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Alright, kids and kid-ettes. I’m heading out for a chunk of the night, but I thought I’d first pull off my first Total Request post: my thoughts on the new Watchmen trailer, which has apparently been removed from Youtube already.
The trailer, immediately, looks like the comic. It moves like the comic and it just flat out resembles its source material with a shocking fidelity. I’d already seen the character designs (minus Dr. Manhattan) and, while they don’t necessarily reflect the original designs, they are solid and superbly in keeping with the spirit of the book, i.e. Nite-Owl looks like the Blue Beetle. My only complaint is Dr. Manhattan looking like a CGI model.
My major qualm is with the very idea that you can tell Watchmen in a three-hour movie. I’ve maintained for a while now that it should have been a twelve-part HBO miniseries. The story is simply too huge, too detailed, too meticulous to allow the three-hour summary treatment. Turning something like Watchmeninto a film the same length as The 300, which was a far shorter book, seems a little disingenous.
It remains to be seen how effective it will be.
How to pour hefeweizen correctly — let the robot show you how!
Fr. Pat is coming by later today to bless my new apartment. I’m excited because I always meant to do it for my old place, and frankly, it’ll be good to see someone.
Living by myself is driving me batty, and its effecting my prayer.
I think its the fact that Christianity is really supposed to be lived in community and communion, and while I’m at mass pretty much every day (right at noon), I don’t have a real, firm personal community to turn to for support or to help buoy up. Love is supposed to be something given and something recieved, but seems all I have right now are casual acquaintances, and sometimes it seems all my friends want to talk about is video games (for which I don’t blame them. Video games are awesome), or I just can’t bridge the gap to discussing the faith.
But I could stand something a little fuller. Even then, I’m tired of just talking about Christianity. I’ve got a month by myself until my roommate moves in; any religious out there who read my blog, any oblates — how can I be a makeshift monk?
You guys know me pretty well by now.
What would *you* like to read about today?
