My mom went to see this, cause she's a huge fan of the books. Going in she thought it would be kinda bad, tho I dunno why exactly. I think the main character is a bit older than she was in the books or something? Anyway, she was more or less pleased with the flick.

I don't plan on seeing it as it doesn't look like something I'd care for. If I want to watch a bunch of kids run around a forest killing each other, I'll watch Kinji Fukasaku's modern classic Battle Royale, thank you very much. /Cinema Snob

BTW: Battle Royale just got a bluray release in the US recently.

I draw and paint.

I occasionally make music when I get the fancy. I use the term "music" loosely.

I write a lot of stuff. Mostly movie ideas and treatments.

I do a lot of 3D modelling. I used to do it a lot more than I do now - like all the god damn time, every day - because I wanted to work in the games industry making 3D graphics and/or animation, but then the videogame industry decided that the best course of action was to make game graphics look as generic and lifeless as possible while simultaneously falling further and further down into the uncanny valley, and that making said graphics should be the most soul-crushingly uncreative and tedious thing you could possibly do. The people who play games seem to mostly agree that this was a good decision. I have my doubts.

I'm getting a lot of animation practice lately as well...

I have one project that I'm working on right now, and several more lined up and ready to go.

Clearly your Sansa Fuse was unable to deal with that much awesomeness at once. The one track it did process correctly was just too much for it to bear. Next time, try loading one track, then wait ten minutes or so and let it recover some strength and load the next, etc.

Hollywood can keep raping my childhood all it wants. They'll never touch the things I really liked, cause the things I liked when I was a kid were too dramatic and not action movie material. Belle & Sebastian FTW!

I liked Skyline. Well...  "liked" is a relative term, I guess...  I didn't mind it. It was watchable. I hope they make a sequel, just cause it made me curious.

But yeah, the whole alien ninja turtles thing is weird. It fundamentally alters the idea, and you have to wonder about certain things. Will Splinter be involved? Will Shredder be another alien? Also, aren't we kinda sick of aliens by now? We've got Battleship, Skyline, Battle: LA, Transformers, District 9 and so many others in the last few years. Why are we so obsessed with aliens lately? Is it due to the tensions about immigration and/or invading forces that want to just blow shit up like terrorist or something?

And we need to knock it off with the zombies and vampires as well. Especially zombies.

Fuck zombies.