Ever watched a movie and thought it was the worst one ever? Me too. Repeatedly.
So let’s kick off a new recurring series of posts for the worst movies EVAR.
And what a nice movie to start off with. Read more…
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So people, which movie are you looking forward to this summer? Vote for your fave or if it’s not listed leave a comment.
And if you like, tell us why you’re looking forward to that one in particular.
Here’s all the trailers if you want to have a look.
Cars 2:
Cowboys & Aliens:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2:
Green Lantern:
Kung Fu Panda 2:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon:
The First Avenger: Captain America:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes:
Thor:
I finally watched this sequel to the 1982 classic Tron.
In a nutshell: epic.
Reviews I’d read along with my own fears had kept me from seeing it thus far. Let’s face it, it’s a sequel to a cult classic, 28 years later, in a time when lots of 80′s movies get raped for sequels, quick cash ins that have little to nothing to do with the original. Star Wars, Transformers, GI Joe, Terminator, Aliens, the list goes on.
Boy was I wrong. And how happy I am to be wrong.
Just about everything about this movie is perfect.
For starters the original crew is in it, playing their old roles. And they actually made good use of the fact that so much time has passed since the original. Bruce Boxleitner is back as Alan Bradley & Tron and Jeff Bridges plays the part of Kevin Flynn & CLU. Olivia Wilde makes for a nice addition in the role of Quorra.
The movie starts off with a bit of history to set the mood and draw you in. Flynn disappeared in 1989 and no one has heard of him since. Alan thinks he’s still alive but ENCOM has moved on. Sam, Flynn’s son, is their biggest shareholder but doesn’t actually do anything with it other than playing an annual joke.
But then Alan shows up saying he’s gotten paged by Kevin even though that number has been disconnected for years. Sam decides to go check it out at his dad’s old arcade, where he discovers a server farm still running in the basement. And then….
Well, watch the movie.
Needless to say it’s CGI heaven. I’d go as far as to say it’s CGI heaven in the way the original was. The architecture of the grid (the digital world) is awesome and breathtaking, the choreography of the action sequences make the Matrix look like a Youtube fanboy experiment and the execution of everything is just spot on.
But also for example in CLU (he’s the one on the right in the picture above). CLU is a program created by Flynn to be his virtual copy that can run whenever he’s not around. As such, it looks like he does all those years ago. They did this through CGI as well, and it just works so well.
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The soundtrack for the movie was made by Daft Punk, whom I’ve always liked but they really outdid themselves this time. In such a way that this is now my fave Daft Punk album. By far. In a way it reminds me of Kavinsky’s Testarossa Autodrive, but where Kavinsky hasn’t been able to remotely come close to that fantastic debut, they take the feel of it and run with it, far far away to a troubled digital universe.
Oh, and they’re actually IN the movie as well.
This redefines slick. This redefines sci-fi, not so much in way that it is a giant leap forward as that it’s a giant leap to get it back on track. The whole concept of a digital grid/world/matrix is immensely fascinating and hasn’t really been explored much in a serious way. This does. And it does it in a way that opens a world of possibilities for sequels, spinoffs and franchise heaven. And for once I’ll actually be applauding it, if it’s done with the same integrity and artistic vision as this movie.
So do I have anything bad to say about the movie?
Ehm, it ends. But there’ll be more.
It doesn’t explore the vastness of the grid as much I’d like, but on the one hand that’s easily explained through the story (standalone servers, not hooked up to the rest of the world) and automagically opens up a potential landslide of options for sequels. After watching this movie, just imagine what would happen if the grid somehow went online and started spreading across the internet.
So no, I can’t actually think of a single bad thing to say about the movie.
Some Tron Legacy Wallpapers:
This post serves no purpose whatsoever but to celebrate the awesome fun of levelling a rogue in PvP. With heirlooms. :D
And to show off my Warsong Gulch achievements.
What is twinking?
Twinking is disabling your xp at a certain level, in our case 70.
Why twink?
We started Warcraft fairly late, in the beginning of 2010. We levelled our Warlocks at our own pace, first in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, then around 60 hopping over to Outland. Not soon after we made our way to Northrend where we eventually hit the, at the time, big 80. So from the Burning Crusade we missed a lot, like whole regions we never even went to, raids and dungeons we never did. So now that we’re levelling our Paladins to what eventually be level 85, we’re taking a nice long breath to enjoy the scenery and explore this part of the game. A lot of people like to level level level, but the game is more than just end-game content. It’s the journey, not just the destination. Our break at level 70 could be quite a long one, seeing as we accidentally bumped into a starting twinking guild that wants to kick butt in pvp. Before we all twinked we ran as a group in Warsong Gulch together and that was a lot of fun. 10+ winning streak and all that. I know we’re probably going to get our ass kicked in the all twink bracket, but it’s a challenge.
So what’s it like?
As soon as I hit 70 I started with spending all my honor points on any and all Brutal gear. In my case Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Shoulders, Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Legguards, Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Helm, Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Gauntlets, Brutal Gladiator’s Scaled Chestpiece, Brutal Gladiator’s Libram of Fortitude, Brutal Gladiator’s Shield Wall & finally Brutal Gladiator’s Slicer. Nice and dirt cheap, especially considering in the past you needed to do arena for this stuff. Now just do a few battlegrounds on your way to 70 and you’ll be able to get it right away.
From what I understood there’s a bug at the moment where one of the vendors is missing, so I still have a lot of items to upgrade, but we have to wait for the next patch for that.
Afterwards, after hopping over to Stormwind to disable my xp, we headed over to Shattrath to get the portal to Sun’s Reach Sanctum on the Isle of Quel’Danas to pick up the quest for the Magister’s Terrace. Once you complete the quest you unlock the Heroic version of the instance, which is good for epic drops. I haven’t gotten anything much other than the Cloak of Blade Turning but Iakona got lucky straight away and got the Vial of the Sunwell. I’m hoping the plans for the Adamantite chain drop for me.
It must be awesome, the roadsign says so.
I don’t think this was ever meant to leave the beta version of Cataclysm. But it’s funny nonetheless.
Mega Piranha is quite possibly the worst movie ever.
Some piranhas in the amazon start growing exponentially because of experiments. Enter bizarro fest, starting with a plot that makes no sense and contradicts itself quite often, to csi style camera work complete with woosh sound every few seconds for the first 15 or so minutes of the movie until they either ran out of woosh budget or got annoyed by it themselves. Obviously there’s blood in the movie as well, but whenever the piranhas chomp on someone you don’t actually see blood, you see they put a red filter over the area of the lens. Ultimate cheese. Oh, and for some reason whenever any new person enters a season there’s a dramatic black & white freeze frame with the name of the character being overlaid. Not just the major characters, no, every… single… one… of them.
At one point my mind started wandering until I spotted something from the corner of the eye making me ask “Did I just see a piranha flying by?”. I did. A piranha, about the size of a car, flying out of a window to plow into a building, chomping away at it.
Why, one might ask? Eh yeah, no idea. The movie deteriorated even faster from there up until the point where they survive a nuke. And then the brilliant conclusion is to send out men with harpoons to pierce the piranhas’ eyes. After they finally manage to succeed killing one, the others all die as well. Why? Again, no idea.
Oh and for the love of christ, if you’re going to cast a former “80′s pop sensation” for your movie to star as your leading lady, you might wanna check what she looks like before you sign the contract.
I mean… seriously. And no, they didn’t ask her for her acting talents.
Still have to do something with all the screenshots, gotta geek out with my WoW.
Or a photographic time line of our adventures in Azeroth.
Hmmmz…
I’m thinking of making a seperate Warcraft page here, still in the process of making a draft page. Items I’m thinking of putting on that page would be:
Me thinks he likes Warcraft a bit more than he cares to admit. Quite a funny review.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind