I review more things...

Seeing as reviews are nice and easy 'n all, here are some more...

Superbad

Wasn't all keen on it from the first time i saw the trailer; seemed to me just like another lame teen movie, but over time i saw good reviews and more good reviews, and i wound up watching it witha group of friends on saturday. By jove, it surpassed my expectations over and over; seriously, and particularly if you're a teenager, DO NOT MISS THIS movie. The jokes keep are consistently hilarious, with nice cult references, (my favorite - 'I'm sorry your porn isn't directed by the Coen Brothers!'). The characters are brilliant, everything is brilliant, the plot is highly amusing (mainly following the story of 3 geeks trying to get their hands on some alcohol for a party and get laid), and is the McLovin joke doesn't make you laugh then you ARE dead inside. Man, writing about this i really wanna just watch it again... or go to a party... either will do.

10 / 10

Noein

Yea so i was guna not bother with doing animu reviews anymore cause my plan of them getting me traffic seems to have failed, and the people how read this evidently aren't huge fans. But after the last couple of episodes i simply couldn't NOT blog this. Supurb series so far, with paralell dimensions and the like; the last episode was largey set in a distopian post-apocalyptic world, which looked just amazing. The quality of the animation is incredible (though how many times are they guna show off their frickin 3d house model; it doesn't look that great alright!?) though things are slightly marred by the somewhat lame character designs, which sorta remind me of Yugio (This is a very, very bad thing). Luckily the main 2 kids look alright. Anyway i'll be keen to see if the quality remains this high throughout the rest of the series (and if i can keep track of what the hell's going on)

9.5 / 10

Devil May Cry 4 - Demo

Didn't really know what to expect, having never played a DMC game before, but i figured id give it a go. I'm glad i did aswell, as this game is, to put it simply, badass. Simple hack and slash stuff, but it's certainly enjoyable, and well worth the 0.7gb of my 20gb monthly allowance. The 360 continues to impress, as the demo system works great. Makes me lose faith in Nintendo even more, really.

8 / 10 as of the demo

Bioshock

Nearly forgot i bought this. Only an hour in so far so it's hard to say if the stunning set pieces (is that the term?) continue. I'll be amazed if they do, as everything so far has been phenomial. I have seen a man get thrown against a wall, and his stomache exploding in gore as a huge drill is pressed into him. I have seen lights flicker out of life and leave me to fend for myself in the dark. I have seen a mad surgeon hang bodies up on teh wall and scream at them. That's all within the first couple of hours. Stunning atmosphere.

9.5 / 10 if it carries on like this

(note to self: do a review of summat crap soon, theres too many 9's being handed out here)
And in other news, my 360 nearly broke today. Well it didn't but i got the red light, which made me panic alot, before i realized that it was 4 red lights not 3, and i just needed to clean the cable.
Speaking of panic, P!ATD have lost their excallmation mark!! Why?? Fools. Now it's just Panic at the Disco

Futurama DVD Review - Bender's Big Score

It's finally here (well, it was a couple months back), years after the Fox (Box) network cancelled it, futurama is back in the form of the first of four feature length DVDs, Bender's big score.

It is around about the length of 4 episodes at 80 minutes, and the main plot follows planet express getting 'scammed' by a bunch of scamming ultra nerd aliens, with side amusements such as Hermes temporarily being confined to being a head in a jar. Really up until the end, it just seems like a great big episode of the Futurama that we've all come to love and miss. The ending is different from the normal comedy fare and is rather sentimental, but it's actually really well done - maybe i'm just a sucker for that kinda ending.

'You know, it's funny' 'what?' 'Your weiner' heh heh

I don't really know how suited it would be to a non-futurama fan though. It's rammed full of in-jokes and brief re-appearances of hundreds of old classic futurama characters; the robot mafia, Scruffy the janitor, robot santa and an all too brief appearance from Zapp and Kif.... oh and the hypnotoad is back, did i mention that? Awesome. In fact on the dvd there's menna be a full length episode of 'everyone loves the hypnotoad' with adverts, which just sounds plain kick ass. Sadly I haven't been able to check it out yet due to the dvd not being out here yet. Back to the point though, non-fans might miss out on the in-jokes, and references to past episodes - the pilot in particular is referenced multiple times.

Anyways it's definately worth a watch, and if you're are or ever were a futurama fan its unmissable. Hell, the cameo from Al Gore makes it worth a watch in itself... 'finally! I get to save the planet with deadly laser blasts instead of slideshows!'
Great DVD, i very much look forward to the second, whenever the hell it's released...

Did i mention that Bender goes back in time to kill Fry, ala the Terminator. You NEED to watch this film.
+ Classic futurama
+ Killer in jokes, old characters
+ Cute ending
- The bloody songs...
- Confusing time travel ;)
9 / 10

2007....... THE LOL-TREES AWARDS!!!

It's what you've all been waiting for. Seeing as every website (mainly videogame related) is doing awards, i thought id jump on the bandwagon...

Best Episode of TV
Lost Season Finale - Many YEAH NICE! moments, and a killer ending that reminded us why, despite all the filler, slow pacing and crap flashbacks, we still watch lost.

Runners up - Heroes: 5 years gone - Aahh this was awesome. Pointless, yet awesome; incredibly well made for a tv show - Greys Anatomy -That one with the Bazooka shell... - The episode that made this show go from a fun little hospital show to a real good drama

Worst Episode of the Year
Doctor Who - Christmas Special - jesus, why would anyone voluntarily watch this bullcrap?? Awful in every way, and, as ive been forced to watch them before, even worse than previous years.

Runners Up - lost - That one with Jack and the tatoos... - Any Episode of Big Brother this Year; it was even worse than normal...

Game Of the Year (GOTY YAY!)
Super Mario Galaxy - In the words of Reggie, 'the true successor to Super Mario 64'. Textbook platforming at its finest, imaginative worlds, bosses, and the best music and graphics seen on the wii... its just awesome fun!! Still, i havn't actually finished it yet...- Then again, i haven't actually played a whole load of the games in this 'golden year of gaming' - Bioshock, COD4, Orange box, i all need to be buying...
Runners up - Okami - great painty-wolfy-Zelda released early in the year - Assassin's Creed - Come on admit it, it was good fun

Pre-2007 GOTY
Resident Evil 4 - Thought id add this catagory as i spend half the year playing old GC and PS2 games. Anyways i just got to the final boss of this today, and by god its so damn good!! Kicking Zombies heads off, kneecapping and cutting at their heads, and the kick ass 'WOTCHA BUYING.... STRANGER' Dude

Runners up - Pokemon Yellow, Shadow of the Colossus

Album of the YearKlaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Well it shouldn't have beaten Bat for Lashes for the mercury prize, but this was a good exciting album with some pretty cracking tunes. And wow good keyboards in rock music!!

Runners up - Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightware - Good 'tricky second album' - Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies - Bloc party - Weekend in the City

Anime of the Year
Death Note - Probably the easiest choice of all these awards, Death Note a brillaint twisty turny plot, well thought out, intricate and clever from beginning to end, and with some of the most memorable characters - ok mainly L - which i have ever seen.


Runners Up - Baccano!, Nice Pulp Fiction-esque mafia story, kinda confusing - Darker than Black - Stupidly erratic in quality, that nonetheless had some of the best episodes i have ever seen; episodes 13 - 14, aswell as a fantastic ending and beautiful soundtrack.

Virtual Console Game
Gunstar Heroes - Now my friend was very much unimpressed by this in co-op, but really he's mental; the game is crazy, a kick ass run and gun shooter with some crazy weapons that you can merge together. Pretty hard aswell and and awesome board gameish final level.

Runners up - Lylat Wars, Pokemon Snap

Art Exhibition
Andy Goldsworthy in the Yorkshire Sculpture park- Don't really feel like writing about this since writing 10 pages on it for an art thesus, but trust me he makes some incredibly interacate natural sculptures, out of raw materials; sticks and stones.

Runner Up - Millais at tate Britain

Best Surprisingly good thing
Mario Strikers Charged - Just fun gameplay and great 2 player per console online made for surpising amounts of fun and swearing on the wii earlier this year.

Runner up - Extras Christmas Special - Not only was this 10000x better than fucking Dr Who, but it was all very moving in the ending - nearly made me cry - and was actually close to Office quality

Nicest thing i ate
Fish in San Fransisco - Aahh it was so good. Went to the same resturant twice in a row cause most the rest were always full. the waiter remembered our drinks and everything. Anyways the meal was gawjus

Runner up - Clam Chowder in Monterey

Oh yeh, and i'm annoyed; nearly got 1000 (unique) hits on this blog, but nearly all of them have come from a measly 3 line post moaning about fireworks. Maybe i should just not bother doing good posts anymore...

Tree of the Week

Don't go thinking i've forgotten about this feature, no sirey, no was jóse. Here we go for tree of the week #2

TREEBEARD

To quote wikipedia
"Treebeard Fangorn is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He is the oldest of the Ents, tree-like beings who are the "shepherds of trees". Very tall and stiff-limbed, with bark-like skin and leafy hair, he befriends Merry and Pippin after they escape from orcs. Under their influence, he causes the downfall and imprisonment of Saruman, the head of the Istari. He lives in the Forest of Fangorn, which is named after him, or he after it."


Treebeard was sad to hear that nobody bothered reading far enough to know about him

I can't pretend that i'm a Lord of the Rings geek; having started reading the trilogy only to give up during the Two Towers (god they were so boring!!) But i can remember Treebeard and his mates being COMPLETE BADASSES in the film, and being mates with Merry and Pippin... which in itself puts him on the Tree of the Week list.

Also, with a name like 'Treebeard', how could you not love him? Treebeard. For fucks sake....