Rose & Camelia.

Simple concepts are often the best. Take 2 women. Make them slap each other.
Who needs more? :D

http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php

There's even a sequel!
http://jp.shockwave.com/games/arcade/actiongame/baratotsubaki/play.html

Found these thanks to Kotaku here and here.

Flash game.

10 cursors.
Each with a limited life span.
I don't know how many floors.
Over and over again.
Cooperate with yourself.
Genius!

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

Indestructo Tank.

A silly flash game where you bounce a tank off helicopters...
I love it!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/indestructotank-ae

Zack & Miri make a porno.

OK, it's already too late on a sunday night, there's school tomorrow, I should really be thinking about getting to bed, but I just saw the finest comedy of the year, I need to write about it now, otherwise I'll let it slip again and it'll get ridiculous. Like those words about I am Legend I read in january that I never finished. Or Bookhunter, a great comics I got at the Angouleme festival, also in January. Anyway.

To make a porno. Well I started with the end really. The finest comedy I'll see this year for me. No more no less. And not only because I don't plan to see any other... ;)

I'm not a major in Kevin Smith's movies, but I at least thoroughly enjoyed everything I saw from him. Clerks is of course cult, but there's always a sort of sweetness that's hard to shake from his movies, making them memorable, eventhough they might feel... I don't know, simple maybe? Not in a bad way though. Only, it's never going to be oscar material. But who cares? Fact is: I remember Mallrats better than possibly any oscarised movie I saw (actually maybe not because there are very good movies that get Oscars, but you got the idea). And I saw it only once.
It's got good (highly quotable) dialogs and likeable characters, what else would you need?

So Zack & Miri is more of the same, in a sense. It's somehow strange to say that this movie is all about swetness. Because at the same time it's pretty fucking rowdy, if you'll excuse my French. But at the heart, it is a sweet love story. And if that's fairly unoriginal, well it makes it up on the amateur porno side...
I posted about PG Porn some time ago. Well there's a bit of this, only it's not really PG here (you actually see boobies). There is some pitch-perfect "porn" acting, which I believe requires skill.
Think the scene in Clerks when Randall orders the videos? There's a bit of that as well. Taken to the feature level. So it's quite filthy. But the sweetness of it all takes it all over! (^_^)

I don't think there's anyone who can film some loveable characters like Smith can do. Everyone in this makes you wish you knew them. They're such a cool gang. I'd just want to go wherever they are and hang out with them. That's one thing that's a bit depressing: I'll never really get to know them. But man, they're so cool!

The cast is excellent, from the main characters (Helen Banks is sooo sweet and don't call Seth Rogen a loser...) to the slightest cameo (but how did Justin Long get such a low voice???). They carry the dialogs to perfection and they MAKE that movie.

Oh and the soundtrack is great also. Always nice to hear the Pixies.

So I had a good right laugh (I needed one), I went "aaaw!" and "eeew!" and I had a hell of a good time.
Thanks Kevin & your mates!

PS: Make sure you sit through the whole credits...

Quantum of Solace.

Casino Royale was a departure from the previous James Bond films. The later Brosnans, while I enjoyed the actor were getting quite ridiculous. So they got the charcater a more hard boiled, Jason Bourne-style. With success.

With this one, it gets a bit of the old Bond formula back, while keeping the edgy side of Casino Royale. And it adds up to a pretty good Bond.
So Bond gets a bit more like the one you remember from before. He travels all around the world, seduces women, kills baddies. In Casino Royale, he didn't really get his man, which was slightly frustrating, but was bold. Here he does get the villain, so it's back on track.

But the action keeps the raw brutality that sets these new films apart from the previous installments. It does remind of Bourne, but it still manages to be Bond.
And it's good!

So best Bond ever?
Well no, I still keep Sean Connery as my favorite Bond incarnation. But Craig is a good close second and this installment is a very good one.

C'est bientot Noel!

Donc un peu de pub pour une action sympatique, agreable et qui mange pas de pain...

http://www.monbeausapin.org/

Une pensee pour les morts...

En cette journee de commemoration, j'aimerai que plutot que d'honorer nos morts tombes pour la patrie, on honore plutot les morts tombes a la guerre d'une maniere generale.

Les Allemands morts de l'autre cote dans les tranchees ont eu la meme experience que "les notres". Et ce n'est pas parce qu'ils etaient "du mauvais cote", etaient "les ennemis", ou meme "defendaient les mauvais ideaux", qu'ils ne meritent pas qu'on se rememore de leur sacrifice a eux aussi.

Et ca nous ferait sans doute plus reflechir a l'horreur de la guerre plutot que de courir le risque de tomber dans une espece de patriotisme malsain qui ne provoquera que d'autres guerres.

La raison d'une telle journee devrait etre de se souvenir de la guerre pour ne plus jamais la refaire.

Litteral interpretation.

I like the concept... :D
I could think of a few weird videos that could give a great version following this...

Burn After Reading.

The Coen brothers are of those film-makers that do their own thing. They have their trademark, so not knowing a film, I think you could guess they made it.
Through their career, they have visited many genres and each time have marked it with their own sceal.

This time they are tackling the spy movie genre.
It's a movie that holds everything that you would expect from one of their films. Great script, witty dialogs, amazing cast (all well at their place and in great form, Brad Pitt is a stand out, but it shouldn't hide the quality of the others) and filmed with great skill.

It's a "spy comedy", but more on the dark side of their comedy.
I would put it somewhere between Fargo & The Big Lebowski. The characters are completely crazy and it makes a fairly simple story escalate to deadly proportions...
But all with laughs, as everything is so desperately absurd...

So it's great fun, a bit lighter than No Country For Old Men, sure, which could make it seem like a "minor" film in their filmography. Yet what's this thing about sort of dissing "funny" movies? Not serious, so not good enough?

Nonsense, this is a truly great Coen brew.

CubeCraft.

My sister pointed me to one of the coolest websites: http://www.cubeecraft.com/.
They create "cubic versions" of characters (form comics, series, etc.) so you can just print out the models they have, cut them and assemble them...

Genius! (^_^)