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Bridge to Terebithia, The Fountain and Star Wars Episode III (I choked up when Yoda dropped down and clutched his heart ok... so sue me!)

They suck and the guy's dead. Does it matter at this point?

Every pagan and Christian holiday still around is commercialized, what's your point?

It kind of depends on what you're after. Different styles tend to have slightly different objectives when put into practice. Karate is about ending the fight in the fewest blows possible, not in a deadly way rather just an incapacitating way. Judo is about redirecting your opponents energy so that effectively he's done the damage to himself. Tae Kwon Do is about lots of high kicks that look cool but have little practical purpose (apologies to any of the very few serious Tae Kwon Do practitioners but I've been doing this stuff too long and been to too many tournaments to take this style very seriously anymore). In terms of actually trying to do the most physical damage to another human being yeah Mui Tai (spelling?) is up towards the top. Though honestly the most flat out deadly things that I've seen were hybrid blend styles practiced by military specialists. They tend to take the most effective methods from different styles and mix them together.

Gamestop (while still pretty good) went downhill severely a few years back. In the old days (5 or 6 years ago) there was GameStop and EB (stood for Electronics Boutique). Gamestop was awesome and EB sucked. Gamestop employees knew what they were doing, their used games always worked, the stores were well organized and the counter work was efficient. EB employees always had to check with a manager whenever you asked a question about anything, the store was usually a jumbled mess, and they had the worst counter service of any store I'd ever been in (they would only ever have one person at the counter at a time and they were always slow as hell so even if it wasn't busy it'd take you 20 minutes to get out with anything). Then the two companies merged and most of the stores switched to GameStops (which is why in some malls you'll see two GameStop stores are opposite ends). But sadly some of the stuff that sucked about EB seemed to infect GameStop. Mainly with the employees, about half of them now don't seem to know anything and the counter service has slowed down noticably. It's still not as bad as EB was on it's own and it never will be, but it still ticks me off.

While we're at it how about a Saturday Night Live game and a Mad TV game? I know those shows suck but it makes about as much sense.

The games will keep getting made but I suspect the major talent behind the series so far is going to move on. But Konami wouldn't just let a property like that sit there idly.

At 10/30/08 06:19 AM, R3DPhoenix wrote: Bob the Goldfish in Earthworm Jim 2.

Damn somebody beat me to it. But then again that was the joke for that game.

They MUST included "Come Together"

At 10/28/08 07:52 PM, killer0ed wrote: No.
Keith David is the best voice actor.

Possibly the best actor doing voice work yes. However the best true voice actor has to be Mel Blanc. Go back and watch some of the golden era Warner Bros cartoons. The classic Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd stuff (not the new redone crap) and realize that he did nearly every single voice in every cartoon.

The Gman is God.

At 4/3/08 12:18 PM, xscoot wrote: Ghosts and Goblins. You can only be hit twice, you can't jump cancel or change direction halfway through, the weapons are really weak and you have to beat the whole damn thing TWICE!

Yeah people saying that games like FF12 are hard to talking about how hard some games are when you ratchet up the difficulty (that's the point... duh!) really have no idea. Us old schoolers know the pain of die and start the whole game over games. The kind of difficulty of Ghosts and Goblins or any of the others in the series would simply be flat out rejected by gamers today. They'd refuse to play it.

Damn I feel old now... sound like a geezer going on about how kids today are soft... but dammit it's true!

Personally I'd love to see Full Throttle redone maybe with some more emphasis on the action/racing aspect (yes sacrilage I know) with all the new technology.

I don't think I've ever voted a "1" in all my time here. I just don't see the point, if you're going that low just vote the "0" and try to get it the hell off the portal. Well that's if it's under judgement. If it's already in it's usually good enough that I wouldn't vote that low anyways (or if the score was that low and I wouldn't be bothering watching it).

Probably just trying to wind down. Puppies are high strung and do alot of weird things that they won't do later just because they have high energy.

While not really funny all the way through I still get the biggest kick out of "You Spoony Bard!" which was a poorly translated line in Final Fantasy IV (it became so iconic they didn't even bother to correct it when the game was re-done with a new translation for the GBA).

I actually have seen very few truly bad movies because I'm usually pretty good at spotting them early and never seeing them, and if something does look terrible usually not bothering to finish (because with most things I think look questionable I wait for TV or Netflix). However out of sheer morbid curiousity I made myself sit through the entire 1950s sci-fi turd of a film "Robot Monster" which was easily the worst thing I'd ever seen all the way through. It was fun in a MST3K kind of way for about 20 minutes but after that it was just too painful. If you ever get the chance to see it... just stick your face on a hot stove instead, it'll be more pleasant and less scarring in the end.

It looks interesting. Keanu can be good in the right role and this one looks like a good fit for him. I have to admit I never saw the "classic" original.

Honestly I have to go with the trailers that were done for The Dark Knight. They built up so great, starting with ones focusing on the Joker and then ones focusing on Harvey Dent. Got me so excited (and it didn't hurt that the movie actually delivered).

I think what would be interesting would be to figure out the best trailers for what turned out to actually be bad movies.

Fantastic debut film... just a shame that Guy Ritchie sort of flamed out so quick after. Snatch was great but after that he's been either terrible or just ok.

Well the pendulum really swings both ways on this one, at least in terms of people more or less blindly supporting a party because of one issue. Taking it in the other direction it personally disturbs me how many poor people in the mid-west or the south blindly vote Republican because it's the "moral party" because of issues like abortion or generally having more hardcore christians in the party. The reason that kind of freaks me out is that in terms almost everything else the republicans love to screw the poor (even though they make up most of their voting base). They offer tax cuts left and right to the rich and the corporations and put all the burden on the poor.

So yeah deciding who to vote for on one issue is pretty much a stupid practice regardless of which way you go. Whether you're an immigrant blindly voting Democrat or a born again Christian blindly voting Republican.

I figure there's two main category of 2D shooters, scrolling shooters (usually with a plane or space ship, like R-Type and Gradius) and platform shooters like Contra, Metal Slug, or even maybe Megaman.

The platform shooters have kind of come back with Megaman going old school, Metal Slug getting released as a collection and Contra getting a DS release. You don't find quite so much love for the scrolling 2D shooters though. It's a shame because they're quite a bit of fun and usually quite exhilirating because they tend to be very fast and furious type games.

At 10/27/08 11:57 AM, Wraith2000 wrote: FarCry on the Wii was terrible.

Very true... but that was a port, not really a sequel.

Nothing springs to mind... there are very few good movie based games in the first place and the few I can think of (King Kong comes to mind) were pretty decent movies.

At 10/26/08 11:33 PM, DeathNoteetoNhtaeD wrote: When my Gamecube memory card got corrupted and lost all my data....

I was so close to finishing Metroid Prime, too...

Yeah that happened to me on my Soul Caliber 2 data... man that pissed me off.

I'll probably be alone on this one because it seems like I'm one of the only people who really loved the first one but I have to go with Parasite Eve 2. The first one was such a unique mix of RPG and horror elements, and very cinematically paced. Then for the second one they scrapped everything original about it and made a Resident Evil Clone (this was before RE4 so it when that series still kinda stunk in terms of control and other things).

I have to go with Eddie Izzard myself. I had the pleasure of seeing him live earlier this year. Absolutely hilarious.

Earthworm Jim (I think number 1 was was the probably the funniest of the series).

At 10/24/08 05:15 PM, Battosai810 wrote: It's the football player Will Smith. Not the actor.
To think, there's more than one person on this planet named Will Smith.
Who knew.

Yeah seriously there should be some kind of law against that crap.

Wow... never thought it would actually come out.