MK: Round 3?

If you've read any other gaming blog out there, it has to have mentioned the short live action video that is apparently the pitch for a possible Mortal Kombat reboot. How could it not be mentioned right? I mean it has a ton of MK characters throughout and it even features a fight between Johnny Cage and Baraka! It does take an unfortunate turn and if you are a Cage fan, well...

Anyway, while it has already been said and shared, I feel like sharing it and further spreading its viral reach across to whom ever may happen upon my blog. Ha!

With all these other movies getting "rebooted," I suppose it was just a matter of time before Mortal Kombat had its turn. I am hoping that this reboot does the trick, that the third time is indeed the charm. Otherwise I fear we may see another terrible video game related movie (can anything ever beat out just how bad The Legend of Chun-Li was?)

World of Warcraft

So a while back, I had said that I had reformatted my computer and all was right in the world. Well it was not fixed and the world just was not right. Having to be stuck on an old laptop computer that had the speed of a raging, sleeping turtle is not my idea of fun.

Yesterday, however, all of that changed and we went out and got a new computer. Nothing overly fancy, it is one of those eMachines. I never thought much about those, but man... the differences is unreal! And the biggest change is the graphics card. Much to my surprise, I could actually play games that were made in the past decade or so!

Now after all these years of only being able to play Final Fantasy XI, I made the jump to World of Warcraft. Sure it is a few years late, but I made it!

What I think I am enjoying the most about the game so far is just how easy it is to get into. I mean all the menus and all that other stuff is daunting! I won't shy away from saying that it had me intimidated for sure. But to me there is no comparison between Final Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, as far as being a newbie. Unlike Final Fantasy XI, which doesn't really give you much help in any aspect of their game, I am impressed that WoW gives you just enough information to get going and not too much to overwhelm you.

Even though I am only playing the 10 trial version, I think I might actually like the game. I am wondering if I can solo up or do I need to find XP parties forever and ever. I tried playing as a Human Paladin and this morning saw me trying out the Night Elves. I am thinking I like the Night Elves a little better...

In Loving Memory...

My heart is a broken mess today and my mind just has not been able to grasp even the most simplest of tasks. I just cannot think of anything else right now, other then the fact remains that my dog, whom has been with me since I was in the 7th grade, is gone.

I knew this day was nearing, from the last time I seen the old girl a couple of years back. Brindy was not the same after a tumor was taken off of one of her legs. I absolutely wanted to get back there a.s.a.p. just to see her again, even if for the last time.

But alas, that was not to be.

My parents called me last night to tell me that they had to take her down to the pound. She was suffering. Another tumor had grown out, this time right below her tail. She barely survived the last operation to remove the one on her leg and this one was just going to be too much I believe.

I am just too sad, too broken up to do much of anything else right now. Maybe once my thoughts have been better sorted and I come to terms with reality, I will come back here and share a thought or two. To me, my heart aches as though I had just lost a member of my family and you know what? I have.

My folks always said those dogs, especially Brindy, was my "kids." I remember when she had puppies and the Humane Society came around because of the them always running out to the roadside. When asked who's dog she was, my step dad said "that's his kids."

I miss 'em all, more today then ever before....

Daybreakers

You know what is rare these days? Anything with an original idea or at the very least, something that actually has a different take on a popular subject. Case in point: Daybreakers.

At the core, Daybreakers is a vampire movie but that, for me at least, was not my focus of interest. What was interesting and different here was the fact that vampires, unlike other movies, were not the ones in hiding. As it was, they were the dominate ones and the humans were the ones forced into hiding. Those who did not, were either killed or captured and put into "blood farms."

Seriously, they even had their own coffee shop that served coffee with blood as the cream.

And this also had a interesting conflict: The vampire population had grown as such that they were farming and killing humankind to the point of extinction. Kind of reflective of our planet's current plight? Because of this, vampires that were deprived of blood underwent brutal transformations that saw them degenerate into nothing more then feral monsters that attacked any vampire or human they came across.

Ah, but the twist here is how a cure for this is found, which is certainly different though I can't say I bought it, but still. I would write about that, but that would all but ruin the movie I think.

The cast themselves was pretty damn good, which included Ethan Hawke, Willem DaFoe, Sam Neill and Claudia Karvan. They all seemed to work well together and none of them were out of place. I guess what I am meaning to say is they were all a natural fit for the movie.

All in all, worth the rental for sure... and a much better movie then say, Legion? Yes, yes... much, much better in my opinion.