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• 17Dec 09

  Favorite Movie Villians of All Time

  I decided to create a list of my favorite movie villians of all time (at the current moment). I'll give a brief blurb on each and some details. I felt like making this, I'm not sure why. There may be some spoilers. If you haven't seen these movies, be warned. And the numbering is kind of funny. Why 6? Well, because I wanted to.

  6. Simon Skinner, Hot Fuzz

  
  Simon Skinner owns a small grocery store in a small town that wins the village of the year award in England pretty much every year. He is a cruel man, though is very generous to the community.

  5. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs, Manhunter, Red Dragon, Hannibal was never made or read, the ending was awful.

  
  Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a psychotic and manipulative sociopathic psychologist who eats people. Yep. Interesting tidbit: the scene where he says "A census taker came to visit me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" then makes a funny facial expression and noise was done ad lib and was intended to make the director laugh. He laughed, and kept one of the most famous scenes in movie history in the film.

  4. Kaiser Soze, The Ususal Suspects
  No picture because the whole point of the movie is trying to find out who Kaiser Soze was. Soze was the mastermind and leader of the fictional Turkish mob. When some thugs turned on him and took his family hostage and demanded they relinquish the mafia to them he shot his whole family and all but one of the thugs, telling him to tell everyone that he saw that Kaiser Soze would rather kill his entire family than give his business to a group of thugs. Badass movie.

  3. Renard, The World is Not Enough

  

  Renard is a generic terroist with a unique ability. Well, not necessarily an ability. He has a gift and a curse. He cannot feel pain because of a freak chance. MI6 tried to have him assassinated but the sniper didn't kill him. The bullet was slowed down enough that it didn't splatter his brains over the walls but is lodged in there, slowly moving inwards. The result is that Renard doesn't feel pain, but the bullet moving closer to the important parts of the brain will eventually kill him.

  2. Captain Vidal, Pan's Labyrinth

  

  I saw this movie the other day. Vidal is the cruelest person on this list. He has his sick and pregnant wife transferred hundreds of miles to an outpost where he is stationed to fight rebels after the Spanish Civil War. He is a facist, a tool, and he likes to torture people. The countless acts of cruelty in this movie that he commits are mostly senseless and psychotic. At one point, his men bring a man and his father who were hunting rabbits in the area. The man explained that they were hunting rabbits (which they were) and vidal takes a bottle in the man's backpack and bludgeon's his son to death with it in front of him, then shoots them both. His last scene still gives me chills just thinking about it. Watch it. It is excellent.

  1. T1000, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

  
  Emotionless, cold, liquid, pissed. Pretty much describes the T-1000 Terminator, also known as the "Liquid Terminator" or "Holy crap, Dad! It's John Dogget from the X-Files!". Favorite movie villian. Ever. The whole point of the movie is that he is completely unstoppable. The T-1000 was sent back by one of the many ridiculous plot devices in the Terminator series to do something relating to John Connor. He nearly succeeds until 12 seconds later the T-100 (The Governator) pulls a shotgun out of a bouquet of flowers and shoots him far more times than that shotgun had bullets. It was magical. Interesting piece of trivia: Robert Patrick, the actor for the T-1000, has the record for the most roles for the same character in movies and Richard Belzer, the actor for Det. John Munsch on Law and Order: SVU has the record for the equivalent in television.

  So, yeah. That's pretty much it. Feel free to let me know what you think, unless you want to bash my movie tastes, then you can go back to conforming and playing Halo and eating Cool Ranch Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew and letting your mother do your laundry. I break the mold. I don't play halo. I prefer Sun Chips. Mountain Dew is gross, Moxie is where it's at. Derail the topic much? Anyways, let me know what you think, I'm interested to hear your favorites.

  • Posted Dec 17, 2009 2:05 pm PT
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• 4Dec 09

  I tried to put this on Facebook but it was too long.

  I hadn't planned on putting this here since not a whole lot of you actually know me away from the internets but for those of you who had a similar 8 years like me, and for any other mildly compulsive people, you know what I'm talking about. Thanks for clicking on this and I've got plans for a real nice blog in the near future, something actually related to games. Sorry if this is depressing and makes it look like I've had no real life for the last 8 years.

  Tonight was the series finale of the show I've watched for 8 years, my favorite show, Monk. As the last scene came by and the final song played, I realized that though the show is gone, it won't be forgotten; the characters, the cases, the phobias. Thank you, USA, for making such a great show that was the highlight of many Friday nights, thank you, friends, for putting up with me while I ditched you to hang out with my other friend at 9 on Fridays, and thank you, Adrian Monk, for being such a fun part of my life. Adrian Monk, you may be gone, but never forgotten.

  

  

  

  Thanks for the fun times, Adrian Monk!

  • Posted Dec 4, 2009 7:20 pm PT
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• 3Nov 09

  5 Year GameSpot Anniversary

  So November 4th, 2004 I joined the ranks of GameSpot. I was 15. And stupid.

  Over the years there have been so many things I've wanted to say to so many people and just haven't had the time. There have been a lot of stories, a lot of concerts, and a whole lot of semi-colons. I want to thank all of you for making my stay here an enjoyable one; for commenting on my blogs, for making blogs for me to comment on; for putting up with my shenanigans. Thank you!

  To celebrate, I've put up this fancy new blog banner that was made by mryoto over at WeGame. Check out that site if you haven't already. The community is kind of crap but the videos and the recording software are really neat.

  There are a few things I'd like to share with you.

  I've been dubbed a "black hole of negative emotions" by my friends here at school. The story behind it is a tale for another day. Goes back a long ways.

  A list of a few things about me:

  • I live in New Hampshire, and have for all of my 20 years of being. I occasionally have a New England accent.
  • I've been a gamer since Christmas when I was 4 and I got my GameBoy
  • I'm a whole lot more intelligent in writing but I can still hold my own in a conversation
  • I play the trombone and have since the 5th grad, for more than 10 years.
  • I've been involved with music for all of those years and I've played with: A Christian rock band, a funk band that played with Chuck Norris, a classic rock cover band and multiple jazz bands and I've played with or for Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, and Antonio Hart. Favorite 3 bands are Chicago, Streetlight Manifesto, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones.
  • I'm a Junior in college studying for a degree in Chemical Engineering
  • I'm pretty miserable and stressed out, as well.

  I was pretty indecisive about what to include in this post. There's so much that I want to share but it would ruin the mood. It took me an hour to narrow down what I wanted to share.

  So here we are, at the end of another blog. I guess if there's any questions, I'd be happy to take them but I can't really be sure as to when I'd be able to answer them. If not, see you in the start of a new GS year. Have a good night, all

  dubel_07

  • Posted Nov 3, 2009 7:56 pm PT
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