By Wiison of Insanity
fter gaming last night, Art, MrJames, and I went to catch the midnight premiere of 300 — great movie! I’m not going to bother with spoiler warnings, as there isn’t a whole hell of a lot of spoiling to do with this movie. It’s a pretty straight forward affair, and everyone knows the Spartans don’t hold that pass. It is definitely a violent, comic-book-gory, action-packed ninety minutes, though. The choreography of the fight scenes is practically poetic. MrJames described them as “like ballet, with swords!” The heroes are wonderfully heroic, and the villains are stylishly hate-able. The dialog is suitably epic, and there are several good laughs. All-in-all, a definite must-see on the big screen. The fight scenes deserve every inch of screen space.
Meanwhile, we’ve also been playing a lot of the Wii, and I’m quite pleased with it, so far. I played a bit of Zelda the other night, and found the combat to be incredibly more satisfying with the Wii system. There’s something visceral about using the wiimote and nunchuk to kill things. Both little items have speakers in them, which offer metal clashes and other sound effects as you fight, and both have a rumble-pack in them, so they vibrate when you hit something. I was also quite able to play Zelda on the Wii while sitting on my ass, which is important to note. I was unable, however, to really smoke a cigarette while playing, which leads me to believe that it’s also going to be difficult to pig out on chips or suck down pops while playing. Oh well — you can’t have everything.
The bowling game in Wii Sports continues to be a household favorite, with golf and tennis coming up just behind. Only MrJames seems to like the baseball game, and I’m down on the boxing, as I apparently suck at it. Art and ViolentClay like it, though.
MrJames rented Red Steel yesterday, but we only got to try a bit of that. FeloniousMurphi, king of the first-person-shooter, seemed pleased with the bit he played of it, although ViolentClay hated the Wii-split-screen combo of the player-VS-player mode. He said there wasn’t enough room on the split screen, which made aiming the wiimote difficult. We have a reasonably-sized TV, too — 32-inch or so.
And now, Grimmy begging for pizza:
One night, we made and ate a pizza. We did, in fact, share with both dogs, despite their being on a diet. However, sharing was not enough for Grimshaw. Over the course of the next two hours, he stalked and begged the empty counter for more pizza. In fact, not only did he hunt the empty counter-top for the next two hours, it was the first place he checked in the morning.
(All photos are mine.)
March 10th, 2007 at 2:49 am
lol how funny is this the same puppy that eats bagels? i can relate my puppy is sitting right here next to me watching every bite of my taco salad that i put in my mouth!! what would we do without our little garbage disposals??
March 13th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Hey, Mom said she liked the bowling game pretty well.
Well I’m sitting here coloring my comic book pages with photoshop 9.0 and I’m wondering,
How do you install the program that updates this page?
I downloaded it but there wasn’t any .exe files in there????
Anywho, what’s new.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Bo:
I asked Art, and neither one of us knows what you mean in regards to Photoshop. He’s got 9, but I don’t have it installed on my computer yet. Can you explain what you mean? Update what page?
Not much is new around here, except the Wii.
Nina:
Yep — this is Grimmy, the one who stole MrJames’ bagel. I swear, the way Jazz and Grim act, you’d think I starved them to death!