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| Apparently World War Z is back at the drawing board again for rewrites... :( |
[14 Jul 2009|06:48am] |
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And you know what? Just for kicks? Here are six more interesting movie trailers:
The Time Traveller's Wife (August 14) - The life and love story of a woman whose greatest love phases in an out of reality, reappearing at random points in their life together.
The Invention of Lying (September 25) - Set in a world where everyone tells the truth, one man suddenly discovers the secret of lying and uses his newfound power to make the world finally start working in his favor.
The Box (October 30) - A financially troubled couple receives a mysterious package containing a box with a single red button on top. They are told that if the button is pressed, they will receive one million dollars, while one random person in the world that they don't know will die.
The Last Airbender (December 18) - Based on the animated series of the same name, Airbender is set in a world where the four natural elements can be controlled by individuals known as "benders". The firebenders have begun a massive war to conquer all the other countries, while Aang, the last of the airbenders, is sent on a dangerous quest to end the conflict.
Daybreakers (January 8, 2010) - Set in an alternate future where nearly all of humanity has been transformed into vampires, the vampire community is forced to deal with the growing blood supply problem, forcing them to turn to the last remaining outpost of humans who have been waging a war against the vampires.
Creation (Unknown) - A dramatic retelling of Charles Darwin's life after the death of his daughter impels him towards finishing his On the Origin of Species, while dealing with the emotional and social ramifications that his masterpiece might bear.
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| No local showings, I'm afraid... Just like with Repo!, I'll have to wait for the DVD release... :( |
[14 Jul 2009|05:57am] |
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Instead of getting depressed or pissed about the new Twilight film, New Moon, why not check out... Moon
Directed by David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones. The film takes place on a moon base where Sam Bell, an astronaut, mines Helium-3 for a terrestrial company as a fuel source, his only companions being recordings of his family back home (which can only be transmitted back and forth as video files due to a damaged satellite preventing live communication) and an artificial intelligence robot assistant. As the end of his term approaches, Sam begins to experience headaches and hallucinations, culminating in a near fatal accident. He is shocked, however, to discover a young man on the base after the accident who looks and sounds exactly like him. While the company sends out a team to take over the base, Sam is left with limited time to uncover the truth of what is really going on around him.
Also, here's an informative video about living with first person shooter's disease
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| Happy 4th! |
[04 Jul 2009|02:45am] |
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A new set of D&D updates have been posted, including an update to Martial Power which (from the DM's perspective, thankfully) finally cuts Battlerager Vigor down to an appropriate power level. (You no longer gain temporary hit points from being hit by an enemy and temporary hit points no longer stack, but the tradeoff is that you get a larger chunk of temp HP from using invigorating powers: Double your Con score instead of just your Con score and making them stackable.)
WotC has set up a contest to create your own Dungeons & Dragons footwear. Voting begins on the 15th. Here are Matt's, Lindsay's, and one that's silly but kinda cool. Personally, I cringe at the idea of shelling out a hundred bucks over a pair of shoes, but to be fair they ARE pretty cool.
If you ever wanted to read a manga about a zombie plague (with a notable proclivity for upskirt shots), here's the first issue of "High School of the Dead".
Also, originally posted by KSpaz, here's Sir Ken Robinson's presentation on the current state of child education and creativity:
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| Finally, what we've all be eagerly waiting for... |
[03 Jul 2009|01:05am] |
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...the epic conclusion of Half-Life Full-Life Consequences: Free Man
And, in memory of the dead: Billy Mays Attacks Garry's Mod
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| I expect as much from the Wayans brothers, but not you, Baker... Not you... |
[02 Jul 2009|04:20am] |
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The SomethingAwful Doctor Who thread just made me very, very sad. Here's Tom Baker's cameo appearance in the original Dungeons & Dragons movie (granted, he delivers the only part that doesn't suck):
Been working on the ottoman a bit: Have added the clasp mechanism to the front, made the pattern for the edge pieces and cut the first test piece out of pleather, and finally discovered a way to finally upholster the front and back center pieces without spending hours sanding down the wood that would otherwise be too thick. (I'll give you a hint: It starts with "jig" and isn't a dance.)
I don't recall if I've already posted about Zombieland (starring Woody Harrelson) before, but here's the trailer:
In a weird way, it seemed like it was trying to piggyback on the heels of Adventureland (in naming convention and setting), but I dunno if there's any validity to that.
I know there are a number of Harry Potter fans/readers that read this and I'm sure you will all get a pretty good laugh out of Giant Bomb's Quick Look of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
And finally, Otters: Ferrets on Crack
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[26 Jun 2009|02:01am] |
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Who wants to watch a 9-year-old boy play "Crazy Train" on an electric guitar?
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| Considering making a Go board. It'd be loads cheaper, but the ottoman comes first... |
[21 Jun 2009|01:38am] |
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First order of business: From Rooster Teeth, Catch: A Father's Day Tale
I finally got the Insider article finished. After the final edit (with annotations and comments), this draft ended up being 12,500 words or so. Hence the length of time it took to write. Too long, really, but I had other distractions as well. I'm hoping (vaguely) that the next draft won't require too many rewrites, but even if it does, the majority of my work is done. After this, I just have handful of encounters to revise, maybe a few maps to make, and a final draft and I'm DONE. :D
I've watched a fair bit (the first 52 episodes) of Hiraku No Go, enough to form an opinion of it as a whole. I'd say, it's not bad. It does have a few noticeable...quirks. One of the most glaring examples is that younger newcomers can never upset the established order (a very Japanese concept, IMO)--Any senior master runs no risk of being uprooted from his position in the series, save perhaps by death (and even then, it's iffy). Otherwise, though, the series is interesting. The series makes a concerted effort to humanize the "enemies" that crop up as the series progresses, giving them dimension and presenting them as the victims of the circumstances of their lives rather than gross caricatures that are meant to be vanquished. The series follows the typical "young prodigy on the rise" story arc (Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Bleach, Shaman King, etc.) but is also culturally informative (e.g. Azumanga Daioh), showing all the various facets of Japanese Go culture and society.
Here's a new Yu-Gi-Oh: the Abrdiged Series: Episode 40 - Final Deathstination
Red vs. Blue: Recreation has begun with chapter 1 (and the promise of an update every Monday). Frankly, I'm not blown away by the jokes so far, but it might turn out alright. After last season's massive twist ending, I'm curious to see where the plot goes.
Here are Yahtzee's review of inFamous and Yahtzee's 2nd Annual E3 Hype Massacre
It's not even up on the Starcraft II website yet, but here's Starcraft II Battle Report #3 (Zerg vs. Protoss). Some pretty amazing stuff on this one, particularly the use of forcefields as a control system and that amazing baneling trap that the zerg executed around those rocks.
Also, here's the FULL God of War III demo playthrough. Disembowled centaur intestines? Check. Grotesquely ripping a god's head off his body? Check. Graphic violence that foreign countries are probably going to have a problem with. Most likely check. :(
I'm debating on getting Sam & Max Save the World since the whole collection is on XBox Live for so cheap, but I dunno if I'd get enough play out of it to justify the purchase. (Same goes for Prototype.)
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| Gee, thanks Giant Bomb. |
[18 Jun 2009|10:06am] |
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Just what I needed to wake up to in the morning. I'm going to run screaming to work now.
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| Sorry: I've been busy... |
[14 Jun 2009|10:09pm] |
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The first draft of the Insider article is complete. As soon as I feel I've expunged all my preconceptions about how it works from my brain (give it about two days) I'll go back with my hardcore editor's eyes and start cutting it apart. (No mercy! No quarter!) There are still a few sections that are in the outline phase: Sections that were revised due to a plot adjustment or just weren't solid enough. Overall, though, almost 11,000 words (out of 12,000) DONE.
I watched the first six episodes of of Hikaru No Go today, which (if I had to describe it) is like Yu-Gi-Oh but with substance. The plot is very much the same: A young boy is possessed by an ancient spirit that loves playing Duel Monsters Go and is a master at it, causing contention with those who are already established pros in the field (such as the wealthy, hardcore player Seto Kaiba Akira Toya). Really though, it's a much better series overall: The main character has personal motivations and is actually interested in improving his own skill at the game (which isn't just an excuse to fabricate a line of toys), the characters are more well-developed and complex (like Tetsuo Kaga, who is the head of the high school Shogi club that seems to be a total asshole that despises the game, but who later turns out to be a very skilled player that is burdened by the school with having to take care of duties in both clubs), and the series includes a cool feature at the end of each program: The creators of the show hired a professional Go player to make tutorial videos for kids that they show at the end of each episode. The lessons from the episode before are built up on by the lessons that follow, evolving from the basics of gameplay and scoring into simple positioning strategy and problem solving skills. I'm going to keep watching it, but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far (and I'm learning to play Go!)
( A series of interesting, amusing, and awesome videos--Cut for your protection! )
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[07 Jun 2009|02:27am] |
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I think this Cracked article, "Six Islands Way More Terrifying than the One on Lost, opens with its scariest island: "Ilha de Queimada Grande; A.K.A. Snake Island." An excerpt: Imagine just sleeping peacefully when snakes start crawling through your bedroom window and you know the only option is to run outside into the jungle where there are even more snakes and they all govern themselves because this is an island of snake monsters and you are the intruder. And you struggle through the underbrush, alone, scared, knowing that you will never make it back to civilization to punch that fucking Realtor who sold you a house on goddamned Snake Island.
And here's some extra-smarmy sarcastic critique videos (I dunno; I'm tired):
Atop the Fourth Wall is like Angry Video Game Nerd, but with comics (apparently), only ripping off setting elements from MST3K. This episode is about a horrible, horrible, horrible comic called "Warrior" released by the WWF wrestler the Ultimate Warrior that looks like someone tried to emulate The Maxx... poorly.
And here's the second installment of Webcam Ward: The Irate Ghost Hunter, which is closer to an MST3K-style voiceover mocking a poorly plagiarized home video version of one of those ghost hunter shows that started airing a few years back.
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| Tired. Tomorrow I'm going to grind out a few more hours of writing, I hope. :( |
[27 May 2009|02:13pm] |
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Well, it's been a while since I posted--I suppose I'm due.
Here's Yahtzee's... "review" of Duke Nukem Forever (I was amused), followed by some movie news!
First off, here are two new clips from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: "I Think I Love Her" (the part where Ron climbs into bed is hilariously creepy) and Behind the Scenes: Dumbledore and Harry (a musing on the changing relationship between their characters and some cool new scenes). Also on RottenTomatoes was an excerpt from an interview with the director that indicated that they were taking some creative liberties with the film; All power to them, I say. The last movie tried to cram everything from its book into the film and it ended up running like a centipede with a stroke.
Here's the trailer for Funny People, an interesting drama-dy about a stand-up comedian who learns that he is going to die and decides to live life to the fullest, including chasing after "the one that got away" ("guys have that and serial killers have that").
Most exciting of all (for me at least) is the Surrogates trailer. Bruce Willis plays the main character in a sci-fi action adaptation of a comic series (of the same name) set in a future where all of humanity has come to interact with one another and with the world via lifelike synthetic bodies called "surrogates". As the hunt for the killer continues, the detective is forced to confront his own acceptance of a humanity that has lost its ability to live in reality. After hearing about it, I was intrigued and checked out the comics. It's not bad looking--Could be pretty good. Really hoping it doesn't pull an I, Robot.
Here's the trailer for H2, the sequel to Rob Zombie's Halloween remake.
Here's the trailer for Sacha Cohen's new movie, Bruno, that keeps the same Candid Camera-esque theme of inflicting a bizarre character on everyday people. Instead of his old character, the bigoted fish-out-of-water foreigner Borat, Bruno is an eccentric fashion designer. Will it work again? Dunno.
And, last but certainly not least (and perhaps most surprising of all), Drag Me To Hell is doing well critically. The film marks another return to the horror genre by Sam Raimi after his critically panned remake, The Grudge, wherein Christine Brown, a loan officer, denies an old woman another extension on her mortgage to get a raise and is cursed to be tortured by the spirit of the Lamia. Christine finds that she only has three days to break the curse and keep her soul from being dragged down into Hell. The movie seems to take its plot wholesale from Thinner, but apparently the result captures the campy self-aware ridiculousness and horror that made The Evil Dead trilogy so magical. (trailer)
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