Friday, June 12, 2009

Quick Hit Reviews

- Atlas Shrugged: I liked the first 1050 pages, and hated the last 15. It's hard to argue against objectivism...but I'm still kinda-sorta trying. 4/5

- Man in the Dark: The first Auster novel I've read without cursing the author's name....but I liked it anyway. 3/5

- Traitor. I liked the story and I liked Don Cheadle. 4/5

- Up. I was more impressed by the 3D than I was by the movie. It was good, but not Toy Story good. 3/5

- Synecdoche, New York. Fucked up movie. I'm still confused. This movie either gets a 5/5 or a 2/5, I haven't made up my mind yet. (so why include it for review? Shut up.)

- Okami. Nice little RPG. It reminded me a lot of Zelda, but Zelda was better. 3/5

- de Blob. Paint the world! It was fun, but too easy. It needs more challenging puzzles. 3/5

- Need for Speed: Carbon. I'm way behind in the NFS series, but this is still a fun racer. It has online play in the Xbox/Playstation versions, but not the Wii. Boo. 4/5.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, I've heard of a few of these =).

Out of curiousity...what's your Wii collection up to? Can you name them off the top of your head? Maybe the 5 or so most recent purchases?

Kevin said...

5 most recent would be:
NFS Carbon
deBlob
Okami
Guitar Hero World Tour
and I don't know. Mario Kart Wii maybe? Either Mario Kart or SSBB.

I have 18 Wii games total.

Kevin said...

Guess which category of media I have the most of:
movies
books
games (nintendo and PC combined)
music (total # of downloaded songs divided by 15, plus # of CDs)

Anonymous said...

I'll guess...

1. Movies
2. Books
3. Music
4. Games

Kevin said...

The final totals are:
music - 142
movies - 106
books - 79
games - 43

Hmm....I thought the totals would have been closer together.

I have almost 2000 songs downloaded. I didn't realize I had accumulated that many.

I have too much stuff...but I'm going to go collect more...

Anonymous said...

Too much stuff? I think your totals are probably comparable to the average 26 year old.

My list is...
1. Music
2. Books
3. Games
4. Movies

I don't even need to count to make sure =).