New footage released on the official, recently debuted Uncharted 2: Among Thieves website. I read that Hollywood is working to translate the first game into a movie. Booyah. Watch this trailer. Doesn’t it play out like an action movie already? I shouldn’t get too excited about a movie version of this game.
Yea, the Futurama cast is coming back! I just read that negotiations continued, and the voice cast is returning. All five of us fans can rejoice. Read more here.
Rejoice, Futurama fans!
I have had this song stuck in my head all day with no relief. When I went home, I downloaded, listened to it, and regained my sanity.
Don’t you think a balloon festival should have balloons? Let me explain.
Last Sunday, we met up with my sister and BIL at the 2009 Quickchek Balloon Festival. Officially, it was the 27th Annual Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, but I shall refer to it as “the balloon festival.” Maybe it was the 11-year-old in me, but I was imagining a big festival with 50 or more hot air balloons, festival attendees gawking, going up on rides, chocolate lamp posts, and rose-colored glasses and fried dough for everyone. Not quite what I was expecting.
I had hoped to see some balloons, so we did what we could to pass the time. We waited on lines for freebies from PNC Bank and QuickChek. We took Josh on some kiddie rides. Around 5pm, a heavy thunderstorm came into the area. We’re talking rain, lots of lightning, and high winds. I got separated from everyone, and then the wind and rain really hit. Festival organizers recommended to folks to head to the safety of their cars around the same time a tent blew down.
A hot air balloon at the Quick Chek Balloon Festival
Somehow, we made it all back to our car, and the storm finally passed. However, we were pretty beat, and weren’t waiting around any more hours for the balloons, so we hightailed it out of there. We met up at a nearby diner for dinner and to decompress.
Would we do it again next year? I have no clue.
USA TODAY has published eight images from Iron Man 2.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/l090722_ironman2/flash.htm?gid=1099
Just for something different, my wife made me a new profile pic / avatar using FaceYourManga.com. I like it. I kinda look like I’m either a mad supervillain or that Ajay Naidu guy from Office Space but with glasses.
Manga Joel
Since we got the new FiOS DVR, we’ve created brand-new season passes, er, “series” to catch up on other shows we didn’t watch regularly. I’ve recently been catching up on my Justice League and Justice League Unlimited episodes. A few years ago, I somehow missed this whole epic Thanagar-invading-Earth storyline that preceded Justice League Unlimited. I found the movie, Justice League – Starcrossed: The Movie, available on Netflix, so I queued it up. BTW, (I love Netflix and lamp.
I’m not going to go into the entire plot. If you are into the 1990’s animated Batman and Superman series, you were probably into the Justice League series as well. You can read a good review on Toonzone.net. The movie was pretty good for JL and entertaining, though I was surprised to learn it was released back in 2001. Gosh, that’s a long time ago. I’m just catching up now?
Justice League - Starcrossed the movie
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I was home sick today. When I wasn’t sleeping and clutching my rebelling internal organs, I watched The Heartbreak Kid on one of those HBO channels that we’re enjoying during our 3-month trial. Man, who knew that bad chicken curry could kill you?
While The Heartbreak Kid came out in 2007, I didn’t know that it was a remake of a 1972 pic starring Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd. It’s a Farrelly Brothers movie, so it’s got all the gross-out humor you would expect. During its initial release, I heard negative reviews, so I didn’t bother watching it. Hostage to my innards, I watched it in the afternoon. Basically, Ben Stiller’s character meets and marries Malin Ackerman’s character and they get married after a whirlwind romance. During the honeymoon, she soon reveals herself to be a nutjob. Oh, and he meets Michelle Monaghan’s character on the honeymoon, and she appears to be the real woman of his dreams. Hilarity ensues.
The movie wasn’t so bad, but it turned predictable near the end. It certainly had its moments of comedy, so I’d recommend it, but don’t expect some thought-provoking horror movie. Frankly, why would you? You knew it was a comedy going in. Dumbass.
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
Futurama recast? Say it ain't so!
The news this week has it that salary negotiations for the voice actors on Futurama have broken down, and Comedy Central / Fox are recasting all the main actors. Listen, I like Futurama a lot, but I’m not watching it without Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, or Tress MacNeil? It’s not the same. Would you watch The Simpsons with different voices? No.
The network suits can bite my shiny metal ass.
I wish somebody would be my friend.
