Recent content by The Jack of Spades

I think that part of the problem is that "bullet time" has been completely played out. When The Matrix was first released, bullet time was relatively new, though it wasn't totally original, and The Matrix used it to better effect than anyone else. Unfortunately, in the video games industry...

Nope, I'm part of the notoriously recession proof United States Marine Corps. For another two years, anyway. Tick...tock... Is it over yet?

New profile, although I've been coming to this website for over a year now. The Sci-Fi Dune mini series was much better than the movie, but that's an awfully low standard to meet anyway. Baron Harkonnen was much better portrayed, but Paul Atredies was a whiny little *****. They did follow it...

Yes, as I stated, I did read the book, in the hopes that it would be better than the movie. Sadly, it was just as bad. Choke was a much better book, IMHO, but the movie was as terrible as Fight Club.

"In regards to Dune: Am I the only person disappointed that the original Dune film wasn't made? The one with set design by H.R.Giger (of Alien design fame) music by Pink Floyd and with the main villain played by Salvador Dali with a fee the size of most film budgets (and for an hours work a...

Doom 2, when I was eleven or twelve.

I tried the book. Sometimes great books make lousy movies (I'm looking at you, 'Dune') but unfortunately not this time. As far as the 'point' of the movie...I didn't miss the point, I just thought it was silly, cliche, utterly bland, overdone, and mind bogglingly stupid. "Bloodsport" could...

Fight Club. Worst. Movie. Ever. I went into that movie expecting a spiritual sequel to 'Bloodsport', and it was just a bunch of shitty pre-teen emo angst. Tyler Durden was pretty much just the goth kids from South Park. "Modern consumer culture had made everyone a bunch of conformists. We aren't...