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Welcome to another week at Bogworld. It was pretty slim on the updates this past week. I am sorry about that. I had too many work and family things pulling me away from the drawing table. I am hopeful this week will be a little more productive. Here’s whats on my mind this week.
If I Chose The Emmys
I watch a fair bit of television. I tend to have the tube on in the background when I do this blog-tooning stuff that I do. So I catch a fair share of it. In some ways I think my grasp of televised programming might be a little more realistic than the folks who rank television shows professionally.
For example, I keep reading that NCIS is the most popular show on television yet I do not know a single person who watches it. How is that possible?
Anyway, I would have given The Pacific the award for best mini series. I am sure Hollywood has good reasons for giving just about every award of the night to that autistic woman, but Th...
If I Chose The Emmys
I watch a fair bit of television. I tend to have the tube on in the background when I do this blog-tooning stuff that I do. So I catch a fair share of it. In some ways I think my grasp of televised programming might be a little more realistic than the folks who rank television shows professionally.
For example, I keep reading that NCIS is the most popular show on television yet I do not know a single person who watches it. How is that possible?
Anyway, I would have given The Pacific the award for best mini series. I am sure Hollywood has good reasons for giving just about every award of the night to that autistic woman, but Th...
Welcome to yet another fun filled week at Bogworld. Lots going on behind the curtains here. Hopefully you have noticed the little improvement in the artwork here. Now I am working on being more regular with the updates. Stay tooned for that. I am also working on some new stuff ...finally... for the Bogshop.
This week was one of those weeks where little things caught my ear and I felt the need to write about them.
In the grand finale of the new movie The Expendables, when the meanest of the bad guys is finally beaten to an ashy mess, the crowd cheered and applauded. Or did they? I happened to go to a late late showing of the movie that was far from a full house. Yes there was audible cheering at that moment but it was not coming from the audience. It was coming from the movie's sound system. Yup. I'm telling you the filmmakers added a cheering sound effect into the soundtrack's rear speakers to spark the real audience into cheering at that moment too. Boo!
This week was one of those weeks where little things caught my ear and I felt the need to write about them.
In the grand finale of the new movie The Expendables, when the meanest of the bad guys is finally beaten to an ashy mess, the crowd cheered and applauded. Or did they? I happened to go to a late late showing of the movie that was far from a full house. Yes there was audible cheering at that moment but it was not coming from the audience. It was coming from the movie's sound system. Yup. I'm telling you the filmmakers added a cheering sound effect into the soundtrack's rear speakers to spark the real audience into cheering at that moment too. Boo!
Expendables-A Review
As a projectionist myself, the idea of taking out the splicer to recut a movie often crosses my mind. Of course we never do it. And we never do that thing from Fight Club either. But we often do think we could take the parts of a fair movie and make it a better movie. Seriously, don’t you think the recent redux of King Kong would have been so much better if about 90% of the first hour were cut out? And how about that painfully bad romantic scene from the Star Wars prequel where Anikan Skywalker rides and is thrown from a space cow in an attempt to impress Princess Amidala. It was cut from the IMAX version of the film so the print would fit on the giant IMAX film platters. I swear it made it a much better movie. So as I sat in the audience watching the plot unfold of The Expendables, I couldn’t help my little projectionist brain from thinking there must be ways to make this movie just a little better.
The problem with The E...
As a projectionist myself, the idea of taking out the splicer to recut a movie often crosses my mind. Of course we never do it. And we never do that thing from Fight Club either. But we often do think we could take the parts of a fair movie and make it a better movie. Seriously, don’t you think the recent redux of King Kong would have been so much better if about 90% of the first hour were cut out? And how about that painfully bad romantic scene from the Star Wars prequel where Anikan Skywalker rides and is thrown from a space cow in an attempt to impress Princess Amidala. It was cut from the IMAX version of the film so the print would fit on the giant IMAX film platters. I swear it made it a much better movie. So as I sat in the audience watching the plot unfold of The Expendables, I couldn’t help my little projectionist brain from thinking there must be ways to make this movie just a little better.
The problem with The E...