Quantum of Solace

Or how I learned to stop being stupid and enjoy a good movie.

I could talk forever (too long) about Quantum of Solace and how wonderful it is. I could dissect the opinions of others and show them to be the foolish thoughts they are. People are whiny and lame and if they can't completely grasp a plot they'll shout out at a movie. A lot of times this is because the movie did not relate its point well, but with a spy/action movie its because it's a spy/action movie. Relax and enjoy the ride.

You whores.

It is Much Easier...

...for me to write when it's not for anyone. When it's for someone, for some audience, I either go completely blank or I make some lame attempt at speaking to the audience. If it's for me then who cares?

House of the Dead: Overkill is a game that is coming out (maybe in halloween, it'd make sense). All House of the Dead games are generic light gun shooters with zombies... so they're fun but not really deep experiences. Overkill gets my attention because it has some really odd '70s style blaxploitation trailer to present itself. Typically this means the developers are having fun with what they're making and it's a lot easier to have fun with something if it's made that way. You can feel the difference when you play something that, for the developer, was just a job to complete.

Overkill looks like fun because you can feel the fun just by looking at it. It doesn't matter if it's not a deep experience.

Travis and the Last Crusade

The hell you will. He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.

That is my favorite bit from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I absolutely love that movie.

Alone in the Dark: Oddly bright and rarely alone

Alone in the Dark, newly released for the Wii and 360 (PS3 version coming much later) is more of an interesting experiment like democracy than it is a must have game. The title is designed with an episodic format so it plays out more like a miniseries than any game story you are used to. This is oddly refreshing, but also gives the lame story a presentation where you can tolerate it. After all, it’s not worse than anything else on TV even if it is completely retarded. In short, Atari cheated and I’m onto them. The story still sucks balls.

I have completed two episodes so far and all I can really say is that the game really tries a lot of new things so I can’t fault them. However, the control is the only scary thing in the game. It’s hard to give credit to a title that comes up with new ideas but makes you completely incapable of partaking in said new ideas. Of course, even total poop can fertilize grass so maybe Alone in the Dark will grow into something worthwhile with more play time. It had better, because right now I see the game’s title as advice more than anything. If you don’t want to be embarrassed, play the game while alone in the dark.

Metal Gear Final Results

Mission Record

Difficulty: Original
Play Time: 3:00:57
Save: 2
Continue: 92
Alert Mode: 95
Humans Killed: 241
Ration Used: 74
Special Item: Not Used

Code Name: Deer

Indiana Jones and Patriot Act of Debateable Freedom

Tenured proffessor of Archaeology, Dr. Henry Jones Jr., is the rough and tumbling sort. Due to his varying degress of awesome it is easy for people to assume he is always good aside from the fact he's fathered a bastard child. In his newly recieved adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull we seen an older Jones who is knee deep in the red scare of the 1950s.

The man really hates communists.

Knowing what we know about his character, would Dr. Jones be in favor or against the Patriot Act? This is actually hard to say. Jones comes from a simpler time in which good and evil were more clearly defined. Nazis = super bad. Communists (in assuming they want to blow us up) = super bad as well. But even during the red scare there was no legislature giving the government Dirty Harry powers of personal justice when they see fit. Sure, it probably happened quite a bit but it was always "hush hush". These days what used to be on the down low is now commonly accepted as "well we needs the freedomz" and we move on because we of course never did anything wrong and it's going to affect people we don't know.

If you put a lot of faith in your government then the Patriot Act is totally fine. It would never be abused and would actually go to capturing the people who would otherwise use red tape to avoid us. By now this had ought to feel a bit iffy seeing as I dno't think we have a single case of a terrorist avoiding punishment due to red tape. That's what the mafia does. Wire tappings and such, of course, would help us find information better but since we do that anyway I don't think it really helps that much.

I submit, for the purposes of extreme boredom, that Dr. Jones would not support the Patriot Act. In Crystal Skull he's a stereotypical American in terms of the population's general opinion of communists during the '50s. However, we also see him having some issues with his own country's doubting of him and he's freaknig Indiana Jones. That is not to mention that these days the standard American is pretty much nothing. We don't even have the sense to be a caricature these days. We're just people who allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by a big picture we don't understand. So in keeping with Dr. Jones' American representation as well as his character development in the latest movie he would likely oppose the Patriot Act but instead of worrying about it spend most of his time being upset that he can't go on archaeological digs in the middle east... legally. Oh you'd better believe he'd find a way out there anyway. He's Indiana Jones.

I really have no point here.

Batman vs. Iron Man

Fresh off of Iron Man I've been randomly reading up on some superhero histories via Wikipedia. Turns out Batman's original inspiration for being a batman is incredibly lame! It made me laugh, at least. Of course the character has been updated to be a bit more... well it's still a guy in a bat suit so it's not realistic, but at least a BIT more grounded in reality.

I do at least like the notion that Batman is mentally unstable. And I guess you'd have to be to go out every night and rough up hooligans without superpowers. It's kind of embarassing, though, that Tony Stark is probably as rich as Bruce Wayne and can build a whole power suit and Batman's stuck running around in typical armor. However, unlike Iron Man, Batman actually knows how to handle himself in a fight. If Iron Man got caught without his power suit he'd be screwed. Poor drunk Tony Stark.

Of course the nerd in me wants to clarify that Iron Man did receive martial arts training later and is formidable outside of his suit now I still maintain that Batman could easily take him if neither of them worse suits. But of course Batman is insane and has received way more martial arts training than is possible. However, he hasn't learned Drunken Master style... that I'm aware of.

Drunken Master style... now THAT is insane.