Extreme Collateral Damage

You know what Tom Cruise's best movie is? Collateral. On an unrelated note, which movie proved Arnold could act? Collateral Damage. Back to the Tom Cruise film, never before had anybody seen Tom Cruise in the role of the villain. There he is, the main antagonist, playing a ruthless mob enforcer who 'mercs on sight'. I mean, his character is the subject of Pharrell songs. Don't believe me? Look up Sk8brd P's old songs, therein lies Tom Cruise's character in this great film. I'd love to talk more about this movie, but, how about everybody just goes and watches it?

Remembering Megalosaurus

Remember way back when I did all those posts about Troodons? Well, it wasn't foreshadowing for Mesozoica, but rather me being fascinated that those things may have actually had a degree of consciousness. I don't know if Troodons will be in Mesozoica, maybe is all I can say. On the new forum which is now up, where I urge all you guys to sign up, there is a dinosaur masterlist. While the list was not started by me, it was updated by me. Anyways though, I don't want to say anything that may contradict my earlier posts on Troodons but I did make one point that I believe was prevalent through that chain of posts about them is that we can never truly know for sure how they were. Look, I made an idea that velociraptors could have been nano scientists. They probably were not, but that was over 65 million years ago, so even if they weren't, how do we know for sure? Look, for some dinosaurs, like Megalosaurus, who were known to have gone extinct before the meteorite hit, it is pretty clear. Most dinosaurs we know of didn't even live to an age long enough where they could have reached sentiency. What about the ones in the final gap between meteor and life? I don't know, maybe Troodons? Then again, why would they need to, I mean look at the saltwater crocodile. Unchanged for 95 million years, it is the perfect predator.

Megalosaurus on the other hand is gone, and it was gone long before most other dinosaurs. Unlike T-Rex and Spinosaurus, Megalosaurus actually lived in the Jurassic Era and was long gone by the time velociraptors and such came around. When scientists first found Megalosaurus, the name that got accepted for it literally meant ballsack. So, fairly humiliating history? No. No matter what, Megalosaurus was the first one we identified as a dinosaur. Yes, Iguanodon was found earlier, but it was the classification of Megalosaurus that resulted in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writing about it as the main antagonist of The Lost World, silently stalking Ed Malone. Then comes everything after.

Again, even though I'm in charge of the quests and such, I don't know that much about which dinosaurs will be in Mesozoica. Hell, the very presence of Allosaurus kind of invalidates Megalosaurus. Nonetheless, Megalosaurus is one dinosaur, which if not included, will be given some special treatment by way of my quests. It is important to remember where we come from, is what I'm trying to say. Look, scientists find Troodons infinitely more amazing than Megalosaurus because of the implications they pose. Despite all of those implications, we will never be able to get a 100% on Troodon unless we find gene fragments, which we probably won't. Look at Spinosaurus, we now know that it was a quadruped on land, even though it likely stood up biped. There is so much we will find out about Troodons in the future, but the reason why? Megalosaurus.

New Mesozoica Trailer

So it appears that Arrow, which had previously spawned The Flash, will now spawn another spin-off, currently with an unknown name. This will be the third spin-off that Arrow will create, the second is Vixen, which has yet to debut. Vixen will be animated and appear on the CW Seed, but the main character will probably have a voice actor that will also play her in live action roles. Enough about that, since I don't really find it all that interesting...

There is a new show coming up and the DCW is expanding. What on Earth could it possibly be? Well, let's take a look at the cast. It is going to be starring Brandon Routh as the Atom, so we know the lead. The supporting characters are going to be Captain Cold, Heatwave, Sara Lance, Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter. That is quite a cast and I have no doubt, that this show is going to be called something along the lines of Linear or the Linear Men. Why? It'll probably be about Rip Hunter recruiting all these people in an effort to get back to his own time and will show how people like Hawkgirl and Sara Lance are non-particle accelerator metahumans, like Deathbolt. So the previous episode of Arrow, which showed Ray Palmer finally come into his own as Atom is going to be the most obvious set up for this show but I'm guessing the upcoming "Rogue Air" episode of The Flash will be ample set up as well.

Why am I really posting, though? More Mesozoica news, if you guys don't already know, we have live Twitch streams up every Saturday (sometimes Sunday and Friday) to pump the game up. My long time followers will note that I was attached to a number of projects and it all came to a head under the Aluna Games banner. I was once working on multiple projects which I consolidated into a network minigame experience called Da Hub, which we were working under with Aluna Games. While my small team of three and I tried to work out with Aluna Games, we also released asset packages. I'm deleting a lot of that history from the blog right now, but I am so excited to finally be back in game developing. Even though I am fairly competent at C#, right now I'm only taking the screenwriting role and I love it. Between everything that I have going on, working on Mesozoica has been great. We have a truly great fanbase and I'd really love to mesh it with the support structure that I've built here at 2BINProductions. So guys, go check us out on Facebook and enjoy the teaser:

Have fun err-body.

Please Leadbeater, SHUT UP!

So yeah, Knight posted his analysis yesterday. I was content not to do mine, but I decided to check out WhatCulture and sure enough Alex Goddamn Leadbeater posted another article. This one is titled 9 Ways I Masturbate 9 Ways The Batman V Superman Movie Trailer Proves The Movie Will Suck. Is Leadbeater just angry that the movie will be good? Hell, I made a public Facebook (my real one is private) just so I could respond to this fucker. So here, is why Alex Leadbeater is once again wrong about Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

You goat fucker, Leadbeater.

He starts off by claiming that everything the movie has done has so far deserved derision? No, if anything, the trailer is the only thing that could even warrant derision because the trailer is the only actual footage you've seen! This moron was analyzing a whole film off of four pictures. Either he's Isa or a bloody fuck.

I pulled most of these memes off of one google search and that took more brainpower than it did for Leadbeater to write his article.

First actual page claims a Generic Opening to an Interesting Idea. From that title, assume that the interesting idea is people hating on Superman. So how to represent that? I don't know personally, but I am satisfied with what Snyder gave because it does accurately represent that. Yes there are mixed feelings on it, but it did the job. What does Leadbeater suggest: 1) a taste of the battle, &, 2) Batman voice over. Maybe the second of the two could do the job, but how the hell would the first one? It's ideas like that which show hating for the sake of hating. I can't honestly analyze this part more because Leadbeater is that bad of a journalist. I mean, it's teasing the major thematic component of the film and you don't want it to show that?

Steer clear of WhatCulture guys.

Then he says the CGI of the film is bad. Except here is the thing, he also says this in the second section: "While you can’t judge a movie’s CGI off its trailer". If that is true, don't fucking post anything about the CGI. You make some points after that, which would be valid if you hadn't completely invalidated them before typing them.

Specifically Superman.

The droning music is his next point. The way he explains this part, it's actually slightly valid, and one can see the inklings of a journalist who is great at doing other articles (just like in me you can see a great journalist who would be great if he minded censors). However, this guy uses the word 'generic' far too much.

It's not breaking if I've already covered it...

The crummy tease. Teasing a teaser trailer. It's like taking an electrician taking the rate of an ampere rate.  He says the teaser trailer's teaser didn't show enough and is a slog? Slog means hard work, which would mean that you are actually crediting the movie instead of bashing it. Here's some advice Leadbeater, how about you use words you know the meaning of.

Well I already told him... so...

Then he says that the film relies too heavily on symbolism from The Dark Knight Rises. Please, tell me how a character is going to look different from himself in a different film. Yes there will be certain differences, but take Cavill's Superman and the George Reeve Superman. Silhouette them both and you see practically the same image. He criticizes Jeremy Irons' voiceover when it is actually talking about Superman, you're not supposed to see Michael Caine. The one person I doubt anyone gives a shit about who plays is Alfred.

I think I used this one before for Leadbeater...

Then he says Warner Bros don't know the market and he goes on to list a series of places for where the teaser was teased... by speculation. Those were rumors Leadbeater, not actual marketing done by Zack Snyder. Then he just drools over Star Wars...

This one's different but totally describes it... also, I didn't want to google search again. Oh yeah, sorry if this offends aynone.

Then he criticizes the dialogue and asks how Superman hears Batman. He asks if Superman has developed super-hearing, which was actually a major part of the last film... what the fuck is wrong with this guy? If he's being sarcastic he should realize that this is text and he comes off as a dumbshit. He claims that the dialogue is cheesy, when most find it threatening. He says it's a step back into Shuchmacher when the only one doing that is you, Leadbeater, with your horrible writing.

The more you know!

Look, Batman Forever did make cinematic history by introducing Robin. This film will do the same by having Batman and Superman on screen, so why are you criticizing the trailer based off of a comment made by Henry Cavill when just before that you give the trailer credit for doing that? See how confusing that sounds? Nobody was groaning "Batman and Superman! WOW" or "we get it", they were going "HOLY FUCKING SHIT MY FEELS! TAKE MY FEELS SNYDER! TAKE THEM!". That was the majority.

Leadbeater - YOU ARE A DUMBASS

His last point is very ironic. He says we've seen a lot of it before. Well, only if you went to ComicCon... really. What we have seen a lot of, is your bash articles Leadbeater... that is what we are tired of seeing.

Now leave Leadbeater.

-
MYK

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice Trailer Reaction

We here at 2BINProductions are big fans of Man of Steel, our black reporter from Saskatchewan, Yafisz Khan, has been so defensive about it that he has tried to start a flame war with WhatCulture's Alex Leadbeater. Now, three hours after the first official trailer for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was released, we already have another hate article on WhatCulture. Since it wasn't by Alex Leadbeater, we don't really care, although I'm sure he's concocting something. However, here is my analysis of the trailer.

Now, going in, I'd heard that while many people, likely the majority of people, loved it. These people have expressed so much gratitude and joy and all of that good stuff. It's always the vocal minority that seem to be negative. That is expected. Look, haters of Man of Steel will always exist, the film was polarizing no doubt. There comes a point, though, when you judge a film so harshly before you see a trailer and repeat the same things right after the trailer with no basis to back up your predispositions that people aren't going to take you credibly. I've expressed nothing to excitement and delight over this film and now I finally get to tell you all whether or not I like what I see.

Now, I'd like to make a point that was made over on other sites. As a Teaser Trailer, this trailer went above and beyond in terms of success. As a trailer, it undoubtedly failed. However, it is not a trailer, so, I guess it succeeds? Yes, it absolutely succeeds. Obviously there is still a great amount of division, but the new WhatCulture article, if it can even be called that, tries to bash on the trailer. Yet if you read the comments, everybody is going against the author, Tom Baker. So, damn. We all knew that the criticism would be addressed in the film, but Zack Snyder figured it out. The best way to try and win over the critics, is the embrace their criticism. Let's face it, there are actually very few people who think that Man of Steel had problems in acting and directing. It was really just the dialogue and the fact that Superman killed Zod. So embracing that criticism, that could go a long way.

The first part of the trailer, the embrace and using that criticism against the critics... genius. I loved it. The way people are depicting mistrust and being unsure in Superman, some even going on to compare him to dictators and maybe by a strech, Hitler?, is just genius. It shows how we as a society would actually react and how critics did react. Then the second part focuses entirely on Batman and his voice, it's different, smooth and nice. The dialogue, though, teasing the fight which will be a masterpiece... just wow. I love this teaser trailer and I think it was fantastic.

Analyzing the Significance of Mad Max

George Miller released Mad Max in 1979 and with Mad Max: Fury Road one day under a month away from release, it seems like now may be a good time to analyze it. The first film in the franchise that I saw was The Road Warrior and having been a little child then and used to the creativity used with little budgets as shown in Batman Returns, I really appreciated what little I saw. The Road Warrior was a very creative film and as much as I'd love to analyze it, I'm going down to the very first one which was released about 36 years ago.

Post-apocalyptic fiction has been around for a long, long time now. Hell, Norse mythology was post-apocalyptic fiction with Fenrir and all and up until Mad Max's release, The Planet of the Apes was the premiere entrant in the genre. A large part of the first film comes from Miller's tenure working at a hospital in Australia. Now bear in mind, the upcoming film is an American film but Mad Max, had it been released today, would have been considered an indie film. This is because at a budget of $400 000 in Australian currency, even forty years ago, this was a small budget. So imagine the minds blown when this film grosses $100,000,000 at the box office, a success even by today's standards. Now add inflation to that.

I'm not going to provide specific examples of how Mad Max has and will continue to influence media and pop-art, but rather keep this brief. The film's unique and relatively simple use of it's budget allowed for focus on character. This is one of the films that places emphasis on character development, even though the protagonist is silent. In spite of the violence and dystopian setting, the entire world in the first film does not seem entirely far fetched (something the sequels threw out the window). Invoking feelings of humanity within us, the film is significant because even though it is post-apocalyptic fantasy, the true apocalypse in the films is the Freudian regression in the villains.

A SHIELD Spin-off?

It took an entire season to get Marvel's Agents of SHIELD right, I mean, at first they were bumbling as to whether or not be a spy show or a superhero show. When Captain America: The Winter Soldier came out, they were forced to be a spy show, and it worked well but did not exactly mesh in with the rest of the season. Nonetheless, they went along with it and we now have an extremely good show on television, even though it is still ages below Arrow, which appears to be it's arch enemy.

- MYK Cameo via memes

Now I'm hearing ramblings of a spin-off of the show. Look, the only reason Arrow got a spin-off was because not only was it good in it's first season (nothing to cry about) but it was amazing in the second season. The amazing Deathstroke the Terminator arc in the second season was essentially what confirmed The Flash going on air. Unfortunately, Supernatural was amazing almost every episode of season nine except the spin-off one. That's a different story, though, and the fact is that even though I've really enjoyed watching Coulson and the Inhumans in a grand spy escapade this season, it's really nothing to cry about. So yeah, ramblings of a spin-off are really likely only going to come to fruition in the third season, when hopefully the show will be relatively as good as Arrow but this season? Hell no. What would it be about? Well that's kind of unimportant because we don't even know why they would do it.

ABC can hardly keep Marvel's Agent Carter on air and at one point even considered the fact that they might have to cancel Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. Plus, ABC kind of sucks at spin-offs, does Once Upon a Time in Wonderland ring a bell? ABC, try and save Marvel's Agent Carter and try and improve Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which, although good this season, has truly only been held up by Kyle Maclachlan and the Inhuman storyline. To expand, those elements are what have been carrying the show because even though they should not work in a spy format, they are working likely better than they would have if the show decided to go with a superhero approach.