Batman: Under the Red Hood and getting it wrong

First off, I did a quick post on Tumblr about how much I love the Soma teasers. If you like [...]

Westin Lee2014-06-17T19:57:43-07:00October 10, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: animation, batman, directing, movies, pulp, soma, thematic integrity, under the red hood, what you get right, worldbuilding|

Thematic Integrity – A Brief Thesis

UPDATE: Since this post continues to receive traffic years later, and since I still consider it a valuable way to [...]

Westin Lee2019-02-25T17:12:48-08:00September 5, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: dead space, directing, games, L.A. confidential, motif, thematic integrity, visceral games, writing|

Saint’s Row 4: The most sincere dumb game ever made

Saint's Row finally (FINALLY) unlocked on Friday for those of us in Europe. I beat it by Sunday. It's awesome. [...]

Westin Lee2013-08-28T11:28:11-07:00August 28, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: borderlands, comedy, games, ghostbusters, Giant Bomb, saint's row, worldbuilding, writing|

Elysium and That One Plot Hole

Man, I love Neill Blomkamp. I am so, so happy he is making movies. Amongst my reasons: when I was [...]

Westin Lee2013-10-24T18:36:50-07:00August 21, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: blockbusters, companion, elysium, jodie foster, matt damon, movies, neill blomkamp, wicked city, worldbuilding|

The Reasons why Ghostbusters is Popular

Bill Murray! Post done. Wait, wait. If it's Bill Murray, why are we worshipping Ghostbusters and not Space Jam? I have [...]

Westin Lee2013-08-15T02:57:14-07:00August 15, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: bill murray, blockbusters, dan aykroyd, ernie hudson, ghostbusters, ghosts, harold ramis, ivan reitman, movies, New York, scifi, worldbuilding, writing|

What Pacific Rim Could Have Borrowed From Evangelion But Didn’t

Pacific Rim is a ripoff of Neon Genesis Evangelion... ...said people who don't know Kaijuu and Evangelion. On the internet. [...]

Westin Lee2013-08-13T03:37:40-07:00August 7, 2013|Categories: Directing, Writing|Tags: anime, anno hideaki, blockbusters, endings, evangelion, giant robots, guillermo del toro, kaijuu, movies, pacific rim, tokyo, worldbuilding|

The Writing Tools I Use (to Write)

I do a great deal of writing. I'm hard at work revising my novel, and I also write short stories, [...]

Westin Lee2013-07-25T10:03:25-07:00July 25, 2013|Categories: Writing|Tags: 30/30, chrome, day one, ebooks, evernote, ia writer, ios, mindnode, moleskine, notebook, novel, osx, rescuetime, scrivener, software, stayfocusd, tips, windows, writing|

A Guide to Enjoying Comic Con

Unlike my post about travel, the advice here about Comic Con is all valid, but I don't necessarily endorse it. [...]

Westin Lee2013-07-18T15:27:33-07:00July 18, 2013|Categories: Off Topic, Travel|Tags: blockbusters, comic con, humor, movies, san diego, SDCC, tips, travel|

On Zack Snyder and Man of Steel

I'm a Zack Snyder apologist. There, I said it. Also, I saw Man of Steel, and it was pretty good. [...]

Westin Lee2013-07-17T06:44:19-07:00July 11, 2013|Categories: Directing|Tags: blockbusters, directing, Man of Steel, misogyny, movies, sucker punch, superman, Watchmen, worldbuilding, zack snyder|

Cage Match: The Last of Us versus Bioshock Infinite

I am PS3-less right now, so I cheated like a bitch and watched a marathon video of all the cutscenes [...]

Westin Lee2013-07-01T09:31:28-07:00June 27, 2013|Categories: Writing|Tags: bioshock, bioshock infinite, endings, games, irrational games, movies, naughty dog, the last of us, thematic integrity, Uncharted, video games, worldbuilding, writing|