gr8jrfan

I've seen a lot of movies recently but I'm curious about other people's opinions on these two: Elysium and Pain and Gain. I thought Elysium was just a total mess. It's kind of confusing, the action was fcuking stupid, and a lot of elements are borrowed from the director's far superior (and of my all time favorite) fims: District 9. The elements that were copied made sense in D9 and made that movie great like the shaky camera and the different camera perspectives and the extreme gore and violence. In Elysium, it was either out of place or so shitty that it was downright uncomfortable. They even borrow the protagonist from D9 and give him one of the most laughably awful accents I've ever heard.

Also, they introduce a lot of different rules for the sci-fi universe they're in, but believe me when I say this, it is done so fcuking poooorly. At one point ***SPOILER ALERT*** the antagonist gets his face completely blown off in slow motion by a grenade (which made some people in the theater make noises of disgust or they laughed) and then two scenes later, they bring the antagonist back to life (I couldn't make this up if I tried) BECAUSE HIS BRAIN WAS STILL INTACT. WHAT?!!!!

So at this point, I had completely given up. I decided to just roll with whatever stupid pile of cock rules they had in this script written by a fcuking twelve year old. Turns out, I had only scratched the surface. As soon as Matt Damon lands on Elysium, he's taken captive and gagged before he's about to be killed. He escapes before that happens of course, and then he pulls out the gag from his mouth, which looked just like a pacifier for an infant or something. As he pulls it out, we see that there was a large black tendril for the end that went in his mouth that was approximately fifteen inches long. The person I saw this with said my facial expression was priceless. There was so much going through my head: anger, confusion, disgust, shame; I wanted to walk out so bad but I had to see how this shit show ended.

A couple minutes after the antagonist wakes up from having his head being reassembled, he kills off Jodie Foster, making her role even smaller, and even though it's a stab wound in her neck compared to y'know, a fcuking grenade, she can't be revived. This leads to Matt Damon and the antagonist having a showdown in a factory with a cherry blossom tree on a platform to the left. Why did they have a tree there? I dunno, to make it look cool?!! Since the antagonist sometimes uses a samurai katana, I thought him and Matt Damon would have a sword fight or something. Nope! If there's one thing I should've learned by now, it's that this movie loves misleading me! The sword is thrown off the platform in the first minute and the result is an uncomfortable and anticlimactic fight that ends with Matt Damon throwing himself at him to pull a wire on the back of his head. Because that's somehow a cooler death than having a grenade blow his head off. Come to think of it, they could've revived the antagonist again! His brain was still intact!

The movie ends with a confusing data surge from Matt that kills him to allow all the poor people on to the planet, thus tying together the story from the child character that you KNOW is plot important, about a hippo that uses a meerkat to get apples in a tree he can't reach or some shit I don't know. And again, they totally could've revived Matt! His brain was intact and he wasn't even harmed!!!

Ugh, fcuk that movie. I wanted to like it, after all District 9 is a remarkable movie, but I left that theater feeling like I had been raped. Did anybody see it and look past it's flaws? It looks like a majority of the critics did on Rotten Tomatoes. That just baffles me.

And then there's Pain&Gain. I actually don't have too much to say about this movie; I thought it was pretty decent. It's got it's problems sure, but I was entertained and I had a good time with it. I suppose someone could hate it if they hate Marky Mark, The Rock, and/or Michael Bay, but on it's on own merit, I enjoyed it. I dunno, what did other people think?

That's a pretty immature comment. Also, you're contradicting yourself. Play more RPG's but also have a wildly active social life. I do “go out”. What are you implying? That I don't have a social life? I do, dude, despite how much I play. Admittedly I actually haven't hung out with anyone in two weeks but I do have a life. I don't go to parties though, not my thing. Hell, I asked the girl of my dreams out not too long ago but I got friend zoned.  

What's wrong with Diablo 3? I'm sure they'll have that Error Code whatever fixed by now. Does it just pale in comparison to it's predecessors? I'm really hoping they just make a PS3 or PS4 version of them or at least Witcher 2. If not, I think I actually will get a gaming PC to play them. I could get a 360 just to play it but that'd be a waste. You can do a hell of a lot more with a gaming PC.

Let me make this clear: If The Witcher 2 were on PS3, I'd be all over that shit. I saw a review of it once and it looks fcuking awesome. The same goes for Kingdom Hearts as well, just gotta wait a bit more for that collection. I've been meaning to do Demon's Souls but it's a pretty large time investment and I'd like to finish some smaller stuff first. I'll stand by what I said about Skyrim. It's still the best RPG I've played, but sadly, I was trying to get a reaction out of scotty and his was pretty disapointing.

I'm finally done with Skyrim. That 100% was held up by the fight with the Ebony Warrior (you have to be level 78 to face him) and I killed him in less than a minute. What a fcuking chump. If I didn't have a billion other games to play and get trophies for, I'd probably still be playing it to be honest. It's hands down the best RPG I've ever played and anyone who says otherwise probably hasn't played enough of it, or is just too cynical to even have a say in anything.

Now it's back to the good old trophy hunting routine. I'm doing the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game which is actually pretty decent for a movie game. It's pretty basic for an action game but it's got enough combos and systems to keep me entertained for now. Slicing and impaling people and countering at the right moment is pretty damn satisfying. There's a fairly large amount of “Dog Tags” to collect but they're decently spread out in the chapters, not obnoxiously around every corner like the ASM game….

 I've also got to clear some space on my Vita for some actually fun games I want to play when I go on vacation towards the end of the month. I should have Dragon's Crown, Rayman Origins, PvZ, and Bentley's Hackpack all ready to go if I have the space for it. I'm certainly not playing AC Liberation or Black Ops Declassified while I'm there.  Worst purchases ever…..

Frederick_Playstation said:

gr8jrfan said:

Black Skinhead – Kanye West

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Ugh that song and album are so crap. Kanye has ruined himself since Graduation.

Dude, I actually totally agree with you. I definitely prefer old school Kanye than the stuff he's been doing now. I just got curious when I was listening to one of his older songs and then I was like, “Eh, this is OK, I guess…”

By the way, have you listened to Ill Mind 6 yet? What was that preachy shit? So corny…

I773D33MABL3 said:

Wrath of the Titans – Literally every aspect of this movie is arse. Premise is retarded, plot is mush, script is laughable, the actors seem embarassed to be there and the FX (considering they're the only selling point) are mediocre at best and downright mingin' at worst. Pegasus flying across the sky is genuinely painful to watch. Turned it off on the hour mark…

That is still to this day one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I actually made it all the way to the end of the film, but I really didn't enjoy getting there aside from laughing at it with the people that I was with.

Spent the last of my money on both parts of the Dark Knight Returns. (totally broke for a month now, beats working my ass off for minimum wage like Ben though! ) When they announced Man of Steel 2, Peter Weller read a quote from the second part:

“I didn't have to go easy on you. A different binding agent, a stronger mix… I want you to remember that. I wanted to remind you to stay out of my way. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who beat you!”

So I watched the movies and got super fcuking hyped. I'm a little disapointed they're not going to do a sequel with just Superman before the Batman crossover but maybe they'll accomplish what I wanted in the sequel while Batman's still there. Regardless, The Dark Knight Returns was really, really good. Once the Joker came out of retirement, everything kept me at the edge of my seat. Then there's the fight with Superman, which was beyond awesome, from a Batman fanatic's perspective at least. If that's the tone they're going with, the new Batman better be pretty badass….

I killed the Coalition!!!

And it's a good thing, too. It was only in today's session that we discovered Kristoff is a nurse from Silent Hill. Good god, I honestly don't know why James or Heather didn't ever toss the hand radio, because that static drove me nuts! So we nabbed the Mob of the Dead easter egg with a few small hitches but we came out on top, just like we always do.

120 HOURS IN SKYRIM AND I'M STILL GOING. HOLY SHIT, THIS GAME IS GOOD.

Saw the Lone Ranger a couple days ago and I thought it was pretty good. It definitely met my expectations and it was a lot of fun! That horse actually made me laugh a couple times, too.