Um. WHAT. First off, the concept of the whole story was ridiculous. “HEY YOU GUYS, LET’S GO TO THE SUN AND BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO IT.” If you don’t know already, the movie is about a space crew journeying the Icarus II towards the sun to save all of mankind because the sun is dying. When I first heard of the plot I thought they were going to space to put a big ol’ band-aid on it, but I guess creating a star within a star is eh.. okay. This is the second attempt on the mission because the first failed …

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Earlier, I was thinking of playing Gear of War and chainsaw noobing some players online. The thought got me excited: The fright it causes your opponent (especially if they are annoying 10 year olds), the patience you need to be a camper, – oh it’s great to be a chainsaw noob.

So once I got home, I turned on the Xbox 360 and I see the “3 red lights” as M$ likes to call it. It’s more commonly known on the web as the ring of death. I uplugged the power cord and removed the hard drive. Plugged the cord back …

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Oh wow, just got back from Comic Con 2007 and boy am I tired.  I finally got my new sandals and decided to test it out.  Walking around in that thing is painful, the material wa rubbing against my skin and peeling it off.  Right now my foot is really sore and not pretty to look at.  Other than that, Comic Con was great.

The girls reactions to my outfit never gets old.  It’s like I want to cosplay as other characters, but girls seems to like this, so I’ll be wearing this for a while.  A really funny moment to …

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So I went to Huntington Library yesterday in San Marino to test out the new camera. Got there around 12:30 p.m. and of course, the sun was already fully out. When the sun is on top of everything and you’re shooting on manual, you’re screwed to hell. You’re either going to way under exposed or way over exposed shots. There’s no two ways around it. If you try to get a good perfectly exposed shot, you’ll end up with boring ass lighting that has no dramatic effect. So it’s a lose lose situation, unless you’re a big fan of silhouettes (I …

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This coming Friday, “The Simpsons: The Movie” will be out and select prints will contain the teaser trailer for the next Batman movie called “The Dark Knight.”  Check out it out here.

::Edit::  Awww shit, Warner Bros. removed it.  All I’ll say is that the Batman Begins logo appears and starts to deteriorate.  You can hear the Joker talking and in the end hear his maniacal laugh.  That doesn’t sound like the Heath Ledger I know.  I mean that in a good way.

Since the link isn’t available, here’s a link to Batman and Joker doing what they do best……Surf!!!!!!!

Batman …

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So as most would know, the models for all autobots were modeled in Maya, textured using Photoshop and Zeno, followed by ILM’s proprietary software (with a bit of Maya) to create some kickass SFX/VFX scenes. This info was taken from Computer Graphics world, a pretty spiffy magazine dedicated to VFX and 3D animation. Anyway, here are the stats for some of the bots:

Megatron
Parts: 2411
Polygons: 433,949
Rig Nodes: 8924
Texture Maps: 1437
Volume of all parts: 10,325 cubic ft.

Optimus Prime
Parts: 10,108
Polygons: 1,830,898
Texture Maps: 2336
Volume of all parts: 5445 cubic ft.

Bumblebee
Parts: 7608
Polygons: …

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Damn that Michael Bay.  Now I’m on a Transformers high.  I’ve bought like around 300 bucks on Transformers merchandise.  God I’m such a slave.  Oh let’s see what I bought:

Transformers Movie Figures: Barricade, Blackout, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Jazz, Megatron, Rachet and Starscream.

The only thing I need left is Optimus Prime, but the fucker is sold out everywhere.  Might buy it online, or my friend might help “purchase” it somewhere.

And the rest of the stuff I bought is the 20th anniversary Prime

And the Revoltech Figures that includes Megatron and Optimus Prime

There are two other figures I want to …

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So I lowered my expectations for the Harry Potter movie that pretty much ALL I was requiring of it was that it be a cogent film that a moderately intelligent person could follow without needing to fill in information themselves from the book.

The biggest problems I will mention right away:

1. flying through London in plain sight (right after Harry is zinged for doing magic in front of a muggle?)
2. Bellatrix actually uses the KILLING CURSE on Sirius
3. no Slytherin locket + why add Kreacher if you aren’t going to USE him?
4. that whole….Cho thing (non-romance + …

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Warning, this has a major spoiler. So if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

As fans of the show knows, Starscream wants to be the Decepticons’ leader. He always tries to overthrow Megatron, only to get his ass kicked repeatedly. Here’s a clip from youtube:

Starscream overthrowing Megatron

Now when you watch the live action movie, you don’t really see this angle. There’s a hint of it when Megatron talks down on Starscream but that’s it. Or is it?

Before Megatron gets killed in the movie, he gets hit by missiles. The missiles looked like it …

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50 Films To See Before You Die

Here’s an off the top of my head list of 50 Films to see before you die. Enjoy:

1. Nowhere

2. Mysterious Skin

3. Donnie Darko

4. Fargo

5. Blue Velvet

6. Batman Begins

7. Highlander

8. Equilibrium

9. Trainspotting

10. Oldboy

11. Spider-man 2

12. Ghost in the Shell

13. Blade Runner

14. The Killer

15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

16. The Matrix

17. Heavenly Creatures

18. The Empire Strikes Back

19. Napoleon Dynamite

20. The Karate Kid

21. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (not the ghastly Depp remake)

22. …

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