Ok this is the first post on my new pop-culture blog. I will be making regular posts here on any thing relating to my interests in pop-culture, such as movies, tv, games, and literature. Posts may be nastalgic or current. It could be anything at all from my personal opinions, expectations, likes, dislikes, or other peoples' remarks on various things.
Ok for starters I began my retro gaming collection last August. It satarted with a Super Nintendo console and one SNES game cart. And since then has grown to five SNES games, 8 NES games, and the addition of a genesis console and a PSone console, as well as 2 Atari 2600 games (no console yet). Of sigificant note some of the crowning jewels of my collection thus far are Zelda, Zelda II, and Crystallis for NES (hoping to get a loan of a NES tonight) as well as Drackhan for SNES. Also i will be listing some of my wish lists for various things here too.
Ok moving on to anime. Anime has become one of favourite genres in entertainment over the years. Some of my favourite animes were Macross the movie, Macross II, Venus Wars, Ninja Scroll, Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, and Princess Mononoke. Some honorable mentions have to go to X, Spirited away, Golgo 13 The Professional, and Akira. I would like to go back through all of these films and eventualy do reviews here for them.
Next music. Ok over the years some of my favourite music has come from various genres ranging from classic rock and easy listening to hard rock and heavy metal. Some of my favourite artists over the years have been: Iron Maiden, MegaDeth, Savatage, Helloween, Fates Warning, Green Day, Sum 41, Pyogenesis, Amorphis, Sepultura, Motor Head, Alice Cooper, MeatLoaf, Blues Traveler, Slayer, The Tea Party, and Grip Inc. Some other artists of worthy mention would be: OverKill, Metallica, Soundgarden, Faith No More, COC, Danzig, Sheavy, and Iced Earth. I would have to say that my all time favourite has been and probably always will be Iron Maiden. Thier music has been consistantly good at the worst of times and awe inspirining at the best times. I have a number of albums that came out in the last 12 months or so that i have yet to listen to and when i do i will comment on them here.
I'm not a big movie fanatic, so you may hear much about movies here except for the few movies I do watch. Some of the more recent movies I have seen over the past few months are: Silent Hill, Pirates of the Carabean 2, and The Omen (remake). Silent hill was creeepy interpretation of the world created for the video games. It had some of the more interesting monsters from the first two games. It used a unique back story and seemed to be more about the afterlife than the summoning of an other-world. Was a fairly intense ride and once you understood what was really going on it had a satifying ending. Pirates 2 on the other hand was a bit disapointing. The over use of cheesey humour to suplement an otherwise weak story was poorly done at best. It lacked the balance and harmony of the first movie. And the cliff hanger ending was horible. It could've been much better than it was. As for The Omen i'm not really gonna get into it as I'm not a big fan of biblical prophecy movies. That and the fact that the movie was an almost picture perfect redo of the original. Better acting and it lacked the cool music of the original serries.
Ok a little about video games now. I still have to pic up FF12 and an XBox 360 and titles for that. more recent titles i picked up over the last year would be: Dragon Quest 8, Wild Arms 4, and Shadow of the collosus. DQ8 was fun and had good voice acting. Wild arms 4 so far fell a bit short. It's combat system was not nearly so pretty as that in WA3. Haven't played enough of it to comment further on it. Shadow was an awesome game. If you're all about clasic puzzle it out boss fights than this game is for you. It has nice graphics and the sound track is killer. Oh yeah just to let yop know I will only be commenting games that I personally played and not just seen.
Ok well that's it for now. If I happen see, hear or play anything interesting it will all be here. Later.
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