Saturday, April 18, 2009
-Hey Yo! Graduation is almost upon me, only a few short weeks left. I have no regrets going half time and making a two-year degree take four years, and at the same time am still flustered at how fast it breezed by.
Another thing that breezed by was my birthday a couple weeks back, it essentially came and went. Had a good time having dinner with the family at Buffalo Wild Wings this year, and got Resident Evil 5 along with a gift card that I used to get the new GTA IV Lost and Damned DLC. Haven't made serious progress into RE5 yet, only played the first half hour last month when Matt brought it by for me to try out, and I surprisingly found myself liking it, so I'm finally looking forward to trying one of these games out instead of giving up on it within the first 10 minutes ala Code Veronica.
-My birthday coincided on one of my usual days off work on the weekend, and thinking of it was an awesome one-two punch for the weekend with my birthday landing on a Saturday, followed immediately by Wrestlemania 25 on Sunday. I think WM25 was the seventh straight Wrestlemania I've seen live on PPV, as I have been throwing Wrestlemania parties for each one since WM19 back in 2003. Seven people made it by for this year's - Paul, Dave, Chris, Joey, Rocket, Rich and Justin all crammed into my tiny-ass apartment. Still was a fun time all in all, we got in a lot of N64 No Mercy and 360 Smackdown vs RAW 2009 before and after the PPV, Joey got lucky in a lot of the No Mercy match-ups with his incredibly cheap use of Steve Austin's repeating striking attacks, but there was one match-up that saw me finish things off with three straight pins within a minute, and finishing Joe off by stealing his Stone Cold Stunner finisher, followed up with the Chris Jericho WCW-era, cocky pin cover. The room went ballistic for it as someone finally got revenge on Joey.
The reaction to that pinfall though was nothing compared to how electric my place got the Undertaker/Shawn Michaels bout. If you hate wrestling, and are one to usually generalize it as "pointless fake action with men in spandex rolling around all sweaty," then if you had to watch just one match, watch this 30 minutes of epic action between the Dead Man and HBK and maybe, just maybe you'll get why people like this stuff. Back to the match, I have never seen people so into a match before and hooting and a hollering for each near fall to the best of my recollection. The two tore the roof off, and the match alone was worth the ridiculous PPV price of WM25. The two definitely stole the show as the two main world title matches couldn't hold a candle to it, but at least the Money in the Bank match delivered as always, and the Extreme Rules clash between the Hardyz was pretty good too. I could ramble forever, but instead I'll direct you to the latest episode of the Cheap Pop where we thoroughly analyze WM25 and the 2009 draft.
-So I caught another boatload of movies since my last blog so here's some lightning quick mini-review....
12 rounds - Cena stepped up this one, his acting is a couple levels above the Marine, and so is the action which actually had a few really intense moments, especially the elevator scene. Sad to hear this tanked at theaters, only racking in about 11 million after three weeks, at least it did better than the Condemned. Easily recommended for action junkies. 8/10
Still Waiting - I was very skeptical about this since it was straight to DVD and I held the original in high regard, and that most of the top names from the original weren't returning, at least in a big role. But the original writer and director returned, and delivered yet again. Wouldn't say it's as good as the original, but I like the direction they went with it Shenanigans competing with the Hooters-esque wing shack next door, and there were plenty of the same cheap laughs returning. 8/10
American Splendor - This film was something, a biopic narrated by the real life star of the pic, if that makes any sense. 7.5/10
Observe and Report - I think directors may be relying a bit too much on Rogan's improv. I still eat up a lot of his stuff, but some of it is the most out there lines. Anywho, consider this what it was meant to be, an awesome adult-oriented version of Mall Cop, with some awesome shock laugh moments towards the end...just ignore some of the huge logic gaps in the flick towards the end. 8.5/10
Adventureland - This was a pleasant surprise. Looked like a typical slapstick comedy, but it wasn't quite the honky dory teen workplace comedy I thought it would be, had a little more serious vibe than I anticipated, and it worked for me. 9/10
Fast and Furious - Glad to finally see the original crew back together, loved the original. This wasn't as good as the 2001 version, the standard awesome chases and action, complemented by "original parts" helped erase 2Fast 2Furious from my mind (yeah, yeah, I liked Tokyo Drift).7.5/10
-After catching Fast and Furious it inspired me to go on a racing game kick. Ended up throwing in four racing games off my backlog including Burnout Revenge & Paradise, Test Drive Unlimited and Flatout Ultimate Carnage. Paradise's updates finally helped me to somewhat like that game, the other three all still kick ass. I'm surprised to still find a decent amount of people online in Test Drive and Fallout. I did a more expanded write-up of this racing game kick for Robot Panic, check it out yo.
-Easter went by well, got together at my sister's and the rest of the family for a fantastic dinner and some killer rounds of Apples to Apples. I swear that dinner did me in though and I had to go home shortly afterwards and take a much needed nap.
-So I hopped on one of those web 2.0 bandwagons a few days ago and finally got a twitter. I essentially just copy and post my one-liners from Facebook over there. Anyone else tweeting, or whatever the hell it is? My Twitter
-Allright.......another crazy long entry done! Later
Another thing that breezed by was my birthday a couple weeks back, it essentially came and went. Had a good time having dinner with the family at Buffalo Wild Wings this year, and got Resident Evil 5 along with a gift card that I used to get the new GTA IV Lost and Damned DLC. Haven't made serious progress into RE5 yet, only played the first half hour last month when Matt brought it by for me to try out, and I surprisingly found myself liking it, so I'm finally looking forward to trying one of these games out instead of giving up on it within the first 10 minutes ala Code Veronica.
-My birthday coincided on one of my usual days off work on the weekend, and thinking of it was an awesome one-two punch for the weekend with my birthday landing on a Saturday, followed immediately by Wrestlemania 25 on Sunday. I think WM25 was the seventh straight Wrestlemania I've seen live on PPV, as I have been throwing Wrestlemania parties for each one since WM19 back in 2003. Seven people made it by for this year's - Paul, Dave, Chris, Joey, Rocket, Rich and Justin all crammed into my tiny-ass apartment. Still was a fun time all in all, we got in a lot of N64 No Mercy and 360 Smackdown vs RAW 2009 before and after the PPV, Joey got lucky in a lot of the No Mercy match-ups with his incredibly cheap use of Steve Austin's repeating striking attacks, but there was one match-up that saw me finish things off with three straight pins within a minute, and finishing Joe off by stealing his Stone Cold Stunner finisher, followed up with the Chris Jericho WCW-era, cocky pin cover. The room went ballistic for it as someone finally got revenge on Joey.
The reaction to that pinfall though was nothing compared to how electric my place got the Undertaker/Shawn Michaels bout. If you hate wrestling, and are one to usually generalize it as "pointless fake action with men in spandex rolling around all sweaty," then if you had to watch just one match, watch this 30 minutes of epic action between the Dead Man and HBK and maybe, just maybe you'll get why people like this stuff. Back to the match, I have never seen people so into a match before and hooting and a hollering for each near fall to the best of my recollection. The two tore the roof off, and the match alone was worth the ridiculous PPV price of WM25. The two definitely stole the show as the two main world title matches couldn't hold a candle to it, but at least the Money in the Bank match delivered as always, and the Extreme Rules clash between the Hardyz was pretty good too. I could ramble forever, but instead I'll direct you to the latest episode of the Cheap Pop where we thoroughly analyze WM25 and the 2009 draft.
-So I caught another boatload of movies since my last blog so here's some lightning quick mini-review....
12 rounds - Cena stepped up this one, his acting is a couple levels above the Marine, and so is the action which actually had a few really intense moments, especially the elevator scene. Sad to hear this tanked at theaters, only racking in about 11 million after three weeks, at least it did better than the Condemned. Easily recommended for action junkies. 8/10
Still Waiting - I was very skeptical about this since it was straight to DVD and I held the original in high regard, and that most of the top names from the original weren't returning, at least in a big role. But the original writer and director returned, and delivered yet again. Wouldn't say it's as good as the original, but I like the direction they went with it Shenanigans competing with the Hooters-esque wing shack next door, and there were plenty of the same cheap laughs returning. 8/10
American Splendor - This film was something, a biopic narrated by the real life star of the pic, if that makes any sense. 7.5/10
Observe and Report - I think directors may be relying a bit too much on Rogan's improv. I still eat up a lot of his stuff, but some of it is the most out there lines. Anywho, consider this what it was meant to be, an awesome adult-oriented version of Mall Cop, with some awesome shock laugh moments towards the end...just ignore some of the huge logic gaps in the flick towards the end. 8.5/10
Adventureland - This was a pleasant surprise. Looked like a typical slapstick comedy, but it wasn't quite the honky dory teen workplace comedy I thought it would be, had a little more serious vibe than I anticipated, and it worked for me. 9/10
Fast and Furious - Glad to finally see the original crew back together, loved the original. This wasn't as good as the 2001 version, the standard awesome chases and action, complemented by "original parts" helped erase 2Fast 2Furious from my mind (yeah, yeah, I liked Tokyo Drift).7.5/10
-After catching Fast and Furious it inspired me to go on a racing game kick. Ended up throwing in four racing games off my backlog including Burnout Revenge & Paradise, Test Drive Unlimited and Flatout Ultimate Carnage. Paradise's updates finally helped me to somewhat like that game, the other three all still kick ass. I'm surprised to still find a decent amount of people online in Test Drive and Fallout. I did a more expanded write-up of this racing game kick for Robot Panic, check it out yo.
-Easter went by well, got together at my sister's and the rest of the family for a fantastic dinner and some killer rounds of Apples to Apples. I swear that dinner did me in though and I had to go home shortly afterwards and take a much needed nap.
-So I hopped on one of those web 2.0 bandwagons a few days ago and finally got a twitter. I essentially just copy and post my one-liners from Facebook over there. Anyone else tweeting, or whatever the hell it is? My Twitter
-Allright.......another crazy long entry done! Later
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