So, I hear Dead Rising came out last week. It’s not only one of the 360’s biggest games this year, but also one of this summer’s biggest on any console. If it came out in the mad rush of November I doubt it would have made any less an impact. I’ve been curious about it since I first heard about the “Zombies in a mall” concept, and when it started to look like the game lived up to the concept I’ve been honestly excited to play it. And then I ended up waiting a week and a half for my copy to arrive, but seeing as I did it to myself I really can’t complain.
Basically, the Redmond EB had a signing with Dead Risining’s director, Keiji Inafune. That’s Redmond, Washington, and the distance between there and where I’m typing is only a couple thousand miles. Much as I’d love to, I won’t be showing up in person to meet the man responsible for Dead Rising and MegaMan. I’d probably just babble inanely like I did when I met the director of Chibi Robo at E3.
On the plus side, I do actually have access to a phone. A few quick calls (details sketchy to protect the guilty but very cool people involved) and I’ve got a copy winging it’s way here. Via UPS ground. Across one full-sized continent.
Point is, it’s here and autographed. I do believe it’s finally zombie-killin’ time!
Thursday night 10:30 Snakes on a Plane showing in Louisville, Kentucky. For tonight, suburban doodoo-plex Tinseltown transformed into a theater in (white) Harlem. It was a boombox and twenty-five black people away from being a scene out of Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. Any other movie and it wouldn’t have flown, but this one made me want to bust out the popcorn chopsticks.
It’s exactly what you expected it to be. I’m sure Ronny Yu’s version would have been a riot, but David R. Ellis running shit isn’t a bad thing. Final Destination 2 had some of the best individual death scenes since the first couple of Omen flicks, and Snakes on a Plane has enough wild and ridiculous deaths to keep you rolling in the aisles.
Good news: they play the retarded story out with straight faces. They even threw David Koechner in there for good measure. This movie will probably lose something away from a room full of morons and a large Coke loaded with liquor, but why bother any other way?
Again, circa 200x.
Lettering and digital touch-up by Joseph Luster (2006)
Finally returning to the monthly report of sorts, here’s what I’ve been playing, watching, and listening to, as well as what I plan to buy for the month of August… (I know, I’m late.) This month I’ll probably be busy almost exclusively with PSP RPGs, as well as my backlog to finish up the summer drought.
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