Why I wasn't pleased with this year's E3: Part 1

Nintendo is doing brand marketing again. As a job, brand marketing is great. You can do a lot of creative stuff with it.
Mario did a lot of creative stuff such as turning Donkey Kong into

• Super Mario Bros
• Super Mario Bros 3,
• Donkey Kong Country
• Super Mario 64
• Donkey Kong 64
• Super Mario RPG
• Mario & Luigi
• Paper Mario
• Super Mario Land into Wario Land

Heck, they revived the entire industry after the video game crash of the 80s. They led prior to the creation of the Playstation. That's quite an achievement.

However, now that they're in the lead again, I'm just not getting the same high off their games.
Like when the Advance and the DS came out, there was Phoenix Wright, Elite Beat Agents and all these different types of games for that system.
With the Wii, we had Okami and other nunchaku supported games.

I suppose I should be glad that the Wii U revived the Star Fox series, but I dunno if so many interesting things will happen from it, not to mention recent releases of Star Fox failing, even though Nintendo quality of games is pretty good!

I mean, we have to be realistic though:
Blockbusters = 5 year production cycles = Less moneys for company employees who are probably going to be laid off by the time of the next project.

However, that doesn't mean we can't support video games as something beyond commercial art.

First Half 2014 Updates

There are 3 films I am considering moving into my top 10 films of all time after finally (re)viewing them this year:

• The Shining (where I highly recommend a buy of the Rob Ager/Collative Learning DVD)
• Hoop Dreams, a film that affected people much like those in the Golden Age of Hollywood did with the indie hit, Citizen Kane. It deserves all the hype over films such as the Three Colors Trilogy and Pulp Fiction.
• Ghostbusters, something I've been working heavily on the 30th Anniversary of Ghostbusters review, but there's just a lot of notes to go through that I'm unable to make cohesive. If worse comes to worse, I'll just release them in separate chapters to help the flow of the notes.

I also watched the new RoboCop film. There's very little wrong with it. No plotholes. Nothing that raises and eyebrow, but it didn't really effect my brain like the original one did. None of the sequels/reboots have, which is a shame.
The political intrigue is interesting.
If they had made the film more about Samuel L. Jackson's character, it would've been a lot more interesting, albeit controversial. Luckily, they've tested it out and notably nobody raised an eyebrow to the film, so they can more likely go all out next film.
Joel Kinnaman has an interesting robotic voice.
The film is more post-9/11, more Blade Runner-ish.

Bleach DS: Blade of Fate Review

I like this game.
Simple controls.
Decent story.
Not great.
Love use of Dual Screen power ups. How they should be used prior to the Street Fighter IV, tap special moves.
Doesn't have a great number of cutscenes to enhance the production value or story, but gets its goal across.
Like Bleach, the characters have great character design.
It's sorta retconned though and you probably have to learn moves that have nothing to do with what they did in the show.

It takes a while to beat the game. If you enjoy fighting great.
But if you can't wait to get to the story, it'll definitely be a bit of a hassle for you.

7/10

Pretty Sailor Moon S (SNES)

This game is awful.

Pros:
The characters look like the characters on the show.

Cons:
Terrible hit detection that makes Karate Champ look like a masterpiece.
Impossible to use moves.
Terrible framerates.
Slow matches that rarely finish.
Really difficult to play, especially without an instruction manual.

The S for this game probably stands for Shaq FU.

1/10

2013's Best Actors, Actresses and Directors, Before and After

Actor
Before watching"

• Chiwetol Eijofor
• Christian Bale
• Robert Redford All is Lost
• Michael B. Jordan
• Michael Fassbender
• Hugh Jackman
• Oscar Isaac
• Joaquin Phoenix Her

After watching,

1. Josh Brolin

2015:

• Leonardo DiCaprio

Actress

Before 2014

1. Vanessa Hudgens, Spring Breakers
2. Scarlet Johannsenn, Her
3. Amy Adams, American Hustle
4. Penelope Cruz, The Counselor
5. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
6. Amy Seimetz, Upstream Color
7. Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
8. Olga Kurylenko, To the Wonder
9. Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
10. Cameron Diaz, The Counselor

After 2014,

1. Vanessa Hudgens/Adele Exaarchopoulos
2. Greta Gerwig
3. Amy Seimetz
4. Penelope Cruz
5. Olga Kurlyenko

Director
Before watching:

1. 12 Years A Slave
2. Spring Breakers Harmony Korine
3. Only God Forgives Nicolas Winding Refn
4. Computer Chess
5. Upstream Color
6. Prisoners
7. To The Wonder
8. Frances Ha Noah Baumbach
9. Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen Brothers (Can I really give it the award, since I did not see it and probably would not understand it if I saw it?)
10. Oldboy
11. Fruitvale Station
12. 12 Years a Slave
13. Her by Spike Jonze
14. The Counselor
15. A Touch of Sin
16. Carrie
17. The Great Gatsby

  After watching:

1. Denis Villanueve
2. Spring Breakers Harmony Korine
3. Only God Forgives Nicolas Winding Refn
4. Computer Chess
5. Upstream Color
6. Prisoners
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. To The Wonder
9. Frances Ha Noah Baumbach
10. Inside Llewyn Davis The Coen Brothers (Can I really give it the award, since I did not see it and probably would not understand it if I saw it?)
11. Oldboy
12. The Great Gatsby
13. Fruitvale Station