Scored Review - Bender's Big Score

I was a little surprised when I first heard that there was a Futurama movie. I have always been a big fan of the show ever since I saw they began to play the series on Cartoon Network (yes, I missed its original showing on Fox). For those of you who don't know what the series is about, look up the wikipedia article, because I have neither the time nor the patience to explain it now. I can tell you it is created by Mat Groening, the man that brought the world "The Simpsons" so the show is fantastic, witty and at times slightly immature.

With a lot of movies based on TV shows, there is always that fear that after the first half hour of the movie, it will die because the writers just don't know how to write a long plot line. But its clear that Mr. Groening used his experience in writing The Simpsons' Movie to good use. Needless to say, the movie is fantastic from the beginning, starting strong with a unabashed, well bashing of the semi-retarded Fox executives (referred to as the "Box Network") who canceled the show several years ago. The plot revolves around the usual gang trying to win the company back after a group of aliens steal their company using an internet scam. The plot takes off from their, and never looks back.

Time seems not to have affected the writers to much as the characters are the same as always, and the running gags and recurring themes/characters make an appearance, such as the Harlem Globe Trotters, Evil Santa and Fry's fossilized dog. As you can guess, Bender plays a big part in this movie, but the movie spends a lot of time as Fry (which I guess makes sense considering the series is really about him). Fry's love for Leela also is key to the later part of the movie, which I always have big mixed feelings about, but the movie handles it pretty well.

Pro's:
Its about Bender isn't it?
Enough homages to earlier to the original show to satisfy even the most demanding fan
Hilarious in general

Con's:
Lots of the comedy depends on the watcher's knowledge of the show
Love story is iffy

Final rating: 4/5

Scored Review: Crash

Crash is perhaps the most socially and culturally insightful movies I have ever seen. It makes comentaries on and exposes racism in modern society. The movie simultaneously follows the storyline of multiple characters of various races and how and where there stories intertwine. It is at these moments when the movie most directly shows the prejudice between and even amongst races. Crash is intense throughout, inducing hatred and sympathy on its viewers. This is a movie that no review can do it justice, you have to see the movie for it to be in any way rewarding. I recommend this movie for anyone who is open-minded and willing to see what racism and its effects truly look like.

Pros:
- Great acting
- Intriguing plotline
- Amazing depth and meaning

Cons:
- You have to be in the mood to watch this kind of movie

Final Decision: 5 impenetrable cloaks out of 5

Scored Review - Gothika

Ever wonder if there is a movie where Halle Berry isn't hot in it? Well the answer is no, but if theres one movie where she comes the closest to looking anything like a normal person, its Gothika; and it takes what looks like three years of not washing or combing her hair along with gouging "Not Alone" onto her arms to do it.

Gothika revolves around the story Miranda Grey, a psychiatrist who wakes up to find herself in a cell at the very mental institution where she works, having apparently killed her loving husband for no reason the night before. Its a twist! From there, the movie takes a darker turn, with random ghosts assaulting people, freeing her from prison and molesting other inmates. Yes I did say molesting. Technically their raping other inmates, and technically they turn out not to be ghosts that are doing the raping, but thats beside the point. The movie is pretty bad, I'm going to be honest. Not even Halle can make up for that fact. Its not really that freaky in total, its mostly the same freaky girl-ghost that randomly appears.

Pro's:
Halle Berry

Con's:
Not that scary
Cliche Ending
Just Plain Bad

1 Ghost out of 5

Scored Review - It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Are you tired of TV shows with endings that make sense? With admirable, inspiring characters? With careful language to avoid offending anyone? Then It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is the show for you. This show is absolutlely ridiculous. Basically, the premise of the show is this: Mac, Charlie, Dennis, Dee, and Dennis and Dee's father, Danny DeVito, own a bar in Philadelphia. That's about it since none of the episodes are even remotely connected or have any relevance to any sort of plotline. I think my favorite part of the episodes is the title, which is always a blunt statement of what horrible things you will watch over the next half hour. The titles range from "The Gang Gets Racist" to "Charlie Got Molested" to "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass." I think this is the only TV show that you can watch and make you wish you were a lot stupider because the stupid people on the screen always seem to have so much fun doing what they do. This is a very entertaining show. I don't think I've ever seen a show that more successfully makes horrible situations comical. If you are easily offended, I do not recommend watching this show, but if you can appreciate a good laugh at an occasional abortion or dying cancer patient, this is the show for you.

Pros:
- Danny DeVito?

Cons:
- makes you dumber
- makes light of terrible issues
- promotes values such as vanity, greed, and dishonesty
- could offend people
- makes you a worse person

Final Decision: 4.5 abortions out of 5

Scored Review - The Cube

The Cube (1997)

I am a firm believer that a films success lies solely in the hands of the off-screen crew. That no mater how cheesy the acting, how simplistic the set design, even how low the budget, a good film will always shine through. And Vincenzo Natali, esteemed director of such projects as Beetlejuice (the TV show) and Babar (the TV show), proves just that in his film, The Cube. In The Cube seven seemingly random unwilling participants are thrown into a giant cube, comprised of smaller cube shaped rooms, with the single minded purpose of getting out. But unfortunately for the seven inside the cube they have no clue how they got there, where they are, and most of all how to get out. Oh, and half of the rooms are booby trapped with insanely grotesque modes of death, acid, slicing wires, liquid nitrogen, and the list goes on.
The Cube is a very hard movie to accurately describe, as it is hard to do justice to both its small budget and bad acting and its amazing plot and set design at the same time. The easiest way to sum up the worth of this movie is to say that, “It’s the best of a Sci-fi original and the worst of local theater.” And so, for sake of simplicity I will break my analysis of this movie own in to smaller more concrete areas.

Acting 1/5
Ok let’s get this out of the way, the acting was BAD! Due to budget constraints Vincenzo had to hire a cast of nobodies, the most well known of which is David Hewlett, who played Dr. Rodney McKay on Stargate and actually did a good job in this film. The rest of the cast didn’t fare as well. The best performance of the entire film, however, has to go to Andrew Miller’s interpretation of Kazan, a grown, autistic man. Andrew Miller spends half of the movie banging his head, twiddling his fingers, and generally being made to do anything for a bag of gumdrops (“Gumdrops don’t come in boxes.”). Andrew Miller adds a much needed dose of hilarity into an otherwise sick and twisted movie.

Set Design 4/5
So what if they used the same set for EVERY SCENE IN THE MOVIE? It’s a damn good set and you won’t even realize that they are doing it until at least an hour after the movie. Basically this movie is not about the Cube itself. It is about how the seven character react to their predicament and interact with each other. The cube brings about the worst in some and the best in others. So, for what was needed to make this movie work, the set design was well above par.

Editing/Special Effects 3/5
The editing in this movie was nothing special. Hell, the entire movie was filmed inside one cube. If you want to see some interesting Cube related editing check out the sequel, Cube 2: Hypercube, a good movie in its own right. Special effects are kept at a minimal, which was a good choice, because with the budget they had anything grandiose would have looked cheesy and out of place. Half of the entire budget of the film was used for the special and technical effects in the first sequence of the movie, so enjoy that while it lasts. Other special effects are peppered through out the movie but the majority of them are computer rendered graphics and green screen effects.

Cinematography 2/5
There are little to no imaginative angles in this film, which is understandable because the whole film WAS shot in one set, but it still doesn’t excuse the fact that angles durring conversations, fights, and discoveries were all very banal and unimaginative.

Plot 10/5
I can give it ten out of five, it’s my review! This movie deserves (at least) a four out of five simply because of the imaginative and well written plot that makes up its backbone. The film starts off slow enough with different cube-mates discovering each other. Then follows the most exciting part of the movie, during which the captives come to understand the prison they inhabit. Every thing from, personal strengths, to the mechanics of the cube, to high level mathematics is discussed and used impeccably in, what seemed to me to be, one of the most cohesive plots I had ever had the pleasure to take part in. The ending to this film is NOT a Hollywood ending, I myself was rather upset with it when I first watched it. But now, looking back on it, I see that it is the only ending that would have worked. The only ending that made sense with the rest of the movie. And while you will feel let down and upset, you will also, in some back part of your mind, feel insanely happy that everything found a way of working out

Just watch this movie, give it a chance, and don’t turn it off after the first ten minutes. You will be really happy you watched it, and if you watch it with your friends, you’ll be talking about it for days. Especially Kazan

What I Learned From This Movie
- Gumdrops don’t come in boxes
- Mental retardation makes any situation funny!
- One set becomes many sets when you add colored lighting.

Pros
- Imaginative and original
- Not overly complicated so it’s fun to watch
- When people die, you know it

Cons
- Uninspired camera work
- Better acting in Crusade For Covington*
- Annoying montage-like segues
- Nearly every character you like will die

*or any equally under-rehearsed jr. high play


Final Decision
Four BAGS of gumdrops out of five

Scored Review - Across The Universe

I was really looking forward to this one, not because I'm the biggest Beatles fan, but because the idea of this film is so innovative. It's a musical where most of the plot progresses through Beatles tunes and short five minute interludes of dialogue between them. The movie goes through three main phases, which reflect the different phases that the Beatles' music went through. The movie begins with a cheesy falling in love theme with vomit-worthy choreography and cinematics, namely the scene where Prudence sings a horrible arrangement of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the middle of a football field while the players knock the shit out of each other in the background. Once the vomiting stops, the movie takes you on a visual acid trip led by Uncle Sam, Mr. Kite, and of course, Bono. At this point in the movie you look down to make sure what you are eating is just popcorn and when you realize it is the movie, not you, that has gotten this trippy, you can sit back and enjoy the psychadelic colors and creepy naked ladies that walk on the water. Finally, the movie transitions into an intense, symbolic phase flashing back and forth between the soldiers in Vietnam, Jude's symbolic artwork, and Sadie's rock band. The music is, for the most part, well arranged and well sung with the exception of the first half hour. The movie is deeply symbolic and thought provoking, especially in the final phase. However, the only humor the movie has to offer is the slipping of Beatles' song titles into the dialogue and the characters' names.

Sadie: "Where did she come from?"
Jude: "She came in through the bathroom window."
Me: "Hahahaha I get it! It's a song!"

Across the Universe will satisfy an artistic viewer, piss off a Beatles worshiper for not keeping the precise style of the original songs, confuse people who are neither artistic or appreciate the Beatles, and overdose those who watched it while high.

Pros:
- Artistically pleasing
- Innovative
- Gets you high without negative side effects or risk of getting arrested

Cons:
- Cheesy beginning
- Gets kinda creepy
- A few weird song arrangements

Final Decision: 3 Paul McCartney Whoops out of 5

Scored Review – Big Fish

Where to begin with this movie? This movie is by far one of the best movies I’ve seen, and not just in recent memory. This fantastic, modern day tall tale has it all, adventure, comedy, drama, a heartfelt love story and so much more.

The plot revolves around the struggle of Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) to try to come to terms with his dying father (Albert Finney). Having not talked to each other for nearly three years, Will returns home to be with his family as his father slowly dies from cancer. While there, Will struggles to learn the truth from his father, a masterful teller of tall tales. Will, filled with anger, feels that the stories his father told him about his life are lies and tries to learn the truth about his father’s life. On the way, we see masterfully done stories filled with the stuff of fairytales.

This movie is simply amazing, and is truly touching. It manages to be meaningful without being (too) cheesy and its message is one that all of us can learn from. Its rambling plot line and many side stories, all having a purpose, provide an endless stream of tales that will keep you both fascinated and enthralled at the same time.

Pro’s
- Moving Plot
- Fantastic stories
- Amazing acting all around

Con’s
- Slightly confusing symbology

Final Decision: 5/5

Scored Review – Finding Forrester

This is perhaps one of my favorite movies that I've seen to date. While its not an action or thrill film (my usual favorites), this stunning drama never fails to keep me watching over and over again. Deeply moving, this is the story of a young black student, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), who is increasingly torn between his aspirations as a writer, and the culture and world around him that values his basketball skills more than anything else.

Jamal quickly meets William Forrester (Sean Connery), a recluse, and famous author based on the real-life writer, J.D. Salinger. While off to a rocky start, Jamal breaks into William's apartment on a dare, they quickly become friends, and are forced to re-evaluate their lives. A deeply moving movie, a roller coaster of action this is not. Instead, this is a movie for all ages and races, and could teach everyone a lesson about acceptance and of looking beyond each others appearances.

Both Sean Connery and the young Rob Brown are both fantastic in this movie, making this perhaps Mr. Connery's best movie in recent history. Each of the supporting actors and actresses in this movie are a perfect fit, each bringing a bit of magic to this movie.

Pros
- Deeply moving plot line
- Excellent cast all around
- Camera work is superb

Cons
- Slow at times
- Obligatory love story

Final Decision: 5/5

Scored Review - Suicide Club

Suicide Club (2002)

They say that the most important thing in any movie is the hook. The thing that grabs your attention and doesn't let it go. Well, I'd like to give Suicide Club, a Japanese live-action thriller, the award for best hook ever.
The film starts out innocuous enough. High school girls in their suggestive Japanese uniforms plod down concrete stairs towards the subway station. Random business men glance their way, a woman grabs hold of her young child's arm. A picture perfect image of a Japanese city retiring after a long hard day of doing what ever they do. And as the subway rattles into the station to complete the image…all 54 school girls jump in front of the train, drenching the entire station in a deluge of blood.
Thus begins the most twisted movie I've ever seen. I'm not going to ruin the plot for you because it's overall charm is in its ability to have you think that maybe, just maybe, you have a grasp on what's going on in the movie, when all of a sudden they throw something completely random at you, like…let's say, a cross dressing pop star wanna-be in sparkly heals randomly braking out into song as his cohorts rape and kill girls in the background. Oh, except for one guy, he couldn't rape or kill anyone, but that's only because he was on a leash.
Watch this movie, I beg you, PLEASE watch this movie. Watch it again and again, please, if you find out some deep meaning behind, it tell me. This movie acts like it has some big symbolic message to tell, but it just left me grasping at straws.
All jokes aside, you should watch this movie. This is one of those films that makes you take a long hard look at Hollywood and wonder if it's really all it's cracked up to be.
And if nothing else, it's a great conversation piece.

Me: I just saw 54 Japanese schoolgirls commit suicide in Hi-Def
Girl: …
Me: HI-DEF!
Girl: *Franticly Dialing the Police*

All right so maybe it's not the best conversation piece, but it's still freaking awesome and horribly intense.
And in the end that's all that matters.

Pros
- TONS of attractive Japanese schoolgirls
- Not produced by Hollywood
- Freaks you out without resorting to creepy music
- Did I mention the schoolgirls?

Cons
- A lot of random people sing in this movie
- There was no real resolution
- I still don't really know what point this movie was trying to make
- I know its not a con but did I mention the schoolgirls?

Lessons I Learned From This Movie
- Japanese schoolgirls contain triple the amount of blood in a regular human
- High heels make animal cruelty look fashionable ("Look FABULOUS as you crush the heads random animals in sacks")
- I'm not the only one annoying underage Japanese pop stars make want to kill themselves (for instance everyone in this movie)

IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/

Final Decision: 4/5

Scored Review - Big Nothing

I was a little unsure what to expect out of this movie when I first grabbed it off the shelf at the local Family Video. After all, it did star Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), one of my favorite actors, but co-starring with David Schwimmer? But this movie proved to be one hell of a ride, with comedy, thrills and gore to spare.

The plot revolves around Charlie (David Schwimmer), a former teacher who after his first day of work at a call center, he gets fired. However, not before meeting Gus (Simon Pegg) a wannabe scam artist who promises him quick riches extorting Reverend Smalls, a preacher with a passion in illegal porn websites. Wanting to provide for his wife (Natascha McElhone), who just so happens to be the local cop, and his young daughter, the normally cautious Charlie agrees. Things quickly go awry however, and plenty of comedy is soon to follow, keeping you laughing to the rather morbid end.

The movie has its clichés of course, one particular conversation between Charlie (Schwimmer) and his wire comes to mind, and is overall very original and bitingly funny. The camera work, for those who care about such details, is similar to Simon Pegg’s other movies, but seems rather shaky and amateurish when compared to say Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead, but not to the point of distraction. Overall, this is one great movie, and Simon Pegg fans will not be disappointed.

Pro’s:
Plenty of laughs
Plenty of Gore
Simon Pegg
Strong thrills
Plot twists galore

Con’s:
David Schwimmer
Occasional clichés
The camera work is a little rough
Morbid ending
David Schwimmer

Final Decision: 4.5/5

Scored Review - Resident Evil 2

If you've never seen or played Resident Evil 2, imagine playing a game that looks uncannily like Final Fantasy 8 in its graphics and fixed camera views except with zombies walking up to you from every direction. This game would not be hard at all, except for the fact that things can be hiding right next to you and you'd never see them because of that darned fixed camera. That and no matter which direction your character faces, you can only move forward by pressing up on the control stick. This is RIDICULOUSLY hard to get used to. Especially trying to remember that when the character faces the screen right is left and left is right. Since you can't really aim, there's not much skill involved beyond mastering the messed up controls.

When the game starts you have a pistol with about twenty rounds, but don't worry, when you run out, you switch to your machine gun with infinite ammo. Good thing you remembered to bring a nice BACK-UP weapon. Even more impressive, though, is the rocket launcher with unlimited ammo. Unfortunately, the rockets' blast radius is just about enough to blow up an ant farm.

Resident Evil 2 is difficult for all the wrong reasons, lacks plot, has laughable voice acting, and I keep expecting the main character to whip out a gunblade, which would actually be really cool now that I think about it...

Pros:
- You get to kill things that have trouble fighting back

Cons:
- Bad controls
- Fixed camera
- No skill necessary
- Terrible plot and voice acting

Final Decision: 1 zombie out of 5

Scored Review – Resistance: Fall of Man

What if World War One never happened?

What if Tsarist Russia never fell?

What if strange mutants with advanced technology and a mysterious back-plot decided to take over Europe?

These are just some of the questions “Resistance: Fall of Man” by Insomniac Games attempts to answer before throwing you feet first into one of the best FPS’s of all times. Released in November 2006 (making this, admittedly this game just a few months shy of a year old) you quickly learn your mission: kill every one of those mother f****ing the Chimera, your enemies with a vague and mysterious back-story (Are the aliens, or something else? And does it really matter as long as I still get blow the living s*** out of them?). While the plot is surprisingly good for a FPS and has some interesting twists and turns, it’s all about the action in this game baby, and once you start, there’s no slowing down.

The AI is surprisingly good, often taking cover and teaming up against you, guaranteeing that unless you use some strategy yourself, you’re going to die. A lot. And on even the easier difficulties, this game will prove a challenge for you, providing at least 12 hours of game play. This is perhaps one of the best first person shooters I have ever played, even better I would argue, than the classic Halo and Halo 2 when it comes down to the single or co-op mods. And yes, though there are some other good FPS’s out there for PS3, if you have the chance to pick up “Resistance,” do so and fast.

Pro’s:
- Stupendous graphics
- Excellent controls
- Lots of action
- Wide variety of guns
- Excellent plot line

Con’s:
- Limited variety of enemies
- Vehicles + You = near invincibility

Final Decision: 4.5/5

Scored Review - Delicatessen

Delicatessen (1991)

Now, before I begin I must mention that this entire film is in French. Yes, it is a foreign film, and, yes, it is the type of film you would expect to see playing in a small art house that noone except for a few cigarette smoking beret wearing film snobs would attend. This does not, however, mean that you should pass up this film, but if you are one of those sad few who are so lazy that you can’t be bothered to read the subtitle, then by all means stop reading this review now.
Anybody still there? Good. Let’s get on with this.
Delicatessen is just one of those films that isn’t like ANYTHING you’ve seen before. Don’t believe me? Ok, let’s start with the setting. Delicatessen is set entirely in one building and the sewers below. Not weird enough yet? OK...lets say that maybe this building is smack dab in the middle of post-apocalyptic France. Oh, and through subtle clues in the movie apparently World War II didn’t go the same way. Still not convinced? Let’s move on to the plot. Apparently, in post-apocalyptic France not only is canabalism no longer frowned upon, it is now a way of life as the apocalypse seems to have killed all the livestock. Some of you may be saying, “Why don’t they just eat vegetables?” Well, for god knows what reason, they use vegetables as money. Unless you’re the building’s local prostitute of course. (Just watch the movie)
Our protagonist, Louison, is an ex-clown who decided to leave the city and move out to the country to answer the ad of a landlord and butcher, Clapet. Clapet rents his building out to a very strange host of tenets. The main reason that these tenets live in this building is that Clappet will every so often butcher the handyman and serve him up, at a reduced price of course, to the occupants of his building. All is going according to plan as Clapet hires on Louison as the new handyman with the intent to later feed him to the building, when Clapet’s daughter, Julie, falls for Lousion.
What follows are some of the darkest, most hilarious, childishly whimsical scenes I have ever seen. The set design is impeccable and the plot is extremely tangential yet it manages to boil down to an appropriate yet thrilling Climax
If you have any desire to see cinema as an actual art form I would recommend you rent or buy this movie. It may be somewhat hard to find in your local Block Buster so look for it in a local independent movie rental or buy it off the internet.

Pros
- An amazingly captivating performance by actors who are NOT being paid millions to do so.
- Probably the scariest dream sequence involving a monkey I’ve ever seen.
- While watching this I was either leaning forward in my seat or rolling back in it laughing.

Cons
- Yes, you will have to read subtitles
- Uses a lot of imagery that in actuality has no meaning behind it
- None of your “cool” friends will treat you the same after you force them to watch this.

Final Decision: 4.5/5

Review - “The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide”

Don't Panic
Perhaps the longest trilogy ever written with a total of five books (six if the short and excellent “Young Zaphoid Plays It Safe” is included), this British Science-Fiction comedy has appeared in several forms over the years before being bound in this single edition. According to the author himself, Douglas Adams, the books first appeared as a radio series before being published in book form, having little to resemble the plot of the radio shows they were based on. Since then, the first book (A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), along with several books in the trilogy have alternately been made into a T.V. series, spun off into a computer game, published in comic book form and more recently, made into a movie which borrows from both the radio series and the books, and in true Douglas Adam’s fashion, swiftly contradicts both.

If you’ve never read this uproariously funny, satirical, and contradictory series of books, I highly recommend you doing so as soon as possible. Riddled with tangents that have nothing to do with anything until reappearing randomly later or not at all, this book will keep you laughing and guessing what will happen the entire way through. Not really a guide to the galaxy in of itself, but rather the story of one Arthur Dent (an inhabitant of an insignificant blue-green planet in the unfashionable bit of the western arm of the Galaxy), a careful reader will no doubt pick up some vital pieces of information for their attempts at space travel. But ultimately it all comes down to the story of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman who manages to escape shortly before the destruction of Earth; his best friend Ford Prefect, an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and writer for the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’; Zaphod Beeblebrox, former President of the Galaxy, Ford’s semi-cousin; Trillian, the only other survivor of Earth besides Arthur; along with a whole host of characters including Marvin the depressed robot as they travel across the galaxy for reasons they’re not even sure of.

Trust me, this book is one of the funniest books you will read as Douglas Adam’s writing will keep you guess on what will happen next all the while keeping you laughing.

Scored Review - Dresden Codak

Dresden Codak
http://dresdencodak.com/index.html

Dresden Codak...where to begin? This 29 page webcomic is probably the most inanely intelligent webcomic on the internet. The first 20 pages are all one off comics hitting on every thing from Nelson Mandela to the most humorous interpretation of Einstein’s theories I’ve ever seen. Comic 21 introduces the first concrete plot line of the series. The story opens with the main character, Kimiko, being stalked by a robot whom, after being discovered by Kimiko, is named Hob. The trouble is that time travelers from the future need Hob to get back to their own future.

Pros:
- The art is amazingly beautiful!
- The comic feels amazingly fresh and original.
- What other comic has a Tiny Carl Jung?

Cons:
- Some of the jokes are imposible to understand without a degree in existentialism.
- A new comic is added only once a month (sometimes every two months.
- What other comic has a Tiny Carl Jung?

Final Decision: 4/5

Info - Crazy Asian Pandas V. 1.0 beta

This blog is the combined efforts of three guys who really don't know much about anything important.
Instead they have devoted their lives to the geekier pursuits, and now they are going to share their vast wealth of stored knowledge with you, the reader.
Why are they taking the time and effort to post all this when they could be playing a 99 stock game of Smash Brothers Melee you ask?

Well, they'd like to say that they are sparing you from the horrible pitfalls that exist in the world of geekdom *cough Super Milk Chan cough*

They each have our own little areas of specialty. That's not to say that They won't from time to time encroach on each others "territory".


Midwest Commando - RTS's, FPS's, Xbox, Books, History

TheChosenOne - Japanese Games, J-rock, Anime, Movies

TheGallant - RPG's, Playstation, Music, Art, Technology

Shared - Internet, Restaurants, and Anything Else They Want To Review

In addition to all these reviews that will be coming your way once a month (at least) they will have a rant-off. a simple topic will be posed to all three bloggers and three similar yet different posts will emerge to rear their ugly heads.

In summary there will be 4 types of posts

Info - Stuff that explains the blog or explains innactivity

Rant - Pretty Self Explanitory

Unscored - Posts that approach the review process from an subjective stance

Scored - Posts that approach the review process from an objective stance

Hope You Hate It!