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GeekiN Episode #91 – GeekiN in 3d
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
An episode discussing 3d, spin-off shows, and more. And this episode weighs in at about an hour and thirty minutes. Short, by today’s standards. Keep reading to see what is on the menu for this episode!
Discussed This Week:
- Dollhouse so far (Hitting its groove by episode 6?)
- Forums live on Geekshow
- Coraline in 3d
- Stargate: Universe Cast
- Gossip Girl Spin-off casting
- Rockband drums in Garage Band
Box Office Report:
February 20–22, 2009
| TW | LW | Title (click to view) | Weekend Gross | Average | Total Gross | Budget* | Week # |
| 1 | N | Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail | $41,030,947 | $20,192 | $41,030,947 | - | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | Coraline | $11,432,124 | $5,305 | $53,766,843 | - | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | Taken | $11,281,262 | $3,637 | $95,034,161 | - | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | He’s Just Not That Into You | $8,558,225 | $2,806 | $70,100,901 | - | 3 |
| 5 | 9 | Slumdog Millionaire | $8,384,680 | $3,736 | $98,354,395 | $15 | 15 |
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Yes, I cheated with my answer. :p
Maybe I should have just done an honorable mention section so I could have included several more.
Anyway, The Fall is a movie made over several years by Tarsem, the director of The Cell. It is a very visually imaginative movie, especially since they did not use CGI special effects. Add it to your Netflix list (get the Bluray if you can), you’ll thank me for it.
After seeing the Chun Li film I would have to say the Street fighter film in the 90’s was better. I fell asleep near the end of the film and I noticed a kid sitting next to me was playing a game on his phone.
I think the 90’s Street Fighter movie is a great cheesy action flick with Van Damme and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
I loved Street figher! Maily because i didnt know better when a kid but its still nice to watch if you don’t try and judge it.
Not sure if i will watch the new one because i doubt it could match the originals fun cheesyness.
Funnily enough I hated it back then and LOVE it to death now, greatest drunken comedy movie EVER (aside from a budget horror movie known as cradle of fear).
I”m okay at drums on Rock Band, but am a guitar player (in real life too), so it quite the learning experience. However, just remember, learn to count to four.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and (etc). :)
Stop whining about the bass drum; it’s important, though annoying. :)
Edit:
Kristin Kreuk is half Chinese, half Dutch.
But I’m sure the movie is terrible.
Chun-Li is quite a bit more than half-chinese, so my point still stands in that regard. And actually, you can throw Indonesian in to the list of heritages Kristin claims. Dutch/Chinese/Indonesian and raised in Canada. That’s one culturally confused girl. :)
It’s only important if you care about it and you are making real music. Everybody uses that excuse, but it is the worst excuse I have ever heard. “You can’t play drums without the bass!” Oh really? Cause I’m sure a song with 3 frets on the guitar would sound fantastic as well. If I don’t want to play it, I don’t want to play it. And the only thing they accomplish by forcing it on a person is that the person ends up not wanting to even touch the stupid things.
So good riddance to the bass pedal. If they insist on making you use it, I refuse to try any more. If they would allow you to cut it out on easy, then I could probably get more comfortable with the main part of the drum play, and then eventually work it in.
But the bass drives the beat more than anything.
It is frustrating though. :) (trying to hit that bass pedal), so it would be cool if they had a cheat or something to turn off the bass pedal. I, however, think that you shouldn’t be able to turn it off while getting achievements, playing the tour mode etc.
I can’t quite beat RB on expert on guitar (but almost), however I’m only a medium player on drums. :(
See, I think that Easy should be easy. If removing the bass pedal makes easy easy, then it’s exactly what should happen. I don’t think there are many achievements that you can get on easy, but if there are, then you should be able to get them in that case. The problem is, there solution is to turn on No-Fail mode, and play it like that. They can take their no-fail mode and shove it. I like my game to be a game, even if it’s gimped. They just need to make their learning curve a little more curvy.
Taking the bass out of Easy might not be a bad idea, but then again, Easy is really supposed to be training for the harder level and thus introducing (on a limited basis btw) all aspects of playing the instrument.
Just because you (and me) can’t play the drums very well doesn’t mean they should cripple the game for all. :)
But I hsare your frustration.
Easy on guitar limits the number of frets for the guitar. I don’t see a difference. Plus I don’t buy the “Just because you (and me) can’t play the drums very well doesn’t mean they should cripple the game for all” bit. Easy is meant to be crippled, and in any case, people could always go up a level if they don’t like it.
In fact, I would say they could always add in a difficulty level. Easy is basically easy with no bass pedal. The current easy becomes medium. Medium becomes Hard, etc.
I really don’t buy any excuses for this issue. I’ve seen far too many people become frustrated with the drums and not want to play them anymore because of the base pedal. Whenever I have a get together, nobody ever wants to play the drums. That should not be the feeling people get from playing something on easy.
Stargate: SG1 is in my top 3 series of all time! You should totally catch up with it when theres nothing on. Sometime in seaon 3 every ep just turns awesome. Atlantis was kinda average though. Universe sounds interesting and hope its nothing like Atlantis. The ships in the SG universe always seemed cheap and prefered the series when they relied mostly on the stargate itself but im optimistic for SGU.
SG1 is one of my comfort shows. Whenever I don’t know what to watch or if I just feel sick or down I watch it. I like Atlantis too, but I enjoyed the first season the best. Right now I don’t have any expectations for Universe. I hope it’s good, but so far I don’t have my hopes up.
For the record, I didn’t think I’d like Angel, and I hated the idea of Cordy going over. That didn’t last a second after I saw the pilot.
I’d love to watch it at some point, I’ll put it at the end of the “to watch” list. I’ll let you know what I think when I get to that portion of the list in 5 years :P
SG1… I liked it the first four seasons when it would come on Fox at 5:00 on Saturdays back in the day. I still have a hard time comprehending how that show managed to last as long as it did. That’s not a slam, it just amazes me.
It was a good stand alone sci-fi show. It was never the best thing ever but it was a pretty consistently fun and engaging show.
Although, I concur, I always hated the ships in the SG universe and thought it defeated the purpose of the gate.
Hey, it wouldn’t be a geekinbox without a 5 page e-mail.
Randy says “What the crap” take a drink.
What the crap.
*gulp*
I would so play if I didn’t listen to the show at work. Of course the way things have been lately, maybe I should start carrying a flask . . .
Having problems with Chiwetel Ejiofor? We learned how to say his name back during Serenity! ;)
how did you know it was Chiwetel I was talking about?
*Snort* Wayne, replace you and your wife with me and my roommate and you had the scene at my place the other Wednesday. Right on down to me accidentally snapping the rabbit ear off. The only way we got ABC in was that I had to stand and keep my hand on the base of the antenna and watch it like that. And dammit I did out of principle.
It’s been such a bitch to get any reception with the switchover. I just bought this 30 dollar amped one at Target this morning and got it set up, though I haven’t noticed a considerable difference versus the 10 dollar cheap ones. But my building has brick exterior and plaster walls on the inside it’s always been a bitch with any signals.
*fingers crossed* Though I’ve just mastered Fox (always the easiest station to get in even before they switched) a few minutes ago, hopefully Dollhouse and Terminator watching will be tonight.
I’ve already decreed no other electronic will be allowed on in the house during 8-10 tonight. Luckily both my roommates watch the two shows as well. LOL.
i think that the visual effects of Stargate SG1 is not very impressive, perhaps they should improve it,;’