Origin Stories....OUT!

The teaser trailer for next year's Spiderman re-boot is out...can anyone say, "Spiderman meets Twilight"? Yes, I'm not a big fan of the look of the new movie, they're obviously going after the Twilight audience (why?). My real problem with this movie is the fact that it's a "re-boot" of the character and once again we're going to be subjected to half the movie being about the origin story of Spiderman. Come on Hollywood! We all know Spidermans origin story...geeky kid...bit by a radioactive spider...issues with Uncle Ben...ALL OF IT! We've been there, done that.

Why couldn't they have just made a movie about Spiderman, and some of the many other issues that the character has to deal with. This doesn't just apply to Spiderman either...Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Hulk...I think we all pretty much know the origins of any of the iconic superheroes. Let's get past these boring, repetitive origin stories and instead start exploring the characters and their interactions with the world and others. A few minutes worth of flash-backs done properly in a movie can replace forty-five minutes worth of origin story!

Open up and say AAAhhhh!

Had to go to the oral surgeon the other day and get a tooth pulled :( Not the happiest of occasions. It wasn't too bad though, actually he did a great, quick job and I felt little to no pain. I've been a little uncomfortable since then though, tender gums and it was a back molar which left quite a hole behind. I'm wondering if I'll have much trouble with food getting stuck in it? Hopefully the gum tissue will kind of rise up so that the hole won't stay quite so deep. I don't enjoy going to the dentist, (does anyone?), but I enjoy tooth pain even less!

Netflix Price Hike...

Netflix has just announced a 60% price increase for customers who wish to continue receiving DVD's through the mail, and make use of their video streaming service. I've been a Netflix member for a couple of years now, 1 DVD at a time and streaming movies. At first that service was $9.99 a month (a great bargain), then it went up to $10.69 a month (still a great bargain). An increase to $16 a month though, (not such a great bargain). Why? I'm not that quick about sending the DVD's back to get the next in my queue. Some months, I'm only seeing 5 or 6 DVD's, and frankly, I've went through about all the movies I missed at the theater, and new releases that "I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE" are getting fewer and farther between.

There's been a big furor on the internet from angry customers saying that they're dropping Netflix like a hot potato. My guess is though that a lot of these people are going to keep paying for the service anyway, because they're used to it. Here's where Netflix is making a mistake though. I'm not going to completely drop the service...I'm just going to go to the streaming only option. So instead of paying $10.69 a month, I'll be paying $7.99 a month. Sure, Netflix will be saving themselves the cost of shipping me those DVD's, but then again, I was only getting 5 or 6 of them a month as it was. The way I see it, Netflix is going to be giving me pretty much the same amount of product as they were, but for a lower price. I don't see that as much of a win for them.

Gamers need to take a stand...

Apparently, Capcom is releasing a new Resident Evil title for the Nintendo 3DS that will have a non-resettable save game function. They're claiming that it should be a non-issue for gamers, but I believe that gamers everywhere need to take a stand and let game publishers know how they feel about this by boycotting this game to it's death! I'd love to see this game come out and have absolutely no sales at all. I truly doubt that will happen though simply because there are those out there who don't care about the future of gaming, only what they can get their hands on at the moment. Apparently the whole point behind this is to try and squash the re-sale of used video games.

If this game sells well with this kind of limiting technology built into it, what's to stop game publishers from doing this with every game they make...then when you want to replay an old favorite that you've already beaten (and all real gamers do this many times) you won't be able to start a new game and replay it. I guess they just expect you to go out and buy another brand new copy, increasing their profits at your expense.

So do everyone a favor and don't buy this game, "Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D"

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