Fellow Bloggers, do you ever worry that the Chinese comments that appear to be SPAM are actual comments? I always delete them, but what if some poor guy is actually commenting? I do not wish to be Anglo-centric, but really, if the blog is in English, and he/she can read it in English, then shouldn't they assume the comments would be understood in English?
Apparently, Amazon thinks I am a gay man...
Not that I am opposed to such things. Maybe we can all take this as a lesson that people are people, and a very straight man can love Liza Minnelli, so maybe he'll be into Adam Lambert as well?
I also made this. I thought it was funny, but it was not the hit on Tumblr I imagined.
I don't watch Jersey Shore, but I love these "Snookie Crashers" pictures. Basically, people take this awful picture of Snookie, and cut it into other pictures. This is by far my favorite:
It is so good because it is so subtle. In fact, the young lady I reblogged it from completely missed that it was a Snookie Crasher, saying, "LMAO! I didn't even notice snookie there I was reblogging for those abs hahaha!"
5. What I was looking for was the tiny pilot that came with the toy Colonial Vipers. They were about 2.5cm tall, IIRC.
6. Amy Jo Johnson as the Pink Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
7. Any pic of Dwight Yoakam from the film Bandidas. 8. The M-113 Creature from ST:TOS episode "The Man Trap" - view episode at Fancast. 9. The Abominable Doctor Phibes portrayed by Vincent Price.
10. Any picture of Hammer legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together. Here, clockwise from top left: Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and I believe John Carradine.
11. The videogame Scramble, which was almost exactly like Super Cobra.
12. Marvel characters Doctor Strange and his love Clea. 13. Ed Harris stared in the film Walker, about a soldier of fortune who took over Nicaragua. 14. Brigitte Nielsen as photographed by Helmut Newton.
15. Pam Grier was an extra in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and appears only briefly in the first party scene. This is very hard to find. I have seen stills, but even slo-mo-ing through I can't find her on my DVD.
16. Another Pam Grier reference. Pam Grier played Jackie Brown along side Robert Forster's Max Cherry. Robert Forster was in the Disney space horror The Black Hole. 17. Lara Croft from Tomb Raider shooting any old dinosaur. 18. Rowan Atkinson as Prince Edmund from Black Adder the First. 19. General Kala (Mariangela Melato) from Flash Gordon watches Flash as he approaches in War Rocket Ajax.
20. Any image of Skeletor's babe Evil-Lyn and He-Man's babe Teela.
21. Princess Leia and R2-D2. 22. This question was removed. 23. Image or video of The Baroness fighting either Lady Jaye or Scarlett from the G.I. Joe cartoon, comics, movie, whatever. 24. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from Late Night with Conan O'Brien went to a big homecoming concert for Bon Jovi, and it was hilarious. Jon impressed me with how well he took a joke, particularly when Triumph mentioned a vampire movie Jon was going to be in, and Triumph said, "Finally. A role that demands that you suck." 25. Short, red, barefoot Snaggletooth from the original series of action figures.
26. Mr. Gone from the comicbook/animated series The Maxx.
27. The Slitheen from the Doctor Who-niverse were big, green, baby-faced aliens. When disguised as humans they have to expel gas that sounds like farting. 28. Chun-Li from Street Fighter had lots of opportunities to beat up on some X-Men in Marvel vs. Capcom and other venues.
29. The Hoops from TSR's Gamma World provided one of sci-fi's great pictures.
30. An easy one. I posted a pic of me at Key West's Sloppy Joe's bar and grill here about a year ago. Announcing the winner soon...
"You tried to shoot me in the head, my gun got nicked, and I'm still in fucking Bruges!"
I had been dying to see this movie. A rollicking, slap-stick, action comedy, right? I mean, he's holding an ice cream cone, and a gun. Hilarity, do your worst!
Actually, In Bruges is a fairly serious film, with a lot of comedic elements. I don't want to give too much away, but the basic premise is that Ray (Collin Farrell), a rookie hit-man, killed the wrong person as collateral damage when doing an execution. His boss, Harry Walters (Ralph Fiennes), sends Ray and another hit-man Ken (Brendan Gleeson), to Brussels to hide out for a while. Ken loves the old town, and Ray, a Dubliner, hates it.
It is a serious film, with the various players coming to terms with what they do, and why they do it. The end has a nice ironic twist, and it is paced nicely. It is terribly funny at times, and Farrell gets all the great lines. His accent gets a bit muddled, but not too bad. The films is almost what you could call a hardboiled comedy. These are tough, dangerous men, but they are human still. There is not a lot of gunplay or fisticuffs, but the climax gets to be quite exciting.
I think they sold this movie in a terrible fashion; not that it would have done too much better if an accurate portrayal was made in advertising, but I would imagine that the comedic façade may have kept some serious film fans away. It gets my seal of approval despite not being what I expected.
Still being a bit of a Wii-ophite, I decided to give Activision's Marvel: Ultimate Alliance a shot.
What sold me? Doctor Strange.
I have been a Doctor Strange fan for a while now, and while he is among Marvel's oldest character, he is also their bastard son. Toward the end of his regular run, he had lost his powers and became a sort of advertisement for Marvel's other titles, a la "Welcome to The Doctor Strange Show. Tonight Thor is with us to tell us what is going on in Avengers #196."
The game also features one of my other favorites, Ms. Marvel.
So, the run down. Doctor Doom has assembled a disparate group of villains to fulfill some vile purpose. Nick Fury calls to "all meta-humans" for assistance, and gets Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, and Wolverine (why he got two Avengers, and not four is beyond me — of course, I guess every Marvel hero has been an Avenger at one time or another). These four battle their way through a few stages, then you get the opportunity to pick other heroes; The Fantastic Four, more Avengers, Moon Knight, some X-Men... I can't remember all of them. Apparently, Doctor Strange comes in later.
Gameplay. Remember when they came out with Gauntlet: Dark Legacy? Yeah. That's about it, except you get four players all the time. One at a time is controlled by the player, and the others are controlled by AI. Multiple players are allowed, so with four there is no AI. You can issue commands like "follow" to the AI players, and they seem to work pretty well.
On the Wii, most of your combat actions are done with remote gestures, so it is a bit odd. They could have just let you use the remote in controlpad mode, but you bought a Wii to wave your arms around, didn't you? The nunchuck controls movement and camera angle, which is a nice feature.
It appears that there will be a lot of stages, so beating the game in a day is not likely for the casual gamer, but it does get a bit dull. This does not seem to be a fault of the Wii, it is just a generic, run-around, beat stuff up video game. While I like it, to a point, the cast of characters does not offer much. It seems any one hero is just as good as any other hero. Elektra, a normal human if I am not mistaken, is just as good at taking out Doom Bots as Ms. Marvel, a super human on par with Wonder Woman. A fun part is that flying characters actually get to fly, but only so high, and they are easily picked off while in flight.
It is one thing to be a Bond Girl. It is another to be James Bond's opposite number. Barbara Bach is best known for her portrayal of "Major Anya 'Triple X' Amasova" of the KGB in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) opposite Roger Moore. Previously, aside from numerous Italian films, she was in Force 10 from Navarone along with Harrison Ford, and future Bond enemy, Richard Kiel ("Jaws"). Unfortunately, things went a bit downhill from there.
In 1980, she appeared in the Mad Magazine film Up the Academy. A teenage military school comedy, which I have seen, but do not remember. She met and eventually married Ringo Starr while filming Caveman (1981), a strange little comedy featuring Starr, Dennis Quaid, and Shelly Long. Atouk (Starr) led a group of outcast cavemen (Quaid, Long, and others) against the massive Tonda and his mate Lana (Bach). They inadvertantly make great strides for mankind, discovering fire, and the wheel. Because they are so successful, Atouk attracts Lana, but he decides to stay with his friend Tala (Long).
It is rare that being the nerd in an action/horror movie is a good thing. It is a good thing for "Columbus" (Jesse Eisenberg) in Zombieland (2009).
How do you survive in a world gone mad with the walking dead? You be smarter than them, and you stay prepared. Columbus, prior to the outbreak, was a bit of a loner, gamer... Well, he was pretty much all nerd. He has Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a Zip-Loc fetish, and a list of rules he always follows. He has a sort of OCD aspect that, while annoying to others, has kept him alive.
He is also a bit naive, but ultimately he is not the only one conned, he just doesn't put up a front about it. Frankly, he is the true survivor in the movie, and will continue to be after all the rest have become Monster Chow™.
I finally saw Zombieland last night, and it was a lot of fun. Best new-era zombie movie I have seen in a long time. Better than Shaun of the Dead? Not better. Different.
