bartholen said:
OT: I've only seen two episodes of Blue Mountain State and I was drunk while watching it, but something about its base concept rubbed me the wrong way. Depicting college as a neverending party where you never have to study, get laid with hot chicks every 20 minutes (because all women in college are nymphomanic swimsuit models, am i right?), can drink for 48 hours without ever getting a hangover and apparently can still afford all that alcohol just looks like too much of a fantasy to be relatable to me. Like I said, I've only seen two episodes and they were quite entertaining and funny while I watched them and I've never been to a real American college, so I might be wrong.
I'll field that one: That show is on Spike TV, a manly man's man channel for Men. I attribute it to being Lifetime for people who are predominantly masculine in their endeavors, as such, it's not plausible (except on COPS) to depict reality, the channel has an award show for video games every year, what reality do you live in where games are treated like the Oscars? College should be a party because the demographic likes the fantasy element of being men the same reason Lifetime treats its clientele like sex objects for pretty young guys who want to fool around in a style akin to the
Desperate Housewives or some much shite.
OT: High Fantasy Novels. I wouldn't consider
Game of Thrones high fantasy (D&D would be my sticking point, though I've always wanted to join a group and play it at least once), it's just a concept that is too strong to, I think, take seriously, but perhaps I'm out of my element by even approaching it seriously.
ALSO: Max Payne 3. I loved the first two Max Payne games, perhaps more than I thought I would, they ranged from hopeful homage to out and out pulp drama, and the Valkyr sequences are some of my favorite uses of modern horror by having just personal, non-fleshed out demons instead of real demons (The movie missed the point by involving Valkyr hallucinations within the picture). I actually loved those games.
So... Unless you are a corporate Whore, why would you make a sequel to, in my opinion, the two best games of the Ps2/Xbox generation? There is one line at the end of the game that told me Max's story was done, and it seems the producers and writers would love to gloss over that in favor of making another game. WHY??
ALSO: Forced Trilogies.
I'm talking games and movies and maybe some books that could have solved everything in the 2nd story, but people want more money, so let's make another one, of which I bring up Max Payne 3 and God of War 3. I loved the first God of War game, I think it's a perfect game, but the 2nd one rubbed me the wrong way by thinking, "Oh, we like more money, let's cop out at the last second and make the final battle not so final (I'm not in the mood to discuss Statute of limitations on GOW, game has been out for years)" and extend the game into a 3rd story?
It's this practice that makes me actually never finish the game, or "finish" them by the means of what the producers/directors say. I have avoided watching either of the two Alien movies post
Aliens. To me, that's an ending.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who likes the Elm Street Series, so I suppose I'm not immune from all kinds of studio tomfoolery like those previously mentioned.
