saturday post about geekdom

Ah, I'm so glad I'm good at posting on my blog. Right.

Anyway, just a quick few geek culture things I wanted to parse my brain on.

Avatar - Saw this a few weeks ago and have been mulling it over in my head. I think in the end I did enjoy this movie. The whole "Dances with Smurfs" schtick people lambast it with may be valid, but it kind of misses the point. Avatar is a tech demo released under the guise of a movie in order to make back the costs of creating the technology. Luckily for the viewers, it is making those costs back and more, so we can look forward to seeing these technological innovations more and more in the future. And as less time will have to be spent developing them, more can be focused on plot and story in the next ones.

Sherlock Holmes - Like a lot of films I've seen over the past few years, I enjoyed this one a good bit when I saw it. The more I think about it though, the more it loses its luster for me. I still think it was a good film, and I am looking forward to the inevitable sequel if only because of the mastery of their craft shown by Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. Well that and the production values of creating a gorgeous Victorian London. In the end though, the movie just felt empty to me. Despite the strong acting, I didn't walk away from it feeling anything about the characters or the film itself. So in the end, I'm glad I saw it, but probably won't go out of my way to catch it again.

Last Night on Earth - This isn't anything new really. LNoE has been one of my favorite board games for a long time, but I ran through three different scenarios with it the other night. What I love most about it is how it so nicely combines the adventure game genre with what is essentially an assymetrical war game. And does it all without bogging down for hours on end.

But yeah, trying to just get back into the swing of things here. So later.