If I could find the words to say, you know how that would ease my mind

May 15, 2008 21:51

I've just completed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Oh Em Gee this game brought the awesome. I mean, all the CoDs have had fairly decent single player campaigns, but this one just looked at all the others and went "not awesome enough. Lets add nukes." So they did, in a horrific way.

Oh, hold on, I was writing this while the closing credits happened, and there's a little mission at the end. A little mission I totally owned by the way, no accidentally shooting the hostage for me thank you very much.

This week I have watched films. First, Speed Racer. There has been a lot of criticism of this movie and I can understand all the complaints but at the end of the day, it's two hours of shiny bright lights in your face and who cares about plot, acting, dialogue et al when the choreography is just so damn good? Shut off your brain for a while and just think happy happy happy yay happy happy happy. If you didn't like it then your inner child is probably dead. Based on the old cartoon series, this is a film about a boy called Speed Racer who likes driving cars from the future in fast and acrobatic ways. His little brother fails to provide the comic relief, but there's a monkey and shiny shiny shiny bright.

Doomsday is awesome in a similar way. Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshall planned this movie much like grant_howitt plans his Wushu games; Think of some awesome scenes and then try to hang plot around them and if the plot doesn't quite fit, just make the scenes more awesome to make up for it. I'd try to explain said plot but why bother when here's all you need to know: Punk tribes and medieval knights roaming post-apocalyptic Scotland. High speed chases featuring a Bentley against a War-bus to the sounds of Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Dumb and win.

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