SSX Blur arrived today and I have a very mixed review of it. The first thing you’ll notice is the style. I really like the modern comic/cell shading/bold colorful filled look, I’m sure there is a word for this type of style but I absulutly love it. This style really boads well with the wii because we all know it’s not as powerful as the 360 or the PS3 but it doesn’t matter because it wouldn’t look any better. Looking is differnt then playing though.
Playing the game is very difficult. The older games are all button smashers compared to this game. It’s very precise and deliberate. Steering with the nunchuck takes a few minutes to get used to and the tricks are nerve racking until you get the feel. I played it for 30 mintues and I’m still not comfortable with it. [Video]
However, I’m positive this game will give me a lot of joy in the future. I just wish it didn’t have such a learning curve because I don’t see it being fun for guests playing multiplayer.
Why is it that Spiderman 3 has three villains? Didn’t the crappy Batmans do this and fail? I would just hope the plot would hold up to just one villain especially since we are going to see my favorite comic character of all time, Venom.
July 22
Superman Returns was pretty good. I’ll give it a five star review when Sara puts it on Netflix.
I don’t know how much the movie followed the mythos of Superman since anything goes in comic adaptive movies now-a-days, and instead of ruining most of the movie for the people who haven’t seen it, the main development of the … Read More »
June 28
Does this count as a comic adaption that the crew needs to see? Or is it an exception? Nathan, Jared, Jason? Just asking because we need to go to the movies. … Read More »
December 02
Watching Batman (‘89) just because I wanted to refresh my memory and I am half way through it and I figured out I’m not insane. Joker did kill Bruce Wayne’s parents in this adaptation. The deciding factor is the quote by Joker, “Ever dance with the devil by the pail pale moon light?”, just before he shoots Bruce Wayne at [what's her name]’s house. Then Bruce has a flash back and remembers the same quote by a younger Jack/Joker then after revealing his face to the boy Bruce; the grin. As I always remembered (now who’s crazy? Jared Nathan). I know the comic books are different but for few/some who only watched the movies and maybe a little bit of comic book history it’s hard to forget the discrepancies that lies in Batman Begins.
Also at the end of Batman Begins (spoiler?) when Batman was handed a joker card and was told to go after this guy, with a quote of he has a “double homicide”, my speculation is, the double was the Waynes and with the confirmation of the Next BB headlining Joker I strongly think the new movie plot will be keep with the old and still have Joker as the murderer of Bruce’s parents. Not really that big of a deal to me either way but just an observation.
I just hope the next BMB will be great enough, like the first, to not really care what I remember in the last mess/series of films.
I also recommend for the people who just watched BB not to rent ‘89. It is so bad. Even if you remember it being so great.
So I want to get this out there now because I want to beat the crew before they post about the movie we saw tonight. Batman Begins was a great movie and I want to post more about it later because I want to watch the first Batman tomorrow to figure out some memory dilemmas I am having with the two movies. I know I shouldn’t think about the first Batman while watching this one but I just can’t shake it, since it was one of those great movies I saw as a “kid”, so dark and cool at the same time.
I do want to say the writing was superb, except the Spidey quirky comments but I guess they are there for the younglings and I wouldn’t have minded if I watched this one as a kid. I hate when producers “touch up” a script.
Another good note; it was the first time Jared, Nathan and I hung out together, just us three. It was special and I will never forget it. Ha, yeah right. Seriously though, it was cool, we need to do something like this more often. Maybe ever comic book adaption movie.
Casting A Hypothetical Live-Action Simpsons Movie
that the Simpsons feature film is, in fact, in production, our reader Sean left the following comment: "Paul Giamatti IS Homer Simpson." Of course, the film that Fox is making is animated, and all of the voice actors who work on the series will get to keep their jobs. But what if someone *was* making a live-action version of The Simpsons? Who would you cast as Marge? Lisa? Comic Book Guy? Let us know in the comments. Here’s a couple to get you started: I’m casting my votes for Bruce Willis as Krusty the Klown, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Barney, and, of course, Anderson Cooper as Kent Brockman.
I think Paul g. would be great; but maybe too emo and not enough dumb. What do you guys think? I will post my picks as they come to me.
Just to let everyone know Catwman was the worst movie ever made. Not only was the acting bad, the plot was worse. I don’t really get how it could have been made that bad, it was a comic book. How could they not get a good story of the writers? Or was it the directors and the producers fault? Anyways, we saw that last week and this week we saw Mr. 3000, now that was a great movie. Two thumbs up for 3000 and two paws down for Crapwoman.
Anyone read that text message from Lindsay Lohan to Paris Hilton about Jessica Simpson doing coke? Now Simpson and Bush have something in common.
