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On Tuesday, went out and had pizza at Your Pie. Where you get your own customized personal pizza, pretty good though it could have stood to have been cooked just a little longer. (For those interested in giving it a try, this week's Flagpole has a free two topping coupon on page 33.)
Then off to the Beechwood Cinemas (which have matinee prices for UGA students all day on Tuesdays) to see Forbidden Kingdom which I expected to be horrible . . . it was not. Mind you it is not high art but it is fun, with lots of nods to the early wacky kung fu movies, the American lead and "hero" is not nearly as annoying as one would suspect and the Chinese cast is amazing. Jackie Chan looks the best I have seen him for sometime and Jet Li even smiles a few times. It is a classic portal-quest fantasy but has great imagery that can be lifted for a multitude of RPGs. My Grade: B-/B
After we got back, I finished reading the Albion graphic novel overseen by Alan Moore and developed by others. It explores what happened to the bizarre characters of the British comics of the 50s-70s (which are miles weirder than anything America thought up). While the series starts well, with our main character joining forces with Penny, the daughter of one of those who disappeared, to find out what happed to her father and the others. But it just does hold together well or have a real ending. The ideas and art is good, but the execution is lacking. Shame. My Grade: C-
Then off to the Beechwood Cinemas (which have matinee prices for UGA students all day on Tuesdays) to see Forbidden Kingdom which I expected to be horrible . . . it was not. Mind you it is not high art but it is fun, with lots of nods to the early wacky kung fu movies, the American lead and "hero" is not nearly as annoying as one would suspect and the Chinese cast is amazing. Jackie Chan looks the best I have seen him for sometime and Jet Li even smiles a few times. It is a classic portal-quest fantasy but has great imagery that can be lifted for a multitude of RPGs. My Grade: B-/B
After we got back, I finished reading the Albion graphic novel overseen by Alan Moore and developed by others. It explores what happened to the bizarre characters of the British comics of the 50s-70s (which are miles weirder than anything America thought up). While the series starts well, with our main character joining forces with Penny, the daughter of one of those who disappeared, to find out what happed to her father and the others. But it just does hold together well or have a real ending. The ideas and art is good, but the execution is lacking. Shame. My Grade: C-