Months have passed since Japanese company came out with their next generation system, the Revolution. The problem was that the name wasn't finalized. It's not the Revolution, it's now the Wii. That's right, the Wii. You pronounced it like "we". The people at Nintendo must be on some fucking crack right now.

A letter to Roger Ebert about the new film, "Silent Hill".

I want to be one of the few "Silent Hill" fans who, I imagine, will not send you an email bursting with "You-stupids" and "If you'd-play-the-game-you'd-understands." A film based on a video game, even a well-made one, unless it is made exclusively for fans, cannot hope to receive much critical acclaim in the United States unless it stands on its own, independent of its source material. This principle isn't unique to video games, but to any adapted work.

Your 3 1/2-star review of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," for example. Most fans of the games hated the film because it contained very little from the series that they love, but it received reasonably decent ratings from critics probably for that very reason. "Silent Hill," however, is the opposite way. I expect that I will love the film, having cherished memories of the first time the original PlayStation game made me forego sleep as a teenager out of pure terror. I also expect that I will be surrounded by moviegoers who have never played the game, couldn't give a damn, and will likely walk out of the theater utterly confused and with the notion that there will never be a good relationship between games and film reinforced in their minds.

This is a film made by a fan of the game for fans of the game; to them, it will be a masterpiece. To everyone else, it'll be nonsense. It's unfortunate, certainly, but nevertheless it is the state of things.

Sincerely,
Peter Jurmu

I was really hit by this quote, "This is a film made by a fan of the game for fans of the game; to them, it will be a masterpiece" because it is so true.

Saw Silent Hill on Sunday in a shitty theater. The movie was good but not great. I DID NOT get the ending but after some info from my bro who played the games, I finally understood the ambiguous ending. There are a couple of scenes that are downright creepy (the scene with a blindfolded guy with his legs behind his head screaming, Pyramid Head) and oh-my-fucking god violent. There's one scene that's so violent I said to myself, "HOLY SHIT!" If there are problems on the movie it's that none of the characters are developed at all except for Alessa, the movie could be tighter (it was a bit long at over 2 hours), and the dialogue is really horrible (we now know who truly wrote Pulp Fiction, and it wasn't Avary).

Yesterday, I spent most of my day trying to fix the televsion on the computer. I only was able to fix the goddamn thing today and the new drivers/software are SHIT. I hate ATI, they make some of the worst products. If they want a piece of software to be upgradable, it better be working properly when released.

Mowing lawns, naked kids, Damien, and silent hills and impossible missions in HD.

There's nothing like mowing the lawn, edging it, and then blowing the extra grass away for 4 straight hours while you see a family of ducks trying to rest on your patio. Man, I really gotta get in shape, after the first 45 minutes of mowing I was really out of breath. I usually aren't out of breath even after mowing the lawn. After finishing the job, I saw this really fat rabbit on the lawn eating the extra grass. Man, it was really really fat. I didn't even bother catching it because I was so tired.

That night, my mom and I went to the laundromat on Main street to wash some blankets. I tried to do some reading but I couldn't. These three fucking little Mexican kids kept on playing and playing as if the laudromat was their fucking theme park. It really made me pissed. The parents were there but they didn't do shit. The eldest kid was even throwing bottle caps at some of the employees of the laundromat. You know what the dad did (or possibly the guy who's fucking the mom)? He saw what they were doing and bought all his kids Gatorade. Way to go you fuckhead! One of the kids wasn't even wearing a shirt and pants. He wore his boxers the entire time I was there. Carlos Mencia had a sketch about hitting your kids (and taking away their fucking PS2 isn't fucking enough) and this is a reason why.

Aside from the Lake House from yesterday's post, but did anyone catch the new Omen trailer? Man, it looks scene for scene copied from the original. And the problem for me is the goddamn kid who plays Damien. He looks too evil. Not quasi-evil, not semi-evil, not the Diet Coke of evil, but pure EEE-vil! The brilliance of the original was that the antichrist didn't look like an evil child but an angel. He looked like the personification of love! But this kid has that same smirk the whole fucking time! And Julia Stiles looks so goddamn miscast.

There is one great trailer though and its for the movie Art School Confidential. I found it to be really, really funny.

I still haven't seen Silent Hill. I thought I was gonna watch it yesterday but I didn't have the time. A friend called me up and the subject of Silent Hill came up. "Dude, you wanna come over? I have it on HD." I drove to his place at around 4. When I arrived and then 15 minutes later, the doorbell rings. My friend gets a huge package from one of his buddies in L.A. and it's Mission: Impossible III. That's right. Yup. IT'S FUCKING MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III IN 1080P HIGH DEFINITION!!!!!!!! The goddamn movie came in 4 hard drives. I said, "fuck Silent Hill, I could just watch that in the theatres!!!! Pop in MI3 fucking now!" After taking 20 minutes to install, we finally begin watching it. The picture quality is absolutely fucking crystal clear. I doubt I've never seen a film this clear in my life (and the first film I've seen in 1080p). In the beginning, Capote is about to blow the brains of Cruise's g/f. Mr. Couch Jumper then begs Capote to not kill her. Capote then begins to talk about some rabbit foot and begins to count to 10. Then a problem occurred. As mr. Capote was counting, suddenly all the fucking power went out in the fucking apartment. My friend screamed "FUCCCCCKKKKKKKK!" The power came back on after 15 minutes. We were able to turn the computer back on but the problem was that the first hard drive (the first 1/4 of the movie) kept on fast forwarding to the end of the part. So, instead of just watching the film incomplete, I told him to just pop in Silent Hill (another 1080p film). As Silent Hill was about to start, the power went out again. This time the power would never come back again. I was pissed, and my friend was really pissed (he wanted to knock over his computer tower). I went back home with the notion that MI3 might be really good this time around and that I could've seen Silent Hill in HD. But alas, it wasn't to be.

On a final note, if you've seen any of Kevin Smith's films you should absolutely read his blog. His blog is in one word: incredible. The guy really knows how to write. His latest posts are about his best friend's addiction to heroin, how he finally beat it, and why he stayed by his friend's side the entire time.

So that's it for today, good night and good luck. (that's a pretty good film actually)

The trailer for the Hollywood version of "Il Mare" is finally out. I have one question for all the people who have seen "Il Mare": Did the movie look THIS STUPID? I love the Keane song used in the trailer but its placement is downright horrible!

I've been again watching a shitload of movies the past few weeks and here are my thoughts:

Slither: Hilarious. It's sad this movie was a flop because it was so great.

Thank You for Smoking: Another hilarious film. I expect this to get awards for its main star, Aaron Eckhart and the incredible adaptation. One of the best films this year.

Take the Lead: Thank God I saw this at a friend's house (in 720p too!) because man, is it really cliched. But yet, I found it to be entertaining.

Serenity: I didn't expect a lot from this movie. I hated the ads and I thought it was gonna suck because of all the hype. Well, it didn't suck. I found it to be one of the most entertaining films of last year not because of the visuals but because of the snappy writing by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel). It's sad this movie never found an audience.

In the Mouth of Madness: Man, I didn't get this movie at all when it was finished. It wasn't even scary! It did have a great line though: "Sorry about the balls...it was a lucky shot, that's all!"

Fearless (aka Huo Yuan Jia): Wow. What a great film from Jet Li and Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason). I didn't find the film to be dragging one bit. Great fights choreographed by the master Yuen Woo-Ping (the Matrix trilogy, Fist of Legend) add to the great story of Wushu master Huo Yuan Jia.

I still have a lot of films to watch on my hard drive: 2046, Beverly Hills Cop, Antarctic Journal, and others. I watched American Idol yesterday and man was Katharine hot again. But man did Kellie suck. Is she really stupid or what? She didn't even get that "words and lyrics" joke until 10 seconds later. But who got booted off this week? Ace Young. Thank god, that falsetto fuck finally got the boot.

Nirvana, angered that they weren't allowed to play live at the Top of the Pops show in England they decided to do some funny shit. Here's the video (with Cobain's Morrisey voice):

I found this statement funny about Roger Rabbit from joblo.com:
"In a film that still mesmerizes me every time I see it, Roger Rabbit comes off as the ultimate hero. He can't help but screw around even though he's being framed for murder, he wins the love of a toon hating detective, he's banging the hottest woman to never exist, and saves the day in the end by melting someone. How is there not a sequel to this movie?"

What do you get when Jack Dawson from Titanic doesn't die?

TITANIC: TWO THE SURFACE!

Ah, life. Man, life is so messed up. Felice has left and Jorge's stupid cat pissed on my backpack. I hope Felice is finally relaxed in the Philippines. When she was here, it was like she was the hunchback of notre dame. She was in her room most of the time surfing the net, writing music, playing music, listening to music, and other stuff. Yeah, she was there but she actually wasn't. It's like she wasn't in that room. The girl who spoke a lot became humble and quiet.

Just imagine if you were asked to go to another country despite you not wanting to go. And in the first place you didn't even have to go. That's how it was for Felice.

For me though, I gotta have some focus in my life. I noticed that I'm doing nothing in my life. I'm supposed to be graduating this year. But I'm not. I don't have a job and I'm having trouble finishing my assignments when I have so time to finish them. I have so many problems: completion of assignments, picking new classes for summer, and the Columbia College problems. I still don't know why Columbia is so expensive. They're raising tuition again next year. I thought they were never going to raise tuition. Again, I need some focus and organization in my life.

Today, I slept so goddamn much that I feel like doing any homework. I sleep so goddamn late that my body clock is going nuts. Last night, I slept at 11:45 (I usually sleep around 4am) and I was still tired when I brought my dad to work. My dad didn't go to work yesterday and he told me that regrets it now because they were giving free Tombstone pizzas at the train station (in 5-packs no less, and these are the large ones).

I'm losing focus. I still need to finish this History paper, study for the Japanese history exam, and some homework for Psychology.

I've never seen this Linkin Park MV before.