Friday, March 31, 2017

Sewer Shark Sega CD review

It came with the system and is a high seller often priced at $5 on eBay.
Very weird.
It's premise is that you go in a sewer and kill all the critters in it.

So you're basically killing road kill in a toilet.

The FMVs I actually enjoy and help the premise with theme park-ish acting. It's serious yet campy at the same time.

Monday, January 2, 2017

Underrated films of 2016

X-Men Apocalypse

You know why I think highly of it. The themes of religion, Reaganism and media in a current world.
Also, dat Quicksilver scene.

Gods of Egypt.
It's not as dark as Alex Proyas the Crow or Dark City, but still has the thematics of his films. I, Robot concentrated on a world where technology goes crazy. Gods of Egypt is a film about the presence of Gods and religion.
I, Robot was too accessible, meant for kids and Gods of Egypt seemed to be for teenagers. I felt this film was weird too when they constantly made Gerard Butler penis jokes.
THIS IS PENIS!

The BFG
A great use of Lord of the Rings-ish technology and great FF9ing/Boukengering of Spielberg works that was hurt by poor marketing. Easy candidate for an Oscar Best Picture Award that gets flushed down the toilet.

Ghostbusters 2016
I'm not the biggest Ghostbusters fan, but really have gotten back into watching that first film over and over again. Re-watching it now, I notice the dark tone it had compared with the really great Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but equally as good.  There's a lot of subtext in the original film, which I'll get back to sometime when I finish my video edit of the Ghostbusters analysis.
While the trailers, old school Ghostbuster fans and the Gamergate anti-feminist movement have hurt the film, I feel like it's reached hype. I really wasn't happy with the marketing campaign, then again that worked for the way worse unfunny Bridesmaids.
I feel like based on what Red Letter Media said, they should've liked Ghostbusters, based on their own words. Contemporary comedy mixed with sci fi stuff which wasn't really meant to be the premise of the film. Good timing. SNL/Second City actors. I didn't hear any fart jokes and felt that the humor fit at least the actors if not the characters of this film. It just wasn't over the top in the version/edit I saw of the film. The actors did a good job playing characters. There's a bit of complexity mixing the sci fi with the comedy.

I do feel like it was a good Ghostbusters team, and that if they bring them back, now they would have to do it with a crossover, since the film was hurt so much by bad wrestling fan-ish backlash.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Films I'm looking forward to in 2016

Hail, Caesar by the Coen brothers- Could be interesting

Suicide Squad– I love the group. Someday, I’ll actually watch Roger Ebert’s praised David Ayer and his work.

Gods of Egypt, by Brandon Lee vehicle film director, Alex Proyas

Ratchet and Clank, a good video game series, whose film was praised at Cannes

X-Men: Apocalypse, considering I don’t even hate 3, why not?

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story- Monsters/Godzilla director about stealing the Death Star plans.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau, best trailer in a long time.

Snowden

Warcraft

Finding Dory

ID4: Resurgence

Bourne V

Underworld

Jack Reacher

Best of the New York Asian Film Festival US premieres

Actor: Jagat
Actress: Bacchus Lady
Supporting Actor: Creepy 
Japanese film: Creepy
Korean Film: Dongju
Film: Creepy/Dongju
Korean Director: Dongju
Japanese Director: Creepy 
Director: Creepy 
Script: Dongju
Cinematography: Creepy

Best of the New York Asian Film Fesitval 2016

Actor: Jagat 
Actress: Bacchus Lady, 
Supporting Actor: Creepy 

Cinematography: Creepy 

Films of the Festival:
Creepy 
Jagat.  
Freelance/Heart Attack 2015 
Dongju
Inside Men

Monday, December 19, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Was the Boss originally supposed to be who the Patriots are? MGS

Recently in a video by Super Bunnyhop about Battlefield single player, SBH stated that the Boss was in control of everything Naked Snake/Big Boss/the player did.
If that was the case, was the Boss originally supposed to be a Patriot?
Maybe she faked her death in MGS 3 to traumatize Naked Snake. Maybe she dies and has a Ra's Al Ghul effect on her.

Friday, December 9, 2016

"7 anos" 2016 review

This film didn't really wow me till the end. It's good that they were able to use the one set a lot, and save the budget that way. There may have been good use of props on the set, but I wasn't able to pick it up on the first viewing.
The main feature was the acting, although the drama between the characters was interesting later on.

Despite my complaints, I'd still give it 5/5 stars.

"La Nina" Netflix TV 2016

The camera work isn't full of production value, but it's standard. A film about a woman who is looked down upon who ends up destroying a bunch of people.
**-***/*****