Dix

Marcin Iwiński of Polish studio CD Projekt Red says the omission of Poland from the list of countries supported by the Xbox One at launch is "a sad situation."

View Article

Seguimos con malas noticias acerca del mundo de las novedades en consolas. Y es que resulta que en realidad las nuevas generaciones, aunque van a resolver muchos de los problemas actuales y probablemente nos trasladarán a una nueva experiencia en el mundo de los videojuegos, de momento están dando más sustos que alegrías. Y en este caso, la que vuelve a dar la nota es la XBox One.  En realidad no es ni mucho menos la primera a la que le ocurre, pero si que es verdad que lleva varias y que la comunidad está poniendo el grito en el cielo. Primero que los juegos de segunda mano no podrán usarse. Luego la conexión cada 24 horas. Y ahora, las limitaciones geográficas.

Y es que resulta que microsoft, al menos en sus últimas declaraciones ha dado a entender que la XBox One solo podrá ser utilizada en los países señalados en verde, que suman un total de 21, y que por echar un vistazo en cuanto a los d habla hispana, se queda fuera prácticamente toda Latinoamérica, solo entran Brasil y México. Pero en Europa no mejoran las cosas porque buena parte del centro-este no podría usar la XBox One y nuestro vecino Portugal, tampoco.

Sobre los motivos de esta decisión que parecería absurda en cuanto a la poca distribución en el mercado del nuevo modelo XBox One, no se han pronunciado oficialmente, aunque la verdad es que podría tener mucho que ver con la relación de la necesidad de conectarse y el gran control que Microsoft ejercerá sobre el hardware. Ya veremos en qué acaba todo esto, pero creo que para muchos comprar este aparato por muy revolucionario que sea empieza a ser una pérdida de tiempo. 

stabdaddroog:

This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen.

wake-up-kid:

runwhenisayrunfightwhenisayfight:

ahorsecalledhonour:

fixthefisherking:

banjaxed:

nightlifemingus:

nosdrinker:

hypnotiqradiance:

If you don’t get this reference, you’re too young for tumblr.

are you fucking kidding me pixar puts out a movie ever year a baby would get this reference

it’s not pixar it’s a reference to that time in 1994 when lamps became sentient humanoids

many were lost that day

It was a grim day for mankind. My parents took refuge in a cave and thus saved us from certain death; we lived close to a lamp factory at the time and the surrounding region was utterly devastated in the conflict.

My brother fought one off using only an egg whisk and a pogo stick.

Only 90s kids remember the Lampocalypse

My father still has the scars from where one stole his kidney

Ironically, it was a dark time.

I was young in the 90s but I proudly served in the war against the lamps then. I would have had another life but I got a lamp to the knee.

(Wonder?)WOMANLY

psdo:

dragonklaw82:

Gina Carano is a name a lot of people talk about when they talk about the possibility of Wonder Woman in a DC live action movie. I haven’t seen her acting (Fast and Furious 6, Haywire), but she is a former American Gladiator and an honest-to-God champion MMA fighter on top of being built like an Amazon goddess IRL. Good lord, can you even imagine? I’m going to see if any of her stuff is on Netflix. If she can act she’s fucking perfect.

Gina Carano is a name that my muscular lady googlin’ fingers know by heart.

justinvictor7:

Message From Space is a kitschy riff on Star Wars from Japan. It’s not a beat for beat retelling of Lucas’ film, but there are a lot of commonalities, including a John Williams-esque score, a plucky robot, characters named Hans and Meia, and a grand finale involving ships racing through a big space canyon in order to deliver the death blow to the bad guy’s base. The special effects are never up to Star Wars’ level, but they’re not too shabby in places either. To modern eyes the film might look cheap but it was evidently the most expensive film ever made in Japan up until that point. The ships are pretty cool looking, including one that does a bit of Transformers/Voltron action.

The cast is made up of actors unknown to me with two big exceptions. Vic Morrow  is on hand as an eccentric, robot-loving war hero. He takes his rather weird part seriously and does a nice job with what he’s given. Sonny Chiba is also here, in a smallish but important role, and he gets to do some energetic sword fighting in the final act.

My favorite thing about the movie is the production design, which was at least partially supplied by influential manga creator Shotaro Ishinomori (Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009). The multi-horned big bad, his robo-crone mother and their viking-helmeted henchmen are all really unique, totally visually divorced from the Nazi aesthetic of their Star Wars counterparts. I enjoyed spending time with the villains much more than I did the main protagonists, a quartet of shouty, snotty twenty-somethings who spend too much time making lame jokes and arguing.

Message From Space isn’t perfect by any stretch. It’s slight and derivative and silly. And it actually comes off as way more infantile than Star Wars ever did. I don’t even like it as much as Luigi Cozzi’s crazy Starcrash, which is more inventive and has more grindhouse charm. Still, it’s enthusiastic and surprisingly earnest for a blatant rip-off. It should make for a fun watch if you like vintage Japanese sci-fi/fantasy or are in the mood for a bit of epic, junky space opera.

If you want to discuss this film, come join us at Cinephobia’s Mortuary.