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[Movie] Ninja Assassin

May 27th, 2010

There’s always something fun about going to see a film that has received and almost complete critical slamming. There have been one star reviews galore for Ninja Assassin, but I thought I’d go for it anyway. I mean, this is a film from James McTeigue. He. for the uneducated, was assistant director on the Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars Episode 2, and made his directorial debut in 2006 with one of the better film adaptations of a comic book, the unforgettable V for Vendetta.

With my hopes of a resurrection of true narrative cinema gold crushed before I even entered the cinema, and having seen the trailers, I sat ready to be bored to death and be bathed in CGI blood. The second part happened, the first however, didn’t go as I had expected.
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[Movie] The Wolfman

May 26th, 2010

Horror, horror, horror. I am a bit of a horror film fan, and recently I seem to be reviewing quite a few of them. Clearly this is the year to be scared by my blog, and not just for the poor writing. Today shall be no different, bad writing, and a horror movie. This time it is a remake of sorts of the 1940s film The Wolf Man, this is The Wolfman.

The space in the title isn’t the only change here. Whilst the original was much more of an internal conflict, a man battling to come to terms with his new existence as a werewolf, this film is much more of an external battle. The on-screen transformation is also seen much earlier in the film this time round, be that because they can with technology, or to hold the attention of a modern audience is up for debate.

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Videogames are Art?

May 18th, 2010

The idea that video games are art has been debated many times before, the same way that “film as art” was debated before someone decided “you know what, just let the film-guys have it, I don’t care.” The same probably applied to some literary works, as it undoubtedly did to music and painting, art is subjective, and eventually if you hang on long enough people just don’t care.

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[GTPBYD] Theme Hospital

April 7th, 2010

We asked writers, contributors and friends of MOREtotheGAME to write an article detailing a game they think everyone should play before they die, and why. These are what happened…

Theme Hospital

Hello you lovely people. This is some sort of section where the silly people here at MTTG tell you to play some sort of game before you die. Because I was asked nicely, I agreed to join in. Anyone with any sense will have probably already read this on my blog, but hey, it’s here now, so here you go. My contribution: Theme Hospital.

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[Movie] Kick-Ass

March 27th, 2010

It’s getting harder and harder to be surprised by a good comic book movie. For every Spider-Man 3 and Wolverine Origins we have a Watchmen and a 300. Ghost Rider was bad, but we got Sin City. Fantastic Four? Wanted? Tim Burton’s Batman? I will show you… no, I’ve run out of ideas… But the point is we are getting more and more good comic adaptations, and now we have Kick-Ass.

You can’t really talk about a comic adaptation without first mentioning the comic, and let’s be honest, as a comic guy as well as a film guy I’m not going to pass up the chance to say quite how much I love Mark Miller and Kick-Ass. I’m not a massive fan of many super-hero comics now. Batman seems to have gone down hill since Batman R.I.P., The Green Lantern isn’t bad but I’ve kind of drifted away from it, I was never really in to Superman or Spider-man and the less said about the X-Men and Wolverine the better. I do, however, love Walking Dead, I’m catching Chew as it comes out in TPB form and doing the same with The Boys. I’ve been picking up the new Green Hornet run that’s started with Kevin Smith and Matt Wagner, and when I saw Mark Miller’s name on the cover of something called “Kick-Ass” I thought I owed Mark a chance to show me something great. And he did.