Join me in the Boycott Lucas movement.
So George Lucas has announced Feb. 10th as the day of evil as he rereleases his horrible movie The Phantom Menace, now in 3D. I am calling on all nerds and, for that matter, all Americans to boycott the entire series. As everyone knows the prequels were crap, and post production 3D is crap. Why would you spend money to support crap?
This Empire logo comes from the Star Wars T Shirt category.
This goes beyond mere dislike of what Lucas did to his franchise. We need to take a stand against the raping of cherished movie franchises. Hollywood needs to realize that they don’t have carte blanche with regards to good movies just for a fast buck. In case you were wondering what the inevitable conclusion to this ugly trend I have one thing to say to you: Highland 2, the Quickening with 500 Years Ago on Planet Zeist. You think I’m kidding? How about a Alien prequel that has Ripley in flight school but somehow involved with aliens? A remake of Weird Science starring Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith as “geeks” who can’t get girls? How about a remake of the Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith but mistakenly set in China? Oh, wait. That one happened. How about On the Waterfront but make it about MMA?
So do the movie world a favor and don’t go see any of these. This goes well beyond my personal desire to see Lucas fall on his face. Don’t take your kids to see these films. You know the new ones will just damage their soft brains and the older ones will be so full of extra worthless crap that you will want to scream.
Jason
Red Tails Movie Review
Ha ha ha Lucas you fail again.
All you regular readers should have figured out by now that I have a very large axe to grind with George Lucas for ruining a cherished childhood memory of mine, Star Wars (Stormtrooper image courtesy of the Star Wars T Shirt category). If you don’t understand how he did this, or are to young or dumb to realize how much of an amazing epic the Empire Strikes Back is, then I suggest you spend some time at Red Letter Media checking out the Plinkett Star Wars review for Episodes I-III. I have come to the conclusion that while Lucas has claimed responsibility for Episodes IV-VI, the talented people who actually made the movies what they are were fired after EOS was made, leaving us with freaking Ewoks as a predecessor to the eventual doom manifested in many ways but mostly in the form of Jar Jar Binks.
So it would be fair to say that I went into this movie looking for reasons to trash it, but fortunately for me I didn’t have to look hard. The suck reasons are varied and many, and we will get into them in detail shortly, but while this movie may or may not be a commercial success it is definitely riding the short bus to movies. What gives me even more enjoyment of this failure is Lucas had all the elements to make a truly amazing film: a star studded and talented cast, an amazing true story to work with, and stunning CGI effects. All this and the movie still sucks.
Before we get to much farther into this dog let me say that I am a big proponent of civil rights advancement, and have great admiration for the men of the Tuskegee training program. Theirs is a truly amazing story, and one deserving of a truly amazing film. Unfortunately their story fell into the hands of George Lucas, who is to good movies what thalidomide is to pregnancy.
The movie is, of course, the story of the Tuskagee airmen the first group of African American pilots during WWII who fought with honor and pride against the Germans. It tells of Col. A.J. Bullard (Terence Howard-Iron Man, Hustle & Flow, Four Brothers) struggling with the brass in the newly built Pentagon in the face of rampant racism and negative stereotypes. Meanwhile unit commander Maj. Emanuelle Stance (Cuba Gooding Jr.-As Good as it Gets, Men of Honor, Jerry McGuire) leads the gang as they start out flying regular patrols well in the rear with outdated aircraft, eventually getting to support a landing and finally flying bomber escorts. He and his crew are punched out of the stereotype paper doll book: there’s the squad leader struggling with alcoholism (Nate Parker-The Great Debaters, the Secret Life of Bees, Felon), the hotshot rogue pilot who can’t obey orders and is constantly on the prowl for women (David Oyelowo-Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the Help, The Last King of Scotland), the younger pilot struggling to prove himself to the veterans (Tristen Wilds-the Secret Life of Bees, 90210 (2008), Half Nelson), the religious nut, the joker (named Joker-anyone remember Full Metal Jacket?), and a couple of country bumpkins. They each have a sub plot and story that does nothing, goes no where, and actually hurts the movie (especially the romance story so worthless and crowbarred it felt like a big weighty dumb story forced into a movie. Hey, I can’t be the king of analogies every day). Each one is an anchor even heavier than the one preceding.
It has been often said that George Lucas is not an actors director, and I don’t think it has ever been more apparent than in this movie. In spite of working with some of the most talented professionals in Hollywood he somehow managed to get them all to act like they were each passing a golf ball sized kidney stone. This combined with dialog that compares favorably only to a flesh eating virus makes each non flying scene feel like being smothered under a burning mattress. The antagonists were even worse. A blatantly racist commanding officer (Bryan Cranston-Malcolm in the Middle and one of my personal favorites, Breaking Bad) was so over the top it was laughable, and the evil German pilot (Lars van Riesen-A Brunette Kiss, Private Peaceful, the Parachute Ball) was laughable cartoonish with lines taken from the Ming the Merciless catchy one liner phrasebook (“Die, you foolish African!”). I guess Lucas can’t do a movie without a goofy fake character with dumb lines.
As for the racism, it was painfully drummed into our heads for the first half of the movie and then somehow just evaporated in the second half. I know Lucas is trying to do something for African Americans (possibly to make up for all the heat he got for racist stereotype Jar Jar) but Spike Lee he is not.
I will say the time spent showing the action in the air was exciting in the same way the dog fights in Star Wars were fun. The CGI was flawless and only once did I see a flight sequence I know for a fact was literally impossible. The one thing Lucas can do is CGI, and he does use it here. However, for every minute spent in the air with exciting combat you spend like five on the ground grinding through some god awful character development.
The stars. I’ll give one star for the cast, especially Cuba Gooding Jr., although he spent the entire movie with a big dumb pipe in his mouth like he was Gen. Douglas MacArthur. What exactly was that supposed to add? One star. The story of the Tuskagee airmen is one that deserves to be told. Two stars. Decent fight sequences and CGI effects. One star. WWII movie. One star. Total: five stars.
The black holes. Acting ran like a chewing the scenery contest. One black hole. Dialog that made listening to drunk guys debate politics sound good. One black hole. Characters so flaccid and ill developed I really didn’t care if and when any of them died. I wasn’t hoping they would die. I just couldn’t worry about them. One black hole. Each sub plot that slowed the story down. One black hole. Very few of the sub plots actually had a conclusion or, for that matter, a point. One black hole. A bonus black hole for the romance sub plot, which pretty much led to the most obvious ending in the history of war movies. One black hole. Pacing and editing from hell. Stuff jumped around in a fast/slow/fast method that made me want to scream. One black hole. At one point Lucas felt the need to channel Hogan’s Hero’s and include a POW escape plot that did absolutely nothing but add in some more worthless ground crap. One black hole. While the African American pilots were heroes of the sky, the portrayal of the Caucasian pilots make them looks like a bunch of undisciplined cowboys, not really reflecting well on the Army Air Corps. One black hole. The scar faced German pilot turned the movie into a comedy. One black hole. The instantaneous reversal of bigotry in such a pat and worthless manner (not so much a resolution as Lucas got bored portraying it and decided to drop the whole thing). One black hole. The film suffered from the war movie “We bought a tank, we are going to show a tank” syndrome. In other words, every scene’s background was so packed with jeeps, trucks, tents, planes, and more jeeps you couldn’t see the ground. One black hole. Some fairly grievous plot holes (If the guys were flying patrols well behind friendly lines, how then did they come across a German train?). One black hole. Total: thirteen black holes.
So a grand total of eight black holes. I feel pretty good about that. The movie, in spite of the great subject matter, was out and out dumb. Of course, the theater was packed and apparently it did pretty well for it’s opening weekend. Odds are very likely that the film will do fine and Lucas will never read this review or if he did even care. He is still rich beyond my biggest dreams. Still, I do feel a bit of satisfaction for this piece of tilting at windmills. I can see why Don Quixote did it. Should you see it? If you like airplanes and combat sure. If you want to somehow support the cause of 1944 Civil Rights sure. If you like good acting, direction, and story telling or want to join me in not supporting Lucas in any way then you should not (incidentally he plans to re release the entire Star Wars franchise in 3D one at a time. I am starting a campaign to not go see any of these and ask you all to join me. Don’t support this. Besides, we all know post production 3D sucks. Don’t fall for the hype)
By the way, Lucas has announced after finishing this dog he was going to retire from film making. I am of two thoughts on this concept. On the one hand I found myself singing “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” while doing a little dance in my office chair. On the other hand I kept thinking to myself “Why didn’t the house fall on the witch fourteen years ago before she made the Phantom Menace?” I do wish him a happy and relaxing retirement, with lots of sitting a beach somewhere not working on any of those pesky scripts or anything.
Thanks for reading. Follow me on Twitter @NerdKungFu. By the way, you will be seeing a lot of smaller posts by my guy Jason, who works for me and is going to be looking for interesting nerd stuff to post about. Basically these long blog posts actually don’t serve the purpose this blog was created for and I need him to make it actually work. He seems sharp enough. Look for my Underworld review tomorrow. Talk to you soon.
Dave
10 Best Movie Chase Scenes
OK, I have been flaking a lot on my blogging lately, but the fact is I have been super busy getting ready for this Warhammer tournament. I am sitting in the bar at the hotel in San Antonio and had some time to kill, so I thought I would crank this out. I have been working on this list for a while, and like it a lot.
The weird thing is I checked a bunch of other lists and they don’t exactly have a lot in common with mine. I guess I have a different perception of what is cool in a chase scene.
10. Bullitt. Great scene all around as they tear ass through San Francisco, my second favorite city. Ever wonder what it looks like when you manual a car? This movie can show you (that was a skateboard joke).
9. Ronin. This one, Bullitt,and the next one on my list are pretty standard for best chase scene lists, but it’s obvious this one is on it for a reason. This movie is like a huge single chase scene across Europe, with occasional pit stops to load up on food, fuel, and ammunition. They destroyed over 80 cars in the shooting of this flick, and even hired an F1 driver to do a lot of it.
8. the French Connection. Yes, I guess I am slowly turning into one of those snooty movie jackasses who feels the need to reference “the classics”, but I can’t deny this one is pretty epic. There has been a rumor around for years that they filmed this one in New York without permission from the city, but I have my doubts.
7. Bladerunner. I never said this was all car chases. I have always liked the scene where Deckard chases down Zhora, the replicant girl with the snake. Great foot race, and she takes a header through a plate glass window, only to have Leon almost choke him to death.
6. the Blues Brothers. Hey, they wrecked a mall and a bunch of cop cars. That mall was scheduled for demolition, but it must have been a ton of fun to film. Just thinking of driving through all that plate glass makes me all tingly.
5. Smokey and the Bandit. This movie was nothing but a chase scene. Great film, with good humor. Unfortunately it introduced us to the incompetent hillbilly sheriff who plague films for about 15 years afterwards.
4. Terminator 2. Motorcycle to helicopter to big rig hauling liquid nitrogen, this scene had it all. The best line was Arnold saying “This is the vehicles maximum velocity” as they ripped along at 5o MPH.
3. Last of the Mohicans. Another foot race, but one of the best. To be honest, this movie kind of drags for a long time, but the final chase scene with Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingachgook chasing down Magua makes it all worthwhile. Even more amazing was the soundtrack for the scene, which to this day rocks for me.
2. the Empire Strikes Back. Yes, I’m a fanboy, but the Millennium Falcon running through an asteroid belt chased by six TIE fighters only to hide in a cave that is actually the gullet of a giant sock puppet and eventually escape by attaching itself to the outside of an Imperial Star Destroyer is in all ways awesome. Watching this movie over and over again sometimes makes the pain of Episodes I-III feel more like a severe bowel obstruction rather than getting punched in the balls over and over again for six hours. (Empire logo courtesy of the Star Wars T Shirt category)
1. the Road Warrior. The final chase scene makes this movie, which is great anyway. An interesting fact is from the moment Max starts the engine until he crushes Wes on the grill of the Humungous’s car and lays the truck on it’s side the camera never stops moving. Another interesting fact is they did stunts in this film you will never see in another film. The reason is they didn’t hire stunt drivers. They hired guys off the Australian demolition derby circuit, and those guys would do anything. The differences are subtle, but if you pay close attention you will realize that, instead of the standard “car gets hit and crashes because the driver is planning it or not even in the car” they would do stuff like have the car get t-boned by the truck, straiten out, and keep on driving. It doesn’t sound like much until you think about it, but once you do it kind of blows your mind. Watch it again and understand how the lack of huge crashes and explosions is actually an improvement over the standard Hollywood pap.
I also like the fact that Max didn’t really start kicking ass until after all his helpers were killed.
That’s it. I have to get to sleep. Big day of Warhammer tomorrow. I will be seeing a bunch of movies this week and will try to write something every day. Follow me on Twitter @NerdKung Fu. Thanks for reading. If you disagree with this list or think I missed something feel free to post a comment. Talk to you soon.
Dave
50/50 Movie Review
100% a good film.
I have been looking forward to this film. I am a Joseph Gorden-Levitt fan ever since he was on 3rd Rock From the Sun and thought he was excellent in Inception. Seth Rogan I enjoy a love/hate relationship with; love for Superbad and Pineapple Express, hate for his active participation in the cinema abortion known as the Green Hornet (Knocked Up I have mixed feelings about. Good in parts, but possibly a case study in the worst relationship in human history). Anna Kendrick I don’t have a real opinion about, although I liked her in this one. She still carries the stink of Twilight about her, however.
So last night I went and was not disappointed. The story was real, with some funny moments and a lot of scary, depressing moments. I was honestly touched at several points, and while I hate admitting I am becoming more girl-like as I get older actually felt myself tearing up at a few moments (some people might call that maturing emotionally, but I refuse to walk down that path). What was cool was the emotional response was honest, sincere, and built up over time, not the hamhanded “let’s kill the one character you like in the movie” approach I suffered through in One Day. The director (Jonathan Levine, who has done nothing I have heard of but whom I expect to see a lot more from) and writer (Will Reiser, who’s only real credit seems to be the Allie G Show) managed to make the audience connect with every character on the screen, but most closely with Adam, the protagonist. You really end up identifying with him and his situation, and I spent the last 30 minutes of the movie praying that he wouldn’t die.
I don’t know who to lay the laurels on for this one. Honestly, I really think it was a near perfect storm of great acting, directing, and story writing that led to such a good experience. Of course, the last film I saw before this was Taylor Lautner’s lamentable and horribly misnamed Abduction, so it could be that the part of my brain responsible for movie appreciation has taken one too many hits to the head. This film was like a man dying of thirst finding a full water cooler in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Anyway, the story is of Adam, a young Seattle urbanite who, in spite of his extremely cautious and healthy lifestyle, develops a rare form of cancer on his spine. His best friend is Kyle (Seth Rogan), a lackadaisical, unhealthy slacker. The story goes through the drama of Adam dealing with his selfish and self centered cheating girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard, the hot blind girl from the Village, but she also played in Spiderman 3, Terminator Salvation, and the Lady in the Water, so she doesn’t exactly have a great filmography) who is super hot but such a reprehensible person you want to cheer when Adam boots her out. He has to also deal with his extremely engaging worrywart mother (Angelica Houston, looking better than I have seen in years), his Alzheimer father (real trend towards Alzheimer dad’s this year), and his own emotional stress and stages as he goes through the suffering of chemotherapy and eventually surgery. He is aided by the very young councilor in training Katherine (Anna Kendrick) who comes to play a bigger part in his life, but his rock throughout the movie is his friendship with Kyle. Kyle shows what true friendship is about. I don’t want to give this one any spoilers as I expect you all to see it, but when you do look for the scene where Adam finds the book and you will know where I really started to tear up.
The stars. Extremely well acted. Two stars. Good story, if somewhat linear and kind of predicable, at least in parts. Two stars. Some really funny moments. One star. It managed to pry a real emotional response out of my cold, dead heart (odds are it will have most of you crying like a little baby, so macho am I). One star. Anna Kendrick was looking heartbreakingly cute throughout the movie, and can actually act. One star. The Adam shaving his head scene was really fun and cool. One star. All the interactions between the characters, especially Adam and Kyle, were extremely real. One star. A generally good movie experience. Two stars. Total: eleven stars.
However, as any of you who have read a few of these knows, the movies without any black holes are extremely few and far between (and for the record, they are The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner Directors Cut, TWOK, and Fight Club. Boba Fett image courtesy of the Star Wars t shirts category), and this movie is not one of them. First of all, the trailers I saw made this movie look about 10 times funnier than it actually was. I know, how much can they do with cancer, but still there were some great lines in the trailers that got cut out of the film entirely. One black hole. While well written, a careful analysis of the story shows a decent percentage of cliche-sium. One black hole. Finally, again while the movie was overall great, the shift in tone from humorous buddy movie to emotional tear jerker was jarring at times. I’m not sure how they could have gotten around that, but still. One black hole. Total: three black holes.
Total of eight stars, and I do highly recommend this film. If you can convince a girl to go on a date with you it is a great date flick. See it in the theater in order to support good movies, but honestly you won’t miss much if you wait to see it at home. In fact, this might be the perfect movie night at home date movie, if you know what I mean.
Thanks as always for reading. I think tomorrow I will see Dream House even though it looks like it will creep me the hell out. Actaully, if I can find it nearby I want to see Machinegun Preacher. On the other hand, if my movie partner joins me tomorrow I will probably have to see something tamer, like I Don’t Know How She Does it or What’s Your Number. God save me. Anyway, follow me on Twitter @NerdKungFu. Talk to you soon.
Dave
Nerd Dating: Making “the Move” part 3: Kissing basics
I’m not going to dig in too deep on this. There are any number of sites with advice on how to kiss. Instead, I will highlight things to look for that can make the kiss work well or fail miserably (trust me, when it comes to mistakes you can make to crash and burn, I am an expert).
1. Clean breath. I have stated this before many times, but it is important enough to restate again. If you think you might make out, don’t order the onion-garlic special for dinner. In fact, operate under the assumption that you might be kissing on any given night and order accordingly. Get your stank breath dinner plate on the way home after she rejects you for other reasons. Also, brush, floss, and toss in a breath mint at some point.
2. Match her tongue technique. Kissing a girl can be like trying to pet a strange cat. The slightest bad move and she will skitter under the bed, never to be seen again. Some women like a lot of tongue. Some women think it’s gross as hell. She will show you what she likes with her tongue. Go as deep as she does and not one micro-millimeter further. The difference between her thinking you a nice guy or a sex driven pervert is literally one lick too many.
3. Hold her face. Most (not all) women kind of like it if you put one hand on the side of her face while kissing. DO NOT use both hands. Try it and see if she seems to respond positively. Also, if you have hands big enough to encompass her entire head (I generally do) just use the the finger tips.
4. Go gentle. Slow and easy. Remember that strange cat. (Actually, this advice can be applied to all your interactions).
5. Close your eyes, and keep them closed. Some women will, at some point during the long kiss, open her eyes to make sure you don’t have your eyes open. Somehow the romance is robbed if you open your eyes, but not if she does. It’s called a double standard because it is twice as true.
6. Do your best to control your autonomic responses. Nothing will kill the mood like you having to belch (or something even less savory) during the kiss, but that should be obvious. However, given the audience I am talking to I can’t assume anything, so don’t belch during the kiss. The important one to avoid, however, is showing your excitement in a physical sense if you know what I mean. For some girls this would not be a real problem, but like I have said most women are constantly looking for an excuse to dump you and pitching a tent 30 seconds into your first kiss can give her the rip cord she is looking to pull. Think about baseball or something.
That’s it for today. Next post I will start talking about when and how to initiate the kiss.
Last posts’ “who would win” question actually seems pretty obvious in retrospect. I think Gandalf would kick seven kinds of crap out of Harry Potter in about 30 seconds. Sorry to all the Harry Potter fans out there, but any man who can beat a Balrog one on one will not have a lot of trouble with a pimple faced teenager on a broom.
Today’s question is kind of a “stoppable force meets movable object” one. Who would win; a squad of Stormtroopers verses a squad of Red Shirts? (Stormtrooper image courtesy of the Star Wars t-shirt category).
On the road again
No dancing or dating advice this weekend. I am headed to LA for the LA Comic Book convention. If you are in LA stop by and say hi.
The celebrities at this show are Todd Bridges (Willis from Different Strokes) and Daniel Logan, who played young Boba Fett in Episode II, Attack of the Clones (image courtesy of the Star Wars t shirt category). I guess you can tell the show is not huge, but it is fun and there is usually a lot of stuff to see there. Also, my super hot friend Olga will be helping me out, and afterward we are going to see Res Evil 3D so look forward to a review by me next week.
Talk to you soon.
A Guide to Nerd Guys Meeting and Dating Women: How to start talking to them Part 5
Time to delve into a tough subject for most nerd guys. Shutting up and letting the girl talk.
This is tough for most nerd guys. We start to feel nervous talking to women and the defensive mechanism is to fill the awkwardness with examples of our wit and verve. Also, we really think we need to impress her somehow by showing her how much intellect and knowledge we have. However, this is a huge trap (thank you Admiral Akbar) that a lot of nerds fall into for most of their life.
Here is why it is a bad thing. If there is one thing most women love it is a mystery. Guys that are mysterious are by nature sexy. Women feel compelled to dig more and more until they understand the guy as well as they can (which is pretty poorly, to tell the truth, but they like to believe they have accomplished their goal). If you shut up early on and make her work for every tidbit then by the time she has you figured out you have been in a relationship with her for a couple years.
The fact is, familiarity breeds contempt. No matter how cool and put together you or any other guy is, you have things that annoy women just by having a Y chromosome. As a mysterious figure out of a romance novel she 
knows nothing about your bad habits or obsession with Boba Fett (shirt image courtesy of the Star Wars t shirt section) or any number of other things that she will have nothing but contempt for. As she learns of them your chance of seeing her naked drops.
Think of it as a score. When you first meet a girl imagine she assigns a score from 1-100 to you. If you are super good looking or super rich you are probably in the 80-90 range. If you are horribly disfigured or just the wrong body and/or facial type you might be in the 30-40s. Most of us end up in the middle range. Bottom line each girl has a minimum score they require in order to sleep with you. Every time you open your mouth you risk losing points. Granted, there is the chance of gaining points, but unless what you are about to say is “I am the owner of a multi-million dollar corporation” then I think it fair to say the odds of losing points grossly outweighs the chance of gaining points.
So bottom line, say next to nothing about yourself. If I have done well talking to a girl then I know a ton about her (fodder for future conversations) while she knows my first name and maybe a vague idea of what I do for a living. That’s it. Every thing she knows about you is less chance to get anywhere with her.
I’m not saying don’t answer her questions. That would be weird. But every time she asks you something answer with as few details as possible and turn it into a question about her. For example:
Girl: “So, Dave, what do you do for a living?”
Dave: “I run a web site. We sell t-shirts. What do you do?”
Girl: “I work in marketing.”
Dave: “Really? Have you worked on any campaigns I might have seen?”
See how that worked? I answered her question and gave her the opportunity to talk about herself for another five minutes.
Eventually she will learn all your bad habits and idiosyncrasies, but by that time you should be already sleeping with her and she will develop other relationship ties that will keep her from kicking you to the curb.
This point is kind of near to my heart, as it is the one piece of my advice I really struggle with. It is so easy to talk about myself with a girl and say too much. Just recently I was dating a girl. She caught the flu or something and was sick, so instead of sleeping together we would talk a lot via phone and text. Bottom line is she learned too much about me before we slept together and I got dumped. Remember, familiarity breeds contempt.
Next post: the Two Minute Rule.
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Looking forward to Kick Ass
I am probably going to get crap from 100% of my friends, but I have been looking at trailers for the new movie Kick Ass and am really looking forward to it. It looks really fun. I am a big Nick Cage fan as well, and he is looking very Raising Arizona-ish in this one. I hope I am not setting myself up for disappointment, but I will definitely watch it in spite of how it’s reviewed, and will probably put shirts into my comic book t shirt section.
Of course, I loved Mystery Men, so this one will have to really suck to disappoint me.
Anyway, just got done uploading some new Star Wars shirts, including this particular gem. I love this one. Stormtroopers are so freaking cool. I’m going to be adding more girls shirts tomorrow too.
That’s pretty much it. I just wanted to comment on Kick Ass after having seen the trailers.
Lego Universe, and more about NASA
So I was talking to my friend Dave this afternoon and he told me he saw yesterday’s rant about how NASA is getting gutted. His point was that they are a bunch of babies and have not pushed hard enough and I have to admit, he’s got a point. Given the amount of money we have spent on that program we should be living on Mars by now. We were on the moon 41 year ago and not done much since.
On the other hand, it’s really all we have so I guess we need to keep supporting it. Please write your senators, congressman, and the President and tell them to find some of this stimulus money for something that could help all of humanity.
He then told me he got on the Beta test for Lego Universe, the new Lego MMORP. As a screaming Lego fan and massive MMORP addict it sounds both perfect and horrible to me. I have actually backed off on playing WOW in favor of working on my site, and don’t know if I can afford to get hooked on another one. He says the game is pretty cool, and usually has a good opinion. On the other hand, he liked the Star Trek MMORP and I found it kind of boring, to be honest.
Speaking of Lego and outer space, I recently found this Lego Star Wars t shirt and put it up in my Star Wars T shirt section. I played the hell out of that game and got it to 98.7% done. I gave up once I got to the timed runs. Too frustrating to keep playing. Great time up until then, and I still bust it out when I get bored.
