Archive for May, 2008
What happened to M. Night Shyamalan?
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture
What the heck happened, M. Night Shyamalan?
I just saw the ad for the new M. Night movie. It’s designed to look like some kind of andromeda strain movie.
“There appears to be an event happening,” a man intones. This, according to our statistics, is the blandest, most uninformative, passive-voice piece of advertising ever recorded in the [...]
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Gameplay Cliches
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under gameplay
Gameplay cliches get a lot of chatter, but when the game is successful and has a core experience that people enjoy, no one says a word.
Case in point: Gears of War.
Mine carts.
Ammo boxes that are strewn around abundantly.
Crates that contain ammo boxes. Also strewn around at every juncture.
Lava levels.
Gears of War has all of these [...]
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Napoleon Dynamite and other dance scene movies
Posted by Mr. Videogame Writer Guy | Filed under pop culture
Time to break open the scope on this blog a bit and chat a bit about movies — not overtly fanboyish movies like Blade but movies in general.
You see, today I was speculating about a new subgenre of popular non-musicals. Outsider movies that feature a “big finish” dance scene. Specifically, Napoleon Dynamite and its lesser [...]
Tags: helen childress, hey that's my car, interpretive dance, little miss sunshine, napoleon dynamite, power of dance, reality bites, tap dance