3 Rings?

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Just to add to the already fantastic news of losing my drive and the computer dying, I've just done the update for xbox live and it seems to have bricked my Xbox 360. I am now the proud owner of a bright white box with the three rings of death.

I guess I'll have to RMA that along with the memory for the new computer, and the old computers motherboard.

Random Good News: I rented Day Watch.

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X-Men: Last Stand - Midnight Showing?

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Apparently DJ bought tickets to the midnight showing of the X-Men movie. So we will be seeing it that midnight.

Why do I suddenly feel like a Star Wars geek?

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Movie Day: April 28th

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The movie day DJ and I had scheduled for this friday (April 28th) had us set to watch United 93. It wasn't because I'm particularly interested in it, as I'm not, but for no other reason than there wasn't anything else worth really looking into that comes out that week.

Well, there wasn't. It seems a $60,000 opening weekend on two screens was enough to push Hard Candy into national release. Looks like I'll be seeing it after all! I'm looking forward to this if nothing else simply for the amazing performance I'm told Ellen Page gave.

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Silent Hill

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Silent Hill
Silent Hill is less a video game gone movie done wrong, then a video game gone movie that was done just a little too right.

There are really two different kinds of "what the hell just happened?" feelings you can get after watching a film. The first of which is the kind you get after you watch the ending of Primal Fear or Identity, and then there is the kind that you get at the end of this movie.

The movie is very impressive visually, and obvious care has been taken to stick to the source material, which is exactly where the movie finds its fault. Silent Hill starts off promising, a chilling premise, a good cast, a director who obviously cares about the story. From there, however, it starts to go wrong. Because of the fact that, like most video game adaptations, it's targeting not only the rabid fans but those who have never experienced it, it spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the plot halfway into the film. Which may be why the film is so... damn... long. 127 minutes is too long by far for a horror/game flick. I understand there was a lot to go through but by the end of the movie I was feeling sympathy with the heroine of the film simply because I started to believe we were both stuck in a hell we couldn't escape.

The plot is instantly understandable and very familiar to those who have played the first Silent Hill game. The hero is now a heroine, Deliah is a little less important, and Red Pyramid has jumped back a game to appear (somewhat badassedly) as a powerful protagonist. However it may leave some who haven't played the series a little baffled. Not to say I wouldn't recommend the movie, all in all it played out a lot better than most horror flicks I've seen... then again I'm not really a fan of the genre.

Much like the games the ending is somewhat confusing, and leaves you with a lot of questions. It was when a friend suggested to others in the group that I went with to check the Silent Hill plot guide on GameFAQs for insight that I decided that the movie was a little too close to the source for it's own good. While the game inspired you to ask questions and discuss the experience, the ending on the movie seemed a little too forced. A bit too much like Sixth Sense to be practical for the series.

All in all a decent movie, but a bit too long. Fans of the Series who aren't too anal about the plot should love it, and if you've never played the games at all you might want to check it out as well. Next to fellow horror genre films such as Hostel this one is a delectable treat indeed.

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DJ still not master of the obvious

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The previews before Lucky Number Slevin contained a number of good films that I hope to go and see at some point, including Silent Hill and The Sentinel. Mashed in between these was a quicky advert involving a film festival somewhere. My friend DJ is a film nut, and as such the idea of a film festival has always appealed to him, but he has yet to have the chance to go to one. He informed me of this and then asked me if I had ever been to one before.

The question seems innocent enough I suppose, however DJ had spent the entire day with me and had even made a comment about the giant STAFF letters stenciled across the back of my T-Shirt. My T-Shirt for the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival...which I looked down at, then at him, then at the shirt, then at him, before he caught on and said "Oh Yeah".

In other news why the hell is Hard Candy not going to play anywhere near me? I really, really want to see this movie. Am I going to have to pirate it?

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Lucky Number Slevin

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Friday was movie day, and though I had meant to do a short write up on the movie then work got in the way, so here we go today.

I had been wanting to watch Lucky Number Slevin since I saw the trailer for it. Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis, and Ben Kingsley very rarely disappoint. Lucy Liu is a reason for me to see anything, and for once the movie seemed to be something I actually thought Josh Hartnett would fit well in. He seems ideally suited to play a smartass reluctant hero.

Even if you don't like the movie it's doubtful you're going to be able to outguess it. It has a goodly number of twists and turns, some predictable, some not.

I mostly posted this however to spam up another site I've managed to join involving movies... Flixster. :D

I've been on it for a while but I really like the concept so I've decided everyone should join. Especially you.

You can compare your movie tastes to mine here (though the matching system leaves a bit to be desired)

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Spider Man 2

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I finally got around to watching Spider Man 2 on dvd this morning and all in all I found it to be a very good movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I had no clue how glorious my spidey experience was going to be until I looked on IMDB to find out who the skinny girl who played the landlords daughter was and found this thread.

Absolutely priceless. I even read the whole thing.

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Shaun of the Dead

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Well I finally put some time aside to watch Shaun of the Dead and I'll have to say I wasn't disappointed. A clever movie with influences from Romero's work of similar titles, it puts a spin on the genre that makes it all its own. I'm not going to get into a review of this movie, because honestly everyone in the universe saw it before me.

Regardless I enjoyed it quite a bit, and it's one more thing slapped off my 43 things list.

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FFVII - Advent Children Site Online

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Seems the site for FFVII - Advent Children is up finally. None of the links are working but you can get on to check out the trailer.

I have to admit to looking forward to this movie coming out.

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Sin City

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On Saturday I did something I rarely do anymore... I left my house. I had meant to blog about it earlier but to be honest until this morning I was still in a state of shock. Did you know there are carriages that move WITHOUT HORSES now?!

Seriously though, it was an entertaining night. My friends Bobby and Acie went out to catch dinnah and a movie. Since I haven't had a date in a while I figured why not let these two strappling bucks (I'm giggling really hard right now) take me out? So we went to Godfathers Pizza in Baton Rouge (decent place I might add) and then went to check out Sin City.

Sin City... Was great. Bruce was decent, though really pretty typical Bruce stuff here. All the cast did fairly well (Oh Jessica, do that little dance fo me), hell even Hartnett's emotionless 'I, robot' voice worked. Seeing Elijah Wood looking like a really dementedly happy Harry Potter and eating hookers was worth the price of admission by itself. The real surprise for me was who came away with pwning the show though, Mickey Rourke just was insane. The part played out like it was written for him. After the last few movies he was in I'm really glad to see this one do so well.

Oh, and I want Devon Aoki to cut the cake at my next birthday party.

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