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Well I went to go see “Night at the Museum” with Ben Stiller and have to say that it was good. Granted it has some typical kids/family clichés in it, but not unbearable. If you haven’t seen a trailer for it yet then I shall have to elucidate you. It all starts with the lead character losing his previous job and needing to find a new one. And of course the museum is hiring, and then the fun starts. Over the remainder of the movie the inhabitants of the museum come to life at night and run amok. Overall without spoiling anything it’s a good movie. I give it a 4 out of 5, or whatever scale you want to use.
I figured I should probably post something quick before the end of the day. I’ve been meaning to post for the past week or so, but keep neglecting to do so.
So I got The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Gamecube and have been playing it a lot lately. And finishing out my season in Smackdown, I’ve beaten the first half (got to the credits), and now I’m going thru the second half, too. As for the other game I have out from gamefly—Tony Hawk’s Project 8, I’ve been playing off and on at that as well, and if you check out my profile on Xbox.com, you’ll see I’ve been unlocking a bunch of the achievements in that, too.
Anyways, I got a remote start for my car for Christmas. It’s nice, we’ll see how nice it really is starting tomorrow when I go back to work. But I guess since my car is from Chevrolet/GM that it’s gonna act a little funky due to the security system inside. Basically I have to stop it and the start the car normally before I get going or else the car will stall out and the engine lights would stay on, funky stuff.
Oh, I also got my copy of Little Miss Sunshine finally. If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor and go get it. It’s great, and the commentary tracks are actually informative and full of behind-the-scenes information.
One last thing is that I’ve been doing my part lately to support the independent Mac Developer lately. I recently registered VoodoPad and FlySketch, and BetterZip with the great MacSanta promotion, All excellent programs well worth the cost.
Anywho, Merry Christmas everyone.
So I haven’t posted in a while, what with work and some new games I seem to have neglected to set aside anytime to post for all my voyeurs.
So I have yet to get a Wii, sadly, but recently got both Rainbow 6 Vegas and Smackdown Vs Raw 2007 for my 360. One’s freakin’ awesome, the other is good but has problems.
First the good. Rainbow 6 Vegas is a blast in both single and multiplayer. And everything you’ve heard (or maybe haven’t) about the graphics being insanely cool is true. It’s a very good looking game, and plays as good as it looks. Now I realize I’ve kinda said the same thing twice over now but it deserves to be said as such. Multiplayer is well thought out and implemented. While playing Co-Op over Xbox Live I didn’t really have any lag, but when I was trying to versus the game were usually around 10-14 people and they got really laggy, not so fun.
As far as Smackdown goes, they did a pretty good job with their first next-gen effort. But as with pretty much every game that they’ve done since the original Smackdown on the PS1, all of Yuke’s games have had absolutely abysmal load times. It’s sad really, that an otherwise great game is hampered by constant loading. Hell, after each wrestler’s intro it has to load another 5-10 seconds, then again before the match begins. And finally once the match is over, it goes to another loading screen before it shows the wrestlers celebrating. Maybe, just maybe next years game will cut back further on the loading time, but I’m not holding my breath.
Lastly I also got the Rambaldi Box-set of all five seasons of Alias. Today I finally got started with season 5. It’s kinda weird watching it as season 5 wasn’t on that terribly long ago, and I still kinda remember various bits and pieces of the episodes more-so than any of the other seasons. But it’s great to have all the seasons right there at your fingertips because the storyline for the series is pretty serial so you need to see them all to get the whole picture. And if you haven’t ever seen Alias, now is the perfect time to get ‘em all.
Bond is back, baby! Pure and simple, 007 is back and in some ways better than ever. Daniel Craig does an excellent job as the new James Bond, and I for one hope to see many new Bond movies coming out, especially in this more raw format without all the special effects of the last couple Brosnan movies. It’s nice to see the beginnings of Bond and how he got his Double-0 status, and why he doesn’t fall in love anymore or get attached to people. In short I wanna go see it again.
As an aside I went with my brother to go see Casino Royale at the Carmike theatre here in town, and what was cool is that all of the Carmike theaters have been upgraded to/with DLP. In short, it looks awesome. There are none of the pops and dust and scratches that you see once in a while (or a lot, depending on theater) with regular film. One randomly cool thing is that before the movie starts the screen is only the size of the slides for the ads, but when the movie starts the screen subtly expands out to full size. Now Carmike just needs to upgrade their seating and they could conceivably get a lot more business than the Century Theatre here in town.
So it’s been a while since I last updated.
Well I did get around to picking up the HD-DVD drive for the 360 and have to say that it is really cool. After watching all of the movies I got on HD-DVD (Batman Begins, V for Vendetta, Constantine, The Last Samurai, Serenity, and King Kong), I have to say that even if you don’t immediately notice the smaller things, you do notice in the longer run just how much sharper and vibrant the picture really is. But I think the biggest thing to be brought front and center from getting the HD-DVD drive is that I need a better TV. I’m not saying that my TV that I have right now is bad per se, just not where I want it to be anymore in terms of feature support and such (like how it doesn’t do 720p). Another nice thing with the HD-DVD drive is that it does work on Macs without drivers, just that OSX does not have HD-DVD drivers yet so I can’t watch them on my computers yet unfortunately. I know it’s been posted about already since it came out, I was just too lazy to post before everyone else.
As far as Gears of War goes, it is very good although can be quite difficult at times. One part in particular that I am currently stuck on is the end boss, General RAAM — He’s freaking hard, and Dom has suicidal tendencies in that particular part of the game. But Someday I will beat him, eventually.
In other news, I hadn’t played Tomb Raider Legend in a long time (the last achievement I got for it was back in May), so I felt like taking a break from the newer games and stuck it in and finally beat it. Good times strike again.
This past Sunday my brother and I went to see Little Miss Sunshine. It’s easily one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. As I told my brother as we were leaving the theater, I’m definitely getting the DVD whenever they bring it out. For those who don’t know, Little Miss Sunshine is about a (typically) dysfunctional family where the little girl has always wanted to win/enter-in a beauty contest, and the hilarity that ensues. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, it’s great, and I’m sure if you watch it a few times you’ll want to go see the movie, too. 5/5!
Whoops, look at the time. Work, work, work, work, oh–and did I mention work?!
That’s all I’ve been up to as of late. In between the previous post and this one, I’ve seen a few different movies, and gotten some new games.
As for movies, I went and saw The Descent: Pretty good, not really as jump-scary as people have/had said, more a kind of freaky scary. But overall it was pretty good, and I think I’ll probably get the dvd when it comes out over here.
I saw some movies on dvd lately, too; Inside Man is a pretty dang good heist movie plain and simple. Go get it. 
Kingdom of Heaven is mighty long (about 3:30 hrs), but ultimately a really good Middle Age movie.
And finally, The Transporter is a really, really good action movie. Great chase scenes, great fight scenes. What more is there to say about it?
Onto some gaming newsies…
I’ve gotten a few new 360 games (as you can see by clicking on my Gamercard on the side there);
Dead Rising: Basically think Dawn of the Dead as a video game. You play as Frank West–a photo journalist–on the job to discover what is really going on in the area and where all the zombies are coming from. Anywho, the game is really great even when your just dinking around killing zombies.
N3 – Ninety Nine Nights: Basically Dynasty Warriors but not set in ancient China or Japan. and of course it’s more “next-gen” than even Dynasty Warriors 5 for the 360 is, you can see all the way across the level (or pretty dang close) and the fallen enemies stay on the battlefield until you finish the level, so by the time you finish the field is just littered with bodies.
And finally, I got rid of my PowerMac G5 that I had (a dual 1.8 Ghz machine), and got a new Mac Pro (from MacPros). Needless to say I’ve been playing with that the past few days, and it’s just way too much fun. 
That’s pretty much it for now. Just working (or more accurately, slaving) away. Until next time!
W00t! I saw Superman Returns today–and it was good. Very good. So good I would love to–and very well may–go see it again sometime soon.
I have to say that it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any of the other Superman movies, but this one rocks (not that the others didn’t, mind). And you just have to love Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, he’s kinda giddy in that crazy bad-guy way. As for the new Superman, Brandon Routh, he does really good in the part. What everyone keeps saying how he has an uncanny likeness to Christopher Reeve is very, very true. Overall, it was really good, and you should go see it.
I should have posted this earlier, but if you pay any attention to this website–not only do I pity you, but–then you would realize I don’t necessarily post when I should/would/mean to. Well, Ultraviolet came out on DVD on tuesday, and thanks to Amazon I got it that very day, it was waiting at home for me when I got off of work, how nice, eh?
Anywho, it’s the “Unrated Extended Cut” which basically means they put back in more of the stuff they–unnecessarily–cut out of the theatrical release. So is it any better for those who have–or even have not–seen the movie already? In a word, Yeah. But then again, maybe I’m a little off-kilter because I like the other work Kurt Wimmer has done, and it’s got Milla in it. ;-P
So definitely go out and spend the ~$15 for it. If you switch off your brain for a little bit and don’t over-analyze the movie you’ll actually enjoy it.
Whoops, I forgot to post right away again… Oh well… Newsies to follow, like, now:
I got to see X-Men The Last Stand on sunday with my bro. It was actually pretty good, there were parts that were just like “WTF were they thinking?!”, but overall if you liked the first two movies, you will like this one as well. And, if you hadn’t read about it allready, you have got to stay after the credits and watch the little clip at the end… as one of the kidz who also staid after to watch it said, “Oh Snap![sic]“
