Freaks, Ahoi!

Did you ever visit one of those anime/ manga-conventions outside of Japan? If not, you better continue to stay far, far away from them in case you can't familiarize with odd peeps in general... well, at least that applies to Germany/ Europe. While these guys and girls are completely harmless as well as mostly very kind and open, they always creep me out big time whenever I see them. This is no bashing or something, I just can't get along with some of their weird/ embarrassing behaviors. It's okay to like Japan... after all, they totally dominate the world's gross national weirdness. I guess we can all agree that Japan is indeed kick ass! But addressing none-Japanese-people by Japanese names or throwing phrases and words in that language at each other all the time, w/o actually speaking it... that's just lame. And stop calling everything "cool" or "cute" just because it's from Japan. Seriously you guys, I could make money from you just from shitting in a bag and writing something Japanese on it. Face it: most of you are NOT JAPANESE, start growing some own national pride. Being cultural interested is always an awesome thing - being completely obsessed by it however, is not!

Also, let me have a word on the matter of cosplay here. This may appear a little shallow but the thing I noticed is, that many people do it without consideration of their own look. They just dress up for "fun" and "affection" for their favorite character. Okay, if you guys take so much fun in it, so be it. But pleeeeease, don't go public with a intentional sexy-cosplay (close to none body cover) when you weight 120 Kilogram or so. Absolutely NOBODY wants to see this, it's in no way appealing - just purely shocking! Oh, and it's okay to buy a costume if you don't have the skills to make it on your own. Everything is better than looking like you wear a goddamn potato-sack, really. And finally, let me say this: put some shoes on when you walk outside or in public places, being barefooted there (even if your cosplay should "require" it) is nothing but frigging nasty!

Postal - Another Cinematic Suicide

Most people did already hear of him: The German director, producer and businessman Uwe Boll which has focused on porting video games to movies with his own studio Boll KG. Averagely, Mr. Boll's movies are being criticized for simply being bad and ruining the name of a good game franchise. I mean like "OH, SHIT! I WISH I COULD UNWATCH IT!"-bad. Personally, as huge game fans, we can agree with this. However, after seeing first trailers for his movie Postal we were pretty convinced, that this time, it will be an actually good movie. Dark humor is our thing... and the game got plenty of it. Things were looking good for this movie since the game was already so very much fucked-up (in a good way) that chances of ruining it were close to none. Yet, after watching the DVD-release last weekend, we both agreed: Postal is the worst movie EVER made and screening it should be forbidden by law with immediate effect - it's horrible! But of course Mr. Boll thinks of his movie, like always, as the greatest masterpiece ever made. Here's a quote from a website concerning Boll's Postal in German:

Uwe Boll glaubt, er sei besser als Steven Spielberg

Uwe Boll zelebriert Größenwahn in Vollendung. So startet seine mäßige Komödie Postal (siehe auch Filmkritik zu Postal bei GameStar) in den USA am 23. Mai. Am selben Tag kommt auch Indiana Jones 4 in die Kinos. Doch Angst überkommt angesichts der übergroßen Konkurrenz nicht. In einer E-Mail an bloody-disgusting.com schreibt er, warum sein Film gewinnen wird. "Am Indiana-Jones-Wochenende werden wir starten und Indiana Jones an der Kinokasse zerstören! Wir alle wissen, dass Harrison Ford älter als mein Opa und seine Zeit vorbei ist -- würde Michael Moore sagen!"

Uwe Boll

Auch für Spielberg hat Boll einige nette Worte übrig: "Spielberg wird schluderig. Wir haben das bei Krieg der Welten (warum zum Teufel hat der ältere der beiden Brüder überlebt?) und teilweise schon bei Der weiße Hai, E.T., München usw. gesehen! Meine schauspielerische Leistung in Postal als Besitzer des Nazi-Vergnügungsparks übersteigt locker die von Ben Kingsley in Schindlers Liste!"

Frankly, he's saying that he will "destroy" Indiana Jones 4, which screens on the same date as Postal in the USA (23. May). Furthermore, he obviously thinks he's better than Steven Spielberg in terms of movie making and calls his theatrical appearance in Postal, as owner of a Nazi-theme park, better than Ben Kingley's in Schindler's List. Nevertheless, we believe Boll to be a really cool guy. I mean, just look at what insane shit he's saying! And he takes his critics head-on in the boxing ring. You simply can't beat that, haha. Anyway, he should lay his hands off video game-movies... or movies in general. That's just not his thing. Really.

Army of Two - Some Tough Shit

With a little delay, we could lay our greedy little hands on Army of Two at last. This much-anticipated title of ours is totally focused on coop-gameplay. However, of course you can play this game in singleplayer-mode as well... but with a KI-buddy, pretty much everything sucks about it. This title is just meant to be played by two people. Well, but was it any good? The answer: Yes, it was pretty damn good! Took us about 9 hours to complete AND we had to switch the difficulty setting from "Mercenary" to "Recruit" towards the end because it's really kinda hard. With never-ending hordes of enemies swarming at you, you will eventually find yourselfs running out of ammo later in the game. Needless to say that this sucks pretty much ass in a shooter. The loads of enemies can get a little repetitive over time... but if you're up for the challenge, try to beat the game in the "Elite" setting and see how far you can get. To sum it up, this is a pretty good game for all of those, who enjoy coop-gameplay as much as we do. Everyone else should probably stay away from it since you won't even get close to unfold it's full potential in the singleplayer-mode.

Wii - Short for "Massive Failure"

So, yesterday we had the chance to borrow a Wii and give it a first real "test drive" since it's release... and boy, what a piece of shit it was. To make this clear: we were never fans of the Wii by any means in the first place (maybe that's why it took us so long to test it) and couldn't get used to the idea of it being a decent console compared to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but as the open human beings that we of course are, we wouldn't let our prejudices make the final decision.

Geared up with the Wii, 2 Wiimotes and the recent smash-hit title Super Mario: Galaxy as well as the all-time-classic Wii Sports, we were ready for the ultimate showdown. While Sports was indeed slightly entertaining (eventhough my arm started to hurt after a few minutes due to all the waving around of the Wiimote), Super Mario: Galaxy really took the cake. Yes, it does have co-op gameplay. But this gotta be the lamest thing ever in means of co-op gaming so far. The Wii itself also holds some major flaws. The overall apperance is very cheap compared to the other two consoles. Almost makes it look like a product from the great China. What we also noticed is, that you can't even switch games while having it already running one... which is just "meh". There are some more points that annoyed us about the Wii but simply put: We are definetly not going to buy one anytime soon... definetly!

Geeky Saturday

There are many people who love to go clubbing with friends and stuff on a Saturday night. While this sure is a nice thing once in a while, I wouldn't be able to stand it if I would have to do it every weekend like some fellas do. At least, our idea of a perfectly spent Saturday differs from the standard concept from most people of our age. Then again, we are sort of geeky so no wonder. Anyway, there is nothing better than a Saturday with your fellow geek buddy, haha.

This time around, we decided to go to see a movie in the cinema next to playing Call of Duty 4 on the big screen. We basically had to choose between Hitman and The Mist. Since we are used to rely on the ratings of the IMDb, we went for The Mist due to a better one in the end. Oooh, what a horrible mistake that was! Frankly, this gotta be one of the worst movies ever made. You toughed the Stephen King based film Dreamcatcher was bad?! Wait till you see this one. Daddy and son are driving to the supermarket, there comes the mysterious mist, people are dying, monsters within the mist, more people dying, people eventually go crazy and talk/do shit, the end. That's the movie in a nutshell. Just very unsatisfying to watch. If you don't like people talking trash 90% of the movie and only 10% action, a plot where nothing is properly explained to you (like where the mist is coming from except for some cheap theory) and a super disappointing end, I recommend you to stay away from this one! In addition, we also had a fucking annoying audience with this movie. Most of the seats were empty since everyone was watching I Am Legend I assume... but as few as they were, they annoyed the shit out of us. For example, the guy to my right constantly kept breathing in a very noisy way which made me believe he was about to die or something. He also almost shouted whenever he made a comment to his friend. Then, behind us, there was a girl which crackled with some sort of bag again and again. Best of all, the cellphone of the very same girl rang during the screening and guess what?! She actually answered it. I really got the urge to punch these people at that point... hard.

Well, but besides a crappy movie plus an annoying audience, it was of course a full success on all levels again. Last but not least, I made a short video to give you the chance to get an impression of a typical Saturday with us geeks :)

Welcome 2008!

So the first week of 2008 is almost over. We hope your good intentions for this new year still stand and that it will be a good one for all of you. As for us, we spent the new year's eve at what we can do best: Eating, playing games and watching some movies. The only true way to welcome a new year in my opinion, hehe. Plus, I finally got my copy of Call of Duty 4 which I ordered month ago. It's an awesome game~ So yes, the new year is indeed starting pretty good for me. Since it's the first post in 2008, have a video of the nice fireworkshow at Taipei 101.