Yes, this is a thing, it seems. No-one really wanted the first movie, and now we have the sequel no-one asked for. But they know what they want, and so pack it in the title...
The fish are back and 3Der than ever. And there are more women, and more nudity, and a guy gets his penis bitten, and everyone is attacked and... sigh. There really is no point to this movie. There's a water park, we are all waiting for the mass piranha attack, and yet when it happens, it's still boring! To be honest, the only thing worth watching in this movie is the end credits.
And Christopher Lloyd and Ving Rhames are back... I supposed, don't remember them in the previous movie. And others are probably also back, but again does anyone care about these returning characters? I had to remind myself several times that I was supposed to care, but it never stayed with me. And the big guest star for this movie is the Hoff. As the Hoff. And basically parodying himself. And no, that doesn't make anything better.
This is not a movie anyone should bother watching for any reason.
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012
DDPiranhaDD DD3DD
Monday, 4 June 2012
Documentary 2012
So for those of you who kept track, I did see all 20 movies on my list. And significantly contributed to the local economy.
Speaking of which, one comment made by the organisers (who always introduced each movie) was that this was partly funded by the Wellington City Council, and so they wanted plenty of people to watch the movies so there would be incentive for WCC to keep giving money.
Only one movie of the lot I attended was anywhere near packed. And one session I was in had only three people... Yeah, I'm not seeing this an incredibly successful on that front. If, next year, it didn't make it down here again, and was only in Auckland, I wouldn't be shocked. (I think Auckland had higher attendance, they seemed to suggest so.)
Also, this is currently screening at Readings, like at least last year if not the year before. These don't count as Reading movies, so you can't get Readings points for them (unless the ticket person doesn't know this, in which case cha-ching!), and can't use Reading discounts for it.
Also, the D-card wasn't great. You could either get $5 off a fifth movie, or a tenth one free (I got both for the number of movies I went to). And you couldn't use that in the Gold Lounge section (where docs cost $5 more), because they 'don't have the button for that'.
Not to mention that there could be a better screening process for selecting movies...
Ultimately, they are doing what they can to bring these movies to Wellington, so good on them for that. However, there is a lot of room for improvement, and a lot of room for it not to happen at all.
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Sunday, 3 June 2012
Of Steam, Steel and Murder
Party time, time for a party! And what goes better at a party than a dead body? Nothing! But why was there a dead body there? Will we ever know?
We were to go to Egypt, but Bert wants to read more Cthulhu Egypt first... um... anyway, we seemingly have a typical 'dead body' case, however it looks like it was a Logan-burgler, and while we know what's going on locally, there are international things to think about, and more eyes are on us than before... it's more of a setting episode.
Hear our antics in Game 57. Rapidshare. Hotfile.
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Saturday, 2 June 2012
Bonus Video: More Animals!
Late in the day is obviously a good time to go to the zoo. I finally got to see some animals I hadn't seen before!
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2 Portal 2 2
With stuff still to do, Richard [yes, I'm naming names!] and I got together again to start with the DLC for Portal 2.
"Art Therapy" is like the game in miniature, with each chamber more or less recapping a course... okay, to be honest, since we did so much afterwards, I can't remember it that well. We did have fun, and it is a more 'behind the scenes' look at Aperture, with it being reminiscent of the 1980s look to it all. And we got to fling around portal gel! I like the reveal at the end of the mastermind behind it all. Fun!
Then we went back to getting achievements. This took a damn long time, with one of them being an achievement for getting through an entire course without dying. That was hard, and then bam, I died. And then we get to the second to last room, and bam, another death. Sigh. We can do those rooms great now, but it would be nice for some way to switch off GlaDOS's dialogue. We know it already, and just want to get to the next chamber! And, yes, again we looked up some things online. I doubt we would have gotten Portal Conservation Society otherwise. Still, we now have all the co-operative ones we can get without bringing in other people... so, who else plays Portal 2?
And then, at the end... we cheated. Enable the cheats, then start throwing portals anywhere! And calling things into existence! Invented some new games of sliding a block around, and seeing how easily we could kill each other (it really should keep a tab on that). And the first course was incredibly simple with cheating too. (Of course.)
Lots of fun was had by all (well, us), and if there is more DLC then we must return. However, back to the single player to try for those last achievements...
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Friday, 1 June 2012
I Ron Sky
Nazi's on the Moon! Yeah?
Um... I'm going with 'no'. It's like they had this great set up, but didn't know what to do with it. Were they going for a comedy? Because it wasn't that funny. And if it wasn't comedy, I'm not sure what it was.
In 2018, two astronauts find a Nazi base on the moon, and one is taken captive. A black man, so there's the first humour! A Negro vs the Nazis! Nope. And then the Nazis come to Earth to get a decent computer, only to join with the President of the Americas, because America is just like the Nazis! Get it! GET IT!!! Really, the movie tries to make this point, but doesn't really get that working either. [To be honest, it was when they ripped off Downfall Hitler that I knew there was serious problems, and they make plenty of other references too.]
Even the giant space battle didn't inspire excitement. What does it take for that to fail? There was no credible threat, and everything was treated as a joke, so I couldn't take any of it seriously either.
This should have been far better than it was...
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