My Jason Statham Obsession

While I was on vacation I watched a bunch of movies that mostly included Jason Statham. I even dragged my lazy ass out to the movie theatre to see Death Race. Me and my nephew really enjoyed it too. Obviously there wasn't a deep plot or story to Death Race. It was your typical brain dead action flick. I like those kind of movies. In the 80's there were a ton of them. There are times when I just want a violent action movie where I can just sit there and take it all in without having to do too much thinking. Death Race was that movie.

I also watched The Bank Job. Not really an action movie, but really entertaining to watch. Supposedly it was based on a true story. Not so sure how true the story is, but it did make for a good movie.

Another Statham movie that I checked out was The Transporter. Yes I realize it's a few years old, but for some reason I just never bothered watching it. There was tons of over the top action that was definitely unbelievable, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I can't say the same for The Transporter 2. It was just too ridiculous. With that being said I will be going to the theatre to see The Transporter 3.

The other Statham movie that I watched was Chaos. I was mostly bored with this one, but I did enjoy the ending.

As long as Statham keeps doing action flicks I'll be watching them. He's basically the only tough guy action star worth a shit these days. I still haven't watched everything he's done, but I will. I'll probably watch WAR next.

NHL 09 Be A Pro Mode Rules!

I finally went out and picked up EA's NHL 09 for the Xbox 360. Basically the reason for the delay was the fact that I knew I'd be on vacation, and wouldn't get much time to play it with all of the things I had going on. Last night I decided to start with the Be A Pro mode. I'm so glad I did. This is the single most awesome mode I've ever played in any NHL video game, and I've played them all. You start out by creating a player and giving him whatever name you want. If most people are like me they created themselves. You get to decide everything from height and weight to what brand of stick, skates and helmet you want as well as the type of curve on your stick. I opted for my player to be a center who is a sniper. After you've decided what position your player will be playing it's off to pick the NHL team that you will be trying to play for one day. Obviously I picked the Dallas Stars. Then I was shipped off to the Stars' minor league AHL affiliate where I have a bunch of goals that the organization wants me to achieve such as shots on goal, goals scored, and points. It's definitely a challenge to only control one player vs controlling an entire team of players, but believe me it's an incredibly fun challenge.

Be A Pro mode is great for a number of reasons. Only controlling one player feels rewarding when you actually score a goal or assist on a goal. I also chose to play this mode the "authentic" way which means I contols my player and only my player. When it's time for a line change I actually skate to the bench and take a seat waiting for my health to go back up while play goes on without me. There isn't any time for day dreaming while play is going on either. When the coach calls for your line to get back out on the ice you had better be ready. After you take a shift and sit back down on the bench you'll get comments from the coach which can be both good and bad letting you know just what you're doing right and/or wrong. Be A Pro mode is total NHL player role playing at it's best. In this mode you can even pick your favorite NHL player and guide him through a season.

Just playing this mode alone I highly recommend any sports fan to pick this game up.
Even if you're not a hardcore hockey fan like I am I really think you'll love this game.

Vacation Time & Various B.S.

I'm off for nine days! I don't really have any major plans. I'm just gonna kick back and do whatever I please. My next vacation is the week of Christmas. Next year I get five weeks of vacation. Vacation time and benefits are the main reason why I'll probably stay employed where I'm at untill I retire or die.

After five days of playing Viking: Battle For Asgard I decided not to rerent it. I had gotten about 2/3 of the way through this game. At one point in the game it was me against a whole legion of warriors. I came seriously close to kicking all of their asses and then I died. It was a cheap death as well. There was no way in hell I was going back through all of that button mashing hacking and slashing again. At times I had a really fun time playing this game. A lot of the time it was a mediocre experience. I'd say it was worth the rental price. At the most I'd probably pay about 15 bucks for it. I also got a decent amount of achievement points. I could have easily gotten more points, but I just wasn't willing to pay to rent it again. If I had to rate it I'd give it a 6.9/10

Note To 360 Owners: IF YOU DON'T YET HAVE GEOMETRY WARS EVOLVED 2...JUST WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR???

Stuff I've been listening to lately...

Asphyx - Last One On Earth
Atrophy - Socialized Hate (This is really not very good. Violent By Nature Kills it!)
Megadeth - United Abominations
Exodus - Force Of Habit
Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man (A lot of forgettable songs...unfortunately.)
Halford - Resurrection
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

Last Movie I Watched: The Substitute

This was only the second time I had watched this. The first time was right after it was released on VHS. As cheesy as movies like this are I always enjoy stuff like this. It's funny to see Marc Anthony as the gamg leader though.

Can you guys tell nothing is really going on in video game land? Things will pick up soon though, and I'll have a shit ton of things to blog about. For some reason I haven't even been inspired to talk about 80's related pop culture.

Olivia Looking Hotter Than Ever!!! (Wipes the drool off of chin)

Adam Sandler Fan & Damn Proud Of It!

It's always funny to read reviews of an Adam Sandler movie from the critics. The reviews are alomost always crappy. I expect that now. I'm also happy about it. What do stuffy old serious critics know about silly juvenile bathroom humor anyway? Adam Sandler isn't for everyone. If you're immature like I am then chances are you like most of the movies he's been involved with. I've also noticed that it seems like there is no in between with Sandler. You either like what he does or you don't. His humor is right in line with mine and you always know what to expect with one of his movies. I also can connect with him because he's that older guy that basically refuses to grow up. If you're a Sandler fan like me and my daughter are you'll be happy to hear that his latest movie entitled "Bedtime Stories" hits theatres Christmas day. I WILL be at my local theatre on Christmas day for sure.

My Top 5 Favorite Adam Sandler Movies In No Particular Order.

1) The Waterboy
2) Happy Gilmore
3) Click
4) Billy Madison
5) Little Nicky

Tacklin' Fuel

New Game On My Radar, And The Wii Game That Made My Arm Sore

I just got the latest copy of the Official Xbox Magazine. I skipped directly to the review section which I pretty much always do. Most of the review scores for the games they did review were pretty much mediocre scores. Then I see one game that got a 9 that I was totally not expecting to see. OXM gave Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway a 9. I can honestly say that this game wasn't even on my radar, and I'm a big fan of shooters. There are a ton of WW2 video games out. I know a lot of gamers are sick of them, but I'm not. I loved Call Of Duty 2. I don't care what war it is. If it's fun I'll play it. I've never played a Brothers In Arms game, but now I'm thinking about picking this one up. It's being released next week. I'll wait and read more reviews, but I tend to trust OXM because they are usually quite critical of games.

My Wii finally got some attention. I rented Boom Blox and blew the dust off of the Wii. Me, my nephew and the wife played this for quite some time, and had a lot of fun with it. I wouldn't pay more more than 20 bucks for it, but it was fun. It's definitely a game where it can get old with multiple plays. We ended up playing the throwing modes. It's basically Jenga with different modes. After waving the Wii controller a few hours my arm became sore. All of our arms were sore. It was even worse the next day. I knew my arm was going to be sore before I even played Boom Blox because I've heard that pretty much anyone who plays it gets a sore arm. Now I'll sit back and wait for the injured arm lawsuits to start.

Boom Blox Review

Can't Wait For Those October Releases

The new triple A titles can't get here soon enough. I'm dying for new games to play on my 360..new games that rule anyway. There are plenty of mediocre games to play. I own a few of those games. NHL 09 is out right now. I figured I would rush out and buy that, but for some reason I'm not as excited about it as I thought I would be. I've owned every EA NHL game since the Sega Genesis. Last year NHL 08 was awesome. I know I'm gonna get more of the same with a couple added features, so maybe that's why I'm not running out to buy it. I guess the games that I'm really waiting for are Fable 2, Fallout 3, Gears Of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War, and Left 4 Dead. There are a few others, but the ones I just listed are my must haves.

There are some games that I plan on renting. I went to my local movie/game rental store today to rent Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, but all of their copies were out. Then I planned on renting Too Human, but those were out as well, so I had to settle for Viking: Battle for Asgard which is mediocre at best thus far. I've played it for a couple of hours and have gotten over 100 achievement points, so it's not all bad I guess.

30 Minutes Or It's Free

Remember back in the day when Domino's Pizza had the 30 minute delivery guarantee? I sure do. In the 80's I loved Domino's. They had great pizza, and they would ALWAYS deliver it in 30 minutes or less. This couldn't have been a small feat. Back in the day there weren't half as many pizza delivery choices as there is now. Every weekend my family would order from Domino's. Every weekend they would deliver our pizza in 30 minutes or less. I know because I timed it every time. Seriously, I did. I wanted that free pizza just so I could tell everyone that Domino's blew it for once. It never was to be though. Why am I bringing this up you might be asking yourself. I'm bringing this up because no matter what pizza chain I call these days it's always a 45 minutes to a 1 hour wait! In this day and age pizza places can't deliver a freakin' pizza in 30 minutes? Domino's sure as hell could back in the glorious 80's!
I'd go into just how much costomer service sucks at pretty much every business here in America, but you probably already know that. Pizza delivery has taken a step backwards, and my stomach isn't happy about it.

Domino's Commercial From 1986