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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. Recently. Pacific Rim is a big-budget Kaijuu movie about human-made robots that fight giant monsters. Neon Genesis Evangelion is an apocalyptic giant robot anime franchise, about deeply flawed teenagers drafted to pilot horrifying robots against bizarre giant creatures called 'Angels.' Yes, those sound kind-of the same. No, they are not actually the same. Yes, if you have watched both Pacific Rim and Evangelion, you would never claim one was a ripoff of the other. A quick Google search will net you a huge number of articles [...]
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, blog posts screenplays, comics, live comedy and corporate videos. Of these mediums, the one I respect and fear the most is the novel. Long-form prose carries a number of extra challenges not present in shorter works, even film scripts. A 100,000 word novel is just way, way bigger than any of those things. The process of tackling the challenge has left me with a short list of writing tools I use to get the job done. So, I am listing them here for posterity, [...]
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. It lacks the gravitas of Batman Begins, thanks to weaker execution on the character side, but it is otherwise similar in tone. The nonlinear story helps offset how boring superhero origin stories have become now, and the fights - especially the Smallville skirmish - are really awesome. As is typical for recent live action Zack Snyder films, its Rotten Tomatoes score is about 15-20 points below where I think it should be. I don't hate Zack Snyder or his movies, even though that is [...]