“That indian guy looks suspiciously like Frank Stallone,” My fiance noted quite accurately upon Armand Assante’s introduction. As you can infer, he’s quite italian looking, not in the least native.
And so it was that I was witness to Prophecy, which was not The Prophecy as I’d hoped, but one of the most horribly hilarous movies I’ve ever seen.
So yeah, with the Halloween holiday coming up, I set my DVR to record a ton of classics off Turner Classic Movies, and the decidedly less prestigious AMC. As a standard of comparison, TCM was running Hitchcock’s silent film “The Lodger” while AMC ran “Species II”
Now I don’t consider “Species” to be a classic, and the sequel you can probably infer is several magnitudes worse.
Anyway, This “Prophecy” doesn’t star Christopher Walken, but instead some weird beared guy, who works as an inner city doctor. He’s then called upon to help settle land dispute between some lumberjacks and native americans. So while this is I guess supposed to be a fish out of water story, he looks more out of place in the city than in the woods because of his odd Mountain Man looks.
At about the half hour mark I finally realize that “hey, this is the wrong damn movie” but we’re too far into it to turn back now, so we kept going.
Turns out the lumber company is poisoning the water with mercury. Mercury, which doesn’t make any sense to have in the water to assist in paper production. Mercury, which causes autism in infants but apparently gigantism in tadpoles and mutant horror in bears.
Bad Movies can take it from here. You especially want to see the exploding sleeping bag.
“Prophecy” is directed by John Frankenheimer, who helmed the political classic “The Manchurian Candidate” and the Ben Affleck bomb “Reindeer Games”
I’d have to say the mutant bear ranks somewhere below Affleck.

Every once in a while there is a band that comes along and makes a great piece of art. Now I must admit I was a bit slow on not just this Album but also the band. Who do I speak of but The Mars Volta. One forum I frequent is filled with TMV fans, but all the talk just never settled in. They had finished there leg of the tour with A Perfect Circle the last two times I saw them, so I missed out on experiencing them first hand. Let me quickly tell the story of how I found Frances The Mute. I’m a sucker for female singers in rock bands, so one day at work a song comes on that is very catchy and sounds like a female. So I go and check to see the name and it’s The Mars Volta the Widow. So that blew the female thing but I still liked it so I downloaded the album for the one track. After about a week I decided to burn the whole CD. I immediately fell in love with the Latin flair of L’Via L’Viaquez despite the fact I couldn’t understand half the song. The next song that caught my attention was Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus. Now my favorite song on the album has to be Cassandra Geminni. At a whopping 35 minutes it’s almost as long as recent albums from Linkin Park(bad) and System of a Down(good). It has everything from blaring guitars to a trumpet solo. The Mars Volta have done what few today are willing to do and that’s make a “concept” record.

Now to my one complaint and it’s not about the band but the label. Universal told them that 5 songs was legally a EP so the had to cut Cassandra into 8 tracks. Which is horrible if you’re listening to it on an MP3 player. One more final point this CD is proof that illegal downloading of music can lead to record sales because there is no way I would have bought the CD(which I did after a week of it being stuck in my CD player) without downloading and listening to it first. Also this CD hasn’t left my CD player since September 10th.

I totally stole the idea from Will at our game site. The basic Idea is we will focus on a movie that might have slipped through the cracks.

Our first movie is Requiem for a Dream. Directed by Darren Aronofsky (PI) and staring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans. The movie follows the four stars in a chaotic downward spiral of addiction. Not only chemical but also mental(television). Harry (Leto) and girlfriend Marion(Connelly) and Harry’s friend Tyrone(Wayans) are all Heroin junkies with the dream of a big score so they’ll become rich. Sara Goldfarb(Burstyn) is the films most sympathetic figure. Widowed and dealing with her son taking her television weekly to pawn for drug money. She becomes delusional and starts to believe she is going on a TV game show. After figuring out she can’t fit in her favorite red dress her television addiction leads her to taking speed pills to keep from eating and lose weight.
The movie is the most intense hour and forty minutes one is bound to experience. At almost ever turn you can’t wait for it to end but like a car accident you can’t look away. While requiem isn’t for everyone it is a roller coaster of emotion that must be seen to believe.

One would be remiss not to mention the wonderful score composed by Clint Mansell with the Kronos Quartet.

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Reports coming out of Botcon say there is a Transformers game in development to go with the movie, which is due July 4, 2007. Since this is well past the launch of the 360, PS3, or Rev, its safe to assume we’re looking at a next-gen title.
Hasbro isn’t ready to announce who is working on it, only that they are working on it. The bad news is that it won’t be done by melbourne house, who did an excellent job with Transformers on PS2 last May. The good news is, its unlikely we’ll get a repeat of the abomination
Transformers Tatakai, which only came on in Japan.
And for the un-initiated, the new movie IS based on the original Generation One characters. But if you dodged Transformers on PS2 because it features the Armada cast, you’re missing a hell of a shooter.

One of the all time greats of the survival horror genre. No evil corporation here, just strict psychological terror. The good thing about the plot is that it leaves so much to the gamer, spawning dozens of fan sites and plot analyses on gamefaqs.com. Complete with one of the most f’ed up plot twists of all time, ths game remains a benchmark for the genre along with Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil 4.

Special thanks to Ephrum from Xbox Live and Geezer Gamers for these glitch videos. He’s got more on the way, but any serious or amatuer Halo 2 players looking to expand into some of the crazier exploration methods in multiplayer maps (and wondering how friends and enemies end up in odd places) should watch these.

It made Michael King of the NY Jets 7 inches tall

I have yet to throw a gamecube game on here, so here goes an excellent one. In a genere cluttered with rip offs, here is an original survival horror game, for of all systems, gamecube. Silicon Knights has certainly outdid themselves thanks to the deep storyline, hallucinating effects, and the innovative “create-a-spell” system. Gamecube owners looking for a more “adult” experience will do well to pick this up.