And Cars Might Fly...

The Reel Deal • Published 17 Feb 2011 14:20

If you have no interest in gaming you might want to get straight to the films.

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I've been grinding my way through Bioshock 2's Multiplayer eventually reaching Level 41.

There is nothing else like it. COD seriously bores me. People shooting each other, wow...

Bioshock 2's characters are instantly recognizable with unique voices. The plasmids and weapon combinations are smart and fun to experiment with. I really overlooked this when it came out a year ago.

One thing 2K need to do is look into their match making systems, especially when people pay to play DLC maps and rarely get an chance because someone in the lobby doesn't purchase it. It wastes the game for everyone. I say boot them.

Surely a option to pick DLC only maps wouldn't be too hard? Sort it out 2K.

On the Dead Space 2 front all but one achievement. Hard Core is going to be tough.

If you want to shoot slicers, big daddies or zombies in Left 4 Dead with me my gamertag is SandyK1LL. Twitter is @SandyK1LL.

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Blade Runner tweeted:

@SandyK1LL In L.A. 2019, android assassin Harrison Ford searches for four replicants who want to prolong their short lifespan. Origami fun.

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If there's anything I've learned from movies - well Back to the Future Part 2 anyway - it's that we'll all have flying cars by 2015. Blade Runner says we'll have androids iby 2019. So far the only android I've seen is my phone's operating system.

I scoffed when I read Blade Runner was prophetic. I suppose if you set aside the hover cars, unicorns and androids, it is. Ridley Scott didn't go all BBC Micro on the future like he did in Alien. The moving adverts, underlying violence and constant rain - it's practically Buchanan Street!

The fashion is quite funky as well. I really need to get me a trench coat...

The version I watched was The Final Cut. I don't know if there's much of a difference apart from the voice-over that's on the original version. My favourite mermaid, Daryl Hannah is a sexbot in all versions so I'm not affected.

Morally, Harrison's relationship with android Sean Young is ambigious. She thinks she's human, she has memories, technically she's flesh and blood... I'm guessing their Facebook status is: It's complicated.

I felt sorry for the replicants being told they had no way to cure their condition. Pretty bleak.

I'm sick of real life not being like The Jetsons. It sucks.

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@SandyK1LL Charlton Heston travels light speed into the future. The spaceship lands on a planet ruled by apes. It's a madhouse! Liberté détruire...

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I'm sure it would have been a twist on a par with Saw, The Usual Suspects, or The Sixth Sense.

Personally, I blame The Simpsons.

You maniacs! You ruined it! Goddamn you!

I think they must have given up on keeping the whole Statue of Liberty ruins a secret,. Seriously, the DVD is a huge give away. I find it bizarre how a spaceship which has travelled through the vacuum of space can so easily spring a leak.

Never mind, I'm digging composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Charlton Heston gets all the tough roles. I wouldn't mind spending days upon days in a cage with Linda Harrison, 9 till 5. She's like a classy Lacey Turner with the eyes of Audrey Tautou. ^_^

I honestly don't mind that there's a god awful Mark Walberg remake. But why remake it? Sorry, "re-imagine" it.

What does annoy me is the nonsensical ending. Why exactly would apes on Earth share a culture that mirrors mankind's so much to produce an Abraham Lincoln ape?

Stupid movie >_<

Anyway, something I didn't know about the remake is that Charlton and Linda both have cameos. I appreciate things like that.

Good old Tim Burton supporting his wife. He just wants to find Helena Bonham Carter work!

It really didn't need a remake. One Million Years BC. Now there's a film that should be remade - um, again...

Next time, remake a better planet. Something dinosaury perhaps.

To sum up.

FAIL

I CAN HAZ REMAKE?

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The List So Far...

1. White Heat.

2. Sunset Boulevard.

3. Ace In The Hole.

4. His Girl Friday.

5. The Thing From Another World!

6. Casablanca. X

7. Training Day.

8. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

9. Cool Hand Luke.

10. The Big Sleep.

11. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid,

12. The French Connection,

13. The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)

14. Rocky.

15. Soylent Green (is people!)

16. Planet of The Apes (1968) X

17. The Great Escape.

18. A Bridge Too Far.

19. Citizen Kane.

20. Lawrence of Arabia.

21. Doctor Zhivago.

22. The Dirty Dozen,

23. Angels With Dirty Faces.

24. Shane.

25. Red River.

26. Executive Decision

27. Dirty Harry. X

28. When Harry Met Sally X

29. Absence of Malice.

30. Outland.

31. The Man Who Would Be King.

32. Flight of the Phoenix.

33. The Departed.

34. JFK.

35. The Paper.

36. Naked Gun.

37. Reign Over Me.

38/39. Miracle of 34th Street. (Original and remake)

40. The Italian Job. (1969)

41. Zulu.

42. The Ipcress File,

43. Maltese Falcon.

44. Where Eagles Dare.

45. The Exorcist.

46. The Omen,

47. Four Weddings and a Funeral.

48. The Haunting (1962)

49. The Odd Couple. X

50. Blade Runner. X

51/52/53. The Godfather Trilogy.

54. Halloween.

55. Magic.

56. The Lion In Winter.

57. Goodbye Girl.

58. High Plains Drifter

59. Stagecoach.

60. Twelve Angry Men

61. Bullitt

62. Mystic River

63. The Princess Bride

64. Strangers on a Train.

65. A Shot in the Dark

66 - 100 (Douglas is working on it.)

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