I Am Link

--- Holy Watchmen! I see Rorschach!

If you scroll to 1:52 in this preview for 300, you'll catch the above image, which... well, if you've read Watchmen, you know what you're seeing. And man, it's toe-curling. Could it actually happen? Will it actually happen? For reals???

There was that talk earlier this week about Snyder wanting 300's Gerard Butler for a role in this - I do think he'd make a fine Rorschach, don't y'all? Well, as long as they create a naked Rorschach scene, of course.

--- THIS IS SPARRRRRTTTTAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! Today is 300-day, after all, so I direct you to this review of the film by Moriarty, the one reviewer at AICN that I almost always end up agreeing with the most. Says he:

"I think what really attracted him to the material is exactly what attracts me to this film: the image. This is a celebration of film as a visual art form, first and foremost, and Snyder has made something stunningly beautiful, a poem of war, a movie drunk on the potential of cinema to bring to life the impossible...

I’m always pleased when I see something try to push the medium in some new direction, and 300 is the logical extension of films like SIN CITY and SKY CAPTAIN, one of the most successful examples yet of how much control these tools give filmmakers over the very nature of reality in their films...

It’s not an intellectual experience. It's a purely visceral one. It's one of those films where words just plain come up short. This is a film that you have to see in a theater in order to appreciate the impact, the louder the better, a film that would work just as well silent as it does with sound. It’s pure cinema, and although I don’t agree that it’s all surface and no style, as many critics have said so far, but in this case, the surface is so magnificent, so engrossing, and so exciting that this surface is enough."

--- Good riddance to dead eyes... replacing Katie Holmes with Maggie Gyllenhaal is like filling a hole with gold doubloons. Or something. You get my gist. UPGRADE!

The one indisputably bad part of the new Batman franchise has been lanced; this thing's cast is just top notch now. I don't really understand why Mags has got to play the same character; is Rachel Dawes really that important to the story? Couldn't Mags' character's name be, I dunno... Selina? ;-)

--- At this week's Horror Roundtable we were asked:

"Name a horror movie you didn't or couldn't watch all the way through."

Go and check it out; as for my answer I plan on righting this wussy wrong by the end of this weekend. I will make it through!
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