films based on games, and other such nonsense

hi, it’s been a while.

Life’s been good recently, i’ve been to every lesson for three weeks and i get paid on friday. i’m pretty sure i know what to get laur for christmas now (which is a secret because she reads this and i don’t trust any of you bastards), and she’ll love it, i think. we saw 30 days of night in the end, by the way, and it wasn’t very good.

recently i’ve been appreciating my friends a lot, as well as documentaries, and how good animal crossing for DS is. i really must get one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_based_on_video_games

^^^^ i found this cool wikipedia page with a list of movies based on games. there’s a few there that i didn’t know were in production and i must say i’m quite excited for. i saw the trailer for the Hitman movie at the cinema and i imagine it’s really good (or really average, either way i think i’ll enjoy it).

american mcgee’s alice seems like a cool idea for a film, i’ve never played the game but it looks good, and lauren likes it too. i’m looking forward to it. City of heroes will be incredible if the casting’s good, and it doesn’t take itself seriously. i’m hoping for something like The Mystery Men, because i love that movie. the devil may cry movie will be fucking sweet as long as someone awesome plays Dante, or it’s completely CGI (which i think i would prefer).

Everquest, i’m not too excited about. i love epic medieval fantasy but the everquest universe has always seemed kind of lame. something about it screams low-budget to me, but it’ll probably be funny to watch, at least. gears of war and god of war would both be amazing, if they get the budget and cast they deserve.

metal gear solid, of course i’m especially excited about- i’m a rabid mgs fanboy, i love the series, and i can’t see them messing it up. hideo kojima wouldn’t allow anything to be released that wasn’t top-quality.

onimusha would be badass, as would prince of persia. although there’s a lot of chance of them being messed up. i’m trying to think who’ll play the prince of persia, and the only thing popping into my head is viggo mortensen for some reason. he looks the part, at least.

Silent Hill 2 i’m looking forward to, i love the games and the film was good too. i enjoyed it, at least. it’s a different director though but that doesn’t bother me too much.

i used to live and breathe soul calibur, so naturally i’m very very excited about the movie. as long as it’s not too actiony and has a lot of story (though the chances of that being true are slim).

Warcraft is probably what I’m most excited about. i absolutely love the setting and story, and the fact that it’s live action is a good thing, in my opinion. yes, we did all love the fmv sequences in warcraft III, especially when grom hellscream and thrall fought mannoroth, but i think live action would be perfect. the tauren should look sweet. i hope it focuses on the grunt troops (though i doubt it will) and is as epic as lord of the rings.

one thing though- the sims movie. wtf! that’s just weird, and i hope it never gets made.

i’ll update again soonish because i’ve got work in a bit.

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i should update

firstly, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7092381.stm

this made me feel really sick. she kills an 11 month old baby, pleads not guilty and then gets found guilty- and she only gets jailed for three years? you don’t shake a baby!

i saw a horrendous example of parenting the other night at work. this guy was walking around with his kid, looking for stuff- and the little boy (who must have been about 6) picked up a loaf of bread. the guy then shouted “PUT IT DOWN” and i mean fully SHOUTED as loud as he could, so that the whole store could hear. every time the kid did anything- walked a couple of meters away to look at something, went to touch something, he just got shouted at. and it was a pretty big guy too, i would have been terrified. he was maybe in his late 30s? some people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids.

anyhow, my apologies for not updating for a few days. not that anyone reads this, anyway. i just haven’t had a lot to write about i guess.

i went to the doctor’s the other day. my sleep improved over the weekend but it’s decided to be shit again. they didn’t give me any meds or anything because it’s ‘just a phase’ and they’re ‘reluctant to give sleeping pills to people as young as me’. they’ve confirmed that it’s stress related though, which is weird.

i’ve been to every single lesson for  seven days of college now. this feels good. i’m getting (some) work done and my parents like me a little more now, too. hopefully i can keep this up- even after this week, when the bet finishes.

recently i’ve been playing a lot of half-life 2 (over and over again). it really is the best first person shooter of all time. i want to play episodes one and two now…i might get the orange box sometime. i want to play guild wars again but i’m finding it hard to get into, even now that everyone else is playing.

does anyone know where i can watch series one, episode 3 of LOST online? i watched the first two last night and they were really good (i’d never seen any of it before in my life and didn’t really know what it was about), and i’d like to see the rest. i had a link last night but my divx wasn’t working on the pc i was, and now the link seems to be down. if anyone could help that’d be great.

on saturday, i’m going to town with my girlfriend and we’re going to watch a movie. i don’t know which one though! we’ve narrowed it down to these three, and can’t decide:

stardust
pros- seems less ACTION ACTION
cons- biggest chance of being gay

30 days of night
pros- it’s 30 days of fucking night
cons- said to be not very good (but that might be a good thing? i dunno)

beowulf
pros- angelina jolie’s boobs, 3d
cons- no nipples

to be honest i’ll probably enjoy whatever we see but we’re both crap at decision making and i really don’t know what to choose. so if anyone that knows anything about movies could help then that’d be good too.

earlier on tonight i watched Louis and The Nazis, which was really good. i love documentaries and i really really like louis theroux. i’d definitely recomend it.

i’m listening to head automatica. i love that sort of dance-rock kind of thing. i wish i could dress in lots of shirts and stuff and look like i’m in that sort of band. i want some skinnyish straight leg pinstripe trousers that fit really well, and a blazer jacket thing. and a sweatervest for some reason but that’s because i want to look like the guy from revenge of the nerds. with a little bow tie and everything.

-chet

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