Just unfinished thoughts on some random stuff I've consumed lately

The Room – Tommy Wiseau lives in some bizarre alternate reality.  I cannot conceive of the source of his accent.  I can’t comprehend how his worldview is compatible with the rest of the world, who are all pretty much agreed that his movie is a bizarre and unredeemable piece of shit.  How the hell does a guy like this scrape up seven million dollars to bank his own movie and decide that’s a good way to blow his money having NEVER DIRECTED ANYTHING EVER BEFORE.  Blah!  The Rifftrax kinda helped, but even they didn’t seem to know what to do with the numerous and overly long sex scenes between completely unattractive people.

D-Wars – I can see how this would have done great in South Korea in spite of it seeming to be a totally American movie.  One of the Korean mythologies takes form and fucks up Los Angeles?  No matter how crappy the script, I would be psyched about that as a South Korean.  I imagine in North Korea they would have maybe done this as a puppet show or cave paintings.  As an American, however, by the time the details of the mythology were needed, I had completely forgotten what I should even care about happening.  Movie best put on if you don’t plan to be in the room – then you can just wander in and out saying ‘oh, hey, those effects are pretty good.’  Rifftrax still not enough to mitigate the pain.

Alias Compendium – better reviewed along with Volume 1 – must reread all at once.  As a standalone – very excellent.  As complementary to Marvel Universe as a whole?  Very good in complementing Bendis’ run on Daredevil.  Good mesh between the two.

All Hail Megatron – apparently volumes 1 and 2 are the sum total of the All Hail Megatron story.  These two volumes are a collection of the relevant Spotlight issues and a collection of some, possibly unpublished, vignettes in, around, and after the events of AHM.  After reading these back to back I decided I really wasn’t sure what all happened in the total of the run of Transformers.  Consulted the Wikipedia page for the plot summaries and determined that it’s all just batshit crazy.  I mean, wow.  Even if all of these stories had been numbered in the proper reading order this is some truly nutty stuff to be trying to digest.  So many bots, so many stories to follow, so much that requires extensive background.  I enjoyed reading them, but am starting to rethink the idea of getting the collected hardcovers coming out that reprint the stories in chronological order.

(500) Days of Summer – I liked it.  A decent story is told about an ultimately doomed relationship.  It was all done from the point of view of the guy chasing Summer and I could totally see where he was coming from.  But I could also see where the people around him were coming from in questioning what the hell he was doing and why.  Sure, he wasn’t getting what he wanted, but he also was not being deprived of anything that was promised to him.  He ended up barging into the relationship and trying to dictate new terms when there were already very clearly defined terms.  I could also see it from the point of view of Summer.  She’s a really conflicted character with a lot of defense mechanisms.  She experimented and was lulled by the painting that the guy was painting of what things could be, but didn’t know how to handle it properly when she needed to pull the eject lever.