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More on Thor: Come ON, Roger
Roger Ebert is one of the few critics I play attention to. Â I don’t always agree with him, but he thinks really hard on even the silliest movie he has the misfortune to see. Â That is, most of the time. Â He didn’t review Thor officially, but mentioned in his ‘Journal’ today. Â I can understand him…
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Movie Review – Thor
I went and saw Thor at the IMAX 3D last night, solid, enjoyable movie. I was never a fanboy of the Thor comic, mostly only reading it when it came in the big bulk packs that I bought, but I’m glad I went to see this movie. This is normally where I’d explain who Thor…
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Vintage Gaming – Destiny of an Emperor
I’m showing my age again to some of you young bucks, but when I mention my favorite classic RPGs, this one probably elicits the most blank stares. Destiny of an Emperor was released by Capcom way back in 1990 for the NES, and was a fairly typical JRPG. There were a few key differences, and…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
I came to know Morrowind (I only figured out it was the third game in a series after the fact) through a friend. He had taken time out from Everquest to play a new single player RPG that I hadn’t heard of. I sat and watched for a while, and was intrigued. There were a…
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Classic Rock Will Never Die
…because we keep slipping the songs into our kids’ movies. Whether it’s Elvis records via Lilo & Stitch, to Crazy Train, Welcome to the Jungle and Bad to the Bone in Megamind, to every other movie ending with a dance party of some type thanks to Shrek, these songs are everywhere. That’s not even counting the comic book…
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Old Game Tuesday – Red Storm Rising
I mentioned previously that a good bit of my early gaming was wargames. This was due in large part to my dad being in the Navy and me growing up obsessed with the massive ships and salty dogs I saw with him. Red Storm Rising is one of my favorite games from that time in…
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Old Game Tuesday – Uncharted Waters
This might be surprising, considering how much I love most other Sid Meier games, but I never got around to the original Pirates! game. I was deep into war games and looking at it, it just didn’t interest me. Another thing I found to be cool were Samurai (and by extension, ancient Japan), which led…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Oregon Trail
I’ve spoken about educational games before, and this is one of the big ones, The Oregon Trail. Most people in my generation (or close to it) played this in school, on the Apple IIe or IIgs in my case, and it was one of the first ‘edutainment’ games I played that was actually fun. First,…
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Spring and Summer 2011 Movies
The meat of the 2011 movie season is coming up, including the Summer blockbusters, and I thought I’d run them down and see which ones I’m planning to check out. Note that as a Dad, the list leans towards animated movies as well as comic book movies and summer blockbusters. I don’t like horror and…
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Movies With Repeated Theater Viewings
The title says it all – I thought I’d start a discussion about what movies you just HAD to see more than once in the theaters. Where possible, I will be putting how many times I saw it and any other details I think of. Despicable Me – (2) – Once was at the drive-in…
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Wired: Best Sci-Fi Movie Effects
Wired has an article up about the Best Sci-Fi movie effects scenes of all time, which has some classics, from Godzilla to 2001: A Space Odyssey to Avatar. To be sure, though, they missed some of my favorites: Iron Man – specifically the scene when Tony puts the upgraded suit on for the first time and…
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Movie Review – TRON: Legacy
I caught a 3D showing of TRON: Legacy this weekend, and I love it. I might just be their ideal movie-goer. I did see the original TRON at some point, far enough back that I watched it on one of these bad boys. My Grandfather liked to buy wacky things at auctions, and came home with a…