Well, lurking the Off-Topic Discussion board last night, I came across some horrible news. Apparently, the Tourette's Guy, has died :(. I was a big fan of the dude, and I remember watching my first Tourette's Guy video and laughing my ass off as he blamed Bob Saget for everything that went wrong with him:lol:. Ever since then, I always checked his website to see if any new videos would appear to make me laugh some more. Some of them may have seemed fake, but they were still hilarious. Hopefully this isn't some kind of sick joke that someone decided to post an article saying he died, but it seems pretty legit. To pay my respects, here are a couple of my favorite videos by him. Check them out to get a good laugh:
Taking his son to a job interview
Driving lessons and voice dubs of The Lion King
Total cerealAn episode full of his best quotables
Garbage disposal sounds like Chewbacca
There's plenty more videos on YouTube to laugh your head off from, but those ones are the best IMO. R.I.P. Danny. You will be missed, along with your dirty mouth that made you so awesome:(. :cry:
Not only has that made my past weekend sh*t, but also my video game experiences have as well. As you may know, I bought Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure used on the Xbox a while back. I just started playing this past week. It's not a bad little game, and it can get a little addictive at times. Sure, there are problems like invisible walls and the fact that it's pretty linear, but it's still cool. I don't know if it's the actual game, my Xbox, or the fact that it's got tons of minor scratches on the disk, but the damn thing won't stop freezing up on me. At times, mostly when I'm spray-painting graffiti, the frame-rate drops to the point where the game freezes, and I have no choice but to reset my Xbox and restart the mission. It's becoming a pain in the ass. I already ran warm water over the disk to clean it off, but apparently that doesn't work. I know there's a solution that has to do with toothpaste, and I remember running across it before online, but I tried to Google it and I can't find the webpage I was on before. So, if anyone would be so kind to explain step by step how to clean a disk with toothpaste, it would really mean alot from me. But after becoming too frustrated to try to play the game over and over again, I decided to move onto another game I bought a while back: X-Men Legends. I'm not an X-Men fan, but I like to get into action-RPGs from time to time, so this game looked good. I'm only on the second mission in the game, but it's quite addictive. But I have a few questions to those who've played it: Does it ever get even SLIGHTLY non-linear? Is there other things to do other than fighting enemies? Are there side-quests or secondary objectives to complete in the game? And finally, how is the sequel, as well as Marvel Alliance? Once again, I'd appriciate it if someone would answer these questions for me.
Surprisingly, I've only watched one movie this entire weekend. I'm pretty much too broke to buy any more cheap DVDs at the moment, and garage sales aren't doing the trick, either, since all the ones my dad and I have been to lately have pure junk. Honestly, brandyinindiana, I have no idea how you do it:P. I'm getting to the point where I don't enjoy garage saling anymore. But here's my one and only movie review for today:
The Host
Here's a movie that could tide me over until I see that mysterious monster movie coming out on 1-18-08. This movie really didn't focus on the monster that much, though. The story is that a father, grandfather, aunt, and uncle escape from a quarentined area after coming in contact with a strange creature lurking in a river by their city and they look for the father's daughter that was captured by the beast. If I could describe this movie, it's like a combination between 28 Days Later, The Fugitive, and Godzilla. 28 Days Later was all about isolation and viral outbreak, and that's similar to the situation in this movie. The government thinks that the monster can spread a virus to people that come in contact with it, and that's when everyone has to be quarentined and controlled by fascist police and doctors. It shares similarities with The Fugitive in which the wanted family is constantly running and hiding from officials out looking for them, and some of it takes place in sewers. And, of course, it's obvious why this movie is compared to Godzilla. The monster looked pretty good in the movie, looking almost like something on a PS3 or Xbox 360 video game. There's a lot of chaos at the beginning, and after that, you don't really get to see much of the monster in the movie until toward the end, when there's, of course, a badass ending. The characters in the movie were cool, and you felt like you were with them. You'd get the names mixed up at times because their names are Korean names, which all sound similar, but you'll distinguish them soon enough. There IS a choice of watching this movie in English, but I actually wanted to watch it in the original language because English voice dubbing is just plain goofy in Asian movies IMO. And since this IS a horror movie, you'd expect the usual cliches, like the cheap scares and constant killings, right? Wrong. All of the scenes in which I was expecting to jump out of my seat turned out differently than I thought. Also, unlike other horror movies, there's some deep character development in this one, and you actually care for them. At times this movie was also funny, with some clever one-liners at times and ridiculous scenes that remind you of older monster movies. Funny, chaotic, sometimes scary, dramatic.........this movie had it all! And it deserves a 9.5/10.
Well, Rush Hour 3 is on the horizon, and it looks like the score on Rotten Tomatoes is pretty bad so far:(. Oh well, I still would like to see it, since I found the last two very hilarious. I'm also kinda looking forward to Stardust because it has two legendary actors in it: Robert DeNiro and Peter O' Toole 8). Plus it's at 100% right now on the "Tomatometer," so it's getting great early reviews. Who knows? This movie could be one of the best of the summer, and a fantasy movie worth seeing. But, until then, I'm just going to watch funny ventrilo harassment videos (when someone pranks an MMORPG vent server with a soundboard) and play video games while anticipating my 18th birthday coming up in 14 days. Until Next Time, LATA!