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What about Little Nicky? I thought his cameo was hilarious.

There ya go: Harry Knowles' review at AICN The anime is done by Production IG. Those of you who are unimpressed with the trailer should know that all the blood has been digitally removed for the trailer.

Is that what you think it is? Just something that's wannabe Azn to look cool? Uma and Tarantino have been working on this film since they filmed Pulp Fiction! Actually they've talked about the idea for Kill Bill on the set of Pulp Fiction, but Taratino didn't get serious about it and sit down to write the script until fairly recently, when Uma reminded him about the idea.

Whoa, what an amazing display of open-mindness. The first Mortal Kombat flick was at least a decent video game movie. Name another videogame movie with the backing or name-attachment of an A-list or Oscar-winning filmmaker.

100% agree. This show is good for me to... Hey BoB, got some time to PhotoShop a Pikachu Gundam?

Fatal Frame movie news Kind of a mixed blessing... Spielberg's involvement makes this videogame movie adaptation at least above average, but whether it will become too kiddified remains to be seen...

I'll buy mself a dozen Pikachu figures before I blow my cash on those cheap imitations of the real SD.

Charlie's Angels movies don't have a mean bone in them. Kill Bill is a revenge movie, and Uma's character is out for blood. You'll know when you see what she does to her targets.

The US version is supposed to have all the W and G suits in it... looks like they might include it on the disc since they didn't mention anything about online games, which is a feature for the Japanese version.

On my copy it simply isn't there. Maybe on the eng dub AnimeVillage forgot to put it in? No matter how bad Gundam continuity is, it is only a fraction of the convulted nightmare that is Star Trek. AnimeVillage did not forget to put in anything. That line about Synapse's fate was a linear note on the LD's jacket. Some early fansubs took the liberty to insert that info into part of the sub, maybe that's how Lynx "remembered" it.

I voted for NeoGeo too. Nothing beats having an arcade-perfect experience in the comfort of your own home. Back then, only the truly hardcore gamer owned a cart-based NeoGeo. Paying hundreds of dollars for a Samurai Shodown cart was worth every penny when you start touring arcades looking for victims.

In related news... From Software has announced Tenchu Kurenai, which takes place while Rikimaru was trapped in the portal. Link to official homepage

I'd pay good money to see John Doe vs. Keyser Söze... Kevin Spacey nominated for double best actor, LOL.

1 B ) It's from the production company of Resident Evil, Davis Films. Davis also snatched the film rights for the Silent Hill movie. They must have realized that making video game-based movies is a sure thing since kids and idiots go see it anyway, no matter how lame it is.

FYI, the Gundam in 0079/Journey to Jaburo moved at about the speed and responsiveness of a Zaku II in Lost War Chronicles. They might have recycled some maps (the music was re-recorded and re-arranged, BTW) but there were more than "a few MS" added: - Z-Gok E - Zaku FZ - GM Cold District Type - GP01 - Xamel - Dom Tropen - Gelgoog - GM Ground Combat Model - Ez8 - Gouf Custom - Efreet Kai - Mudrock That's a dirty dozen right there. I'll give you that the "dating sim" was slapped together without much production value, but the improved engine and controls were enough to make this game much more enjoyable than 0079/JtJ, which does feel slapped together overall.

The first time I read their comments I thought they were implying that the GameCube's system could not deliver the kind of quality game they were making, but the SKU gave it away that they'd rather spend time on improving the quality of the PS2 and Xbox versions than to make a GC version since the GC's sales track hasn't been good enough to justify their time and resources. PCs took over Macs. VHS beat out Betamax. Inferior goods have been known to beat higher quality competitors in the marketplace.

Ah yes, Boom Stick Good! Deadites Bad! Bruce Campbell mentioned in an interview that Ash may appear in the next Freddy vs Jason movie, if the people in charge can come to an agreement as to which character comes out on top. I am surprised no one has listed a Planet of the Apes movie yet, thought those were really popular.

What Bandai told you doesn't sound like a satisfactory explaination. Anyone who played all 3 games will agree that LWC was a vast improvement over Journey to Jaburo and looks, sounds, and plays better than Federation vs Zeon, yet Sony deemed J2J and FvZ good enought for release in the US, but not LWC? Something's not adding up here. They've approved plenty of bad games that are way worse than LWC, just take a look at any game store shelf if you need proof.

More bad news for the Big N and Cube owners: Terminator 3 and Driver 3 for GC cancelled Read the developer's comments about their decision to ditch the GC version.

Ever seen Ichi the Killer? I'm not even gonna post a link to the trailer, it'll get me banned... Edit in: For me, anything directed by David Cronenberg is good stuff. I have yet to see a movie he made that I didn't like. Too bad he's gone very indie these days, I had to catch his latest on DVD because so few theaters were showing it. I can understand why he doesn't like doing big studio movies... I think Paramount made him get a more mainstream composer (Michael Kamen, instead of his usual scorer Howard Shore, who's now an Oscar winner thanks to the LOTR trilogy) when he did The Dead Zone. Fox is still sitting on his Naked Lunch, not releasing it on DVD...

Aw man, why you gotta give away the game's big twist ending before it even came out?

I have the G-Saviour game soundtrack and it's the biggest waste of $ ever... makes the Macross M3 game music sound like Beethoven. It'd be pretty sad if the G-Saviour game, one of the earliest PS2 titles, remains that good when they've had quite a few years to improve everything from graphics to gameplay...

oro? *knock on wood* mine is stil up and running So is mine... and mine is one of the earlier generation models. As much as I love the DC, I hardly play it these days. That nasty noise its drive makes just makes me prefer spending more time with the PS2 even though there are more fun games on the DC. PS2 may be the lamest console out right now, but Sony was smart to keep it backwards compatible. Even if PS1 and PS2 have a big crap-to-good-games ratio, it still ends up with more games people want to play than the other 2 systems. Having a Macross game coming certainly doesn't hurt any. Folks like Graham won't buy the Cube even if it's $0.99 if it doesn't have a Macross game.

For me ESB was boring after the Empire was done with the Rebel ass-kicking on Hoth. Everything afterwards was just anticlimatic with no cigarette to enjoy. Can't think of any space battle scenes from Ep 6 as exciting as the Trench Run in Ep 4... STAY ON TARGET!

GameSpot report I thought GameCube had a healthy marketshare. Guess not... unless they've got a new console ready to roll out and need to get rid of the current crop of consoles.