Happy Birthday Ridley Scott

With his birthday today, and his film, Exodus coming out, I decided to make a list of the best Ridley Scott films.

1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. American Gangster
4. The Counselor
5. Gladiator
6. Kingdom of Heaven
7. Thelma & Louise
8. Prometheus
9. Body of Lies
10. Black Hawk Down

Smash Bros Wii U Month: Top 22 Sonic the Hedgehog games

1. Sonic Chaos
2. Sonic the Hedgehog IV
3. Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing
4. Sonic Riders
5. Sonic Spinball
6. Sega Superstar Tennis
7. Sonic Generations DS
8. Sonic Rush
9. Sonic Colors DS
10. Sonic Heroes
11. Sonic Lost World
12. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)
13. Sonic the Hedgehog
14. Sonic Adventure 2
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
16. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
17. Sonic Adventure
18. Sonic Advance
19. Sonic 3D Blast
20. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
21. Sonic Knuckles
22. Sonic CD

Avoid the spikes, break glass or some weak point

The Top 5 Best Films of Sidney Lumet

5 Murder on the Orient Express
4 Fail-Safe
3 Dog Day Afternoon
2 Serpico
1 The Verdict

Films I'm looking forward to in 2015

• NONE!

The Best Films of 2014

Cannes
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/richard-linklaters-boyhood-tops-sight-sounds-20-best-films-of-2014-20141128
David Cronenberg Map to the Stars
Cloud of Sils Marias Oliver Assayas
Two days One night Dardennes
Goodbye to cinema Jean Luc Godard
Lost River Ryan Gosling

• RoboCop
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Birdman
• Gone Girl
• Inherent Vice
• Interstellar
• Godzilla
• The Lego Movie

POSSIBLES:
The Raid 2
Vampire Academy
Cesar Chavez
Jersey Boys
The Maze Runner
Cameron Crowe
Big Eyes, Tim Burton, Christoph Waltz as Walter Keane.

Ranked:

1. Interstellar
2. Inherent Vice
3. Nymphomaniac, Part II: The Director's Cut
4. Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Birdman
6. Gone Girl
7. Nightcrawler
8. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
10. Guardians of the Galaxy
11. X-Men: Days of Future Past
12. Transcendence
13. Appleseed Alpha
14. The Lego Movie
15. A Map to the Stars
16. Godzilla
17. RoboCop

Best Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Wes Anderson
3. Alejandro Gonzalez Irrinatu
4. Lars von Trier
5. Christopher Nolan

• David Fincher
• David Cronenberg
• Matt Reeves
• Bryan Singer

Best Screenplay
The Nolans, Interstellar
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo, Birdman
Bruce Wagner, Map to the Stars

Best Actor
Ralph Fiennes Monsieur Gustav
Michael Keaton Birdman
Joaquin Phoenix Inherent Vice
Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler
Matthew McConaughey Interstellar

Christina Bale Exodus
Andy Serkis Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Best Actress
Julianne Moore
Rosamund Pike Gone Girl
Anne Hathaway Interstellar

Best Supporting
Peter Dinklage Bolivar Trask
Matt Damon Mann
Martin Short Inherent Vice
Joel Edgerton Exodus

Best Animated Film
The Lego Movie

Best Special Effects
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Blockbuster
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Best Sci Fi films since the Matrix

According to Quentin Tarantino, Interstellar is the best film since the Matrix.
I would like to discuss other films that are in contention for that role.

15. Minority Report
14. Prometheus
13. Hellboy
12. The Prestige
11. WALL-E
10. Cloud Atlas 
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Donnie Darko
7. Melancholia 
6. The Tree of Life
5. Solaris
4. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
3. 2046
2. Paprika
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The best movies since the Matrix

According to Quentin Tarantino, Interstellar is the best film since the Matrix.
I would like to discuss other films that are in contention for that role.

Hellboy
In the Mood For Love
Prisoners
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac
There Will Be Blood
2046
Inland Empire
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Prestige
Donnie Darko
The Master
Antichrist
WALL-E
Paprika
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Primer
Punch Drunk Love
Mulholland Drive

1999 in film: 5th Anniversary

1999 was an end for a lot of things.
It was the end of Microsoft and the end of the .com bubble.
It was the end of AOL and dial up modems.
It was the end of the critically acclaimed LucaArts. Some credit for the fall of the Cold War.
It was the end of the great American movie and in with blockbusters:
Film became about films that are supposedly Star Wars-like, but really a lot more hollow than how even that film was presented.
Now in 2010, we have a lot of films and television shows that resemble Lynch films how their actors
Many of the top films of this year have yet to be topped, not even close, as 30 films from the last 15 years have been really good, and maybe 5 were on par with films such as the Matrix.
X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Kick-Ass and Marvel have led to the superhero boom, which was critically praised thanks to the cheap website costs of the late 2000s, I call the WordPress/Adsense Effect.
More on these topics later.

Film

1 Eyes Wide Shut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGoGDjdBP3o
2 The Matrix
3 Fight Club
4 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
5 eXistenZ

6 Being John Malkovich

7 Boys Don't Cry

8 Bringing out the Dead

9 The Straight Story
10 American Beauty

11 Magnolia

12 Office Space

Eyes Wide Shut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGoGDjdBP3o
The Matrix
Fight Club
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
eXistenZ

American Beauty
EDtv
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich

Boys Don't Cry

Bringing out the Dead
Fantasia 2000
The Iron Giant

The Straight Story
Dogma
Galaxy Quest
Ratcatcher
Office Space
Rurouni Kenshin: Betrayal & Trust
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Boondock Saints
Blair Witch Project
Running out of time
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

Affliction
A Civil Action
All About My Mother
October Sky

Anna and the King

Director
Stanley Kubrick
The Wachowskis
David Fincher
Sam Mendes
David Cronenberg

Paul Thomas Anderson
Guy Ritchie
Lynne Ramsey
Kimberly Peirce
Spike Jonze

Edward Norton Fight Club
Tom Cruise Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut
Haley Joel Osmont The Sixth Sense
Ron Livingston Office Space
Matt Damon The Talented Mr. Ripley
Sean Lau
Sean Patrick Flanery
Richard Farnsworth The Straight Story
Nicolas Cage

Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry
Nicole Kidman
Helena Bonham Carter
Angelina Jolie
Carrie Anne-Moss The Matrix

Brad Pitt Fight Club
Lawrence Fishburne The Matrix
Hugo Weaving The Matrix
Kevin Spacey American Beauty
Phillip Baker Hall Magnolia
John Malkovich
Ajay Naidu Office Space
Chris Cooper October Sky, American Beauty
John C. Reilly Magnolia
Jude Law The Talented Mr. Ripley
Peter Sarsgaard Boys Don't Cry

Annette Bening American Beauty
Mena Suvari
Chloe Sevigny Boys Don't Cry
Jennifer Jason Leigh, eXistenZ

Western Animated Film
Fantasia 2000

Eastern Animated Film
Rurouni Kenshin: Betrayal & Trust

VGBS: Metal Mario vs Metal Sonic

Metal Mario I don't really like because he's a very lazy, yet shiny swap. Although somewhat annoying, the mode for Super Mario 64 has killer music and sound effects.
Metal Sonic looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing however, as there was a lot more craftsmanship creating the design.

Both modes pale compared to its predecessors the Star(man) and the invincibility spark, which allow both characters to not only go fast but jump, not to mention the awesome music.
Kamehameha Mario indeed.

Advanced Warfare is a completely new Call of Duty

You can play multiplayer
It's in the first person view.
It's a first person shooter.
It's all in camoflague colors.
You have guns and grenades.
You can switch between weapons.
There are terrorists that you have to kill.
You can still deface and teabag women in the game.

It's the same fucking game!

Favorite 60 Smash Bros characters games

I decided to make a list since Super Mario Bros Wii U is coming out.
The list is in ascending order.

1. Mario Bros
2. Yoshi's Cookie
3. Dr. Mario
4. Paper Mario: Sticker Star
5. Nintendogs
6. Mario Tennis
7. Super Punch Out!!
8. Pokemon Trading Card Game
9. Epic Yarn
10. Donkey Kong/Jumpman
11. Punch Out
12. Mario Kart: Double Dash
13. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
14. Paper Mario
15. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
16. Sonic the Hedgehog
17. Sonic Adventure 2
18. Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
19. Super Mario Sunshine
20. Wario Ware
21. Pikmin 2
22. Metal Gear Solid 3
23. Hyrule Warriors
24. Super Mario Land
25. Pokemon X and Y
26. Wario Land: Shake It
27. Pikmin
28. Sonic Adventure
29. Super Smash Bros Melee
30. Sonic the Hedgehog
31. Kirby's Adventure 1 NES
32. Kid Icarus
33. Pokemon Snap
34. Star Fox
35. Super Mario Bros 2
36. Mario Land 3: Wario Land
37. Sonic 3D Blast
38. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
39. Donkey Kong 64
40. Metroid
41. Sonic and Knuckles
42. Star Fox 64
43. Majora's Mask
44. Super Mario RPG
45. Kirby SuperStar
46. Metal Gear Solid V
47. Pokemon: Yellow
48. Pokemon: Black and White
49. Pokemon: Red and Blue
50. Mother
51. Zelda II: Adventure of Link
52. Metroid Prime
53. Sonic CD
54. Super Mario Bros 3
55. Super Mario Bros
56. The Legend of Zelda
57. Kaizo Super Mario World
58. Ocarina of Time
59. Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
60. Metal Gear Solid 2

NYCC 2014: Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is a great multiplayer game along the lines of Little Big Planet

I love this game. I think this game has a lot of potential, especially if they keep the multiple respawns like they did in the press demo Square-Enix had.
There's a great battle that has to do with Egyptian gods. Lara Croft and her Egyptian friends have to save the day, in a tale of great mythology.

The puzzles are simple, but there's a lot of fun to be had with friends.
Example puzzles are figuring out how to defeat a seemingly invulnerable gatekeeper or a rock that can break, but infinitely respawn.

There's not really a lot of requirement for expository tutorials as to how to get past points in the game, giving Temple of Osiris a bit of an old school approach to it.
And it's designed well. Maybe because I'm older, but I found it very simple to get through the stages without the help of a walkthrough or the Public Relations person guiding us through the game.

The controls are simple to master.
There's a ton of occasions where friends (real life or in game) enjoy extending ropes to their friends, only to screw up letting their friends get to the other side the last second, a la the Joker in Alan Moore's Killing Joke.
Some weapons you share with your allies. Some you don't, making choices interesting for both player and developer.

Video Games I'm Looking Most Forward to in November 2014

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor: There's still more movies of the Hobbit? That book was from like 1950. It's not like it was friggin A Clockwork Orange or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or something!

Sonic Boom: The story will probably be lackluster. This was a final Nintendo game. Gameplay shouldn't be too bad though.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: First new engine since friggin Call of Duty 2, Transformers/Deadpool team, still about fucking terrorists.

Lego Batman 3: Lego f'n Batman

Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Reboot

Smash Bros Wii U: 8 players really brings on the Wii.

Little Big Planet 3: I'm really curious as to what the other characters do.

Digimon: All-Star Rumble, as I stated in my previous article, I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but hopefully it'll introduce the anime fans to the games, in an oversaturated Pokemon market.

Persona Q aka Persona 3 x 4.

Dragon Age: Inquisition: A game beyond gender, but within fantasy

Star Wars Rebels Season 1, Episode 4, "Breaking Ranks" had very interesting military-industrial complex themes

Summary: During the episode, the protagonist is stuck inside of an Imperial military school, where he is forced to follow an Imperial regiment without blowing his cover.
It's very interesting how safe the look of Star Wars: Rebels is, and how sinister it really looks as a result in comparison to the last two episodes of the prequel trilogy. If you look unprofessional, unwealthy, mentally flawed in both health and IQ, there's not much one would do to try and join an empire. However, being clean and sort of this futuristic military crew opposed to the poor neighborhoods of Tatooine, I can definitely see the appeal of the empire to many.
I'm not sure what kind of empire inspired this kind of setting, but the creators played around with it this episode, and it was really interesting!
The direction of the actors was very interesting as well.
Every character is child-like and sympathetic, adding a bit more of a sinister mist to the show, as the characters attempt to figure out who the Inquistor is, and his importance to the canon. There's no doubt the effects he has in this episode, and the franchise.
I really like the character that buys into the Imperial propaganda that the Imperial Inquistor will provide the cadets a good life, when they really become soldiers and killers. It balances the good side with the dark side and hopefully they'll be able to use his character well in later episodes!