Law Abiding Citizen is a movie about a dude who something terrible happens to and the person responsible gets away with it due to what he thinks is a poor judicial system. He then gets thrown in jail and terrifies those who worked on the case of the terrible thing that happened in order to prove to the world how flawed the system is. (I know this seems a little spoilery, but this is basically all shown in the trailer)

The movie is a fantastic ride and is all around fun. The most fun is had with the element of wit. The movie is for anyone that likes movies such as Inside Man or Memento. Its full of plot twists and Gerard Butler’s character just seeming like the smartest man alive. In this respect, the movie is awesome.

The only problem that I have with the movie is that the first 30 minutes or so is fully devoted to Gerard Butler’s character locking himself in prison to prove that our judicial system is screwed up. But after that 30 minute or so mark, he stops trying to prove that and is pretty much just killing everyone that let the guy go that did the terrible thing (sorry, don’t want to spoil it). I would have been fine with this, but if they stuck with it the whole movie. Theres too much of a conflicting message. Its more obvious when towards the end of the movie Jamie Foxx’s character is trying to convince Gerard Butler’s character to stop, but Gerard says, “You still don’t get it!” I was excited at this point, because I thought the end of the movie would reveal a crazy plot twist of which makes the whole screwed up judicial system message come back and make complete sense. Well that didn’t happen. There was a crazy plot twist, but the movie never came back to the original message it was trying to convey. And no, it wasn’t something that just went over my head…

Conclusion

This movie is still worth seeing. If you are the type of person that only sees a few movies a year in theaters, then you might want to wait for this to come to DVD, but then definitely see it. For everyone else though, I’d still suggest seeing it. It’s a fun movie.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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I will be writing a review for each game as the days goes by, one game a day, starting tomorrow. I will update this page with scores and links to each review.

Sportacular lets you see up-to-the-minute scores for games in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and more, and it presents the scores in an average, but well manner. So Sportacular is a good score-checking app. But what makes it awesome is the push notification support.

You can subscribe to updates for a particular team or game, and within that team or game you can specify whether you want to be notified about when a game is starting soon, when the game does start, when the score changes and what the score is, what the score after each period is, or what the score is at the end of the game. I simply chose to know the score at the end of each NFL game because anything else would be too much, but if you are a huge fan for any sports team then it would certainly be ideal to have the score changing alert on for that team; definitely a great thing to have if you aren’t near a TV.

Conclusion

Sportacular is a good app to see scores, but a must-have app for getting alerts for scores. If you at work or on the go and trying to keep track of the game your favorite team is playing or even if you are at home watching a game but want to be up to date on all games, then this is the app for you. So by that I mean, if you watch sports at all and have an iPhone then you must get this app. There is a free version and a $3 version, but the only difference is ads. So if the ads don’t bother you then the free version is perfectly acceptable.

Scribblenauts is the most ambitious game on the DS to date. It is a puzzle game where you type in an object/person/thing on a keyboard which puts that object/person/thing on screen to solve puzzles. And it literally has everything you can think of from a shoe to keyboard cat. You can type in any non-proper noun that isn’t copy written or vulgar. Out of around 100 things that I typed in, maybe 2 of them didn’t work.

You also play as a kid displayed on screen. So one level has you, a tree, and a lumberjack on screen, and the game tells you to help the lumberjack do his job to win the level. So you can give yourself an axe or saw to cut the tree down, or you can give either of them to the lumberjack for him to do it, or you can make fire and burn the tree down, or you can make a woodpecker who will chop the tree down; and there are probably many, many other ways to go about it.

That is what I love about this game. The most fun of the game is just to think of the most creative thing you can think of to solve the puzzle, and the game encourages it by giving you awards for thinking outside the box.

I once had to get the starite (what you need to win the level) which was in a very small space that I couldn’t fit into. So in order to get it, I created a ‘guy’ and gave him a shrink ray. But I couldn’t get him to shoot me, so I gave myself a gun and shot him, which made him freak out and start shooting me. Upon doing this, I fell down a cliff and had to get back up, so I made a jetpack. But since I was shrunkin, the jetpack was too big for me to use. So I had to walk behind the jetpack and make the ‘guy’ shoot the jetpack with the shrinkray so I could use it. Then I got the star.

On another level, I had to get something to push and hold down a horizontal button. You can’t issue commands, so what I did was put a girl inside of a car, and then I put a zombie behind her car. The girl then start driving the car into the button trying to get away from the zombie.

So the bottom line is that you need to get this game if you have a DS. Melissa seemed to like it too, so it’s good for those people trying get their girlfriends to play games too I guess. I have also seen on message boards that apparently if you buy the game at Toys R Us on Tuesday (Tuesday only!), you get a $15 gift card back, which makes the game pretty much half price.

Scribblenauts releases on Tuesday, September 15th. Buy it!

The start of the episode was pretty dry for me. It made me feel like the rest of the season is going to be about how Dexter has to cope with his life job and having a baby, which is pretty boring. Then the serial killer stuff comes back into play, and I’m honestly still feeling like it’s still a little dry, but it’s almost there. About halfway through the episode though, the suspense starts to kick in. The classic Dexter that keeps you at the edge of your seat the whole episode. I was hooked again, especially after a major cliffhanger at the end of the episode.

But there is still one huge thing missing from the show that I simply adored about the first season, being the reason that the first season of Dexter is one of the best seasons of television to me. In this episode of Dexter, you really don’t feel for little ol’ Dexter. The episode definitely revolved around him, but there was really nothing to like about him. Much of the greatness of Dexter is that you love him so much that when the suspense kicks in, it really grabs you. But this episode pretty much just showed me Dexter making a bunch of poor decisions, bringing him into some bad corners. It doesn’t show you the inner workings of Dexter; you don’t know him.

The episode started out slow, but quickly kicked into gear about halfway through, bringing back the suspense that keeps you hooked to the show. But I still would like them to emotionally bring the viewers closer to Dexter again. I want to know Dexter, not just watch him do things. So I have hope that maybe this episode was building up and the best is yet to come.

“Living the Dream” premieres Sunday 9/27 on Showtime at 8pm.

The game is just a basic twin-stick shooter (you control a character with an overhead view and can shoot in any direction) where you kill waves of zombies (and other weird things) that come at you. It a very simple game, not much to it. But the presentation is great. I saw another review describe the presentation as looking like something Adult Swim would do. You basically have a set number of lives and just get as far as you can in the game to get a high score. The game also has 4 player co-op, which every zombie game should have.

What I read about the theme song to this game is so true. It’s fantastic and is definitely something I would do myself. What is even cooler is that the background to the game goes along with the music (lights and stuff). I’m pretty curious to see if the game even ends when the song ends or if it just repeats. I just wouldn’t think it would repeat, but I may never know since the song was still going when I died.

The bottom line is that you should buy this game right now. It’s only $1. I’m actually pretty sure the demo is exactly the same as the full game, but who care? It’s $1 and you should support the developers.

The presentation of this game is gorgeous. All of the stages they play at, including the famous rooftop last concert, are replicated (I would imagine) perfectly in the game. As I previously said, I’m not a huge Beatles fan; but this game seems to capture the essence of Beatle Mania perfectly. It is definitely clear that much more thought was put into the presentation of this game than any of the other Guitar Hero or Roc Band games, even the single bands ones out already such as the Aerosmith and Metallica games. And when you play the stages where the Beatles are in the studio, they are transported into crazy worlds relating to the song/album covers that just spectacular.

Well that’s what I like about the game. What I don’t like is that I went through the entire story mode (all of the songs) and now I feel A LOT less like I want to play the game; like a lot more than other music games. I feel like I beat it in 3 or 4 hours and theres no need to play any more. And I don’t know why. Well part of it has to do with 90% of the achievements being absolutely impossible. Most of them consist of getting 100% on songs on expert. When will developers realize that getting 100% on a song in a music game in near impossible? Plastic instruments don’t work like they are supposed to, ever, no matter how good the person playing it is.

I also really don’t know as many of the songs as I thought I would. Any Beatles fan will clearly know every single song on here. But the average person will know probably 60% of them; and the average person will probably know all of the vocals of about 20% of the songs. In my opinion at least.

So all in all, I would recommend any Beatles and music game fan (or maybe just Beatles fan?) to go out and buy this game now. But any mediocre Beatles fan and music game fan should wait until the price drops. I really wish I did. I can’t see myself playing this game long term, but it’ll surely keep me occupied for a couple weeks. And it’s worth $20 just to see the awesome visuals of this game.

It is just like the old Space Invaders where you continue through levels to get a high score, except as you progress through each level, it “evolves” to add basically more/different stuff on the screen. I think they were going for the gameplay evolving on each level, but it really doesn’t. The controls are that the ship that fires moves where ever your finger is on the screen (from left to right) and it is constantly shooting, which I feel really was the best approach for the platform.

This game isn’t terrible, I guess. But it really couldn’t keep my nor Melissa’s (a non-gamer) attention for more than even a minute. It’s just not good at all. Also, I really hate the graphics. As you can see in the pics above, it looks like a 10 year old programmed these graphic. Yucky.

Okay it wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t a good movie. I wouldn’t pay to see it, not even a $1 at the Redbox when it comes out on DVD. And what makes me so mad is that it should have been good. So many big actors, it was directly by Ang Lee, the music was by freakin’ Danny Elfman.

Some parts had probably the worst acting I’ve ever seen, some parts made no sense towards the main plot of the movie and really had no right to be there, and the rest was just sooo slow. The first probably 45 minutes of the movie is just leading up to the festival actually happening. And it is a loooong 45 minutes, with nothing really happening. The other half of the movie was kind of okay during most of it, but still with some parts really making no sense and I wish weren’t there. Nothing even really happened in the movie. I did get some joy though out of knowing this was a true story and that Woodstock happened this way, but even then I don’t know what was real and what was made up for the movie.

Sooo… Don’t see this movie, k?



And yeah and theres a whole lot of nudity in this movie, but not like sexy nudity. More like weird/gross nudity.