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Doomsday… best movie name ever!

Doomzilla — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:48:51 +0000

So I’ve been browsing around to see what new movies are coming out soon and I realized there is a movie coming out this year called “Doomsday”. When I started watching the trailer it looked like a lame knock-off of 28 Days Later or I am Legend. Then I realized that it actually look good, in an odd sort of way. A disease killed off a good majority of a city that was quarantined. Fortunately, 25 years later, they discover that there are survivors in the city and that they must have an immunity to the disease leading to a possible cure. Now this is where I figured they discover zombies or some other type of scrambling undead (ooh, mummies!), but all the people are actually normal humans. Of course they’ve been blocked off from the rest of society for 25 years so they have kind of gone insane and have formed post-apocalyptic gangs.

This movie looks like the bastard child of Mad Max and I am Legend with maybe a dash of Tank Girl and Lord of the Flies. I am very intrigued by this movie and figure it will either bomb completely in theaters or its oddball characters will create a great cult following. Either way it probably do well on DVD since it looks worth a $4 rental even if it sucks.

I am looking forward to this movie, so I hope it doesn’t completely disappoint. I mean, c’mon, it has Malcolm McDowell in it. You can’t get much cooler than that. Also, searching IMDB for info, I found that the leading lady of the film, Rhona Mitra, is playing Sonja in the new Underworld movie.

This is what Doomsday would look like if I had directed it…

Sadness, Happiness, and Something in Between

Doomzilla — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:05:28 +0000

So tonight I finally had the chance to watch the movie “The Island of Lost Children” and it was so strange. It was touching and funny and so worth the three or four dollars it cost to rent. Seeing Ron Perlman reminded me that they are making another Hellboy movie and got me a little excited. Unfortunately, the movie has many steampunk elements which is great, but it reminded me that I am way behind on schedule for my DoomzPunk project. I kind of ran out of funding for the project and any other extra money is going into building a more powerful rig for testing and reviewing games on.

Speaking of that, should be finishing up the Cooler Master Stacker 830 case review within the next 48 hours and have it posted in the early part of next week.

Lazy Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Doomzilla — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:35:13 +0000

I took Friday off so I could have a relaxing three day weekend. I finished up watching the Firefly series on DVD and rented the Dead Like Me series and the Rocketeer from Hollywood Video. Also, I’ve been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source (DoD). I cannot believe that I have not played DoD before as it a whole lot of fun. It’s interesting to go back and play a game running on the original version of the Source engine and see how much it has improved over the past couple of years. I’m going to need to backup my Steam games soon as I plan on installing my 250GB Hitachi drive as my main boot drive. According to the system, it will take close to 30GB to back up all of my Steam games. I figure by the time I beat Portal and HL2: Episode 2, it will be time to purchase UT3 or Crysis.

Not much has happened for DoomzPunk lately. I’m still looking for a sponsor for the PSU and the Video Card because there is no possible way that I will be able to afford everything since the bills have really been adding up these past couple of months. Apparently my green typewriter keys are in the mail, so I should have them in a day or so to mod my keyboard.