Category: Media
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Continuing Game Review: Dragon Age 2
Note: Continuing means I will revisit this as I get farther in. Of course I couldn’t avoid Dragon Age 2 for very long, considering how much I loved Dragon Age: Originsand all the related DLC/expansion content. So here I am, almost through with Kirkwall (pre-Deep Roads expedition), and enjoying it quite a bit. I’ll put the…
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Kid Movie Reviews – Hugo
I KNEW this would happen. I bought a copy of Hugo the other day, and we watched it. My son (the stick-in-the-mud who wouldn’t go see it with me in the theater) loved it. I love it. The visuals are amazing, the story wonderful, and the casting perfect. I can’t wait to see Asa Butterfield…
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Star Wars Movie Viewing Order – UPDATE
I ran this poll a long time ago, but I read an article the other day about viewing the Star Wars movies in a completely different order that has completely changed my thoughts on how to watch Star Wars. It’s called the Machete order.  You start with A New Hope, then Empire with it’s gnarly cliffhanger/reveal…and then…
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Lightning Game Review – Realm of the Mad God
I was glancing through the Steam ‘Free to Play’ section, lamenting how bad Star Trek Online was when I tried it, when I spotted Realm of the Mad God. The vintage 8-bit style caught my eye, and it promised fast-paced cooperative action which would be a refreshing change from the heavy fantasy RPGs I’ve played…
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Oscars Thoughts
A random collection of thoughts as I watched much of the Oscars broadcast last night. In no particular order: Unless you are a professional comedian, don’t ‘open with a joke’ when giving your acceptance speech. Chances are you will either botch it, or it won’t be as funny as you thought. Just stop. Actually, there…
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Lightning Movie Review – Beauty and the Beast in 3D
We all know the movie, especially if you have daughters (or were a kid when it first came out, admit it boys). So I won’t bore you with a description of it, but I’m going to talk about the 3D conversion. Honestly, it’s pretty useless, to me. There were a few scenes where it looked…
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Movie Review – The Adventures of Tintin
I FINALLY got back to the theater yesterday, as we took the kids to see The Adventures of Tintin. It’s a wonderful 3D animated adventure movie based on the comics by Belgian artist Hergé. It uses the ever more prevalent performance capture, and since it has Peter Jackson co-producing along with Steven Spielberg and Kathleen…
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The Three Christmas Movies
So how many Christmas movie plots are there really? Â As my wife watches all the Hallmark/ABC Family/etc. I realize there may only be three (this doesn’t include animated specials). Â Let’s see: 1. Â A Christmas Carol – Remade dozens of times, starring Captain Picard, starring Alistair Sim, starring Muppets, starring Mickey, starring Bill Murray, sort of…
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Friday Finds – LOTR and Star Wars
Hey, it’s been a while.  Vacations, children, car shopping, attending Sabres games in the press box, all take a toll on my time.  Onto the posts! The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim First Impressions – Oh yeah, this has a lot to do with the lack of regular content too. Skyrim Stories – The Shakiest Swordarm…
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Ender’s Game News – Ben Kingsley and Hollywood Whitewashing
Some notes:Â This post has some plot details of Ender’s Game: The Book, so if you haven’t read it (and WHY NOT) read the rest of this at your own risk. I hesitate to even write this, as Orson Scott Card’s books were a pretty fundamental part of my childhood, after I read my brother’s…
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Best Animated Film 2011 – Which Should Be Nominated?
As seen at Slashfilm, there will be at least 18 eligible animated movies to get Oscar nominations this year, which means there could be 5 nominees in the category. I’ve actually seen most of them, aside from the four foreign ones and the ones releasing in the next few weeks. With Pixar’s only entry the…
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Friday Finds – Kung Fu and Carmen Sandiego
Well, it was a busy week for me, though most of the creative juices were used at the Sabres site I run. They had a rough week, what can I say? Still, I got OGT out, and it’s one of my all time favorites, River City Ransom. Check it out if you haven’t yet. On…