So went to the cinemas to watch the A-Team today. Got to say I loved every moment of it. This seems to have all of the best parts of a new generation of action movies. It had the snappy one liners, the brotherly camaraderie and the ridiculous stunts. I mean truly stupidly unbelievable defying all known laws of physics – but still so bloody awesome you cant help but laugh. There is the obligatory love story, I mean you have to get your girl friend in there somehow. It never really detracted from the action, and managed to put in a strong military female lead without emasculating the male leads.

The central premise of this movie is shouldn’t be a shock to any of my readers. Good guys get screwed over by the system, they escape from incarceration to clear their name, and hilarity ensues. All of the incredible set-ups the blow ups and plot twists fit within this plot premise and your never really taken out of the story by any plot holes. That said, the whole premise of a special forces team acting outside of military discipline and order, is essentially a plot hole, but its one we have seen before and its easy to forget within the context of the movie.

There are twists and turns but if your like me you wont be massively surprised by the reveals, that being said I think was rated PG13 for American audiences so they had to keep it simple not to loose the teenage crowd. In the end my recommendation is that the A-Team is worth your cash money

I’m rating 4.5 bubbles out of 5

What the lady friend had to say : “The parachute scene and when they drugged the dude, that was pretty cool”

Trying to update here more regulary, not many people read it i know but im looking to exercise the part of my brain that writes stuff good, so i can tap it at will.

On the READING FRONT

Scott Lynch’s Locke Lamora is an anti hero that really manages to be neither Anti or Heroic, and is all the more readable and interesting because of it. Locke’s world is dark and forboding born to utter destitution and poverty his life takes a turn for the worse when the district his family lives in is struck by plague. Surrounded and set alight the district burns, a few children survive thrown by parents into the neighbouring canal waters and are quickly snatched up into servitude by and old thief. Locke takes to the streets like a duck to water his innate skill at thievery is something almost but not quite mystical and the score’s just keep getting bigger.

The world itself that Lynch paints is brilliant, humans live in the decaying shadow of Giants, the Eldrin. Long gone from this world in a way never explained the Eldrin left their machines and citys behind and humanity lives a life of relative squalor to their greatness in the ofttimes decaying ruins of this empire. It here in the shadows of the great and mighty that Locke lives his life, part of a band of thieves, what guy ritchie might coin as a firm, he robs from the ritch and keeps it. He robs for the thrill of it and he robs because it is all he knows.

I liked this book. I liked it so much that half way through i went and bought the second book just so i could continue reading and following the plot lines. Lynch links the main story threads with a deft touch. The sly conspiracy of the meta “bad guys” the magi is sparingly revealed and by the end of the book you believe fully in their power and fear for Lockes safety, above all Lynch portrays real characters without scumming to the “tragically flawed but still gonna fight” cliche that seems to be everywhere in Sci-Fi and Fantasy these days.

Im going to give this one

On The ROLE PLAYING FRONT

Hopefully i might be picking up the old dice again and attending a roleplaying game this weekend. Unhallowed Metropolis is the game world and i gather its set a couple of hundred years after the Zombie Apocalypse, Humanity survives by eeking out and existence in walled cities subsisting on a kind of algae. Science and religion are all but gone and in its place is a weird steam punk like pseudo science that seems to achieve the impossible. I’ll be playing with some old friends and maybe some new ones. Its been a while since I’ve stretched the old RPG muscles so i hope i don’t suck.

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It was good.

What you want more, im hung over people. Leave me be.

gutz, person, Mathew Farrer, ysambart, person, abe, birmo, BrianC, Luke

So there it is the end of night, and the end of more than few beers, and some really good food.

So we talked about it all, yes even you sweet neurotic jane, we did indeed talk about you.  We talked briefly about politics, until i was reminded no religion or politics in the bar. I pimped Lukes store as much as i could, avoided nicely admitting who i work for. We talked about jujitsu, about the future of the AoT’verse. Fuck I really hope he does what he plans to cause that will be hawesome! We talked about how Orin recommended a brick for a phone, and we recommended the n95. We talked about food, hotels and things to do in Canberra.

Apparently I’m the comic book guy, i always felt like more of a Barny guy really but c’est la vie.

I should mention the food. The food was top quality nosh up, really good pucker tucker mate.

Whats great about the Internet, is that all of these people have met and conversed before. We kinda new each other without having met each other at all. This is something non-internet people just don’t understand, you can have a relationship with someone you know from online. I mean I’m not going to give these guys a kidney but if they needed a job I’d try and find one for them. In-fact I’d damm well try hard. So all in all it was great fun and a good time was had by all.

Anways I’d give this meal 5 bubbles out of 5.

What do you mean its 07:00, wait, what on Monday… Crap i have to go to work. Dammit. Um yeah… so far Public Quests rock! and um RVR is so freaking easy i love it. Way better than WoW!

 Shit i gotta go to work.

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Its good. Im not sure why i have to put my “Auto-Attack” on my action bar, but otherwise it seems good, enough elements of wow to make it feel familiar but different enough and steeped in enough warhammer lore to keep my interest.

-Out
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