Category Archive: Nerds with Words

May 16

Ask a Dork: Reviews

What qualities or information do you think is most important for a reviewer to get across in a review? The internet is swimming with media reviews. Pofessional and amature critics regularly rip into books, comics, music, graphic novels, movies, video games, and film in order to help their audience avoid making wary purchases, improve their …

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May 10

Ask a Dork: Adaptations

When it comes to adaptations, do you think the producers involved should assume more than a baseline knowledge of the original material? If the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil feature films, Gearbox/TimeGate Aliens video games, and Scott Ciencin Silent Hill comic books have taught us anything, it’s that no adaptation should be thrown under the …

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May 02

Ask a Dork: The Video Game to Film Transition

With video game movies being notoriously bad, do you think there is a game that would make a good adaptation? Once upon a time I would had said that the first Silent Hill could have made the perfect feature film to video game adaptation. In my head, the fact that its unique narrative already featured …

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Apr 24

Ask a Dork: Summer 2013 Movies

What do you think of the upcoming slate of summer movies? Which are you most looking forward to? Which will surprise? Disappoint? Keen moviegoers would notice a distinct pattern if the were to sit down and evaluate summer releases on a yearly basis. Like clockwork, major studios release their very best films in the months …

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Apr 10

Ask a Dork: Being a ‘Gamer’

Why do people identify themselves as gamers? No one else seems to identify themselves by their favorite hobby: movie/television watcher, music listener, etc. Social identities are a funny thing. Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher and social theorist, was one of the first to really stress the importance of one’s self in relation to the world. …

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Apr 04

Ask a Dork: Accessible Games

What would you consider an accessible game? What makes a game accessible? I think we should probably start by looking at what the word “accessible” means. For something to be considered truly accessible, it has to be easily attainable, tremendously consumable, and incredibly simple to use. A game is only “accessible” if it aims to …

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Mar 28

Ask a Dork: Video Game Worlds

What is more important in world building in video games, the locations or the characters? This is a challenging question. By definition, dynamic and interesting locations are required in order to build a world worth exploring. However, no world in any video game – regardless of how pretty or expansive it may be – is …

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Mar 20

Ask a Dork: Crowd Sourced Finales

With the recent success of the Veronica Mars KS, are there any shows you would like to see crowd sourced for a finale? I don’t usually watch television anymore. There honestly isn’t enough time in the day to dedicate blocks of my time to episodic content. As such, most of the abruptly ended shows I …

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Mar 14

Ask a Dork: Prequels

What are your thoughts on prequels? When have they been done well? Can they ruin a franchise if done poorly? The term “prequel” essentially means work that is done after work, but taking place before other work. Like sequels, they can continue franchises both in continuity and money making ability. Unlike sequels, they’re never greeted …

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Mar 07

Ask a Dork: 3D Post Conversion

What do you think of movies that are post converted to 3D? Do you think it’s a fair solution or rather a film be shot for 3D? These days, if you want your film to eventually be a 3D release, there are two avenues you can take: using highly specialized and expensive 3D cameras or …

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