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No news, really, except that I am still drooling over the trailer for 300. It's one of those horribly testosterone-laced epics, I know, I know, but still. Any movie that can make men wearing leather underwear and a cape seem dead manly does all right by me (if you're shaking your head at me as you read this, go see the trailer and tell me you disagree, and I will call you a liar, sirs).

It made a guy last seen romancing the fugliest, lazy-eyed Christine Daae ever look manly. It made THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA manly. That's what it did. Yes, I am a tad insane. But the visuals on this. I haven't drooled so much over a trailer since the one for Sin City--yes, despite my rabid excitement for the teaser for Spider-Man 3, that one didn't stick with me the way this one has.

And I think I know why, too. I think it's the musical que, as I posted about last night. Sin City did as well, with The Servant song "The Cells" (lamentably, not in the film itself, with the pivotal scenes from the trailer set instead to the laughably overused "Absurd" by Fluke--I like the song, but sheeesh). Proof positive that just the right music with just the right amount of previous exposure can make something that is visually stimulating all that much more attractive. That I happen to know the song used for 300 creates a slightly different effect, whereby the trailer, already well-timed to a thematically appropriate song (it has bombast and quiet to showcase both aspects of the film), also provokes a trip down my fannish side. Ahhh, meeeeeemmmmoooorriiiieeeeessssss...

I don't know if 300 will be good, but I can be damned sure it'll be pretty enough for me not to care (Sin City, which I liked but didn't lovelovelove, was pretty enough for me not to care). Like Sin City, the 300 is so stylistic that the strange images (like the other-worldy creatures) don't seem out of place. Because the live actors almost seem animated, which is part of the reason I actually like the all-digital set movie idea. Because it finally closes the rift between actors reacting to CGI by bringing both parties to a halfway point. You buy that they belong in the same world because they look the same. Same sheen, same lighting, same depth of space (since it's digital, there is no background, and therefore, they are all the same thickness, really: flat).

In other words: Is it March yet?

Because I don't want to interrupt my work

I will be taking an early lunch and then disappearing into tissue culture for the rest of the day. In the mean time, I continue to fannishly love stuff on my journal:

-Zack Snyder is doing Watchmen. You might not know it, but I have blogged twice in two days (and about ten minutes ago, to boot) about how he's doing this little period piece called 300. If he does well with that, I will stop worrying about Watchmen. Kinda. I am very protective of that one, because it's really one of my favorite graphic novels, which is saying something as I find a lot of what Alan Moore does to be...shall we just say "special" and leave it at that? But it has one of my favorite characters ever in it, Rorschach, and if he screws that up, so help me...

-Superman Returns is coming to DVD. Well, no duh, of course it would. I find it significant that it's coming to both formats of hi-def DVD, HD and Blu-Ray. This must be expensive for the studios to do, but it's a smart move while the format war continues (stupidly). Paying for the machinery to make both and being able to not to be dependant on one or another faction of the DVD Format Armies is a good idea. If more studios would do that, HD and Blu-Ray might get the idea that neither is special or better, and a third option might be considered (instead of forcing people to buy one or the other and then having them "lose" when one option gets more companies signed up).

-Who Wants to be a Superhero? Renewed! Good, and maybe I can catch it from the beginning this time. Doesn't surprise me that Frozone, Freelance, Frequency--FUCK WHAT IS HIS GODDAMNED NAME???--won last time (if there were ever someone in real life who actually believe he was a superhero, it was that guy), but I'd like to see more Major Victory types running around some.

-Heroes has been officially picked up, which is nice. I'm a tad jaded because it hasn't blown me away--I like it, sure, but it's not LOST or even House in level of love. This may be due to watching The 4400 which has some obvious similarities (people with powers, trying to save the world from some future doom and destruction). I'm onto season two of The 4400, and they just introduced a telepath, and I reflexively didn't like him on behalf of Mr. LOST Pilot, so maybe I'll end up liking Heroes a lot more after all.