Merry Christmas from ITB!

Don’t get caught by Robot Santa!

The Great Christmas Haul

Got a few surprises and things I’ve wanted for a long time.

Quite Griping

Compare it to the old Alien Trailer. You'll hear and see a few familiar things:

There and Back Again

The Fire Rises

The Dark Knight Rises Prologue Thoughts

Sorry folks, got shut down for a few minutes there. But all is well, just had to sign the new terms stuff. Well, now that’s settled; On with the show:

Yes, I saw it. No it wasn’t with Mission: Impossible: Tom Cruise doing the same stuff (no offense to Brad Bird), but I did see it through the latest Batman viral: Operation Early Bird. And if you participated through this you received one of two shirts:

I only received the Batman shirt and I’ve decided to keep it this time. Got to keep some rare shirts sometimes. The prologue started at 10:30pm and well got to the Universal CityWalk IMAX theater quite early. So I took in to see The Muppets first (quite nostalgic really). So after about a few hours waiting for the line to start and about 3 hours waiting in the actual line finally got down to watching the Prologue. It is indeed short, but even for the first 7 minutes it sure does beat a Mission: Impossible movie any day. I won’t talk too much about it, but there was indeed a lot to see, and a lot to hear.

I’d tell you to watch it in front of Mission: Impossible, but if you actually want to see the movie, then go ahead and pay the IMAX ticket. If not, go watch Sherlock Holmes 2 for the newer Trailer. Either way, one shouldn’t be too disappointed. Hm, there may be one problem with the prologue for first timers. If you care to find out, well, see it for yourself. It’s the best quality I can find and you can see stuff alright. At least the audio quality is pretty ok. Scene sounds almost as good as when I heard it in the theater:

A Dr. Seuss Story is Slightly Ruined by Hollywood

If you know the story or have seen the old animated TV short, you’ll know what’s changed:

Not all bad though. Looks fine on its own, but still its been a bit butchered.

Top 10 Anticipated Movies for the Final Year of Earth: 2012

Yeah, I know its early, but there’s way too many movies to talk about for next year. Its [probably] not the final year of Earth, but Hollywood seems to think it is for all those sweet movies coming next year. Lets start with ten:

10.) Arrietty

Its not directed by Hayao Miyazaki, but its another amazing looking Studio Ghibli film. Lets see what they can do on their own.

9.) Gravity

One reason: Alfonso Cuarón. A great director that makes any genre his own. Also did you know he directed A Little Princess? I kinda have this love/hate with the movie. I kinda love it more knowing he directed it. Anyway, Gravity will be a Science Fiction movie and the previous one he directed was Children of Men which was a spectacular movie even though it was greatly depressing. Great Michael Caine cameo though. Guillermo Del Toro said its mind-blowing and I will believe in anything that dude says. Oh, and Alfonso also directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

8.) World War Z

Based on the popular Zombie book by Max Brooks this one should be an interesting one to watch. I haven’t really finished the book yet, (Its got a weird storytelling) but it should translate well into theaters. Also some weird stuff has been going on the set including actual real guns which were mistaken for prop guns was almost used. Also a leaked 10 minute scene shows promise which was filmed all in one shot.

7.) Django Unchained

(That picture is from Sukiyaki Western Django by the way, go watch it!) Quentin Tarantino has been wanting to do this one for years. He has talked about this project ever since he has started directing movies. This one is a western and seeing as he has many great films on his roster this one will no doubt be another one. The film also has a great cast lined up.

6.) The Amazing Spider-Man

I was disappointed by the reboot. I’m already missing Sam Raimi, but here we are. New actors, new Spider-Man, and a slightly altered story. My only hope is if they bring back J.K Simmons as J.J. Jameson. It doesn’t matter if he was in the other movies. There is absolutely no one else to fill this role. Get him back! Other potential stuff for this movie: Real life web-slinging, (I’ve been told they did as little CGI as they could here. Could be good) Andrew Garfield is being incredibly nerdy about the role (a dream come true apparently), Emma Stone, and it was filmed at my old High School. Sweet. Also Spider-Man movie based Video Games are actually good (Except for the 3rd one). So there’s that.

Dishonorable Mentions:

Titanic 3D: Watching a real-life tragedy, a young Leonardo DiCaprio (We’ve all seen or heard about it by now) freeze to death, and a naked Kate Winslet in 3D? Really? I understand Star Wars, but this? Did you not think this one through James Cameron?

The Three Stooges: What happened with this movie? It was going so great until Fox took over and now it looks like something similar to Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, or a Garfield Live Action movie. Three Stooges doesn’t deserve this. Why ruin the classic slapstick trio Fox? Why destroy classic franchises with your death touch?

Battleship: Watch the trailer. Based on the classic board game by Milton Brad- No I’m sorry. As much as that is true; it just isn’t. Its so wrong…Best part about the movie is Liam Neeson. It’s all that it has going for it…I hate you sometimes Hollywood…What the…Rihanna?

 

5.) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Guillermo Del Toro may have stepped down, but here comes Peter Jackson back in the directors chair to helm the prequel to his much praised (and rightly so) mega Trilogy: “The Lord of the Rings”. So far it’s a bit of a mixed bag with the Production photos showing up so far. But this is what Peter Jackson does best so I will do my best not to judge. Reminder: This is another two parter movie. This is Part One.

4.) Brave

Once named “The Bear and the Bow”; here’s the next project from Pixar. Not so much hype so far as all we got so far is a teaser in which we see a red haired girl shoot an arrow at a grizzly bear. Its not exactly selling the movie (As beautiful as she looks), but hey its Pixar. I expect many good movies from them. At least its not a Cars sequel.

3.) The Dark Knight Rises

Here it is. The last in the trilogy of Batman films by Chris Nolan is greatly hyped. I am also doing my best to avoid any set scenes from the movie. I know too much already though, even seeing a scene that is a major plot point. The biggest thing I’ve seen though is probably the worst, mostly because of how integral to the story it is. Please avoid all photos as you can. Catwoman photos are fine though. They can never be avoided. Try to avoid Bane, though. Mostly because of the people who whine about it. He looked great in the teaser so there’s no need to worry. Everyone will watch it, it will be incredible, it will (probably) be the biggest box office phenomenon ever, so everyone stay calm and carry on.

2.) The Avengers

 

For the same that can be said for The Dark Knight Rises, the same can be said for The Avengers, even if there isn’t much to watch anymore as most scenes filmed outdoors have been finished apparently. There’s a lot going on with the filming, but again everything is spoilery. Which is why I won’t say much but avoid photos and rejoice that Joss Whedon is directing. Oh, and enjoy the trailer in one of my older posts. So why isn’t this number one?

 

Honorable Mentions that didn’t make the list:

Before we get to number one, here’s some other movies to look forward to:

Dredd - Its another Judge Dredd movie. Lets just hope he doesn’t take off his helmet this time and won’t be a bad movie.

Men in Black III - Didn’t care much for the second movie. Let’s hope for a better outing for this movie.

GI Joe 2 - We got a different director for this one and will be treated as somewhat as a reboot to forget the last one.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence - (See GI Joe 2 description)

Totall Recall - Nothing much can be said about this one, but Bryan Cranston will be in it and its a reboot of an already good Sci-fi movie. Its more of a wait and see type of movie.

GhostBusters III - I don’t know if this will make it in time for 2012 or if it will actually be made. Bill Murray may or may not be in it and that’s all we really know.

Star Trek Sequel - Also may not make it to 2012 as well. But hey, reboot was awesome so this one should be as well.

Arrested Development The Movie - Apparently its finally happening. But its more likely coming 2013.

 

1.) Prometheus

Better Question: Why is this number one? Well, for one thing its directed by Ridley Scott. Another thing: It looks and sounds completely amazing. Ridley Scott returns to his Sci-fi roots as he helms a prequel to his Alien franchise. As boring as that sounds, it has very little to do with the Aliens we all know and love. In fact they will have very little screen time and will look (supposedly) completely different. This film does feature an alien, but a specific alien. Which is that of a very much alive space jockey. This one. Also it will look incredibly creepy as it will be shown as a full animatronic. Thank god. Also something about interspecies rape and a bunch of other insane and crazy stuff is rumored to be in the script. Here’s a small synopsis: “A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.”

Earth's Mightiest Heroes

It's Got A Wonderful Defense Mechanism. You Don't Dare Kill It.

• The Simpsons may be over sooner than the creators once claimed. There’s a contract dispute were FOX wants to start cutting costs including the actors paycheck. Can the voice actors really win with their 400k an episode (Not including the merchandise)? Oh, and Dexter could end as well.
• Apple announced a new iPhone the other day. Its an update of the recent iPhone. People will still buy it. People are stupid. Lets move on.
• Batman has a new animated series coming….it looks and sounds weird….
• An Arrested Development movie looks well on the way! But wait, there’s more?! Not only movie, but a Miniseries will also be made to go into the movie! The TV gods actually listened! Joy. Oh, and this happened.
• Now that we finished with iPhones lets talk about Microsoft’s Zune HD. Well its officially dead. Rather depressing since I actually own one of these wonderful devices, but again Apple wins. I guess it is all about quantity over quality.
• Well that time of year is here. My favorite season of the year. It is that of fall. The slow transition into cooler weather and when horror movies start appearing more frequently on cable. I usually start watching as many horror movies as I can and buy a few on the side. This year I am trying to find the best horror Blu-rays from all the online sales. They are very frequent this month and more frequent during the holiday season. But back to this season. So far I have brought “The Evil Dead” and “Alien” to my Blu-ray collection, both excellent Blu-rays. I have yet to decide on the third though. Anyways, buy horror Blu-rays now everyone!

If anyone can guess where the news title came from, a Blu-ray movie I watched yesterday, you win the internet for today!

One of the Greatest Movie Trilogies is now on Blu-ray…

…and I have no plans to buy it. You may have heard of these Holy Grails. Star Wars on Blu-ray. Every Star Wars fan has waited for this day for them to be released. But these aren’t the movies we are looking for right now…

As much as I love these movies, I can’t bring myself to buy them. Sure I was crushed by how much George Lucas as done to the Original Trilogy and ignored it, but this…this has become a bit too much. Sure making graphical changes and adding a scene or two is nice, but changing key scenes to your own stories just seems very wrong. Especially in the ways Lucas seems to think are “good” changes. For example:

What? Is this supposed to be a reference to Darth Vader’s nooo in Revenge of the Sith? It just doesn’t work that way.

Here’s another change. It doesn’t really change the story, but its just weird and annoying:

Yeah…as much as I would love to see Star Wars on Blu-ray I can’t own these. There have been way too many changes than I ever wanted done to these movies. I really don't want to see the "Jedi Rocks" and Hadyen Christensen "ghost Anakin" sequences in glorious HD either. I’ll look for the extras around YouTube. And probably rent them or through other unmentionable means. By the way, did anyone else see the box art inside and out? The cover makes no sense and the inside art seems like it was all picked randomly. What a mess of a Blu-ray.

Oh, well. At least Rocketeer and Hook where announced on Blu-ray recently. Also I predicted The Crow to be out on Blu-ray and that’s coming soon as well.

Update: ...ok, I might want the Star Wars set for the extras.

Interesting News Everyone!

For one year only, WonderCon moves to Anaheim, CA in 2012! Yep next year Southern California will be spoiled with a plethora of Conventions which all sound quite exhausting since I probably will now visit them all. WonderCon is usually hosted in the much northern Californian city of San Francisco, but because of construction in the Moscone Center it was decided it had to be moved to another area for the year. And so Anaheim Convention Center was chosen as the temporary area where the second D23 was also held. It will be interesting to note that this will be the convention to go to right before the Summer movie season begins. Official convention dates are March 16-18.

Still Alive

Well, I certainly haven't kept up to my promises have I? That's about to change. Been staying off my blog for far too long. I will be coming back in full writing form very soon (I really mean it this time). There's some new very important stuff going on around the world, both good and bad, but hopefully mostly good. I won't get to the bad today, but for now I will post the very cool Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Gold Bundle which will be coming to us on November 20th. For twenty dollars more you get the game, a Gold Wii-mote, and the 25th Anniversary Symphony CD:

E3 2011: The Experience

Today I return to talk about E3. But this year was different. Usually I talk about the conferences and how different new games look awesome and how I probably won't even get to play them for a long time or at all. But, again I say, this year was different. This year I got to experience E3 hands-on. This year: I got in. (See what I did there kids?)

E3 is truly the magical place as it looks on TV. Watching it on TV or from the internet is definitely not the same as experiencing it in person as most would guess. I think one of the biggest things to see at E3 are the booths. Oh the glourious booths. With most games set up as if each booth was a giant arcade; you can tell this was E3. No where else would you see something like this even if they are just 5 minute demos or a quick preview of the game. You know full well that most of these games will not be out until next year or later this year (or sometimes cancelled altogether), which makes you feel even more privileged to be here.

But I can tell you one thing, if you are a dedicated Gamer and happen to go to E3 (which every gamer should experience) one thing you have to know about E3 is that it is both an equally amazing and brutal place to be.

If you are a dedicated gamer, like me, you will have to stand in the biggest lines you have ever waited in just to try the biggest and best games at E3. At E3 I spent most at my time at the Nintendo and EA booth and hardly touched any other big company game maker. Don't get me wrong, from both game company and studio, their games were a blast to play. I just wish I went to more big studio or company booths to play their games. From Nintendo I got to experience the Wii U, Nintendo's newest gaming innovation system. The line wasn't so bad either since I got to meet some new acquaintances here (The 3 hours was a breeze). The new controller is comfy even with the ambitious touch screen built into it. The new games displaying in their new HD glory was also quite a treat to witness and get my hands-on. Their was also a series of tech demos which included one for Legend of Zelda which was awe-inspiring. Link has never looked so good in full 1080p resolution. And a giant spider...hate those guys.

From the list of games I got to play was something called "Chase Mii" and New Super Mario Bros Mii. The New Super Mario Bros. Mii game is just really an update to the older (it actually isn't really that old) Wii title and updated with HD graphics and you can now play with you Mii character. Now with Chase Mii, this was quite an interesting party game. 4 people take 4 Wii controllers and play as 4 different colored Toads while they look around for the 5th person using the new Wii U controller and his Mii character is dressed as Mario. The 5th player uses the Wii U controller and its screen and hides in the game while the other four players try and catch him and can only see (honor system, although the Nintendo observers who pointed out my location was kinda was annoying) on the TV screen. This was one of the few games which demonstrated the potential the system has.

Other stations included a shooter which has people dressed as Samus as their Mii characters and one character taking control of Samus' spaceship called Battle Mii; another fun game to play, but didn't really push the hardware either.

Here's some gameplay that IGN recorded:

The other 2 games included were Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online and Shield Pose. Shield pose was another nice mini-game and probably one of the cutest games of all. Here's why:

After that it was the 3DS games. The new games looked really great, unfortunately as I played with more of those games I got to see how unnecessary and how 3D really needs some work on the 3DS. Hopefully Nintendo can fix this with a 3DS lite in the future (I honestly don't want to see the 3D to become more or too gimmicky on this thing I want it improved). There was one really great game that was a joy to play on 3D and that was the free Excitebike game 3DS players can download now for free. This is how 3D should be seen on the 3DS; with the other games it looks unfinished and broken honestly. It was also how I thought 3D was going to be seen. Excitebike probably is the best (and possibly, only good) looking 3D game on the 3DS right now.

Other games to look forward to on the 3DS are titles such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, StarFox 64 3D, Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario Kart, and Kid Icarus. I didn't get to play with the last 2 titles on that list, but the other games were a joy to play. Super Mario was a game that really took me back to my roots as well. They combined elements from both Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario 64 making a completely refreshing new Mario game. It feels new in a sense that, well, even if the levels are shorter, you can sometimes forget how the levels for Super Mario Bros. 3 were short as well. And that's ok really. This is new for a 3D like Mario game, but it also isn't 3D since it also is a side-scrolling Mario game. Its like the new

Sonic game, taking out modern Sonic, but not really either. To clear up my stupid explanation, here's some gameplay:

And that's all I really tried on a day at E3. You could spend hours or literally the whole day trying everything out at Nintendo. Nintendo is just that fun. The other 3DS games were really fun to play with especially Luigi's Mansion 2, which I was unfortunate enough to miss out on the first outing for the Gamecube and been wanting to try it out for a long time. Hopefully I can get my 2nd chance on the 3DS. The demo really piqued my interest.

Now I wanted to try out at least one more game before E3 ended and unfortunately for a dedicated gamer, this means on missing out on a lot of other good stuff at E3, which was the sad truth for me. But even for that fact I wanted to at least try out one of my most anticipated games that was at E3. Unfortunately both Bethesda and 2K games didn't really have their games open to everybody so I stuck with a video game and movie franchise that I had loved for many years and didn't want to miss my chance on playing their latest game. Here I am talking about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Now I had to sacrifice a whole lot to play this game. I wanted to check out other booths, but I knew if I wanted to play one of the most popular games that's not even released yet, I would have to wait at one of the longest lines for E3 located at the EA booth (which I also like to add was the best booth that I saw at E3)...

...so, about 5 and a half hours and 2 free posters later, I got inside to begin playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. First we were treated to a 7 minute video explaining the different types of attacks each of the character types we could play. I couldn't really pay attention to the video at this point due to my full bladder and just wanted to play the damn thing. I don't want to say I was furious or even a little mad, because I wasn't. I half expected it to be quite long and I made the decision that I was going to play this game no matter what. And I did. I didn't care I took the weakest character (Jedi Padawan) with the slowest mission imaginable; I got to play SWTOR (As an added note: Gameplay was great and so were the mechanics). How many people can say that in the world? Not many (Besides the other people in line with me). I am proud to say that at this years E3 I played one of the most anticipated games that probably won't be out till next year (And been waiting for a little over 2 years since it was announced) and got free stuff out of it. Oh, yeah.

There is a tad more to be said at E3, but I can say: This has been one incredible experience and no gamer should miss it for the world. I leave happy and tell myself to never do this ever again for any other E3 I visit in the future. Well, it was a fun E3 and thank my good friend (and new friends) for getting me there and hope they had fun as they put up with me while I stood in that line...and they didn't. So here's to another great E3...

...did I mention I got to hug and take a picture with Felicia Day?

Update: The Dark Knight Rises of the Planet of the Apes

Hello again everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted in quite some time. Again school has been keeping me from posting here. Also huge delays apparently.

Hopefully if you have been keeping up with movie news lately you would know Rise of the Apes has been retitled to “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Which is indeed terrible. It was fine how it was, now its just too much to read.

With “Rise of the Apes” it was simpler and was quite a nod to the other Planet of the Apes sequels/prequels that came with it. Although once you see the new trailer that may give away why it was given such a big title and why it may move away from the other movies. Well here’s the trailer:

Now few things: Something happened when writing the script and seems pretty generic unfortunately. But out of everything really there's only one real thing that bothered me: The experimental drug they use as a connection to give the Apes intelligence is called “The Cure.” I really wish they could have thought of something more intelligent and believable than that. This is the origin of one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever created and the Cure just isn’t going to cut it for this type of movie. They better think of something fast before the summer release date. I’ve been a fan of Planet of the Apes for a while and I think there's a lot of potential for this movie, but it just looks slightly disappointing. Just changing the cure name can save this movie. Also fix the CGI (Edit: I should be less picky here, its not even finished yet). I should point out: Theres nods to Secret of NIMH if anyone here remembers that movie.

At least it looks better than the Planet of the Apes remake.

Extra Note: Stay tuned for the final issue of Inside the Briefcase 8-Bit banner crossover coming soon!

Update 4/16: I may have thought of this backwards on how I thought "Rise of the Apes" was a good fit for this film, since the new extra long title is the actual nod to the old films. I realized this as I watched Battle for the Planet of the Apes. It might sound like a long title now, but I guess we just have to get used to it.

The Invincible Hugo Weaving

School is making my blog titles worse.

Hugo Weaving is Red Skull:

Well, I'm sold. Bring on the movie!

Guess Who?

This may have been shown too early:

X-Men Begins

Hey there everyone. Sorry haven’t been posting lately. Lots of school and almost no time to write about stuffs. Its only now that I get to actually have time to actually update this. Before we begin though, without further ado, the new X-Men: First Class trailer:

Awesome stuff. Doesn’t sound like James McAvoy may have much of an accent, but it is there.

Few changes may soon come to Inside the Briefcase as I make sense of things. Don’t worry it will be for the best. And hopefully the ads won’t seem like a distraction, I know how that can go.

Now video game news. Recently Sony unveiled pictures of their new gaming peripheral the NGP. *cough*NeoGeoPocket*cough* But its just a prototype name so it isn’t the official name yet. Just think of it as the PSP 2 for now. Here are some official pictures:

This little picture reveals some new stuff, including new software and a mention of mobile support. It is said that there will be more than one version. The other includes Wi-Fi support. This is already sounding expensive… (pictures are from engadget if you didn’t see the logo by now)

Now here’s one taken in person. Oooo shiny…

Thumbsticks

Here’s the back. Touchpad consists of the circle, triangle, square, and x symbols. Wonder why…

Comes with a built in camera as well. PSP is sad.

More buttons. Apparently the photographer was desperately trying to find a UMD drive and is disappointed to find none at all; I assume.

And a USB port. The touch pad on the back is also apparently shiny.

Well, here’s a couple more things about this thing that they make announcements about:

Hardware and Software

• High-resolution, touch-sensitive OLED screen
• Built-in WiFi
• Wireless 3G connectivity
• Tilt-sensitive SIXAXIS (remember that?) controls
• Three-axis electronic compass
• Built-in GPS
• Front and back facing cameras
• Buttons: D-Pad (up, down, left, right), dual analog sticks (finally), action buttons (triangle, circle, X, square), shoulder buttons (left, right), start, select, volume controls, PS button, power button
• New LiveArea service and new application Near
• Built-in mic
• Built-in stereo speakers
• Capacitative multi-touch pad on back of the device

Read here for more specs and details.

Now what's to make of Sony’s new system? Well for one thing, expect this thing to be pretty freaking expensive. So many features. And I believe to be the wrong features that will not make it sell as much as they want to. Here’s why:

Do I want one? No. Not right away anyway. I expect it to be expensive. Way more than a 3DS right now. There’s also nothing really getting me excited or anything that will make me want this thing. It seems way too excessive. 2 touch pads?

This thing also sounds like a smaller iPad with two different models. Both that feature either mobile or Wi-Fi support. Do we even need the mobile support? One thing that really turns me off about this thing is the touch software it uses when you first start it up. It looks like a PSP knockoff with really bad software. Why would they make it that way? I also even doubt the capabilities it supposedly says it does. PS3 graphics? I have no doubt it will be simulated, but it isn’t actual PS3 graphics. That’s BS on Sony’s part for making sound better than it is.

Sure it looks nice, but I’m afraid it may just become another PSP. Like mine. Gathering dust. Rarely played. And is mostly used for old PlayStation games. Unless I see something groundbreaking; No, thank you Sony.

In other news, hackers continue to make Kinect a lot better than what Microsoft did with it (Warning: Video contains footage from Dead Space 2, you may be scared and see spoilers):

Update: The One With the 3DS, Batman, and Necromorphs

A quick update as I am being very much swamped with homework lately. Today we hear news of the Nintendo 3DS with the official release date of March 27, 2011. The official price tag is $249.99. Pretty reasonable as no one here wanted to pay more than $300 for a portable system. Back when the PSP came out it was also $250 so compare it to that in some way. I kinda wish I could go back in time now and save that money for a 3DS, but alas here we are…Here’s a list of games that will be available by June (not counting all of the new downloadable 3DS store and GameBoy Virtual Games):

Pilotwings Resort
nintendogs + cats
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Madden NFL Football
The Sims 3
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Ridge Racer 3D
Dual Pen Sports
Super Monkey Ball 3D
Thor: God of Thunder
CRUSH 3D
BUST-A-MOVE UNIVERSE
Samurai Warriors Chronicles
Dead or Alive Dimensions
Asphalt 3D
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D
Rayman 3D
Rabbids Travel in Time

It’s a good list, but I will all I would get is Resident Evil, Super Street Fighter IV and probably Pilotwings. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, and Starfox 64 is what I’ll be queuing for. Have any you’re most interested in for the new system?

Here’s a look at the software working on the system including (surprisingly) multi-tasking! It already sounds better than an iPhone or iTouch. I keed Steve Jobs. Or do I? Online play will supposedly be easier since the friend code will be revamped and DSi purchases can be transferred to the 3DS. I don’t have a DSi but I kinda felt like they would allow that anyway. Also if you look around YouTube, there are already videos popping up of Zelda: OoT, Kid Icarus, and Dead or Alive Dimensions gameplay.

 

More or less shortly after the major 3DS news today, 2 new actors where announced for the new The Dark Knight Rises movie. Those two are Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy. Their roles are Catwoman and Bane. Immediately after I was skeptical, but then I saw this comparison:

Ok, yeah I can see it. But with Tom Hardy (he was from Inception), also apparently has been a wrestler before:

I just don’t know. We’ll have to see what badassery Christopher Nolan has for us this time around though.

As a last minute thing, some new photos have popped up from the new X-Men: First Class which are slightly better from the last one. Now with more Kevin Bacon:

I lied, there's only one picture with Kevin Bacon. There are also reportedly some problems going on set, but hopefully it won’t be all bad. At least the photos look better.

Video of the Day:

Now on to the Necromorphs part. EA is doing a kinda sad, but brilliant ad campaign where they place moms from different areas of US and show clips of Dead Space 2 on monitors in front of them. They were horrified. Except for this mom in particular. Prepare to be more creeped out than the game:

Update: There are more X-Men: First Class photos to put out the hellfire of the first photo yesterday:

And the official poster:

Top 10 Anticipated Movies for 2011

Usually I put out a list of the Top Movies I saw in the previous year, but because my list is short and I plan to watch a couple movies before making that list; I decided to make this one first.

Here comes a big year for Marvel with three movies coming and one for DC. I have more than 20 movies to watch this year, so this sounds like a very good year for movies (That’s until you see the 2012 movie list which is epic with a war of comic book movies in the summer). Well, take a look:

10.) Battle: Los Angeles

The creepy tone of the trailer makes you feel the intense battle going on in LA. It takes place in present day with soldiers battling Aliens that doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of high-tech technology. We don’t get to see that very often. Its time to see Two-Face fight some aliens.(March 11)

9.) Paul

Remember that movie I posted about earlier where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go to Comic-Con in a new movie? This is that movie. The British comedians are nerds in the movie and take a nerdy trek across America and meet an Alien that sounds like Seth Rogen. I don’t dig Seth Rogen voicing the Alien, but Simon and Nick will bring their greatest comedic humor with this movie. This will be the Comedy movie I will look forward to most this year. (March 18)

8.) Thor

The first Marvel movie of the year and one of the most desired comic book adaptations is finally coming. The comic-con and official trailer look quite faithful to the comic-book and looks as if it will have a smooth transition to the mega-movie: “The Avengers.” Yeah, it will be a whole lot better than whatever is going on in the image above from The Incredible Hulk Live-Action series. The picture probably gives away the cameo in a strange way.(May 6)

7.) Captain America: The First Avenger

I’ve never really been an avid fan of Captain America. Sure I saw him make a few appearances in Spider-Man and played with him a couple of times in Marvel vs. Capcom 2, but his first movie sucked and I didn’t really truly see him as a super hero. I mean all I’ve seen him do is punch and kick and throw his shield. I only hope this movie will do him justice. The cast seems pretty good (aside from Chris Evans) and I have high hopes in the director. (July 22)

6.) Super 8

Not much is known about this movie. Heck, not much is known about most of JJ Abrams’ movies until a few months before its released. Again all we have is a teaser trailer and Abrams stating it’s a throwback to old Super 8 films and an inspiration to Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment. Even then I know I'll watch this movie 3 times maximum.(June 10)

5.) The Muppets

The Muppets created by Jim Henson have not graced the screen for some time and have been quite absent for a while. The last Muppet movie was in 2005 and not since 2008 have they made an appearance. Well Jason Segel is about to change all that as he brings the Muppets once again to the big screen with a [modern] all-star cast. I’ve missed the Muppets for a while since they have been releasing pretty mediocre stuff recently. Hopefully Jason Segel can revive the once almighty Muppets. What's with the Muppet holding an iPhone, though? (November 23)

4.) Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys vs. Aliens vs. Indiana Jones (it will be better than Crystal Skull) vs. James Bond. Anything more need to be said? (July 29)

3.) Sucker Punch

I really have no idea what this movie is about, but it looks visually awesome. This will be Zack Snyder’s first attempt at an original movie so there is a whole lot to look forward here. (March 25)

2.) X-Men: First Class

Little is known about this X-Men movie. Some rumors tend to be: Centers around Magneto, the movie will jump some timelines, and the whole X-Men team probably won’t be here. I never read the First Class comic book either but it sure looks great. I’ve always cared much about the X-Men franchise so I sure am glad a new movie is coming soon. Wait, Kevin Bacon is a mutant? (June 3)

1.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Yes, its true. This will be the must see movie of the year because it will be the end for Harry Potter and his wizard friends. I never read the books and have always thoroughly enjoyed the movies. I’ve seen the movies from the beginning and am pretty sure I saw each one in theaters. I mostly stay away from the books because I may become those people who bother themselves too much by comparing book and movie. Here’s to enjoying the movies as much as I can before I read the books. (July 15)

Now here’s a list of worth mentioning movies that didn’t make the top 10 list in no particular order:

• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (May 20)
• The Green Lantern (June 17) – The trailer was a little weird and I’m kinda looking forward to the other Marvel movies this year. Its probably because it’s the first non-Superman/Batman universe DC movie.
• The Green Hornet (January 14)
• The Hangover 2 (May 26) – Because British comedy is always better.
• Rise of the Apes (June 24) – I honestly wanted this on my list until I read that they changed storylines a bit with this prequel to the older movies. I’ll still go see it. Unfortunately the apes are going to be CGI as I see Andy Serkis doing his Gollum CGI suit thing once again.
• Winnie the Pooh (July 15) – This is my favorite Disney character and being hand drawn is a big win.
• Fright Night (August 15) – David Tennant in a horror movie? I’m in.
• The Thing (October 14)
• Sherlock Holmes 2 (December 16) – I enjoyed the first movie, so I know I’ll probably like this one.
• The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (December 23)
• Now (September 30) - Andrew Niccol’s next movie for more than 5 years. Created such movies as The Truman Show and Gattaca.
• Dibbuk Box (October 28) – A horror movie from Sam Raimi. You know it will be great.
• Hugo Cabret (December 9) – Steam punk movie from Martin Scorsese.
• Your Highness (April 9) – If you have seen the trailer, its going to be one of the best comedies as the year.
• Red State (March TBA) – Next film from Kevin Smith. It is said to be totally different from his previous films.
• Scream 4 (April 15)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1) – Only going to give this one more try.
• Apollo 18 (April 22)

Steve of the Mole People

If you have 30 mins to kill; Watch this dude visit illegal secret historic areas within New York City and do other crazy illegal things. At least some of the residents are nice:

For more visit the main website here with some nice photography. Here's also an interview with NPR. Just give him his own damn show already Discovery Channel.