Showing posts with label Gears of War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gears of War. Show all posts

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Call of Duty: WWII (Reveal Trailer)

From Sledgehammer Games comes the next installment to the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: WWII.

I for one am excited to see the franchise heading back towards its roots and stop competing with the likes of Halo or Gears of War (granted Battlefield's last installment took us back to World War I).

While watching the reveal trailer (shown above) I almost forgot that this was for a video game and not a live action film.

Look for Call of Duty: WWII to land November 2017.

-GJ

Sunday, July 3, 2011

A.F.A.

Action Figures Anonymous


I do think that I have a problem; Everytime I go out now it seems that I can't help myself but to buy a new action figure.


Oh who am I kidding I don't even have to go out to buy action figures; I spend a lot and I mean a lot of time on this little known website called eBay (ever heard of it?).

Sometimes it's just too hard to lay off when you find a figure for just $3.

(Could you resist at $3?)


I'm also not biased into what kind of action figures I'm buying, I'll collect anything that looks awesome to me. I have a lot of Star Wars (over 300 figures), a couple of video game figures (Halo, Gears of War), and some from Japanese anime (Gundams mainly).

There was a time when I use to display my Star Wars figures around the house, but then I realized that this is just getting a little too out of hand...

(I have since boxed all of these)


Can one ever have too many action figures? I'm going with no, fore I still want...


And there are probably hundreds more on eBay.

I just can't seem to help myself, but as long as the bills are paid at the end of the month, I think it's alright to indulge one's self from time to time.

-GJ

Monday, June 6, 2011

Monday, February 9, 2009

Economy May Hurt Sci-Fi Entertainment

Okay so let's cut the scope of this article down to futuristic space operas/dramas are in trouble. (Science Fiction as a whole will be fine, mostly because of the sub-genres Horror and Fantasy.)

We all know it is very expensive to produce a TV show; sets have to be built, writers and actors to be paid, and advertising to be performed to draw a crowd. Unfortunately it costs a lot more to do a Science Fiction show based in outer space or in the future, because besides the normal sets (which are more extensive in themselves), a lot of computer graphics also come into play and that's where a lot of money ends up being spent.

Even before the economy down slide studios were cutting these shows because of cost. Some prime examples are Dark Angel, Space Above And Beyond, Futurama, and our favorite show all time FIREFLY.


Now unfortunately even shows that have made it two, three, even five years are looking at an end. Battlestar Galactica is in its final season, there are currently no new Star Trek TV series, and though FOX hasn't admitted it just yet, we are probably seeing the final season of The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

The only gleam of hope at the moment for this brand of entertainment is the upcoming Stargate Universe series that will be airing on the SciFi Channel.

The effects of the economy are not only affecting the small screen, but the silver screen as well. As studios look into what should be cut back it's almost a guarantee that space operas are to be dropped, just for the simple fact that they do not produce the same results stupid fart joke movies do.

The much anticipated Halo movie has already become one such casualty in this time of economic crisis, and thus lays the foundation of many other movies to be shelved.


But we can always hope for a huge economic surge towards the better, one that will allow studios to go ahead with plans to make those shelved movies, someday we may yet get our Halo, along with others like Gears of War, Robotech, or any other space opera our minds can imagine.

And here's hoping. -GJ

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Worst Movie EVER!!

RECON 2022: The Mezzo Incident

First let's begin by saying "DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON THIS MOVIE." This movie will take away 96 minutes, that's its run time, of your life that you could have wasted playing Gears Of War and eating Cheetos.

The story, set not too far into the future, puts mankind at war with an alien race known as the Ma'har, whom man has never laid eyes on; apparently all of our fighting has been against cyborgs. A team of soldiers is sent to an ice planet called Mezzo, where they are to locate and destroy a facility that is believed to be run by the Ma'har, but turns out to be an underground cyborg facility.

This movie offers nothing but terrible acting by a bunch of no names, who will remain that way doing crap like this, hundreds of bad sex jokes, and a soft porn soundtrack that simply doesn't belong.

For a group of so called top notch marines, you wonder how they ever survived basic training.



Examples:

1. They fire at an aircraft for about ten minutes using their standard automatic weapons when they have a rocket launcher.
2. When they prepare to snipe three cyborgs they don't just shoot them but decide to have two of the four remaining team members run in the open to draw their fire. WHY?
3. They pretty much repeat number two here except they use a different weapon to take out the cyborgs. (Side Note: They also used the exact same scene of the two marines running in the open.)
4. When there is cover, they never use it. In fact most gun fights involve everyone standing in the open shooting and shooting and shooting, and no results. Two minutes later a cyborg will fall.

Here's the really bad news. This is movie number two of at least three. Someone has way too much money and free time on their hands if they actually think people want three of these terrible movies.

We have no true rating system here at junkyard, but let us just say this;

No stars, 0 / 5, and we couldn't even bring ourselves to give this to our worst enemy. - GJ

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Choose Your Weapon

The Science Fiction genre has offered us some of the greatest weaponry known to man and alien; everything from phasers to lightsabers, rail-guns to Death Stars.

But the time is now to choose your favorite. Any weapon of your choice; be it from a movie, TV show, anime, or video game, the choice is now yours.

Our Winner:




LANCER


Gears of War

Not only does this weapon offer us that big bad@$$ gun feel, but it’s got a chainsaw on the front of it that opens up a whole new gory world. Plain old melee attacks will just never be the same.