Ya..., as for the commercial, it was pretty bad. It was like a cross between the old National Geographic special film things on Narnia and a saturday morning cartoon.
And even on a cartoon basis of critique, it still sucked. Ok, maybe it could have passed for a cartoon. But even close to LotR? Ya right.
There's no way a 16-year old fantasy can compete with the legacy of LotR.
So I guess it comes out December 15th.
I problably won't end up going to it; I haven't even seen Pirates 2 yet. I'm still waiting to see the last half of the Village (btw, that and Signs were both awesome movies, I should post about them).
Also, their advertisement site hasn't updated in the last couple weeks at least; and I would be it doesn't anymore. So much for online advertiseing. So much for advertising; I haven't even seen the commercial on t.v. yet. oh well, I dont' watch that much t.v. anyways.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Egyptian Good/Bad Essays
Here are links to both good Egyptian essays and examples of what not to write like. Please understand I am using these as examples, not so you can plagerize.
Good Essays:
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/economy/ : an easier to understand essay but still with lots of interesting facts and complicated diagrams.
http://members.tripod.com/~sondmor/index-10.html : a much more advanced essay written by Morris Silver from the Economics Department of the City College of New York. This covers:
Egypt's Acquisition of Foreign Goods (and Labor-Power) Mainly in the Old Kingdom
The site here also has many more essays on ancient civilizations.
Bad Essays:
http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Egypt/04/haup/hauptfuhrer.htm
http://www.riverschool.org/students/work/culture.e.econ.htm
I classified these essays as bad essays because the points were obvious and the writer was boring, without a developed writing voice. For example the riverschool essay (which btw was written by a student) is titled: Ancient Egyptian Economy, and starts: There are many aspects to the Ancient Egyptian economy.
You understand what I mean by boring?
-Matt
Good Essays:
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/economy/ : an easier to understand essay but still with lots of interesting facts and complicated diagrams.
http://members.tripod.com/~sondmor/index-10.html : a much more advanced essay written by Morris Silver from the Economics Department of the City College of New York. This covers:
Egypt's Acquisition of Foreign Goods (and Labor-Power) Mainly in the Old Kingdom
The site here also has many more essays on ancient civilizations.
Bad Essays:
http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Egypt/04/haup/hauptfuhrer.htm
http://www.riverschool.org/students/work/culture.e.econ.htm
I classified these essays as bad essays because the points were obvious and the writer was boring, without a developed writing voice. For example the riverschool essay (which btw was written by a student) is titled: Ancient Egyptian Economy, and starts: There are many aspects to the Ancient Egyptian economy.
You understand what I mean by boring?
-Matt
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Folk Tales
Ok, so what makes a good folk tale? This is a topic I'm sort of tentative with writing about because it seems to general and abstract. So let's use some concrete examples.
Cinderella: ok I could give a general summary of this, but it would problably be more towards the summary part (like Girl Marries Prince Charming) rather than helping me get to where I would like to go.
Thing about Cinderella is that it's a classic. I can say Pretty common girl marries charming Prince and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Well, at least you'll get the gist of things. Some about Cinderella just sticks. The instant you hear the story you can start comparing everything to it by its classic viewpoint: "Life is happy if you're good."
But some folk tales (mostly foreign) seem much different that this. I don't have any right off the top of my head, but they seem more to be along the lines of "We are all subject to the power of the Gods/nature/whatever else and therefore we must do our best within our small limitations".
This is a more interesting viewpoint, and exists more withing the Greek way of thinking. We are threads on a tapestry...that sort of style.
So I could go into more different types of folk tales, but those are the ones that seem most obvious to me now. So what is so great about these folk tales.
I think the main thing is that they give us a zeitgeist that can say more about a certain cultures than almost anything else. Just telling a story that didn't even likely happen to a historical person in the civilization gives us the kind of idea for how they thought.
Cinderella: ok I could give a general summary of this, but it would problably be more towards the summary part (like Girl Marries Prince Charming) rather than helping me get to where I would like to go.
Thing about Cinderella is that it's a classic. I can say Pretty common girl marries charming Prince and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Well, at least you'll get the gist of things. Some about Cinderella just sticks. The instant you hear the story you can start comparing everything to it by its classic viewpoint: "Life is happy if you're good."
But some folk tales (mostly foreign) seem much different that this. I don't have any right off the top of my head, but they seem more to be along the lines of "We are all subject to the power of the Gods/nature/whatever else and therefore we must do our best within our small limitations".
This is a more interesting viewpoint, and exists more withing the Greek way of thinking. We are threads on a tapestry...that sort of style.
So I could go into more different types of folk tales, but those are the ones that seem most obvious to me now. So what is so great about these folk tales.
I think the main thing is that they give us a zeitgeist that can say more about a certain cultures than almost anything else. Just telling a story that didn't even likely happen to a historical person in the civilization gives us the kind of idea for how they thought.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Eragon: Movie Premier
Ok I don't have the site right now (I'll problably add it as a comment), but for those of you who don't know the first premiers of Eragon (the movie) have come out, and I though they sucked pretty bad.
Costumes were horrible. Actors were okay. Dialogue was horrible. Special effects were horrible, and the movie seemed fake. Saphira's roar of flames reminded me of that Pokemon nintendo game where there's a bad animation of Charzard blowing some fake flame and the crowd reacting.
And armour on a dragon? I can understand some chain mail, but plate armour? How would it manuver?
Costumes were horrible. Actors were okay. Dialogue was horrible. Special effects were horrible, and the movie seemed fake. Saphira's roar of flames reminded me of that Pokemon nintendo game where there's a bad animation of Charzard blowing some fake flame and the crowd reacting.
And armour on a dragon? I can understand some chain mail, but plate armour? How would it manuver?
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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