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Having grown up with a sister who was obsessed with 21 Jump Street when it was on tv, I finally got around to skimming through the movie. While it had some amusing bits - especially the "Tom Hansen and Doug Penhall" reveal, I found most of it rather tiresome. Basically trying to stretch the whole joke about them not looking like high school kids into an excuse for stupid behaviour more then funny. I guess I can only take so much of stupid as funny, and an entire film hinging on that doesn't really work for me.

Since there's always time for Minions.. especially musical ones.. http://youtu.be/icViP-RZDy4

It works so well. Both because who doesn't like watching sword fights? And it's set well to the music... http://youtu.be/n1l5m-h6Ugo

Well, I've spent about 10 hours playing Gat Out of Hell, and just finished it. I have only this to say... Nathon Fillion is the Voice of God....

Sometimes, it's all about enjoying that musical number in the middle of your game... http://youtu.be/OvAJIVSLqK4

Gat Out of Hell. It's both a lot of fun and a bit of a let down. The environment is fresh, and the angel wings flying is really good. They've definitely done something good with that combination. It's full of general, cheesy fun and games, and nice humour. There is absolutely no message, morality, or political edge to it. It's all just good, clean, silly fun. But... there isn't a big push of story to it. Or at least, gameplay wise it's being pushed by you doing random side things, rather than any campaign-centric missions. It's still a lot of fun, and I can see myself spending quite a few hours just poking around, but it lacks something without that. Saints Row was always good at creating interesting, quirky, and generally well written campaign missions, so it's noticeable when that's missing.

I'm just having a short poke at Gat Out of Hell. I have to say, got plenty of chuckles in the first 10 minutes.

And to have the general upfeel... Since who doesn't love Princess Bride? LA Weekly - Cary Elwes Tells Behind the Scene Princess Bride Stories in his Memoir

Eh, it doesn't really matter in the long run. No one really came to the Obs boards to look at ladies, it was just one of those amusing threads that started randomly and kept going with odd diversions of thought and discussion here and there. Along with Oby's wanderings into racial superiority, and poking fun at Woldan's very masculine women.. I don't think anyone took it that seriously, so as the official policy gets turned to tighten up some of the loose regulations, we can expect such things to get tidied out. It's not going to destroy the community, and that's pretty much why folk lurk around and throw things into threads.

So.... io9 - King Tuts Mask Has Been Damaged Telegraph - King Tuts Beard Hastily Glued Back On

Plus that's the World of Darkness for you, that grouped various names together, and mashed up several to create "new ones" Hengeyokai was the generic "China/Japan" term for shapeshifters in the WoD. Kind of like Kuei-Jin was the mashed up name for their Asian specific brand of Vampires. Remember, it was a roleplaying game. They didn't stress that much over Etymology.

Well, the joys of the flu have been spinning around the family for a bit, and I've managed to keep a low grade flu for the last week. The whole "slightly raised temperate, slight headache, general ache, ticklish throat and cough". I'm kind of at the point I'm saying "damn it, just hit me properly so you can clear up. Stop only partially visiting and lingering!" Of course, while I've got this I can't go visit mom in the hospital. Her stay there has been going on hm , about 7 weeks now. They managed a partial bronchoscopy last week, but for various reasons couldn't get all the tests they wanted. The results they did get haven't got them happy, and they're discussing other ways to look at her lungs. The only "good" way they have is to go in from the side, but they don't want to do that since her chest isn't in that great a condition at the moment and they'd end up having to pin one of her lungs to keep it inflated. Or something to that effect - it's always fun to get the partial copy of what doctors say via the sick person. One of the specialists visited her the other day and was all "Well, you're sounding better then you were." Then they listened to her breathing, and promptly went with the "Of course, if you came into my clinic and I heard this, I'd have you admitted to hospital that day, so you'll be here awhile longer."

Heh, that didn't take long.. io9 - First Hobbit Fan Edit cuts Trilogy in Half

http://youtu.be/O1CvOVmc-KY

Well I definitely seem to be on the flu-boat.

Well, Keannu works in John Wick because the character is meant to be very self-contained and controlled for the majority of the film. Even the start, where he's going through the funeral has that..slow loss/grief being held in check feel. I was impressed that he managed that angry outburst sequence towards the end, so it actually worked quite well.

John Wick. I'd definitely rate it up there as one of the better action/revenge flicks of the last few years. I mean, it's not out and out amazing, but pretty damn good for the genre. Helped by a lot of very good supporting actors. It's full of "thatguy/thoseguys", face's you'll know who are pretty damn good at acting in those roles.