The Other Guys

"I'm going to break your hip". These words by themselves don't mean very much, but when heard in this movie they are the funniest words I've heard all year.

The Other Guys is an action comedy, buddy movie starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Ferrell plays a police force accountant, while Wahlberg plays the role of a troubled detective. Both officers have been shunned by the rest of the department and each other (although, Ferrell's character is definitely feeling the cold shoulder more).

While the movie starts off as some sort crazy buddy movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson, their roles in the movie take an absolutely hilarious turn in the movie, at which point our two headliners take centre stage.

The film also stars Eva Mendez as Ferrell's inexplicably hot wife, Steve Coogan as a sort helpless villain and the simply fantastic Michael Keaton as 'Captain Gene'.

As you would expect from the consistently funny Will Ferrell, a lot of the scenes are improvised and generally hilarious as a result. The pairing would normally generate red flags to a regular movie-goer, actually works really well- Wahlberg also comes across as having a fantastic sense of humour and the chemistry between the two stars is truly entertaining to watch.

The film plays out as you would expect, but some truly funny scenes, great casting and even better chemistry, make this a really funny and enjoyable flick.

If you don't like Will Ferrell, you definitely won't like this and while it doesn't do anything particularly new, there is something truly unique in it and as such, I have to recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour.


4/5

NEW TRAILER 'The Last Guardian'

So, in complete contrast to the metaphorical rape of Devil May Cry, below (2nd video) is a trailer of the new game from the creators of 'Ico' and 'Shadow of the Colossus'; The Last Guardian. Also, I've embedded the trailer for the Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection.

If you have not played these two games, there is HD remake coming early next year and you would be a fool to not pick them up.
In any case, take a look at the video below and enjoy. I know I will.

An open letter to Capcom

Dear Mr. Capcom,

Recently you announced the next game in the Devil May Cry series. I am huge fan of the series and was quite excited by this announcement. Well, I was excited in so far as there was a new Devil May Cry game.Unfortunately, you decided to metaphorically piss all over your creation and the fans of said creation via two stupid mother f**king decisions.

Firstly, you decided to put a team (Ninja Theory) with no track record of quality onto the task of developing one of your most popular franchises. In fact, they only produced one game and let me tell you this.... Heavenly Sword is not, I repeat- Heavenly Sword is not a good basis to decide to hand the development of this game over to Ninja Theory. In fact, there is no scenario whatsoever, where they should be developing this game or to be honest- ANY GAME!!!

Secondly, you decided to change one of your most iconic characters into this:-

Which one is Prince?

Dante has just seen his redesign....LOCK YOUR F**KING DOORS!!!

I think this small child expresses my feelings perfectly



Yours fucksakely,

Fuck you Capcom

SOTC

For those of you who don't know (or don't care), the Tokyo Game Show is on this week and there are strong rumours that a HD version of Shadow of the Colossus will be announced at a Sony conference. For me and millions of other gamers, this is a big deal.
Shadow of the Colossus and it's predecessor are known as one of the greatest games of all time and the demand for HD versions of the games is extremely high.

SOTC in particular is a prime example of immersion in a game. The game begins with a strange warrior riding over a bridge carrying an unconscious maiden. They arrive at a temple where he lays her down on an alter. The temple is home to a mysterious voice which tasks the warrior with defeating several colossi in order to save the life of the maiden. And so the game begins....

The sense of loneliness in this game is fantastic and even though the protagonist never speaks, the player is easily and quickly immersed in the universe and the graphics still hold up to this day.
If you haven't played this game, you seriously need to. If you have never even heard of it, you truly are missing out on a classic.

My most overrated and over appreciated movies.

 Yes, you can over appreciate movies. Like anything in life, rose tinted glasses help to blind you from the truth that a movie or any form of artistic medium isn’t actually that good.

A personal example for me would be the film...........wait for it..............just a little longer.....................’Don’t be a Menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the Hood’. Firstly, don’t judge me. I was an innocent child who didn’t know any better. I thought it was the funniest thing ever. The toilet humour was great. The references were great (even the ones I didn’t get). I thought it was a hidden gem. I thought wrong.

I grew up; grew some hair, voice broke slightly and my brain developed a little more. The film is about as much fun as an episode of Eastenders. Terrible, terrible stuff.  It is from the same morons who brought you your favourite classics such as Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3, Disaster Movie and ‘Put random noun in front of the word 'movie', in a hapless attempt at implying fun shenanigans Movie’.

If you are thinking of putting an end to it all, pop one of the Wayans brother’s movies into your VHS player and you’ll soon discover the courage to continue fighting the good fight. Because, no matter how sad your life gets, you know the rest.

Anyways, back to the task at hand (see above title)

1)      Apocalypse Now

The story is if I can recall, is that a crazy General (Marlon Brando) has set up a cult in a Vietnamese jungle and a soldier (Martin Sheen) is sent in to take him out. First reaction is, YAWN! Second reaction is sigh and the final motion is hit eject.

The film tries to come across as some sort of 2001: A Space Odyssey set in a jungle. Don’t get me wrong, the plots are like chalk and cheese, but the director’s attempt at trying to ignite some deep, meaningful thought from the viewer failed on me. I come from the school of thought that you should say what you mean, as chopping off the head of a cow doesn’t really get your point or any point across.

In the end, the soldier kills the general while also on some sort of psychedelic mind trip to the twilight zone.

What the hell is the movie about?!!! Someone tell me! Answers on a postcard or just leave a comment below.

2)        2001: A Space Odyssey

*stretches fingers*.......*coughs*...........*sniffs*..........

Fuck it! Next!

3)        The Godfather Trilogy

I don’t get it. I don’t understand what the hype is for these movies and what the hate is for the 3^rd one of the series. I mean, it can’t be any more boring than the first two films.

Firstly, I have to admit, that I didn’t sit through the whole lot of any of the movies, but that’s because I was bored witless. They are gangster movies, more specifically about one specific family. It follows the rise and fall (? I don’t know what happens in the end) of Michael Corleone. If you like movies about the mafia, perhaps you’ll like it. If you don’t, like me, you’re going to struggle to see what all the fuss is about.

It’s a movie about what a Mafia family got up to during the 20th century. Why was this film given Oscars?! It’s really not that interesting. At best, it’s a heavily funded soap opera with swearing and guns.

4)      Blade Runner

Man living in a futuristic Tokyo-esque city. Hunts gang of criminal Androids. Androids look like humans. Man uses test to see if Androids are human or not. Man finds gang of androids and takes them out one by one.  Man has final face off with head android on a rooftop in the rain. Android gives emotional speech and then dies. Man’s partner suggests that Man is an android. Man dreams unicorn (as you do). Film ends.

I

DON’T

GET IT!

5)      The Sixth Sense

This is the most modern example of an overrated movie. The premise is about a boy who sees ghosts or ‘dead people’. He also has some sort of counsellor played by Bruce Willis. In the end, it turns out that his counsellor is also a ghost. What a fantastic twist. I mean the movie was actually quite boring, but you know the twist at the end is fantastic. Isn't it? it's just fantastic really. Sorry, I couldn't quite hear you, could you speak up? I said, that the twist at end was fantas...WRONG!!!

If on it's original release, I was to remove that twist at the end, the movie would have taken a trip on the hype train, destination- Yawn ville, home of the famous Goldfish wildlife preserve . You know what, leave the twist in. It’s still going on the train, together with all the other hundred movies who tried to do the same trick of making the audience think one thing and then reveal at the end that their preconceived notions were wrong. OOOOhhh AAAAAAAh  THAT’S..................................shit.

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Modern Warfare 2: Special lag tear my bloody hair out edition

Sweet mother of jeebus. Here is a list of my most hated problems with this game...

Lag. Yes, with all the money the fat bastards at Activision are bringing in, you'd think that they'd have the decency and appreciation for human kind that they would use dedicated servers for this game. As you can see in my last sentence, there was no question mark. That's because it was a rhetorical question. Another example of a rhetorical question is as follows- Would I piss on Bobby Kotick if he was on fire and only he could save mankind from the Apocalypse?  

Kill Streaks. Those of us who regularly play the game all love the get out kill streaks. I personally have developed a taste for the old AC130. But unfortunately, the game can at times be unbalanced, resulting in a flurry of harriers and pavelows followed by countless chopper gunners, without any hope of destroying them. My suggestion is for everyone to go and spray paint Bobby F**kwit's house (It won't get rid of the AC130 blackened skies, but it will make you feel better)

Campers. Brainless little children who can barely hold the controller in their hand (much less have some skill and take down some players), sitting in a fookin corner and killing the 2 people that might walk by throughout the whole match. Of course the people that they do manage to kill are themselves one kill away from calling in their killstreaks. Rumour has it that Bobby Cocknose hired out his 700 children (from his 50 deformed wives) to play MW2 and sit underneath digital leaves to piss off the people who he financially raped so they could pay for the game.

Any other suggestions, leave it in the comments below. Now back to some more punishment

Introduction- BY ORDER OF THE KING

Hello fellow humans.

My name is Liam, which should be pronounced 'Lee- am'. I am Irish, in my mid twenties and I decided that I would give this whole website thing a crack of the whip.

My interest in most definitely in the area of the media, more specifically, I love my movies and computerised gaming and music as well (although, I think I'll reserve my muscial comments to ranting about the current state of the 'music' industry)

Unfortunately for me I also take great pleasure in hearing about the ongoing failings of people like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, people who when it's all said a done are more famous for failing than succeeding. So maybe on occasions, I might have something to say on these talentless trollops.

So please give me a chance and I'll try and update this blog with reviews, opinions and funny links/videos. I might even get some other people to give their opinions as well.

Thanks for reading.