Bendable Blog

Yes I watched a chick flick without a chick around, it’s sad I know.  I don’t know why I even download these movies, the odds are I’ll have to watch them again with my next girlfriend; I should just save myself the hassle of watching it twice by not watching it in the first place (uhhh sure).  So anyway, as much as you could probably tell from the title (He’s Just Not That Into You) it was a RomCom, for some reason I didn’t put two and two together (that is my story and I’m sticking with it).

As you could probably guess from a movie staring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Long, and Kris Kristofferson it’s actually a pretty well acted movie.  The plot was actually pretty different from what I would have expected.

Actually I think it’s probably best you don’t let your girlfriend see this movie, it may end all happy and whatnot, but there are all these things they say in the movie that will just make her start judging you and thinking that you aren’t really that into her.  Just keep her in the dark.

I started to write my review of Quantum of Solace as I was watching Taken and very quickly turned my entire attention to Taken, which explains my unusually short post on Quantum of Solace.

In the movie Taken, Liam Neeson plays a retired spook who just wants to be a bigger part of his daughter’s (played excellently by Maggie Grace (“Lost”)) life.  Against his better judgment he allows her to take a trip to Paris, and no sooner does she get there and she is kidnapped by human traffickers.  Luckily he is on the phone with her when this happens and he immediately goes into action mode to save her.

The spy stuff and the fights in this movie seem very plausable and real, he doesn’t get off the plane and have his “contact” meet him to give him a bunch of gizmo’s and weapons, he just uses his wits and his hands to work his way up the chain to the big wigs of the organization, not sparing anyone along the way.  He is a complete badass that anyone would want in their corner when the shit went down.

Again I want to say Maggie Grace was perfect in this role, at the time the movie was filmed she was about 25, but she is playing a 17 year old so convincingly that I thought I was wrong when I saw her.  I thought she was the girl from “Lost”, but then I settled on her just being some younger girl who resembles her.  At no point did I think she wasn’t a 17 year old.  Really surprising.

This is a fantastic movie and I’m surprised I haven’t heard more of it, everyone should see this movie. 10/10

I watched the latest Bond film last night and I was surprised how much I liked it, much more than Casino Royale.  I like how they are basically restarting the series with Bond being a lot less polished and not relying on gadgets as much.  My only concern was that it’s basically a sequel to Casino Royale and I haven’t seen it in a while, so I couldn’t remember all the names they were throwing about so much.

I believe I like this Bond the best out of all of them. 8/10

I had heard a lot of good things about Dead Space for the PS3, so I finally decided to rent it a couple weeks ago and beat it over the course of two weeks.  In the end it took me over 15 hours of game play, which I feel is more than enough.  When I was younger some games lasted only a few hours, and I beat one game on the demo machine in Blockbuster.  Fifteen hours is also not too long, I never finished long games like Final Fantasy 7 or Oblivion mainly due to getting bored with such a long game.

Some of the really interesting things they did with Dead Space that I hope show up in other games is the lack of a HUD cluttering up the screen.  All relevant information is displayed in the game world.  The weapons have ammo counters on them, there is a health indicator on the character’s back, and any actual menu’s show up as 3d panes in front of the character, as if a hologram generator was displaying it in the real world.  The game wasn’t exactly scary, though I imagine it could be for some people, but I found myself getting tense at certain spots when I wasn’t sure what was around the corner.

When you beat the game you can play on “Impossible” level with all the weapons and armor you collected from the first time, but I still don’t think it has a lot of replayability.

Definately worth a rental, 9/10.