Dvds that are on there way.

Due to the 50% sale on Criterion dvds I had to pick up at least one so I finally had the money to order some dvds. The funny thing is my list at the start of this month was completely different then the list I ordered. I ended up getting the dvds I had kept taking off of my list in the past and then two that I had seen the trailers and thought they looked good. I am trying to get a bluray with each order and this time I got two.

Chungking Express Blu-ray Spine #453
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (this is the one I kept taking off the list) Spine #175
Naked Lunch (This is another I kept taking off as well) Spine #220
Walkabout Blu-ray Spine #10

I do not know anything about any of the films other than the trailers for each film and that Naked Lunch and Fear and Loathing are really strange. Side note I would have to say that the Naked Lunch trailer has to be one of my favorites.

UFC 117 Thoughts

To start off I want Thiago Silva to win his fight because I really don't want to see him get cut. Now for the card it is.
Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen
Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves
Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida
Roy Nelson vs. Junior dos Santos
and heres how I think things will go down. start from the frist fight of the night.

1) I am still not a fan of dos Santos just because they keep giving him no challenging fights. I wanted to see dos Santos Vs Cain Velasquez for the number one spot but nope instead he will fight Roy Nelson. So with that I am picking Roy Nelson by Kimbo Slice style meaning Roy will take him down and control the fight.
2) Now this fight for me is really hard to call so I will flip a coin. Matt Hughes by Decision
3) Now I am not a fan of Clay's but he can really fight a war and so with that I am going with him by a Decision
4) I see Fitch wining but by a Decision I don't think Alves can out wrestle Fitch and that's where this fight will be.
5) I would love for the middleweight division to be explained to me. With Maia coming off of a one fight win streak and now Chael is fighting him it makes no sense. I am not saying Chael can't pull off a Matt Serra fight but he doesn't deserve the title fight to begin with. Think of it this way Jon Fitch has a 4 fight win streak and has only lost once in the 13 fights he's had in the UFC and yet he doesn't get another title shot. Chael is coming off of a 3 fight win streak all due to a 3rd round Decision. I think all Chael can do is talk crap. I don't think we have even seen the Anderson that wants to kill yet. UFC really needs to stop putting Anderson up against guys that can only do one thing. Anderson will win either in the frist 2 rounds or welcome to another boring ass fight crowd prepare to BOO..

Side note I HATE it when the audience starts to fucking boo we are watching the fight as well and not only are we board as hell but now we have annoying assholes that wont shut the hell up. If you don't like a fight STFU and leave!

UFC Live: Jones vs. Matyushenko Thoughts

So UFC Live airs live on Augs 1st and These are my thoughts on who will win.
Jon Jones vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
Mark Muñoz vs. Yushin Okami
John Howard vs. Jake Ellenberger
Tyson Griffin vs. Takanori Gomi

I want Vladimir Matyushenko to win but I think Jon Jones will TKO him maybe the 2nd.
Yushin Okami will beat Mark Muñoz in a 3 round decision
I going to take a shoot and say Jake Ellenberger over John Howard Via 3 round decision
Now I really want Takanori Gomi to win but I know Tyson Griffin will win a 3 round decision or TKO.

Hunger Criterion #504

So on Wednesday I got Hunger in the mail. It was directed by Steve McQueen. In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. It premiered  in 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival wining Steve McQueen the prestigious Caméra d'Or award.

I bought the film on Blu-ray because I wanted to see the amount of detail that Steve McQueen put into his frist movie and It was outstanding. Other then the 18 minute still shoot there is maybe 5 minutes of talking. He uses the camera to show whats going on rather than explaining it. I really like how the prison looks on the inside.This movie is pretty brutal if you have a weak stomach or don't like violence, That's this whole story. Now this film set a record for the longest uncut still frame shot in a mainstream movie. The length is 18 minutes long which I didn't find boring but I found it hard to understand what they where talking about, they talked really fast I recommend subtitles for the scene.

Over all this film was really powerful. The 18 minute scene comes out of no where but the film is still great. The sound is powerful. There is a part where all the guards are banging their shields and then bringing the criminals out and beating them and just the sound in that scene really puts you in that hallway. For a criterion film there is no commentary track on the disc which is a huge let down. But there is an interview with McQueen and Michael Fassbender (who plays Bobby Sands). Also a BBC program on the prison and a short documentary on the making of Hunger + a booklet with a 5 page essay.

Crackdown 2 Review

My brother rented Crackdown 2 on sunday and so I got to play it and I really enjoyed it. I played the frist one which was a surprise hit for me because I only bought it to get the halo 3 beta on it. Actually when they showed it at E3 I thought it would be horrible the art style just looked bad to me at the time. Anyways Crackdown (the frist one) is my favorite sandbox game reason is because the collectables are rewarding, I want to get all the orbs where as in other games they are there just for padding. I always tend to run around and jump rather than drive I just find being "Hulk" is a lot more enjoyable than to drive.

Now for Crackdown 2 they added some new stuff like when you max out one of your stats you can get cool moves. For example if you get level 5 agility you get wings so that you can glide. Also for level 5 toughness you can jump up hold B and smash the ground with your fist. In my game I have all max stats and level 4 driving so I don't know if you get something wicked for level 5 driving. The gameplay is awesome pretty much the same as the frist. In this one you are fighting Cell and "zombies" they call them freaks. Now for the new modes of play there are Freak breaches which you can only do at night where you just have to close a hole by killing X amount of freaks. There are also Cell strong holds where you have to kill X amount of Cell troops to capture the location. There are secret orbs and agility orbs, stunts, flying "stunts", and audio diaries where you learn a little about cell, the freaks and a rouge agent.

Now for what I am not a huge fan of the story. In the frist one you are out there to kill a bunch of gang leaders to take back your city. In this one after a virus breaks out and disables agency tower your task is to activate all the beacons. Which means no cool boss character pictures or cool story on why you are killing them. You are really just running around clearing maybe 5 bad guys and standing on a pad, 30 seconds latter move to the next. It's really a huge let down. Towards the end of the game I actually thought that after I got agency tower working I would wipe out cell but no luck.

I have had some glitches happen and so has my brother. I got stuck under a floating device and to fix it the game spat me out side it which was nice. Now this was funny my brother was fighting some freaks at the very start of the game and I think maybe two freaks explode on both sides of him or something. Anyways all we saw was an explosion and then the agent shot up thousands of feet into the air way above any other building (it sky rocketed upward for about 15-20 seconds and then what goes up must come down luckily he could move himself into the water to live.

So that game is awesome but the story is really lacking it doesn't stand out from all the rest of the games missions. There are no little mini videos or any of that from the frist But there's a third one coming out so fingers crossed.

What I got in the mail 21\07\2010

Today I got my copies of The Wages of Fear Spine #36 on blu-ray and Hunger Spine # 504 on blu-ray. Now I have not seen either of these movies and no nothing other than they are apparently really great films so I can not wait to watch them. I will be watching Hunger tonight so I am looking forward to it.

Thinking back on Silent Hill Home coming

Thinking back on that game I found it really fun. I am really wanting to play the other ones. I am thinking right now I am liking the silent hill series more than resident evil. I did finish it in 3 days (10-12 hrs). I ended up running past the bad guys because they are just a waste of ammo. It was tense for me at parts when I had no life or ammo and had to fight some bad guys. I was not really in the mood to play it on day 3 but after an hour I really got sucked into it and wanted to finish it. The achievements for the 360 are really easy to the point where you just need to kill one of each bad guy. there is some more like collect all the drawings and other collectables (thank you to which ever game created those).