So it’s happened, Tim Burton has failed dismally to re-create Planet of the Apes. With rumours of re-shoots being still done in the couple of weeks before release and preview screenings being pushed back it was inevitable really. Planet of the Apes and its sequels were children of the 60’s & 70’s, political films which dealt with race and social opression. At the time they were powerfull stuff hidden behind the facade of a Sci-Fi action movie. In Hollywoods current moraly bankrupt climate though the politics have been ditched and the surface sheen is everything. Its a real shame that Hollywood’s film making community no longer have enough courage in their political convictions to produce great movies which still have something to say about the real world we live in..
Some of you in the windows world may have had the pleasure of getting aquainted with a particularly virulent strain of worm by the name of SirCam over the past week. For those of you who are unaware of this massively malicious mobile code, here’s a quick breakdown of it’s finer aspects:
In today’s games a lot of our imagining is done for us, so there’s still something very intriguing about the long-retired genre of text-adventuring. The king of the interactive fiction hill was undoubtedly Infocom, with Zork as their crowning glory. Adventure Collective has interviews with original staffers Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky. You can play many of the classics online through the wonder of java, or if you prefer the MUD feel, try telnet (if it’s not too busy that is).
Richard Donner has confirmed he is working on a Goonies sequel. Expect to see the return of Mouth, Chunk, Data and One Eyed Willy in this follow up to one of the greatest kids movies of all time..
Further to my post from yesterday, an additional movie trend is that of turgid comic-book adaptations. Thank the lord then that Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff seem to have managed the impossible and created a comic-book film for love not money.
In the run-up to the release of Peekabooty, the Cult of the Dead Cow have released two statements in order to clarify their position and announce the inaugration of their Hacktivismo offshoot. Scary to think that the future use of the internet is being defined by ill-informed governments behind closed doors, and for the most part without the publics knowledge. And reassuring to know that groups like cDc aren’t going to stand for it.
Yet another mediocre excuse for a game-based film is on it’s way in the form of Resident Evil: Ground Zero, directed by Paul “Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon” Anderson. But think of what could have been! R.E. was once to be scripted by king of undead-horror himself George A. Romero and you can even read the script that they callously threw away.
Following a link from NTK I came across this fantastic Palm Pilot Mod.. And here’s something for the laydeees..
Test your smarts with PlanetDreamcast’s Sega Trivia Test. If that’s no match for your mad-skillz try the follow-ups on Saturn, Master System, Treasure and Sonic.
Amazon UK have Doom for Gameboy Advance listed as a November release!!! Lets just hope it looks better than the other FPS offerings GBA has coming its way..
