Monday, May 31, 2010

Dipping your childhood in sugar and the scent of babies



Does anyone remember Grease? I know it is a stupid question for almost anyone who doesn't live under a musical/movie rock, but for those butch men and women who wouldn't be caught dead fraternizing with suck stuff (If this is you, why the hell are you here anyway?). Grease is the original High School Musical, as is clearly pointed out in the trailer, except where HSM has ditsy teenagers, a cutesy plot line and the most controversial we got was a slightly angst song. Grease, while being a spiritual predecessor, was ready to flaunt social lines just that little bit more, there were teen pregnancies, high school drop outs and drag races. To be slightly knit picky I could point out that the 18 year old leads in Grease were actually 24 (Trovolta) and 30 (Newton-John), but there was no cotton candy gumdrops in sight, and that was what made it that little bit better for me, it was realistic and didn't cause me to feel as though there should have been a compulsory gender swap at the door.

This trailer is an absolute sell out, covering this movie with colorful text and rainbow imagery makes me want to douse my computer in gasoline. Why do we have to sell out on the past these days, if it isn't a reboot or a remake its a 're-imaging' they're finding some new way to ram something they found in the discount bin of a video store. If I want to have a sing-a-long I'll get a  Karaoke video, some alcohol and 3 other mentally deficient friends over to wail like dying seals, there would be no reason for me to want to congregate with more people than that to embarrass ourselves. Or maybe you would, I don't  know, I can't tell you how to think..

In short, I hate cotton candy things (HMS, The adventures of lord Sparklepants, a.k.a. Twilight and the Jonas brothers to name a few), and big companies will always sell out on things that once were great.

Force Unleashed 2 - Subject 11729564718 (or the mysterious loop hole that brings us back for the sequel)



So aside from being interested in most things in the geekdom world, I like video games. Now while I will agree that there were obvious problems with the first Force Unleashed, the stroy and development were quite good, and thats what I look for in games.

Now onto the trailer:
What the hell was that? Honestly the first trailer had a sort of suspence and intrigue to it. How is he alive? What are Yoda and Vader up to? And my personal favourite, Oh F@#K, what is the big Rankor killing thing. This trailer looked like something a fan with too much spare time on his hands had thrown together in order to amuse his friends. The end is just the gameplay pictures that were released sometime over a week ago, thats when I found them. The other main problem with this trailer is the whole centre flashback part, honestly it felt like going over to aunt Beryls to relive the memories of last Christmas where uncle roger got his name sake caught in his fly, while I enjoyed it at the time I don't need to be reminded cause those images will always be there., and even when we get past the clip show and two what is the only small section of new animation I could find it begins to look strangly familiar... oh wait:

Trailer

Website

So in short, I've found no discernable use for this trailer other than to use it to fill the void between people on facebook replying to wall posts, thanks for nothing Mr Lucus.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Continuity



This video is hilarious, and quite true. While I did enjoy Iron Man 2, the fact that about half the movie was about setting up/promoting the universe.

Still... Sing it angain Iron Man

Thursday, May 27, 2010

DC Flash Mob

A DC Flash Mob has been organised  for Federation Square this Saturday, so anyone who is interested, grab your tights and come on down. The day will begin at 9AM.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Posse up: We're going after Micheal Bay

Dear all Ladies and Gentlemen,
On this day, my hopes have been betrayed. On this day the chances we had of a decent Transformers movie were dashed. On this day Micheal Bay showed his true colours.

I hated Transformers 2, I thought it was a god awful move that only managed to be half decent in its explosions (and there were so many of them that if Mr Bay hadn't gotten them right at some point it would just prove how retared he truely is). The thing which I was the most critical of in it was the utter and abhorent lack of plot, Oh sure there was some flimsy thrown together thing about some shard of the ginat Rubix cube, Emporer Palpatine and the *ahem* 'leads' spending what we must consider the second half of the film running through dunes of sand.

So pardon me whan I say I was really excited to hear they had gotten rid of Megan 'zoom in on her breasts' Fox. Had Micheal Bay finaly worked it out that plot is important? Would we get a real actor? Can I dare to dream that this movie may be good? We've already been promised it would be dark, so is this a step in the right direction?

Well my preties my hopes were momentarily dashed. I was told that a Victoria Secrets Model will replace Ms Fox.


...

YOU HAVE LEARNT NOTHING BAY!!!!
The point behind a movie is to suspend belief and bring to us a story of something which we may (or will) never experience, not to just throw some explosions, robots and hot women on a screen an pray that we don't notice everything else has been locked inside a box and shipped off to Bolivia

So here is my call to people of the internet, If Bay chooses a model I'm inviting you all to grab your shotguns and pichforks and join me as I ride out to Hollywood to take down Mr Bay. If its an actress.... well... we can all have cake.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Return from the Dead

That's right I'm back from what looked like a fast end, but no I'm still here.

Now you may be wondering what happened to me? Well feel free to select what you find the most believable answer from the list below:

1. Got busy with work and as such so had no time

2. My computer died so I couldn't post

3. My dog ate my blog and only now has it come out the other side

4. The government closed me down and had me in a secret facility to stop my spreading of dangerous truths. I escaped using a mix of Kung Foo and Origami.

5. I died, went to heaven, fought in a war between heaven and hell, killed Satan, got to chose whatever I liked as a reward, got reserected and now am back.

So feel free to chose any of those options above to help you understand. So now that I'm back there will be a little bit of... fine tuning going on, as much as I enjoy DW, I never really wanted or planed on this becoming a blog exclusively on that. This is for my own random thoughts, observations and general stuff that interests me and may interest you.


So the long and short of it is: I'm back for any number of reasons, I'll be moving more into a random thoughts sort of writing and everyone can have a hug from these two:



Caio Me amigos.