Posts Tagged ‘PS3’
Still hope for a proper G-Force movie
… of updates and of course today I was busy rebuilding Mashing Buttons and playing Conan on the PS3.
But your loss is… ummm your gain…?
Ages ago I talked about the G-Force movie that probably wasn’t going to be finished and the shitty G-Force in name only movie we got with the hamsters or whatever they were?!
Well it appears that the company that everyone thought was going under might just have some fight left in them and they released this footage from the upcoming Gatchaman …
Wow, finding a Bourne Identity trailer to embed was ridiculously hard. They are all blocked on YouTube which for an older film seems a little silly… actually we all know my opinion on disallowing embedding on trailers etc.
I wasn’t going to watch this but we were rummaging around whilst we were eating dinner for anything to watch (yes we are a couple who eat in front of the telly – I know! dreadful yes) and I’ve had this sitting on the shelf so on a whim I dropped it in the PS3.
As I frequently am with any of the Blu-rays I am more than impressed with the beautiful crisp treatment of the film compared even to DVD. You can never convince someone of the effect until they are watching a much loved movie in high definition. That being said I haven’t seen this film in years and to be honest I barely remembered it so it was a joy to watch and for a film that I was only going to watch twenty minutes of it managed to keep me in front of the TV long after I planed to retreat to my desk to draw.
I think the first Bourne film changed action films for the better when it exploded on screen. It took nice guy Matt Damon and turned him into a killing machine. I love the scenes where he is explaining how he is scoping out the room and identifying weapons and exits.
The action and the fight scenes are all top notch and it’s a very likeable cast, it’s another one of those movies that are hard to write about because it’s just perfectly good and there is little not to like. Of course I’m not about to be reduced to describing the beautiful scenery… it all looks great in case you are wondering.
Damn.
I talked about the scenery.
All in all I’m happy to recommend the film on Blu-ray, I think it is worth upgrading if you enjoyed the film in the first place and if you are one of those people yet to visit the theatrical adventures of Jason Bourne then check it out if you can find it cheap or rent it!
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LOL I know this was pretty light weight so if you want to share your own insights please do in the comments or of course feel free to ask what I thought of some aspect of the film/blu-ray!
Letting go
I have a lot of books.
Tracey has a lot of books.
Together we have A LOT OF BOOKS.
It’s just one of those things, when we met we each had a decent collection of books, I’m not talking about comics either – that’s a different kettle of fish completely and one I won’t burden this discussion with. We began with two collections of books and then combined them when we got married. Ten years on we have been adding to it nearly all the time. This has resulted in living in somewhat of a library with a number of books still in storage boxes downstairs.
The removal guys curse us whenever we move home as we end up having far too many book chests that are extremely heavy.
On top of this we add all the ‘stuff’ that we collect, a sizeable CD collection, a large DVD library and for my part a huge collection of figurines and collectibles.
We’ve got a lot of stuff and we’ve identified it as a weight around our necks and now we are shedding all these things to streamline our lives. The hardest part of all this was deciding to let go and making some huge realisations:
- if I’ve read a book and really loved it I don’t need to hang on to it.
- I’m not going back to playing the Playstation 2 despite having a bunch of neat games and some of which I haven’t even played.
- I don’t need X-Files or Independence Day figurines that sit in boxes in the back of my cupboard.
- Not all of my collectibles have significance to me.
- Once I finished playing a game on PS3 history has shown I rarely ever go back to playing them.
- Some stuff is important to me and I won’t sell it but I need to not confuse this with “hanging on”.
- There are more important creative things that I need in my life such as art supplies and equipment and by offloading this makes more room for that!
The other really hard part of this is how slow it takes to get most of this stuff up on eBay which is our online garage sale of choice. It’s not as easy as just saying yeah I’m going to sell all my stuff then you’ve got to systematically go through all of it and get it up there.
But we are slowly doing so.
Anyone else gone through a giant clean up of their lives or considering it?
