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Anyone played the multi beta yet? I've got it on download, so will hopefully give it a go later. It ends July 14, so get it asap. The beta for 2 was a bunch of fun, I seem to remember

I watched them both on blu-ray and they look and sound incredible. The next one hasn't even got a JP release date yet though, so it'll be a long way off for us. Then there's another one simply entitled FINAL which promises a completly new ending

Following on from this I watched the 2nd part last night, You can (not) Advance, and ... :shock: It is amazing. The story generally follows the same route as the series, except all the Angels and the battles have been re-designed, they expand on a lot of ideas from the series, and the whole plot flows fantastically well. I mentioned in that post above about there being too much emotion in Rei's voice - turns out this is totally purposeful and isn't simply a change of voice actor, her character has a slight, but significant, change in personality. Most interesting though is that they've added a new child from Europe, and made 2 HUUUUUUUUGE changes to the story from the series, and it works fantastically well. The preview for the next one looks just brilliant. ugh so many superlatives. Honestly if you like the series as much as I do (and I love it) you pretty much have to see it. 2 hours of constant nerdgasms...so much fan service...

Have you listened to the Moon Duo LP? Guitarist/vocalist from them (guy with the great beard) and this Japanese chick making incredibly delightful dreamy shoegaze. One of my favourites of the year so far. For anyone who wants to give it a go clicky

Yeh, saw Kyuss (minus the ginger chappy obv) a while back Most significantly for me on the horizon, 2 bands I never thought I would see again; Leftover Crack, who are doing a few shows other than the festivals in the summer. I thought they had died (literally in the case of Stza) a couple of years back, and was quite surprised to hear of new dates inclusing Reading/Leeds. I was big time into them around 16/17, smoking crack, killing cops, what a blissful existence. Better than them though is Capdown, a band who did properly finish. I never ever thought I would see them again, one of my favourite bands ever, as they all grew up and went and had kids, etc. Doing a bunch of shows aswell as a few festivals. Skanking in the pit. Quality. Another throwback to my younger days, but unlike LoC the 'Down are actually really really good god capdown takes me back! they were qualty! I know what you mean pal. First time I saw thm was nearly ten years ago, crazy! I used to use their forum, which boob used too, and got on the guest list for some of their shows. I felt so special. Turned up and every man and his dog was on the **** 'guest list' Here's the dates they have coming up; If you were into the scene at the front end of the 00's you'll probably be familliar with alot of the support acts. Although I hear Mouthwash was very suddenly and explosively split-up, and cancelled all their upcoming shows, including Reading/Leeds! I hope to see them a few times - definately in Brum and Liverpool, and the Manc show looks fantastic with Cheif playing too (hopefully they can fill the L'Pool spot if Mouthwash aren't playing). And in November, Capdown AND The Filaments. Man oh man. JD Conspiracy are Duff Muffin btw, they changed their name and are now more popular than most anything in the scene, 'cept maybe Sonic Boom Sucks uh sorry Six I can not waaaaaaaait

Yeh, saw Kyuss (minus the ginger chappy obv) a while back Most significantly for me on the horizon, 2 bands I never thought I would see again; Leftover Crack, who are doing a few shows other than the festivals in the summer. I thought they had died (literally in the case of Stza) a couple of years back, and was quite surprised to hear of new dates inclusing Reading/Leeds. I was big time into them around 16/17, smoking crack, killing cops, what a blissful existence. Better than them though is Capdown, a band who did properly finish. I never ever thought I would see them again, one of my favourite bands ever, as they all grew up and went and had kids, etc. Doing a bunch of shows aswell as a few festivals. Skanking in the pit. Quality. Another throwback to my younger days, but unlike LoC the 'Down are actually really really good

Eh, they let ECW 'invade' when they were in trouble to financially to give them more exposure (in fact, wasn't it to coincide with the first PPV in an attempt to boost buys?), and it worked. Letting the titles go anywhere reeks of WCW though, as said above, he'd never do that. And as for giving him a push after this - he is a multi-time world champion, right? The fact that they have the guy as heel when he is straight edge says it all for me. Wouldn't promoting a drug free way of life be a wonderful thing to do for the kids watching at home? Yeah, but what they actually do is make him the bad guy and if anything actually poke fun it. He'll go for awhile, Jericho will come back I hear, then maybe a few months down the line Punk will get a face turn on his return

Of course it's a work, Vince knows exactly what the internet fans will make of it, the guy is a genius. Punk is quality though, I don't see it often but I did see an episode a few months ago when he quoted a line from a Fugazi song Did he ever do the Pepsi Plunge after he left the indie circuit? That was around the time I lost interest in wrestling in general, but it was thought he'd never use not only due to the name, but mostly due to the fact it makes HHH's finisher real weak. I just watched it too. Anyone remember when The Dudleyz left ECW and were tag champs, they cut a 'shoot' in which they said they were taking the titles and laying them at the feet of Vince. It was great. Naturally, they lost the titles and they didn't go anywhere I think a similar thing happened when Taz left too? The lack of a mention of TNA in the 'shoot' makes me believe more than anything that it's a work. Vince would never ever allow them to be mentioned, but the others are fair game

I think i was bigging this film up about 6 months ago. Nothing special but a decent film, its main asset was at least trying to do something different, its not really a genre specific film. It did well in the fact that (given it was about 3 people stuck on a ski lift) it didn't seem completely far fetched and had that air of 'based on a true story' about it. The sense of unrelenting hopelessness after all the lights on the mountain were turned off was very effectively acheived though. I mentioned the good half an hour - luckily this was the middle portion of the film. It's a film that uses an image on its promo material/cover that isn't actually in the film at all, which doesn't make any sense. It shows one of the guys hanging off the bottom of the car while the girl is still sitting there, and that never happens. Which, to the potential viewer, is cheating them really. We just wanted to watch something, anything, that sounded remotely interesting last night on Lovefilm player. So glad they've put it on PS3, I get no end of use out of it. Picking a movie based purely on the genre, name, and first line of the synopsis can have interesting results. On an average weekday night with nothing better to do though, you don't mind watching a really trashy film (not the Frozen was)

I watched the movie "Frozen" last night. It's about 3 people who get stuck on a ski lift, at night, and everyone goes home, and the ski resort is closed for the whole next week. Oh and there is a snow storm and wolves running around on the mountain below them. Basically I think someone saw that bit in Dumb n Dumber where the guy gets his tongue stuck to the ski lift, and thought 'that would make an excellent feature length film'. I was expecting it to be completely terrible, but it wasn't quite as bad as that. Lost it's way in the last half an hour, and you could skip the first half an hour, which leaves you will half an hour that is alright.

Never played them, have no intention of starting from what I've seen of them.

I think there's plenty of room to be able to enjoy anime and not be a total freak about it. Now J-Pop and 'visual kei', that IS something I can't get at all, because it is completely shit as far as I can tell. As for why I 'get' anime, well I really couldn't say. My introduction was through Japanese and anime styled videogames, most notably FF7. Eva was the first full series I watched, and well I suppose I just thought big robots fighting aliens was coooooool. Now though, save for Eva, I'm much more inclined to watch anime that isn't about space and robots and invading aliens and as for that cutesy stuff, no I can't get my head around those ones. Except for The Moomins ^_______^ Chindie does that mean you didn't/don't like Shin Megami Tensei, specifially Persona? Quality games man.

You forgot the most important ingredient, pedophilic, but yes

I watched You are (not) alone yesterday, the first Eva reboot movie. It was actually quality, although some of the voices have changed on the English dub. Far too much emotion in Rei's voice she is practically a robot ffs. There aren't many differences from the original series, although the introduction of Kaoru before Asuka is interesting. And the animation is just incredible. Think I've got the bug again

Marseille away "The 2011/2012 away top is primarily blue in colour and contains street art design to reflect the life of the city of Marseille." Goodness!

Fun ! Try mastering heli-flight, taking people on suicide missions, and you will be everyones best friend. I can't compare COD to BFBC2 though, I only play the latter.

Have you seen Higurashi? So **** up One of my favourite series' Gantz had a really messed ending too ugh. And the ending of Berserk which is also one of my favourites. I havent kept up with new series and that for a few years though, in fact the only anime I've seen in the last couple of years was Nadesco and Paranoia Agent. Still buy Sadamoto's Eva manga, as the Eng volumes have been slowly appearing over the last 8 or so years.

So Robin won't be playable in the main game, but in challenge maps only, and you get the code for the DLC from new copies. In the US it's an exclusive for Gamestop (i think)

Ah man those noisy cicada's. You might like RahXephon too, I seem to remember it being the closest thing I ever saw to Eva. Apparently the new new re-imagining movies are going to take quite a different take on the story to the original series, although 1.1 was just the same as the early episodes. My personal favourite interpretation of End of Eva was that it wasn't Asuka at all, but a representation of Shinji's ideal partner. Asuka's looks, but if I remember rightly the eye colour is wrong and is actually blue - the colour of Rei's eyes. I also really really liked the theory that Shinji's destrudo (opposite of libido) had by the end of series over taken his persona completly, so he chose to destroy the entire human race and start over again as 'adam' on a primordial Earth FLCL is my favourite anime ever though. Have we got a nerdy weeaboo japanophile thread? Sorry movie lovers!

I enjoyed BFBC2 alot, played it loads but havent touched it in recent months. Used to play medic and was always near the top of the leader board, but seemed to be rubbish at everything else. Maybe the teasing about nubes playing medic was true...:cry:

imusntrunaway imusntrunaway imusntrunaway imusntrunaway ... *SPUNKS ON HAND* :cry: ASUKA ! haha. Yeh it is great. I only ever got into Gantz and Berserk other than Eva as far as series go. I didn't ever get into the ultra ka-wa-ii stuff, nor the series that never ever ever end. OH YH I watched The Wrestler over the weekend. It was good. Didn't expect it to be as slow paced as it was, enjoyed it. Necro Butcher's acting was spot on, sir.

Urotsukidoji. Beat you to it ! It is great though. Everyone should buy it. Tentacle rape for all. I did enjoy End of Eva too. Especially the bit when the Spear of Longinus goes up Rei/Giant Rei/Adam's muff. Was totally fascinated by that series for many years. Read up on a whole bunch of Kabala related things that are referenced in the show like the Tree of Sephiroth, etc. Needless to say I am quite happy I don't take much of an interest in Anime anymore. Do continue to collect the manga though, but as I mentioned previously the continued rehashes/re-edits/re-masters for Eva are way OTT.

Where is Vivre sa Vie?? I have the 2 box sets simply entitled 'Godard' and then the ones that are missing in those from the '60s collection' - Masculin Feminine and 2 or 3 things I know about her. Love his films, especially everything with Anna Karina, so the absence of it from an 'ultimate collection' is a bit shitty. Still, the price is good for that 5cm per second and Millenium Actress, maybe Eva but I'll always prefer my original AVD (not remastered, not platinum ed.) set to all the rehashes that keep appearing. It's worse than FFVII for that. Oh and Urotsukidoji too, it's a masterpiece, up there with the greatest works of our time for me

Toy Story is great, but it's not a patch on Three Colours, which is the best trilogy in film history

Christ, they won't have time to think about us with Leicester at home and then SHA away starting their season