IGN Video: IGN's Best of 2009 Videos Video - IGN 2009 Game of the Year

IGN Video: IGN's Best of 2009 Videos Video - IGN 2009 Game of the Year

THIRST (Movie Review)

"I think... we'll both go to hell. I have a terrible illness."

First, let me just get this out of the way this movie is phenomenal, easily the best vampire movie I have ever seen, and of course is directed by the legend of foreign horror Chan-wook Park (Old boy, Lady Vengence, Sympathy for Mr. Vengence, J.S.A). When starting the movie I was a little afraid that it would start slow, and have to introduce characters, inorder to introduce the storyline. Haha, was i wrong the movie started so fast and brought you right into the story with very little background, and worked perfectly! The actor who played the vampire was Kang-ho Song who has played in a number of Park previous films. Song has always been a favorite actor of mine with such outstanding performance in "Old Boy," and "The Host" I had high hopes that he would be amazing in this movie as well. Song performace in the thirst was of course nothing but spectacular, stealing blood from a hospital, eloping with a beautiful girl, and playing Mah Jong. Even the young girl played by Ok-bin Kim was delightfuly entertaining, from her shy manerisms to her unfortunate demise. I dont' feel like I should talk about the story, because im afraid i might give up too much information, in short this movie deserves to be watched, and not read about. So please, when your sitting down watching the twilight series with your girlfriend, tell her to close her eyes and switch the disks, you'll be doing your self a favor. Besides this movie has much more skin and blood then twilight, muchhhh more skin.

The Wrestler (Movie Review)

"The only place I get hurt is out there."

[Randy points away from the ring]
"The world don't give a shit about me."

A very interesting movie, with an extraordinary performance by Mickey Rourke, follows the tail of a washed out wrestler who his entire life has been dedicated to professional wrestling, until he has a heartattack and is told he can never wrestle again. While the premise of this story seems fairly unorginal, however its actruly quite interesting, the story follows Randy "The Ram" Robbinson who like i said is an ageing wrestler, and lives in a trailer cabin, does steriods, gets tan, dyes his hair, and goes to stripper bars for fun etc... untill he has a heart attack and trys to redue his life by trying to repair his relationship with his daughter, and even trys to ask out one of the local stripper dancers for a date. Story progresses without giving too much away he gets frusturated at the world and realises he can't do anything but wrestle. I know, I Know, this sounds really dumb but honestly give it a watch its pretty entertaning and fun, you'd be supprised how much blood is in this movie.

HEAT (Movie Review)

[Neil socks bank guy in the face, who tumbles backwards, and extracts the necessary key; the bank guy struggles in pain]

"Don't move! Sit there. Sit there! Let it bleed."

Uhmm well, first, i was told this movie is the ultimate action, crime thriller, and holds one of the bloodiest shoot outs ever. So i, put it on my netflix, came in the mail, and watched it (with one break, had to go to work). two hours and fourty five mins later i was more tired of watching i, then being excited to the very end. While the two performance from Al Pacino (the good Cop), and Robert DiNero(the bank robber) were beyond entertaining to watch the script and story line just dragggggggggggedddddddd on and on and on. The reason i felt it draged so much was because the story payed too much attention to Al Pacino falling apart marraige, and also is really good friends with his wifes daughter from another marriage, oh yeah the daughter was natlie portman who looked maybe 15? And then on the other side you've got Rober Dinero feeling all lonely because he has no one, even though hes stolen millions in cash and needs to do one more job inorder to go to fiji and "retire", but then he finds a really hot girl who went to Parson school of design and of course they fall in love, but like a stupid boy he dosn't tell her that hes a bank robber untill the end, and she flips a bitch on him. Just typing this out is making me tired easily a good hour of this movie couldn't have been edited down. Granted the connection between Pacino and Dinero is amazing, and seeing pacino try to put Dinero behind bars is fairly entertaining. And so of course this whole movie leads up to this bank job that is supposed to be really easy and a piece of cake for Deniro, but of course Pacino out thinks him and catches him trying to flee from the bank, and thus the reall fun starts. SOOOO much gunfire in downtown Los Angeles, buses driving off the side of the road, cops getting caped because the robbers got some massive firepower, civilians getting shot at while the police are trying to take carefull shots with out hitting anyone, its deffentily worth watching. Well thats all i really have to say about this movie, people and critics say its one of the best crime dramas ever made, what do i say? Go to screen selection click "the bank heist" watch it, then put this movie in your dvd player instead.

Bruno (Movie Review)

"I am going to be the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler."

This is going to be rather short, because this movie was very one note, a lot of dick swinging, sex jokes, and German accents. While parts of this movie were funny, mainly the celebrity encounters which had Paula Abdul, Ron Paul, and Harrison ford. But the rest of the movie didn't really make me laugh i was more saying "heh, thats embarrassingly funny" but i never laughed out loud. <- (pun not intended). In short im glad i didn't spend my money to see this in theaters it was a bore more like a bunch of clips from tv strung togethere to make a movie, Yawn.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Game Review)

"My Blaster Runs, Really, Really, Really, Hot."

Easily one of the Best Ratchet and Clank games i have ever played, from the voice acting to the graphical detail. The story follows right where we left off Ratchet and Clank are separated from some sort of time dimension. So a good portion of the game has two story lines going simultainusly, Ratchet finds another Lombax names Azimuth who is exiled because he unknowing helped the destruction of the Lombax planet. So both Ratchet and Azimuth team up to try and find Clank and this Great Clock which has the power to control time. Without giving away too much its a farily entertaining story filled with laughs and ginormous explosions. While the story was fullfilling it felt on the shorter side, when comparing it to the last game. In the last game it felt like you traveled to easily 25+ planets, while in this game it was a mere 13 planets. However this is not including all the space battles, and the side space moons you can explore for Zoni and Gun upgrade. So while playing, i still landed on all the moons and even completed the


Battle Arena and it still left me wanting a little more story continuation. Also while the explosions where exciting and left no screen tearing, or slowdown, some of the smoke animation was horrendous. So Horrendous that at times i couldn't tell if the developers left it in for a comical effect or if they simply overlooked it, because 98% of the game is fucking Gorgeous. Both the length and the smoke are the only things that let me down, but thouse are so minor. The ammount of guns and upgrades are mind numbing and it is alot easier to upgrade your weapons faster, which in turn wants you to purchase more weapons and see what there Maximum upgrade is. For example Buzz Blades -> Doom Blades, need i say more. Even the armor upgrades, just looked amazing bad ass, and not stupid comical like the last game.

The Villan Dr. Nefarious is the best, hes hallriously evil and steals the show completely i hope the next game has him. Before i forget, the boss fights... while they are pretty epic, Insomniac studios defenintly turned down the difficulty, i suggest playing on hard the first way through. In the End Story will have a pretty dramatic twist, even if its a little expected... A Crack In Time is Defentily one of the better Ratchet and Clank Games out there, definitely play it, its fun, its a riot, and you can Blow shit up.

Event Horizon Movie Review

" What about my ship? You can't just leave her! "
"I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship!"

When first watching the first thirty mins of this movie i thought it would have a rather excellent blend of sci-fiction and horror, sadly i was mistaken quickly. This movie is about a rescue team sent to find a missing ship that was pronounced dead to the public. 75 yrs pass and the crew find the ship. The ship is important because it can travel faster than the speed of light, by creating a black hole and jumping through it bending the light and time continuum. While the story seems fairly interesting for a somewhat generic scifi movie, it falls flat. while the crew is on board the gateway/blackhole/hyperspace drive opens up and a crew member falls in, and somehow comes back and is possessed (go figure). However instead of the crew member rising from the grave and secretly killing every one, he just ends up jumping out of the airlock almost killing himself. Then the crew bring up the clonclusion that the ship is alive and is somehow haunted by this gateway. Fastforwarding, the majority of the crew die from the "ship," the main doctor goes ape shit and becomes obsessed with the gateway, only to rip out his eyes and start killing more of the crew members who try to destroy it. Finally the whats left of the Crew ends up destroying the ship splitting it into two, and jump into cryochambers and fall asleep, only to wake up from another resucue team, then the screen goes black to this "THE END." Honestly the most abrupt ending i have ever seend, especially with the cliche ending words. Do your self a favor don't watch this movie, its silly, sure some parts are scary, but at the end of it you'll feel like you wasted quailty time. Just do this instead better story, way more fun, and better scares.