Dead falling

I've been playing a lot of dead rising 2 lately and since I've decided to start blogging again, I thought, what better than that to start me off? So here it is. Dead Rising 2 is a sequel to Capcom's amazing zombie-action-sandbox bonanza, and what a sequel. You play as Chuck Greene, a brain dead (or at least acts like it) hard ass that wants nothing more than the safety of his daughter. However, she’s already been infected; enter the bad part of the game. Finding Zombrex for your daughter is damn near the worst thing I've had to do in a game for a while. You'll think you have plenty of time until WHAM! You’re stuck across the other side of fortune city with a ravenous crowd of zombies blocking your path back to your whiny-ass infected spawn and only 5 minutes to get there... This brings me onto the other annoying feature; the watch. To check the time and objectives you have to look at your watch. To look at your watch you have to stand defenceless and still, staring at your wrist and concentrating with all chuck's mite. Needless to say, these two things get old.. fast.

However! There are many redeeming features of the game; too many to go through in fact, so I'll just list a few. Wearing random dresses, the shear amount of weapons, creating new weapons via the magic of gaffer tape, kill bill called and they want their overly audacious amount of blood back, severing limbs, Tricycle Bicycle Slicycle, the TIR side game is extremely fun and rewarding and finally, slapping psychopaths with 'massagers'.

This is turning into a wall of text, point is, DR 2 is an extraordinary sequel and deserves a 9/10. It's creative, funny, gory, action-packed, full of customization and has a totally unique feel to the gameplay. Playing with friends just adds to it all.

The expandables

The Expendables is an absolute epic film that rivals Die hard for action, cop out for comedy and even how to train your dragon for pure EPICNESS. From the 30 second Schwarzenegger cameo to the AA-12 explosive massacre, this movie had awesome written all over it, in Bold, and capitals... with explosions. Stallone played the part of Barney Ross pretty well, and by that i mean BADASS. EEEEEXPLOSIONS.
The only bad thing i can find in this truly epic masterpeice is that Mickey Rourke can finish a tattoo in less than 3 seconds.. Whilst talking. Amazing.

9.5/10 because moar.

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How to make love to a ma...-cough-...woman -cough-

Another adult comedy, and by adult I mean it's rated 15! Well I must say the first about 20 minutes are pretty boring but after that it actually starts to get funny! Almost all of the jokes are aimed at a very large audience and because of this it totally throws innuendo out the window and goes for the in your face kind of comedy that people actually like! Finally, movie makers that understand that innuendo died out about 40 years ago!
Well, this was a rom-com so it didn't just have comedy! It had 'romance'... Basically there was lots of sex scenes and they had this little talk at one point where they said they loved each other... and then they had sex...
Well I was looking for a decent comedy and this movie certainly didn't disappoint me! I've got to say however, I had never heard of any of the actors who played parts in it...

7/10! 'nuff said..

Speed Racer

I refute thee
Devil o' ye film.
If ye tried to make thee motorized vehicles any lesse reallistic
You mayhap of simply used olde cardboard cuttouts.
2/10

The Great White Buffallo...

I watched Hot tub time machine, only because of the annoying tumor of a brother fate has dropped into my otherwise blissful abyss reminding me every 5 seconds!.. But apart from that the film was really quite enjoyable and was genuinely funny, a trait that most modern comedies seem to be missing, a major flaw in the genre there. Not so much an original idea, the story was just back to the future meets The Hangover, and in the land of comedy spoofs are starting to clog up the once loved heavenly motorway of laughter. I loved the characters and actors, all apart from probably the main character (or at least who I see as the main character), Adam, played by John Cusack. Who I'm sure that nobody has ever heard of right? Or is that just me?..
All in all though it's really not much different form other movies in the genre. Ridiculous amount of sexual references and.. well... not much else. To be honest, most of the jokes in this movie are just things about sex. It's not on it's own though, about 90% of movies int he comedy genre rely heavily on sex jokes. Unless it's a 'hit teen comedy' and well in that case it just isn't funny...
Wandering back from the deluded and misshapen path of comedy, I'll be generous and give this one a nice round 8.47/10 :)

District 18

District 9 is a fantastic movie in my opinion. I'm really into the sci-fi genre and was excited to hear another movie about aliens was being released, not just for the alien side but mostly because the realistic way they have portrayed the aliens and the more realistic way they have shown the human attitudes towards these people from another world if you like. The CGI was really quite great, brilliant, brilliant animation and graphics. Well played by the actors, and you actually got into the story in this movie, you actually give a damn as to what happens to the characters. That is apart from the main character, I thought he was a bit of an annoying fellow. However, you really do get a feel for these character's backgrounds and especially feel sorry for the aliens and how they are treated. I think that there wasn't enough alien weaponry, they only showcased about three kinds of it, the classic machine gun , the zappy laser one that made people explode and the one that lets off sonic waves to knock your enemies into next week.

Anyway, twas a very entertaining movie and I loved the way the movie left you wanting more, not quite giving away the ending but dropping little hints, mayhap a sequel is in order? 9/10 in all. Highly recommend it!

Gamer

Sorry couldn't think of a snappy title for this one. Well the movie is gamer of course and I really don't have much to say about it. I watched the trailers and thought it looked like a good movie with plenty of action that shows the true face of what happens in real wars and gun-fights while still underlining the fact that it's only a game to the people in command, when in reality, very little of the movie is based in the 'game' in question (Slayers) and you actually see more of the other game 'Society' in which people basically sell themselves for a set period of time and they have no idea whats going on and can't control themselves. So to sum it up, the trailers are very misleading, the story doesn't seem too bad and might make an actually decent film with some slight tweaks but is mostly just about him escaping and trying to convince people of his innocence about the murder of his friend, oh no it get's more complex, in the mean time he must fight other players controlled by people all around the world. He's is controlled by some apparently elite mlg kid that he manages to eventually talk to. It's far too complex and not much happens. Actually I did have alot to say about this one...
6/10. The action scenes were really quite entertaining to watch and the whole concept was quite fun to have as a movie. However, the quest for his daughter (that doesn't love him) and his wife really toned the movie down.