunter & Sheitan pour n'en citer que 2), ou des coups de bol monstrueux (Stan Sakai).
Cette annee, l'organisation etait meilleure, avec reperage prealable.
Boulet & Maliki furent donc a portee mais aussi Fred et (par un coup de bol monstrueux!) Moebius!!
L'emotion fut donc grande.

Je remercie mille fois les dessinateurs, pour leur patience et leur superbes croquis!
Ci-dessous qqs photos des dedicaces...

Et j'attends aussi pas mal des "decouvertes fortuites" de cette annee:
* Mutafukaz (par Run) - Une grosse surprise car j'etais tombe, il y a non moins de 10ans (ca a ete confirme par l'auteur), sur une bande annonce en flash que j'avais trouvee tres sympa. A feuilleter le bouquin vite fait, les promesses ont l'air tenues: de l'action debridee avec des entre-actes de catch mexicain.
* Le Patrouilleur (par Pierre Minne) - Un comic a la francaise, tres old school dans la forme par un adorateur des comics de la 1ere heure. Ca peut pas faire de mal!
* Etoile Du Chagrin (par Kazimir Strzepek) - Mon comics independant de l'annee. Un monde apocalyptique, une atmosphere qui melange comedie, desenchantement et violence, un dessin atypique renvoyant un peu a Akira Toriyama... Quoiqu'asez classique, les 1ers chapitres soint tres prenants!
* Internal Lobster (par Laurent Colonnier) - Le titre m'a intrigue, le dessin est chouette et ca a l'air d'etre un trip Lychien... L'auteur dit que toutes les clefs sont la, je pense pas tout comprendre du 1er coup, mais au moins ca me donnera un pretexte (si besoin) de le lire plusieurs fois.

Maintenant, reste plus qu'a lire tout ca!


Les notes de Boulet.

Ça fait maintenant près de 2ans que je suis avidement le blog de Boulet (le 1er element dans mon flux de partage date du 12 Mars 2008 - ca fait un moment).

Il était donc relativement normal que je finisse par acheter un de ses albums.
A ce titre, étant donne que je ne suis pas encore arrive a un stade suffisant dans Donjon, il était donc logique que je me rabatte sur un volume du recueil des notes de son blog (on se sent toujours mieux dans un environnement familier).
Le Volume 3 ne semblait deja pas avoir trop de recoupement avec ce que je connaissais et c'est plus sympa de rattrapper le retard sur papier (je n'ai pas pris le temps de le faire en ligne).

Bon pour le reste que dire? Ce post a plus pour but de faire un peu de promo et de raconter sa vie.
Quiconque connait le site de Boulet en connait la qualite. Quiconque ne connait pas devrait s'y mettre. C'est peu d'admettre qu'il est fort le bougre.

Au format papier, ca se lit un peu comme la Bible en fait.
Sur le chevet, avant de se coucher, histoire de se marrer entre gens de qualite.
C'est marrant cette impression qu'il dessine "pour moi"...

En tous cas merci a Boulet de nous illuminer de la sorte et merci pour la dedicace a Angouleme!
Je la regarde et je me marre. :)

From Angougou 2010