weekend wrapup and review of “Visoneers” and “Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li”

Friday night

Watched “Day of the Dead” on Blu-ray(as in the original George Romero version). This was my first personal blu-ray experience on my new player. Was a very good experience, the transfer and quality was pristine. Tom Savini’s FX work looked even better in high def.

Saturday

I helped my buddy Joe move. only took 5 hours to move everything out his apartment and into his parent’s basement. We hung out in his pool afterwards. It was actually my first time swimming since high school. I shoudl definitely do it more often. Though I felt really dehydrated after swimming and had a pretty mean headache. After I showered off I felt a lot better. Later that night I ended up watching a movie called, “Visioneers”

Visioneers

Starring Zach Galfinakis, Visioneers is about a alternate version of the USA. In this version of our society most fo america’s job market is dominated by a corporation know as the “Jeffers Corporation”. We never learn exactly what Jeffers Corp. does but it supposedly does it better than any company in US history. Zach plays William a distant descendant of George Washington. He works as a team manager on Level 3(out of 5). You see despite productivity being so high in the job market a rash of people exploding has been scaring people all over the nation. As we meet William he starts to show the “symptoms” of exploding.

The movie itself is a veyr dark and odd comedy strung together by some philosophical questions that come off a s a bit preachy but tongue-in cheek as well. Zach remains a straight man for most of the movie but actually does really well in the role. The movie is soaked in his unique style of dark subversive comedy but also utilizes his perfect timing and inventive nature.  The movie at times evokes the Terry Gilliam masterpiece Brazil only with a far more naturalistic tone as well as being set in a more rustic setting. The movie is really funny and still pretty entertaining all trhough out.

4 pole vaults out of 5.

the rest of the night I played and beat a xbox live arcade game called, “splosin man”. It’s a 2d side scroller platform game where your main character is a living source of explosions. The game is full of great style and odd comedy. Frankly it rivals Portal in fun and funny gameplay.

Sunday

Ended up at Stevie’s playing magic. Used my Green and Red/Black decks a lot. They both did pretty well. Stevie was testing a Zombie deck out on my red black and cast two Mind funerals on me. Basically mind funeral can make you discard a lot of cards from your library. So I still ended up winning but on the last turn I only had two cards left in my library and the next turn I’d be drawing those. Very close call. I also built a pretty decent soldier deck thanks to Stevie loaning me a card I needed. Joey ended up coming over for a bit to build and test a new discard deck. It beat me fairly well but it lost twice to stevie’s decks. Some good magic gameplay.

later I watched “Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li”

This is the prequel/reboot of teh old street fighter movie done way back in the 90′s with Jean Claude Van-Damme. It tells teh story of Chun-li and how her father gets killed by M. Bison and blah blah blah. We have some lame fights and a oddly strong amount of gore. Ultimately teh main plotline is boring nonsensical and lame.

The star of the show is Chris Klein or now forever known as “Charlie Nash”. Every scene with out Nash in it is seriously lacking. Klein went all out and delivers one of the most insanely over the top performances I’ve ever seen. He mugs in every possible shot he can. Says lines with such confidence and gravitas that he just is the living embodiment of cheese. and frankly the guy deserves some kind of award for it. His character is completely pointless to the plot and yet he is the most important person in this movie. Go see this movie just for Charlie Nash.

2 crap CG fireballs out of 5.

Nash out-