March 2012
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Multiverse Archery Contest - Section 2 - Winner
The voting period is over. You can still vote for fun, but the “official” votes end with socalreaper. The results are:
Legolas - 16 votes
Hawkeye - 5
Green Arrow - 5
Odysseus - 3
Susan Pevensie - 2
Rambo - 1
Legolas is the winner, by far. In second position, there is an interesting tie between Green Arrow, the DC comics acher and Hawkeye, the Marvel Comics archer.
Thanks for the...
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Multiverse Archery Contest - Section 2 - Vote for...
Just for fun, the game continues! This is the second section of the multiverse archery contest. Vote for the winner in the answers. The vote ends Saturday March 31, 1pm Eastern Time.
A) Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner, The Avengers)
B) John Rambo
C) Susan Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia, She has a magic bow, is it cheating?)
D) Ned (John Voight, Deliverance. )
E) Odysseus (or Ulysses, his bow is...
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Multiverse Archery Contest - Section 1 - Winners
The voting period is over. You can still vote for fun, but the “official” votes end with aye-aye-spacecadet. The results are:
Katniss Everdeen - 8 votes
An Ewok - 7
Robin Hood - 5
Guinevere - 2
Hanna - 2
Theseus - 2
Katniss Everdeen is the winner, but the Ewok is a strong second. Next step: the section 2 of the tournament, with 9 others participants. In the last step,...
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Multiverse Archery Contest. Vote for the winner.
A little game, just for fun. There are 9 participants, archers from across time and space. Vote for your favorite in the answers. The character with more votes is the winner of this section (there will be an other section with 9 other archers). The vote ends Thursday March 29, 1pm, Eastern Time. I will then count the votes and name the victorious character of this section.
A) An Ewok
B)...
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Some thoughts about the Hunger Games.
Yesterday, it was a boring Sunday afternoon, I decided to go see the film.
I didn’t read the novel yet. I found the movie worth watching once and thought provoking. I appreciated it, with some reservations.
No spoilers, but probably more interesting if you have seen the film:
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I liked the first part of the film. The Panem society, with the striking contrast between the rich...
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Did you like the Hunger Games?
Personally, I have some curiosity for it, but I have already seen a lot of dystopian futures in fiction, so I’m not sure if this film is original enough for me. I will probably wait for the DVD or check the book if it’s available at my public library.
And you, readers, did you like the film?
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“He realized how miserable and unknown and vulnerable he was in the world. The...”
– Stephen King. “The Running Man”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)
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"Roller Ball Murder", by William Harrison →
zomgmouse:
The short story that was the basis for Norman Jewison’s 1975 film Rollerball, starring James Caan.
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If you have seen John Carter, did you like it?
I gave my answer in the precedent post. Did you like it a little, a lot, were disappointed, bored or else?
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Back from Barsoon...
I saw John Carter in 3D yesterday. No spoilers, just a review
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This film has fabulous visual effects and an uneven scenario. The planet, the creatures and the vehicles are really nice. The action scenes are entertaining, and some short moments are impressive. The main actors are sympathetic. Sometimes, their relation lack some intensity, but I forgive all to the beautiful Dejah...
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Are you going to see John Carter?
Today, the first big budget movie adaptation of A Princess of Mars is released (the only other version, I believe, is a cheap direct-to-DVD movie from last year). This is a nice release date: 2012, 100 years after the publication of the story, March, like the planet, and 9, a significant number in the book.
I read this novel, a long time ago. I liked it a lot, but I forgot many details. ...
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“…a strange stone, an inch in diameter, that scintillated nine different and...”
– A Princess of Mars (chapter XX), 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (I always liked this passage, I wonder if these rays will be in the film.)
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“The Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs … aroused generations of...”
– Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” , 1980