Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Living The Movie After Having Seen It

Sunday, June 12, 2005 was the day that Extreme Championship Wrestling rose from the ashes in the form of a reunion show dubbed ECW One Night Stand. It was a show that I had been looking forward to watching since it was first announced. Now, I don’t consider myself an ECW hardcore – we didn’t get ECW anything in Canada until late-99 when Viewer’s Choice Canada started airing their PPVs – but I eventually picked up a couple old VHS Best Of tapes as well as the more recent DVD compilations and I enjoyed some of this stuff they put out.

So I was really looking forward to getting this PPV show – not only for the novelty of the ECW reunion special, but also for the novelty of seeing whether WWE (who owns all the copyrights) would actually

Unfortunately, a couple issues came up.

First, there was a roadtrip to Niagara that I was going on with a few folks this past weekend. I don’t recall whether this was planned ahead of time and I forgot about it or whether it was a last-minute spur. Either way, I was upset that I wasn’t going to see the PPV. I had post reflect my displeasure, but it was eventually taken down.

By the way, the roadtrip was great. Left for Niagara on Friday, came back home on Saturday night, and Sunday was spent in Ottawa for a quick run before making it back home. Which meant that I was going to catch the ECW show after all.

Alas, that wasn’t to be.

Due to technical difficulties, I was unable to catch the ECW One Night Stand PPV, which sucks ass because it was the one show that I was looking forward to. Said technical difficulties was due to the satellite receiver having stopped working. Unable to receive channels for some reason. Tried to do basic maintenance, but nothing. Funny thing was that a couple other receivers were working fine and one might wonder why we didn’t pick up the PPV from there (no available phone connection or long-ass wires to hook up – please don’t ask).

So while the issue was eventually resolved, I missed my chance to watch ECW One Night Stand. That made me sad because from the various internet recaps of the show, it seemed to have gone over well. So I guess I’ll be waiting for the DVD to hit shelves… since nighttime classes won’t allow me to catch the replay.

So the time that would have been spent watching Sandman come down to generic music (oh wait, I’m sorry – that was the 2006 version) was spent playing the then-new Revenge of the Sith video game for Xbox, which I didn’t actually touch until after having seen the movie

In all honesty, the game is nothing more than a glorified Final Fight 3D with lightsabers and Force powers. Some people will like this, others will despise it. I’m just fine with it. Sure, it’s mostly a button masher, but that’s all I expected from the game to begin with, so I’m not entirely disappointed whatsoever.

Graphically speaking, it looks fine. Some people say there’s less detail than the usual crop of X-Box games, but graphics were always dressing in my eyes and as long as everything looked like what they should, I have no problem. Sounds are just about right, but my biggest qualm is the apparent lack of a Sith soundtrack. Most of the music tends to be from the original trilogy and the two prequel movies; which weren’t too bad either, but the Sith soundtrack was much suited for this.

As far as extras goes, you have two sets of bonus missions (either single player or co-op missions that have to be unlocked) that are independent of the main game. You have a few minutes of Sith footage which is blended with game footage to fit the altered storyline of the game. You have a Versus mode; a one-on-one mini-game pitting two Jedi against each other. Heck, you even get to relive the “climatic” Death Star duel between Darth Vader and Old Ben Kenobi in Episode IV: A New Hope… although both Vader and Ben seem much more agile than in the movie, but it’s still a nice inclusion. Now you get to play as Vader and beat the shit out of all the stale prequel Jedi as well as two additional ones made for the game (including one who looks like Nick Gillard, the stunt co-ordinator for the prequels or something).

More comments later…

DTM Gallery – Rejected Moon Montage

Some random clips of the “lost” Toonmakers’ Sailor Moon pilot make up the background while sad Moon from the 2003-2004 live drama sheds a tear. I don’t recall the actual date, but I’d imagine this was made during PGSM’s initial run, shortly after the debut of cat-turned-plush toy Luna in kid sailor fuku mode…

It’s safe to say that I wasn’t a fan of these kid characters because they’re generally done poorly, although in hindsight, calling Sailor Luna ugly when she was a kinda, sorta cute little kid may have been a bit much. It is what it is.

In hindsight, Sailor Luna was kinda cute and not ugly… so I don’t know where that came from.

The Adventures Of Captain Wesley Crusher (PILOT Episode)

2025 Notes:
A one-shot “pilot episode” of a series that was never intended to be. The general idea was to take the first season version of Wesley Crusher – the version that was obnoxious and was made to be smarter than all the professionals on the ship – and make him captain of the Enterprise. This was based on readings of Wil Wheaton’s TNG reviews that were eventually compiled into a book called Memories Of The Future.

Shortly after posting, I got a couple comments accusing me of being a Wesley hater – “obviously” because of the overexaggerated nature of his caricature. People seemed to have overlooked that it was intended to be overexaggerated. It says so in the disclaimer as stated below. This was harmless comedy that took something from an actor’s rummaging of his older work and took it to eleventy billion. Also, a Wesley hater would have seen Wesley die at the end of this story; mine ended with Wesley’s daydream interrupted by Captain Picard demanding he get off his chair.

No ill-will towards the character… though I sadly can’t say the same for the actor who portrayed him these days.

Continue reading “The Adventures Of Captain Wesley Crusher (PILOT Episode)”

A Trekkie Wants To Boycott You-Pee-Inn.

From a Trekweb posting:

Well, now that’s all said in done. Let’s let our final voices be HEARD!

I, for one, resent UPN for NOW finally promoting ENT now that it’s ending.

Star Trek has been it’s flagship show for as long as it’s been in existance.

BOYCOTT them even it if hurts. Let them feel the loss of our total viewership!!

EFFECTIVE MAY 14th..join me…in NO MORE UPN.

Gee, man. I would absolutely LOVE to boycott UPN, but I haven’t seen UPN since I found out Smackdown aired an hour earlier on another Canadian sports channel years ago. And besides that, Enterprise aired on other channels besides UPN too.

So yeah, I’d love to Boycott UPN, but I never touched the network to begin with…

PPV Predictions – WWE Backlash 2005

Okay. Since Wrestlemania 21, I’ve made it a conscious promise to make a conscious effort at posting these predictions (2010 Update: So much for that.) Today will be a little quicker and shorter because time is short, so here are my predictions (along with a short retort here and there):

Continue reading “PPV Predictions – WWE Backlash 2005”

Wallpaper – Darth Vader The Movie

Fits 640×480 desktop sizes.

The following blurb was written on September 5th, 2012:

A wallpaper manipulation from back in day reflecting a more accurate portrayal of the marketing behind the final film in the supposed prequel trilogy of Star Wars.

See, kids, as much as people want to praise the prequels for all their worth these days, Lucasfilm knew that the only reason anyone would give a flying flip about the final chapter of this was because it was going to be the first time we see Darth Vader in years. Nobody cared about the conclusion of the Clone Wars or the sorry excuse of a romance saga between Emo Anakin and Panda Bear, but rather we were gonna see Darth Vader on the big screen. Oh man, it’s gonna be so fucking epic!!

And then we saw the film… and Darth Vader appeared in the movie for all of two minutes… and those two minutes was all it took to systematically destroy the image of the Dark Lord of the Sith that had existed since he first appeared in cinemas back in 1977.

But that didn’t stop Lucasfilm and company from focusing the entire marketing campaign on Darth Vader; from the promos to the merchandise to everything. All for that fleeting appearance at the end of the film. Made to look like a complete fool.

Such a shame too.

Link’s Far Out Adventure Begins… Somewhere

So for the past week, during my free time, I was attempting to get back into Zelda Classic and its more important component, quest building. After getting the basic feel of things and trying out a few custom quests, I started work on a couple of them. One being a full-quest using the original 8-bit graphics (along with the new ones that comes with it) and the other being nothing but an action game where you do nothing but slay monsters while earning useful items along the way.

I’ve been wanting to put out a full-on quest for the program and have attempted to do so numerous times, but previous attempts usually came to a halt and entered a long period of stagnation afterwards. The idea here is to try and maintain some sort of progress journal and record what I’ve been doing. I hope to parlay this into a separate blog.

Here’s to a successful experiment.

Later.

DTM BLOG Classics #07 – The “Saga” Of The “Secret” Spider-Man Movie

Today, I’m going to be revisiting something I’ve touched on a couple times on the old DTM Blog and frequently updated on the old Webstation. Considering that there’s a Spider-Man reboot in the midsts, it might seem appropriate to take a look back at this rather bewildering project that ultimately went nowhere. And while I will generally avoid adding in my own modern-day additions to the proceedings, I will add a couple notes here and there (usually denoted as such and in bold).

Originally posted July 27th, 2004, with additional postscripts and addendum posted later on.

Continue reading “DTM BLOG Classics #07 – The “Saga” Of The “Secret” Spider-Man Movie”