Posts Tagged movies
Limited Edition… featuring me
Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Links of Others, Nerd Alert, Personal on September 22nd, 2008
(I almost wrote the subject line ‘Wearing Yellow Spandex’ but I get enough random weird search queries as it is…)
Limited Edition, the new podcast from John ‘Shuttler’ Nicholson, ex-host of TabulaCast, and his partner in crime Matt, has moved on to Episode 2 – and said episode has a brand new voice in the mix, namely me! Yes, after hearing episode one of the show I thought I could help these ‘babes in the wood’ on the subject of comics and superhero-type stuff, so I volunteered my services.
Did I completely take over? Are they regretting ever asking me to appear? Did I vent my spleen on the subject of NCsoft? Even worse, did I spill precious secrets about Issue 13??? Read the rest of this entry »
Watchmen: the countdown has started
Posted by Rockjaw in Nerd Alert, Personal on July 18th, 2008
Seven days to Comic-Con in San Diego – and 230 days until Watchmen.
With The Dark Knight in US movie theaters today (another week for us to wait here in the UK – thanks, don’t tell me) it seems about the right time to release a movie trailer for Watchmen, doesn’t it?
Go see it right now in HD over at Apple. (And thank God it isn’t hosted on Yahoo!.)
Then come on back; I’ll be waiting. Read the rest of this entry »
Got a blog?
Posted by Rockjaw in Community, MMO-related, Nerd Alert, Personal on May 22nd, 2008
Quick late night question.
Have you got a blog? Preferably one on which you talk, at least occasionally, about NCsoft games. If you do, let me know in comments; I want to add everyone’s to the links, and I don’t want to forget anybody.
Of course you realise if you do get added, I reserve the right to hassle you about posting at least once in a while….
We went on a non-official outing to go see Indiana Jones IV this afternoon – as you’ll know if you listen to Tagline. It was… good, mostly. Occasionally it was very very wrong. I’ll leave it at that.
I’m just hoping – praying, really – that the offhand quip I made after leaving Iron Man “Well, it’s only downhill from here” doesn’t come true for the rest of the summer movies.
New podcast (or two)
Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others, MMO-related, Personal, Pimpin' on May 22nd, 2008
Episode 2.5 of the Official NCE Podcast is now online for you to listen to, download as an MP3, or even subscribe to in your favourite RSS reader (now including iTunes). Tell ‘em I sent you.
Wait; that’d be telling me I sent you, so… don’t.
This installment is mostly left-over material from the MiniCon, including a long chat between Alex ‘GhostRaptor’ Weekes and I about Task Force: Omega, and a fun get-together between Alex, some random players and Aero just gabbing about the weekend in general. P’raps you’re in there.
On the flip side, if you can handle a non-BBFC-approved 18-rated podcast about movies, you can go listen to Tagline – the irreverent, infrequent podcast my bro and I put together. I’ve had two people tell me the latest episode was “funny” in the last two days, and only one of them was my wife, so I’d take that as a recommendation.
Iron Man and a grand theft of your time
Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, MMO-related on May 5th, 2008
I found it interesting to read more than a few worried comments last week from movie commentators and analysts that Grand Theft Auto IV might actually affect the box office performance of Iron Man, given that GTA IV came out a few days ahead of Iron Man’s release, and that both of them are ostensibly aimed at the same audience.
With a nice round $100m opening weekend for Marvel’s first self-financed blockbuster, it’s fair to say that those predictions were absolutely bogus, although I never thought for a minute that GTA IV would do Iron Man any damage – and nor did the vice chairman of the studio releasing Iron Man, either:
”It’s crazy to think that young males can’t carve out two hours for Iron Man. It’s going to be a great week to be a young guy.”
Or even, erm, a not-so-young guy; this week has been a riot of new entertainment for me, between queuing for GTA IV outside Woolworths on Tuesday (Yep, there was a queue!) and sitting with my over-excited colleagues during Iron Man’s opening night. The idea that any of us were going to miss Iron Man to sit at home and play GTA IV was insane, even though I’m pretty sure every single one of us who saw the movie that night went home and played GTA IV afterwards. Read the rest of this entry »
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