I liked Andrew's latest pop culture review, so I figured I'd do a few reviews of what not, myself.

Gears of War: As far linearity goes, GOW takes the cake. I have not played a game more linear as this in years. I thought Doom was Linear; but in hindsight, that seems as open-ended as fucking farcry in comparison. Also, The fact that nearly half the game involves mainly cut-scenes, I'd have to say that so far, I am not entirely impressed. The combat, once you get used to all the cover-firing and flanking the game has to offer, becomes quite routine and mundane. The best part of the game so far is the berserker. That actually involves intense sequences of knowing when to not play like a lolly-gagging moron and actually get some shit done right.

Overall though, it's difficult to get into the game. It seems that the only way I die results from experimental melee combat by running right upto a rocket-lauching behemoth during a cross-fire, trying to chain-saw his brains into oblivion. I have yet to succeed with this. The only other times I die is when my simple-minded AI buddies require my assistance to leave my cover, amidst gunfire, to help save them. Overall, I'd say the difficulty really needs some fine-tuning as playing on easy is a complete joke, yet the next difficulty setting has a habit of turning me into smithereens within moments unless I find a suitable cover. I wish there was a bit more variability in the game, but oh well, that's what you get.

Also, the controls are absolute shit. Strafing is non-existent; for that matter, so is running in a straight fucking line. Perhaps it's unfair for me to presume the creators could successfully sustain the quality of the console version for PC without completely fucking it up; my mistake.

Overall, the graphics are good; the animation sequences and gore are up to par, so visually, I can't really complain. But I will. Far too many dreary sequences, yet the brightness levels are complete shit. It's either too dark to see everything or too bright to really preserve the "feel" of a gory, mutant-pulverizing slasher.

Sound: I'd say the sound was accurately effective. No real qualms about it.

I guess I'd have to finish playing the game to give a fully accurate review, but suffice to say, so far, I am not entirely impressed.

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Welcome home Roscoe: If you're wondering what this movie is about--don't. It's stupid. It's so stupid that even the thought of explaining the semblance-of-a-plot that it had would be downright embarrassing. Somehow the endless, sporadic antics of 30-something black people never gets tiresome. I guess the old adage of "dance nigga dance" will always enthrall a subservient contingent of morons so that movies like this can continuously flourish in society, being more financially sound than independent movies that actually require a brain to process. It just bothers me that idiots still pay to watch this tripe. There were a few laughs; only one really good one; however, amidst all the banal dialogue, poorly constructed slap-stick humour and terrible plot (if you want to call it that), there were really no memorable characters. Every character was a caricature of sorts. Even the main characters were lame. Overall, thumbs way down (and as usual, I have RT's support in this matter).

I'll review some other things later. Right now I am at work, and I really ought to be writing my paper instead.

edit: dark knight post will follow shortly.

That ends this post.