entertainment

Codehunters – (2006 movie)

2015-12-28

direct-to-video movies, entertainment, fiction, glances, liked, movies, short movies, unrated

Definitely not Tiny Tina

(on Wikipedia)
https://vimeo.com/7432584
https://web.archive.org/web/20180806095234/www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/mtv_codehunters

I heard of Codehunters from one of those idiotic “10 things you didn’t know”-type YouTube videos. It had a reference to Borderlands – (2009 game) having artwork similarity.

However, it turns out to be Kotaku’s usual bullshit “journalism” based on a reddit comment thread. No, really. For all anyone knows, Kotak-eww made it all up.

Overall, this short is decent. Good enough to deserve the recognition it did. There are plenty of other similar styles and stories which are like this though.

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Criminal Activities – (2015 movie)

2015-12-27

crime movies, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, John Travolta, movies, the present, thriller entertainment, thriller movies, unrated

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3687310/

A group of friends gets in deep and bumbles into crime to settle things.

Reminds me a lot of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – (1998 movie) crossed with The Usual Suspects – (1995 movie). Overall it’s fair, but not that great and absolutely not worth a second watch.

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What We Do in the Shadows – (2014 movie)

2015-12-26

alternate present, comedy movies, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, horror entertainment, horror movies, mockumentaries, monster entertainment, monster movies, movies, R rated, undead entertainment, undead movies, vampire entertainment, vampire movies

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/
was robert-appierdo-pdej.squarespace.com/deliciousnecks

A mockumentary about four vampire flatmates in New Zealand.

Bad. This is supposed to be comedy. I’m not laughing. From what little I saw, I doubt it will get any better.

Trailer

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Creed – (2015 movie)

2015-12-26

boxing movies, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, martial arts movies, Michael B. Jordan, movies, PG-13 rated, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, the present

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3076658/
was creedthemovie.com

The son of “one of the most famous” boxers becomes a fighter himself.

I just didn’t feel it. It feels slow and predictable.

aka Rocky VII.

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The Hateful Eight – (2015 movie)

2015-12-26

abandoned, disliked, entertainment, fiction, glances, gunslingers entertainment, gunslingers movies, Kurt Russell, movies, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, Samuel L. Jackson, the past, westerns entertainment, westerns movies

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/
was thehatefuleight.com

Some people with accents drive a carriage through the snow and talk a lot.

Oh god, this was supposed to be good? If it can’t get interesting in the first half an hour then why in the fuck should I continue watching?

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Monkey King – Hero Is Back – (2015 movie)

2015-12-08

animated movies, animations, Chinese language entertainment, Chinese language movies, disliked, entertainment, fantasy fiction entertainment, fantasy fiction movies, fiction, foreign language entertainment, foreign language movies, glances, movies, PG rated, the past, youth-friendly entertainment, youth-friendly movies

Monkey King - Hero Is Back (2015) poster 12

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4644382/

Something about trolls and such, and a little boy who probably becomes a hero.

I didn’t get very far into this. It’s way too over-the-top childish for my tastes. I would recommend this be watched by a parent with their kid. It seems action-packed yet “safe”. Nobody dies, even through major fight scenes.

Properly titled Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015)
西游记之大圣归来 or Xi you ji zhi da sheng gui lai in Chinese
You may think that “is back” would mean this is a sequel. It is not.

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Emma Lock

2015-11-29

bands, entertainment, female fronted bands, female musicians, female vocals, glances, liked, music, musicians, todo, Trance Music

try harder – At a glance, I found no reasonable pictures of her.

Music >

http://emmalock.com/ (singeremmalock.wordpress.com)
https://twitter.com/singeremmalock
was facebook.com/singeremmalock (private)

Perhaps she does other work, but I know her from her trance vocals.

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Robocraft

2015-11-28

dead, disliked, entertainment, freeware, games, glances, multiplayer games, online software, proprietary software, software, steam games, Windows 8 software, Windows games, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/301520/Robocraft/
was robocraftgame.com (might actually still be up for a while longer, but it’s had spotty hosting issues)

Build and fight with robot vehicles.

I played a bit of it, and it was interesting but didn’t really do it for me.

They won’t stop spamming me. Their mailing list unsubscription doesn’t work for me.

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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3952222/
https://www.ctv.ca/shows/killjoys
https://www.syfy.com/killjoys

Guild bounty hunters hunt bounties and stuff.

I like it so far.

I am reminded of Firefly – (2002 show).

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Gratuitous Space Battles 2

2015-11-26

dead, disliked, entertainment, games, glances, offline games, payware, proprietary software, single-player games, software, steam games, Windows 10 software, Windows games, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/344840/
http://www.gratuitousspacebattles2.com/

A tower defence game with space ships.

I didn’t play a whole lot of this, because the novelty wore off with the first one. However, it looks like this is more of the same: Highly customizable and extremely fun, but with poor replayability. Worth a bit of coin if you’re a fan of tower defence games.

I was able to utterly blow away the first two practice missions. It does look like it gets a lot harder. I think maybe this isn’t really for me right now or perhaps isn’t my thing any more. I think I would like this game a moderate amount if I spent more time with it.

Playing a few hours in, the UI is really annoying. That alone makes this game extraordinarily hard. I hate having to fight the game itself to figure all my shit out. I’m giving this a pass.

Like its predecessor, bonus points for the author throwing away all sense of storyline. Fuck all that shit, I just want gameplay. I’m not joking.

Preceded by Gratuitous Space Battles
Support was dropped for this game. See Indie game developers move on. Or they fail.

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All posts tagged entertainment

Codehunters – (2006 movie)

Criminal Activities – (2015 movie)

What We Do in the Shadows – (2014 movie)

Creed – (2015 movie)

The Hateful Eight – (2015 movie)

Monkey King – Hero Is Back – (2015 movie)

Emma Lock

Robocraft

Killjoys – (2015 show)

Gratuitous Space Battles 2

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