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Whiteout - Better Than a Blizzard

Published
by
neal
on December 17, 2008
in Comics and Movies
. 2 Comments

For the third week in a row, I don’t have much time to write posts (although you’d never guess looking at the comment feed). The streets is tough - and covered with snow thanks to that motherfucker Jack Frost.

Anyway, the snow (and the exceedingly s l o w drive home today) got me thinking about Greg Rucka’s upcoming (Well, Sept 11 2009 isn’t exactly close, but whatever) arctic thriller Whiteout. The art was cool - if a little hard to see considering the format - and the story kept along at a decent clip. As I recall, the book was an engrossing read. Fast forward a couple years and BAM! it’s movie time. I hold to what I said a year ago in Podcast 007 and I am excited to see good a story reach the silver screen.

But Kate Beckinsdale in the lead? I’m not entirely sure about that casting choice - couldn’t they get Lena Headey? Lena has been utterly destroying tough girl roles lately in 300 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Interestingly, both are British, but Headey kicks much more ass.

All I have seen are a few production stills, and I haven’t been following the news - but I am kind of excited to see this. Superhero comics and movies are great, but when graphic fiction makes it to the screen because of their superior storytelling and concept alone, I think that is just the fucking coolest. Nick said it a few weeks back, comic books are the new spec scripts. So, maybe you should go out and pick up the trade paperback. I’m sure there are a million of them on the racks at B&N, right next to all the Watchmen and Sin City books. And if you like Whiteout, you may like Queen & Country (it’s a lot more involved though).

Terminator vs. Man: Who Is Grittier?

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by
neal
on March 4, 2008
in TV
. 0 Comments

So, I’ve been going on about how much I like the new Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. You already know how much I dig Summer Glau and Lena Headey, but who is grittier? Terminator or man? As you can see in the following clip, a Terminator can clean up an entire squad of dudes over Johnny Cash’s The Man Comes Around; that is a tough act to follow.

I was excited to see Agent Ellison get his ass handed to him so severely. But honestly, Terminator’s are much more menacing one on one. This scene was doing really well until the 2nd guy hit the pool. It lacked blood and reckless violence while relying too heavily on sound effects.

In the other corner, we have humans. I wouldn’t hesitate to say that Sarah and Derek Reese are on par with the machines in terms of ruthlessness. Take a look at this clip where Derek shows that he is both expert marksman and no B.S. badass.

Who is gritter? It’s up to you, but my money is on Derek.