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Illidan Moves 3″, Gets +2 for Backstab
If you’ve ever wanted to fill your desk with an army of Archers and Huntresses led by Illidan you’ll soon get your chance! ICv2 reports that Upper Deck will be releasing a new World of Warcraft game, and they’re minitatures!
Apparently, this is under the vein of a collectible mini game, with boosters and all. From the single pic I’ve seen, the detail seems to be better than Mage Knight or Hero Clix.
Great, more things to throw money at! You can read the news post here.
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I came into the movie knowing it’s gonna be a handycam film like Blair Witch. It wasn’t enough to prevent me from feeling like I just came ashore after taking a less than gentle tugboat ride in the sea.
For those who don’t know yet, Cloverfield is a monster movie. The movie is set in New York where a group of friends are slowly exposed to various calamities caused and eventually leads up to the source of all the chaos. I saw on TV that the director wanted to create a uniquely US monster, since Godzilla, Mothma, et al didn’t exactly originate there (where did King Kong come from?). When I first heard about it, I thought it was great. I haven’t seen a giant monster movie seen King Kong, and I was excited to see something new on the prowl.
Then I learned that the movie was gonna get a the handycam treatment. I prayed that it wasn’t going to be a hurlfest.
Unfortunately, it pretty much was.
From the get go, the audience it given a taste of how shaky the camera would be. I’m not so sure about the others, but it wasn’t steady enough for me, and I knew things would only get worse. I was fortunate enough to have a tougher stomach for this than my SO and our friend, but that didn’t it really doesn’t pay to keep your eyes glued on the screen all the time.
Hudson, or ‘HUD’ is the cameraman for most of the movie (HUD, get it?), and he’s actually the most paradoxical part fo the movie IMO. On one hand, I really feel that they could’ve made HUD’s handycam movements less realistic and the film would actually be more watchable. On the other hand, HUD, as a character, was actually one of the things that made you want to stay and watch (or listen) through the whole movie.
To be fair, I did find a couple of things well done. All the shots that were supposedly from TV news cameras seemed real. The monster in question wasn’t hidden all the time (although it’s far from being well exposed either). There was also a particular scene that I thought was excellently executed, the camera wasn’t so bad at the time, and the tension/panic really came through (this isn’t at the latter of the film).
Overall, Cloverfield’s still a hurlfest. It does have gems here and there, but it will depend on your constitution if you can get to those parts. Admittedly, I myself am not sure if those gems are worth the almost 2 hour ocean boat ride. If you do decide to see it, here’s a tip: if they’re running up stairs or running/walking from nothing in particular, there’s probably nothing interesting to see, so you can just listen and keep tabs with your pheripheral vision until someting worth looking at does come up.
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