Feeding the YouTube Addiction – Movie Trailers

Anybody who knows me, knows that I’m a movie fanatic.  They also know that I rarely have fantastic taste in movies.  For every good one that I love (and there’s a few gems in my list, such as the eternally awesome Se7en and Fight Club), and, more rarely, the good ones I pick out, there is a dismal list of utter failures that Jeff tends to lord over me from time to time.

My criteria for movies tend to be a little skewed.  Is it based on a comic book or video game franchise?  Then yes, I want to see it – even if I KNOW it will suck monkey balls (CHUN LI I’M LOOKING AT YOU).  Does it feature a lot of really cool scenes of shit blowing up in slow motion?  Is it a sequel of a movie I really loved?  Is it based on the works of a skewed, underappreciated, or generally warped author?  Is it generally just really really pretty with some wicked CGI?  Count me in on all of the above.

However, what REALLY gets me is trailers.  I’m a trailer maniac.  I LOVE TRAILERS.  Half the time I want to go to new releases in theatres because I just want to see trailers for new shows.  I OBSESS OVER THEM.  And, if a trailer features really really good music (bonus points if it’s a band I love), then chances are I’m going to obsess even more.

Take 2007′s “Invasion”, starring Nicole Kidman and “nom nom Daniel Craig”.  I had zero interest in seeing the body-snatchers remake until I saw the extended trailer featuring “Untitled 8″ from the Sigur Ros ( ) album.  Also in 2007, “30 Days of Night” featured the incredible song “Apocalypse Please” by my beloved Muse.  Recently, trailers for “The Adjustment Bureau”, starring Matt Damon, featured the absolutely amazing “Adagio in D Minor” by John Murphy, a song that was written for the stunning sci-fi thriller “Sunshine” and was also featured in the best scene of “Kickass”.

So yes, music sells me.  BIG TIME.

The reason I touch on this is that, last night, I discovered the trailer for “Legend of the Guardians”, a CGI movie based on the young adult fantasy series, “Owls of Ga’Hoole”.  Not only was it a terrific book series, it looks like the animation alone will make it an incredible movie.  AND, the trailer features “Kings and Queens” by 30 Seconds to Mars.

Which, of course, got me into the “OMG LET’S LOOK FOR MORE TRAILERS ON YOUTUBE” mode, which resulted in me being up way too late and contributed to being late for work this morning (shout out to Jess, my assistant manager, who tolerates my oddness and geek-screaming.  hi Jess!).

So what else did I find?

Centurion

I’d not even heard a BREATH about this movie.  It looks like 300 meets King Arthur and a bit of Robin Hood.  It’s bloody.  I like bloody.  It came out in April of 2010, so chances are I might even be able to find it.  Why should geeks care about this movie?  Well, the main character is played by Michael Fassbender, who is no stranger to geek fandom – he played Stelios in “300″, had a bit of a part in “Inglourious Basterds”, and is playing Magneto in the upcoming “X-Men: First Class”.  Also, Director Neil Marshall is the awesome writer / director who brought us “Doomsday”, which I argue is one of the best movies EVAR.  Eden Sinclair MROW.

Red

Go from that, to this:

Let’s begin by saying that I love Bruce Willis.  I LOVE HIM.  I also love Morgan Freeman, and I love John Malkovich in the “yeah, I still love my crazy, weird Uncle” sort of way.  So needless to say, this movie will be fucking awesome.

Solomon Kane

Did anybody actually ever see this movie?  It’s like VanHelsing… but with a mercenary turned puritan instead.

Yes, I know it’s probably terrible.  But it has glowy demon things and sword and gunfighting.  And I think I may have to watch it for that.

Oh yes, and let’s not forget our favorite model turned actress turned official zombie-killing mascot…

Okay.  So “Resident Evil” screams into theatres in 2002 (god, was it really that long ago?) and it was AWESOME.  Seriously, who didn’t love the scene with Alice going Chuck Norris on the turned Dobermans?  Yes.  YES.  Then, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse” came out in 2004 and it was good.  I mean, not overwhelming, but it was good.  “Resident Evil: Extinction” ventured out in 2007 and felt… painful.  I mean, I LIKED it, but I didn’t LOVE it by any means, and mostly it made me sad.

Now Alice is fucking BACK BABY.  She is BACK and she is HOT and she is KILLING STUFF.  And it totally makes up for the fact that Ali Larter is in it because even though she drove me nuts in “Heroes”, Milla is AWESOME ENOUGH TO CANCEL THAT OUT.  And “Resident Evil: Afterlife” will kick our faces in on September 10, 2010.  CAN’T.  WAIT.

But, really, the one trailer that has me drooling on my keyboard is none other than:

SUCKER PUNCH

JESUS.  And by that I mean Zack Snyder.  Is there anything this man can’t do?  He brings us “Dawn of the Dead” and we love him.  He brings us “300″ and we adore him.  He brings us “Watchmen” and we lay our first borns down at his feet.  And don’t forget they also just announced “Xerxes”, too, as well as “Army of the Dead”.  And now, he brings us “Sucker Punch”, and I’m about ready to… I don’t know.  Do something seriously creepy stalker-ish to him, because I’m that fucking revved about this movie.

What’s seriously awesome about Sucker Punch is it doesn’t even TRY for reality, because it doesn’t HAVE to.  It is every shade of awesome, from dragons to samurais to strippers to chain guns, all in the surreal mind of a girl committed to a mental institution.  It’s a modern, warped, black-fantasy fairy tale and I’m literally drooling about every goddamn aspect of it.

Sucker Punch will kick theatres in the nuts March 25, 2011, and you can be sure I’ll be camped out for my tickets on opening night.

Aaaaaaand… that’s it for me for now.  I was tempted to throw in my take on “The Human Centipede”, but while I was kind of morbidly interested in the movie, I watched the trailer and now have ZERO interest in actually seeing this sick son of a bitch.

Oh, and in before “OMG U LEFT OUT SAW 3D”, because goddammit, yes, I’m going to see the movie, and that’s only because 5 and 6 killed everything left of that franchise and I’M NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO DR. GORDON.  Just tell me already so my poor beloved franchise can die in peace (though Chester Bennington is in this one so I guess the fangirl in me can squee a little)…

Oh, and this.

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.  But chances are I’ll end up watching it.  Don’t ask me why.  It may have something to do with Jessica Alba.  Or motorcycles with machine guns.  Or something.  I dunno.  DON’T JUDGE ME.

Until next time, geeks!

Movie Review – State of Play

The best movie you've never watched.

The Details

Released April 17, 2009.

Starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, and the criminally attractive Rachel McAdams.  Directed by Kevin Macdonald.

Two journalists put life and limb on the line to uncover the startling link between a politically-driven military organization and the murder of a Congressman’s bedmate.

The Plot (contains spoilers!)

The movie opens with a petty criminal getting wasted on the streets of Washington.  What follows is perhaps one of the best, most intelligent drama-thrillers I’ve seen in a long, long time.  Ben Affleck plays Congressman Stephen Collins, a do-gooder who has invested a hell of a lot of time and effort into bringing down SecuriCorp, a politically-funded organization composed of ex-military personnel being leased as mercenaries to the highest bidders in the Middle East.  Suddenly, on the day of an important hearing, one of Collins’ chief researchers is killed in an “accident” on the Metro – a researcher you quickly find out is his bedmate.

Enter Russell Crowe as gruff, overbearing, too-big-for-his-britches Cal McAffrey, who was not only Collins’ roommate in college, he is also a journalist for the Washington Globe and the fellow who happens to be sleeping with Collins’ wife (played by Robin Wright Penn).  With the help of perky sidekick Della Frye (McAdams), a blogger-turned-investigate-journalist-for-film-purposes, McAffrey sets out to help his college drinking buddy’s image and find the true perps behind the Metro murder.

He quickly finds himself in over his head – as more people tied to the crime turn up dead, McAffrey finds himself uncovering more truths than he can handle.  And twist ending of the movie is so fucking fabulous I will not DARE to ruin it for you.

The Opinion

My love for this movie was sealed the moment it opened with Crowe singing along with Great Big Sea’s “The Night Pat Murphy Died” on his way to a crime scene (Crowe is friends with GBS frontman Allan Doyle, who also appeared with him in 2010′s “Robin Hood”).

Rated PG13, it’s pretty obvious from the beginning you’re not going to see a lot of blood, violence, sex, or bloodshed in this film.  Come to think of it, I don’t remember much swearing, either, and only a teeny, tiny bit of alcohol consumption.  And you don’t miss ANY of it. 

What director Kevin Macdonald and his team of atrociously talented writers (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, and Billy Ray) have done is taken what I’ve been told is an awesome BBC drama and condensed it into an intense, utterly riveting ride.  Part drama, part thriller, entirely psychological, this movie doesn’t let up for a SECOND.  It is utterly relentless with the twists and turns, and keeps you guessing right up until the last ten minutes and the FINAL corkscrew in a refreshing whodunit that you actually DON’T see coming. 

Crowe is brilliant as the brash, oftentimes offensive McAffrey, the journalist who has remained the pen-and-paper faithful in a world of digital equipment and split-second blogging, whereas McAdams is his energetic, eager, tech-savvy counterpart.  There is wonderful chemistry between the two through the entire film, and gorgeous development of character to boot.

No two characters are the same in this gem, which is rare in a film that utilizes so many bodies to make up the story.  There is so much personality packed into each role, and the cast pulled together for this particular effort complement them so well.

This is one of criminally underrated movies – many other reviews I’ve read have been “meh” at best.  But in a day and age where production houses spoonfeed the public CGI-fests and big budget “let’s see how much shit we can blow up” – or worse, teen flicks with sparkly bloodsuckers – it’s so damn refreshing to see something with a plot.  Yes, a PLOT.  Oh plot, how I’ve missed you.

Do yourself a favor and check this gem out if you’re in the mood for a thinker.  I promise, you won’t be disappointed.

Spike TV Star Wars Commercials

I’m too tired to write up a proper post right now, so instead I’m going to share with you some of the best commercials on the air right now – the four Star Wars ads on Spike TV.  Spotted these 30 second beauties while watching Deadliest Warrior the other night (which was a FARCE since it said the Mafia would be the Yakuza… bullshit, I say).

The sci-fi geek in me just adored these.  *glee*

When I can’t think of something amazing, I usually look to Twitter for inspiration.

Kevin Smith, ladies and gentlemen.

I’ll say this again:  before you waste your time reading what folks who had NOTHING to do with a movie you love have to say about it?  Recall that these are the same fools who shouted down FIGHT CLUB & called it a failure when it didn’t make bank.  They decried FIREFLY and MALLRATS.  Mercifully, the pedantic assholes of this world only get a weekend to carve you up with their long, sharp knives.  And the shit they say?  I can attest to this truth:  not even the filmmaker remembers what they write & say.  But the work itself?  In this case, PILGRIM?  It enters Valhalla – where it’s celebrated religiously for the very audience it was intended:  whoever it SPEAKS to.  15 years later, when I say “Rats was a flop…” people say “It was?  But I had it on video.”  Nobody remembers or cares what it made; all they care about it was it MEANS to them.  So embrace & enjoy a movie that was so obviously crafted with insane affection for its audience.  Quit worrying about what the dumb kids say.

(discussing the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on Twitter)

I don’t have much more to say than that.

Cataclysm vs. The Way We Raid

Umpteen million years ago, I was a raider.

Okay, maybe not that long ago.  Honestly, the last time I raided WotLK content was back in January, on my Druid.  But as far as WoW is concerned, that most definitely was a lifetime ago.  Since my last days of raiding, people I know have not only cleared ICC, but put it on farm status, when all I ever saw of the Lich King’s kingdom was what was on Jeff’s screen when he ran it with our guild a couple times.

It’s an interesting thing, raiding.  I have a very love-hate relationship with it, as do many people I know.  It’s one of the reasons I just don’t do it anymore.  For the longest time I tried very hard to build a 10-man group of close friends and excellent raiders who wanted to run on a more casual schedule than a 25-man progression-based raiding guild, but had little success because, well, the temptations of the “better” epics tend to pull people away.

Blizzard, in a rather surprising move, is actually doing something about that by gear-balancing raids. 

We know there are a lot of players who want to run 10s who feel compelled to run 25s for the better loot. We know there are a lot of players who want to run 25s and feel like they still have to do 10s as well. We know both groups of players are getting frustrated and burning out — not because they don’t like raiding, but because they don’t like raiding the same content twice a week, particularly when the 10 version tends to not even be challenging since their 25 participation ensures they overgear it.

One raid lockout with same item levels for 10 and 25 and a weekly cap on badge income solves all of those problems for us. It does creates two potential new problems. One, players may gravitate towards 10s because the logistics are easier. We intend to handle that by making 25s more efficient at earning gear. Two, players who really like to run both a 10 and 25 every week lose that opportunity. Sorry. If it’s any consolation, because the bosses are divided among multiple raid zones you can still do some in a 10 and some in a 25 or have an alt that only does a couple of those zones a week without the full commitment of two complete boss kill cycles every week.

Wow.  Here’s the source, straight from Ghostcrawler’s fingers, if you don’t believe me.  Now, of course, this is just beta information and we have no way of knowing if this is definitely going to go live, but still.

Yes, 25-mans will get more badges, more gear drops.  But there will be single achievements, single tier pieces.  Casual gamers who run 10-mans with their friends-and-family guilds will be able to get the same gear as the hardcore progression gamers, and there won’t be any of that smug gear-bashing going on because someone is “lesser” for having 10-man epics. 

Don’t give me that look.  You know it happens.  The only thing people have called more welfare is the very badge gear people grind to be able to raid these instances.

Does it mean I’ll go back to raiding?  Not really sure.  But I do think that, overall, this is going to have a very positive impact on the raiding environment, will allow gamers in smaller guilds to see the best gear available… and honestly, I think it will tone down some of the epeen associated with item levels.

Now, if we can just get rid of GS…

Movie Review – Lord of War

They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."

 The Details

Released September 16, 2005.

Starring Nicholas Cage, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, and Bridget Moynahan.  Written and directed by Andrew Niccol.

Nicholas Cage is a smooth-talking, fast-working, rising star in the international gun-running business, but he is being shadowed at every step by a persistent Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) determined to put him behind bars.

The Plot (contains spoilers!)

Surprisingly enough, when boiled down to its bare components, this isn’t a horribly complicated movie – the true beauty and details are in the nuances of the writing and the characters themselves.

Simply put, the movie plays out as an autobiographical narrative by Cage, who describes his upbringing and how exposure to violence as a young man pushed him into a life of gun-running.  At first he is joined by his brother (played by 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto, though some of us old dogs remember when he was first an “actor”), though eventually Leto’s cocaine habits make him too much of a loose cannon to keep in the partnership.

Cage’s weakness is a beautiful model (Moynahan) who becomes are near-addiction for him as well, and it is through building an intricate lie (beginning with telling her he is in the transport industry) that he wins her love and eventually her hand in marriage.  The film moves forward in bits and pieces as they have a child and live within the legitimate fantasy world Cage has created for them, while he is still travelling the world, sleeping with other women, and supplying guns to every conflict on the globe.

I don’t want to spoil any of the turning points or anything like that (I’ll give some spoilers but I won’t give away the end of the movie), but eventually Cage is brought down by his own greed and fame – his inability to call it quits.  He becomes embroiled in dealings with an African warlord that pull him to the “dark side” of his business, making him more a criminal than he already is and pouring an unhealthy heap of guilt on his shoulders.  With Interpol closing in, his life starts to unravel in every way imaginable, concluding in a shattering climax.

The Opinion

I had a lot of hangups about seeing this movie.  First off, I can’t stand Nicholas Cage.  I only ever marginally liked him in one movie (8mm), and can barely tolerate him in any other movie I watched.  Most recently I wanted to gouge his eyes out for ruining almost every scene I liked in Kickass.  So you can imagine my surprise when his dreary, monotone voice started riddling off the expertly crafted lines of Lord of War’s script and I actually LIKED it.

Yes, let there be no arguing – the brilliance of this movie comes from the script, penned by director Andrew Niccol, who also brought us Gattaca (which, strangely enough, I’ve never seen) and The Truman Show (which I refused to watch simply because I want to strangle Jim Carrey).  It’s chock full of the dry, sarcastic, dark humor that alone can carry an entire film.  Even when the movie itself feels like it’s plodding, the smooth monologue instantly cuts back in to catch your attention.  While at times it does drag, you can’t help but appreciate the cool intelligence of this script, and the fact that this is essentially a sort of “war movie” that doesn’t at all concentrate on shooting and big explosions.

Visually the movie is “eh”.  It’s shot in some interesting locations.  It has guns – a LOT of guns – and tanks and rockets and grenades and all sorts of fun stuff.  Thankfully it’s one of those slower movies that doesn’t rely on overuse of color, saturation, and lense flare to keep your attention (I’m looking at you, Tony Scott.  I still love you thanks to Domino and A-Team, but my eyes are still bleeding from Man on Fire.).  The opening credits do have a “LOOK I WENT TO FILM SCHOOL” feel to them, which got old after about two minutes, but even I’ll admit it was a fun and interesting way to start off.

So yes, I’ll throw aside the Cage-hate for a moment and admit that Ol’ N.C. did a surprisingly good job of playing his character.  Leto was amusing when he was playing his alcohol/cocaine-fueled bender-boy, but when sober he was relatively flat.  Ian Holm (forever known to most geeks as Bilbo Baggins) was a surprising face as a gun-running competitor, but his screen time was cut cruelly short.

If I had to complain about anything, I would say that the movie was about 30 minutes too long.  It’s a squeak over 2 hours and kind of feels like it by the time you get to the end credits, and the unfortunate thing is that the end credits are about 10 minutes late coming, give or take.  It’s sad when a really good movie is hurt by the ending dragging on bit too long (it was my only complaint about Watchmen, to be honest).

In all, a good watch.  Don’t sit down expecting an action movie.  This is a calmly intelligent movie that’s been deadpanned by many a critic who seems to think that a movie about guns must be full of violence and explosions.  Those are probably the same idiots that complained that Tigerland wasn’t actually a war movie.  Come to think of it, I haven’t watched Tigerland in a while…

So.  Give it a try.  I can’t guarantee you’ll like it, because it’s a bit of a quirky piece and obviously not for everyone, but for the time being (until I sit and watch it again), I’m adding it to my Criminally Underrated Films list.  Bonus points for Jeff Buckley singing Hallelujah.

“So, uh, why do you have a giant red arrow on your ribcage?”

Seeing as I am currently a month away from starting a $1000 ink project on my right arm, I thought I would touch a little on tattooing, specifically geek tattoos (since this is, of course, a geek blog).  Geeks are known for their passion, and imprinting your favorite brand, character, code, or other symbol on your body is a pretty intense way to show your pride.

Now, I’m not just talking out of my ass here.  I proudly sport my own piece of geek-ink in the form of a large Hunter’s Mark tattoo on my ribcage (hence the title) that was an awesome Christmas present 2.5 years ago.

HUNTER 4 LIFE. HELL. YES.

But better than my tattoo is a great story about a fellow blogger who recently got their first tattoo as a birthday present, a Lord of the Rings piece.  Oddly enough, I found their blog while looking for reviews of the tattoo studio I’m going to for my next piece, and I just really enjoyed her story.

One thing I find interesting is that a lot of people will regard geek tattoos as “silly” or “pointless”.  They’ll say things like “WTF you got a tattoo of a (insert geeky thing here)?!  U IDIOT OMG”.  Apparently the passion that some people feel for their hobby is less important than the passion others feel for their favorite sports team, koi fish, or abstract tribal design.  Personally, I’m not one to bash mod choices, but I think our Lord of the Rings friend above put considerably more thought and emotion into their piece than Suzie-Q-Off-The-Street who picked the first pretty butterfly she spotted on the flash art hanging on the studio wall.  Just sayin.

The internet is full of gallery after gallery of geek pride etched into the skin of passionate gamers, comic book readers, otakus, photogs, and just about any other hobby someone may get passionate about.  Don’t believe me?  Pop over to the aptly-named Geeky Tattoos and check out their great collection of experiences, or hell, scan the enormous (and seriously, it’s enormous) gallery of all-things-geek at BMEzine.com for some incredible photos.

Passion is passion, I say.  And some people out there have dedicated an enormous amount of skin, time, and money to something they really, truly love – to you folks, YOU RULE.  That is all.

This entry would have been longer if it weren’t for the fact the local temp is hovering somewhere in the mid-30s and my keyboard feels like it’s melting.  That, and Jeff just turned on Lord of War, and while it’s not exactly the trip out to see Inception that I was hoping for, I might just settle for this. 

And while my next trip is for a half-sleeve that’s not geeky (though it’s got enough anime influence that people might still think it is), sometime later this year I’ll be booking a trip with the ever-supremely-awesome Milady Geek for our glorious Warhammer tattoos, where I’ll get a ring of the Lore of Magic runes marked around my arm so I can have yet another set of symbols that mean nothing to anybody, except to the people who should know them.

Stay geeky, friends!

Movie Review – Splice

A face only a gene-splitting mother could love.

The Details

Released June 4, 2010.

Starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, and the sexy Delphine Chaneac.  Directed by Vincenzo Natali.

Two scientists push the moral boundaries of genetic experimentation when they start combining human DNA with animals, and have to hide the resulting hybrid creature from their colleagues.

The Plot (contains spoilers!)

First of all, I was pretty excited when I saw the trailers for this movie.  I was expecting a thinker sort of thriller – not a Silence of the Lambs type thinker, mind you, but at least something that didn’t rely on blood and guts to deliver the message.

Basically you have Brody and Polley playing scientist bedmates, who are researching splicing / cloning in an effort to discover proteins that will help curse diseases.  Their first batch are adorable little slug-things, but they don’t really do the job, so under pressure to find a better specimen they present the idea of using human DNA in the process.  That doesn’t go over well with the bigwigs, but they do it anyway.  The result starts out life as a writhing slug-sack with a poisonous stinger-tail-thing.  Slug-sack evolves into armless-bird-baby, which then miraculously evolves into omg-it-looks-human Dren, who prances around in a dress and plays with teddy bears and scrabble tiles.

Polley develops an almost disturbing mommy attachment to the little beast, who is aging at such a rapid rate that they’ll get to watch her entire lifespan in a short amount of time (how convenient).  Brody isn’t quite as fond of her, as evidenced by his frequent attempts to gas / cut up / drown her.  Eventually they can’t hide her in the lab anymore and take her out to an abandoned farmstead in the woods.  Dren is now a pretty grown-up lady-thing with severe emotional issues – one minute she’s sweet and loving, the next she’s a raging psycho hellbeast (basically your typical tantruming teenager).

This is kind of where it gets weird, and also where I mostly stopped paying attention.  Her next phase of evolution sees her sprout wings.  Then Brody suddenly goes from hating her to caring for her to being attracted to her.  Polley goes from sweet mother to torturing mad scientist when she cuts off Dren’s tail.  Dren’s mommy issues and whatnot, combined with a glitch in the cloning process that is making her turn into a he (or something to that extent) leads to a full-out murder spree as she gleefully flies around the woods picking off the lowly humans before raping (and somehow impregnating) her “mother”, killing her “father”, and getting smashed in the head with a rock.  The end.

The Opinion

A good friend of mine pretty much summed up this movie perfectly:

“I want my $13 and two hours of my life back.  And compensation for pain and suffering.”

Some movies that are billed as one thing, and turn out to be completely different, can still surprise you and be awesome movies (such as the woefully underrated Blindness, billed as an end-of-the-world plague movie that ended up being a stunning insight into the human condition).  This movie, however, doesn’t have that.  Splice was billed as a sort of sci-fi action horror and just ended up being a sci-fi creepy snorefest.

There are definitely good things about the movie.  The CGI of “baby” Dren is fantastic, though not exactly stuff we haven’t seen before.  Adult Dren is beautiful, strangely human and so obviously not, enough that it can be uncomfortable sometimes the way she interacts with her human “family”.  The styling of the character is very reminiscient of producer Guillermo del Toro’s creatures in “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Hellboy II”.

It was mostly the story and character development that annoyed me.  Yes, you could say that this is sort of a modern Frankenstein, since it’s just saturated with the hubris we’ve seen in the creation-gone-wrong movies before, but the fact that a woman creates the monster from her own DNA gives a sort of strange twist to it.  Polley’s portrayal of the woman craving a child is unnerving and almost over the top, whereas Brody’s performance alternates between the guy who hates the kid and the guy who loves the kid a bit too much.

So what is it?  There are some pretty creepy scenes, but they’re more uncomfortable than they are scary, and there’s certainly not enough of the “knot in your stomach” tension to qualify this for even a thriller, much less a horror.  Loosely I guess you could call it a sci-fi, but there’s so much focus on the personal element that the scientific stuff is lost in the background.  And frankly, listening to Polley and Brody argue over and over about the moral and professional dilemma they’ve gotten themselves into gets pretty tedious after, oh, the second time around.

Because of my fascination with things with wings, however, Dren scores high.  And that’s about the only thing I can truly say I liked.

‘Ello. I’m a geek. Pleased to meet you.

IN B4 “OMG U HAV NO POASTS”.

So.  Hello.  G’day.  How are ya?  Welcome to The Newfie Geek, my little blog of life from the geek perspective.  Says so right up there, see?  *points*  You’ll have to forgive the lack of posts as I’m just getting settled, but I assure you, I’ll be throwing out some posts soon enough.

This is what I like to call a generic geek blog.  Every time I’ve made myself a blog dedicated to a single subjet, I either a) start rambling off-topic or b) abandon said blog to make another.  So I figured that something all-encompassing would be the way to go.

These are the things, however, you can count on seeing me ramble about in here:

• World of Warcraft
• Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• Other video games as I randomly play them
• Zombies
• Gadgets, gizmos, and other geeky swag
• Movies
• Books and webcomics
• Photography
• Food
• Anything else that’s sparkly and catches my attention for a bit

I’m not so much a geek of all trades, but rather a geek of many interests.  Because of that, I’m not going to hammer down a posting schedule, but I should show my face at least once or twice a week.  In the meantime, you can check out my best friend and internet rockstar, Milady Geek, at her awesome little corner of the web for far more awesome geekery than I could probably ever give you. 

See you around!