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  1. So which one was better? No spoilers about the shows or anything, just a question for those who might've already seen both

  2. This one really seems to be getting a whole lot of praise and even though criticism appears aswell, the amount of the awesome seems to outweight the amount of the suck. What really sucks, though, is that it's the first time I'd actually buy a SmackDown game since 2005 (since I don't even have one for the Xbox, which is my current console) and I don't have the money >_< I need to get my hands on this soon though, the storyline creator thingy sounds incredible and, hey, I've skipped three of these games, I'm sure quite a lot is different anyway from SvR '06 aside from the roster.
  3. Recliner of Rage was the sex. "PIERRE BERNARD'S RECLINER OF RAAAAAGGEEEE!"... "You're feeling comfortable Pierre?" "Comfortable and furious, Conan." Well, I haven't had the chance to watch a full episode yet since NBC doesn't believe people outside the States ought to have access to the internet But I've been able to watch some clips here and there and it's been good; Clinton's "message" from the first episode was hilarious, as was Obama forgetting Conan's name. Richter really adds to the show aswell even if it's not so great when him and Conan occasionally talk loudly at the same time.
  4. Coming from a guy who adored the hell out of American Idiot, I've only been truly able to enjoy Song of the Century (yeah... probably not a good sign...), the title track, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker and maybe The Static Age so far. Everything else seems to be so-so, somewhat enjoyable but just doesn't entirely click. Maybe the whole thing will grow on me, sure hope so. A lot of the songs have a really... well, I mean, I understand that in general a band's sound can't be expected to change all that much during the years, but things like the Static Age's opening drums and many others just sound like leftover material from American Idiot. Not to say they sound worse, but they do sound exactly same. To my ear Restless Heart Syndrome's guitar part after Armstrong mutters "...know your enemy..." sounds incredibly similiar to parts of Boulevard of Broken Dreams. The chorus of Static Age sounds like Church on Sunday, etc. I mentioned I liked East Jesus Nowhere, it's mostly because of the melodies. The lyrics are almost embarassing to listen to. It's all so... "oh we're fucked up, fuck politics, fuck everything around us". It's like, everything, entirely everything is rotten and corrupted and spoiled and Lord knows what else. Like said above, truly bring to mind some 14 year old tortured emo. As a matter of fact, it sounded like a Chris Jericho promo in sung form at times with all the talk about parasites, hypocrites, sycophants and conspiracies Well, they never used "sycophants" I believe...
  5. Some people class say, Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, Dilated People, Kanye, Mos Def etc under Hip-Hop, and then Biggie, NWA, Eazy E, 50 Cent and so forth under rap. Now, with those examples it's easy to see a distinction.. but with Public Enemy, Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem and similar, the line is a little cloudier. Personally I try not to subdivide them, it just took me a little longer to get into the more aggressive rap style of some artists. I believe KRS-One said it best with "Rap is what we do, Hip-Hop is what we live". Isn't hip hop more like a whole culture featuring breakdancing, DJ'ing, graffiti and rap music as parts of it? Some people claim that hip hop is music about conscious things and stuff that really matters, while rap would be pure braggadocio, but I do not believe this is the case at all.
  6. What a movie. Incredibly done, great acting almost throughout, even a fantastic soundtrack. The ending was great in how the bad guy wasn't so much really a bad guy after all and how he actually lived. On the flipside I was sad to see Rorschack die in the end, he became possibly my favorite character during the movie Just an absolutely great movie in every aspect, I had never read the novel or even known anything about Watchmen before walking into the theater, but wow. Definitely the best movie I've seen since The Dark Knight. EDIT: I won't be asking for links or anything since it's against the board rules, but I just downloaded a 2:38 long version of "Times They Are a-Changin'"... was the opening video really that short? Or is there a longer version of this song which was used?
  7. Spoiler: Click here to viewAwww man, why did you have to ruin it for me? You son of a bitch... Spoiler: Click here to viewExcept... what if he doesn't? That'd be a nice twist for a change
  8. Not really. He only has a few of Cena's qualities, yes, he can certainly sell stuff and is marketable, but he doesn't bust his ass off everytime he's in the booth and can't tell a story Yeah, I see what you mean. Maybe he truly is. I mean, I don't think anybody considers Wayne to actually be the best rapper alive, but obviously you have to give him his props for selling such a load of CD's in this kind of a time for the music industry.
  9. I kinda like Asher. I think we might see another mixtape by the end of the year, although I wouldn't be surprised if not. He seems to put quality over quantity, which is not always a bad thing
  10. So, I own 360 and haven't bought a game of this series since SvR 2006 for PS2. Worth buying or not? I'd mostly play it alone seeing as none of my friends are really that into the whole wrasslin' business
  11. Uh, wish Crooked I would just concentrate on getting his friggin debut album out already. This guy has to be one of the only people who've been in the rap game for damn near twenty years and have released no albums. Budden, you too (except for the twenty years part)! Joell Ortiz, you too! Well, his previous album was okay but I'd like to see another one. Don't really care much about Royce frankly.
  12. Bought OutKast's Aquemini and Ghostface's Bulletproof Wallets, Pretty Toney Album, Fishscale and More Fish on the internet yesterday. Been trying to get into some more Wu lately, unfortunately the sound on the first records excluding 36 Chambers is just a little too simplistic for me (obviously the lyrics on them are some of the best but likewise obviously the beats catch my ear first... and if they don't, then uh oh). Of course after the first solo albums the quality quite drastically drops except for Ghost and maybe the GZA, so it's a bit of shame. Maybe one day I'll learn to appreciate the beats on Ironman With Blueprint 3, Method Man's and Redman's Blackout! 2 and Ludacris' Theater of the Mind still on the way, it should be a great last few months in 2008. Hell, Kanye's album? I'll buy that too, Love Lockdown and Heartless haven't sounded bad at all to me. The rest of the internet seems to disagree. Greatly.
  13. Mmh, yes, I seem to be... well if not the only one, one of the few people who didn't think it was the album of the year. Not bad by any means, no, but I was just expecting a little more. I suppose a few more listens could open it up for me some more.
  14. I don't really like Khaled at all (well, Out Here Grindin' has a good Akon-sung chorus), I find his voice annoying, but I can't hate: the man makes, what, eight hundred dollars or more for yelling "WE THE BEST!" and "DJ KHALED!" on tracks (Y) L.A.X, well, haven't heard the explicit version yet, only the clean one. Of course it's dead easy to imagine him saying "bitch" and "shit" and whatnot in place of the silenced spots, but of course all the tracks will just have a better feel to them when they're not one bit censored. I should be receiving the album in a few days so that's when I'll really try getting into it, but based on listening to all the tracks on the clean version the disc was a slight disappointment. New songs I liked right away... Intro, LAX Files, Cali Sunshine, Angel, Outro. Seriously. Just those, and out of those three are actual songs, the rest were very meh to me. Of course, two out of the three singles are awesome, with Game's Pain just lacking something to me. The Doctor's Advocate and of course Documentary just had a better beat selection to me. Then again, all of the tracks except one from the Deluxe Edition of L.A.X - Nice, Spanglish and Ain't Fucking With You - are very good. Guess they just wouldn't have fitted to the overall feel of the "actual" album. Have to say that State of Emergency and Money are starting to grow on me. Raw Footage, this is coming to me via mail along with L.A.X soon and this one, I haven't heard at all apart from the singles and It Takes a Nation. All reviews indicate greatness, so should be an enjoyable listen. Ego Trippin' is my favorite 2008 album thus far No, really, I really enjoyed it that much. Blu and Exile's was alright, Atmosphere was pretty good, Tha Carter III was okay, Untitled was okay, L.A.X not impressive on the first listen, Fat Joe sucked, T.O.S. was surprisingly enjoyable, Pro Tools pretty good... seriously, Ego Trippin'. That's where it's at. In other news, Dr. Dre's son is dead. Not Hood Surgeon, the other one, just 20 years old. Hopefully the doc can survive through this.
  15. I really enjoyed the first three tracks off 'Can I Borrow A Dollar', but never got into anything else. Take It Easy is still orgasmic. I love that kind of rap. Yes, well, frankly by "a mixture" I meant that I haven't heard any of his albums excluding Finding Forever in their entirity, sorry if that came out wrong. I've just heard about four or five songs from each, and FF and Resurrection seem the most enjoyable, at least at the moment.
  16. Been listening to Pro Tools for a few days now, it's pretty good. One of my favorite songs, Paper Plate, is quite an enjoyable diss at 50 Cent, and it's obvious that the GZA hasn't been trying to make a hit of the year on this one, which is very appreciatable and respectable these days. Maybe that's a part of it's charm, go figure. On other fronts, ever since January of last year I've been 'digging' into classic and 'must hear' stuff and I've most recently I've run into a mixture of Common's work - from Can I Borrow a Dollar to Finding Forever. Good stuff, good stuff.
  17. Verder

    Illmatic

    Some songs in there have pretty catchy beats, but... to be honest, I don't really like "Life's a Bitch" or "One Love" or "One Time 4 Your Mind", their beats just in my opinion are nothing to write home about. The rest are pretty good though. I don't think this is the greatest rap album of all time, because as complex and amazing as the guy's rhymes may be here compared to most of his later and recent work, the message of this album can really be described in three words: Nasty Nas rules. Okay, so One Love is about writing a letter out of the pen and State of Mind is really about how fucked up N.Y. was back then, but aside from that, it's really just all braggadocio. I think Biggie made a better record on the same year and Wu-Tang next year, IIRC. I think 36 Chambers was '95? Illmatic is one of the greatest no doubt, but I don't think it's THE greatest. I know you said 'most' and that's why you probably are aware of this yourself too, but if one bothers to look for it, you can find great modern, lyric-based hip hop. If one only listens to G-Unit and Kanye West then surely it's just that, catchy (and most of the time I don't really even find them to be such) hooks and kinda strong beats. I think a near-perfect rap album should have both strong beats and complex lyrics. That's why Dr. Dre's "2001" is my all time favorite. Almost every beat hits home immediately and the lyrics are complex, even if the subject matter, aside from the first and last songs is really just bitches and hoes.
  18. 1992: Batman Returns 1993: Jurassic Park 1994: The Lion King 1995: Jumanji 1996: Independence Day 1997: Men in Black 1998: Uh... A Bug's Life? 1999: The Matrix 2000: Ready to Rumble Nah, not really... I'll choose Shanghai Noon here 2001: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002: 8 Mile... almost picked Phone Booth... 2003: Bruce Almighty 2004: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2005: Sin City 2006: Casino Royale 2007: Pirates of the Caribbean III 2008: The Dark Knight
  19. IT WAS DA AWESOME!!!!1 ... ... Yeah, but really, it was. Or let's make that "very good". I've never been much of a comic fan and even when I was, it was Spiderman that I read, never Batman. But seeing as Batman Begins was such a great movie and this one had such a hype around it, I just had to see it, tonight I did with a friend and I wasn't disappointed. There was really nothing bad that I could point out about it, except maybe the ending. And I mean the very ending, the last couple of sentences, just felt kind of silly to me, like they had to seriously hammer it in - "this is what we ended up with!" : D And even that's not a real complainment, it was just so good all around. Heath Ledger was... very good. Not completely awesome, but very good. The part where he danced out of the hospital in that dress... oh god, I don't think I've ever laughed so much in a movie theater. Aside from being very funny, like somebody already mentioned, he also had this ability to go from funny to scary and vice versa in a matter of mere moments and that was very respectable. I'll probably get hung for this, but should The Joker be in the third movie, I could somewhat easily see somebody replacing Ledger. I mean, all you really have to do is to really study his performance, the way he delivers his lines in different scenes and there you go. Okay, not that easy at all, but... I mean, with practicing... I don't know, damn it Eckhart was my next favourite, he played his part very well too. The rest were just plain good. Great movie, definitely worth viewing.
  20. Verder

    Best Lyricists

    "Dear Mr. Toilet, I'm the shit." "It's Young Money and we on like the television." Lil Wayne's lyrics range from great to downright stupid or making no sense. Sure he can rhyme words well and he's got a really good flow when he spits his lines fast, but more often than not he kinda makes no sense. As far as Lupe Fiasco goes... yeah, he's not the first guy or the only guy currently to rhyme about 'real' things, but it's respectable that he does. It'd be much easier for a rap artist right now to just go with the flow and make a song about... well, you know. Rap could somewhat soon be heading towards another era where it's regarded more as an artform instead of selling ringtones and making a quick buck. My favorite lyricist (and I only really listen to rap, mind you) is Nas. I won't even say anything about Illmatic and It Was Written, but his latest records like Hip Hop is Dead and Untitled really had some lyrical gems in there. Moreover, he uses no autotune “Nas’ the only true rebel since the beginning, still in musical prison/still in jail for the flow, try tellin’ Bob Dylan, Bruce, or Billy Joe they can’t sing what’s in their soul.” I'll admit that at some points on his new record he kinda derails from his subjects though. EDIT: And in all fairness, it's not like Lollipop is meant to be the greatest song lyrically of all time, a lyrical homicide. It's exactly what it's supposed to be, a club banger, and it does the job well. Tha Carter III features a few songs like Tie My Hands where he very well rhymes about actually important things. Of course, you could argue Wayne's status as a good lyricist due to him being willing to do a song like Lollipop in the first place.
  21. Verder

    Lil Wayne fans?

    I don't like Lupe Fiasco. Everyone else seems to, but even after listening to both of his albums, I just find his voice too dull and boring. Lil' Wayne is pretty good, it seems like a trend right about now to just hate the hell out of the guy but there's no denying that in the very least, pretty much nobody puts out as much material as he does (although it should be quality over quantity... which isn't always the case when it comes to Weezy). As for other rappers alive that I like... aside from the mainstream ones, of which I like a lot... Atmosphere are pretty good, aswell as new guys like Charles Hamilton and Asher Roth... those two could turn out big. Tha Carter III was decent IMO, prefer the second one.
  22. I'm starting to think we may actually go as far as winning, but that still remains to be seen. Differing from other participants may go a long way again this year
  23. So my Xbox broke today Gotta love the timing. Still, I'll be buying this as soon as it comes out so I can start playing it right when the Box comes back.
  24. Skipped the last two games and my latest purchase in the series was SvR 2006, which means I don't have a wrestling game for Xbox 360. Both of the latest games just got such bad reactions that I couldn't bother buying them and I think that no matter what the creators say, it's going to more or less suck. Sure, they said HCTP would be great and it was, but after that it's been one step forward and two back every year. This may sound cynical, but the developers always seem more interested in throwing in some random features like 'Have buttsex with Torrie Wilson' or 'Decorate your locker room' and whatever, instead of making a good game that you can enjoy alone, with company or online. Only the third one mentioned really functions well right now. As a matter of fact, the locker room is a nice addition and all and would actually only add to the experience if the core of the game, the matches, was good.
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