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...whereas Clowes stops at depicting all the people you hate, Burns takes it one step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns’ work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney’s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...financial woes of the theater are related to the unique method by which films are acquired and displayed. Ivy Moylan, Executive Director of the Theatre, says about 50 percent of profits on ticket sales have to go back to the distributor. Revenue proves difficult when many of the films screened at the Brattle, including those in the “Recent Raves” series of popular second-run indie films, are only shown once. “It is the most costly way to program because you’re not dividing that minimum over a number of days...
...those of us who have spent countless hours hunched over a computer in total darkness, walking through narrow underground halls accompanied only by an image of a machine gun in the bottom right corner of the screen, the announcement that the “Doom” videogame series had been converted into a movie was news indeed. For those who are a little rusty on their computer game history (or are not complete dorks), “Doom” popularized the “first-person shooter” style, in which you see through the eyes...
...marines are dispatched to Mars in order to rescue a team of elite scientists, confront a team of elite monsters, and die some elite deaths. One of the game’s greatest strengths was creating an atmosphere so real and frightening that it blurred the line between the screen and reality. After an hour or so of play, you felt as if the monsters were coming for YOU, not Sarge or John Grimm or Goat. It gave you an incentive to play as if your life depended...
...game series: losing. For every time you are triumphant, surviving the onslaught of countless bad guys, there are a thousand times where you can’t quite anticipate the movement of that horrible alien-creature-thing, and you slowly fall to the ground, a red film covering the screen as teeth, claws, and chainsaw blades meet your flesh. While it may have been impossible for the film to include “game over” screens, it could have made an effort to emulate the character’s frustration and futility in fighting these seemingly invincible monsters...