Following my initial post about Disneyland’s “Legends of Fronteirland” game, I have continued to play and have seen the game slowly evolve, and in many ways improve. Many of the flawed mechanics have been fixed, new features have been unveiled, and the cast of the game remains as excellent as the day it began. I’m … Continue reading Thoughts on Disneyland’s “Adventure Trading Company”
Today, the great people at Extra Credits released their 200th episode. If you’re not familiar with these guys, PLEASE go check out their website. Their series of videos discussing all manner of topics relating to video games are not only entertaining but hugely important to our discussion of video games as an industry and as … Continue reading What Theme Park Fans Can Learn From the Success of Video Games
Note: while I don’t get into any real specifics of plot, there are some things in this review that could be considered spoilers. If you would be upset by knowing in a broad sense whether this film has a “happy” or “sad” ending, then it’s best not to read this one. I’ll be up front … Continue reading Movie Review – THE PURGE: ANARCHY
Today, Disneyland launched a new “interactive experience” called “Legends of Frontierland.” It’s best described as a strange hybrid of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) with Live Action Role Playing (LARP) in which you, the guest, get to create a character, align yourself with one of two competing factions, and then do various tasks to help … Continue reading Disneyland’s “Legends of Frontierland” Review – 99 Problems But a Bit Ain’t One
In our current movie climate, the automatic response to a movie doing well financially is for the studio to immediately begin work on a sequel, whether or not there’s any creative reason to do so. For god’s sake, a Spring Breakers sequel is in development right now, and even the original’s biggest star rallying against … Continue reading Movie Review – HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
When it comes to bad movies, I tend to have a rather high threshold for pain. Its rare for me to even be tempted to walk out of a movie, and I’ve never actually done so. The last film I was tempted to walk out of was Movie 43 – a hate crime against the … Continue reading Movie Review – MALEFICENT
It’s no secret that movies based on video games have a tendency to be really bad. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might be the best of them, but calling a middling, forgettable movie like that the best of anything only goes to show how deeply flawed this category is. The problem, at least … Continue reading Movie Review – EDGE OF TOMORROW
SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned. Back in my recap for Episode Two of The Wolf Among Us, I described it as being a bit of a bridging episode; an episode where pieces move around the board to set up major turns of the plot, but not very many turns happen within the episode itself. … Continue reading THE WOLF AMONG US Recap – “In Sheep’s Clothing”
Let’s have a conversation about tone. In the most general sense, tone is the way that a movie feels. Is a movie scary? Is it funny? Is it serious, or is it silly? Tone is something that can vary wildly between movies, even within the same genre, and can even change within a movie from … Continue reading Movie Review – Godzilla
Ugggggggggghhhhhhhhhh… Look, I didn’t like The Amazing Spider-Man, not at all. It was one of the most shockingly incompetent big-budget movies I’ve seen in recent memory, aside from completely misunderstanding who its title character is. That being said, Spider-Man is my favorite superhero, and I really desperately want to see a great Spider-Man movie again. … Continue reading Movie Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
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