1/29/2007

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public...

As proven this weekend by Epic Movie's winning 19.2 million opening weekend. Granted, that's not really giant blockbuster status, but the movie couldn't have cost more then 10 million to make and it actually did better than it's horrific predecessor, Date Movie. This virtually guarantees a third film of similar quality next year. Thanks America, you've proven we have a leader worthy of us...

At least Smokin Aces managed to pull in a respectable audience as I saw the film and thought it was very entertaining. It's certainly far from original and throw in a few too many twists just for the sake of twists, but it's slickly edited, with great action and strong performances by just about everybody.

And one other film I was able to catch this weekend was the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated. It pretty much confirms what every cynical cinephile has suspected-That the MPAA is a complete joke and needs to be reigned in badly. This is extreme censorship plain and simple and they should be held accountable for it.

I forgot to mention that buying Link to the Past earlier this week forced me to break down and buy a Classic Controller in order to play it. I honestly always thought of the classic controllers as unnecessary when GC controllers are supposed to work just as well, but I obviously forgot to take into account Nintendo's generally great design. Aside from having to be attached to your Wii Remote, It works and feels better than most standard controllers. I wish it could work on my GC games as well. And as a reminder for you VC nuts, the legendary classic Mario Kart 64 will be available tomorrow. Buying this means I'll actually own 3 versions of Mario Kart. I plan on adding any more that become available as well.

Is it the apocalypse? No, but it might well be with the launch of Windows Vista on Tuesday. Usually, I couldn't give a crap about new applications, even ones as ginormously important as the long overdue Windows update. But this one has some pretty cool features that gamers will actually care about (assuming it doesn't cripple your computer the minute its installed). Namely, being able to wirelessly access your computer from your 360 so you can save and load files from there along with being able to stream music and movies from your PC wirelessly. It also marks the coming battle between PC & 360 gamers, as they will be able to game together on certain titles (with the new Shadowrun game being the premiere title). It may be the start of a scary new era for the MS faithful...

Looking to own every NES game ever made? This guy is selling all 670 of them. The current bid is over $12,000 and growing. Not that I had nearly that many, but I had quite a few NES games when I finally gave the system away to charity. I feel really fucking stupid for doing that now...

Free Game of the Week: Prince of War

1 comment:

Pelechati said...

Can you believe someone would pay 12,000 bucks for something as lame as every game for NES. The Nostalgia of that would be cool for about an hour.