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People often say that things were simpler back then. It doesn’t matter when in time back then was, when a person says it or when that person was born, it was always simpler back then; Maybe they’re right and things have just always been heading toward some kind of complicated singularity, but I strongly believe that these people are wrong. Old people usually are. Things, generally, have been getting simpler and simpler with time, thanks…
Read MoreThe original Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was a GTA clone released back when open-world games could still be called GTA clones, which means that it had very little to do with GTA. You played the role of the eponymous mercenary sent to a war-torn North Korea to blow shit up and make money. Actually, you were there to “apprehend” (yeah, right…) 52 high-ranking officers of some North Korean faction, but you did it by blowing shit…
Read MoreI don’t post much about video games, in part because I don’t post much at all, but also because I don’t play enough of them to really talk about them in any helpful way. I also don’t really care about them and think that paying more than 20$ for a game is ridiculous, and so I never really enjoy new releases, at least not until they reach a bargain bin price and talking about them…
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I don’t know if you’ve heard about Ouya, the new(-ish) $99 Android-based, cell-phone hardware boasting “micro-console” by Ouya Inc., but whether you have or not, I think it’s worth the time to talk a bit about it, partly because its short history is already hilarious, but also because the original hype doesn’t seem to want to die down, and I fear that some people might be tempted to get one, despite its glaring flaws and preferable alternatives. The Ouya…
Read MoreThere are a lot of things that bother me in how people, in general, decide which movies are worth seeing and which ones are not. No, you don’t have to see Star Wars: Episode III just because it’s Star Wars, just like you don’t have to see Tron: Legacy because Daft Punk made the score. And you definitely don’t have to see Hitman because you liked the games. It bothers me because this kind of thinking is the…
Read MoreLike most of the posts I write, I think this one should start with a disclaimer: I don’t know much about music. I like music, as a whole, but I don’t know much about its history and I don’t really have an ear for it. I feel like I need to say this, because I don’t want anyone to think I know what I’m talking about. Please bear in mind that I will not be…
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It might be hard to believe, but the uptight movie geek that I am doesn’t hate all movies that involve time travel. I mean, time travel does turn my try-to-find-plot-holes dial to eleven, but I’m much more forgiving than I usually am (or even should be) when I notice time-related oddities. Nobody can get time travel right, so I might as well just enjoy just how wrong it can get. And it’s a good thing,…
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Every time I watch The Matrix: Reloaded, I like it more. It doesn’t mean much (and I know I use that phrasing a lot), because after seeing it for the first time in theatres I spent weeks putting my head around microwave ovens trying to erase it from my brain, but I think, with time, I learned to appreciate it for what it is. There’s also the fact that, at first, I had to compare it to the first Matrix…
Read MoreI don’t usually watch TV shows, because I hate the vast majority of them, but ever since I’ve been shown the glory of “Arrested Development” by a friend of mine, I feel like I have to give them a shot whenever someone insists that a series is worth my time. What always happens, however, is that (1) I say I pretty much never like TV series, (2) my friend insists that this one’s different, (3) I…
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With the recent release of Taken 2, a movie which I have no intention of ever seeing, I decided to do some introspection and think about why I even liked the first movie. I liked it when it came out, I still like it when I watch it again, I’ll probably like it the next time I see it, but for the life of me I don’t know why. I’ve always had a soft spot…
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