I actually went to see “Alex and Emma” this summer with my friend Emily, a fact directly attributed to our both being total suckers for those kinds of movies. “Sleepless in Seattle,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” hell, even “Kate and Leopold” – I’ve seen ’em all. I’d even been looking forward to it, since I like rooting for writer characters, and I’ve thought Luke Wilson was a decent actor ever since “The Royal Tenenbaums.” But, yeah, in execution, “Alex and Emma” was just flat and lifeless, formulaic and dull. What a letdown.
I cannot speak to “My Boss’s Daughter” or “Marci X”. I did have enough good sense to avoid those.
One thing that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, though, is the revival of certain genres. I’m one of those people that thought “Pirates of the Caribbean” was one of the most fun movies of the summer, and given its box office take, I’m sure we can expect to see a small rush of pirate movies over the next 12 months or so. What other genres do you guys think are ripe for revivals?
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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