LadyCrimson

Haha! Glad he doesn't have a green pony-tail. I hope Mickey is good in the role...I'd love to see him continue his 'comeback' after years of being..well, less than stellar.

Holidays, families, spouses.....I'm a mean one, Mrs. Grinch. Unrelated: hubby was helping to put up a curtain rod when he said "I deserve a cordless drill." I, of course, said "So go buy one." To which he replied that I should know he's too cheap to make himself buy a really good one, and since I'm not as adverse to spending a little more, that I should go shopping and get him one for Xmas. Since it all comes from the same bank account+I know nothing about tools myself, I found this really amusing. Then an acquaintance suggested I should buy hubby a Fisher Price drill, which was even more amusing. So much so, that I just might do it.

None taken. I was only trying to explain where my mentality for movies (any movies, not just Avatar) tends to come from...grains of salt. Unfortunately between popular opening weekend sellouts + too much real life stuff, I can't go until Thurs afternoon. Man I'm tired, and the week isn't over yet. I'm a Grinch...

BRRRRRRRR.....that's all I have to say to that picture.

Some of us are also "old" and jaded. I haven't felt that awed about any film since I was 25 or so. There came a point where that type of cinema wonder/awe/'epic, man!' just wasn't possible anymore, no matter how good I think a film was. It's like crush vs. love...I can't crush on movies these days. Thus, I *will* be thinking about how they did the CGI/motion capture, even tho I'm not a animation student. Sad for me, I guess. I personally am not trying to pan the movie sight unseen...but I know myself fairly well and what I like these days and I just have doubts whether *I'll* think Avatar is a "masterpiece." If it wasn't Cameron I wouldn't even think about going. After all, I seriously thought I wouldn't like Titanic, but turned out I thought it pretty watchable even w/all the mushy stuff. heh Cameron's never been good with dialogue, but he does know how to make a spectacle. Wish he didn't have to spend 400million to do it tho.

The ads on the 50" TV don't make them seem that way...they're still clearly very CGI. Could easily be a lot better on a huge screen tho, I know that. But might mean not so great for buying the disc later. PS - I didn't think Gollum looked "real" either...even on big screen...but he was very very good.

Hubby still playing TR:Underworld. I think he's got 28 hours on it already. Yes, he's very slow. He also still bobs his head all over the place when he's looking around the screen. Silly man. About to dive back into Divine Divinity.

Sunny Florida or Flooded Florida, that is always the question? Hope you dry out soon.

Twitter-hype has me thinking I may go see this anyway....I've yet to see any modern 3D movies w/the clear sunglasses-looking polarized lenses or whatever, and I'd like to know what the fuss is about. (last 3D I saw was a Vegas IMAX several years ago, with this very heavy 3d face rig, which was very cool) Avatar seems as good a movie to check that aspect out as any. Wish we had an IMAX closer than San Fran, guess a non-IMAX 3D theater will have to do. I am prepared to be wowed by graphics and bored by the Dances With Pandora plot. Hopefully between the two extremes I'll be entertained enough.

Now that's a true serving of mashed neat-o covered in awesome-sauce.

Sorry, but I must:

I don't mind animated films, CGI or not, but yeah...little tired of CGI being the movie, if you know what I mean. Meh...stay away from LSD. Fun once or twice, but crazy stuff. Never again. More likely you'd be distracted by the notion that you can see your fingers sinking through the solid matter of the chair in front of you, or how the top of everyone's head look like dancing tribbles, or some such, and wouldn't even notice the movie playing.

My mother has decided, since the accident totaled her Prius, to not buy a new car at all, even tho she got a nice settlement. Her retirement community has great errand-travel bus service for small things, and she can rent a car once in a while if she really needs one. ...it's probably best... ...I need to grocery shop as well, myself. I used to have a grocery list system, but I haven't used it in a while. Tends to inflate the budget a bit, but it's much more satisfying to have no clue what you're going to do for dinner one week from the next.

The reviews and the ads still give me no compulsion to deal with the hassle of sitting in a movie theater with 3D glasses wrapped around my face. It does seem like it'd probably be great "zowie" big-screen eye-candy, however, no denying that aspect. Maybe if I got drunk first...

Just because they're not shipped w/BluRay drives doesn't mean gamers can't/don't go out and buy a blue ray drive. I'm not sure whether availability of BluRay drives itself is a stopping block of any kind, for PC gaming. Larger download sizes may be an issue for places like Steam, but meh...who's to say internet speed won't increase, or that people may be more patient than you think? ...or better yet, that people would stop making places like Steam so popular for new releases and PC could go back to being more disc oriented again, bluray or not.

I'm not worried...I like being strange and unusual. Keeps those around me on their toes, hah. ...I suppose I could put Mass Effect2 on my list, but that would mean I'd have get and play Mass Effect1.

What a coincidence, i am at same number as you, and i bet that we have even the same games Me three! Wut's a Steam folder? Tho I did have Half-Life/Portal etc on one PC, for a short while.

Apparently Divine Divinity, over time, likes to start randomly crashing. Reinstalling makes it go away for quite a while, and not using the QuickSave (which I did finally get to work) or having 2 chrs. going at once also slows down the return to flakiness, for me. Also, I'm one of those lucky people who can't click on 'statue' magic items w/out a crash. Perhaps some kind of memory leak/bad save system for the revamped versions that will run on XP/Vista? Dunno. The company supposedly might be working on trying to fix it, which is impressive for an old game. But it's frustrating. Yet, I and many others who've only recently discovered the game keep on playing anyway. What's a little inconvenience like reinstalling now and then, to play such a fun game?

I guess I fail too, then, since I don't like dual boot ups either. But for me it's more that I like to have both on & accessible at the same time, networked together. Monitor switchbox & 2 or more PC's ftw. I think Win7 will be popular enough that in a couple years at most, XP may well be out the door for new software.

forumspring.me website -- "Create a box where friends can ask questions anonymously." Could be fun, I'll give it a shot. Go ahead, internet, inquire. http://www.formspring.me/LadyC

I have my own personal sense of definitions at times, what can I say. At least I'm hip & cool...oh wait...

If you don't have/like apple quicktime, it's also here: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/iron-man-2/trailer Trailer looks good, but I still think Whiplash looks ridiculous.

Ah...well, keep in mind that to me, any game that feels like a shooter I tend to call a shooter, even if it you're using swords & magic. But after watching more gameplay vids I can go with action/adventure. Action/adventure makes me think of Tombraider or Drakan1 or even, in a lighter/odder scale, Overlord perhaps. Haven't played Gods of War (any of them) so comparison scoffing wouldn't matter to me at all...no worse than playing many Diablo clones (some of which were good games on their own). If Dante's is a fun game, doesn't matter. If it's a sucky game, well, then...it's just a sucky game.

That's an interesting, very long, and somewhat unconventional list. The one called Fort Zombie looked amusing. Completely forgot about Mount & Blade...might try some of those big mods now that I could have huge battles w/out major lag.

I've been Google searching for lists of 1st quarter 2010 game releases so I can figure out which few I might be interested in, but am unsure about the accuracy of said lists.From what I've seen tho, I'm not much interested in any of them. Maybe Dante's Inferno, if it's a real mix of shooter+something else (ala borderlands mixing) rather than just plain shooter. Couple others in the action/rpg or rpg/adventure are maybes but they're (so far) console only. So many of these games, via their early gameplay videos, look pretty much exactly the same.