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I think there's 3. I thought it was ok, but a lot of the stupidity and plot holes bothered me. You don't go to an alien world and go, "Oh look, a cute little snake. Let me pet it." Movie Bob summed up the fight scenes in Man of Steel in perfect terms: it is a Dragonball Z fight imagined on the big screen. Take that for what you will, I didn't particularly like them.

I think the worst thing I can say about it is Superman Returns was a better movie, but I thought Superman Returns was good.

I love The Big Bang Theory, but it's native network is CBS.

Say what you will about the Kinect, I'm frustrated that it's being forced on the Xbox One, but it's an amazing piece of hardware. It's not anywhere close to being ready to control video games, although I imagine some sort of integrative system like that lies somewhere (far) in the future. What outside people are doing with it, with medical applications and what have you, is rather impressive. I don't think Microsoft knows how to use it, and I don't like to think that they're spying on me. I lament the death of naked video game time.

Yes, I have seen Man of Steel. You can touch me. The movie is resoundingly OK, and that it is. It is probably the worst thing Christopher Nolan's name has been associated with. To begin, the movie is far too long. I think it runs two hours and twenty minutes, but it is a LONG two hours an twenty minutes. The movie wasn't let down by its director. Snyder just goes on and on, I don't know how he made a movie as short as 300, and Watchmen I'm saying worked because you had to be long and gratuitous to explain that movie to the people. This was bogged down in unnecessary and boring action sequences and was oddly structured, especially in the beginning. They bring in a lot of secondary characters who serve little purpose and could have been cut down a lot. There are too many fight sequences I think, which doesn't help with the pacing. I appreciate what they were trying to do, adapting a character like Superman to this more realistic take. I thought how they dealt with 'first contact' was well done, Lois' investigation into Superman was well done (although they didn't dye her hair and that bothered me), and Cavill's portrayal of the character wasn't quite a boy scoutish as Christopher Reeve's, which I liked. They tried to expand on the character and explore somethings, and I think there is the makings of a truly good movie and avenue on which to continue with Superman. I just hope it's not with Snyder. Don't go in expecting a Superman or Superman II type of experience or you will be disappointed. While I've only seen the first of the original movies, I'm going to assume the second was similar and that both are superior to this beginning iteration.

Ha, I knew what show you were talking about without seeing the name on the last page. That show is truly terrible, but TBS does play a lot of crap television. Men At Work is alright, but I wouldn't watch Sullivan & Son if I was paid to do it.

I need to get those, I've enjoyed the show every time I've been able to catch it.

You should never have to buy one of those rip off after market coolers for anything, ever. They don't work, they're products meant to get you to waste your money. Maybe you're not ventilating your system right, or maybe the first generation of PS3's were bad, but I've never had a single problem with my PS3. It runs nice, quiet, and cool all the time, and I've done plenty of my normal binge sessions on it. My launch day 360 on the other hand I have overheated on numerous occasions. I should probably blow the dust out of it one of these days. That thing runs noisy, the newer model is so much better.

Zelda is what Nintendo gamers spout everytime, and I just don't see it. I've played the series extensively and it is basically the same thing over and over, and the story is not that deep. I'm not saying that having 'you' be the hero isn't a valid strategy anymore, I just don't it works the way they set up that franchise. I find the games rather dull, and it's one of those areas where Nintendo's lack of production values shows up in a big way. There's no reason for any game like that, with the technology we have, to not be voiced over. It's about getting par for the course, and it's very easy to get there. It's a constant throughout Nintendo's games, and it bothers me a lot. I don't think Metroid is anything special either. Nintendo hasn't excited me in years, even two generations ago the GameCube was my neglected system. I think their hardware has displayed a lack of awareness of what gamers want, with the stupid waggle motion controller and the unwieldy television sized controller they recently implemented. They generally have a lack of third party support, and if Zelda and Metroid are all they have to offer to the hardcore crowd I don't see the point. You're not going to convince me that Nintendo wouldn't be better off as a mobile game company. Their shallow lighthearted gaming would greatly appeal to that crowd, it features consumers that fit into their casual and expanding market share, and it's an area that's just waiting for a big developer who understands that sort of platform to come in and take over. Mario on Android is something even I would buy because that's where it works. Until Nintendo can develop a game as deep and emotionally engaging as Mass Effect, I'll continue to find them irrelevant and you're not going to convince me otherwise.

If you actually read my post, you would see that I didn't say anything about graphics. There is a certain par value that any modern video game should hit, but after that point it is irrelevant. I don't dislike Nintendo because they have cartoony, some would say poor, graphics, I dislike Nintendo because they don't tell stories and they don't have characters. Mario isn't a character, he has no personality. Then there's the biggest offender with Link, who has less personality than a bale of hay. Having some mutant turtle steal your girlfriend over and over and over again is not an involved and deep storytelling experience, it's stupidity. The characters don't grow, things don't change, and it lacks the emotional connection that is the defining characteristic of so many great stories and games. Outside of nostalgia, I don't understand how people can get excited for Nintendo games anymore. I don't know if catering to the lowest common denominator is necessarily their fault. I think they tried to makes games with characters and story with Fire Emblem, but it didn't sell the way a Super Mario Takes a Crap or a Donkey Kong Krap Kountry would so they didn't invest much in it. Even the Paper Mario series has tried to give Mario a story, but those don't sell. Which makes your argument about Nintendo being the one company that didn't sell out wrong, in fact you couldn't be more wrong. Nintendo is the one company that has sold out, they began to cater to casual gamers in order to increase their dwindling market share. I know fanboyism blinds some people, but at least be honest about what your chosen company is doing. When Activision tried to make more money by setting up a roadmap to monthly subscription fees for COD, I stopped buying and playing the series. I've already said I'm waiting around a year to get a new system, and it's widely agreed by those who follow the industry that the first few weeks of sales are vitally important. I'm sorry I view games as an immersive and unique storytelling medium that should evolve and continue to grow in that aspect for the future. I probably hold games to too high of a standard, but I'm far from what's holding the industry back.

Forgive me if I don't get excited about another iteration of the exact same game with the exact same characters, still lacking personality and any semblance of a deep story. I'm not so easily amused. And on top of that, Nintendo's production values are so low it makes a SyFy Original Movie look like Avatar. Nintendo is not a video game company, it's a children's toy company on par with the Lego's and Hasbro's of the world. I don't understand how actual gamers could consider them to be relevant anymore.

I think Microsoft's biggest blunder wasn't announcing all this DRM crap, it was not buying BioWare. If they had a developer like that under MGS there wouldn't be a discussion as to what system would ultimately wind up being better because they would be the one that had better games. And Microsoft wouldn't have rushed ME3 as much and forced them put in a horrid and illogical ending, but that's a different thing entirely. But first party game support sucks on all systems now.

Outside of Halo 5, there is nothing I saw that really excited me. I'll get Beyond: Two Souls and Watch Dogs, but those are for the current generation. I'm not getting a launch day box for either system.

Yes. I haven't heard any express interest in the movie.

Does anyone have any interest whatsoever in The Lone Ranger? I'm predicting that as the summer's first major flop.

Xbox Live is an incredibly successful service, the quality of which is far beyond that which Sony offers. They have no reason to change it to free.

Like that wasn't going to happen anyway? No one will care about backwards compatibility after a year or so. Just wait to buy one until the good games come out. The $499 is a big mistake though. I believe that's what the PS3 launched at and it really crippled sales for a very long time. I'd prefer to pay $400 and not get that Kinect crap that I'm never going to use. Motion controls just aren't precise enough, although the new Kinect is supposed to be a lot better. The real problem is I don't have the 30 foot radius of open space between the couch and the Xbox.

Hey now, it's only $499.

Chad Johnson might be the dumbest human being in the world, if changing his name to Ocho-Cinco wasn't proof enough of that. He went from probation and no jail time to 30 days because he slapped his attorney's butt in the courtroom. Here's the footage if you want to watch from TMZ. The footage itself is safe, but I can't guarantee the other stuff on lockerdome will be: http://thefakeespn.lockerdome.com/articles/108070290

I got my Halo 5 trailer, I'm happy. I'm considering waiting until it comes out to buy an Xbox One. I imagine they'll have some special Halo themed box combo deal, and none of the other games I saw were particularly appealing.

Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

I don't know how you can make a bad movie with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teaming back up. Wedding Crashers was legendary.

Microsoft is considering PC games as a license situation. I'm not surprised, they make most of their money through making people having to buy for a Windows or Office license. It's not like I can borrow someone's Office, pop it in my computer, and use it on word. PC games have had DRM things on them for a while. Microsoft is just trying to help them and their related developers make more money. It doesn't really affect me so I don't care. In the end it won't really affect sales, so Microsoft won't care.

Yes. Both Star Trek movies and Moon were better as well. District 9 was just alright.

False. Serenity was.