Elvis-Virtus

 I was able to watch HTTYD( How To Train Your Dragon) last friday, and what can i say, it was really good. Let me first tell you about the movie, the movie cast consists of:





Jay Baruchel - Hiccup
Gerard Butler – Stoick the Vast
Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Fishlegs
Jonah Hill - Snotlout
America Ferrera - Astrid
Craig Ferguson – Gobber the Belch

The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named "Hiccup" aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill it and instead befriends it.

The movie itself is different from the book, instead of training dragon as the book depicts, the movie instead show the characters fighting dragons, and also there is also a new character introduced in the movie, Astrid, instead being Fishlegs being his best friend/sidekick like in the book, Astrid is now Hiccup’s sidekick and also love interest which is a welcome sight.


It is hard for me to enjoy this kind of movies because they are so cheesy and only childish funny, the last 3d animated film I enjoyed was Toy Story 2 and Aliens vs Monsters, well I’m telling you right now, this one beats all of them, this movie had it all, (humor, Surprises, Drama and even a love story). Another thing i liked with this movie, is on how it was able to use the 3d Effect fully, this was one of the best 3D movies out there, in my opinion, that the 3d effects is much better than Avatar itself. And also Toothless and Hiccup, I feel that their chemistry was one of the best i have ever seen and Toothless’ charisma makes it hard not to like the guy same with Stitch.

This movie is on top of my favorite Animated movie ahead of Toy Story 2.

PROS: It had everything from Child humor to adult humor. It also has one of the best stories out there. The might be the best 3D movie out there, The voice acting were superb, Toothless

CONS: Ending is not child friendly, There are some languages that isn’t for young kinds


RATING: (out of 5 stars)


EIJAN SAYS : WATCH THIS MOVIE, YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED

That’s all for now

PEACE OUT!!

Tired of seeing the same User Interface over and over again when you log in to your Facebook account? Don’t you hate it when you have to navigate to countless screens just to see the photo album of your friend. Well, I have the answer for your prayers, Microsoft Silverlight Facebook client, it is basically a stand alone software that introduces a much appealing UI for your FB and also, checking out photo albums is a lot easier. If i were you, you should give this a try, i’m already using this for a month, and can’t imagine navigating FB without it. The only drawback is that it can’t play application games yet (i don’t play those games anyway) and also it lacks the CHAT function in FB but overall, it is a pretty ok product.

 

I made a video (i actually made one) so that installing it would be just a breeze, just follow the video.

note: it is better if you tune up your volume and view the video at least 720p, 1080p is the recommended of course.

 

 

That’s all for now

 

Peace Out!!

Nintendo has just announced this week that 3DS will be coming before March 2011, with Nintendo hoping to release a press statement at this Year’s E3 event around June.

 

Here’s the thing that I know about the 3DS, the new 3DS would have a joystick and also a force feedback (vibration) so that the user can feel collisions during game. Also, it would also similar to the DS physical setup, in terms of having 2 screens. It also said that it has better wi-fi capabilities and also a very very long battery supply.

If Sony’s 5 year PSP doesn’t receive any new physical updates from here until next year (psp 2 perhaps?!), it seems that we should be expecting a two way race on Portable Gaming Gadgets next year, with Nintendo’s 3ds battling with Microsoft’s IPAD.

 

As a note, if Nintendo is planning something similar to this or much better, it seems that the IPAD is in trouble (forget about the PSP, its already old and outdated). This is a video of a game in the DS that uses 3d effects and uses head motion tracking to tell the game where the user is looking so that the game can do the proper adjustment for the 3d effect. THIS IS NOT THE 3DS.

 

That’s all for now

 

PEACE OUT!!

If you have been living under a rock for this past 2 decades or so, let me refresh your mind, Predator is a popular Sci-FI movie franchise with a very strong cult following, me being one of them. The first movie was released somewhere around the late 1980’s which starred Arnold “The Governor” Schwarzenegger, the plot of the movie is rather simple, it is basically about a group of marines being hunted down by this Alien specie and eventually Arnold defeated this specie and was the only left standing. Eventually, all the following movie(s) follow this rather simple plot, but the problem is that, rather than following the simple plot,point by point, they decided to add some arcs and twists to the OBVIOUS plot, making the movie plot so stupid and nonsense and also with crappy budgets that led to crappy art designs and actors and also crappy scripts, this led to movies that shouldn’t be watched by anybody, I'm looking at you AVP franchise.

 

 

Anyway, the script of this movie has been around Hollywood for more than a decade, until it was green lit, and the good thing about it is that Robert Rodriguez is producing it, if you don’t know who is Robert Rodriguez, well, he is the top protégé of Quentin Tarantino. Robert said that this movie would be loyal to the original , and there are rumors around the internet that Arnold’s character from the original movie is going to have a cameo!! and also the movie’s PLOT IS SIMPLE!!!  (see the trailer for the plot)

 

The one thing I like are movies with simple plot and not those overcomplicated one that are winning the Oscars year after year, because in the EIJAN’s MOVIE THEOREM, movies with simple plots rakes MUCH MUCH MORE money than those movies that wins Oscars with their overcomplicated plot, look for example Hurt Locker, it is considered a financial bust and also The Blind Side. People tend to watch movies with simple plot over and over again, look at Avatar,300, Iron Man.

 

The movie stars Adrian Brody, Toper Grace and Laurence Fishburne. The predators would be played by Brian Steel (The Relic, Resident Evil: Extinction, The Cave, Hellboy, Underworld, Blade: Trinity, Men in Black II and more) and Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, The Hills Have Eyes II).

 

Here is the official trailer of the movie

 

That’s all for now

 

Peace out!!

The battle of the next-gen motion controller is now turning ugly, Sony released a video ad yesterday about their new Motion Controller which is entitled “Playstation Move” and on the video, it pokes fun on its competitors.

 

To refresh your memory about the competition of Motion Controllers among the big 3 of Gaming Console, let me explain it first.

 

As you know, Nintendo’s flagship for this battle is the Wii,even though Nintendo is the one that introduced the motion controller 3 years ago, and it seems that the outdated system will be receiving a much needed upgrade,which will be in terms of HD gameplay and also a new controller, Nintendo smartly named the new Wii as Wii HD and it will be released on 2011, unfortunately there are no footages of this upgraded system.

 

Microsoft would be releasing it’s motion controller or…i should say montion-less conrtoller, called “NATAL” within this year. It is basically a add-on Camera for the X-box 360 which smartly captures movements and even VOICE COMMANDS, here is the AD of NATAL; take note: this is just a publicity ad on how the system will perform, it is still not a guarantee that the system would be that great

 

As another note, playing with an invisible controller (whatever the game requires) seems to be stupid, i rather touch something solid that wack the air with just my hands, it seems awkward especially on GOLF games.

 

 

now for Sony, the Playstation Move seems to be the earliest to be released among the three, there are already gameplay videos around the net and also it seems that it utilized both the NATAL and WII, it uses the nanchaku type controller from the Wii and also the camera and voice recognition feature of the Natal. Here’s the Ad for the MOVE:

 

 

Cool ain’t it, and the best thing about it, is that the MOVE will only cost under 100 dollars, 99 dollars perhaps.

 

now back to the main topic, Here is the funny and yet controversial ad by Sony which it pokes fun with the Wii and Natal

 

 

Can’t wait for the MOVE

 

That’s all for now

 

Peace out!!