Wow.... Katie and I went with a couple of friends last night to see Batman, and it exceeded my already incredibly high expectations. Simply put, the movie is incredible. It takes the theme of fear and just devotes the entire movie to it. Whether its Bruce's fear of Bats, to his use of fear against the criminals, it is incredibly well done and had me very creeped out during large portions of the movie. Scarecrow is amazingly done by Cillian Murphy (who I already love from 28 Days Later), but I just wish I could have seen a bit more of him. I don't know what else to say, the pace is great, they spend plenty of time setting up the backstory of Bruce Wayne and make sure you understand his reasons for becoming Batman. It is great, the movie is long, but it feels great, practically the entire last hour of the movie is pure adrenaline and has you completely pumped when you leave the theater. Its kind of like the last hour of Episode III, only with better dialogue and a much creepier feel. Go see this movie, please. It's awesome! Godspeed.
Well, its officialy hype time for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 29 days until we find out what the cryptic title reveals. Some believe that the half-blood prince is not a person who is of half-blood, but in fact the ruler of half-bloods, which tends to lean towards the idea of someone like Dumbledore. On the other hand, if it is indeed a person who is a half-blood, it could refer to many people, including Hagrid as my personal favorite pick. Aside from this question, it has been revealed by J.K. Rowling that someone extremely close to Harry will die. After much forum cruising and deliberating on my own, I have decided that that person will be..... Severus Snape! I think that because throughout the entire series he has played the stooge to Harry and his friend's hatred, whereas it is slowly being revealed as to his true heroic nature (his probable infiltration of the Death Eaters, his need to prove himself to Dumbledore as a capable professor), anyways, I think it all leads to Snape coming out of his shell within this book and showing his true heroic side and probably die doing something to save Harry or Dumbledore, or possibly after revealing his status to Voldemort and standing up to the Dark Lord, with disastrous results. What do ya'll think? If you've read the books, tell me and we can all enjoy finding out the true answers on July 16th!!
As for Nintendo, I promised that I would write about this last time, and the time has finally come. Rise up, brothers and sisters! You may recognize that Sony and Microsoft have made gaming machines, but stand and recognize the true king of all gaming companies, Nintendo! To begin with, Nintendo has been in the game longer than both of these companies and still thrives. It holds the handheld market by the hand and continues to lead it to greater innovations and games (the PSP truly has nothing on the DS in my humble opinion). As for the next gen console wars, the Revolution is where its really going to be. Sure, it may be smaller and may not pack as much of a punch as the XBOX 360 and the PS3, but its been proven again and again that good graphics aren't the only thing that make games great. Plus, the fact that the Revolution will offer the ability to download and play games from EVERY SINGLE PREVIOUS NINTENDO SYSTEM is completely unbeatable. Heck, the controllers are also supposed to blow us out of the water and they haven't even been revealed yet (they don't want the ideas stolen like every other great innovation that Nintendo has had - the Rumble ability for instance). However, my main reason for remaining faithful to the Nintendo enterprise is simple - GOOD GAMES(yes, I know that I want an XBOX, but that's just for a few games that have slipped out of the big N's grasp). Sure, the PS2 and XBOX may have thousands and thousands of titles compared to the relatively small library of the GameCube, but the GameCube has much more quality over the quantity of games. I'll bet that if you took an average score of every game for each separate system and then compared the systems, Nintendo would definitely come out on top. The sheer amount of awesome 1st-Party games that Nintendo releases are all amazing titles (Metroid Primes, Smash Bros., Mario Sports titles, and so on), its just incredible the titles available on this system. Okay, I've spent enough time on this.... tell me what you think. Am I right or what?
As for real life, I'm still looking for a job, and I think I finally might have something that will actually come through for me, thanks to Alvin - Bruster's! I go in for an interview on Monday, and we'll find out more then. Also, Chris Wiley and I finally beat X-Men Legends this morning, so we are going to move on to Baldur's Gate (a personal favorite of me and Chuck) since he is able to come over and play most mornings while he is in summer class. The apartment is finally getting done and we have only a couple more things to do before its all ready! Yeah, I think its time for me to get on back to more Resident Evil 4 (I'm playing on professional mode and its harder than anything).Godspeed.
Well, the wedding and the honeymoon have come to an end and I'm back here in our apartment looking for employment. The wedding was quite wonderful, although I find it kind of stressful to have a whole lot of people clamoring for your attention and taking hundreds of pictures..... argh. Yeah, but aside from that, it went over well, and I think people enjoyed the wedding and the reception. After the wedding Katie and I went down to Mobile for mom's ordination. It was pretty fun just to hang out with my brother and his wife and it was really great to see Grady again (one of our friends from way way back in the Texas days). However, the hotel Katie and I stayed at got the funny idea to deactivate our keycard when we returned at about midnight after mom's ceremony thing and since the person who was supposed to be at the desk wasnt there, we were forced to go back to my parents' house and sleep on the pull-out couch - not very romantic I must say. Hotel aside, it was a good time. The cabin for our honeymoon was really great and we got to catch up on all the movies that we had been wanting to see - Life Aquatic, I Heart Huckabees, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and so on. Also, I read Bruce Campbell's new book - Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way, and it is so good! Bruce Campbell can really write a great book as seen in his previous autobiography, but this little romp through fiction is just awesome, I loved it. Now, Katie is off at work and the Career Center is empty today and since Katie has our car, I'm stuck here in the apartment. I tried to put up our curtains and some of the other things we bought, but just about everything we got was the wrong size! Woohoo! Now we have to make trips to return stuff and get things that fit our cramped spaces. Okay, I think I've said enough for now, stay tuned next time for a piece I've been planning for a while about the superiority of Nintendo. Godspeed.
