Short Reviews of Stuff You've Seen Recently

Review anything.

Books, music, movies, animus, restaurants, mass transit, drinks, art shows, ANYTHING. As long as it's something you've partaken in recently, have a go at it.

• A Very Harold And Kumar 3 D Christmas: I've seen all these jokes done better in other places. 2.5/5.
• Metropolis: Characters, music, background art, and animation excellent. However, the plot's too convoluted, the CGI's too conspicuous, and talking's a bit too much of a free action. 4/5
• The Tampa Tap Room: Kind of overpriced, and tends to run out of the good-tasting stuff early in the night. Fries are decent, but overcooked. You get enough for three people, though. Karaoke's fun to watch, especially when the participants are too drunk to form words. 3.5/5.

edited 19th Dec '11 12:00:18 PM by Wheezy

"The Girl In The Fireplace."

A nice little episode, very fun to watch. Drunk!Doctor was hilarious. Wish there could have been more of the horse. Cannot comprehend why so many fans hated Reinette. It's not like she really knew that much about Rose. Nor did I really believe that Ten had romantic feelings for her. They were cute together, though. Also, the whole ending could have been avoided because HELLO, TIME AND SPACE MACHINE AT YOUR CONVENIENCE, DOCTOR.

I like this idea.

Heroes Season 2- Less interesting new characters, less compelling plot, Adam Monroe is a badass 3.5/5

Skyrim: Big, pretty, interesting quests, fun to just wander around exploring dungeons, DRAGONS 5/5

Videodrome: Very surreal, just the way I like. What's that trope, the opposite of Fetish Fuel? 4/5

My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute: Very humourous in parts. Interesting premise, and the main set of characters are very well-rounded, and the story flows very well. Very well drawn. Really sucked me in.

Yellowcard's "When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes" (album): A nicely-polished piece from the Five-Man Band. The songs meld together well, and the pacing of the songs are very well set. The lyrics are standard for the pop-punk genre, but they show that the band hasn't run out of things to say, which cannot be said about similar acts with five albums. Very well put together, and little in the way of filler tracks.

• Garfield: Royal Rescue: Refuge in Cool in its purest form. Only a mad genius could turn the idea (evil) Prince William turning Big Ben into a laser cannon to try and kill Garfield into something that works.

• Warhammer: Dark Crusade High School: Definitely the My Immortal of Warhammer 40000, if in spirit and not in themes.

edited 23rd Nov '11 4:55:58 PM by SantosLHalper

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: Basically Assassin's Creed 2.5. You get to (briefly) pilot a Da Vinci-built tank, the little minigame where you send your assassin recruits off on missions is fun. For a master assassin, Ezio spends a lot of time renovating. 4/5.

Here It Goes Again by Ok Go: I love this song! It's so freaking catchy, and the lyrics aren't stupid at all! A little repetitive, though.

Hugo: I was expecting it to be like Steamboy. I was wrong, but that turned out to be a great thing. Loses half a point for The Queen's French, (a trope that's always me), but that's literally the only fault I've found with it so far. 4.5/5

edited 25th Feb '13 2:47:47 PM by Wheezy

Their third album is better.

Division Day's Mean Way In: A great album. Not quite as good as Beartrap Island, but it's pretty catchy. You have to hear it a few times to appreciate it, though; it just floats by on the first listen. 3.5/5

Twelve Monkeys: A possible "Shaggy Dog" Story that's very Terry Gilliam. Bruce Willis is less Bruce Willis-y than I expected, but it works. The whole film is very uncomfortable, but not necessarily in a bad way. 2.8/5

Brightest Day: Not half as good as Blackest Night. The Justice League: Generation Lost subseries had a few great moments, but all in all, there just didn't seem to be as much to care about. 1.9/5

edited 24th Nov '11 2:45:06 PM by BooleanEarth

Red Line.

Positives: Visual Effects Of Awesome, Awesome Art, Cast of Snowflakes.

Negative: A plot that manages to be both a Mind Screw and a Cliché Storm at the same time.

3/5.

edited 19th Dec '11 12:00:51 PM by Wheezy

• The Last Airbender: Even as a fan of the show, I found this to be not nearly as heinous as everyone says it is. It's a bit stupid and boring at times, and the actors had absolutely no personality, but that's why God made Rifftrax. Still, 1.5/5.

• The Rifftrax of The Last Airbender: Very funny. 5/5. (I should note that my computer was freaking out while I was watching it, so the commentary and the movie desynced a few times. It was aggravating, but meh.)

• Holiday Express's Happy Holidays: Pretty solid. And even if you don't like it or Christmas music (though it does contain a few non-Christmas songs, like "Lean on Me" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher"), it's for charity, so buy it anyway. A bit too many downbeat songs for my taste, but nothing that works against it too much. 4.75/5.

• My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm Home for the Holidays, a stand-up comedy show by Steve Solomon: A pretty funny stand-up show. A few too many gross-out jokes for my taste, but there really aren't that many at all in the show. 4/5.

• The Beach Boys in concert, featuring John Stamos: As much as people complain about Mike Love still touring with the Beach Boys name despite most of the group not being, well, part of the group anymore, he still knows how to put on one hell of a show. And knows how to make a "your mom" joke seem fresh. 4.5/5.

• La Choy Chow Mein Noodles: Deliciously addictive. 10000000000000000/5.

Horrible Bosses:

Fun flick. The humor isn't for everyone but if you're the type that likes crass, vulgar black comedy then you won't be disappointed. Felt very improvised, though that might just be a good script talking. I had a good time. 4 out of 5.

The Dresden Files. Best books I've read in three years. Start out as fairly standard Urban Fantasy, wizard detective, etc etc. Then you realise how much a wiseass Harry (and everyone else) is. Then you get into the more complicated plots, starting around book four.

Next thing you know, you're suffering from Awesomeness Withdrawal because you can't find the twelfth book.

Nine out of ten.

This new pipe I got: long, old-fashioned pipe, made of wood except on the, er, contact end. It's the best pipe I've ever used, next to Dusty's tavern pipe. Nine out of ten.

edited 19th Dec '11 6:38:27 PM by Exelixi

Just finished The Drawing Of The Three, the second book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I'm liking it a lot, just starting on the third book now. I recommend the series to those who want an interesting LOTR-like series.

Zombie Shooter 2: This game is like a mixture of Postal, Serious Sam, Larva Mortus, Borderlands and Pound Of Ground. That means that it's not half-bad. There were a lot of zombies, and a lot of shooting as well, but to a degree that I wasn't really expecting (if you set your character up right, the amount of ammo you can carry can go into six-digit figures, for starters). This game was kinda over-the-top, and I loved that. My complaints are: lack of graphical detail (forgivable, while I might nitpick about the graphics, it's only because I have a 1920x1200 monitor, so it wasn't able to reach my monitor resolution), repetitiveness in and near the endgame and the hilariously bad voice acting.

edited 19th Dec '11 6:49:02 PM by RocketDude

New 52 Animal Men: Interesting story, fantastic art, wonderfully disturbing. I feel like this should be a vertigo title though. 9/10

First episode of Stand Alone Complex

Absolutely fascinating setting with very nice dubbing.

10/10

Adolf: Climb up on Grandpa Tezuka's knee, kids, and he'll tell you a grand tale in nice clear language of why pacifism is the best thing ever... by traumatizing you with tons of scenes of violent death occuring to sweet-looking Tezuka cartoon people. :3 Damn good read, would definitely inflict on middle schoolers for great justice. The only thing I can say against it is that Toge isn't good-looking enough and his romance with Yukie seems a little contrived.

edited 19th Dec '11 7:48:57 PM by FurikoMaru

Just heard Justin Bieber's version of Someday At Christmas. Nicely done, kid, kept it classy. 7.8/10

Blam, you must hang yourself to repent. Now.

New Divide - I find it to be an all around awesome song. 9/10

Poor Biebs. He really didn't do a bad job! He treated Stevie Wonder's version with respect and didn't do any stupid jazzing up of it. I can't denounce him for just being Bieber.

the fuck you can't.

No, really, man, she can't. I know sometimes you forget, but humans have these things called 'mercy' and 'reason'.

edited 19th Dec '11 9:53:46 PM by FurikoMaru

I can't parse that first one. Whassit mean again?