I was pissed that the reputations of the people involved were ruined-- the movie presents the people in a very unflattering light, ascribing motives to them that were completely false. What can they do now that the movie is out? I'm sensitive to that-- with google, you can never really remove that taint. It was unfair. And I felt betrayed as well by a movie that presents itself to be a faithful representation of events, and it wasn't. The movie is premised on the idea that everyone was arrayed against Steve Wiebe getting the highest score-- except, in the timeline of the entire film, Steve Weibe doesn't have the highest Donkey Kong score for one day. One day! It all falls apart without that motivation.

I would be less bothered by the fact that the film is misleading, if it didn't have the effect of making everyone in the movie look embarrassingly bad, mean, and unethical.

Some of the controversy is here: [link]

Cor is me on this one -- I'm not sure I ever assumed there wasn't anything being manipulated (after all the other documentaries where someone protests afterwards); or maybe it's that I was more interested in the personalities and culture than the specific controversy. I dunno. I wasn't all that surprised, but for me that didn't add up to "betrayed" either.

Fraggle Rock is going to be a live action musical feature.

Fraggle Rock is going to be a live action musical feature.

Is it just me or does that sound wrong like a wrong thing that is wrong?

The article actually says that it's a mix of humans and puppets, which sounds much better than how I first interpreted that.

Live action had better mean PUPPETS.

[eta: xpost, whew!]

The article actually says that it's a mix of humans and puppets, which sounds much better than how I first interpreted that.

OK, that's different. I can see that.

I was going to say. Non-puppet actors portraying Fraggles sounds kind of like what would happen if you took a bunch of costumes from Cats and ran them through the dryer with a red sock and a yellow sock.

The article actually says that it's a mix of humans and puppets, which sounds much better than how I first interpreted that.

Thank goodness. Because I tried to figure out who would end up playing Marjorie the (All-Knowing, All-Seeing!) Trash Heap, and my brain kinda siezed up.

We saw Iron Man yesterday, and I had waaaaaay more fun than I expected. I knew nothing about the backstory (I didn't read Marvel), and assumed I'd spend the entire movie sitting there going "Huh. Nifty effects. Things go boom, whatever", but no! Pete had a moment of geek joy at the scene after the credits ... and then had to explain the significance of it to me.