Chris Braak's Blog, page 28
October 31, 2011
Once Upon a Time and Grimm: Fairy Tale Action Showdown
It's no secret, I suppose, at this point in history: the fairy tales we know from Uncle Walt and his famous animation studio are generally Bawdlerized versions of stories collected and edited by the Brothers Grimm — perhaps history's two most-aptly named men. The Disney versions are stories for 20th Century kids, and are replete [...]
I have some observations, Horror Movies
Rather than subject you guys to weeks of drawn-out "Here are the horror movies I watched this year" posts, I thought I'd bang them out all at once. The Fog – I was really excited for this movie to be about pirate-ghosts, and was hugely let down when it turned out to be about leper-ghosts. [...]
October 29, 2011
Eigen League of Monsters, Part 7: The Stalker
Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like [...]
October 28, 2011
The Survival Fallacy
I am no economist, as anyone who knows me knows, and I'm barely able to form a cogent sentence on my best days, relying instead on a sort of cobbled-together-grammar made of coffee and old quotes that I read in magazines. But sometimes I get ideas in my head, and here is a place where [...]
How to Fix 'Person of Interest'
I don't dislike Person of Interest. It's a mildly engaging time-waster, good enough for CBS work, anyway. But it's not Good TV. It is, in fact, annoyingly pedestrian TV, despite the fact that the premise is that a complex surveillance machine tells former-hobo-Batman who to hurt or help every week. This should be a lot [...]
October 27, 2011
Suicide Squad #2
Ugh. I don't even really want to talk about this, because what is there to say? There was no reason to think that, after the fairly disastrous Suicide Squad #1, that #2 would be an improvement. But, due to my superior intellect, I am a naturally curious person and sometimes that curiosity compels me to [...]
October 26, 2011
How Great is Wolverine and the X-Men? So Great
I don't know if this has come up before (it has) but I love the hell out of Wolverine. I know, a lot of people love the hell out of Wolverine, and I'm sure there are people who love Wolverine more than I do, I'll give them that. But for whatever reason — circumstances related [...]
October 25, 2011
Eigen League of Monsters Part 6: Creatures, Frankenstein's
Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like [...]
October 24, 2011
The DCU New 52: Justice League #2
I am going to get back to my monster posts soon, I have still got more don't worry. But I read Justice League #2 and I wanted to just follow up with it. I thought to myself, "Well, I thought #1 was kind of inane, but maybe they're just getting some stuff out of the [...]
October 21, 2011
Eigen League of Monsters, Part Five: Creatures, Lagoon-Based
Part of my ONGOING SERIES about just what distinguishes the classic monsters in my WORLD FAMOUS Monster Hierarchy from each other. The first part was about the Vampire, and it's also got my thoughts about what an "Eigen League" is and why I think it's meritorious to discuss this subject. Long story short: in a group of monsters like [...]
