Pastiche of Life

Oh My God!

That’s it people time to close the world, its time to  hit the ‘Nukem’ button , its  time to surrender ourselves to our under dwelling masters. All that and many other bombastic affectations to doom. as you can see above we have reached a new low.

Honestly I’m slowly starting to lose my mind as i try to conceive of how many questions you can possibly ask about the Twilight movie. The fact that the game involves itself with the movie rather than the series of Novels make’s its scope severely limited, Not that the Twilight Saga was a deep well of discursive history and mythology in the first place.

To stop my self from going over the top in my distain for this iteration of the the excellent series of games i thought i would Wiki myself up with some knowledge of their release history now look at this list:

New DVD expansion games are released every year. Expansions include:

Harry Potter 1st Edition (2005)

Harry Potter 2nd Edition (2007)

Disney Edition

Warner Bros. 50th Anniversary Edition

James Bond Edition

HBO Edition

Turner Classic Movies Edition

Nickelodeon Edition

Marvel Comics Edition

Friends Edition

Pirates of the Caribbean Edition

Doctor Who Edition

FIFA Edition

Disney Channel Edition

Seinfeld Edition

Star Trek Edition

The Simpsons Edition

Now as you can see there is plenty of Fandom’s covered by their release’s but the presence of multiple editions for Disney/Harry potter to follow the continued development of the stories means an acceptance and attention to the limitations of focusing on a few titles in a series. In this list the Pirates of the Caribbean is the one pack trading on the least amount of footage released to sift and quiz upon, its connection to Disney history and the use of easily recognised cast members with illustrious movie histories filled out its content nicely.

In its use of the twilight series considering the limitation of focusing on the first film and its associated text just in time for New Moons release simply smacks of pandering to the already Ghoul like fanaticism that follows the book.

Yes, I hate the Twilight books and yes, i have read them. thankfully not having to pay for the displeasure go ahead and complain i have control over the horizontal the vertical and the comment box ^_^

Oh I’m a little giddy, everyone has hammered the MGS series into the ground with “UGH more cut scenes” “ugh I wanna Play!” comments so I’m sure the prospect of a film to allot of people is hell. To those people I think you all suck and I’m happy such a good piece of film is here.

MGS: Philanthropy is a fan project started by a group of Italian film students that blows anything I’ve worked on out of the water. With a internally raised budget of £9,000 (listen if you haven’t seen it don’t say that’s allot of money to make a film Clerks Cost twice as much) they have managed to create a both involving yet flippant action filled story that makes more sense than many of the plot elements of MGS2/3/4.

  Snake is played by one of the original creators of the fan project Giacomo Talamini and in the design of the character the Body suit worn by snake and his age reflect a particularly good transition stage from the narrow faced younger MGS Snake to the more Bearded MGS2. Talamini does an excellent job of portraying grumpy snake with allot of very noticeable physical gestures lifted from the exaggerated physicality of the Video game such as the Grunts and shifts of weight when something snatches Snakes attention compounded in editing with recognisable quick cuts and zoom on snake or the hanging of his head and shifting looks when Snakes asked questions he doesn’t wish to answer. This is all compounded by a faithfully gritty English Dub by Philipp Sacramento

The Special Effects work is worth a watch alone, at times providing a surreal moment or two when digital actors are used in transitions that could be mistaken for Scenes from MGS2/3. The Screenshot to the left has a tone and colouring that could have been taken from one of the Early MGS4 Teaser trailers while the filter effects used on the the shot to the right make it difficult to determine if the foreground Snake is in actuality the actor or one of the transitional Digi’s. The soft blur and perspective of the shot look so well blended together. Admittedly Not all shots look quite as convincing but to have these moments are quite excellent and i know that Ill be keeping them as wallpapers for a time.

The rest of the Cast are also excellent the Characters above all deserving special mentions clockwise from top left (Unnamed Foxhound-esque Soldier, Informant Britoil(Sp?), Pierre LeClair, Sen. Abraham Bishop, Elizabeth Laycan) LeClair’s character features heavily in the humour of the movie his introduction leading to one of the strangest if humorous and satisfying moments of the film. This Wry humour is something that any form of Hollywood involvement in a Big budget incarnation of the series would eliminate from the narrative.

There is so much to Say about the characters of Laycan and of the mysterious soldier but id prefer to leave this movie unspoiled for your viewing go check it out ASAP

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http://www.mgs-philanthropy.net

With the American Première of Evangelion 2.0 i would Like to take a quick Look at its continued raging popularity…

Back during the original release of the series i made the deliberate decision to wait for ADV’s Release DVD by DVD. Now you can imagine being a frustrated Internet enabled teen i could have gone the dark route of downloading but i managed to keep myself free from such actions because i had a friend who was as into the show as i was. You know the kind, The guy who would commit murder if you even hinted you had seen further ahead than he had, so my path was set.

This slow drip is what made me take notice of Evangelion. The torrent( HAHA did you see what i did there) of Anime available today has crystallised the series for me making it the one series that no matter how much brain power and time i drop into its understanding i come up gasping for air and again watch an episode for just one more visual cue to tie it all up neatly, From our introduction to Shinji and his introduction to the EVA, which pretty much everyone rewound at least once to hear again, to the series baffling conclusion Hideaki Anno created a deep universe that in its mash up of religious and psychological/social entanglement renewed the Giant robot genre and created a subset of shows that intentionally played with the viewers desires and intentions for their loved characters.

Shows Like FLCL and Lain along with Evangelion granted the license to couch theoreticist’s and critics to create an explanation for the intentionally unexplainable and in this practice created a self-sustaining fandom that is existent today with the Rebuild Series of Evangelion movies. If one could harness the mental energy expended so far we would all live on the moon with Unit-01’s petrified corpse.

The series has tortured ,in a not so unpleasant way, its fans. This torture is in this form the 2nd of 4  movies retelling the series that will never die, Not just are we anticipating and watching another remake of the story that has been added to and rereleased with a Synopsis movie (Death and Rebirth), An alternate/expanded end (End of Eva), Added scenes (The platinum collection) and visually/Aurally remastered  (Also platinum) but we now have a version that is making fundamental changes to the story that we have already thought about and attempted to understand. The effect is reflective of many other series in the past for example Clamps ‘X’ movie and series or comparison of the series Revolutionary Girl Utena to the move Adolescence of Utena. This Change can be a shock to the fan base but are all continued afflictions of the Intentional unintelligible that will keep these series alive.

2 years ago on a trip around Japan it was still obvious how prolific the characters of Evangelion are and at that particular time there was still Evangelion Pachinko and a whole series of shop wall advertisements for the upcoming rebuild series. As much as the possibility may be than evangelion is reaching its swan song, its curtain call and any other analogies for its end its effect on those who know of it will continue into their ripe old age and still have them wondering what was the meaning of that giant forehead vagina <Honestly i tried to find a Picture but you will just have to imagine it>

(Postscript if a single person emails me to include the Other Manga/Novels spawned from this series in this post i will make your heads explode from the pure concentrated hate)