Wow! We had 5 hours of fun on Father’s Day with my gift of Heroes Incorporated! The game is fantastic – it’s got a solid foundation – chase down crime in city streets and roll the dice to beat it – bent by lots of juicy exceptions. There are superhero special powers, various gadgets, and “bonus cards” that you’re not always sure are worth using. Should you go all out crime fighting or try to stop the competition by throwing a super villian in their path? Everything you do has a cost, and it’s not often an easy choice – the sign of a great game. And while that’s all going on, you get to watch your superhero achieve greatness, gaining fighting power and gathering powerful gadgets. Fun cubed!
Category: Reviews
Some quick comments on enjoyable indulgences from the media firehose.
9.5 Blazing Saddles
Re-watched this old classic recently with boo, we were bustin’ a gut… it’s so hard to find stuff this brilliant any more… must have single-handedly made the word “nigger” laughable and irrelevant… big comic book larger-than-life laughs on a budget that was probably so small that Mel Brooks (and Richard Pryor and all the other writers) could get away with following impulses pretty much anywhere they went…
“‘scuse me while I whip this out…”
8.5 Carcasonne
I got Carcasonne for Andrea for Christmas based on three factors: it was one of the “classics” that has several expansion packs available; everyone at Games Galore recommended it; and it claimed to be a ‘great game for two players’. It was a steal, too, even with the Castles and Inns expansion pack.
It’s been a lot of fun. It’s not too complicated, but there are lots of choices as you build out a map of interconnected cities, roads, and farms.
I’m going to score our games as I rate them on several categories, higher always being better:
| Pure strategy (no luck involved): | 7 |
| Player paths intertwined: | 10 |
| Multiple strategies available: | 9 |
| Complexity: | 7 |
9.5 Pulse
I just realized, several toe-tapping hours after the end of this movie-trip-around-the-world, that there wasn’t a single spoken word of English in it! It was that good that I didn’t even notice. I want to see this one a hundred times more!
Fortunately, I found the
7.5 The Life of David Gale / 12 Angry Men
Old and new commentaries on capital punishment. Neither one has any final answers, of course, but at least they both attempt to provoke a few questions…
9.0 Pirates of the Carribean
Ahoy! You there! Go see this, ya scurvey-riddled scum, ya!
It was an awesome good time – Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom both ripped it up, big time…
9.0 High Fidelity
Jammed with wit, Ferris-Bueller-protagonist-as-narrator-style, and a running alternative-music subtext perfect for those of us reared on the late-70’s punk rock thingee. GREAT supporting characters, too, including John’s ever-present sister, Jack Black (whooop!), and extended cameos by Tim Robbins and Lisa Bonet. All that is mere icing on the cake of the main storyline, John Cusack’s study of the long line of girlfriends that have dumped him (at least in his mind). ’nuff spoilin!
9.0 Old School
Vince Vaughn is my man. Damn. And anything Will Farrell touches is gold. And blubber. And small red pubic hairs. Damn. (Oh, sorry, “EARMUFFS!”) Go see this movie!
9.0 Blue Crush
Nobody else liked this, but c’mon, beautiful badass girls kicking butt on beautiful waves? I can’t get enougha that! Until I looked it up on IMDB, I was totally convinced they just recruited three surfer girls for this flick. Go ahead and believe it yourself…we are we are…
9.0 LOTR The Two Towers
Saw the opening show of the second in the trilogy. The good stuff continues… make sure you catch Legolas get ON to this horse… I will say no more, go see it!
