DrMaustus

Today at Gamescon in Cologne, Germany, Sony caused a bit of a stink. At the show, Sony announced what the world had been speculating for the past few months if not years: The PS3 is shedding a few lbs.

As you can see from the photo, the new, slimmer PS3 looks a bit different than it’s older, fatter sibling. What follows is a brief summary of some of what’s new, along with my commentary on why I think things are still a bit fishy at Sony’s home theater division:

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They said it wasn’t filmable. Several famous directors — Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott to name a few — were tied to the project of making a movie of the famous graphic novel, but they all pulled out for different reasons.

In the year 2009, Zach Snyder has done it. You can argue all you want about his interpretation, but he’s done something others thought was impossible. Best of all, Snyder really seems to love and respect the material; he doesn’t try to dumb it down or make it any less violent and dark.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or better yet, a very large, oppressive boulder, you’ve probably heard of Twilight — the teen vampire romance phenomenon.

The Disc and Packaging

Today I’ll be looking at the Canadian version of Twilight. It is a dual layer (50 Gigabyte) Blu-ray in a standard Elite Blu-ray case.

Since it’s a Canadian release, there is both English and French on the cover art. I know some of our American readers might not like this, but I personally don’t mind seeing French on the case art. In case you’re wondering, Twilight is known as “la fascination” to our friends in Quebec. In the end, if you’re a stickler for English-only cover art, I’d stay away from this one as the French on the cover isn’t very subtle.
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Last Saturday night, I had a date. At 12:30 AM, I was scheduled to meet with Zack Snyder for a community screening of his live-action movie Watchmen on Blu-ray. Sure, there were another couple of thousand people there (Zack and I have agreed that we’re not necessarily exclusive), but it still felt intimate.

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Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, comes to life (kinda) on Blu-ray in Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic. This Warner Home Video release brings a fantastic story to life with great video and audio, and, at over five hours in length, is a tremendous value. The only knock against this release is the meager supplementary material, but it is a tremendous addition to any Watchmen fan’s, or home theater buff’s, personal collection.

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