Underworld

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Zatanna
Tags: tomb raider | Categories History, Mythology, Ramblings, You Tube

My goodness! The new Tomb Raider game looks absolutely amazing! Lara has 1,700 acrobatic moves, 1,700. God I love that! There are so many new things that look great about TRU, I can’t even explain them properly. One of my favorite things is that the game will be darker and that Lara will get angry. Hell yeah, I couldn’t stand nice Legend Lara, the only time I liked her was in the final scene where she just got pissed and nearly shot her friend over a misunderstanding. Now that is the real Lara Croft.

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Tomb Raider: 12 Years later

I really hope that they do it like Legend, where you can use the artifact as a weapon, it’d be SO awesome to use the Hammer of Thor!

Oh yeah, and isn’t the cover art amazing? The green colors of it and cutting off Lara’s head makes it look very dark and mysterious. While I love the cover, I hope they come out with a separate render, where they have Lara’s head on it. Or maybe two versions? One with the head cut off and the other with her head. I think it’s great though, you don’t need Lara’s head to show it’s Tomb Raider. If you want to see the rest of the box art, just click the thumbnail above.

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider is copyrighted and tradmarked to Eidos and Crystal Dynamics/Core Design. No copyright infringement is intended with this post.

Indy 4

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Zatanna
Tags: indiana jones | Categories Ramblings, Reviews

This post has spoilers, it’s not my fault if you get spoiled! I warned you!

So I went to watch Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skulls on Friday. All I’ve got to say is that it was good but it’s definitely no classic, I think that everyone knew this when Indy 4 was first announced.

Aliens. I knew going in that the movie would have aliens because someone accidentally spoiled it for me before I got to watch it. Who’s idea was it to put aliens in the freaken movie!? In my opinion, they didn’t pull it off very well. I do understand that this Indy movie is set in the ’50s so it’s making fun of ’50s things just as the old ones did for movies from the ’30s. Plus, one of the theories about the crystal skulls are that aliens did give us the skulls, but obviously this was debunked when people found out all the skulls, but one, were fakes.

A lot of people have been saying “Well, why is it harder to believe there are ALIENS in the movie, but not God(s)!?” It’s not the fact that there can be demons and not aliens in the movie, but both the supernatural and extraterrestrial belong in their own genre’s. From the first movie, it was quite obvious the the Indiana Jones movies belonged in the supernatural category. I mean, when was the last time you saw a movie have both Sci Fi in it and supernatural beings? When was the last time you saw an alien pray to God? When was the last time you saw something like that in a movie and it did not flop? I’m not saying the two genres can’t be used together (Ultraviolet and X-Files, anyone?), it’s just that the Indiana Jones movies stayed strictly away from anything science fiction until the fourth movie! It just seems so out of place.

With that being said, I have read quite a few stories where the supernatural and science fiction have been used together. The Tomb Raider 3 game showed aliens when she broke into Area 51! In the current Wonder Woman series, the first story arc dealt with Greek mythology and the birth of Diana on her home island. The story arc immediately following it dealt with aliens and both story lines were very good!

Other than the aliens thing, I’m a little disappointed that Marion didn’t punch Indiana like she did in the first film! He got her pregnant and left her a week before the wedding and she doesn’t punch him!?!? WTF? She didn’t even punch any bad guys, even so, I still loved seeing her again.

I’m also disappointed that Mutt ended up being Indy’s son! God, that was so predictable, I was hoping that he wouldn’t be his son, that somehow cheapened the movie for me. I do think that everyone was awesome in the movie though! The acting was great!

Other than those flaws, I still like the movie very much! I just hope that the rumors that there will be a fifth movie aren’t true. Another Indiana Jones movie is very un-needed. I also herd Shia could be the lead character.

Uh, no.

Indiana Jones is not like James Bond, where you can just replace the lead actor (and in this case, the character too) with someone else! I definitely won’t watch it in theaters if it does happen. Plus, I know a lot of fans will be pissed. It’ll also be a slap on the face to Harrison Ford.

Anyways, even though I do like the new Indiana Jones movie, I see the movie as an alternate “what if” movie more than an official continuation. Even though it is, I’ll just see it as non-canonical.

Should You or Should Not?

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Zatanna
Tags: copyright, greg horn | Categories Comics, Drawings, Ramblings

This has been bugging me for a while. Since I can’t explain it well, I’ll just give you an example.

The artist Greg Horn allows/encourages people to make signatures and avatars from his work. He also doesn’t mind when people photoshop some of his work to look funny. Do you think it would be ok if someone made a signature and/or avatar without asking for his permission? Chances are he won’t mind, so do you think you shouldn’t bother e-mailing him to ask?

Or do you think you should e-mail him to ask anyways?

Would it matter if he refuses to let you use it? A lot of his work belongs to companies so if they allowed you to use his work, would his refusal be overwritten?(Unlikely scenario)

If a company encourages fan art/fiction and so does an artist, should you ask for permission anyways or do you think that it shouldn’t matter?

That thought pops in my head every once in a while. Especially now that I’m thinking of starting up a few fan listings.