My Take Radio

Scott Pil­grim is a hilar­i­ous and action-packed graphic novel series about a young guy who falls in love with a girl and must fight to win and keep her heart. This sounds like a pretty stan­dard fare story if you sim­pli­fied it in such a way, but it’s the char­ac­ter, the humor, the style, and real plot that makes this story a winner.

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Son­nen has become one of my favorites, and while I feel he may lose I am not going to dis­pute the fact that it will be a war.

Now, I can’t put a pre­view with­out my picks. Red & Bold are mine of course:

Main card:

  Ander­son Silva © vs. Chael Son­nen– Silva will win but I guar­an­tee it will be a wild fight.
  Jon Fitch vs. Thi­ago Alves- Huge fan of Alves and feel he matches up well with Fitch. I think Shields should fight the win­ner before get­ting GSP.
  Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos-I can never count out Guida and he deliv­ers awe­some fights.
  Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida–While I think Hughes has a shot and can win, Almeida is hun­gry and younger than Hughes which can be a fac­tor.
  Roy Nel­son vs. Junior dos San­tos– Nel­son has grown on me, and how can I not love his hum­ble­ness. The guy is hun­gry for a title shot (no pun intended hahaha).

Dear Hol­ly­wood,

Fuck You

Love,

Rich

So we got Marmaduke,Alvin & The Chipmunks,The Smurfs,Garfield  and now Yogi Bear. And guess what folks? It’s in 3-D which we all know is a given.

Got to give props to the Trail­er­ad­dict crew for this.

I have always felt that Thor while cool in the­ory is really a bor­ing fuck­ing char­ac­ter. His story is very drab and I knew as soon as the Avengers movie started to take shape that we would see sin­gle films based on the the Avengers trin­ity (Cap­tain America,Iron Man, Thor) prior to an Avengers release.In look­ing at this trailer I see poten­tial to do the char­ac­ter jus­tice, but I also see a very non engag­ing sto­ry­line that is des­tined to be the weak link in the Avenger mem­bers solo exploits. I must admit that see­ing Frost Giants, The Destroyer and Loki’s horned hel­met made me appre­ci­ate the work put in by Ken­neth Branaugh  but will that be enough to guar­an­tee block­buster sta­tus. Check it out and share your thoughts in the com­ments section.

Sorry guys,
Had to remove the video. Will try and upload a saved ver­sion in a few days.

It seems that by the release of Poké­mon Black & White fans of the series will have no one but them­selves to blame for not “catch­ing ‘em all.” Nin­tendo is once again giv­ing train­ers access to oth­er­wise inac­ces­si­ble poké­mon, this time in the form of the sib­ling leg­ends, Latios and Latias. To catch them, you will need an Enigma Stone which will be dis­trib­uted by Nin­tendo via Wi-Fi begin­ning July 31 through August 27. For details and direc­tions, go to: http://www.pokemongoldsilver.com/us/#/news/enigma-stone

Happy hunt­ing!

ARTWORK: Latios and Latias – Shim­mer by ~Swift Chaos

Peo­ple should not call Bizarre Cre­ations’ Blur “Mario Kart for adults” because it is not giv­ing the game enough credit. Blur is an arcade racer with power ups and an online lev­el­ing sys­tem that reminds me of Call of Duty: Mod­ern Warfare’s pres­tige sys­tem. At its base, Blur is sim­i­lar to Need For Speed: all of the cars are licensed and each vehi­cle has its own attrib­utes. Unlike the open world of Burnout Par­adise, Blur has you zip through city and coun­try­side on closed tracks (there is no traf­fic). There are rivals you must beat in what I call “boss fight races” to unlock their cars for use (race for pinks). Some cars are bal­anced and some spe­cial­ize in areas like grip, drift or off road abil­ity. This is where the Need For Speed sim­i­lar­i­ties end.

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Accord­ing to Wikipedia G4 is the following: 

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an Amer­i­can cable and satellite-television chan­nel orig­i­nally geared pri­mar­ily toward view­ers aged 12–34, based on the world of video games. More recently, the chan­nel has diverted its focus to general-interest pro­gram­ming that mainly tar­gets view­ers aged 18–34, although one video game show is still offered on the channel. 

Based on the def­i­n­i­tion above, you would think that the main­stream pro­gram­ming they offer would at least have a sem­blance of video game rel­e­vance. Sadly, in order to cap­ture the 12–34 view­ing clus­ter they have resorted to hav­ing the “hot chick” and the “good look­ing guy” give snarky com­men­tary and per­form skits to relate to the gam­ing audi­ence. I have no issue with this strat­egy - EXCEPT that they have no real video game knowl­edge and are just really good at read­ing a teleprompter, or shall I say try­ing to read it (Olivia Munn, I am look­ing at you). I would rather have peo­ple that can be both eye candy and are intel­li­gent. Get us a knowl­edge­able staff that actu­ally adds dimen­sion to the show. 

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Good news every­one, Incep­tion is a fresh idea in the fes­ter­ing sea of remade and recy­cled garbage that we call the 2010 movie sea­son. The not so great news is that it does not live up to its hype. Now there are those who will say “Oh you didn’t like it because you didn’t under­stand the depth and com­plex­ity of what was going on.” Those peo­ple should be sum­mar­ily slapped in the mouth by the dead hand of Rick James. Incep­tion is a good movie; it is not a great movie. It is very straight­for­ward in what it wants to accom­plish, but it runs into a lot of prob­lems in its execution.

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Zack Sny­der debuted the trailer for Sucker Punch at comic-con and I must admit it has got my atten­tion. With it’s bad ass visu­als and twisted Alice & Won­der­land style story line it looks like it’ll get a lot of press much like 300 did. The real ques­tion is will peo­ple embrace the weird­ness of this film? Based on the trailer I say odds stand at 50/50. Check it out and decide for yourselves.

Let me in is an Amer­i­can ver­sion of the great Swedish vam­pire film Let the Right One in about a young boy and his rela­tion­ship with a girl who is not like all the oth­ers. Chloe Moretz from Kick-Ass plays the girl with the “secret”. I am always con­cerned with Amer­i­can remakes of for­eign films because most of the time they lose sight of what made the source mate­r­ial clas­sic. But I am going reserve judg­ment till I see it.