tylerstafford ([info]tylerstafford) wrote,
@ 2009-05-18 20:44:00
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Just so you know...
...The Andromeda Strain is NOT one of the best science fiction movies ever. Not even close. I wouldn't even put it in my top fifty. In my mind, there are two very different kinds of sci-fi: that which uses elements of science to further the plot and that which builds the plot around the science. I should have known what I was getting into with something based on the work of Micheal Crichton but, I'd always heard that this movie is really great so I gave it a shot.
This stuff is not for me. Crichton was really great at coming up with an interesting scenario and going absolutely nowhere with it. Killer germs from space! That sounds great! I can think of all kinds of different directions that I could go with that! But not Crichton! Forty-something minutes of boring interchangeable characters being decontaminated is not a good movie. Yeah wow you're in an underground lab. Great. MOVE THE FUCK ON. Jesus god... that movie felt like a half-decent episode of the Outer Limits stretched out into two hours of technicolor boredom.  Is a little character development too much to ask? Am I nuts to expect a movie to have oh... I don't know.. a theme? Ugh.


and just to prove that I can write something better here's a rough sketch page of something I'm in the middle of doing


I do most of my writing in comics form. If the dialog isn't readable just let me know.





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[info]megatexas
2009-05-19 05:53 am UTC (link)
rock.

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[info]tylerstafford
2009-05-20 01:29 am UTC (link)
thanks?

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[info]allstarkrew
2009-05-19 09:04 am UTC (link)
looks good. You gonna sketch out the backrounds and make them look fierce?

In the first panel it would be dope if they had little dust clouds around thier feet like they're running with their tiny legs.

You doing most of your writing in comic form is better than what I do, I write shit as I go. Sometimes it works, other times disaster!

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[info]tylerstafford
2009-05-20 01:30 am UTC (link)
well, this will all be redrawn with few panels per page so there'll definitely be more background detail.

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[info]sersugg
2009-05-20 12:28 am UTC (link)
I agree w/ you re. the Andromeda Strain. Had pretty much the same reaction when I finally saw it, to wit "What's the BFD?!"

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