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Recently the trailer for the much anticipated Watchmen film was released in conjunction with The Dark Knight. It went unnoticed by a lot of people who couldn’t wait for the feature to begin. To change that I made this simple list about why you should get very excited about the Watchmen film. For those who have no idea what it is about, briefly it is a superhero story that takes place in the mid 80’s in an alternative history where the country is on the brink of war with the Soviets. Superheros exist, but are deeply flawed characters. The story begins with one of their own being murdered and follows the heros looking for answers.

1. The Watchmen book is Highly Rated
The original book is the only graphic novel to win the Hugo Award and the only graphic novel to make Time’s list of “the 100 best English-language novels.” That means critics regard it better than 300 and Sin City.

2. IMAX
Christopher Nolan shot scenes of The Dark Knight specifically for IMAX. Zach Snyder is doing the same thing and then some. More and more movies are being made to look great on IMAX and this is one will be ground breaking in the regard.

3. This is the Anti-Hero Movie
This summer has already seen Hulk, Batman and Iron Man and next summer has many more in store for us. We are going to need a break and luckily Watchmen is different. All of the superheros are regular people except for one and it explores their struggles with problems all people face. It is as dark as Sin City and as cinematic as 300.

4. Zach Snyder
Watchmen is being directed by Zach Snyder who also made 300 and Dawn of the Dead. Enough said.

5. The Trailer is Beautiful
You can check it out here.

For better or for worse, the amount of blogs I host has increased from two to four. Check out Hamby’s Blog and Richmond’s Blog when you get a chance.

This site has an article listing 365 free games, one for every day of the year. Hopefully this will keep people busy until I get back on Wednesday.

This short film starts off slow, but really picks up. If you are a big fan of Quentin Tarantino’s films this is a must watch.

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Check it out here. It is epic. I definitely recommend it. Thanks to Jon Clark via Twitter for the tip.

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Recently I signed up for Twitter at the urging of a colleague. After figuring out what it was all about, I found that I really liked it. Unfortunately it took a little nudging to get me fully understand what was going on.

This is a very short explanation of Twitter:
Think of facebook status updates, but 160 max characters and more frequent. You subscribe to friend’s tweets (the name for the updates) and in turn they subscribe to yours. You can get all of the updates through your phone, but it is turned off by default. You can send tweets (updates) from your phone or from a computer. You don’t type out every literal thing you do all day long. Instead you only put something interesting, funny or important.

Interesting - “I just missed Jared at subway today.” (true, but a story for another day)
Funny - “pandemic has shut down the office.” (everyone got obsessed with the flash game)
Important - “drinking at McCarthys.” (that way friends can meet up with you)

It helps you kill time and keep up with what your friends are doing. Wired has a great article on making tweets interesting that everyone should read, you can check it out here. At the very least I recommend trying it for a week and seeing if you like it.

Below is some sample tweets from my feed today:

hamby86 - this is creepy about 3 hours ago
vebah - rediscovering twitter… thanks for another distraction libra about 8 hours ago
stevebanfield - good to see my LA twitter contacts posting. just seeing the tweets lets me know they are ok. up here in san mateo didn’t feel a thing about 8 hours ago
stevebanfield - CNN’s update on quake http://snurl.com/378bo about 8 hours ago
cld77 - I miss my own bed about 9 hours ago