That Took Too Much Effort
Monday, April 23, 2012 No Comments
The Epic Quest table for Pinball FX 2 and ZEN Pinball sets an interesting precedent for pinball games. Even after you’ve lost, your game is saved, allowing you to continue from that point the next time you play. With your experience and loot saved, you can continue the table’s “story”. Designed to blend pinball and [...]
Category: DLC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 3, Reviews, Xbox 360, Xbox 360
Thursday, April 19, 2012 No Comments
As you know, most big-budget action and science fiction films these days tend to be large, unabashed piles of crap. Lockout, however, does not necessarily fit within that category, as it is really more akin to a small plate of nachos smothered- no… drowning in cheese. This sci-fi/action/thriller is so loaded with action flick clichés [...]
Tags: action, cheesy, crap, luc besson, science fiction, taken
Monday, April 16, 2012 1 Comment
I don’t get it. What are the Hunger Games meant to accomplish? Why are they pitting kids against each other in a deathmatch? All I could ascertain from The Hunger Games (the movie) was that it had something to do with subverting violence, maybe. But what form of logic did they use to conclude that [...]
Friday, April 13, 2012 1 Comment
Lockout was far funnier than I think it intended to be. Premeditated campiness aside, the story was so damn cliché and sensibly out to lunch that it caused the members of the audience (myself included) to (literally) laugh out loud on multiple occasions. If the objective of the film was to be a satirical and [...]
Thursday, April 12, 2012 No Comments
The various genres in Cabin in the Woods were unfurled across the film in equal doses, creating a consistency that was very palatable. Generous flecks of comedy were sprinkled in with similarly sized bits of horror and sci-fi, to create a steady rhythm that carried me through this very strange and very fun film. However, [...]
Thursday, April 12, 2012 No Comments
In the dystopian universe of In Time, upon reaching the age of 25 a clock on your wrist starts ticking down from a year and you must work (or steal) in order to acquire more time. That premise offers a really unique canvas on which to paint vivid characters and situations. However, you quickly learn [...]
Monday, April 9, 2012 No Comments
“I’d rather spend forty years in the desert than watch The Moth Diaries again.” This quote from the devilishly handsome Phil G is spot on. I can’t even count on my fingers how bad this film was (and that’s not because I’m terrible at math (which I am)). Out of ten, I’d say it was [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 4 Comments
A stubborn robot boxer owes money to everyone in a ten-mile radius, and there’s this kid whose mother dies and is left in the care of said immovable man. Well, you could tell where this thoroughly unoriginal underdog tale is heading (triumph against the odds), and where it’s not (rich character development). And I knew [...]
Tags: olga fonda is HOT, real steel, stubborn, ten-mile, unoriginal
Monday, April 2, 2012 No Comments
Much like J. Edgar, I think A Dangerous Method would’ve fared better as a mini-series. A Six (or so) hour character study of Carl Jung who, alongside Freud, fathered psychoanalysis would definitely do the content justice far more expediently than roughly an hour and a half. There’s just so much that can’t be properly dissected [...]
Thursday, March 29, 2012 No Comments
Rio is the story of a stranger in a strange land, a story that’s been told countless times before. But, honestly, who can resist a cast of adorable jungle animals? And with its vibrant animation and some enjoyable moments here and there, it wasn’t necessarily terrible. However, as pretty as it was to look at, [...]
