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Entries in Criticism (139)

Monday
Mar162009

Waltz With Bashir: A Beautiful Lecture

Let's See Dr. Manhattan Solve This Problem

Seeing this after the Oscars and Golden Globes left me questioning how both organizations nominate animated movies.  I understand why "Waltz..." was nominated for best foreign movie, but even in that category it seemed a bit out of place.

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Thursday
Mar122009

Dollhouse: Why Are You This Bad?

How is it possible to undo all the good faith acquired by the finnicky nerdcore genre? Portions of the GLAAD community? As well as fans of just, plain good television? Mr. Joss Whedon has assembled something so woefully trite and flat out boring it makes the remake of Knight Rider seem like Whitman'sDollhouse [at this point] three times-out-of-four, will have an interesting premise, the lead character lets the show fall flat on its pretty face. "Leaves of Grass". Though Dollhouse [at this point] three times-out-of-four, will have an interesting premise, the lead character lets the show fall flat on its pretty face.

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Monday
Mar092009

Capcom vs SNK 2 [PS2]: Review

How Come All PAL covers are cooler than the NTSC?

It is not as good as the Sega Dreamcast version. It is hardly an arcade perfect port. There are glitches out the wazoo. Seeing as I have a natural [or unnatural] affinity to fighting games, I was more than psyched to play through CvS2 on my PS2. Sadly, if it had not been for my Dreamcast spoiling me, I would not have so many minor negative issues with the PS2 version. I still had a ton of fun with Capcom vs. SNK 2.

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Tuesday
Mar032009

Watchmen: Makes Me Partially Eat Crow

I'm Blue, daboodeedahboodah

Before this review starts you need perspective. Yes, I did read the graphic novel. No, I was not excited to hear about this movie post reading the graphic novel. Yes, I was less excited after seeing a CGI-filled trailer, which was an obvious ploy to get your little rumps in the seats. No, this movie is not perfect. Aside from its obvious spawn from the mind of Alan Moore and the pen of Dave Gibbons, Watchmen has quite the rich history. This movie has moved back and forth from studios, has suffered rewrites after rewrites and now it has finally arrived. With all of its flaws.

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Thursday
Feb262009

Burnout 3 [PS2] Review

This review has been a long time coming [considering I finished playing Burnout three weeks ago].

As my journey of playing through my PS2 games in alphabetical order continues, something quite wonderful has happened.  I have finally seen the joy of being a fan of an 'Arcade' racer.  Not since Ridge Racer 4 for the PS1 have I felt a kind of quiet satisfaction one gets from playing a game like Burnout [Sheesh that was a little overly gushy].  I should amend that statement, Burnout 3 is as much an 'Arcade racer', much like Jessica Alba is a well known actress.  Yes they are known for what they generally are, but the quality they bring to the table is what should be talked about [only this works against Alba].

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Monday
Feb232009

Cool Article About GTA IV and Storytelling

Best Marketing Campaign...Ever!

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Monday
Feb162009

Metacritic and Reviews

 

Oh Word?

Two independent articles, but both dealing with serious bidness of gaming. One dealing with Metacritic and who its impact has impacted gaming, game reviews and especially games journalism.

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The second article is a rant about users ranting about reviews. Some would say it is a review of a review.

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Thursday
Feb122009

The Game Review That Set The World On Fire: Killzone 2 Review Review

So Ben Dutka of Playstation Xtreme had a major bone to pick with the '7' out of 10 Killzone 2 got over at Edge magazine. Turns out 8 people read both the Edge review and slightly more read his review of the review. [Cue Xzibit] "Yo dawg...I heard you like over-hyped reviews so I put a review in yo review. So you can bitch while you bitch."

Thank you X-to-the-Z.

The hoopla and link after the jump...

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Friday
Jan162009

Ben Stein vs Roger Ebert

The fight that determines the fate of the world

You probably want to read this. While most media outlets are covering the latest celebrity beefs, something you may have missed in recent months would be that Ben "Bueller Stein came out with a DVD called "eXpelled: No Intelligence Allowed". If you are interested in an anti-Evolution documentary this DVD is for you, unfortunately it wasn't for me [luckily I was paid to watch this.  Apparently it wasn't for Ebert either, because of this...Sir Ben Stein took the neglect personally.

Roger Ebert decides to, in thorough detail, appease Stein by giving him one of the in depth reviews ever.  What is interesting about Ebert's rant is; although the manner in which he delivers his critism is muy intelligente, you can totally see the level of 'piss-tivity' he's reached.

So This Is What Happens When You Make The Ebert Mad...

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