Never Not A Nerd

There is a new release coming from Apple Corps and EMI Music regarding The Beatles.  Soon there will be an apple-shaped USB that contains the entire Beatles catalog.  The tracks will only be available with purchasing one of the 30,000 limited edition apple-shaped USBs.  The only problem is that you only have a stereo option, and the USB costs more than The Beatles Stereo Box Set.

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The new trailer for Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia adaptation actually got me pretty excited for the film and it didn’t even have anything to do with Jake Gyllenhaal’s rippling muscles, glistening in the Moroccan sun (this time anyways).  The imagery and special effects look beautiful and seamless. This bodes very well because the final product is really going to need a sense of epic grandeur to work for me.
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We’re three episodes deep into season four of The Venture Bros, a cartoon parodying some of Hanna Barbera and Marvel Comics’ finest characters.  The show follows Dr. Venture, a failed super-scientist who, with his two sons Hank and Dean as well as his bodyguard Brock Samson, go on bizarre adventures that show just how terrible life can be when you mess around with clones, supervillains, and dogs that are actually Hitler.  As always, the show is doing amazing things for the sake of illustrating a series of disgrace and misery the cast is forced to deal with.  It’s on a train of hilarity and it never seems to be derailing.

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One week from today Modern Warfare 2 comes out in stores.  If you didn’t know that, you either don’t care about video games or you live under a rock somewhere.  This is the game that has sent most other big-budget games running for the first few months of 2010.  And in the current state of the economy I think if Modern Warfare 2 sells as many copies as Modern Warfare did it will be a success.

I also want to include a trailer from Wes Anderson’s newest film Fantastic Mr. Fox.  It’s a stop-motion animation film with a great voice cast based on Roald Dahl’s book and it looks great.

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The first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game was pretty awesome. It was one of the greatest Marvel beat’em ups ever released and it wrought pure ethereal fanboy joy whenever you played the game with three of your friends on the couch. Overall, Ultimate Alliance 2 keeps the same game mechanics from the first game, but it just doesn’t quite give the players a better or even equal playing experience. Certainly the new addition of fusion powers (combining 2 heroes powers together for double the damage) is cool initially, but there are many clones that ruin the awe of possibilities when you play through the tutorial stage. In fact, that’s a way to describe the progression of the game. As the game goes on, there is less and less to expect from it which culminates in a pretty mundane feeling as you complete it. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since I first saw the teaser poster for Where the Wild Things Are, I was pumped to see Spike Jonze’s adaptation (no pun intended). The theatrical trailer blew me away as it teased the childhood adventure that I wanted to see on the big screen oh so very badly. It is with a heavy heart that I must admit Spike Jonze did not deliver a wonderfully crafted adventure for all ages. This movie is not the book that I remember falling asleep to in my small bed that harbored all of my monstrous fears. Instead, Where the Wild Things Are is an indie-movie masterpiece that takes an amazing adventure about being a child and dresses it up to be a snooty art house picture that very much has its own agenda of being artsy and message-ridden. This is truly a shame as the film shuts out every young child sitting in the theater and beats every other person in the room with symbol after symbol of the dangers of childhood. Read the rest of this entry »