Thursday, May 23, 2013

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

Box of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean MachineOne of my favorite games as a kid while Street fighter and many others were there I thought This game should be reviewed.

Back in the day when Video games where at the top of the line and Sega and Nintendo were at huge conflict at who had the better games and consuls. While The Mean bean may not be well know to most gamers since This is one of the few Sonic Games where sonic does not appear at all it did decent on the market at the time and got good reviews.
 As shown in this photo you have the option of story mode where you challenge each boss or 2 Player mode. which I don't use Two player mode.

The object is to get each bean 4 or more to connect to each other and disappear the more you do the more rocks the other player will get making it harder for them to win and you have to not reach the surface cause if you do all the beans and rocks collide down and it's game over.


Another interesting note that This game was one of the few to be based more on the cartoon and this does not happen often with sonic  and one thing I like about is the music and the quick pace you have to do when you get to the harder levels and the best part is you can always try again and have to actually start from the beginning like most games at the time that did not have save features.


  

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Great Gatsby (2013)

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A yes the Jazz Age and what an age it was when music and money were really big at the time and music by African American's also at that time was starting to really become popular. and Keep in mind a lot of this happen before the stock market crashed of 1929.
 
Although I never read the book I have seen the classic cover a lot and what's sad that despite it being popular today it was a big flop in sales and critics called the writer out of touched back in 1925 after that his career then became more difficult.
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When I watched the movie I really liked the music and all the craziness of everyone at Gatsby's parties or at those what I  call clubs at the time which were secret hideouts for people who want to drink due to probation at the time and even cops are seen but don't care since they are dying for a drink making me wonder did people really bribe the cops that well back then.

 The affairs where kind of annoying to me I mean sure seeing it like once or twice is fine but this movie did this way too often and What my next problem is that Nick Carraway seemed to had his chance with a woman, but after the car crash it nothing happens between them.

The Funeral is dark cold and depressing a man who took the blame for that dead woman and her husband comes and kills Gatsby with a gun before killing himself.

The ending is also like bad to worse and that almost nothing good has come out of any of the characters putting the ending to the were Nick on what looks like he's writing a book although it's really a memoir to which I guess to publish for people to know the real truth.

Well This isn't Leonardo DiCaprio best film but it's interesting non the less although I do wish he choose movies more often that are not set in the 1920's -1930's.
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Iron man 3

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That was a pretty interesting movie. Spoiler alert for those of you who haven't seen the movie stop reading and go watch the film.



iron man was one of those super hero's that rely on his brain and is the brains of many tools he builds to help him in his needs, the suits I saw in the cartoon back in 90's it was cool to see that iron man  made a bunch of suits as well although he said he only did it as a hobby while in the cartoon I think I was  the other way around.

For those of you wondering where Stan lee is there is a scene about a pageant show on a TV and he is one of the judges who give the girl a 10 likely to be how he rates this movie.

The villain in the movie or villains are people who are pretty much made of flame that can repair lost tissue or amputated limps and that they can breath fire and burn any living thing to a cloud of ash. Iron man seems to be even more crazy suits as he has a computer that has an independent mind as while as being able to use the suits which is pretty cool that the computer is able to hold its own in battle against those fire people.

While I don't often like comedy outside of cartoons this one has some pretty good stuff and I recommended it worth laughing.

This film also seems to leave a message that not all terrorist are Muslims in fact it's an American terrorist and which I say will show Muslims or the middle east that  Hollywood is not trying to make them look bad and show people that stereotype leaves a bad message.

I say this is one film the middle East would be happy to see.