Review of Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is one of those "open world" games set back in the wild west just as the railroad starts to bring the easterners towards the wild country.  You play as a bounty hunter and can really determine how the populous views you.  You can choose to do good deeds and increase your "honor" or rob and steal and decrease it.  There are also lots of side quests to do and collectables to find.  I just started the Marksmanship challenges where you have to shoot birds out of the air or coyotes before they have the chance to attack you (PETA calm down...they are only pixels).

There is also a mulitplayer aspect of this game I look forward to trying where you can roam about the open world and encounter bandits, have mulitplayer deathmatches and duels or form a posse and go bounty hunting.

A great game that is beatiful to behold.  I highly recommend picking this one up

review of Splinter Cell: Conviction

I'm usually a pretty big fan of Tom Clancy's games, they require more thought than Rambo tactics and are usually pretty accurate to life. The splinter cell series is no different. Conviction picks up with Sam Fisher totally washing his hands of Third Echelon and looking for clues into his daughter's death. Through manipulation and threat to a nation that betrayed him but he still loves he gets sucked back into a world of stealth action that he knows too well.

In this game they implemented a few changes that really upset the purist in the fan base. I'll admit that I often had a hard time completing a splinter cell game due to the insane difficulty level. It was toned down considerably and made more of an action game. Think more Jason Bourne movie vs something if the bad guy spots you he is going to call 20 of his gun toting friends and make it impossible for you to succeed.

I really enjoyed the game and thought the story was very good and well presented. It was kind of short but very worth the time.

Read The Road to Oz

I picked up the road to oz as I found it under the free classics in the kindle store. It was a nice little journey through the outer counties the surround the kingdom of oz and it made many references to Dorothy's other adventures in oz. The book was pleasant, short and moved along well. The end got a little tedious naming guests to a birthday party, but not unbearable. It was a pleasant diversion with familiar characters.

Review of Food, Inc.

So far all my movies I've watched have been for entertainment but since wifey has been on a big documentary kick and this movie came recommended by a podcast I regularly watch I queued it up on netflix.  Food Inc is an eye opening insight into how the food industry as a whole is ruining our health in favor of a profit.  I'm sure everyone has heard about growth hormones and steroids in our meat, but the see the extent of the tampering and to see why we are getting e.coli from vegetables was shocking.  I cannot due this film justice by relating stories of chicken coops or massive slaughterhouses, I truly recommend you see this and weight the true cost of your food.

Review of Apocolypse Now

I picked up this movie due to it being referred as a classic in many circles and being referenced in multitudes of other media. It is a very shocking and graphic look at Vietnam war. It is also the longest movie I think I've ever watched clocking in at just under three and a half hours. It was really cool to see the original part of the movie where the quote "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" comes from. What really surprised me is that this being Marlon Brando's famous role (aside from Godfather) he is in the film very little.
I don't think I would recommend this film to everyone but to all film buffs it should be on the must see list.

Review of Percy Jackson: the lightning thief

I was looking for a new series to get into and I happened to catch the trailer for the light ing thief so I thought I'd give the book a try while I wait for the DVD release. Also my wife said I'd be able to get through it without a whole lot of difficulty. I must say that I really enjoyed this book. I know that it is geared fir a much younger
audience, but the reading was fairly easy and the pace was never dull or slow. I felt the characters were developed well and I really enjoyed the story.
The only down note I can think of is that i've read numerous reviews that the movie is really nothing like the book. I know that should not be a mar on the book, but the author should keep tighter control over their property. The Harry potter books turned out amazing. I look forward to reading the next book and seeing the movie to see if it is all as bad as the critics say.

~Klint

Review of New Moon

With the DVD release of the twilight saga's second installment "New Moon" I felt inclined to review it. Now to preface this, I think if I even thought about giving this a bad review I may be staked in my bed by my wife who adores the books and the movies, but truthfully this is a well produced movie. I have not read the books, so I do not have that to compare the trueness to, but to compare the first movie to the second there is a marked improvement in acting, effects, and general polish. I have enjoyed fiction about vampires and werewolves since I was little, but this series brings the battle to the forefront and makes it the vogue thing all the cool kids are doing. Also one rather undesired effect this movie has had on the youth of America, it seems it has taken the what used to be small and unpopular depressive emo crowd and made them the norm and default emotion for teenagers. Looking back (to when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I don't remember that many kids being so depressed in high school. But I digress. The movie itself is very enjoyable, and I do recommend seeing it, if just to understand what all the pop culture fuss is about.