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It’s not that Lego Batman was a bad video game, per se. It’s just that it was sort of a let down after the Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones series. The game play scenes were great, but the game play itself felt limited and, at times, clunky and frustrating (the boats and the helicopters should have been cool, but they ultimately ended up making C and I grumpy … it also could have been that we were hungry).
I’m not sure what the developers, TT Games, have up their sleeves for the next Lego game, but I have two suggestions: Lego Harry Potter (seems like a no brainer) and … Are you ready for this? LEGO BACK TO THE FUTURE. Can you imagine how great that would be?
Of course, they can probably only create a game if the movie theme coincides with an actual Lego set that you can purchase and build. But a girl can dream.
I’ve been loving Ellen Degeneres’ bathroom concert series. Her performance with Jennifer Hudson just became one of my favorite YouTube clips ever.
I really wish J-Hud was going to performing ANYWHERE near Seattle for her tour. Alas, the closest she’s performing is Oakland. I’ll have to patiently wait for the next go-round.
It’s been so refreshing to see how she’s handled herself and her career in the wake of her family’s tragedy. She’s gotten out there to promote her work and has had emotional moments on stage (Grammy’s and Super Bowl National Anthem), but she’s made a point of keeping her experience as private as possible and hasn’t let anyone in the media exploit her tragedy for their gain.
Carollani and I went to see Sunshine Cleaning this weekend and it was good, as expected. Emily Blunt and Amy Adams are two of my favorite actresses in Hollywood today, so it didn’t really even need to be good. It didn’t disappoint even though it was slightly formulaic at times. As compared to Little Miss Sunshine: 1) There was a van, yellowish. 2) There was an incredibly cute and talented child actor. 3) Alan Arkin was basically the same character in Little Miss Sunshine.
Still, I loved it.
What got me really excited was the preview for a film called “Away We Go.” This is a dream team of directors, writers and actors. With every new scene in the preview, I was like “OMG! OMG! OMG!” … but that was in my head because you shouldn’t talk out loud at the movie theater after the lights go down.
Directed by Sam Mendes! Written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida! Starring John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Catherine O’Hara, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Melanie Lynskey!
I’m so curious to see how two literary writers pull off a screenplay and how two television comedy actors pull off these dramatic-comedy film roles. We’ll have to wait until June to find out.
I’ve got a bit of a virtual violent streak in me that goes back a couple of decades and, I think, may have started with Wolfeinstein 3D. I spent an absurd amount of time snaking my way through the dizzying halls of a Nazi compound, shooting down the bad guys. I remember a lot of nausea.
So now there’s an iPhone app for the game and it’s literally the last thing I need in my life right now. I have way too many distractions. What I really need to do is go outside and stare at nature or read a book or clean my car. I’ve yet to decide if I’ll actually buy the app ($4.99). For some reason, when it comes to these developer apps, I become incredibly stingy. I’ve only purchased one other iPhone app and that was a fully-featured video poker app to prepare me for my latest trip to Vegas. Hint: IT DID NOT HELP.
This is handy if you want to weed out the riff-raff on YouTube and get to learning things other than how to pop popcorn with your cellphone or make a soda explode with Mentos.
The site is aggregating videos from dozens of colleges and universities, ranging from lectures to student films to athletic events. Some of this stuff is solid gold (the Stanford and MIT lectures are really good). Other content, not so interesting.
Personally, I prefer the riff-raff most days, but on occasion I get an urge to learn something useful. Hopefully YouTube has made this easily duplicatable because I can see a lot of other uses for this type of content segregation: Searchable channels full of, TV shows/clips, interviews, political speeches, music videos, sports clips, etc, etc.
