ErikPeter ([info]voxen) wrote,
@ 2009-03-09 23:42:00
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D&D Sunday
Hey, are you playing D&D on Sunday? The tentative list right now (besides me) is Bean, Charlie, Jason, John, Matt, Tyler, Willson. Big group. Luckily we'll be level 1 with fewer options to waste time on in combat, and more opportunity for comraderie (seriously? That's not how you spell camaraderie?) with plenty of character shenanigans. I call .. um .. Dwarf Cleric Maybe? Ok I actually don't care. Dragonborn are kind of good (PHB2 is going to tip them into cheese territory)

On Boardgamegeek (Which I have been wasting a bit of time on lately) I learned about a special on custom playing cards at ArtsCow.com. So the last couple nights I've been working on a deck of cards. It turned out pretty good, hopefully the printing turns out pretty good as well. One minor hiccup (a couple of artifacts got left on some of the cards which are less pretty).

7x8

Speaking of games, I played Agricola tonight. Seemed fun. I'm excited to come back to Minneapolis this weekend, but kind of missing Laura already.

Watchmen was worse off for being more true to the source material, which at the same time was kind of a plus. These days it's rare to see a movie that strays from Hollywood norms, double especially for a comic book movie. I.e., Watchmen is, and is not, a comic book movie.



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[info]therightwaye
2009-03-10 04:23 am UTC (link)
ha, I just sent an e-mail out about it.

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[info]voxen
2009-03-10 06:19 pm UTC (link)
did anyone respond to it?

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[info]therightwaye
2009-03-10 07:24 pm UTC (link)
No, wait yes! Bean had to ask me if we were gaming on Monday also. I told him it was mostly about us being able to game late.

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[info]spyndri
2009-03-10 09:32 pm UTC (link)
I considered responding, but decided not to, as all I would say is the character I was planning on making.

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[info]voxen
2009-03-10 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Ah ha, but you responded to this LJ post, so that's good. What character are you going to make?

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[info]spyndri
2009-03-11 02:02 am UTC (link)
either an Eladrin Ranger, or Half Elf Warlock. Might end up making both

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[info]basincitymarv
2009-03-11 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Re:Watchmen, can you think of any examples off hand of something in the movie that you thought didn't work or was bad, but seemed like it was obviously included to be faithful to the comic?

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[info]voxen
2009-03-11 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Overall the pacing/plotting of the whole story was atypical, because it was essentially a bunch of chapters placed end to end. In that way it felt like a biopic and the dramatic arc wasn't as satisfying; though, I might have viewed it differently had I not been familiar with the original. The music seemed stark and dated, and didn't always mesh with what was happening on the screen. Some of the humorous bits preserved word-for-word from the comic didn't translate well.
That said, I didn't think it was bad, i thought it was well-crafted, but it didn't leave me with much. It was a really faithful adaptation, dark and pessimistic, and if they'd made a "better" movie out of it it would probably have lost the spirit of the original work. So it's probably good they didn't, because that would have been disappointing.

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