Star Trek Voyager

One of my plans for the next year (I know, this is lame) is to watch Star Trek Voyager. This is the only Star Trek series where I have not watched every episode. I seriously disliked voyager while it was on the air. It started out quite strong (my opinion at the time was that it had one of the strongest first seasons of all the Star Treks), but got seriously lame as the seasons went on. I re-watched a bit of the first season a few years ago, and realised that it wasn't as good as I remembered it.

I really don't understand the people who actually like Voyager. In my opinion, it's the crappiest Star Trek. In fact, most people agree with me (except those who hate Enterprise despite never watching more than the first 3 episodes. Seriously, that series got GOOD, especially by the 4th season, which was awesome but unfortunately too little too late ratings-wise).

Regardless, I've decided to watch Voyager objectively and keep an open mind. I'm on the 3rd episode, and my original opinion apparently stands, this isn't bad. Not great, but how many Star Treks had a great first season (try re-watching 1st season of TNG, I dare you). I look forward to this, I think, though I'll see how it gets.

Stumbled Upon An Awesome Evening

So, I've been using SumbleUpon in recent months and rather enjoying it. I have to admit, 80% of sites I stumble are either dumb, or not interesting or important to me, but sometimes you find some real gems. For instance, this evening I came across some advice for finding drivers of unknown hardware devices. You see, I brought a cheap computer a month ago to replace my one dead server and as it came with no operating system, I had to find drivers for a bunch of stuff. Now, I'm no expert at this, but after a fair bit of searching, I still couldn't find one for the onboard video card. While I didn't need the driver, as I usually remote desktop on to it when I need, it just annoyed me. So, this site happily taught me something I didn't know and got me the driver I needed.

To follow it up, I stumbled another site, that pretty much summed up my opinion of the latest Indiana Jones movie, and my life sans-cellphone. I'm fairly happy.

On Monsters and Jesus

I was sent this video by my friend Daniel who insisted that I post it.
This is a list of the top 10 movie monsters, as chosen by some guy on you tube.

Daniel has never seen a Gamera movie, and had never even heard of him before watching this. He really wants to watch one now, so I'll have to provide one for him.

While watching it, I recognized the voice, so I looked at the name of the poster. It's the Angry Video Game Nerd! Awesome! This guy, in case you've never seen one of his videos, posts reviews of old and incredibly sucky video games. The first I saw was his review of several bible games for the NES.

For more sucky games, I've also seen this video about the Atari ET game, which I have played long ago...and yes, it does suck hardcore.

Anyhow Daniel, it's posted.

Dungeon Siege sounds great...in a bad way.

After reading a review of the new Dungeon Siege movie, I've decided that I want to see it.

Now, I never played the game much, or really understood any obsessions over it, and the movie based off of it looks just horrible. But, after reading this review, it sounds horrible in a funny, b-movie way.

Just read this, the movie sounds like absolute trash, but trash that you could enjoy if you go in expecting trash. I saw the Dungeons and Dragons movie, and it was bad, really bad. But it actually pretty fun to watch and make fun of. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to pay to see this movie, but I plan on watching it for free someday. Matthew Lillard afterall is awesome.

The review from the metro:

Like Uwe Boll’s previous films, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is based on a video game. It has many action sequences, most of which are shot with swirling cameras. It has an eclectic cast, including several real actors who pop up because they were available to shoot in Vancouver for a few days. And, in what’s becoming a Boll signature, its female cast members wear low-cut tops, even when they probably shouldn’t.

The good news is that In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is probably Boll’s best picture to date. (I haven’t seen the still-unreleased Postal.) That’s still not saying much; most of it is laughably silly, hammily acted and slightly demented, the work of a man who thinks the Lord Of The Rings movies would have been a lot better if they’d had ninjas as well as Orcs.

In the Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale thus follows a Tolkienesque warrior’s quest in which a humble farmer (Jason Statham) battles the evil, village-burning raiders who have abducted his wife (Claire Forlani) and soon finds himself fighting alongside his king (Burt Reynolds!) for the future of their land.

It’s the villains who provide the movie with its best moments, because they’re played by actors who know precisely what kind of trash they’re stuck inside. Matthew Lillard, channelling John Malkovich, and Ray Liotta, channelling a drunk and coked-up Ray Liotta, have a grand old time chewing whatever scenery and dialogue comes their way.

Where Statham’s scenes plod through their solemn paces, Lillard and Liotta’s bounce with antic, idiot glee — enough to make you wish Boll had decided to feature them as the central characters. Here’s hoping they land a prequel deal.