House: season one


My roomate went out and recently bought the 'house' first season on dvd. For the past of the show, i've seen like 1 and half episodes, a lot of my friends really liked it, but i never got into it too much. so he got it, and has been secretly watching the season on his laptop at nite, not sharing the welath.

anways, so he is gone for the weekend, i take this opportunity to steal the dvd's and watch them this weekend. wonderful.

so there's a doctor with a bum leg that walks with a cane, who is a freakn genius. i guess you could say the 'matlock' of the hospital world, but extremely more sarcastic and rude and does not care what you thiink at all.
Thats why i respect and like dr. house so much, he is bordering on insanity and he loves it, he doesn't care if he pisses you off, he comes with the hard facts and owns you.

he has three other doctors that are under him, a black doctor, an australian doctor , and a babe doctor. she's cute. that's why she's around, says house. The three of them react and converse super super well and create many fun situations and arguments. great team otherwise.

moving on, his boss lady is always playing house's game and they try to one up each other in their 'game', she eventually makes him do his clinic duty's that he put off for some many years, which is just walk in cases , he solves them in like 30 secs everytime, and they are always really funny.

The episodes are completely repetitive after awhile, and i love it, if it's not broke dont fix it.
each episode has a different abnormal case that seems impossible, but i read that some of the cases are pretty much true, just not that dramatic. still for tv magic it's convincing most of hte time. not a problem for the viewer.
The first season is great cause it also looks into the past of dr. house's leg, his divorce and bitterness and battle with the addictioin of the pain medicine for his leg. they don[t make cool tv shows like this that much with this kind of magic. poor pple turn to lost and all those gay shows, it's just sad.

do yourself a favor and rent this or buy it, it's worth it, or steal it from your roomate when's he's out for the weekend.


everybody lies

Batman Beyond:

I bought the first season of the batman beyond series a few months ago. I was in love with it when it came out when i was younger. its more futuristic, and really captures the levels of what high school would be if you were batman, i believe. plus the suit would be really fun too.

going back to the first season, the animation is decent, it appeared alot better back in the day. it's hard to go up against the original batman superman adventures when they came out, that animation is just cool for american. mabye the only problem wiht batman beyond would be it's awkwardness of bad guys, some fit well and others feel like they were running out of ideas or trying to hard. but it's fun watching them run all over a future gothem. The love affairs and friendships 'terry' (the new batman) makes is really good to develope. especially in the later season, things really pick up with his gf, and his other babe he likes from the cards group.

Plus being able to fly , to the new airshp bat thing, works out well in terms of manuerability. even though the original airship was jsut fine. i like the whole aspect with how wayne enterprises is trying to be taken over by the new boys rather then bruce wayne. his company is slowly being corrupted, and wayne is getting old and loosing power, but still has respect and dignity. that side of the season is good to see as well.

With the original batman coming to accept the fact he is getting too old is somewhat painful, because i was like man, i feel for ya dude. but sometimes you just gotta know your limit.
alot of times i get the seasons mixed up, but the first season is relitively short, like 13 eps, that's a small season. anways the second season is already out, and i totally forgot if therer was even a third season approaching, i'll have to check if there's a release date or not. i wouldnt suggest buying it unless your sold on this series, like me, if not, ask me to borrow it, i'm always happy to find a batman beyond fan.



oh yeah...batman owns superman any day, no competition, period.

DOT HACK GU

Welcome to the World.....

this game has a fun history with me. the sense and logic of the gameplay seems absurd. the whole concept is to imitate an actual mmorpg except its not actually online with other players to interact. honestly it sounds so stupid. especially since you can just go out and buy a real mmorpg...atleast that's what i thought.

There were four original games b4 GU that came out a while back. that's how it all started...

the addiction, dot hack slowly began to take over my life, i couldn't explain it. meeting pple in the game was exactely how it was online, just better. you get a desktop in the game, you have email, to chat with etc..., then you get desktop pics, music to go along with it, you can go on forums and read posts and internet sites. its like a whole diff. world. I was compltely sucked in.

the another aspect that gets me, (because i love cyberpunk stuff) is that the internet game is bugged and slowly, there are abnomilies taking place like hacking and cool stuff like that, which is unexplainable to the gamers playing the game. if this hack or virus gets you in a form of something, in real llife you are sucked into a coma which cannot be solved medical yet, so you are a vegeatable. that sparks my fancy. and i love it, playing the hero, and solving the hacks yo. guys love being the hero. anyway. i haven't even beaten the second game, because all the four first games should have been summed up in one game, but they spread it out, this was a super bad move. but i still pay and buy the games because of the cool storyline and gameplay.

but now onto GU , the new game. the grapics are now updated to a more slicker looking cel shaded graphics. it took a while to get used too, but it's decent, and doesn't distract the game play with the new shift in style, i really like cell shaded anyway.

in this game you can actually visit the forums, and go online to watch news movies which is really fun for interaction. then the new features allow you to join a guild and become an owner and leader of one. you get the ablility to to a job adaption to for your online character to make him upgrade armor and weapons , which is cool. There's also a battle arena town to where you challenge other groups to duke it out. it's great. and addictive. the main character in this game isn't as cool as 'kite' in the other games, but he works. the other characters i found to be annoying and i didn't care for them, but you can find a few to hang out with, it's not that bad. the only problem is there's a guild member that is so annoying and always being a crybaby and won't grow up, i wish i could shoot him in the face. other than that nobody is really that unstandable. the voice overs are very good too., top notch, you get to hear vash's voice again too.

the music is a little better then decent. not as good as the first game, but fine.



i highly reccomend this game if you're a loser and dont care plus i'm a huge fan of the dude who drew the first char.s for the game, the man who did the evangelion manga. he's great. , i didn't stop playing for two days straight, but the downside is it's shortness, i beat it in about 19 hours, but if you wanna do all the quests and missions and new stuff, i've talked to pple that play for about 60 hours or so, it's fun. don't miss it. i wanna find out more about shino anyway. look out for the next two games coming out later prob. next year for the rest of the series.

Love Actually:

I didn't like this movie at first, but then it slowly grew on me. It follows a few love relationships around the christmas cheer time. It has keira knightly, but shes plays a small role. the movie kinda makes you wish you could see more of the characters you want too, and then flips you upside to follow someone else you don't wanna see (run on sent.) then makes you feel for the current episode then rips you away again. i hated it, but it works, and when you get into the groove it makes it really fun to bounce around.

I'm not gonna name all the characters and situations , but i'll try what i remember off the top of my head: there's a boss dude that has a secretary who really wants him bad, and the problem is the boss is married and contimplating the affair and such like.

The next episode is about a chick and a black dude getting married, the black dude's best friend is secretly in love with the babe. talk about fun. He films the wedding for the video but only tapes her. She catches the film and is awstruck. mabyes theres still a little interest too. he goes down still in love with her. it's realy cool, even though he knows she can't love him back.

The next episode is about a little boy and his father, they recently just lost their mom, and the little boy is in love with a little girl, who doesn't even know he exists. he wants to win her love and such. the father realizes this and does all he can to help the son find true love. their realtionship is nice, they both work together, and the kid is like a little adult, if i was a little girl, i'd tap that.

the next episode is about a author dude writing a story in england or so. his maid is caught having an affair, so he gets a new one, who cant' speak english. they really like each other, and say it, but both have no clue what the other is saying, but are actually saying the exact same thing. she leaves back home, but he goes after her and they marry later on.

the last relationship is between a secretary chick house thing. with the prime minister of england. who is very good looking. blue eyes. all fun. anyway he's having trouble being mr. cool with her and stuff like that. i just remembered theres this old rock star guy re writing one of his old classic hits for a christmas jingle. he hates it, he is fed up with the being correct and not honest about the music. he starts telling it how it is. it's hilarious, this man, would be easy to marry. his manager is fat. they hug at the end for a christmas joy occation. it's really good. he plays a show naked. good body for an old man.

all in all, definately worth the rental, more slightly sided to a chick flick, but it's pretty good. especially since it's so close to christmas.


look it's ms. knightley

Video game system preference opinion:
(this has no order or purpose, just rants)
In class we reviewed the 3 next gen consoles. xbox 360, nintendo's wii, and ps3. my opinion, it pretty much just depends on what gamer you are and what you think is cool. if you like hot graphics, go with the 360 or ps3, dont look to the wii. People are saying the wii is brining a different viewpoint and angle to games, mabye so. it all depends on how they use it, but then also what kind of gamer you are. Personally, if the wii is shooting for more family orientated games, fine, but you won't catch me with that playing with my mom. sounds embarassing. mabye with michael jackson though. I've seen the new zelda being played by my friends, and the way they incoporate the controller seems tedious and annoying. it has sound effx imit from the controller. which is crappy sound quality at that. but if your looking for fun and a party possible, this might be the best bet. after failing horribly from the last system, it seemed like they only had the nintendo fanboys supporting. my opinion of good games that his from the gamecube was, resident evil 4 and metroid prime, and lagging in the back the super smash bros.

next you move to the 360 and the ps3, the big dogs duking it out again. also, going back to what kind of gamer you are is impertenant. whatever that means. i'm a big rpg fan, therefore i've been loyal to the playstation and the gameboy system for their emphasis on rpg's and being a good mainstream for imports from japan, etc.. There has been talk of possible final fantasy on the 360, so who knows, but with how 12 turned out, i woudln't really care. 13 looks a ton better though. but if it stays true to their system i would slide toward the ps3 still. the ps2 isn't even close to being dead yet, their still pumping out good games when the next gen competition is taking place. that's how good it is still. also, graphics is not a big deal to me at all. i'd honestly rather play a 2d game rather a 3d. unless is has pyschadelic lights that can give you epilepsy. i wouldn't mind. the wii seems less mature in terms of adult games. i'm not for the blood factor, but i am for the mature storyline with its additions, language, drinking, suggestive themes, etc.. I don't wanna have a kiddy storyline that are afraid to show some death or changing the translation so it won't offend.

the 360 is going to attempt to hit the japanese market better, therefore supporting better rpg's in the future. hopefully this will be promising. but it still looks like the ps3 will host the more rpg orientated, but who knows, especially with how the rpg factor core units are going downhill besides graphical quality, which is not my concern. shake that, seriously working designs is out of business, is there hope? beats me.

Paradiso: friday nite movie

The setting was a small town in italy with a town square showcasing a small theatre. This theatre proved to be the life of the town and the only thing that brought happiness. There was a little boy, which went by the name Toto, which the storyline revolves around. His family is himself, his mother, and his younger sister. His father went off to war. The boy always asks when his father will return. It is apparent that the father did not make it thru the war, but the mother will not come to this conclusion and shuns it from her mind completely. Toto has a fascination with the theatre and movies. He hides in the theatre to attempt to steal little editted film reel pieces. He collects these and has a bucket at home; each nite he returns from the theatre and pulls out his bucket. He then holds them to candle light to read them and quote each line of that scene. There is a man that runs the film reel machine which toto is infactuated with, who he wants to befriend and believe in. He serves as a father figure later on when he takes him under his wing. He begins to learn the trade of the film reel works. He begins to grow and find love, live life, move on, become a director and writer of films itself, etc....

What i found to be a wonder of the movie, its magic encompasses the effect of watching people watch a movie. It showcases their reactions, emotions, and the magic. It actually does well, because the idea of it sounds kinda dumb at first, but suprisingly pulls it off. This isn't my type of movie, but the magic was definately there. Another aspect i enjoyed was the randomness. people would just appear out of no where and shout out weird stuff. It kept you awake, when you thought it was just about to get dull. Next thing you know itd be casual, then a sex scene. It's a foreign film, but there was some real hilarious scenes of sexuality. little boys reactions to a naked babe on the screen was classic.

The flm actually starts from the point in totos life where he is well off and old.
This techinique works out fine, because at the end it picks up where it left off. Two lovers finding a nite of love and passion which they never had. truth and promises come out. etc...
it was an odd ending, somewhat long movie. not too bad. it was me and zane in a dark room for three hours. we laughed alot.

STRANGER THAN FICTION:

I went and saw this film with a good friend on thanksgiving break, and was pleasantly surprised; because i was expecting little depth, and somewhat of a comedy considering it was will ferrel somewhat 'serious' role for once. When it was over i walked out satisfied but with a wierd taste in my mouth in all. Another reason why i liked it so much was Maggie Gyllenhaal, the lovely actress from donnie darko, donnie's older sister. what a babe , right?

The main character that Will plays is named "harold crick". Harold Crick is the main character of a novel that is being written at the exact same time. The author is currently having writer's block on how to kill Harold. The Narrarators voice can be heard in the real harold's head during the day. When he realizes he is going to die and what is happening he begins to search madly to find the 'narrarator'. It's a fun adventure, but somehow seems to stall in the middle end. i believe.

Though thrown in as a comedy drama fiction, the comedy side borrows heavily with will's previously acting from anchorman to taledaga. His crooked teeth are still there too. don't worry.

Character wise, it's really good. someone i found odd to be in the film was queen latifah, or however you spell her name, was in this film. a very small role of the secretary for the narrarator. she felt like she stuck out like a sore thumb. Will was good. and all the other cast of smaller known mainstream fame worked amazingly well together.

The music of the film was just average, notihng memorable. so don't waste your money on the soundtrack at all.
One aspect that was really super cool of the film that ran like a thread was the fact that harold was an accountant. With this known fact, little numbers and weird animations would take place counting everything seen by the eye. They would be organized like an accountants mind would be done so. It was very clever.

Another character that was cool was harold's watch. It had a mind of its own and would act up. by the end of the film, the watch is what saves his life.

The romance is decent, but has a nice personality. both actors work well off each other, and i got a big kirsten dunce vibe off of maggie's character. after taking a while to add up, it hits right off with little inbetween. he plays a song on the guitar, they make out and shake it. cute.

Overall, its a good movie, way better then i had my expectation. thats always a good thing. but the ending end for the novel that was said to be so perfect, diddn't seem perfect at all to me, so i don't thnk i will buy the dvd when it comes out, but the despite the flaws its worth a rent definately. now talk some more accountant tax stuff , its a turn on.