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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)
80's Machismo Taken to the Extreme!
*Read if you have played through the Game* You play as Rex Powercult, a cyborg, half-human, half-machine man with freakishly huge muscles and a tendency to show no emotion. He only has a very masculine voice to reinforce his stereotypical machismo style. This game takes our favorite bits of 80's action movies and over-exemplifies them to make them funny. It's just fun spotting the references to classics such as: Rocky IV, Terminator 1 & 2, Aliens, Predator, Mortal Kombat (Videogame), Star Wars, Thriller (Music Video), Robocop etc. It even has some external references including some to other games and an internet meme. The gameplay is extremely fun, the atmosphere of the game suits the tone is was trying to create - With all the lasers and the washed out, vibrant colours. The levels are creative as well, taking inspiration from 80's films mostly. Great film moments are even parodied in cutscenes - Such as Star Wars and the Rocky IV training montage. Hell, the ending is one of the best I've seen in any game! You ride a giant dragon and get to shoot lasers at everything, while things explode around you. You get to listen to the Rocky IV ending theme with this happening as well and it just fits so well with the explosions and the dramatic look upwards at the end.
It's not all positive about this game, though. Even though it does a great job at parodying all the over the top 80's action movies that we loved. The game is only 2-3 hours long; with such a short length it just makes you eager for more gameplay. The game can also be very repetitive in the side missions as you'll be doing mostly the same things. These could of done with more variety. Overall, it's a great testament to 80's action flicks and a game that you shouldn't mess out on!
Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
History in the making... Film Making!
It's very hard to judge what happens in this film because it is only 2 seconds long and that's like reviewing a rock. So I highly appreciate this film, not because it has an interesting plot or awesome action scenes but because it's history in the making. If some clever-clogs didn't invent the celluloid camera in 1888 films probably wouldn't have existed. It's weird how some things can change some much throughout the years and a 2-second film spawned a new genre of entertainment.
Hopefully we'll have flying cars and hover-boards sometime in my lifetime or at least a machine that makes healthy food taste like fattening foods.
Year One (2009)
More like year 100
Year one is something I don't know how to describe. It definitely wouldn't be the first year of the cave-men but maybe it stands for something else like an early incarnation of humans or 1st 100 years so I really don't know in what time period the film is supposed to be set-in but I do know that cave-men certainly don't know English. Maybe they speak jabba wookiee or something, anyway the film is about a pair of cave-men: one of which eats the forbidden fruit and get's banished from their tribe they then begin discovering various other lands in their quest to find out the meaning to life. At least that's what I got out of it and the film may not depict historical events accurately but hey, it's meant to be fictional.
What makes the film great is it's brilliant humour, how other tribes way of living compares to the tribes of the cave-men and it's consistency to question. The alternatives of history always prevails as the most entertaining and interesting. Sure, it's not the best movie I've ever seen but I cant see how other people hate it so much as it's really not that bad. What I love most is how much other people back-stab them they don't learn from their past experiences and fall right back into the trap. What they need is a flame-thrower and a copy of GTA.
The Terminator (1984)
It's great movie *ARGGHH!*
*No Spoilers Part:* The Terminator is about a futuristic machine from the year 2029 who has been reprogrammed and sent back in time to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor who is in a state of pregnancy so her unborn son John Connor cannot lead the resistance. Meanwhile, the Resistance leader John Connor has been sent back in time to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor. The Terminator is so invincible he can't be defeated by a normal human being and that is what makes the odds of surviving so impossible. The constant brawls and the scenes were Sarah Connor and John Connor are trying to escape is what makes the film so enjoyable to watch; Hope, Fear and all-around action not to mention Arnold's one-liners. I mean, a futuristic robot from the past, come on? What's not to like?.
*Spoilers Part* I'm trying to make sense of the scenes were time-travel is involved using my imagination. First off, they can narrow down a date but not the house number so this leads the Terminator and John Connor to using a phone-book to find the correct house. Although, both sides still have the time machine only one solid and con-jointed object is allowed to pass through otherwise the molecules will get scrambled together. The human resistance invented the time machine first but an evil scientist managed to create his prototype into a real time machine by stealing the plans for it. He then managed to capture a dead robot, update him and use him to go through the time machine. They can't send robots and resistance fighters through one-by-one because there is a malfunction in the time machine system were you can't send the robot or person back to the same year that the time machine has already been to.
Phew, that was a lot but see how much more fun it is when you use your imagination?.
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Me, myself and some chuckles
Ah, yes, Jim Carrey. The golden king of comedy next to Lee Evans of course. The movie is about a cop who is always nice to everybody. When everyone keeps disrespecting him he eventually loses it and gets his tasteful revenge. He is later revealed to be a schizophrenic who has a split-personality disorder so basically he thinks he's a bad-ass rebel with no rules every 6 hours and then he thinks his Charlie to the point where he alternates between them; he's in a state of confusion to who he really is. The movie isn't supposed to be taken seriously as it takes the mick out of itself and the sort of thing I like, something that cheers you up and you're viable to leave your brain at the door throughout this movie. While being funny it teaches us a few lessons and I'll see if you can spot those and no, it's not that Han Solo really shoot first.
Doctor Who (2005)
Where have my jelly babies gone?
The new series of Doctor Who still retains all of the thought-provoking original ideas that made the early series so great and flourishes it with a more gritty and realistic over-tone. So the flimsy Cybermen costumes which looked like something you could get it from a Halloween store, now looks like a heavily armed robot from the future which is a threatening menace to society. Christopher Eccleston plays the part of the 9th Doctor who tells the back-story of how his homeland had a war against the Daleks and he was the only remaining survivor. I don't want to spoil anything but let's just say Doctor Who has a lot of interesting tricks up it's sleeve for it's revival.
This series leaves room for some bigger and more bad-ass villains with great CGI cuts and a Doctor which has more weapons at his disposal and that kind of makes me sad that there is hardly any suspense as to what will happen next anymore with it's 45 minute sessions. The reason the series was revived is that you can literally think of anything to put in to Doctor Who and it will still be interesting. There's not a lot more to say than what I've exclaimed in my 1963-1989 review of Doctor Who so I'll leave saying this: When you see an alien, run like a crybaby until you realise it's just a guy in a suit.
Doctor Who (1963)
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Doctor Who is about a gallifreyan time-lord who goes by the name the 'Doctor' who steals a tardis from a museum in order to fight aliens which have come down to eradicate earth and other planets in the present time period. In gallifreyan laws he is not allowed to alter the events of the past but he does so anyway, the severity of his actions show through later on when he gets sent to exile, influences a team of alien crime fighters known as UNIT and later on Torchwood and clashes with his past-selfs. The ability to create any story, any monsters/bad guys in any past, present and future locations shines through with a lot of imagination and the cheesiness just adds to the charm that is Doctor Who.
Every time the Docotor regenerates he leaves his past personality behind and brings in a new one, these personalities reflect on how he handles his situations and I like that because instead of meddling with time he want's a real challenge and I think he enjoys kicking alien butt. Sure, they are sometimes plot holes but then again that leaves a lot of imagination to be explored by the viewer. I say definitely watch some of these as they have a lot of inventive ideas and who doesn't like pretending they are actually that man that saved the day with some jelly babies and a screw-driver?.