Recent content by KevinR1990

Great video, Jim, but one thing that I'm surprised wasn't brought up, by you or the other posters here: The term "whale" comes from Las Vegas, and is another word for "high roller" -- i.e. somebody, often very wealthy, who drops huge amounts of money, often in the tens or hundreds of...

Microsoft's whole disaster with Windows 8 reminds me of a similar boondoggle from the military-industrial complex back in the '50s and '60s. For some reason, the US military wanted to replace their submachine guns, battle rifles, light machine guns, and marksman rifles with a single standard...

"Not very good" was kind of an understatement. I dedicated a whole review here [http://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2013/06/review-world-war-z-2013.html] to dissecting why this film fails not as an adaptation, but as a movie on its own merits. I really wanted to keep any of my fanboyism of...

Okay, I'm usually content to lurk, but I feel compelled to voice my opinion on this. The advertising for this game did a terrible job of portraying Lara Croft. Every review I have read suggests that, by halfway through the game, Lara is back to being the badass heroine that we know and love...

You know you live in central Florida when a walkable downtown area is Universal CityWalk. You know you live in Florida when you have a beach in your backyard.

Best book I've read for school is a draw between Orwell's Animal Farm, Huxley's Brave New World and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Those are the books that stand out to me the most right now. Noticing a bit of a trend? Counting books that weren't required, but which I wrote papers or...

Regarding the Bourne movies and shaky-cam, I've gotten several hints from watching Bob's reviews that he didn't particularly care for that series. For instance, his statement about Hanna being "proof that the Bourne movies would've been better if you'd replaced Matt Damon with a little girl."...

Everything you said reminds me of the problem that many "art films" face. Rather than try to tell a compelling narrative, too many of them just try to come off as having some sort of deeper meaning, with symbolism out the wazoo yet little understanding of what those symbols actually mean. The...

Yeah, this looks fake. Don't understand why there's any controversy over it. It's disgusting, sure, but anyone with half a brain should've guessed that this wasn't real the moment they saw the "AO Adults Only" label on it. This is something that someone probably made as a sick joke with their...

Guy 1: "I'm grabbin' another beer, you want one?" Guy 2: "Yeah, sure." Guy 1: "I'll be right back!" (Cookies for whoever gets that reference. Hint: Guy 1 violated two of the three rules in just two sentences.) "It's probably nothing." "It's just a cat." "Yo, word up, dawg!" "I...

I've got a good source for anyone who wants to do more research on this (including Bob, if need be): TV Tropes: History of Hollywood Yeah, it's TV Tropes, but it basically covers everything that Bob's going over concisely and clearly, along with everything else that he couldn't fit into a...

Angry Birds is a game where you use a slingshot to fling birds at structures in order to kill the pigs who have stolen the birds' eggs. Different birds have different powers; there's your basic red birds, your fast yellow birds that can smash through more walls, your explosive black birds, etc...

Bob, normally I trust your reviews, but this is where I have to fundamentally disagree with you. You hate the Scream movies because you feel that their success somehow harmed your life, ruining your uniqueness as "the movie guy", and you hate the '90s for their smug irony. Well, I was born in...

Idea #1: Two Vaults. One of them is populated by evangelical Christian families, and the other is populated by secular atheist/agnostic families. Education and entertainment in the Vaults is tailored to each group. The Christian Vault's entertainment choices are tilted towards Christian movies...

The problem with most of these ideas is that they, as TV Tropes calls it, "cross the line twice." They cross it the first time by being utterly tasteless, then they cross it again by being so tasteless that they're no longer offensive but, rather, hilarious, even for those people who should be...