The Triple Threat!

Some may call it impossible, some may say its foolish, some may say its near daring, but i will dare to do it... The triple review of three arguable classics. Yes that's right i said triple, shits about to get epic. The subject of my review are three forms of media (putting my degree to use there) that have really captured my interest in the last couple months/weeks. We have the newly released Christopher Nolan Film Inception, the music phenomena Drake's first album Thank me Later, and the hauntingly beautiful flash game Robot Unicorn Attack. Though all are very different there are surprising similarities between the three.

Inception seems to be the talk of the town as of late. It seems to have captured everyone's imagination and got every amateur film expert coming up with their own theories of the film etc etc. Now I'm not going to even describe the outline of the film because its really difficult to do the intricate story justice in a coupla sentences. Lets just say that it mixes the cliches of the best heist films (thats right films) and plot of a psychological thriller and turns out a film which is epic on the grandest of stages...which happens to be the subconscious!

Drake is the new and up and coming rapper who seems to be holding the whole weight of rap on his half Jewish shoulders. Here at the blog we've chucked a lot of references to Drake and had some fun at his expense. Now his eagerly anticipated first album has come out. What we have is a semi journey that spans from the lowly points of being famous to the pros of 'ballin outta control', and constantly throughout there are sprinkled gems of how to please yo chick.

Robot Unicorn Attack tells the story of a unicorn running and that's about it. All you do is press 'Z' and 'X', that's it. Theirs no real winning just losing. As you run the obstacles come at you faster and faster until you eventual crash. Though this sounds extremely stupid therein lies a deep beauty to the freedom of running, of what it really means to be horse creature.

Lets begin with the idea of ' doin it big'. All three of these in one way or another have done this and done it well. Inception has some of the most impressive stunts, sets and CGI you are gonna see this year. Two scenes that especially come to mind are the scenes in which the city of Paris folds upon itself and when a badass Joseph Gordon Levitt has a zero gravity fight in a hotel corridor. Inception really makes good use of its setting in the mind and takes liberties of the bending of logical science and over the top action, Nolan really shows what a wild imagination and a heccers budget can really do. Drake has really used his new 'baller' status to rope in the best producers and featurings that one could think of. Here you have the likes of Kanye, Jay Z, Jeezy, Alicia Keys, T.I. The Dream etc etc. This seems like a double edged sword because at once we have an extremely over the top colorful album, but on the other hand we have an album that can't quite keep up with quality control. Consequential the album varies really depending on how much you like the featuring artist as Drake is solid throughout. With the Unicorn game i don't know what happened from the flash games from my past to now but they have some how triple folded. The Unicorn game has some of the best animations I've seen in flash. Also with the assist of the almost too catchy Erasure Hit "Always" this game is like crack. When you play you'll constantly come back for the song, but then eventually sucked into trying to overcome an unbeatable game.

Alright I'm not not gonna lie, what I'm about to say next is a pretty big call but here goes nothing. Okay this might sound a little deep but I'm a deep guy so its all good, at the heart of all three of these things is a real simplicity. In terms of Inception it seems to be shrouded in complexity, abstract concepts and inconceivable action scenes. But at its core what we really have is the classic story of the jaded hero, a man guilt stricken over the death of his wife and his longing to go home. This is a story that has been told a hundred times and will probably be told another thousand, but its one that really appeals to people's fascination with tragedy. This might seem like I'm taking something away from Inception but its is actually quite the feat, to make this type of story fresh and familiar at the same time takes skills...so to Nolan kudos my friend (yea we're friends, JYEAHH). Drake's album is one that is one in which you can probably have a D&M to, go to the strip club and then get some nookie, and really isn't that what everyone wants? It might seem drake is heaps 'deeper' than any other rapper but his not, he just seems to wear his heart on his sleeve openly and rap shit that 5 years ago would've labeled him a bitch (or BIATCH), and really is there anything simpler than saying whats on your mind? (i do also realize how complex this can be but this is my review and i can say whatever the fugg i want). Unicorn game... If you looked up the definition of simple is the dictionary this game would be there staring you in the face, and then Erasure would appear on a unicorn and grab you by the hand, from there he would lead you on mystical journey in which you'd collect fairies and dash through stars forever!

So yea that's it, three bad reviews rolled up into a even shitter one. Here are videos from all three. COMEHITTHIS!

Random Phone Pictures (Part 1)

These are random pics from my phone:

This is charlie smacking out like a pro

This was a presentation my group had to give last semester, we were the last to present so of course...no one was there.

Everyones reaction to this is "hes such a ballllll"

This is borrott drunk (a.k.a LUDA) at lane cove maccas who wanted to take a pic of this, cause ronald mcdonald "looked evil"

This is a pic of the pay n spray.. its a place in epping coles where were get smashed. (although its a hot spot now)

Twilight SPEEEEESSSSSHHH (part 3)

Hmmm, theres always something about this time of the year. The airs a bit crispier, people are more snugged up in there winter best, the trees are a eerie stone grey and the squeal of tweens (and one very big mexican) can be heard near any big movie complex. Wait a second, what was that last part? oh...mah...gawd, it can't be that time of year already can it? Yes i think it is! New Twilight already shiteee!

We finally have the third installment in what people are calling 'the saga' or as just like to call it series. After the furst two arguably classic films (and i cannot stress the word arguably enough here) could this one match if not better the other two? The answer in my book is easily a 'yes', yes it can.

To catch you up to speed here the story basically centers itself around the love triangle of Bella (pasty chick), Edward (even pastier dude), and Jacob (always, and i mean always shirtless dude) and all the awkwardness that comes with being teens and sexy as shit (yea i said it, sue me!). All the whiles theres the ethical and moral decisions over whether Bella should become a vampire, the growing army of vampires coming to kill her, and the uneasy truce between vampire and werewolfves to ensure their survival! Woah let me just take a breath there for one second. It sounds like there is alot going on in this film, and in a sense there is. But it never feels like any of these are being thrown at you all at once, in fact the film is paced out pretty decently. Though towards the end it would've been a bit sicker if they had chucked in like at least 5 more minute of action in there.

Which leads me to the next point of the action and graphics. Word on the street is that this film has alot more action than the last two, and i can personally a test to this. The action in this flm is pretty kool and is able to find a nice balance between being sorta PGish while still retaining a sense of action from a horror movie. If you don't know what i'm saying look up director David Slade's last film 30 days of night (one of mah favourites, just like Tupac's changes, FEEL MEH!) and you'll get a good feel for what i'm talking about. The graphics in the film have less of the really really fake feel and just kinda look kool, the wolves especially look alot less Ice Age like. Overall a lot better than the last film.

Alrite lets get down to what we all wana hear. First and foremost Kirsten Stewart (or as i now wana call her 'Pasty Flanni') is back and man is she somehow prettier than before. In between the last film and this one i got kinda ceebs for Stewart's whole awkward pastiness goin on. But now with watching this film it seems i'm right back in the thick of it. Here shes considerable less stiff (theres a seedy joke in there somewhere) and alot more loose. Though i'm using this quite liberally as shes still got that whole awkward delivery goin on where she seems to say the beginning of a sentence really slow and then does a really fast rush at the end. They've also seemed to have given her flannis only in the brown to grey colour spectrum, needless to say i was diggin it hard!

Robert Pattinson is back as Edward Cullen. I duno, nothing has really dramatically changed here, his more or less the same as before. But now they've seemed to taken away the petticoat steez he had in the first film and manly suit shit he had in the second film and only given him flannis, 'V' necks, and generic shirts and tight jeans. For some reason also they've given him a really 'just born' sheen, where his always kinda like wide eyed (even when squinting) and shining in the sunlight, as drake says "and all the girls that play me eat yo muthafuckin hearts out its drizzzzyyy).

Taylor Laurant is Jacob, or should i say shirtless. The way i see it is that you can kinda tell the immediacy of any danger in the film to how much clothing he is wearing. That is to say for the film for about 90% of the film he is shirtless and leaning on shit (i'm not even exaggerating this number either, i swear!).

What made this considerably better was that a couple of days later i re-watched New Moon for the first time, and i have to say this one is quite a bit better. Obviously it seemed inevitable that i would like this movie, though it seems funny that for any movie series that the third film would be the best film (actually in the history of movies i think that this is the only time this is the case). It seems like a cliche to say that i will receive shit for liking this film, but hey i probably will. So BIGS UP Twilight saga, you have successfully been able to live up to my expectations while still probably being unable to convert more people to your mystical charm!

Last installment here we come! COMEHITHIS!!


P.S. if you don't intend in watching any of these films just watch this video to sum it all up for you.

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And don't think i forgot about your boy Justin Chon, nicca i got yo back!

Cause there ain't no party like a media party cause a media party don't stopppppp!!!

Well this seems well overdue, but about 3 weeks ago my uni form (which if you haven't worked out by now is media) had this exhibition/party thingy. And for the sake of the blog (and because i don't care for my uni reputation) i decided to get the Comehithis gang to come. What was to come was a very fun, if not very drunk night.

To get an idea of the night the exhibition was kind of a way for us students to show off our own personal works before we had to do group work all next semester/enter the real world (ceebs!). The media was basically spread up into four different fields of sound, video, animation and web pages. Really this acted as a way for us media students to have one last drink up before shit gets serious.

One of the web exhibitions.

I was a part of the video group, now get this. Theres like 150 media students, but in video we only had like 20 students. I know crazy right!?! But that ended up being a blessing in disguise as we ended up being a very laxed, if not ceebs group. So basically while everyone else was breaking their backs and panicking we were kinda just chillin like we do (JYEAHH).

If you note in a number of the pictures i'm very drunk if not fried, and you're probably wondering "hey isn't anyone else drinking?". Well to answer your question yes they are, but i had to hold it down for the blog/ryuto so i went hard!!(note that for a normal person i would have had very little in fact).

like this one...

...and this one...

...this was a different exhibition, but same result.

Now this photo isn't here for the pretty girls in the front but rather the character in the back. I like to imagine his saying "Oi youse kents, ima tea bag all youse. ur such deero kents!"

So a good night had by all. BIGS UPS to all the media students out there, we deed it! And thanks to the Comehithis gang for really holding down the drinking front, and for embarrassing me in front of all my peers. Youse guys have really out done your selves this time!COMEHITHIS!

Shout out to big boy Keno and the CBF league. Yes that is the name, i shit you not! I could not even make that up i swear.

P.S. Drake's album is out in stores now, its a solid if not slightly lady aimed album. If you just want to ceebs it and listen to not heavy/d&m music cop it now.

Or you can cop this bootleg this version i found in the streets, whose dat handsome nicca on the cover!?!