AndrewTS

I somewhat agree but don't totally agree with this. Anya and I both can appreciate a good bad movie, so even if your acting and writing blows, if you do something crazy, unique, or over-the-top funny we can find redeeming value in it. However, Deathstrike/Wolvie was a damn fun fight that beat any single fight in X3. The final showdown in X3 was too much of a jumbled mess to really enjoy to the same degree. However, X2 totally deviated from the comics as well. Face it, Singer was going to make Phoenix an alternate personality too. It's right there. Wolvie never met Deathstrike prior to X2--so she's a brainwashed science project of Stryker's, not a former flame who became a cyborg. That's okay with me, really, since it wasn't going to fit in with the triangle they were going for in X2, nor did it fit the movie's tone.

Found about this site in a Nintendo Power issue--metal versions of Metroid songs: http://www.metroidmetal.com/songs.htm

I suspect it is the same game other than the controls. The GC version is just nintendo fulfilling their promise to deliver a GC version.

Damaramu fears change. Damn straight. So will the GC version of Twilight Princess suck or be basically the same? It won't be as pretty or support the wiimote. That much is known. It's unknown if there will be any added dungeons or other bonuses added to the wii version, or whether it supports the GC controller. It should be in the new EGM, but I haven't seen it out yet.

Correction: yeah, my HV is clearing out their VHS tapes, but there's a good number of them that will be kept, and have "rental only" stickers. This includes most of the classics section and a handful of others. Don't ask me why I can't buy "Honey" but other, better, more popular movies I can. Anyway, here's my haul for today. Westerns for my dad: Hondo High Noon The Missouri Breaks Stuff I got: Reanimator Ringu 2 Taste the Blood of Dracula (there's other Hammer tapes I'm going to snatch up tomorrow, but they didn't have the original. I'm going to make a list up using imdb and see if they have them). At another store I got Vertigo and Dial M for Murder. I hoped to add North by Northwest, but HV has it as a rental only. I could get The 39 Steps, but its nearly impossible to get early Hitch stuff that doesn't look horrible.

I know Smash Bros Brawl will have traditional gameplay, supporting the GC controller and the classic-style controller. I'll admit that I'm curious whether other games will do that as well. For example, it would be extremely easy to do so with Twiilight Princess because they already have that scheme setup for the GC version.

X2 was on today (yeah, it's been on TV a million times...but...). Anyone catch Ian's little hype clips on some of the new characters? The one on Angel is hilarious. He makes him sound like he's going to be some sort of badass in it.

ok, fine.

I expected you would have a Smash Bros. series. Mr. Green has some good attacks there. I was glad to see Luigi become a main character in Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, but he gets no respect there either. Partners in Time makes it clear that Mario seemed to be the one that was the born hero, while Luigi was a bit more of a coward. Defeated by 2-2 BIRDO, though? Tell your friend he totally sucks.

Orlando, the pedophile. Part of Rocky Johnson's training criteria?

My HV still has tons of tapes on their shelves, and don't appear to be pulling much VHS stuff. Most of the stuff that is going is crap that is easily available on DVD. They have an excellent horror and foreign section, and my Dad likes renting westerns a lot. So far they're not going anywhere.

Saw this on the RottenTomatoes Forums http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=485623 It seems Americans got the prof x ending, at least one poster claims to have gotten the Cyke ending, but any posters here able to confirm if they got something other than prof x? Well, Burton wasn't really a Batman fan. I doubt Joker will be killed in the next Batman movie, likely just jailed. Although the more people Joker kills, the more Batman thinks that he should finish him off the next time he has the chance.

That's pretty much a strawman you're setting up there In the 60's, everything was RADIOACTIVE, and RADIOACTIVITY/ATOMIC ENERGY could do anything. Literally everything from superpowers to raising the dead could be done with it. Nowadays, genetics are the big sci-fi topic (often along with big sci-fi mainstay cloning). People were cool with the more subdued costumes in the earlier xmen movies. Yeah, a big gold and blue outfit--maybe it should have a target on it too. The biggest gripes I've heard about the Spidey movies were that they completely exorcised Gwen Stacy from continuity, and that the series overall has less dramatic weight to it than the cgi characters jumping around the city. People find the changes here less annoying than the fact that they changed them just to rush 3+ plots and cram them into one.

Maybe he didn't want to have that angle where we'd be seeing some hot black-on-black crime.

Well, actually, I don't want to make a shounen-ai thingy (tell me, how does your friend know these terms? Hmm, something suspicious there...) just a vid of two guys who are impulsive, and hot (as in, lots of fire). Naw, just a big anime fan, much bigger than myself (I'm casual at most on that).

I didn't really mention the former because of my obvious bias... However, he was pretty much just a generic evil pig demon until OOT. He's pretty cool there, appearance-wise, but still not much of a talker. He's awesome in Wind Waker--too bad he goes down like such a chump there. Bowser's really entertaining in the Paper Mario games for sure. Although my favorite moment is the "Super King Bowser" minigame. It's going to be really fun using him again in Super Paper Mario.

Wasn't there supposed to be a pretty darn good PS2 version of Fire Pro? I haven't heard much on that.

It wasn't makeup, though. It was some computer de-ageing thingy. Like, they used photographs of both Stewart and McKellen from 20 years ago and did that...somehow. I read an interview w/McKellen about it. Darn...that's rather disappointing, but ah well--Beast still turned out great. Showed a friend your review... I think that means he liked it, but didn't want to admit it.

Tool... Price is one hundred twenty-nine dollars, ninety-nine cents (+ all applicable state sales taxes).

With Ratner directing and *three* screenwriters, I pretty much expected it to be a brainless actionfest. The most entertaining segment (intentional or unintentional), was the danger room scene where Wolvie was looking all "X-Team", chomping on a cigar, watching a plan come together. *Fastball special* Hey, look, a sentinel head! Although I'm pretty much agreeing 100% with the review. Pyro/Iceman being teased all this time, and that's what it leads to? Pathetic. Also about Mystique/Magneto...not only does he suddenly not care in the least about her, but she also has apparently become a "traitor" to beliefs she's held nearly all her life? The fact that they used all that beginning screentime for exposition about Jean...what the hell? It seemed set up just to reuse the Grey home for the scene "20 years later." Although Rick Baker's makeup effects on the younger X and Magneto were excellent (that guy's been around *forever*, I swear.) Jean mostly stands around for the entire film. Then looks *super-intense* for her "action" scenes. What the hell was the tossing around of "class 3!", "class 5, OMG!"? It was like Pokemutes. Yet while bringing it up it seemed like Magneto took along a bunch of useless mutants for the hell of it, too. "Porcupine boy, I choose you! We'll use for a shocking scene later where you skewer a human." I probably shouldn't ask, but what's that acronym mean? Anyway, it was worth the money I paid for it....that is, I used a free movie pass. I hereby rate it "entertaining crap." Oh, thoughts on the trailers: Where the ****ing hell were my mother****ing snakes on a plane?!??! My Super Ex-Girlfriend--looks terrible. I think Lobo would be even a bit offended at how sexist it appears. PotC2 : looks okay, never saw the original film. Where's the value in seeing a guy who looks like Cthutlu (lovecraft--feel free to correct my spelling there) for an entire damn film? Anyway, probably big, loud, and stupid movie. Ghost Rider : Interesting...but it's a long way from release. Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift : ....

Yeah--Super Smash Bros Brawl. Twiilight Princess will likely be the version I go with, since I'm getting a Wii anyway, and I expect to have no difficulties playing with the Wiimote.

My impressions, although I didn't have the patience to stick with it for more than 3 eps at a time.

Yes. Define "lose". They're the only ones who will make $ on hardware, and its an attractive purchase *if* there's going to be more on it except for Nintendo games. The whole Wii60 thing is based on expectations that it's going to have weak 3P support. Save for Assassin's Creed, not a single tentative PS3/360 title means a damn to me anyway, though. PS2? God of War 2 and Okami have me interested, and the DS has a killer lineup coming. Sony has a pitiful lineup right now considering what they should be able to scrape up, and 360 is going to have OMG 3Ds/ FPS w/ SW@3+3GUYS WIT BIGGUNS KILLING $#!+, which isn't going to sate my desire for overblown/weird Japanese style games. That the Wii will give me in spades, and Sony is going to get around to that eventually, but I'll wait at least a year and $200 less, thanks. Oh, and can't forget that Zelda game. The GC version is just graveware anyway. I'll keep my goofy purple cube at least long enough to practice up on Smash Bros and replace it with a shiny new Ninwii.

Funny thing--I was going to give it to a friend for 50 anyway if I go through with it. Hell, that way you can have someone else to play wifi with. No problem. There's absolutely no doubt of its awesomeness, so it's a no-brainer if you don't already have one. I didn't realize how many improvements there were until I saw the vids. Only thing I don't like is the way GBA gamepaks stick out, but I dealt with GB carts sticking out of my SP, so it's no big.

Super Milk-Chan and Excel Saga.