‘play’ archive

I need to put this down somewhere, or else I will forget, so I might as well post it here. These are the movies I’m looking forward to this year, in no particular order:

• Prince Caspian - I loved the first movie, and while this is my least favorite book in the series, I’m still excited.
• Wanted - Looks really good
• The Happening - You can’t go wrong with Shyamalan, never mind what people say about his more recent works. I’ve enjoyed them all.

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Okay, here is where I confess to playing too many video games. I don’t play many of the big addicting ones, so much as bounce around to every new free casual game that hits the scenes. And I keep up on it all thanks to Jay is Games.

The latest one I’ve taken to is Luminara, a simple little game that showers you with a beautiful display of color as you blast away your geometric baddies. It even has an “awesome” meter seperate from your score that builds up the more you have going on in your kaleidoscope of explosions. A fun little way to kill ten minutes, if you’ve got it.

I love what Derek Webb does for his fans. First he gave away free downloads of his third major solo album. Now he’s offering his fourth for download a month early, so long as you pre-order it and some sort of graphic novel lyric book. It’s definitely worth checking out.

Amazon is offering it for $13 pre-order, if you’d rather not buy the book and don’t mind the wait.

The MP3 of Andrew Osenga’s new single is available for free download on his website. Check it out, and if you like it, order the album, which should be releasing any day now!

I don’t often post to talk about what’s going on “out there” on the internet, but I can’t pass up the chance to help out Andy O.

Every now and then I get a spending urge, or maybe a gift card, and decide to buy a DVD or CD… Scientific research should be done to look into whatever chemicals cause this urge, because they seem to effect memory as well, because every time I want to buy one, I can’t for the life of me remember anything on my mental list of movies or albums I hoped to pick up.

Last week, I managed alright, because I happened to find what are easily three of the best movies of the year last year in the 3 for $25 previously-viewed rack at the rental store: Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, Serenity, and Cinderella Man (the last two of which are without question the two most disprespected movies of the year last year). But even those took a little thinking on my part.

I’ve been in this situation a dozen times, and every time I tell myself I’m going to make a list, but for one reason or another, I never do. So tonight I will. Why not? I have nothing else to do while procrastinating my packing any further (Yes, I’m moving this weekend. Only about a mile and half, though, so I’m not sweating it too much).

So here, just so I have it all in one place, are what I consider to be the must-buy movies of 2005. This shouldn’t be too hard to do, should it?

• Serenity
  — It’s official; The Princess Bride is no longer my favorite movie of all time. Sad, I know. Now go buy this film. (And yes, I mean buy, not rent. It needs to make some money to help us fans with our long shot chance at getting the show back in production)
• Narnia
  — Better than the book. Yes, you read that correctly.
• Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
  — The best HP film so far. (Apart from Michael Gambon’s horrendous attempt at portraying Dumbledore. I cringe every time he is on screen.)
• Hitch
  — Was this really in 2005? It seems like longer ago. Brilliant movie.
• Cinderella Man
  — This deserved several Oscars.
• Pride & Prejudice
  — You love it or you hate. I thought it was marvelously well done, and I would argue is probably better than the 6-hour A&E version. (Only because I firmly believe “true-to-the-story” is more important than “true-to-the-book”)
• Honorable mentions:
  Crash, Batman Begins, Walk the Line, King Kong — Very, very well done, but not quite something I think I could watch over and over again. I’d buy any of these if I found a good deal.

There are probably one or two that deserve to be listed that weren’t, simply because I haven’t seen them yet. So there you go. My blabbering opinion. And now I have a list I can check next time I have $15 burning a hole in my pocket.

…And as of right now, Inside Man might make the list for 2006. We’ll have to wait and see.