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Caught the first-day, first-show of The Dark Knight with keyofx and Cody today morning. Great flick, one that I could have enjoyed all the more if the annoying bitch to my left would have just shut up with the running commentary and the schoolgirl giggles. I knew I should have traded places with either keyofx or Cody at the start. Damn! That, and half the people laughing at all the wrong moments. There's nothing worse than a lot of people laughing at something the Joker does when it's actually sending chills down my spine.
As the Oracle said, let's get the obvious out of the way, shall we? All said and done, it was a great movie, even if it did deviate from the comics in its reimaginings with the Joker and Two-Face, and the abrupt, jumpy edits and random meanderings through the plot for the first half, but one thing that annoyed me to a good degree was the fact that instead of being the dark, steamy, foreboding place that's the trademark of Gotham City, it almost looked like something Clark Kent would be happy in. (By the way, was it just me, or does Gordon call Harvey "Kent", in a reference to the first comics featuring Dent?)
Also, it seems like the characters by themselves actually got very little screen time and for the most part, with the movie actually feeling like a setup for something in the future than what's happening right now. Bruce Wayne and Batman clashing with each others' lives in some sort of an existential crisis, which we saw in the first movie, didn't exist here even though the issues between the two egos should have brought it up to the surface even worse than before. With the net result, it seems like Bruce is just coasting on the Batman bandwagon rather than fighting it as he is supposed to do. The Dark Knight seems to have addressed this only at some moments, after which it seems to blithely ignore what it would be best doing and switches back to the pyrotechnics.
Better than Bale, Heath Ledger (and maybe even better than him) and Aaron Eckhart have outdone themselves and these are roles people will remember for years to come. The whole Joker vs. Batman in the movie seems to be playing with Harvey Dent rather than Gordon as it was in The Killing Joke, which actually worked very well for the movie, in my opinion, even if Dent's descent into madness seemed to progress way faster than I remember it, with the guy just rounding a corner in his Two-Facey life and becoming a murderous vigilante. But the whole "All it takes for the sanest man alive to turn insane is one really bad day" theme from The Killing Joke was done very well with Dent in the movie, giving him an excellent reason to hate the Batman, which kinda seems to work better than it does in the comics. And what do you know, it even borrowed liberally from the Joker's quip about him preferring his past life to be multiple choice. Awesome touch there!
All in all, The Dark Knight seems to be a really mixed bag for the aficionados, but nevertheless a great movie for everyone, even if it lacks the punch that Batman Begins revival experience delivered, and honestly, the best part of Batman Begins was at the end, and that goes double for The Dark Knight. Definitely hope to catch it again next week.
And for the record, I am HOPPING MAD that the whole taiko-ish drum beat theme that I loved from the first movie barely made it in here. WAAAAH!
EDIT: And just had to mention, Two-Face in this movie - F*** F***ING AWESOME! This is the Two-Face I've always wanted to see, almost squealing with joy when I first saw him, even as the bitch next to me kept saying "Oh no, don't show his face, please!" Stupid bitch, that's pretty much one of the biggest reasons I paid good money to see the movie in the first place! Gah! Women!
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Yup, I am playing that right now... love those little guys. Its like LocoRoco meets Frank Miller's 300! Love the Miracle dance and the weird priestess Patapon, but this game is best played in spurts rather than in long sittings.
And oh, for all those whose PSPs are freezing, upgrade to any FW higher than 3.72, because that's what is needed. If your OFW/CFW is 3.80 (I had to upgrade to 3.80 M33-2 to use this, thank God CWCheat is also compatible now, since we really need screenshots as well) then you wont have any trouble running this game. Oh well, expect a full review soon.
^^ no boring work than having to review some moron's buggy code
!Yup, know that one all too well, since that's what I end up doing all the bloody time. We've got a module sent to Integration right now so I can sit back, relax (for the first time this week) and play me some Turok, Patapon and good ol' Oblivion and TR: Anniversary.
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Yeah, funny that. While the rest of the internet is terrorized by the MPAA and the RIAA, the Chairman's son who pirates videos and music is just given a "talking to" by his father. Why didn't he get served and arrested? F***ing bureaucrats, all of them.
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Nah, not blowing my top at all. If I blew my top, you'd know it from a 2-page long post.
It's just that I got the feeling that after the movie, the only thought in my head was "18 years waiting for THIS?" After having religiously followed every episode from the first season, and becoming seriously upset with Season 18, I wanted the movie to be a lot more "grand movie-like" return-to-form rather than a 1.2 hour continuation of a Season 18 episode. Let's see how Season 19 pans off. I hope it gets better, I really do. There's no show on the planet I like more. 
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I wasn't really much about the plot rather than the shift in the character's portrayals. The main people that I care about, Homer and Bart have had their characters substantially shifted from their previous personalities. I don't care too much about the plot, in fact, the plots have been nonsensically funny in the previous seasons, including the Amores Perros inspired time-spliced plot, which Homer himself, in a perfectly true, yet enjoyably funny way said, "Pfft! That plot made no sense at all!" and I LOVED IT! But when a mischief making Bart, whose very CHARACTER was built from the first episode to be a "10 years old, underachiever and proud of it, miscreant" as said by Nancy Cartwright herself fundamentally transforms his character to become a pained kid who goes around moping instead of designing elaborate traps to anger Angry Dad Homer, it's a bloody insult to all that the character has stood for in all these years. The I-Didn't-Do-It-Boy who fills out a psychometric form in a way to land his Dad in a mental asylum is now a broken husk of a kid who just trudges along from the beginning to end, apart from a few laughs at the obvious physical humor.
I could do the same analysis for all the characters and point how how the movie and the last few seasons have practically changed their personalities enough to actually make those Simpsons-look-alike actors in Burns' mansion in Burns' Heir seem better by comparison! I am a true fan, which is why it pains me so to watch the characters I have come to love morph into these... things. As for "WWHD?", that's the point exactly. Is what Homer does in the movie what the old Homer would do?
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You like this new cruel Homer and the direction which Season 17 and 18 are taking? Mindless physical humor as filler space while nothing gets said from beginning to end, with plots running around in circles with no point? What was the point of including Bart's and Lisa's angles in the Simpsons movie? Bart never comes to term with all that's going on and actually makes the viewer feel SAD for him, which is SO unlike the Simpsons and Lisa's plot with the "I am not Bono's son" plot is thrown in because they couldn't have Lisa as a side character, as was Marge even. What was the point of the decidedly unfunny references to Harry Potter and Prison Break? It looks like everyone's favorite dysfunctional family just got a little TOO dysfunctional for comfort in the movie, which is something we REALLY don't want to see in the Simpsons. Never mind the absolute death-by-dull episodes that were the hallmark of Season 18!
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Yup, there are a lot of hot buttons that are pushed in The Simpsons which are conveniently overlooked in Futurama, but then I find that there are more memorable moments from the Simpsons than Futurama, simply because there are more episodes for the former. But when it comes to the quality of each and every episode that is aired, Futurama comes out on top, once again, probably because it, sadly, only ran for five seasons, and the writers had a lot less pressure going for them.
But to its credit, a lot of Futurama was pure satire on the political and socioeconomic aspects of modern day society as well, especially episodes like A Big Pile of Garbage, I Dated a Robot, Three Hundred Big Boys, and some overtly anti-US-warmongery sentiments in War is the H-Word. Plus, the first 10-12 seasons of the Simpsons were spectacular, but then, it started going too slapstick and too crude when it cames to its jokes and Homer transformed into a whole other person who was stupidly spiteful, even though there were a smattering of episodes where his sensitive side did shine through. Frankly though, I wish they get all the old writers back on board, including Conan O'Brien and then start fresh with the formula that made them great in the first place, instead of just going with the celebrity showoffs that's going around in the last two seasons, although I admit the Mandy Moore segment was the Simpsons at their funniest best, at least for that season.
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I am glad someone did. OK, I did too, to a certain extent, but if I ever see Matt Groening, I will pull a Homer on that Bart and choke his neck a couple of inches longer. With script writers coming in from the first 10 seasons, how the heck did they manage to screw up the movie? I guess it's because they kept trying to tweak the script until the last week of it's release, which they shouldn't have done.
On the whole, the movie feels like an hour-long, 401st episode extending from Season 18 rather than the Simpsons movie all fans wanted to see. Where is the Homer I love, the stupid, yet sensitive guy that loves his family and all things around him, except Ned Flanders and low-fat/diet foods? This Homer they have in the movie is very cruel, and Homer himself has been going that way for quite some time now in the show as well, which is why the quality of the show has slipped in the recent seasons. I mean, what the heck, you celebrate 400 episodes and about 20 years running with an episode like "You Kent Say What You Always Want"? Give me the quality that was there in Seasons 01-10 or just wrap it up and start work full time on bringing Futurama to DVDs properly this time around. Marge taping over the wedding tape to say goodbye to Homer and Bart (holy cow, BART! of ALL the people) going to Ned and wishing for a better father. Can it really get any lower for our favorite Homer? I think not.. I want the Homer that said "I don't know many things, Lisa, but I know one thing. Everything I want and love is under this roof"
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anyones seen fantastic four .. raise of the silver surfer???
if so... hows it??
Like bleeding from every pore in your body as you are getting asphyxiated, even as a sadistic silverback gorilla smashes your head in with a rock and uses your brain as PlayDoh.
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Simpsons, yes, except for Season 18. To quote Jeff Albertson, "WORST..SEASON...EVER!" And the way the movie screwed up, I am fast beginning to think the show has grown out of itself. Time to put the dog down in a humane way.
On the other hand, Futurama was, is, and will be, MUCH better than the Simpsons any given day of the century, unless of course, they don't screw up the four upcoming Direct-to-DVD movies. I STILL can't get over the fact that Jhn DiMaggio did the voice of Marcus Fenix. Everytime I play Gears, I think "HEY! BENDER!
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European servers also give good speeds,
2mbps MTNL.
Awww! I feel exactly the same way an impotent old man feels like standing next to a stud of a pornstar.
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April 2008. Bah! At the rate the games are getting released right now, April is an eternity away.
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Hey,here is a new image of our frnd the Tyrant in RE:E or RE3
Oh gee, the Tyrant. According to IMDb, its Dr. Isaacs that turns into a Tyrant, but it doesn't look too much like Iain Glen. Could be Albert Wesker, since Wesker gets killed by the Tyrant, and in keeping with the spread pattern of the T-Virus in the movies, it looks like Wesker could mutate into the Tyrant. Damn, can't tell anything clearly from that picture. Ahhh, screw it, as long as I get to see Ali Larter as Claire Redfield. Yum!
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LOL dude im sure its 256, ive checked my download and upload limits too, dont remember the site
I wouldn't trust the sites all that much, you might want to check your sustained transfer rate on a 10MB download. Because technically, your throughput can't exceed 256/8 = 32 kBps, and since BSNL isn't generous enough to offer a 1:1 or even a 0.5:1 upload ratio, I'd say your maximum uploads should be at a sustained 8 to 12 kBps tops. I am on the same 256k Home UL 900+ plan as well, and 40-50 kBps just seems impossible. You might want to double check with your ISP as to what plan you are actually on. Were you on any other BSNL plan before switching to the 256k UL line, something like a 512k line, since the speeds you posted seem good enough for a 512k line in actuality.
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40-50 kBps on a 256k UL line? How is that even possible? Theoretically, you shouldn't be able to exceed a transfer rate of 32 kBps. And an upload speed of 30 kBps? That's like, I don't know, like NOTHING I have ever heard of. Are you sure you are on the 256 kbps UL line and not on the 2M line?
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The X-Files ran awesome right up to its end, I was one of those people who were initially upset with Mulder's disappearance and Scully's baby and the whole John Doggett / Monica Reyes angle that it took on post-season 07, but Robert Patrick did a really fine job replacing Mulder. But with the whole Samantha Mulder, the Syndicate and the CSM issues just not going anywhere, but circling around and around and around, it finally came down to the point that at the end of Season 09, the series on the WORST POSSIBLE episode, "The Truth" which played out like a sick, f***ing joke and a manufactured insult to all X-Philes. I mean, what the hell was that, the court deposition with all the "dead" witnesses showing up, including Deep Throat and the Lone Gunmen. They completely lost focus, didn't know what they were doing and how to end it, so they botched it up big time, leaving a very sour taste in the mouth for religiously following the show for so many years. LOST is heading towards that same mistake as far as I can see, and I mirror Stephen's King warning to ABC to go out with some dignity, while there's still some left. So, its best if they get their act together and wind up in the next season, because frankly, with a thousand new shows coming, you cannot afford to keep beating a dead donkey and expecting to hit a jackpot, which is what Fox, ABC and NBC are really, really (in)famous for.
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LOST kinda went lost after the first season. Sure, Season 02 and Season 03 had some great moments, but the initial oomph has certainly worn off, as the tale twists and turns every which way, leading me to suspect that this will go the way of the X-Files and after a great run, will end in absolute stupidity as well. Season 01 was just brilliant, with the story focusing so much on the characters and the pains they had all gone through before the crash and how they were reassessing their lives now that they were on the island. But meh, I hope ABC isn't stupid enough to milk this to a point when people are just begging to put the poor show out of its misery. Wind up the story, LOST, or at least stop doing the insanely frustrating "one step forward and two steps back" crap that you are doing.
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A LOL member? What's that, some "Like Old Ladies" club or something? And judging by your avatar, I would have thought you'd be the official Super Grand Poohbah of the lolcats association. Cute kitty though. Here, pussy, pussy, pussy.
Reminds me of the little kittens that run around in the Eternal Sonata and then meow at you when you talk to them. 
Talking about movies, especially videogame-to-movie adaptations, it looks like Christophe Gans has revealed more details on the upcoming Onimusha movie. Sadly, it will be based on Warlords and not Demon Siege, so no Jean Reno running around in 16th century Japan and no Samanosuke in modern day Paris, smacking Genma off the top of the Eiffel Phallus. Oh well, at least Takeshi Kaneshiro will be playing Samanosuke.
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Nokia 3230. How I wish I could go cel(l)ibate. Chuck my ever-ringing phone into a deep abyss from the top of the highest mountain. (sigh)
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Let's see, I ain't too good at math, but I think I've been terrorizing everyone around me for, oh, 26 years now. Yup, that seems about right.
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Psych. One of the better, more hilarious shows that's going around right now, since Heroes, The Simpsons, etc. have just about finished their last seasons' run a couple of months back. Psych sees Shawn Spencer, a guy with brilliant powers of observation and deduction actually work for the police department by, wait for it, posing as a psychic to solve cases. Think Sherlock Holmes meets George of the Jungle! Its currently running Season 02, while Season 01 is just about getting wrapped up on Star World I think.
Another great show that's not on Star World or any other Indian channel is SciFi's Eureka. Brilliant sci-fi show about one normal sheriff trying to adjust and work in a not-so-ordinary town. Definitely one of the most enjoyable shows around these days.
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Transformers FTW! Watched the movie 7 times already now, waiting for the damn thing to come out this 17th. Sure, its got a lot of things going every which way if you are a fan like me, but just seeing Ironhide and OP transform, complete with the G1 transformation sound, ahh, now that's something. Not to mention that we've got the awesome action figures, yes, with AutoMorph, selling here in India as well. Now if I can only find StarScream, Blackout and Barricade here in lousy Bangalore...
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IMBender finished the game! I feel like starting an all out nuclear war now... for some odd reason.