The last movie you saw...

[spudthedestroyer]

neither, some shitty light gun game will be the first to have wiizooka functionality.

Its RE0, RE1, RE2, RE3... no word on veronica yet, but characters from 0-2 can be seen in various screens:
http://dengekionline.com/data/news/2007 ... 817cc.html
http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/ ... 800807.jpg
http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/ ... 800807.jpg
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.ninte ... on0415.jpg


Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles is a light gun game as far as anyone can tell, you can look around a bit with the nunchuck, that's about it. Resident Evil 4 is resident evil 4, you know how that works.



To be honest, this umbrella chronicles thing i have zero interest in now that its some shitty light gun game. They should have just used the RE4 engine and remade them all, or made a new one.... or something.

[dinky]

stardust. it's the movie version of a novel by neil gaiman (sandman). I enjoyed it. nothing special. above average for this summer's slew of movie pop. plus, I think claire danes is a bit enchanting but too nice to oogle. if that even makes sense.

/me shrugs

[MyK]

I think claire danes is a bit enchanting but too nice to oogle. if that even makes sense.

It kinda makes sense you saying that cuz she used to be this cute healthy teenager and now she's all skin and bones. But I can totally see how that would appeal to you, she being at most one third of the weight of an average American woman
/me shivers

[dinky]

dungeons & dragons. what can I say? I was desperate for some fantasy fare. and tbh, the basic plot works just fine. it's EVERYTHING else that makes this thing a stinker.

and what's up with jeremy irons and thora birch in this movie? should do a clip from this for "When good actors take bad parts" or something. like ghandi in bloodrayne.

[Augmenter]

LONDON

Awesome drama.

[dinky]

the ex. it's a bunch of good actors doing something that's been done to death. still, jason bateman shines in an otherwise forgettable movie. not bad. just forgettable and not new.

[spudthedestroyer]

Got a few minutes free, so....


I watched The Fountain and I enjoyed it. Its well shot, and has nice set pieces, but at can't help but see it as a tad cliché and pretentious in its ultimate messages (which is simple enough, life and death and the frailty of life), and the way it goes about achieve those. That said I really did like the movie which seems to have a few haters; it had three nice 'interleaved' narrations happening, and all of them makes up the message of the movie as a whole and actually retread and alternate between different 'realities'. I'd stick with my statement that it's pretentious, I can't help but think the movie could have done with a better plot and script to match the quality of the visuals and feel.

All that said, and I'm carefully trying to be vague because its fairly recent and likely to spoil it if I jump into more plot details; I think I'm going to buy it at some point. This will be either on SD or on HD-DVD if its available (not bluray, I've pretty much confirmed everything <a href="">I didn't want to about the format</a>), visually its unique and very well made. Cinematography wise its similarly very well made.

[dinky]

All that said, and I'm carefully trying to be vague because its fairly recent and likely to spoil it if I jump into more plot details; I think I'm going to buy it at some point. This will be either on SD or on HD-DVD if its available (not bluray, I've pretty much confirmed everything <a href="">I didn't want to about the format</a>), visually its unique and very well made. Cinematography wise its similarly very well made.

what are you linking to? it just kicks me to the top of the page, but I don't see anything about blu-ray there.

[spudthedestroyer]

it was in the clipboard on my laptop, not on my desktop and was using the same keyboard

http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic. ... 902#160902

[MyK]

it was in the clipboard on my laptop, not on my desktop and was using the same keyboard

In this day and age one would think they'd come up with a keyboard that has its own clipboard (at least for texts and smaller data packets). I've done that way to many times too. KVM switches are a nice thing but at least they could do that if not the keyboard itself (most KVM boxes are large enough to store even a 2.5" HDD due to all the I/O space).

About that BD vs. HD-DVD... I'm kinda leaning toward better technical solution and I dare say BD is superior in that respect. HD-DVD is less "advanced" but is still good enough for most content (storage size might become an issue soon) and has an added bonus of not having way too much copy protection shite as a side effect of the format war (more like a race really, no one got killed or was being threatened for supporting either one, right?). And if I'm not mistaken there's actually more HW for the latter on the market and costs less... so, it's hard to choose I guess. Kinda reminds me of that VHS vs. Betamax "war" and we all know who won that one. In any case, all I want from all this is a better (more capacious) than DVD storage for all the crap I have on HDDs now.

In other, more relevant news, I watched "The Lives of Others" (Das Leben Der Anderen) today and while it was good I wouldn't go as far as giving it an Oscar for best foreign movie (Pan's Labyrinth was way better IMO). The story is interesting and even though the pace of it is slow to say the least you won't fall asleep easily. What bothers me most is that the morality of it is not well pronounced and ends up being sorta stale in the end. Especially considering you expect exactly the same ending straight from the beginning.

[dinky]

it was in the clipboard on my laptop, not on my desktop and was using the same keyboard

http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic. ... 902#160902

holy shit.

not that I give a crap about the affect on horror (I watch very little of it), but that kind of across the board censorship is rotten. are they actively trying to create the united states of iraqia? between bush's fundamentalist christianity and the hardline muslims in the middle east, now even fucking disc manufacturers have to act that way? why don't we just make it law that women have to cover their faces, walk behind their husbands, and give blowjobs to strangers on their wedding day (oops! that's sumerian. nice though, eh?).

[dinky]

serenity. I can't remember much about the first viewing. I think I thought it was decent to good and maybe said it was like a good long ep. but I really like it on subsequent viewings. I think everything about it is better than the series. even the exposition and the title credits are very good right from the get-go.

[BadBugs]

Holy Shit, 235 pages

[spudthedestroyer]

In this day and age one would think they'd come up with a keyboard that has its own clipboard (at least for texts and smaller data packets). I've done that way to many times too. KVM switches are a nice thing but at least they could do that if not the keyboard itself (most KVM boxes are large enough to store even a 2.5" HDD due to all the I/O space).

synergy, i didn't tell it to sync clipboards like i usually do.

[MyK]

synergy, i didn't tell it to sync clipboards like i usually do.

Never used it and I hear it doesn't work very well with Mac + PC combinations Don't know though, might give it a try one day as KVM I have gives me regular headaches. I like the idea though that it works via TCP/IP (I once had an idea similar to this + video signals over LAN just couldn't find time to work on it cuz of all those boring business apps and company sites that I do recently. At least it's a stable income but I do miss true R&D greatly ). BTW, does it work with VMs? I can dedicate each VM a seperate LAN card so there shouldn't be any problems, right?

[dinky]

superbad. it was good. I'm curious to hear what max thinks of it, cuz it's something I would think is right up his alley.

[spudthedestroyer]

MyK, i can't think of a single reason why it wouldn't work on a virtual machine.

[MyK]

So can't I and the theory is solid. I was just wondering have you ever tried that and are there any probs I couldn't have thought of? It could solve one of the few remaining problems I have using PCs (3 + NB, total of 6 different setups) so it's kinda important to me, even though it might not be the appropriate place for such questions

"Superbad" has this incredible (for a retard comedy flick) rating of 8.5/10 on IMDB so I'm totally interested in how much of that rating is paid for and how much of it is just US kids cheering for their own ignorant kind? 8.5/10? C'mon!!!

[dinky]

meh. imdb is ALWAYS high. you should know that. but it's a good movie. well better than the adam sandler-will farrel shlock that it looks like. it's also a very R-rated comedy. Much moreso than wedding crashers (which was a really soft R so let's add some tits in the beginning). anyway, if you've seen the preview, it's more of the same...except for some really (shockingly) thought-out dick jokes. reminds me of something about mary in terms of the shock value, supertroopers in terms of the irreverence/suspension of disbelief, and maybe insert an unabashedly dirty comedy...moreso than supertroopers. iunno. it was good. if you've ever see undeclared or freaks and geeks, it's those on steroids and without a broadcast censor.

[spudthedestroyer]

urrrghhh i don't get wedding crashers, i thought it was pretty shit and of very little distinctive merit.. but you keep going on about it dinky... have i missed something?