Directed by Kevin Smith who directed/Wrote Clerks, Clerks 2, Chasing Amy. etc etc.

Starring Bruce Willis from everything .  Tracy Morgan from 30 Rock.   Sean William Scott from American Pie .  Jason Lee from My name is Earl (and various Kevin Smith films)

I loved it however I think the majority (even the movie going majority) will want to wait for DVD.

I must start with: I love Kevin Smith. He can do me no wrong.

Going in to this film I’d heard very bad things about it, as you usually do going into a Kevin Smith film (except Clerks). I believe this negative publicity is an extremely effective way to promote a film. The only thing better than seeing the best film of the year, is seeing the worst film of the year. They are just better films to talk about. And I must say the more people that hate a Kevin Smith film the more I want to see it. To me it means it is potentially crasser, politically incorrect or just more offensive (and hence, in my opinion, more humorous).

So as this is a Negative Nancy film review and there has already been so much negativity about this film I’m going to tell you what I loved about it.

Cop Out is the first film Smith has Directed without writing it.  I really liked seeing Kevin Smith’s Direction with a bigger budget to see what he is capable of and I really think he’s used the Brooklyn backdrop nicely. I love a white/black detective film and this is definitely one of them, but I’ve noticed Kevin Smith  generally writes with an steady level of humour whereas this film has a few extremely wrong situations or moments of pure hilarity.  I laughed enough to come out very satisfied though.

The best aspect of the partnership between Willis and Morgan is the ongoing cop movie quotes however, I didn’t like was the way they told you where the quote was from right after it. I like the feeling of being on an inside joke when you know something like that and they didn’t give the audience time to enjoy that. The idea of cops really doing that is pretty funny in itself though.

The soundtrack to this film is also amazing. There are some real blasts from the past and the Spanish version of ‘Insane in the Brain’ by Cypress Hill was an interesting treat.

So I have finished all 3 levels of Field Runners on Medium including Classic and Extended, without letting any of those little buggers though.  I’m not saying it was easy, I got a whole lot of satisfaction from the VICTORY at the end of each level however it only gave me confidence to move on and begin on Hard. I thought I won’t bother with Hard Classic so I’ve moved straight onto Extended.

I only play Grasslands Extended on Hard and as soon as ONE guy gets through I restart the level.  I have been stuck on it for over 3 months now and the updated social games have not distracted me.

Up until very recently I have only been getting to level 20-30, using various methods. Some borderline cheating I’d say but today I’ve had a break through, a new technique where I can get to level 60 no problems.

I got to level 63, no sweat, 65 no worries. I even got to level 75!

But alas I have not even reached the seemingly impossible 100. Oh what a day when I do. I imagine there will be confetti and trumpets and people cheering at my victory. Then and only then can I put the game away for good. I hope that day comes soon.

Alice In Wonderland 3D

Starring:

Johnny Depp  as The Mad Hatter

Helena Bonham Carter from Fight Club as The Red Queen

Anne Hathaway from  The Devil Wears Prada as The White Queen

Mia Wasikowska as Alice

Matt Lucas from Little Britain as Twiddle Dee/Dum

Crispin Glover from Back to the Future as Knave of Hearts

Stephen Fry from V For Vendetta as the Cheshire Cat

Alan Rickman from Die Hard as Blue Catapillar

Directed by Tim Burton.

I loved it. Go see it at the cinema.

I’ll start by saying I think everyone should see this at the cinema, but not because it’s in 3D. It does look very pretty in 3D but I love Time Burton, Johnny Depp and the Alice in Wonderland story so much I still would encourage to see it in 2D.

I think this story is much better suited for Tim Burton to remake rather than Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Alice in Wonderland is a very strange and diverse piece of literature anyway and I really enjoyed Burton’s deranged version. I think Johnny Depp did what Johnny Depp does with no real surprises, not even a real Futterwack. It was obviously aided with CGI but I wonder how much actual Futterwacking Depp did. I have read that he ‘injured’ himself Futterwacking during the making of the film but I wonder if that wasn’t a whole lot of bull for some publicity.

I am also in agreement with some others about the flat performance by Mia Wasikowska as Alice. She totally didn’t blow my mind. There is another Australian who has left a bland taste in my mouth. Didn’t she read my review of Avatar and comment on Bland Worthington?

Otherwise I really loved this film, it’s funny and interesting. I think I’ll go see it again.

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Here are the Oscar Winners for 2010 and the results from our predictions.

And the Winner’s Are…

Jess 4/24

Troy 6/24

John 12/24

Congratulations John… Please keep your acceptance speech brief  : )

As discussed on Episode 15 of Podcast… Here is the Official Oscar predictions from the Geek Aloud Team.

Yes, if your a listener of our podcast you may have suspected this for some time. Today however I can confirm it, i’m an idiot.

How did this news come to light? After finishing Mass Effect 2 (a quick 36 Hour investment on my behalf) I went ahead and deleted the Mass Effect 2 folder on my 360. To ensure that the idiot test came back positive I proceeded to install Guitar Hero Greatest Hits onto my HDD.

Days later when I realised that the save game was in the folder I deleted I jumped onto my nearest computer & did a quick Google for “Recover xbox 360 save game”. I found that for $25 AUD I could purchase a HDD data transfer cable for PC, combined with either XPort360 or Xplorer360, I would be able to restore deleted data.

Upon receiving the cable & trying multiple times to restore my data, only to have both programs continually crash, another quick Google soon relieved I would only be able to recover my save game if nothing had been overwritten. Yup, you guessed it, I sacrificed 36 hours of game play (& i’m guessing a few achievement points once I complete Mass Effect 3 with the one character) for a few seconds less loading time when playing GH-GH!