Weather Sucks

Cold, hot, rain... argh!?

So yeh... think I'm getting sick now... getting... I'll see tomorrow.

Thank God For Namco

Two things to yack about today.

Channel Seven is showing 'Thank God You're Here' tonight. When I first heard this I thought it was an April Fools joke (which is when I found out). Channel Ten is my fav channel so I was abit disappointed to hear it..

On some good news 'is it really?', Tekken 6 and Soul Calibur 4 is being ported to the PSP.
This isn't like porting an very old game but pretty fresh ones.. Like FROM SOFTWARE announced that they're porting Armored Core 3 to the PSP which was a 2003 PS2 game.

Movie Review: Ned Kelly

Last saturday night, I was flicking through the channels to see what was on.. It was showing Hot Fuzz and Ned Kelly. My first thought was 'OMG Hot Fuzz, WOOT' but I have seen Hot Fuzz like a thousand times so i decided to watch Ned Kelly instead.

[Plot]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly_(2003_film)#Plot

[Story]
_+ believable way of a man growing to become "Ned Kelly"
_- cops are always evil right?!

[Character]
_+ Heath Ledger did an alright job.. nothing too bad nor too good to mention
_+ Whats a Naomi Watts..? Oh the girl from King Kong (2005).. she was ok.. I guess
_- Orlando Bloom was being, well, Orlando Bloom.. the player that has sex with any female on screen
_- Geoffrey Rush, which I've only seen in Pirates of the Caribbean series, didn't really do much in this movie besides potraying the real life character
_+ 'I did find it funny however when his character yells FIRE.. thought I was watching Pirates XD'

[Action/Romance]
_+ Wasn't exactly Epic gun action but not too bad either...
_- The romance between Heath Ledger and Naomi Watts serves absolutely nothing to the plot at all, you could have cut their scenes out and the movie would've been the same (maybe even better)
_- The romance itself wasn't that good either, eg ZERO chemistry

[Final Thought]
After watching the movie I had to wiki about the real Ned Kelly and from the looks of it the movie was pretty historically accurate 'according to wikipedia'. For an aussie I really didn't know much about Ned Kelly.. Not exactly why this movie BOMBED in the box office, maybe 'cause it didn't really classify as a western film. There was alot of plot holes and useless moments throughout the film 'eg. the romance' but a alright pop-corn movie.

'therefore'
Overall I give it 3 trash-can-helmet out of 5



Next movie I may review would be Casshern (2004)
Although I might change how I'd be reviewing these movies

'I think I've pretty much completed Resident Evil 5 as much as I can and I could review it.. but how do you review a game... its so much more complicated than movies'

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is to be released in XboxLive and PSN!?
Demo on PSN in 3 days (30th April) 'Japan only??'
Full Ver. in summer 2009 'japan too..? whats summer in japan?'

Evangelion 2.0

Scans from 'i dunno' showing Mecha and Character designs




'wait, brunette..? blue/grey/green eyes..? Mana..!? o_O'
'aw... got my hopes up for nothing, her name is Mari Illustrious Makinami and she's being voiced by Maaya Sakamoto where as Mana Kirishima is voiced by Megumi Hayashibara'

So Eva Unit 00 will be staying orange and won't get a colour change and the new character is piloting Eva Unit 5... 'Come on, that is such an Armored Core XD'



Scans: http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/iam-cybergundam/article?mid=24135
Revoltechs: http://www.kaiyodo.co.jp/revoltech/yamaguchi.html

Still Chillaxing

Like the title says ^__^

I am having shoulder pains though.. ~__~

Blank

Had the MMAN3200 test today so now I'm just gonna relax the rest of the day... by shooting zombies in RE5 XD

MMAN3200's a pain

Spent the whole day studying... ~__~

MMAN3200

Got an evil test coming so no time to post random things..
Will be back later.. ￣ ▽ ￣

I Quit Facebook!?

'Guess they can write just about anything these days'

I'm not as into facebook as everyone but I really don't care anymore and decided to just 'Deactivate' my account...

That was all I was going to say, but when deactivating, I notice facebook's attempt to make me stay... idiots..

Deactivating due to change in Terms of Service

Are you deactivating because you are concerned about Facebook's Terms of Service? This was a mistake that we have now corrected. You own the information you put on Facebook and you control what happens to it. We are sorry for the confusion.
See [link] for more information.

- The Facebook Team

I spend too much time using Facebook.

One way to control your interaction with Facebook is to limit the number of emails you receive from us. You can control what emails you receive here.

I don't find Facebook useful.

You may find Facebook more useful by connecting with more of your friends. Check out our Friend Finder to see who you know on the site. Also, check out the Getting Started Guide to get an overview and tips on using Facebook. Don't find the Wall or Groups particularly useful? Besides our core features, you can also find additional functionality built by outside developers. Check out our Application Directory to find what else we have to offer.

I don't understand how to use Facebook.

Learn the basics with the Getting Started Guide. You can also find answers from us, as well as other users, in our Help Center.

I don't feel safe on Facebook.

You can alter your privacy settings to make sure you are more protected. We also allow you to organize your friends in different Friend Lists in order to share certain information with select people. Additionally, you can block certain people from seeing your profile and contacting you altogether.

Others

'Shut up!?'

Master Grade!!

Sword Impulse has been released and reviewed with many HQ images

http://www.geocities.jp/hobby_no_toriko/mg-sword-impulse.html
http://dalong.net/review/mg/m119/m119_p.htm

Now with Force Impulse and Sword Impulse, we'll just have to wait for Blast Impulse...
Curse you Bandai.. money money money XDXDXD

Movie Review: The Terminator

I've seen Terminator 2: Judgement Day like a thousand times and only seen The Terminator about half a dozen times back 10yrs ago. So when I saw that it was on TV friday night, I just had to watch it since I'm so hyped for Terminater Salvation.

[story]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator#Plot

[story]

Character
_+ The Terminator is the 'I R SERIOUS' bad azz throughtout the whole movie
_+ Sara Connor? She doesn't exactly 'evolve' in this movie that much but we all know what happens in 2 XD
_+ Kyle Reese, he is so Solid Snake XD.. but yeh he was a good hero character that gets given a background story
_+ All good, no overacting like the 3rd movie..



Plot
_+ Amazing for its time, not sure if it was the first 'robots taking over the world' movie but it was definatly responsible for the popularity of the genre
_+ Everything is explained clearly, Kyle wastes no time with details

Action
_+ Good old school gun action...
_+ The car chases was alright..

Final Thought
With all the Sci-Fi movies showing at the time, I'm suprised that they didn't just make a movie about the future but James Cameron thought out of the box and created such a classic. As a movie it was very straight forward and didn't make you think too much outside of the plot. This is a pretty bad review, considering that there really isn't much shits to talk about it.

meh.. Overall I give it 4 Sarah Connor's out of 5

why not 5 out of 5, 'cause even though its a great movie.. I don't feel compelled to watch it over and over again. Not exactly sure whats missing, maybe because it was a 1980 film...

'next I'd be reviewing Ned Kelly starring late Heath Ledger that was showing last night'

Nothing to blog about

I got nothing....

Dinner was amazing, had me favorite ^__^
"Curry + Potatos + Mints Pork + Mum's Cooking = FIVE STAR SHOOP DA WHOOP"

Study

Nothing's happening, just studying (and possibly for the next few days aswell)
According to this, I shouldn't even try XD

Apologize to the RICE

I got nothing to talk about so here's a funny azz youtube video featuring Chow Yun Fat



Much better performance than the one he did in DragonBall ^__^

PRISON BREAK

I just realized that I have yet to write anything TV related and I thought 'Hey, where's Prison Break?'

Then I Wiki-ed and hey, apparently the last 6 episodes of season four airs in two days. Although I didn't enjoyed this season as much as one and three, still can't wait ^__^

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

New trailer released recently of the upcoming Evangelion 2.0 movie



One thing in the trailer that did cought my attention was the shot of the new pilot EVA unit 05











Chances are its the new female character for the movie and piloting the EVA that looks like an Armored Core.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Release: 27th June

Sword Impulse Gundam MG Boxart

Release Date 16th April



OMG THAT LOOKS AWESOME!?!?!

Good Deed?

'WARNING, PRETTY DANG LONG'

So on the night I went to watch DragonBall Evolution in the city, I went to my car to go home after dinner and what-not. On the way there, on the side of the walk-way a 40-60 ish old lady in a wheel-chair of some sort asks for me to borrow my phone.

'Yeah, I'm bad with assuming ages...'
'Also I said "wheel-chair of some sort" because its the ones with small even sized wheels, so the person can't move on their own at all...'

I let the stranger use my phone. She said she'll make a quick call or something, I can't clearly remember. She kept saying "sorry", "I need a place to stay", something about her mother died and cried abit while on the phone. Eventually my phone ran out of credit. She'd then ask me to push her around the corners of the streets.

'From what I can assume, she couldn't find a place to stay after a few calls, so shes pondering about sleeping somewhere on the streets...'

The street corners however were close to Tram-Rails so she'd won't get any sleep if she had stayed. She also got uneased when she saw drunken teenagers walking around the streets going nuts. Throughout this time she's been asking for help like she did to me to other passing people asking if they'd have a phone she could use. Most of the time they'd ignore her or say they don't have one.

'Got to say, alot of people don't have phones *COUGH*'

Then someone stopped and said they had a phone. While she was on the phone, I assume was finding places to stay, the guy and I started chatting. The guy was from Hobart and came to Sydney for a holiday. So yeh, talk and talk to kill time. During these times, the lady asked us to hail a taxi for her and specifically for those long ones 'cause of her chair. We kept hawling taxi's but she's always not ready to get on and the drivers don't want to wait.

'I'm not sure if I'm using the words "hail" and "hawling" correctly but you get the gist of it right'

Every now and then the guy asks for the lady if she'd be any longer. He tells me his not in a hurry but is abit worried about his PrePaid-credit-phone. So eventually she insists the guy that he could go but that I should stay. By this time, I've been with the lady for a well 40mins, and the guy's been here for 10mins. The guy offered to stay and for me to leave but the lady kept saying he could go.

'I think she wanted the guy to leave 'cause he apparently complained too much while I pretty much said nothing...'
'This was later proven when the guy comes back around and asked of we're ok and she tells him to leave. While the guy walks further and looks back, the lady goes "Why is he still here, just go. So annoying."'

Well, eventually I was able to hawl a taxi with some help from other people walking by, and got her into it. While she gets on she'd ask the driver if he'd have a phone she could borrow which he replied yes. After getting her in, I made my leave to my car and after about 5mins of walking and driving, I went pass where the lady got on the taxi and they were still there. The lady is on the phone again and the taxi driver seems to have the patience to park there waiting.



Well, that was my late thursday night, I was there total of about an hour and most of the time I was just standing and waiting.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY

Movie Review: Dragon Ball Evolution

My Ratings
1 of 5: Skip
2 of 5: So-So, watch if you really can't find anything else to do
3 of 5: Alright movie that has its ups and downs
4 of 5: Great movie, a must watch at the very least
5 of 5: It gets better and better as you watch it

"You can bet there's going to be a sequel.. ~__~"



Dragon Ball is a Manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama which was serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995 (on a weekly basis, quite exhausting).It has since been adapted into 3 anime series and inspired a generation.

Then along came DragonBall Evolution...

Now to review this movie properly, you have to see it in the eyes of a DragonBall Fan and people who are unfamiliar with the series.

[Spoiler Starts]

"nah!? I'm not gonna write out the whole movie... its not worth it..."

[Spoiler Ends]

[Actually, spoiler kinda continues]

[Standard Review]

Character
- Main character Goku was for some reason your typical loser in
Dhighschool who can't seem to do anything, infact his actually
Dtrained in ancient martial art and the ability to use Ki.
- Main female lead Chi Chi also has knowledge of Ki, besides that
Dthere really isn't a reason she'd be attracted to Goku unless she
Dhas a thing for idiots. Oh yeh and she's like 'the popular girl' in
Dat school or something
- Roshi was your comedic character.
- Bulma wants to be famous, Yamcha wants to be rich and Piccolo
Dwants to rule the world... thats it..

Plot
+ Plot was, ok...
- It was strange how the secondary characters believed in the
Dwhole DragonBall nonsense so easily.
- At no point was Goku exactly hinted to be Oozaru but when it
Ddoes happen, it was less than spectacular.
- Piccolo wanted the DragonBalls to rule the world, not exactly
Dsure how the DragonBalls would help the antagonist from the
Dstart which was the whole point of the movie.

Action
+ The best action in the movie I'd have to say was when Goku
Dfaces the highschool jocks 'cause it was mostly wide-shots and
Dchoreograph was very clear.
- The Ki actions are weak at best, most of the time its people
Dwith their palm out and messy blurs.
- Even the guns during the gun actions are like the Ki blast
Dwhich is odd.
- Most of the hand to hand combat are close-up's so you can't
Dcompletely tell whats going on.

[DragonBall Fan Review]

Its one thing to adapt a show, its another to change it completely. A DragonBall fan would just complain alot so I'd just stop here, I don't need to tell a fanatic whats wrong with the movie, just watch the trailers.

I give the movie
1 DDRRAAGGOONN out of 5
Its on the borderline of an alright background movie

Update: Shadow Of The Colossus Movie

'Is he saying this is going to be an easy movie to make!? WHAT!!!!!' @_@



Justin Marks respond to the announcement
http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/04/colossus-writer-speaks-out.html

quote from 'nightelfmohawk'

"What's nice about this game is that it's so
sparse so you can start building right away."

What is there to build? The
game is more gameplay than story so why even write it? Why do these Hollywood
guys think that something already built needs to add more. The whole idea of
SotC was for the story to be interpreted by the fans.

Why ruin a
masterpiece?

'Exactly!'

[DragonBallEvolution tomorrow]

DDRRAAAAAAAGGGOONNNNN!?!?!

Just came back from watching Dragon Ball Evolution... full review tomorrow, spoilers expected

My Take: Shadow Of The Colossus - The Movie

Shadow Of The Colossus has been announced to be made as a featured film by SONY PICTURES, produced Kevin Misher and screenplay written by Justin Marks.

Colossus is one of my favourite titles in the pile of 40+ PS2 games I have. Although it really only has 16 colossi bosses to fight, each had very unique gameplay methods and the way to get to each of them was quite the journey itself with stunning scenery. Travelling from beach, to vast grasslands, to deep and dark ruins and caves, to deserts and if you stopped every now and then you'd find intersting details nearly everywhere. The Colossus are the main feature and my favourite Colossi was the Flying Serpent in the desert.



There is really no way for me to review this game, you must experience it yourself to really know how amazing it is.

Now that the fact Hollywood is making the movie makes me feel "OMG, not another game -> movie adaption". Colossus, like the Metal Gear Solid series, has a very cinematic feel already and should be left alone but it would be very interesting see how they'd take with it. Problem may be that Justin Marks is screenwritting it, who wrote the screenplay for the recent Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Although, do we blame SF's epic F 'cause of the scriptwriter or the director? This is just early news so things may change, or event get canceled *cough wink*

Long story short, I dislike the idea, but would be interesting to see how it turns out.
Also, too early to make any assumptions

http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/04/shadow-of-the-colossus-to-become-a-movie.html

Mini Review - Dragon Ball: The Return of Son-Goku and Friends!!

"This is not an Anime blog site!?"

This was a 35min short that was shown during 'Jump Super Anime Tour' and was streamed online from 24th November till 31st Janurary.

The story takes place between DBZ and DBGT but isn't really significant to series.

The animation was well done, looks just like the old series with a modern touch to it. I like how during the action sequence they didn't loop any animation like the old series but I'd guess its expected of a 'short'.

Sonic, what the hell happened to ya!?

Screwattack's Ben scoops/reviews "Sonic and the Black Knight"



http://www.screwattack.com/Scoop/BlackKnight

Artworks

Something's wrong with this pic, I can't quite put my finger on it... head's too big?, body too long?, hands too small?... something...

Oh and this is a fan-art of Nero from Devil May Cry 4

Sōkyū no Fafner DVD-BOX

The show Fafner aired during the 2nd half of 2004 and also produced an OVA, the 50mins prequel Sōkyū no Fafner: RIGHT OF LEFT.

After a few Drama CDs and what-not, 2 months ago they've release Fafner DVD-BOX, which contains all episodes, the OVA director's cut and alot of extra special features.
Unfortunately these are just dvds 'cause with all the HD Blu-ray re-releases these days you would think so but no...

Still, can't wait to get my hands on it. If I ever ~___~

http://www.fafner.jp/top.html

MMAN3300.. Again

Got another MMAN3300 test coming, so yeh, I'd be busy studying now.

Cat Shit One (awesome title)

'A friend showed me something epic'



Animals are often used by the western media as genre's aimed towards younger viewers for their cuteness. In Japan however, well... this.



Cat Shit One is a manga series based on war events with nationality distinguished by the animals used, in this case, Americans are rabbits. (rabbit => Usagi => USAGI => USA GI => USA General-Infantry, lol)
The title Cat Shit One are the main character’s group name, which was set in the Vietnam War, where Vietnamese were cats hence the name.
The upcoming movie/series (still unsure about that) would be released early 2010 and it’s assumed to be based on Middle East events. Reminds me of MGS4

Quoting from what someone said, "cute violence has never looked so good"

Trailer

April Fools

I got nothing to be funny about, so I'll just post up this picture I saw that I found amusing.


lol, wall-e's so dirty

link to credit/fullsize
http://bechnokid.deviantart.com/art/Let-s-Go-to-the-Axiom-104906729