It’s funny how a little outside perspective is all you need sometimes. It confirms thoughts you had, allays doubts, or just gives a little adjustment to a view you’ve held on to that might be all you need to get over a hurdle you’ve put in your own way.
I’m at the point with “Roads” that I felt I needed that outside perspective, and luckily I know a really great editor and writer– and the choice was easy about WHO to work with. I’ve been following Leigh for years after I stumbled across her blog The Future Is Red I believe it’s offline now). It really spoke to me, as it was about the life change she made and how she and her husband just decided the rat race wasn’t for them. They had sold everything and hit the road traveling with an infant. She understood the wandering spirit, and I knew instinctively she’d like the book and have the insights I needed.
I’m super excited. I feel I’ll have a good first draft by the end of this year, and then it’s time to find a publisher. Finally. After a lot more years than I care to think about. I’m finally ready.
Author ARPosted on May 21, 2018 Categories Roads Memoir, WritingTags editor, writer life, writing, writing process2 Comments on Working with an editor- Outside Perspectives	
Just north of Tucson is the Aravaipa wilderness area, and on the way out along a dirt road is a beautiful, empty little church. I had to stop and take a look, always being drawn into places of worship…
Author ARPosted on March 14, 2018 February 25, 2018 Categories Photos, TravelTags aravaipa, church, low-light photography, travel photographyLeave a comment on Empty Churches	
To illustrate: during the movie, everyone in the cinema was heckling. It could have been an Uwe Boll movie. I weep for Chow Yun Fat and the guy who plays Spike in Buffy.
Hey - everyone knew it was going to suck right from the start! It's your own fault for expecting otherwise. ;) It's one of those movies you watch because they're so bad, not 'cause they're so good :p
*pets* Poor poor Rob. And I just found out they are making a remake of Clash of the Titans. I may have to disembowel myself over that one.
The moment I knew Piccolo wasn't green, no Krillin and no pervy Roshi, well. Not spending money on it.
LOL, yeah, they did. Apparently the leaked work in progress copy of the movie showed that the plot sucks.
Personally I don't care, as long as I get to see Hugh Jackman in leather tearing people up with claws, I'm good. I mean, I loved Transformers. I don't have high standards the way movie critics do. Hell, I'll probably even like Dragonball.
I've seen the workprint version damanique mentioned. As a stand-alone action movie I would call it shallow but entertaining overal.
However the "fucked up" part leads me to believe we're talking from a point of view where one is familiar with the source material.
To be honest I don't care that much about the accuracy of Wolverine's backstory. I'm more disturbed by the portrayal of several well-established Marvel characters.
* Wolverine's love interest - Kayla Silver Fox, apparently. Though in the movie she's Emma Frost's older sister, but that would make her Adrienne Frost, which she's not. And she has Cordelia Frost's (Emma's younger sister) powers. Wabbuh?
* Gambit - young, emo and can make cards float. Yeah, they still explode but behold the power of CG, he can now make them float as well! Oh and on top of being just versatile with his fighting stick he can also charge it with power!
* Blob - ... no mass-shifting powers in sight. Instead he has indestructible skin. And he's skinny. And later just eats himself to the size we all know and love. And it's explained that he gets to be that size because of his skin holding it all together. WTF? I liked the Blob who was proud of who he was, instead of this one who's just another lame excuse for fat-jokes.
* Bolt - yay, it's NOT Beak as everyone speculated! Thankfully the creators made that change. But then again... he's really also just fodder in this movie. And why choose Bolt over any other major Marvel character?
* Deadpool - ... no. Just... GAH WHY?!? Great acting by Ryan Renolds though. But no cancer, no trademark effed up skin, no mask, no 4th wall to break and at the climax of the movie all the powers get "pooled" into him to create one super mutant as the big baddy. Oh and they remove his mouth in the process. Thanks for completely ruining such a great character Gavin Hood and David Benioff!
Best parts? Emma Frost and Scott Summers as teenagers, showing their roles of future X-men leaders, and at the end of the movie a surprise cameo!
I am a Batman fan. Have been so for more than 30 years (I am 43 years old) I read about the Dark Knight movie. Everone seemed to like it. Even the most critical comic fans. There was no way I was not going to like it. And yet... I didn't like it. In fact I hated it.
I spent far more than just three hours and 10 euros on the movie. I spent time and gas to travel to a friend who wanted to see the movie with me. And it was all my own choice. No one forced me. I chose to see the stupid movie. I just assumed it would be as great as everone said it was. It wasn't.
A girl from my circle of friends turned 22. She's into Dragonball, Buffy and Angel. So in her characteristic SQUEEE! way, she managed to rally 12 people to go eat pancakes with her and then go see the movie. One of them being me.
Now I know a *little* bit about Dragonball, but that's mostly from the "Z" cartoons. Right before the movie I got a crash course in Dragonball, about the original series, Z, GT, saga's, good Piccolo, bad Piccolo, etc. etc.
Now, I knew I was going to be in for a mediocre movie. But I don't mind bad or awful movies as long as they don't take themselves too seriously. I enjoyed Street Fighter the movie, I laughed at Mortal Kombat the movie (oh, Christopher Lambert, where art thou....) and I will officially go on record and say I have the DVD of Dead Or Alive the movie at home. It's so bad it's hilarious.
Now, onto DBE (Dragonball Evolution). It had its share of chuckles and one or two entertaining fight scenes. But it just tried too hard to be taken seriously. How many movie cliches can you put into 80 minutes of movie? Watch DBE and you have the answers. Every plot 'twist' was visible a mile in advance. I know the movie is targeted at a younger audience, but still.... In my opinion the actors were putting too much effort in acting and the slapstick tongue-in-cheek comedy that's oozing out of the cartoons was hardly to be seen.