Marvel Pinball: Fantastic Four

So not too long ago Zen Studios released an add-on table to their Marvel Pinball game. The original game consists of tables for Spider-Man, Blade, Wolverine and Iron Man. This add-on welcomes the Fantastic Four in celebration of their 40th anniversary. Here's a shot of what the table looks like.

Setting aside the fact that I'm a big fan of Marvel, Zen Studios delivers great Pinball games. Based on reviews I've seen on Marvel Pinball, people are fans of their life-like physics system and how the game play feels. I like their tables because they bring you both a real physics system with animations that you couldn't get away with on a real pinball machine. They blend both worlds nicely to deliver quality pinball. I've never been good at it but I love me some pinball. Eventually I want to buy all the other creations Zen Studios have made in Zen Pinball(which happens to have a Street Fighter II table add-on that I'm dying to play). For now I'll stick to my Marvel tables. Towards the end of the month they are also releasing a Captain America table to coincide with the release of the new film. I'm looking forward to that both because it's Captain America and because I know Zen Studios will deliver another quality table. Here's the Fantastic Four table in action.
Note: Not sure why the video is cut in half. You can't see the full screen. Oh and there's multiple camera angles if you don't like how it looks there. The right side of the video is suppose to show a picture in picture type of thing of what's going on when the ball reaches the top part of the table.

The Dark Knight

O M G! So last month I had posted a blog because Stone Cold Steve Austin replied to one of my tweets. I had a grin from ear to ear. Little did I know that I'd be getting a reply from Kevin Conroy! If you're dumb enough to not know who he is he is THE voice of Batman. It all started with a tweet I sent to WWE wrestler CM Punk.

First Kevin Conroy indirectly mentioned it when he posted this tweet.

So I reply to his question and that's when Batman himself replies to me.

So this alone was enough to get me all giddy lol, I acknowledged his reply to me and what does Batman do next?

YUP! He actually retweets my reply. I was NOT expecting that. Best way to end my week! Who cares what else happens now.

Radio

Woke up this morning to find my sister watching Radio. Had been a long time since the last time I watched it so I decided why not? It didn't take me too long to realize that Ed Harris was in this movie, albeit as a much younger actor(I only know him because I had seen him in That's What I Am). Ed Harris plays a football coach and Cuba Gooding Jr plays a challenged person who is a big fan of football. Ed Harris takes in this person(who is to be known as Radio) to help around with the team. Little does Coach Jones know, Radio becomes a big part of the team and teaches everyone a thing or two about life. It's a good movie that all ages can watch. My description of the film's plot is probably very uninformative but that's ok because seeing as how it's an older film, most people have probably already watched it =P

Centurion

So after having being given a very convincing role of Magneto in X-men: First Class, last night I decided to look up more work for Michael Fassbender. Which is why I decided to watch Centurion. Film is set in AD 117 and it centers on the supposed disappearance of the Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Fassbender plays the role of a surviving member of the Roman army. He survives a guerilla attack and must warn the rest of his people. The movie can be pretty bloody during the fight scenes(and there's a few of these throughout the movie). After watching this movie I think I might be becoming a Michael Fassbender fan. Netflix has another movie of his which I can't think of the title but involves the hunger strike of Italy I think? Anyway here's the Centurion trailer.

X-men: First Class

Yet another film I didn't get to see right away. Thanks to awesome friends stuff got spoiled for me beforehand. Grrr. Anywho, it was a great movie even if some of the "first class" was changed from the comics. Eh that's nothing unusual though. Green Goblin died in Spider-Man while he's a frequent foe in the comics. In my opinion, Magneto stole the show in this movie. Michael Fassbender definitely gave a top notch performance(haha that's the first time I've ever said top notch for anything). Bill Milner also gets credit for delivering an awesome young Magneto. The X-men must face Sebastian Shaw(Kevin Bacon) of the Hellfire Club who wants to start World War III during the Cuban Missile crisis. The film being a prequel to the first X-men takes place in 1962. No trailer necessary since the film is still getting air time on TV.

Finder's Fee

So this movie is about a guy that finds a wallet in the streets with no ID. He finds a lotto ticket in the wallet but doesn't realize it's a winning ticket until after he's already contacted the owner. It's an average poker night for Tepper(Erik Palledino) and his friends consisting of Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Lillard and Dash Mihok. A wild card enters the game in Mufasa himself, James Earl Jones when he goes to pick up the wallet. I'm not posting the trailer up for it since there's some spoilers in there that take away from the movie experience while watching it. How I love Netflix lol

The Nines

So it looks like this blog is becoming a movie review section. That wasn't the intention but where else would I write about this stuff anyway haha. Anywho, so once again the name of Ryan Reynolds attracted me to a movie. This one is more of a psychological thriller type of movie. Things aren't what they seem. There's 3 interwoven stories that make up the film, the actors are pretty much the same in each story but playing different roles. Ryan Reynolds plays the role of a video game designer, a troubled actor and a TV producer. The other actors in the film plays roles relating to his current character but all manage to be tied together in the end. Here's the trailer.

Hunt To Kill

Hunt to Kill was the latest Netflix film for me. The most recognizable people in it are Stone Cold Steve Austin and Eric Roberts. Steve Austin stars as U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcee mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. The gang is led by actor Gil Bellows. I personally have never heard of him, but I liked his role. Might have to look the guy up and see what else he's been in lol. Anywho, so the movie mainly takes place in the woods and stuff. Austin turns into a Rambo-like character and is pretty much a total badass. There was a part of the movie that felt like Austin wanted to use his catchphrase "and that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!" I'll end like I usually do with the trailer.

Sony's Welcome Back Program

So thanks to hackers doing what they do, Sony decided to say Welcome Back by offering PS3/PSP users some free stuff. They allow users to pick 2 free PS3 games and 2 free PSP games from selected titles. They also give users 30 days free of PS+(existing members get more days added to their account). For the PS3 I decided to go for:

For the PSP I decided to go with:

I can't play the PSP games until I get a memory card that will hold their file size which is about 1GB each. Oh well. I'll get around to playing the rest of the stuff. I don't feel like Sony HAD to say thank you to their fans, but I'm glad they chose to do so. Free stuff is awesome.

LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean

Traveller's Tales has done it again. Their next franchise chosen was the POTC series. This game covers all 4 of the movies, Curse Of The Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, At World's End and On Stranger Tides. If you've ever played a LEGO series game then you know what to expect. Fun game with some LEGO humor. My last LEGO game was Harry Potter Years 1-4 on the PS3, before that it was Batman on DS. This time around I've only gotten a demo for the PS3 version while I played the DS version in full. It's a short game but fun non-the-less. You'll spend more time aiming to 100% everything than you will trying to beat the game. I had more fun on the PS3 version only because there's more to do within a stage and the cut scenes are longer. In the PS3, the opening scene shows Jack first arriving and when Elizabeth faints and falls off the cliff and Jack rescues her. That eventually leads to Jack hiding in Will's workshop. The DS version goes from Jack arriving to hiding in the workshop. Also I was kind of disappointed with the quality of the DS cut scenes. Especially after having seen cut scenes nicely done in Kingdom Hearts. Other than that I enjoyed it and will likely keep playing and actually attempt an 100%(which is more than I can say for Harry Potter...haven't touched it since I beat the main story).

NOTE: As of June 10th I completed this game 100%. Overall game time says 11 hours or so.

Supernatural...in anime form?

Yes, that's right. I had no idea that Supernatural was going anime. I only found out about it today and the first season is getting released in July(22 episodes). I was browsing IGN's list of upcoming blu-ray releases and came across it. Naturally I had to look it up and see what it was about. From what I understand they cover the 1st and 2nd season of the live action series. Some episodes are based on the live action while others are new to the anime itself. The episodes that don't tie to the live action version give off some back story on characters from the series or give off some info on the Winchester brother's childhood. It was interesting to me that Jared Padalecki voices his character(Sam Winchester). Jensen Ackles(Dean Winchester) had scheduling issues so from what I read he only appears in the final two episodes of the 1st season. His replacement for the show is a decent substitute that tries to play Dean as close to Ackles' voice as possible. I've seen 5 episodes of the 22 and I like it. It probably helps that I've been a Supernatural fan since day 1 though. I'm debating if I should continue with the series though. I could either finish off the season or wait for the blu-ray release and someday buy it to show support. We'll see what happens. I'll end my post with my approval picture and the DVD cover it's based on.

Stone

Although I watched this movie while it was still considered Tuesday, I write my blog now and thus have my first post of June because it's past midnight lol. Anyway so the plot of the film comes down to this: Parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Edward Norton), a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.When this movie was first announced I had wanted to see it because I like Edward Norton's acting. I've seen him in The Illusionist, The Painted Veil, The Incredible Hulk and maybe other stuff I can't think of right now. I'm convinced that this guy knows how to act. Then again that's why he's in the acting business right? Anywho, the movie was pretty good if I do say so myself, but be warned, there's boobies and baby making to be seen(if you have young ones present that might not need to be watching such things yet...put them to sleep).