So I posted a blog the other night but i guess since the spammers have been hard at work the site was down, so here goes, take 2.
I had a bachey weekend. The wife went down to Birmingham to see her college friends. Friday night I had the MIC meeting of the c stoners, aka men in the church sit around and talk about manly stuff.
Most of the weekend I just sat around and played Metroid Prime 2, Civ3, and watched a ton of movies.
First I watched Resident Evil 2 which was pretty good speaking from a context as a fan of the Resident Evil games 1,2, and Nemesis. The movie was mindless, much like the zombies, but had good action and good one liners. So all in all it was fun to watch.
I also rented Shaun of the Dead. I watched this one last night and I'll give it this, it has some of the most ironic scenes in a movie, the problem is, that its just not that funny. There are a few histarical scenes where Shaun and his buddy try to figure out how to kill a zombie and throw everything at the zombies they have: coffee mugs, records, laundry, the laundry basket... etc. There's also kind of an odd and funny musical number where the humans are beating this zombie with pool cues to the beat of an elton john type song. It was truly bizzare and funny at times, but all in all wasn't worth the price of admission. I just think brits and Americans can't get on the same wave length as far as comedy goes. They're ahead of us on some levels, and way behind us on some other levels as far as comedy goes.
I also borrowed Return of the King extended from my buddy Mark. It took all day to watch it but it was ok. I mean i think a few of the extra scenes were good but the whole saruman thing was just terrible. I see now why they just cut it out for the theatre. Its almost like if you can't do it right, don't do it at all. This scene did nothing really for the plot, and in no way coinsided with the book. Which the whole complaint about cutting Saruman out of the movie was it didn't coinside with the book, so Jackson adds him to the dvd and the complaint still stands, its not in the book. So far I think my favorite LOTR was the first one hands down, also my favorite book too. Two Towers was my favorite extended, I felt that the extended 2 towers was so far superior to the theatrical and was really happy to see the extra stuff.
I also watched Van Helsing. It was ok, not as bad as everyone made it out to be, but not as good as it could have been. Pretty poor acting in general, Dracula came across as a loser and kind of a limp wrist. I mean he hardly ever fought anyone and just let his minions go fight and screw it up. The Dracula I know would go out and get the job done and get it done right... till the sun comes up and he'd then be done for. But I think part of my like for this movie springs from my affection for the Castlevania video game. This is a game that started on Nintendo and has found its way on every platform for the most part. The N64 ones were really good I thought and great game play and story though the graphics were weak. The whole story of Castlevania is about Simon Belmont a vampire hunter who goes after Dracula and has to fight his way through all the other infamous monsters of the monster genre.
I also watched Anchor Man, and I must say I really didn't like this at all. I mean it had a few funny parts but I felt this movie was a lot like Dodgeball, it just didn't come across as funny as it should. I mean its so absurd that its just not that funny. I'm not sure what it is about these movies: Dodgeball, Anchorman, and those type but I'm just not finding them that funny. I found Old School funny, but more for the slap stick humor than anything, that and Snoopey Doopey Doop.
Metroid 2 is proving to be a formidable game, both in thinking and gameplay. The game is a lot harder than the first, and the first was pretty tough. Plus the new weapons are kind of cool, and they have limited ammo on them so it makes it harder, and makes you rely upon your original power blaster. The puzzles in the game are tough and you don't get many hints in the game. In the first you could just wander around for a few minutes and then the game would give you a hint on the map. I haven't beaten it yet, probably about half way, but the game's good and long which is good. I'm afraid of what the last guy will be like, I'm imagining a super tough Metroid of sorts.
The wife got back about 3 this afternoon and its good to have her home. Its weird when she goes out of town I get sort of depressed and don't want to leave the house, though I did, at least once a day. I hung out with a few of my old hallmates a few nights and that was good as I don't see them as much as I'd like to. Though Saturday when we hung out I was pretty tired as I was up till 4 am playing video games friday night. Though the work week is starting up again and I won't have a break from the work a day world for quite some time. MLK day was a good breather. Its hard going back to work after weeks of time off. And in honor of MLK day i listened to U2's Pride twice.
Posted by holtonian at January 17, 2005 08:49 PM | TrackBack