Monday, October 22, 2007

Spiderman Three: What will he do next?

"Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right." This quote said by Peter Parker encompasses the theme of the movie Spiderman Three, a DVD coming out at any available movie store October 30th. What to expect from the three-quel of the Spiderman series is new villains such as Sandman and Venom as well as the old characters, Peter Parker, MJ Watson, Harry and of course Spiderman, which puts this movie again in the action genre clocking in to be 139 minutes. Trouble arises when Spiderman begins to neglect Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and other friends, and he must choose between the enticing evil power of the suit or the good old Spiderman. CNN gives mixed reviews about Spiderman 3, saying that it pulls together body and soul but having some weaknesses with the elongation and holes in the narrative. However, many good reviews give this movie the thumbs up.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Spiderman three certainly pleased the geek squad by remaining ever true to its comic book roots while retaining that satisfying emotional core that has registered with equal numbers of female fans. Spiderman Three offers violence, love twists, suspence, black goo from the sky and of course, tons of sticky web. There is never a dull moment when there is a man dressed in a red and blue spidey outfit. Check out the trailer here.

Knoxville News Sentinel

Driving past the highway, anyone can see the beige color of the tall and proud building of the Knoxville News Sentinel. However, once inside, the place from the waiting area looks a little…disappointing. I imagined the place to have TV’s on, people screaming with paper jammed into their fists, and bustles of computers. I guess that image may scare some first timers, because the man leading the tour brought us upstairs where the real fun was hiding. It was exactly as I had pictured; the masses of cubicles, the piles of papers and of course the numerous television sets blaring. Sitting in a meeting room allowed us to get a feel for what the Multimedia Director, the ME and the online producers did as a career. One online producer said that he always has hectic days, putting the news in video format, which is a keen differentiation of other news sites. There actually is a section entitled “Recent Knox news Videos” on the website for this particular reason. Another online producer talked about how she works at night, and one of her assignments among other things, is to perfect the pictures that she uses on Photoshop, adjusting the right image, cropping the perfect frame and adding color to splash the photo to interest more readers. The Knox News website is very similar to WBIR's site, which is a News TV station, which is quite impressive that a newspaper website can still carry that much weight and authority as a TV station’s site, each containing bulleted features, videos section and bold headlines. However, only Knox news has a comment/opinion section where stories can be viewed and talked about with to anyone with free administration to the site. Knoxville News Sentinel truly opened my eyes to a newspaper company, and I am proud to tell whoever is in the car with me on the highway passing the building, "I've been there."