Finally just saw the Italian Job as part of my Edward Norton collection. Really cool seeing him as a typical action movie villain. It actually had one of my favourite casts of any movie I've seen. Not quite Ocean's caliber but very good. Laughed my head off when Seth Green was imitating Statham's character. "Ello, I'm 'andsome Rob. An you are?" I was relieved to find out that Mark Wahlberg didn't always suck, just a one-time thing with The Happening.

The Mummy 3 comes out on DVD on Tuesday, which means I have it at home now. I saw it in theatres, as well. It's actually really good and felt like an important installment in that franchise. A very good closer (although I'm totally up for a new series featuring Alex). There are a few jokes that fall flat and it suffers from the recast from Weisz to Bello. Even though Bello did everything perfect and had the role right, recasting really hurts the continuity of a series. Even if the replacement is better. I'm expecting the same thing from Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. I like him much better than Terrence Howard, and I think he's a far better actor but it just won't be right. The same with Katie in Dark Knight. I really missed her. Maggie Gyllenhall just, isn't that great. Katie is.

Next on my Norton list is The Score I think. Robert DeNiro as a retired theif teaching Norton the tricks of the trade. Sounds great. Marlon Brando in there too. Can't lose.

Add to the collection, the following:

Keeping the Faith
Primal Fear
American History X

25th Hour
The Score
Italian Job

I've seen the first three, haven't yet watched the last three. Keeping the Faith was well acted and directed, especially for a romantic comedy. Primal Fear, his first role ever is very good, espeicially watching him act circles around everyone else in the movie, considering it was his first role. American History X must be watched. Anyone who's seen it will agree with me.

Has all the excitement of the first and second, without a ridiculous 'save the world from a virus' plot (lol Transporter 2) and no in-your-face CGI (lol Transporter 2). Just really, really entertaining. Very funny. My favourite of the three, narrowly. My only real issue was the shaky camera in the fight scenes. They were choreographed fine, but the quick-editing style isn't as cool to watch as the long, wide shots they used in the first two films.

Definitely see it, as long as you like action movies. Don't need to have seen the first two.

Could Starkiller react ANY slower to getting knocked down? I don't think so. I can mash any and all buttons after getting knocked down, but he lays still for a moment THEN slowly jumps back on his feet THEN has a period where he won't move. It's all in the course of 2-4 seconds but it's precious time in this game.

Another not so big problem I have is the bosses. They're interesting, exciting, and cool. And they're difficult as well, which is normally great, but they're difficult for the wrong reasons. They're not difficult because they react well to you're movement and attacks, or because they are particularly powerful. They're difficult because they spam the shit out of force push and ignore most saber combos. Not cool.

It's sad because other than the difficulty created by those two things and being on hard mode, this is perhaps my favourite game EVER. It's just them that are kinda holding it back.

Final Fantasy VIII's last secret boss is giving me trouble. I'm thinking I'm going to skip him and give him another try on my next file, in which I'll be grinding to level 100. That means he'll have about 1.6 million HP but... it'll be for the best I think.

And it's time for another Incredible Hulk post. I just bought the 3-Disc special edition. I haven't yet watched the bonus featurettes but I checked out the deleted scenes and I'm surprised they weren't included. Some of them had a silly line or two, but had some good background info on Bruce and his life in Brazil before the beginning of the movie. I also need more Tim Roth, he's way too hardcore. Anyone could have taken his role in Funny Games, or maybe Even Money, but not here. I really know they could have done better than Liv Tyler though. Hollywood needs to learn that she is NOT very attractive and not a great actress. She killed in Lord of the Rings, but just about anyone could have done it better.

I'm beginning my Edward Norton movie collection as well. So far I can get everything he's an actor in on his IMDB page except that straight-to-video from the 90's, but I don't really care about that anyways. As far as I'm concerned his first role was Primal Fear. On deck for purchase are: Primal Fear, The Score, The Illusionist and The Italian Job. The rest are on order except an old Woody Allen film which goes for about 50 dollars online, and that's used! So...that one will be a little while.

Also I've got my eye on a model of Squall's pendant from FF8 on eBay. It's from Square-Enix's store, but they don't ship to Canada so I need to do it this way. Sterling silver on the pendant and a leather rope for the lace. About 140 dollars.... but my god, it's my precious.

One of the big deals for me is the script writing. I don't mean dialogue, but plot and backstory. Plenty of movie series' (that don't have established scripts) have sequels that clearly establish themselves as taking part after what happened before, but since part 3 I've been blown away by how each original story and character meshes with the earlier ones, when they weren't planned ahead of time. It's really making me view this as a complete saga, instead of just a run-on series.

Clearly, I've recently seen part 5 and I left very happy. The trap in the introduction wasn't that interesting, I found, or at least didn't live up to Saw 4's incredible opening trap. The most common criticism  towards these movies (besides how many there are, which is and idiotic thing to complain about) is their similarities. The casual viewers say "they're all the same, people work together, try to survive trap, die, the end". It's hilarious, really, since the real point of the movies goes right past them... oh well.

I'm really excited for Saw 6 (hopefully still slated for next Halloween) and apparently, if things go well, a seventh will be written to tie off the series. You may say too many, but after the last, I'll be upset. If they announced to be going to twenty I'd die from excitement. Can't have too much of a good thing. If the quality doesn't dip, then why not? :)

I updated mine to have 30 songs now.... and I use it while I'm surfing the site so I dont have to be running WMP, but it would be nice if other people enjoyed it. I can't see anyone sitting there surfing a little flash player, but who knows?

If you have one - do you get comments or anything on it? Do you use it yourself?
If you dont - would you get one? Why not if no?

I don't know what to expect, except awesomeness. I'm fairly sure I won't be disappointed.

My runner-up is Guitar Hero. What's funny is that I never liked music games. But Wii Music looks spiffy, and Guitar Hero has BFMV so.... well that's all it takes to get me on board.