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I just finished playing The Walking Dead game that won Game of the Year at the VGAs. I'd read about all these gamer guys who cried at the end of it... and now I know why. I was crying in front of my computer screen, too! It's such a riveting story... but I don't think it should have won GotY. :/ It's not really a game. It's a really amazing story, but it's more like a choose-your-own-adventure tale than it is a game. It's more story than mechanics. As long as you go into it with those expectations, I totally recommend it.
I'm trying to watch all the Oscar-nominated movies this year. Well, I try every year, but sometimes I'm more successful than other times. It's gotten harder since they expanded the field to a possible 10. I'm not doing so shabby this year; I've watched 4/9, and I'm likely going to watch 4 more. The one I'm not sure about is Amour.
Last night I watched Zero Dark Thirty. I was really looking forward to it because of the subject matter, and because of Kathryn Bigelow. I knew I wouldn't like it as much as The Hurt Locker due to the lack of Jeremy, but I thought it would be amazing anyway. It was... all right. Other than also dealing with a military topic, and still being well directed, it was actually quite different from THL. It felt less personal. In THL you really cared about the three guys. In ZDT, you care about Jessica Chastain's character, but in a more removed way because you never really get to know her that well (not like the way you get to know Sgt James), and because since she's not a soldier, her life is almost never at risk. JC was good for sure, but the movie was bigger than she was, particularly the last quarter of it. I'd much rather Best Actress go to Jennifer Lawrence.
I also just saw Ted, which is hilarious and also on crack. It's like a live-action episode of The Family Guy.
I've been reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. It's the sequel to The Passage, and is supposed to be a trilogy. I highly recommend them. They're riveting and well written. Ridley Scott purchased the film rights; as with any book that I love, I can't wait to see it as a movie and yet am also afraid of how they'll fuck it up at the same time. I was reading The Twelve on my Nook when it crapped out on me. :/ It's glitched from time to time, but now it's really messed up. It basically won't wake up from the screensaver anymore. I can't hard restart it or anything; it just doesn't respond. I went to B&N to see if they could do anything about it and they couldn't. Sigh. I ended up doing an out-of-warranty purchase of another one from them -- $40 for a refurbished version of the same Nook, and I have to send them back the one I have (it's so annoying because you know there's probably some easy way to fix it, and now they're making me give them another $40 grrrr). I don't know what kind of voodoo power they have over me, because a big part of me had decided that I didn't need an eReader anymore, because I have a Surface RT. Even while I was giving them my credit card number I was like, WTF am I doing?! Sigh. Oh well. WHAT'S DONE IS DONE.
I'm trying to watch all the Oscar-nominated movies this year. Well, I try every year, but sometimes I'm more successful than other times. It's gotten harder since they expanded the field to a possible 10. I'm not doing so shabby this year; I've watched 4/9, and I'm likely going to watch 4 more. The one I'm not sure about is Amour.
Last night I watched Zero Dark Thirty. I was really looking forward to it because of the subject matter, and because of Kathryn Bigelow. I knew I wouldn't like it as much as The Hurt Locker due to the lack of Jeremy, but I thought it would be amazing anyway. It was... all right. Other than also dealing with a military topic, and still being well directed, it was actually quite different from THL. It felt less personal. In THL you really cared about the three guys. In ZDT, you care about Jessica Chastain's character, but in a more removed way because you never really get to know her that well (not like the way you get to know Sgt James), and because since she's not a soldier, her life is almost never at risk. JC was good for sure, but the movie was bigger than she was, particularly the last quarter of it. I'd much rather Best Actress go to Jennifer Lawrence.
I also just saw Ted, which is hilarious and also on crack. It's like a live-action episode of The Family Guy.
I've been reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. It's the sequel to The Passage, and is supposed to be a trilogy. I highly recommend them. They're riveting and well written. Ridley Scott purchased the film rights; as with any book that I love, I can't wait to see it as a movie and yet am also afraid of how they'll fuck it up at the same time. I was reading The Twelve on my Nook when it crapped out on me. :/ It's glitched from time to time, but now it's really messed up. It basically won't wake up from the screensaver anymore. I can't hard restart it or anything; it just doesn't respond. I went to B&N to see if they could do anything about it and they couldn't. Sigh. I ended up doing an out-of-warranty purchase of another one from them -- $40 for a refurbished version of the same Nook, and I have to send them back the one I have (it's so annoying because you know there's probably some easy way to fix it, and now they're making me give them another $40 grrrr). I don't know what kind of voodoo power they have over me, because a big part of me had decided that I didn't need an eReader anymore, because I have a Surface RT. Even while I was giving them my credit card number I was like, WTF am I doing?! Sigh. Oh well. WHAT'S DONE IS DONE.
