If you ain’t anticipating Geek & Sundry then you loose massive geek points. If Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton and host of others aren’t enough for you. Then really there’s no pleasing you.
BTW, yes, Wil Wheaton is that cool.
In case you were under a rock or busy like me, you barely had the time catch the news that a new enhanced version of Baldur’s Gate is coming out this summer and a Kickstarter project for Wasteland 2.
I have so many memories of the good times hunched over computer in those days of yore but to have a chance at shiny updated versions. Now that’s just freaking cool. Maybe it just stirs that retro-video game grognard in me. But what the hell. Those old games hold just a certain charm. What always amazed me about those games is how much the programmers could cram into what is considered today a microscopic amount of memory. Hell, my phone has millions of times the memory than my very first computer. For you kids out there, it was a Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 64 K of memory.
Retro-games for the table, retro-games for the PC. Sometimes it’s good to a grognard.
Post Apocalyptic/Farscape/Firefly mash up. Now that should have gotten your attention.
OK, I was asleep at the wheel on this one. I heard the buzz the SyFy was planning a big new series and I pretty much blew it off as yet another piece of crap. But then I went back and started looking again. Holy SHIT! Rockne O’Bannon is doing it. The guy who gave us Farscape. Now that’s got me interested.
Defiance is being billed as a science fiction western (ala Firefly). It’s set on an Earth that’s been ravaged after years of war against an alien species. OK, sounds good so far. With Mr. O’Bannon handling it, Ive got an even better feeling about it.
Now, this is the part that really amazes me. SyFy seems to going all in on this one. They are even doing a Shooter/MMO with Trion to back it up. I may not even play the game but let this be a good one. The show is still in pre-production. The ball is supposed start rolling in April 2012. And by the way, here’s a little trailer for the game.
Mar 072012
This ain’t exactly what you expect from Kevin Smith. It isn’t Jay and Silent Bob or any thing like that. This is pretty hard core tale of terror based around the kind of crap your average American hears or has to deal with just about every day.
A trio of high school boys end up getting kidnapped by a bible-thumping doomsday cult (God hates queers and everybody but us types. You know.) and get caught up in a botched ATF raid. This isn’t like Saw or Hostel. This is much more in your face and realistic. That’s the part that makes it pick at the back of your brain. It’s not far fetched or outlandish. You could see something like this be on the evening news.
Now it sound like that would be boring and there is one hell of a lot talking though out the movie but bits of that unique Silent Bob sense of humor pop up now and then in the dialog. John Goodman plays the burned out bureaucrat fantastically. And Micheal Parks is darned right scary because you know that there really are folks like that out there. Might I also add that this throws in punch in the nose to post 9/11 mentality.
So if you’re looking for a disturbingly realistic thriller then go for it. If you’re for Jay and Silent Bob Vs Fred Phelps then not so much. It’s still a damned good movie.
Recommendation: Buy it if you can afford it.
Feb 022012
Hillbillies Vs Crazy and Clumsy College Students. Well, that pretty sums it.
I’ve mentioned before that I have some sort of weird love affair with off beat movies. This keeps up this streak.
Mix in a dark sense of humor and a little twist to the story, this is just like so many slasher in the woods flicks from days gone by. Of course, the whole chain events gets kicked off through prejudice and and miscommunication. But then it doesn’t help that one of the characters is egging on the miscommunication. There’s a good bit of dark comedy in Tucker & Dale. There were scenes where they could have gone a little further for a laugh but I can see how they didn’t want to the movie to become a completely silly parody. So over all for the movie, that was a good thing.
If you have a certain nostalgic feel for slasher flicks and enjoy a good tongue in cheek twist on the genre then go ahead and check out Tucker & Dale Vs Evil.
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