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[thebitterguy]

Woke up today with my bronchial tubes coated with crud. Lovely.

Quick panel recap

Friday panels:

Lost Season 2: Moderated by Justin O'Donnel, who I have much in common with. Scarily so. Good panel, although crowded.

Infinite Crisis Vs Civil War: Not really a contest. I would like, however, to request in the future, only people who A) know about a thing and B) request to be on a panel be put on a panel. Please?

Saturday panel:

Video Game Movies: Uwe Boll must Die, and it's bad for a genre when the best ones are Tron & Mortal Kombat.

MC'D Masquerade. Had much fun. Really needed better mic. Very often couldn't be heard. Kilt is interesting fashion style. Wore it Canadian fashion (pair of Stanfields underneat). Did impromptu Highland Dance-off. Made fun of butterfly ballots/Florida Electoral Commission. Suprise visit from Ninja Inspector. elizard100's FSM costume was very nice.

Sunday Panel:

Superman and Smallville mythos: Fun, although it seems like Superman, because of almost 70 years of near constant serial story telling, has such a diffused mythos that as long as he's Kal-El from Krypton, pretty much anything can be done. Every Superman story is an Elseworlds story.

Comments

[perich.livejournal.com]

it's bad for a genre when the best ones are [...] Mortal Kombat.

I don't understand why people keep saying this. As if Mortal Kombat was better than Super Mario Brothers. Or DOOM. Or Tomb Raider.

[thebitterguy]

There were murmers of enjoyment for Doom (although it's deviation from the original was something no one liked), but SMB was generally not considered good by that room. I haven't seen it in so long that I think I may not have actually seen it.

It's possible Tomb Raider may have been #3.

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

I really liked this evolution of Superman's Powers (http://www.johnath.com/~david/etc/superman.html) page. Especially the conclusion.

[perich.livejournal.com]

I was saying they're all pretty terrible. I don't see why MK gets a pass as the "not awful videogame movie."

[thebitterguy]

Because it was an acceptable kung fu movie that was based on an enjoyable video game. It even managed to draw a performance out of Christpher Lambert that didn't make me want to puke at all.

That's practically miraculous.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

... when the best ones are Tron & Mortal Kombat ...

Final Fantasy: Sprit Within didn't entirely suck (I liked it), and neither did Tomb Raider (I didn't like it, but it's not at the same level of suckage as something like House Of The Dead).

Plus -- I didn't think Tron was a video game before it was a movie, but the other way around, no?

People are still hoping for the holy grail with Halo, but I remain skeptical. I've also heard that Silent Hill had some positive aspects, but I haven't seen it yet, and the reviews were uniformly negative, so... (more Crying Freeman than Brotherhood of the Wolf, I guess)

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

What about Wimbleton? I believe it's based on Pong.