I think I liked “Where The Wild Things Are” more than most.

I’m excited about Lost’s finish too. I hope it doesn’t disappoint. And the expectations are sky-high.

A couple movies that I haven’t forgotten but can’t gauge how much I liked them… “Where the Wild Things Are.” Disappointed in the theater, but the more I thought about it the more I really liked it. And “Wendy and Lucy.” I can’t determine if I was astoundingly bored or enthralled, but in any case Michelle Williams can act.

Re: Lost… the writers have always known what the Island is, but apparently not how they’d get there (how could they? Running a TV show is running a business). But they have managed to pull off something that no show ever has: hidden structure/parallels to the seasons, and setups that are paying off 6 years later. It’s silly how excited I am to see it all culminate.

The baseball stuff will be plentiful, I promise.

Wanted to know what you thought of “It Might Get Loud” Documentary style aside, I feel it was the best movie of ‘09.

Sofa king ready for baseball! Keep the posts coming, this is a huge year for me in my RC/27 keeper league and your insight is always appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3S-c-96ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTd2qoWEylw

And no, I’m not kidding with that second one! I think it was my most played of the year.

Dreamweapon did address Halo – says it’s very overrated.

Trailor Park Boys has a bunch of potential, and I will keep watching.

And also, what’s wrong with Jersey Shore? Great show.

Dreamweapon- Batman (Arkum) is a damn good game on the PS3. However, MW2 is the bee’s knees. Get nuked, son. The Barrett .50 cal is basically my digital penis.

Also, I believe your 2010 preview omits Halo Reach. Tisk Tisk.

Dalton–you don’t have to take my word for it: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps3/littlebigplanet

Ya Trailer Park Boys showed a lot of promise the episode I watched. “Bubbles” was great. I’m going to have to start DVRing it now.

DDD- I personally turned off Bruno 63 minutes in and I am a big Sacha fan. Parks and Rec is awesome and Philadelphia makes me piss my pants. I can’t get enough of shoe shine Andy and Mac’s latent homosexuality.

As far as Wii games go, NSMB was okay, but it’s important to bear in mind just how low of a bar we’re talking about in discussing the state of software for the platform. Honestly, at least fully half of the games released on the Wii are unadulterated shovelware, cynically tossed together in the quickest and cheapest fashion possible, in full knowledge that even the docile gaming journalism/critical establishment would tear it to pieces upon release, but hurled out the door and onto store shelves anyway, secure in the knowledge that it’ll at least make some money due to the extremely unsophisticated nature (relative to the “core” gamers on PS3/360/PC, certainly) of the majority of the platform’s userbase. The very best Wii games, apart from the now-ancient Twilight Princess and SM Galaxy, wouldn’t make any self-respecting critic’s Top-50 list of releases in a given year, IMO.

NSMB is a first-party release, so it’s a little better than most of that crapware, but it still suffers from Wii syndrome, namely, superficiality and laziness in production. Having previously owned a DS and with it the NSMB for it, I can say that the Wii version is precariously close to a straight port. That is incredibly lazy on its own merit, considering the myriad limitations present in developing for handhelds. But look at the characters–they couldn’t even be bothered to throw in a legitimate fourth character, instead simply changing Toad’s color from yellow to blue. Wow, is that lazy. I mean, Jesus Christ, we’re talking about a couple of days of development for routine animations of already-stock characters and then a short testing period, but they couldn’t even be bothered to do that. That kind of thing just pisses me off so much. I mean, look at Sony–they re-released the first two God of War games, remade in HD, with added trophy support, together on a single BD, and slashed the price to $39.99, yet no one considered it a candidate for the platform’s GOTY, and rightly so. If that kind of effort were undertaken by Nintendo, it would considered some kind of epic love-letter to their fanbase, worthy of all manner of accolades and devotion. For Sony, it was just a minor one-off effort to prime the pump a bit in advance of March’s release of GOW3. A game that was essentially an afterthought on the least popular console in No. America would be, IMO, at least a top-three title in the Wii’s all-time catalog, and that says a lot about the system and its retrograde, low-to-no-expectations culture.

Dalton, the game I was talking about was LittleBigPlanet, which was developed by a British firm, Media Molecule, and released in October of 2008. If you enjoy platformers, and co-op play (which are essentially the two big non-specific IP attributes I would associate with NSMB), I would say you have to try it. The standard edition can almost certainly be picked up for less than $30 used, as there is a “GOTY” edition that came out a few months ago and pushed the price of the original down. You could get the GOTY if you wanted, I suppose, but most of the extras will be character costumes (I _think_ the Metal Gear Solid level pack is also included, but I’m not sure, and it’s cheap DLC anyway, maybe $7 or 8 or something). It squashes NSMB like a bull elephant stepping on a titmouse. There is a huge community of player-developed levels, with literally hundreds of thousands published by now. Obviously many of these suck, but a lof of them are astounding and I know some people have won industry jobs courtesy of what they showed there. It’s just so much more expansive and clever and, well, striving than anything the increasingly ultraconversative bores at Nintendo would ever attempt at this point.

FIFA 10 is awesome, just a brilliant, brilliant soccer game. The online play is quite good, too. It’s a damn shame that they couldn’t work the same magic on fixing the now-nearly unsalvageable Madden franchise, but when you look at the worldwide sales figures (which are pretty much exactly what you’d expect when you consider that the US market is probably no more than 40% of the worldwide total, and quite possibly less, and that no one in Europe or Asia gives two shits about the NFL), you can understand why the development dollars went to bolstering FIFA instead. We’ll see, but my only hope for another enjoyable NFL game in my lifetime is that Congress or the Justice Dept. bring antitrust charges against the league, likely on the broadcasting front, and force it to end its exclusivity agreements across the board.

LOVE Trailer Park Boys. Absolutely love it. It’s chalk-full of absurd stereotypes, in fact it really can boast little more than that, but they’re so enthusiastically delivered that it’s hard not to be smitten. Ricky’s torrents of malapropisms alone are worth the hour committment every Thursday AFAIC. I cannot believe I never even heard of it before its run on the 101, and it’s a shame that it was already over before it even got a chance in the States, but it’d be a huge understatement to say that I was really looking forward to the group’s new ‘The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour’ series.