Comments on: Monday Morning Nerd News Top 5

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:35:38 +0000

My reactions to ARMA II:
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Wow.
Great SFX.
Really great at putting me in the action.
So who are the bad guys?
Woah! Carpet bombing!
Are those aliens up there? What are those blobby things?
Sure takes a while to get there.
Interesting scope design.
Kinda feels like those artificial documentaries, like Cloverfield. Nice.
Where's he going?
Oh, those blobby things are smoke.
Look! Another guy!
Oh, we're going past him.
OK, we made it to the trees! Let's fight!
Ah, nothing to see there, I guess.
Wow, this is a big sandbox.
Really great SFX. I love the crickets.
Still not there?
Where are we?
What are we trying to do, anyway?
Ok, this is getting kinda boring.
Bore, boring, bored, borelicious, borumpus...
I wonder if I still have carrots in the fridge.
A carrot sounds good right now.
I wonder if I can make it to the fridge and back before anything happens.
Ah! We made it to the tanks!
Oh, something hit us! Sounds like we got jumped! Pull the knife!
Bombs. Ah. Dead. Gee willikers, that was fun. Woo hoo. Carrot time.

By: masurix

masurix — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:08:44 +0000

Also, I love the top five thing. Keep it coming!

By: masurix

masurix — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:06:28 +0000

@tyrantking: My mom was a platinum blonde little girl who grew up to have dark brunette hair. Weird, huh? But it does happen outside the movies.

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:12:46 +0000

Speaking of FX, thanks to Digital Domain, we have the technology to create a crappy performance of Ian Holm as young Bilbo with head replacement. Questionable whether Weta will choose fully CG crappy performance instead.

By: Kemper

Kemper — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:16:02 +0000

@ suiter - Re: The german kid working at Mr. Cluck's. Brilliant!

By: suiter

suiter — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:44:29 +0000

@Rosseau: As do Andy Serkis (Gollum) and Ian McKellan (Gandalf)

By: rosseau

rosseau — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Time Traveler's Wife looks like Journeyman from the wife's point of view. Can we have a moratorium on novels entitled The______'s Wife/Daughter? It's supremely annoying. In casting news, according to EW, Hugo Weaving reprises his king of the elves in Del Toro's Hobbit movies.

By: suiter

suiter — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:06:35 +0000

Did the german kid work at a Mr Clucks? - Conficker was also probably why Dr Candle didn't want the computer in the Swan being used for anything other than entering the numbers..

By: tyrantking

tyrantking — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:57:37 +0000

Thanks for making me full-fetal again. I had forgotten all about the time traveler's wife. Man i can't stand that book. And how did the blonde little girl turn into a brunette?

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:37:25 +0000

The way you described Soulless makes it seem like a ripoff of The Southern Vampire Mysteries that True Blood is based on.